Favourite LGBT films?

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Indy, you mentioned you are learning German, have you seen The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (I mentioned it a little while ago)? It's a sort-of lesbian story, with a all female cast, by the bisexual director/playwright Rainer Werner Fassbinder. I can see it not being everyone's cup of tea, but I think it's sublime.

I've only ever seen one LGBT film, and I can't remember the same. It was about two guys, teenagers, in the 1980s and one of them is bullied and lives in a counsil flat. The mother has many partners throughout the film and the boy is worried she'll react badly. (I don't want to spoiler it.)

Thanks YourMother, I'll have to try and watch it. I've just seen a clip on YouTube and it looks good. I could follow a little bit of what they were saying as well, so I think it would help improve my German

froggo, do you mean Beautiful Thing? If you do, it's one of my favourite films too (it's my favourite gay film).

Yep! That's the one!

I think I'm going to watch 'But I'm a Cheerleader' when my exams are over.

Fat girls.
Watched it because I think that Ashley Fink is doing a great job at glee and there arent many actresses like her so I wanted to have a look into her previous work.

Its quite good but there were some of the"jokes"that were a bit sick so its not a film for everyone.

"Death of a Salesman", by Edward Albee

The author identified himself as "a playwright who happens to be gay", rather than merely "a gay playwright". This means that he wrote his plays (DoaS has also been made into a couple of movies) as slice-of-life expositions, rather than manifestos on the trials and tribulations of being gay in a straight-dominated world.

In my opinion, the best stories are about people, not issues.

Unfortunately, Albee did not write Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller did.

Albee's works include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, Three Tall Women and The Goat or Who is Sylvia

I can't think of any off-hand (er.. though I did see some bad looking B&B horror-comedy thing mentioned on t'interweb which I think was Welsh), no, though given my ignorance of three quarters of the films mentioned on this thread that's not saying much! Do you?

WHAT?! !

Fnord made a MISTAKE?!

Can the Apocalypse be far behind?



Of course you're right. I've been having more than the usual number of "Brain Farts" lately. Must be time to update my meds.

Thanks for the correction!

BTW, my opinion about A. Albee still stands. "Virginia Woolf" was one of the first really scary movies I ever watched - even more scary than "The Birds" by Albert Hitchcock ... (googles movie title) ... that's Alfred Hitchcock!

I'm probably expecting too much to be honest. I've only seen a few films set in Wales, so there's probably no hope of an LGBT one. Thanks anyway

The closest thing I've seen is this (very) short film, but I don't think it counts:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTnwJopqAGM[/youtube]

I just watched Spider Lilies last night. I don't know if I'd call it a favorite, but I'd recommend it.

The end of love. does that count?

How could I leave this one off my list?!?

Lilies, (1996, Canada) John Greyson.

It is a beautiful adaptation of Michel Bouchard's play Les feluettes.

chasing amy(some might have a problem with this because they interpret it as a lesbian just deciding she likes men but i think of it as a story about bisexuals), kaboom, and bedrooms and hallways which was ok.

Absolutely! This is one of my favorite books of all time. The movie does a decent job of representing parts of the book, but it does leave out important points, especially about Idgie and Ruth.

I also enjoy "As Good As It Gets" and "Wilby Wonderful".