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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.
Two men with dark features facing each other intently, set against a blurred rural background.
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.
Two people, a man and a woman, holding tennis rackets on a stage with a curtained background.
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.
Two men in leather jackets, one with sunglasses, looking pensive.
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.