The Cinesexuals

The Cinesexuals

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Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'
Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'
Paul Reubens, subject of a new HBO documentary, 'Pee-wee as Himself', was in the closet — but his famous character wasn't. Why a gay man felt at home watching Reubens' '80s TV show, 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'.
·people.com·
Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'
Queering Nostalgia | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
Queering Nostalgia | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
On the tenth anniversary of experimental queer durational film The Royal Road, director and celebrated queer film curator Jenni Olson chats with Eliot Dunn about the film’s reimagination of nostalgia, the importance of embracing our vulnerability, and the state of queer filmmaking.
·online.ucpress.edu·
Queering Nostalgia | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved
Frears detected the echo of an even older star. “I remember him standing by the lamppost under the bridge in the scene where he and Omar meet again, and I thought: ‘Ah, I see. You want to play it like Marlene Dietrich.’”
·theguardian.com·
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
Tucked away in the history of queer cinema, Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix drove across America so that, 14 years later, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal could leap into history-making double Oscar noms for their portrayals of two closeted ranchers’ decades-long affair.
·queerty.com·
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
55 Essential Queer Movies
55 Essential Queer Movies
These 55 movies reflect important elements of modern queer (LBGTQIA+) history—sometimes dramatized, sometimes documentary, and sometimes because the film itself made history.
·lifehacker.com·
55 Essential Queer Movies