Queer Cinema

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Queer Cinema

A still point in a turning world: Barbara Hammer on her 50-year legacy

by Sean L Malin

The queer film icon reflects on her pioneering career ahead of a new retrospective of her work.
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Queer Cinema

How has trans-female representation in film changed in the last 45 years?

by Isobel Raphael

Findings from a rare public screening of John Dexter’s I Want What I Want.
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Queer Cinema

The labour of love-making in God’s Own Country

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Exploring how director Francis Lee constructs the central relationship in his powerful gay drama.
Two women, one with long blonde hair in a bun and the other with brown hair, smiling and looking at each other in a rural, grassy setting.
Queer Cinema

Five essential queer movies as chosen by LGBTQ+ filmmakers

by Thomas Curry

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK with these great films.
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Queer Cinema

Battle of The Sexes and cinema’s hidden LGBTQ+ heroes

by Victoria Luxford

Emma Stone’s new film serves to highlight the lack of queer icons on screen.
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Queer Cinema

Funeral Parade of Roses offers a peek into a hidden world

by Charles Bramesco

Toshio Matsumoto’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece offers a vital perspective on gender, sexuality and identity.
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Queer Cinema

An illustrated taxonomy of queerness and mental illness in film

by Ruby Tandoh

In this extract from her new zine ‘Do What You Want’, Ruby Tandoh looks at how mentally ill and LGBTQ people are represented on screen.
Two women hugging in front of a lake and forested landscape.
Festivals

The halting nature of desire at BFI Flare 2017

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Bold expressions of queer passion were on offer at the 31st edition of London’s premier LGBT film festival.
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Queer Cinema

Have Disney movies always had poor LGBTQ+ representation?

by Henry Bevan

The Beauty and the Beast remake is being hailed as progressive, but the studio’s animation vault is filled with queer subtext.
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Queer Cinema

Why I love My Own Private Idaho

by Spencer Moleda

Watching Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film was like an emotional awakening – a guiding light through sexual fog.

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