Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)
- Dir. Mark Rappaport
- An irreverent deconstruction of the films of Rock Hudson with an amusing conceit; that Rock never concealed his homosexuality, it was all up there on…
Edward II (1991)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry
- Self–conscious updating of the Elizabethan play by Phillip Marlowe, imbued with a stagey panache by dir. Jarmen (a la WITTGENSTEIN),…
Hours and Times, The (1991)
- Dir. Chris Munch
Feat. David Angus, Ian Hart
- Intriguing gem posits what might have gone on between John Lennon and his gay manager, Brian Epstein, a weekend in Barcelona, just before The Beatles…