Thousand Best Movies, plus one

Posted on March 20, 2008  | Filed Under LGBT Movie News & Gossip

Everyone’s a critic when it comes to lists of Top Movies. Including us.

We were just browsing the, admittedly inspiring, list of The New York Times‘s Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and appreciating the inclusion of such queer faves as Boys Don’t Cry, My Beautiful Laundrette, High Art, The Hours, Entre Nous, Kiss of the Spider Woman and My Own Private Idaho.

But there is one truly great movie conspicuously absent, a movie we always think of as one of the films that both encompasses and transcends the “queer film” label. Yes, the Academy Award-winning American Beauty has been snubbed in favor of such classics that define the term “straight film” as National Lampoon’s Animal House and the 1994 Winona Ryder version of Little Women?

Come on!



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