Sentences with phrase «queer film»

The opening night film is one of the few sessions were we see a «coming together» of all the sub categories to celebrate queer film.

Particularly interested in queerness and its implications for community practices and social relations, Li has been organising queer film festivals, monthly screenings, and community events in Shanghai for three years.

Yes, believe it or not, the Academy has honored greatness in queer film many times through the years.

There's a lot of great stuff on the table so far: a call from Mark to circle back to a wonderfully robust year for queer film, a suggestion from Dana to sift through the multiple endings of Get Out, a query from Amy about what to do with messy movies in a messy era, and calls from all around to make sense of movies with regard to the era itself.

This was something else in 1975, and though Al Pacino did not win for his career - best performance as Sonny Wortzik, Frank Pierson did for his psychologically acute Best Original Screenplay, making Dog Day Afternoon one of several Oscar - winning queer films.

However, it is not grotesqueness alone that makes queer film akin to Waters» work; his humour is distinctly politically...

Simultaneously an examination of the processes of effective activism and a deeply felt romance, B.P.M. is one of the most refreshingly frank queer films we've seen in many years, both about politics and about sex.

While not the most queer film on the list, it is famous for a lesbian kiss between Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz.

In this essay from the 2017 Locarno Critics Academy, a look at three new queer films that explore similar themes.

We all know the classic queer films, but do you remember Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as a young Arthur Rimbaud, or Saldana's romance with Mila Kunis?

Today it's hard to imagine the likes of Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki making colourful, explicit and confrontational queer films like Velvet Goldmine or The Living End.

The conversation about his sexuality extended from the fact that Franco has previously said he's gay in his work, which was to explain why he has starred in such queer films as Milk, which won Sean Penn an Academy Award for portraying gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk; Howl as poet Allen Ginsberg; Sal, which he also wrote and directed; and Interior.

The result is a thought - provoking and thoroughly entertaining addition to the canon of modern queer film.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul interview, pre-Stonewall queer film, Kent Jones on the American voice in film, King Hu, Vincent Lindon interview, Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some, Grosses Gloss reloaded, Paul Schrader on production design, Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room

Queer film festivals have politicised origins and tend to be imbricated in complex gender and sexual identity politics.

Dirty Looks is a bi-coastal platform for queer film, video and performance.

No list of Oscar - winning queer films could forget Priscilla!

Not only a trailblazer but continual champion of queer film, producer Christine Vachon continues to be...

Timothee Chalamet is a young actor who starred in the queer film Call Me By Your Name 3.

Just so you don't think we're ungrateful before the upcoming 2018 Oscars — airing this Sunday, March 4, on ABC — we are following our piece on 10 LGBTQ films that were snubbed by the Academy Awards with a look at some of our favorite Oscar - winning queer films.

Trans cinema has increasingly become the most exciting aspect of the queer film festival line up and this is clearly evident in Frameline 35's program.

Kuma Hina offers something very novel to a queer film festival program as we get a queer narrative while also learning about a personal take on Hawaiian culture.

Director, Sigrid Andrea Bernardo has had a few films play on the queer film festival circuit, however this was her first feature.

The scandal is particularly of interest to us because Weinstein has been involved in a number of queer films.

Clearly with all these influences — and you've said this in interviews I've read before — how do you go about people saying things like «this is a political film» or «this film is a queer film?»

Yet to only focus on such confrontational, strikingly confident cinema blinds us to the history of queer films that we would now consider «pre-Stonewall» — films that dared to identify themselves as in some way homosexual but whose forthrightness was just as often tied up with ingrained, conflicted feelings of shame.

Though rooted in a clear sense of place — like her other films, the northern Argentinean province of Salta — and grounded by a narrative and visual sensibility that is arguably feminine and, in its oblique inclusion of homosocial intimacy that is both emotional and physical, queer, The Headless Woman is neither a Latin American nor a feminist nor a queer film in an overt or obvious way.

Each film has been commissioned by a queer film maker who has applied their own approach to storytelling, to create a series of passionate tales of human love, often in defiance of social stigma.

Her recent academic and independent research has focused on experimental film within the art museum, and has extended to consider feminist and queer film and visual arts practices and the way they are curated in the museum, exploring issues surrounding diversity and tokenism in the field.