Que(e)ri: The Bt Gay Indie Drama You’ve Probably Never Seen Is Out on DVD and Blu-ray Today – IndieWire

Contents:

• 10 GREAT CANADIAN LBIAN, GAY AND TRANSGENR FILMS
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• QUE(E)RI: THE BT GAY INDIE DRAMA YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN IS OUT ON DVD AND BLU-RAY TODAY
• 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

10 GREAT CANADIAN LBIAN, GAY AND TRANSGENR FILMS

Queer women tend to love this Betiful Lndrette (1985)Wrer Hanif Kureishi and director Stephen Frears proved you uld be racism, class warfare and gay love one story wh this Br flick that put the entire creative team on the map. Consir as a gay Easy Rir.

Don’t expect a happy Flamgos (1972)Booed by crics and banned by many theaters upon s release, Pk Flamgos is perhaps one of the most impactful works by gay director John Waters, beg a mpy o to “the other.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

(2005)This French-Canadian film about Zac, a young gay guy growg up the ’70s a homophobic environment, is a g-of-age story on s surface but a father-son story at s re. Gervais, Zac’s father, stggl wh acceptg his son’s homosexualy, and Zac aims to make his father proud (often failg), transformg this to a story that transcends time perd or settg.

On a list of the 50 most sential gay films om Out magaze, playwright Tony Khner scribed Happy Together‘s leadg men enthiastilly. — they’re the sexit gay uple ever filmed. JT Leroy (2019)Wily regard as one of the most gay-iendly untri the world, beg the fourth untry to legalise gay marriage and wh thrivg LGBT muni Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vanuver, as no surprise that Canada has ma some of the most excg queer cema the world, and ntu to ntribute wonrful featur and shorts to the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Ftival.

” Asked by the sger to her distant male lover Cl Jutra’s classic À tout prendre (1963), a h and val film wh all the cky swagger of the French New Wave, this le is one of the first referenc to homosexualy Canadian cema and leads to a crisis of self the male lead. Jutra himself was gay, and would go on to make one of the masterpiec of Canadian cema, Mon oncle Antoe (1971).

QUE(E)RI: THE BT GAY INDIE DRAMA YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN IS OUT ON DVD AND BLU-RAY TODAY

Directors beme more darg their reprentatns of gay men the 1970s. John Greyson is a hero of Canadian cema – Zero Patience (1993), his rto AIDS mil extravaganza, very narrowly missed the list, as did his glor gay tragedy Lili (1996).

The homosexual subtext quietly simmers below the surface, culmatg a vlent nontatn between the two men. Fortune and Men’s Ey (1971)Before Scum (1979) and the TV seri Oz (1997-2003), homosexual relatnships prisons and gay rape was explored this near-fotten feature. It’s based on the play by John Herbert, a gay Toronto playwright who based the character of Queenie on himself (Herbert was briefly terned for drsg as a woman public).

Narciss (1983)Gay Brish-Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren is renowned for his pneerg animated shorts, cludg pixilatn classic Neighbours (1952), which won an Osr, and the madp A Chairy Tale (1957), starrg director Cl Jutra as a man’s attempts to s on a chair, which has other ias.

10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

But by far the most homoerotic of his works is the geo Narciss. (2005)Before beg a major Hollywood player wh Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Wild (2014), Jean-Marc Vallée sred a huge dience h wh this g-of-age drama about Zac (Marc-André Grond), a gay youth growg up wh four brothers and a homophobic father Quebec om 1960 to 1980. Was showered wh Genie awards, cludg bt film, bt director and bt actor, and remas a gay film favoure.

Dolan sts himself as punky gay teen Hubert, who clash repeatedly wh his mother, Chantale.