VIP Fave Q Movie Pick
Where we ask today’s hottest queer and queer-friendly filmmakers, stars and community leaders to answer the question:
“One of my favorite LGBT movies is...”
Nicole Conn (CLAIRE OF THE MOON, CYNARA)
“Here it is: ENTRE NOUS – I just love the filmmaking. It’s lyrical without being sappy, emotional without being sentimental. My other all time fave GLBT film is PARTING GLANCES – just adore that film – and Steve Buscemi in it.”
Get your own copy of the 2-disc collector’s edition of CLAIRE OF THE MOON (or just watch the trailer) or discover Nicole’s erotic romance, CYNARA.
Susie Bright (Sexpert and writer)
“My favorite LGBT movie is BOUND. Because the filmmakers came to me and told me they were inspired by me to make it. Because they asked me to be their sex consultant. Because I finally got to make the sex scene I’d wanted to see my whole life. Because we watched it premiere at the Castro with 1500 dykes and all screamed our heads off. Because it’s based on my own sex life and it’s just a hoot to see “me” played by Jennifer Tilly. I know it’s an ego-centric answer, but what else could even come close?
Susie’s blog is wildly entertaining, check it out!
http://susiebright.blogs.com
Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S., HERBIE: FULLY LOADED)
“My favorite lezzie movie is HEAVENLY CREATURES, wonderful with true life twist the Kate Winslet character grew up to be none other than famous novelist Anne Perry, and when the movie was released had to “come out” as a murderer. Ironically, in interviews at the time, she seemed much more irritated by the movie inferring that she was a lesbian than it revealing her childhood crime. 2nd place goes to SHOW ME LOVE. Lots of teen angst and great acting.”
Check out Angela’s awesome queer classic, D.E.B.S.
Barbara Grier (Naiad Press)
“When the subject is so near and dear to the heart the answer or answers have to be suspect. My favorite is CLAIRE OF THE MOON. It will always be, but it is for lots of wrong reasons including, but not limited to, the wonderful music. Another I like immensely for better reasons is OUT OF SEASON. I like the sense that the people in the movie are real. I believe they exist. I would not be surprised to run into them on the street.
I cannot help but throw this in. There has never yet been a properly funded lesbian film. I hope there will be before my death. But I know because it is clear if you look at straight films, that women’s issues have no meaning in the world, they just don’t. Now it may/will change, but it is still a long uphill battle. Look at all the lesbian films, a very thin field indeed.”
Learn more about Barbara Grier.
http://www.glbtq.com/literature/grier_b.html
Mink Stole (EATING OUT, GIRL PLAY)
“The only absolutely, deliberately gay movies I ever see are the ones I’m in, so I have to go with BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (mother of a lesbian), GIRL PLAY (mother of a lesbian), and EATING OUT 2 (mother of a gay son). If fantasies count, though, the one I’d truly love to see is a Disney/Pixar version of the stories of David Sedaris — sort of like Altman’s SHORT CUTS only in 3D animation.”
Discover Mink Stole in the latest installment of the Eating Out series, EATING OUT 3: ALL YOU CAN EAT now available on DVD at WolfeVideo.com!
You can also find Mink Stole in dozens of the legendary classic films of John Waters including PINK FLAMINGOS!
Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman (QUEER AS FOLK)
RON: “My favorite is THE CHILDREN’S HOUR. The screenplay by Lillian Hellmann is a chilling and heartbreaking study of the destructive effects of viciousness and lies, as well as a courageous indictment of the McCarthy Era. Still rather pertinent. The performances by Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine are exquisite. The direction by William Wyler (my favorite director, by the way) is matchless. How typical, and ridiculous, that certain PC people would dismiss it. Their loss.”
DAN: “My favorite Gay film has got to be the original French version of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. Outrageous. Uproarious. And, ultimately, a very moving love story about tolerance and acceptance. With an absolutely sublime, masterful (mistressful?) performance by Michel Serrault. I was especially glad that there were subtitles during the scene where Ugo Tognazzi tries to teach Serrault’s “Albin/Zaza” how to be butch. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard such screams of laughter in a theatre. It would have drowned out dialogue in any language.”
Discover Ron and Dan’s pioneering gay drama, AN EARLY FROST on DVD today from Wolfe or get your hands on the complete boxed set of their landmark Showtime series, QUEER AS FOLK.
Silas Howard (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK)
“My favorite LGBT film is Lizzie Borden’s BORN IN FLAMES. Super queer in its humorous radical take over of the state-run media estate and an awesome girl bike gang! We need a movie like that again. a fantasy of rebellion where a diverse coalition of women emerges to blow the System apart. The fantastic Isabel (Adele Berti) as a speak-truth-to-power performer for the metropolis’s futuristic radio station. Oh yeah!”
See the trailer for Silas’s classic butch/trans buddy movie, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK and buy the DVD today. You can also see him in the awesome lesbian short, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS (on the SHE LIKES GIRLS 4 lesbian shorts collection).
Julie Goldman (BIG DREAMS IN LITTLE HOPE)
“Okay, so off the top of my head, TODAY: My favorite LGBT movie, I think is: ELECTION, I think it has one of the best lesbian plot lines ever. Understated. Funny. Smart. OR… BEAUTIFUL THING – loved that one too, about the high school boy who falls in love with a boy on his soccer team. It was just so Sweet and lovely and funny. OH WAIT I LOVED D.E.B.S. Loved it. Funny funny funny. I think D.E.B.S. is my favorite lesbian movie. Yeah if I think about it too long I’ll come up with a long list, so I’ll keep it at those 3. For today. Ask me tomorrow it’ll be 3 different ones. Though I really did LOVE D.E.B.S.
Check out the trailer for Julie’s hilarious feature film BIG DREAMS IN LITTLE HOPE and while you’re there you can even buy the DVD! You can also see Julie in the wonderful short film HAPPY BIRTHDAY — featured on the fabulous SHE LIKES GIRLS 3 lesbian shorts DVD.