English LGBT Films
 Brokeback Mountain (2005) Yet Brokeback Mountain is ultimately not about sex (there is very little of it in the film) but about love: love stumbled into, love thwarted, love held sorrowfully in the heart.
Capote (2005) In November, 1959, Truman Capote, the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family, which catches Capote's eye. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test hislong-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be as compelling as fiction. What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains?
Summer Storm(2004) a film about first love, the quest for personal happiness, and the emotional turmoil of growing up.
Gold Fish Memory (2003) A light-hearted look at the dangers and delights of dating in contemporary Dublin.
CHICAGO (2003)
THE HOURS (2003) A splendid film about 3 generations of the role as women somehow related to one another following Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway
DERRIDA (2002) When people talk about crazy French intellecutals and esoteric superstars, when they stumble acroos the word deconstructionism and wonder waht it could possibly mean, it all goes back to Jacques Derrida. a documentary by local filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman.
FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS (2002) Contempt, disgust, disdain [for homosexuality]. How does that get constructed? How does it play out in our daily lives? A film by Arthur Dong to be released on Oct. 11, 2002
FRIDA (2002) The biography of a mexican artist, Frida
KISSING JESSICA STEIN (2002) A romantic comedy about lesbian relationship
GAUDI AFTERNOON (2002) Wonderful dyke mystery based on Barbara Wilson's novel and set in Barcelona, Spain.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT (2002) This HBO film started life as a stage play that was created by the Tectonic Theater Project of NYC as a way to document what happened in Laramie, WY after the death of Matthew Shephard. While there have been thousands of gay bashings in the world, this one drew the attention of the media on Laramie, WY - some crass people actually labeling the town as the "hate capital of the world". The theater project went to Laramie armed with video cameras, tape recorders and an open mind, in an attempt to tell the world what was really happening there.
QUEER AS FOLK: The Second Season (2002) With talented actresses Michelle Clunie and Thea Gill as a lesbian couple
RULES OF ATTRACTION (2002)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM (2002) screened on Oct. 16, 2002 at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center's Village at Ed Gould plaza with the director
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) A story about love and hate of a transgender, Hedwig
TREADING WATER (2001) lives up to its title. Rather than really taking a chance on expressing the fears and hopes of its characters (a lesbian couple and the family of one of them), it just tries to stay afloat
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK II (2000)
BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE (1999)
OUTFEST Out on the Screen: LA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
IFILM: The Internet Movie Guide Gay & Lesbian Channel
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