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.

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.

Revisiting forgotten queer classic Prick Up Your Ears

By Catherine Pearson

This tragicomic Joe Orton biopic offers a fascinating glimpse into London’s hidden homosexual community.

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.

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.

Queer classic Prick Up Your Ears is returning to cinemas

By Little White Lies

Gary Oldman delivers a sensational turn in this biopic of the late playwright Joe Orton.

Tomcat

By David Jenkins

This icy Austrian relationship drama ponders how much of a battering love can take before it all falls apart.

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God’s Own Country to open the 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival

By Amy Bowker

Francis Lee’s festival darling comes home to be a part of the UK’s oldest film festival.

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.

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.

Barry Jenkins: ‘Where I come from, people just don’t have the means to make a film’

By Adam Woodward

The Moonlight director discusses the value of film school and finding a personal voice.

Moonlight isn’t all about sex – and it’s all the more queer for it

By Josh Lee

By not showing physical intimacy, Barry Jenkins allows sexuality to surface in his film in other ways.

Love Is Strange

By David Jenkins

The amazing chemistry between the two leads of this gay NY romance is sadly brushed to the side.

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The Imitation Game

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Benedict Cumberbatch’s pitch perfect turn as Alan Turing isn’t enough to decipher this remarkable true story.

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Pride

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Stranger-than-fiction events power this affirmative, funny and well-cast social drama about solidarity.

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Stranger by the Lake

By David Jenkins

A scintillating and quietly radical gay-cruising murder mystery set in a single, sunny location.

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Alain Guiraudie: ‘I’m dealing with my own experience of sexuality’

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

The French director has finally reached the mainstream with a murder mystery set on a gay nudist beach. LWLies met him.

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