Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 461 Films to Buy & Rent
Philadelphia (1993)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington
- First major Hollywood AIDS movie is more concerned with prejudice than the disease itself, and is effective in its aim to educate as much as…
Super 8 1/2 (1993)
- Dir. Bruce LaBruce
Feat. Bruce LaBruce
- No–budget sex spoof in which self–styled gay icon Bruce LaBruce plays a washed–up pornster who confesses all to a predatory lesbian…
Tales of the City (TV Series) (1993)
- Dir. Alastair Reid, Pierre Gang
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney
- A rich, entertaining tele–translation of Armistead Maupin's lauded short–stories set in 1976 San Fransisco, that cleverly interweaves the…
Totally F***ed Up (1993)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid…
- A corrosive portrait of a group of alienated gay comrades, and the first (and perhaps best) part of dir. Araki's 'teen apocalypse trilogy' (completed…
Wedding Banquet, The (1993)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang, Winston Chao…
- A simple white lie gets way out of hand for a gay Chinese–New Yorker when his excited parents fly in from Taiwan to celebrate his 'straight'…
Wittgenstein (1993)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Clancy Chassey, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter
- A fittingly unorthodox tribute to the life of the gay millionaire's son turned philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Unmistakably Jarmanesque, it probes…
Zero Patience (1993)
- Dir. John Greyson
Feat. John Robinson, Normand Fauteur, Dianne Heatherington
- Completely unusual AIDS musical is a chaotic pastiche of sketches and styles that collectively debunk the various myths about the origins of AIDS.…
Daddy and the Muscle Academy (The Art, Life and Times of Tom of Finland) (1992)
- Dir. Ilppa Pohjola
- A fascinating delve into the mind of cult gay artist 'Tom of Finland', whose iconic hyper–masculine images of muscled, uniformed men and women,…
Doing Time On Maple Drive (1992)
- Dir. Ken Olin
Feat. James Sikking, Bibi Besch, Jim Carrey…
- Effective tragic farce about an 'ordinary' family in crisis over several coinciding issues, including alcoholism, closet homosexuality, abortion and…
Living End, The (1992)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel
- Irreverent road movie posits a pair of HIV–positive young hunks on the fast–track to nowhere as they attempt to live the rest of their…