Sentences with phrase «movie about being gay»

The point is, this is not just a movie about being gay, it is equally about falling in love, identity, self - awareness and acceptance.

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Filmmaker Meema Spadola made Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Lesbian and Gay Parents, because it was the type of movie that didn't exist when she was a child.

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Fantastic Beasts 2 Won't «Explicitly» Address the Fact That Dumbledore's Gay, Even Though It's a Movie About Him and the Man He Loved What makes these stories the Most Popular?

The film has a revelation about a character's love life that will resonate even stronger today, after gay marriage votes across the country, and I think that revelation is the emotional denouement the movie needed.

It was made before Philadelphia, focuses on characters that are almost entirely gay men, it covers the entirety of the 1980s, offers a very honest portrait of the AIDS crisis, is a better movie, but Philadelphia is heralded as the definitive film about this subject.

That isn't to say this movie doesn't have its share of Sandler irritants; There is the obligatory running joke about a gay singer (Alexis Arquette) who can only perform Culture Club songs, and the filmmakers get maximum mileage from a nice old woman (Ellen Albertini Dow) who enjoys candid talk about penises.

Behind the comic facade, this is a serious movie about the difficulties of growing up gay.

But there is nothing straight about I'm So Excited, and while that's not a problem in and of itself, it is a problem for a movie because gay alone isn't funny.

In the broadest sense, Moonlight could be called a movie «about being black» or «about being gay» or even «about being raised in the drug - ravaged Liberty City neighborhood of Miami.»

If you want to see how adult and wise Hollywood movies could be before censorship intruded, see «Queen Christina,» which has gay inferences, implied lesbianism and a love story about two people who jump into bed about two hours after first meeting.

It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists, in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British movie about an openly gay Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a woman.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

I swear, the man tunes out when I talk movie news so obviously he'd failed to take in the fact that Drew Barrymore is directing a movie starring herself and «it» girl Ellen Page (along with Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Bell and Marcia Gay Harden) all about roller derby.

Macdonald is one of a handful of filmmakers to have been at the helm of a landmark gay film without ever making another openly queer movie (some of us are curious about whether Barry Jenkins and Sean Baker will be added to that list).

Village Voice Bilge Elbiri on a film review that changed his live (J Hoberman's 1992 piece on Orson Welles» Othello)- lovely personal piece Nick Davis Chicago film festival jury picks and his own precise takes on the movies screened including high profile gems like Call Me By Your Name, and several foreign film Oscar submissions Esquire Bryan Cranston must be seeking to sabotage his Oscar hopes this year with this admission that he's rooting for Trump to succeed Huffington Post talks to Melissa Leo about Novitiate and becoming a gay icon with those «Consider...» ads

Perhaps it would be naively optimistic to hope for more from the first major studio movie about a gay teenager coming out, a significant milestone.

cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).

Cruising might be the least naïve and the least condescending mainstream movie about gay men ever made.

This under - the - radar indie is one of the best movies about gay teens made in the last... ever?

This would probably NOT be a factor in a movie about «non-traditional» (if that's what we're calling gay and lesbian) relationships.

After the success of the made - for - British - TV movie The Naked Civil Servant, which was based on his memoir, Crisp is commissioned by a small theater in Manhattan's Bowery to perform a one - man show; word - of - mouth spreads about his unfiltered wit and shrewd observations about the gay community and cultural zeitgeist at large, which lands him gigs on late - night TV chat shows via his newly acquired agent (Swoosie Kurtz).

The reviews I've heard so far are pretty mixed, but if nothing else, this movie — about two popular girls fighting over who gets to claim newly - outed Tanner as their Gay Best Friend — is a sign of the times.

Rightly or wrongly, after director Bill Condon's announcement in the UK gay magazine Attitude that, «LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston» and that the comic sidekick would deliver»... a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie», there hasn't been much else said about this remake.

All About Eve Year: 1950 Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe Why it's essential: This movie used to get brushed off as essential for gay audiences, and while it does pretty much function as the Gay Bible — in that there's a lot of fascinating history and memorable one - liners, but too few people are actually familiar with the text — we've long passed the point where it's acceptable to think of All About Eve as anything less than a cinematic classgay audiences, and while it does pretty much function as the Gay Bible — in that there's a lot of fascinating history and memorable one - liners, but too few people are actually familiar with the text — we've long passed the point where it's acceptable to think of All About Eve as anything less than a cinematic classGay Bible — in that there's a lot of fascinating history and memorable one - liners, but too few people are actually familiar with the text — we've long passed the point where it's acceptable to think of All About Eve as anything less than a cinematic classic.

There is nothing particularly wrong with «Milk,» but for a movie about political activism and gay rights, it lacks the outrage and sense of injustice that oozes from the source material.

There's no fruit in looking at Conquest as a Christ parable, but there's endless fruit in looking at The Passion of the Christ as a big - budget version of an exploitation / snuff film, packed to the rafters with disturbing suggestions about societal order (gays suffer a lot at the hands of Gibson's fantasies — women, mostly, at Fulci's), and flying in under the radar of social acceptability where Fulci's films have been relegated to the fanatic's collection and the last independent movie store in your state.

No, but if it weren't for the fact that it starred Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Brandon T Jackson, Alison Brie, Marcia Gay Harden and Christopher Mintz - Plasse, and had cameos from a slew of recognizable faces like Jay Pharoah, Marc Maron, John Cho, Ravi Patel, Jorge Garcia and (really, I could go on here), I don't think we'd be talking about this little movie at all.

No other movie studio has been responsible for breaking stereotypes and putting films about gay characters into mainstream Hollywood — like Milk, like The Kids Are All Right.