We’re celebrating Pride Month this week by watching some LGBTQ+ films we haven’t seen before. If you’ve listened to other episodes, you know we’ve already reviewed multiple acclaimed films like Carol, Moonlight, Call Me by Your Name, and Pillion, so we wanted to highlight some others here. In celebration, we also went to the Pride Festival in Cleveland last weekend and had a fun night out at some nightclubs. Talking industry news, we discussed the new trailer for The Social Reckoning and some new intel on the upcoming Beatles films.
There have been so many great films depicting LGBTQ+ couples and for this episode, we selected three that span multiple decades. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is one heck of a title. This film was released in 1995 and stars some popular male actors playing drag queens. We were impressed with how Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo stayed in character and found this film to be really sweet and fun. It spun some stereotypes around and depicted a small, country town embracing three drag queens and gaining confidence in the process. Blue is the Warmest Color is a 2013 film that is surrounded by controversy. Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos give wonderful performances that feel so real, which is really impressive until you hear how they were treated on set by the director. Reading more about their treatment, we recognize that this film was well done and the actor’s performances should be celebrated, but we have no interest in supporting any other works by Kechiche. Queer is the most recent film in the bunch; released in 2024. We knew this would be a gamble since Luca Guadagnino is directing, but we were intrigued by performances by Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey. This one really had us for the first 2/3s, but the final act really went in a direction we weren’t expecting, or particularly cared for.
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