A while ago, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the London LGBT Film Festival.
The British Film Institute has selected the 30 greatest LGBT films in film history.
Until then.
The British TimeOut website also invited Xavier Dolan, Todd Hines, Apichatpon Welashagu and other directors to come out or support LGBT.
The 50 best LGBT films in the history of cinema were selected.
Uncle Fish Classroom: LGBT is an acronym for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender.
Uncle Yu couldn't hold back and listed the top ten LGBT in his heart.
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1
"Spring Breaks"
Year: 1997
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Writers: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Liang Chaowei / Zhang Guorong / Zhang Zhen
In the above two lists, "Spring Breaks" is the only Chinese film.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the best LGBT movie in China.
This is also the pinnacle of the Sunglasses King.
He won the Best Director at the 50th Cannes Film Festival for this film.
The film tells the story of a gay couple who travel to South America, stay in Buenos Aires because they are lost, and break up after a series of conflicts.
Zhang Guorong + Liang Chaowei under the yellow filter, what could be more perfect than this?
The regret of "Spring Breaks" is that -
It can't be started all over again.
2
Brokeback Mountain
Year: 2005
Director: Ang Lee Starring: Heath Ledger / Jack Gyllenhaal
That year's "Brokeback Mountain" swept almost all major film festivals.
Won the Golden Lion in Venice.
After receiving 8 nominations at the Oscars, director Ang Lee won back the first best director.
however.
This classic, which seems to be a classic in today's view, was questioned at that time.
Conservative and religious groups in the United States have launched a 60,000-person joint boycott of "Brokeback Mountain" to the Oscars.
The most conservative Utah movie theater simply banned the film.
There have also been repeated resistances and setbacks during theatrical screenings:
The film was released in only 683 theaters in the United States and grossed only $30 million at the box office.
For society's prejudice against homosexuality, Brokeback Mountain is of great significance.
3
The Total Eclipse of the Heart
Year: 1995
Director: Agneska Holland Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio / David Huris
The male version of Lolita.
The biopic focuses on the life experiences of the 19th-century French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine.
Most are based on real historical records.
The French genius poet Rimbaud, famous at the age of 15, together with Verlaine and Maramé, is called the "troika" of symbolist poets;
With Verlaine became a famous same-sex couple in the parisian poetry scene in the late 19th century.
From Verlaine's perspective, the film restores the love and sadism between the uncle and the little fresh meat.
I Li in "The Eclipse of the Heart" is simply beautiful!
4
The Funeral of the Rose
Year: 1969
导导: Matsumoto Toshio
Writers: Toshio Matsumoto
Starring: Shinnosuke Ikehata / Yoshio Tsuchiya
Director Toshio Matsumoto is one of the three pillars of Japanese independent cinema;
It is on a par with Shuji Terayama and Nagisa Oshima.
The character modeling, violent scenes, and degraded shots in the film, accompanied by the acceleration of the music, give people a feeling of "fast forward".
These methods are considered by critics to have directly influenced Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.
The film tells the story of a transvestite male prostitute in an underground gay bar.
I grew up without a father.
Because the mother married a new couple, she stabbed her mother and lover to death.
After that, he cohabited with the club owner.
The boss accidentally found that the little boyfriend was actually his own son.
thereupon.
The father committed suicide by cutting his stomach, and the male prostitute poked his blind eyes.
"The Funeral of the Rose" is known as the first work of the Japanese New Wave and the first work to open up the gay culture of Japanese cinema.
5
Tropical Diseases
Year: 2004
Directed By: Apichatpong Welashaku
Writers: Apichatpong Welashagu
Starring: Banlop Lomnoi / Sakada Kavinbadi
The film follows the same-sex love affair between a young Thai soldier, Keng, and Tong, a country boy.
Wild beasts began to appear in the rainforest, and a local man suddenly turned into a monster.
Legend has it that a demon lurks in the jungle that can create a terrifying disease and punish humans.
Soldier Keng decides to go into the mysterious jungle alone to uncover the secrets behind it.
Terrible thing.
There, the rumors are true...
Apichatpong's films are always full of surreal mysteries.
The film won the first place in the top ten films of the 2004 Film Handbook in France.
and the Grand Jury Prize at the 57th Festival de Cannes.
6
All About My Mother
Year: 1999
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writers: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Celia Love / Marissa Peredes / Penelope Cruz
The heroine, Manuela, is a single mother in her late 40s.
On his son's 17th birthday, he was hit and killed by a car when he chased the car to ask for Yanmi's autograph.
The mother was heartbroken and decided to go to her transgender (breast augmentation) husband.
However, a social worker became pregnant with her husband's child and was infected with AIDS.
The mother cared for the social worker until she gave birth to the child and died.
The mother left Barcelona with her child with HIV.
Two years later a miracle occurred.
The virus in your child's body miraculously subsided.
The film is considered by the public to be the most satisfying and mature film for director Almodoval.
7
"My Own Ihoda"
Year: 1991
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: Gus Van Sant / Shakespeare
Starring: Rivan Phoenix / Keanu Reeves
Both Mike and Scott are male prostitutes on the streets.
But there are very different family backgrounds.
Michael is full of shattered childhood memories, bent on finding his long-lost mother;
Scott's father, however, was the mayor, and he allowed himself to degenerate only to humiliate his powerful father.
The two friends traveled from Portland via Seattle and Edhe to Italy.
During the journey, I met all kinds of people and experienced the pain and happiness of life.
Finally broke up because of a different fate.
The classic confession in the film is actually played freely by Phoenix:
Scott: “And two guys can't love each other.” (Two men can't fall in love.) ）
Mike: “Yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean... I mean, for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it... I love you, and... You don't pay me.” (I don't know, I mean, for me, I can love someone, not for the money.) I love you and you don't have to pay me. ）
After the film, Keanu Reeves became popular;
However, Phoenix was infected with drugs and could not extricate himself.
In October 1993, he died of drug abuse in the bar of his friend Johnny Depp at the age of 23.
"No paparazzi, I want to be anonymous."
It became his last words.
After making "My Private Ehoda," Phoenix said that my work would have been much older than I am.
As it turned out, he was right.
8
"My Beautiful Laundry"
Year: 1985
Director: Stephen Frese
Writers: Hannef Kuresh
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis / Saeed Jeffrey
Omagnassa, with the help of her uncle, opened a laundromat.
The uncle was also anxious to urge Omanisa to marry.
It is better to marry your own daughter.
At the same time.
Johnny, a British classmate at Omanissa, offered to help him run the laundromat business.
Love sprouts grow between each other.
In the mid-eighties, there were not so many gay films, and this low-key film with a mixture of racial and gay issues attracted considerable attention in the international film world.
Actor Daniel Day Lewis became famous in one fell swoop.
The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay that year.
9
Fried Green Tomatoes
Directed By: Jon Avenay
Writers: Carol Sobieski / Fannie Flagg
Starring: Mary Louis Parker / Mary Stuart Masterson
The film is divided into two lines: the present tense and the past tense.
A middle-aged woman with a boring life, met an elderly person by chance in a nursing home.
The old man told her a story in order to enlighten her.
In the story, the girl has been autistic since she was a child because of discrimination and exclusion, and only the warm male brother can bring her happiness.
However, his brother was killed in an accident.
The brother's fiancée took the place of the brother and accompanied the girl.
Two people hover between friendship and love.
Soon after the fiancée died of illness, the girl began to face life calmly.
The film was nominated for the 64th Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
I don't know, what is the taste of fried green tomatoes.
10
"The Bitter Tears of Bodina"
Year: 1972
Director: Reiner Werner Fassbinder
Writers: Reiner Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Margit Carstensen / Hannah Hsugula
The only scene in this movie is the bedroom.
Props only one bed.
The film has some of Bergman's "Shouts and Drizzle" flavor.
The film tells the story of a female painter who divorces because she is dissatisfied with the boring marriage.
Then I met an American woman.
The two had similar interests, attracted each other, and began their cohabitation life.
But in the end, the American woman left her.
Fassbinder definitely saves money by making movies.
One scene, six women, almost uninterrupted dialogue, but completely vented his rebellion.
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It is one of uncle fish's personal favorite ten LGBT movies.
Also attached is a list of the best of the British Film Institute and timeOut website.
British Film Institute 30 Best LGBT
"Carol", "The Weekend", "Spring Break", "Brokeback Mountain", "Paris is Burning", "Tropical Disease", "My Beautiful Laundromat", "About My Mother", "Love Song", "Unruly Sky", "Orange", "Bertina's Bitter Tears", "Adele's Life", "The Girl in Uniform", "Love with the Window", "Beautiful Lady Orlando", "Victim", "Me, You and Her", "In Search of Langston", "Forbidden Love in the Army", "The More Beautiful The More Beautiful", "The More Beautiful Stranger by the Lake", "TheOrem", "In Search of the Watermelon Girl", "Untouchables", "Mulholland Road", "Jason's Portrait", "Hot Day Afternoon", "Soul Breaking Venice", "Pink Daffodil"
TimeOut website 50 best LGBT
Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Spring Breaks, Unruly Sky, About My Mother, Sister George's Double Life, Rose Boy Dream, Milk, The More Beautiful Love, Orlando the Beautiful Lady, My Beautiful Laundromat, Demon And Rage, Desert Demon, Weekend Time, Love Song, Fox and His Friend, Moments of Time, Angel of Sin, Band Boy, Pride, Kids Are All Right, Morris's Lover", "Scorpio Rises", "Crossing America", "Captain Cheerleaders", "Crazy Flowers", "Soul Breaking Venice", "Philadelphia Story", "The Bitter Tears of Bodina", "Three Steps to Life", "Pink Flamingo", "Edward II", "Love Myth", "Hot Afternoon", "Pink Daffodil", "My Devil Brother", "Love is a Promise of Life and Death", "Every Strategy", "Parting Autumn Wave", "The Wizard of Oz", "High-end Goods", "Midnight Cowboy", "Paris is Burning" , "Stranger in the Heart", "Theorem", "Untouchable", "Adele's Life", "Love with the Window", "Bad Education", "Double Sisters"