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LGBT Library - Books and Movies

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    #62
    Irish Aris
    Registered Users Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Paddy C wrote: »
    Some gay movies worth watching:-

    Beautiful Thing
    Weekend
    Get Real
    To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
    Patrik, Aged 1.5
    Latter Days
    Milk
    Priscilla - Queen Of The Desert
    Philadelphia
    The Broken Hearts Club
    Brokeback Mountain (probably the most well known of them all!)

    I second most of them!!!
    Philadelphia was quite popular at it's time, being the first mainstream film to talk about AIDS - maybe not quite realistically (not that I would know otherwise), but a step in the right direction.

    Two more films from the past that the story unfolds around AIDS:
    Longtime Companion - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100049/ and
    And The Band Played On - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106273/

    and a lovely French film:
    Presque Rien (Come Undone) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242795/
    (with an excellent soundtrack by Perry Blake)


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    #63
    Cosmic Maybe
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Cosmic Maybe


    AfterElton did a survey a while ago of the 100 best gay films:

    http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2012/09/greatest-gay-movies

    I think some of them are quite good - Milk, Prayer for Bobby, although there's a lot of rubbish ones on the list too - I wouldn't go as far as saying Brokeback Mountain is one of these but I do think it's a bit overrated.

    Personally, though I think films where a character's sexuality is just an incidental part of the plot can be equally as powerful if not more so, they show that sexuality is just one aspect of our lives and that we're not defined by it. Speaking of which there are two really good films out at the moment where some of the main characters are gay or lesbian, (although, it's only minor in the overall plot of both movies I'll stick the spoiler blocker over the names in case anyone hasn't seen them as the gay/lesbian bits are twists, especially in the second one)
    The Paperboy
    and
    Side Effects


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    #64
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Don't know if Plan B has been mentioned.
    I watched it last week and really enjoyed it.


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    #65
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    List of trans movies

    http://www.imdb.com/list/j5nWNaSuewY/

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #66
    Rick_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭Rick_


    Transamerica is on Film 4 on Monday 22nd April at 1:05am (so Tuesday morning if you're that way inclined!)

    Looks good from the trailer so will be setting the recorder for that.


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