Best gay films of 2022
I saw Queertoday, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It's s strange, leisurely film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name. I liked it very much.
Based on the small novel Queerby William S. Burroughs, the film features Daniel Craig as Burroughs' alter ego, a gay (at this point in his life) American man living in Mexico. The film is divided into three chapters: Mexico City, Travel Companions, The Botanist in the Jungle, and an Epilogue.
The first chapter might as well be called "Booze, drugs, cruising, and lusting." William Lee (Craig) becomes obsessed with Eugene Allerton, played by Drew Starkey. Lee picks up random men in cafes and bars, but finally settles on Eugene. There's a pretty hot sex scene between the two. In Chapter 2, they travel south, to South America, to tour and to search for a certain plant/drug that can confer telepathic powers on the user. In Chapter 3, they explore deep into the jungle to search out the American medic who is an expert in the plant. If you're familiar with the actress Lesley Manville (I've see h
Looking Back at &#;s LGBTQ Films
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Looking back at the year in gender non-conforming film, there were some outstanding LGBTQ films—as well as some duds—featuring lgbtq+ talent in front of and behind the camera. Here is a rundown of 25 films that made powerful impressions in
The best film of the year is arguably Tár,showcasing a tour de press performance by Cate Blanchett as a lesbian conductor who manipulates everyone around her before she gets her come-uppance.
Similarly,The Conductor, was an excellent documentaryabout the lesbian conductor Marin Alsop. It is a different, celebratory film, but equally worthwhile.
Lesbian horror was prominent in with films like the period thriller The Last Thing Mary Saw, about two lovers in Fresh York. Mary (Stefanie Scott) and Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman) contain “sinful affections” that get them punished, prompting them to exact revenge.
The flinty slow-burn folk horror film You Are Not My Mother,by queer writer/director Kate Dolan,had Char (Hazel Doupe), a troubled teen, grappling with her depr
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With an impressive year of cinema coming to a close, you may wonder what sort of queer films has in store. We’re here to give you a preview, outlining some of the LGBTQ+ films that own been announced to meeting, and why you should be excited about their release!
Ganymede
This coming-of-age film is directed by husbands Colby Holt and Sam Probst with filming having finished in August In the film, we see a high school senior by the name of Lee Fletcher IV develop a crush on his openly gay classmate, but the story is not all it seems. Lee suddenly finds himself stalked by a faceless creature that endlessly occupies his thoughts and threatens to physically harm him.
Describing itself as a horror thriller the film, it was shot in Holt’s hometown of Paducah, Kentucky and the director has shared his decision for the location: “We wanted to explore the lgbtq+ experience in the contemporary South, and the terror one can be made to feel with the realization they are same-sex attracted or queer-identified.” The production is currently aiming for a festival debut in and hop
A queer year at the movies: Top LGBTQ films of
It was another queer year at the movies, and not just because was bookended by out gay filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s sexy tennis passion triangle, “Challengers,” and his sexy adaptation of William S. Burrough’s “Queer.”
There were plenty of films that portrayed LGBTQ life. There were gaslight thrillers, such as Todd Verow’s cruisy gay flick, “You Can’t Stay Here,” back in January, and the recently released lesbian horror motion picture, “You are Not Me.” And there were some fabulous documentaries, including “A House Is Not a Disco,” Brian J. Smith’s affectionate look at the Fire Island Pines, and the inspiring “Unfightable,” about Alana McLaughlin, the second openly trans MMA fighter.
Here is a rundown of the most notable LGBTQ films that screened in New York in
Best Queer Film: “In the Summers.” This knockout movie debut by the gay writer/director Alessandra Lacorazza is set entirely in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as two sisters visit their father, Vincente (René Pérez Joglar, aka Residente) four times over an approximately year period. T