The Cinesexuals

Anyone who has been following the news at film festivals over the past few months knows, by now, that 1992 has become a watershed year for independent gay and lesbian film and video. Early last spring, on the very same day, Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992) and Derek Jarman’s Edward II (1991) opened in New York City. Within days, the prestigious New Directors/New Films Festival had premiered four new ‘queer’ films: Christopher Munch’s The Hours and Times (1991), Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992), Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992) and Laurie Lynd’s R.S.V.P. (1991).

Inventive filmmaking, groundbreaking crossover hits, and our greatest auteurs: Here are the best queer films of the century so far.

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Leo Koziol chats with Indigenous actors Phillip Lewitski and Joshua Odjick about creating chemistry in Bretten Hannam’s Wildhood, the impact of helping their communities feel seen and keeping their cool around Michael Greyeyes.

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Călin Boto analyses Rosa von Praunheim’s 'It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives'.

Go beyond the well-known hits with our recommendations of queer films that deserve to be better remembered.

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Austin’s Evan Purchell is a film historian and archivist whose popular and acclaimed (it was a 2018 Artforum Best) Instagram account Ask Any Buddy documents gay adult film and video history through contemporaneous print sources. It’s fascinating. Additionally he has branched into filmmaking with his film ASK ANY BUDDY, of which the BFI says, “This …

Best gay-themed short movies from around the world, pandemic special edition. An extensive, ever-expanding list of gay movies.

i don’t know tomorrow by Douglas Messerli Roberto Fiesco (writer and director) Trémulo ( Trembling ) a.k.a Carlos and Julio / 2015 In ...

25 years after fizzling out in theaters, this delightfully macabre comedy is a gay cult classic.

That’s what makes the Pioneers of Queer Cinema series at Gene Siskel Film Center this month a true event “for the culture”: it’s a broad survey of movies made by queers, for queers that offers at least one tasty morsel for every kind of Letterboxd gay.

The nonbinary actor on their killer role(s) and why they’re ready to burn down the Hollywood system.

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The exact right number of people saw the gay romcom.

The writers of But I'm A Cheerleader, D.E.B.S., and In & Out reflect on the evolution of mainstream queer cinema in Hollywood and the impact of Bros

Antonio Marziale, who has starred in three Netflix series—Alex Strangelove, Altered Carbon, and the upcoming Grendel—makes an impressive debut as a writer-director with his short film Starfuckers, …

"We knew 'Starfuckers' was a risk, both terrifying and exciting, and there is no better place to create from."

From Paris is Burning to My Own Private Idaho, 1991 was a pivotal year in the history of LGBTQ film.

It's an unsettling reality that most male serial killers have some sort of fanbase, mostly consisting of young, white women.

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From Nosferatu to A Nightmare on Elm Street, LGBTQ+ viewers have long detected a queer undertone in many horror films. Now the genre is bringing its gay subtext to the surface

Since his cheerfully outrageous debut feature Mondo Trasho in 1969, the director has provided a beacon for the maladjusted and misunderstood – and been a bête noire for puritans.

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Some of the films on this list are unquestionably queer classics, and others? Well... not so much...