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INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
* gay films 2011 *
Eventually, one ntracts productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Well worth watchg unls you're homophobicI saw this nice ltle movie Luxembourg one week or so after 's premier here. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema.
And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv. For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life. —Emma SpecterFire Island (2022) Matt Rogers, Zane Phillips, Tomas Matos, Joel Kim Booster, Torian Miller, and Bowen Yang Fire Courty Everett CollectnThis (very loose) adaptatn of Jane Aten’s Pri and Prejudice, om director Andrew Ahn and wrer and star Joel Kim Booster, follows a group of gay iends who take their yearly summer trip to inic queer vatn statn Fire Island, only to fd that their days the sun may be numbered.
Chartg the forbidn romance between a peasant girl servg as a maid to a wealthy heirs through a seri of ntradictory, Rashomon-style perspectiv, The Handmain is a meticuloly librated erotic thriller for the ag. Directed by Barry Jenks and adapted om a play by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight serv as a powerful g-of-age story across three chapters the life of a gay Black man growg up an impoverished rner of Miami.
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay films 2011 *
Is the Warmt Colour (2013)Adèle Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux Blue Is The Warmt Courty Everett CollectnFirst premierg to a divisive cril rponse at the Cann Film Ftival 2013—both for s graphic pictns of gay sex, and the allegatns of mistreatment by director Abllatif Kechiche on set—Blue Is the Warmt Colour still serv as a powerful ttament to the tumultuo love between s two ma characters, Emma and Adèle, as they drift an out of each other’s liv over the urse of many years. Weekend (2011)Tom Cullen and Chris New Courty Everett CollectnAndrew Haigh’s sensual, tenr, utterly charmg portra of two young Brish men (Tom Cullen and Chris New) meetg and fallg love over the urse of 48 hours is ank s pictn of sexualy as well as emotn, touchg on the specifici of gay life today as well as the universal aspects of an electric and immediate nnectn.
Adapted for the screen by Mike Nichols, Tony Khner’s sprawlg “gay fantasia”—a Pulzer, Tony, and Drama Dk-wng phenom centered on the AIDS epimic 1980s New York—beme a vasatgly good miseri, starrg Al Paco, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Patrick Wilson, Jefey Wright, and a brilliant, shape-shiftg Meryl Streep. Starrg Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the wild-livg Brish mician Brian Sla, loosely based on David Bowie, and Ewan McGregor as his Amerin unterpart Curt Wild, loosely based on Iggy Pop, the story trails Arthur (Christian Bale), a gay journalist attemptg to track down the now-reclive Sla for a magaze story, wh the heady days of his life at the height of global fame revised through flashbacks.