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...”
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.
Jennie Livingston (PARIS IS BURNING)
“One of my favorite LGBT movies is MYSTERIOUS SKIN, which I saw at the Turin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in glamorous (although, the Italians wouldn’t agree, it’s a town famous for Fiat factories!) Turin, Italy. After dinner with John Waters and other festival attendees, we all tromped over to the theater. I thought it was a John Waters screening, but it turned out to be Gregg Araki‘s MYSTERIOUS SKIN. What a beautiful, brilliant movie: it’s almost delicate in its treatment of small-town alternakids from Kansas and their grappling with memories of childhood sexual abuse. Based on a novel by Scott Heim. Great soundtrack too. Run, don’t walk.
Get your hands on a DVD of Jennie’s legendary movie, PARIS IS BURNING
Michael Lumpkin (former Frameline fest director)
“I’ll go with SOME LIKE IT HOT. Surprisingly transgressive and made by one of the best directors of all time, Billy Wilder who co-wrote the screenplay with I.A.L. Diamond. Cinematography by Charles Lang. And what a cast! Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft, Joe E. Brown! I can watch it over and over. “Security!” It’s why I’m gay!”
As the former head of Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival Michael has been championing queer cinema for decades. He was also a co-producer of the groundbreaking documentary THE CELLULOID CLOSET and is now executive director of the International Documentary Association (IDA).
Ron Davis (PAGEANT)
“Without a doubt, my favorite LGBT movie is TORCH SONG TRILOGY. It’s an oldie, but goodie. The acting was superb and it is a rare movie that combines gut-wrenching humor with profound depth. It was the first LGBT movie I had ever seen that truthfully and sensitively portrayed a gay relationship and the struggles and joys that accompanied it during that era. It is a must-see”
See the trailer and buy the DVD of Ron’s terrific new documentary, PAGEANT from WolfeVideo.com!
Mia Riverton (RED DOORS)
“One of my favorite LGBT films is FOXFIRE, although I really see it more as a coming-of-age movie than an LGBT film. Perhaps that’s why it spoke to me so personally as a teenager growing up in the Midwest, just beginning to discover new and exhilarating aspects of my personality and sexuality. These young actresses (including the breathtaking Jenny Shimizu) portrayed the spectrum of adolescent rage, lust, love, and friendship in a way that was so vibrant, authentic, stylish, and wonderfully queer.? My favorite scene is the one in which Legs (Angelina Jolie) tattoos herself and each of the other girls after they almost burn down their school — not just because they take their clothes off (okay, maybe in part) but because it’s both emotionally pure and intensely erotic.”
Get a copy of Mia’s wonderful film, RED DOORS on DVD today from WolfeVideo.com!