LGBT Film

Directed by first-time filmmaker Julian Jarrold from a screenplay by Geoff Deane and Calendar Girls co-screenwriter Tim Firth, Kinky Boots is officially a fictional motion picture inspired by a true…

Tom Hompertz and Louis Waldon in Andy Warhol’s ‘Lonesome Cowboys.’ ‘Gay cowboy movies’ directed by Andy Warhol & Ang Lee: London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival screenings Among the film…

Marc-André Grondin in C.R.A.Z.Y. C.R.A.Z.Y. movie tops Genie Awards “I’m touched. This has been something – a crazy experience,” remarked C.R.A.Z.Y. filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the Academy of Canadian…

Independent gay cowboys + transgender traveler + troubled flamboyant author top Spirit Awards + when Oscar overhype turns out to be anything but.

Brokeback Mountain with Heath Ledger. Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama won numerous awards, it was discussed all over…

Oscar-nominated gay author-screenwriter Gavin Lambert tribute includes I Never Promised You a Rose Garden + The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.

Yossi and Jagger with Yehuda Levi and Ohad Knoller. Yossi and Jagger is a tragic love story set in a most unlikely place: an Israeli army camp. Directed by Eytan…

The Family Stone: Diane Keaton and her liberal New England clan including Claire Danes and Rachel McAdams give progressives everywhere a bad name.

Gay Cowboy Fans: Brokeback Mountain awards season near-absolute favorite as same-sex love story sweeps Best Film mentions + critics’ other homosexual fave.

According to numerous reports, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has become a Dutch Member of Parliament for the conservative Liberal Party*, has announced plans to produce a film…

Queens (2005) movie review: Fluffy but amusing and mostly well-acted gay marriage comedy. Cast: Carmen Maura, Marisa Parade and Hugo Silva.

AFI FEST showcases Heath Ledger in Casanova: Chaos in Hollywood area. AFI FEST: ‘Casanova’ movie chaos The worst thing I can say about the 2005 edition of the AFI Los…

Director James Ivory’s producing partner Ismail Merchant has died Ismail Merchant, longtime movie producer and sometime director, died today in London. The cause of death was not immediately made available.…

Go West: Gay movie about Romeo and Romeo romance directed by a European Film Award winner has sparked religious and nationalist outrage in Bosnia.

Lior Ashkenazi is perfect as a guilt-ridden Mossad hitman in Eytan Fox’s flawed but gripping (gay-ish) political-psychological drama Walk on Water.

Pedro Almodóvar is snubbed while Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia drama The Sea Inside has shattered the Goya Awards’ record.

Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach Film Society has had to fight (anti-gay?) puritanism, as a complaint about big-screen ‘explicit sex’ has led to a police investigation.

New York Film Critics Awards: Alexander Payne’s California-set road movie Sideways named Best Film. Imelda Staunton and gay noir Bad Education among other winners.

Gay Republicans and their mind-boggling support for the party that despises them + the horrors of the Rwanda genocide are this year’s disturbing AFI FEST winners.

Was Alexander the Great gay? Inflamed Greek attorneys threaten to ‘take the case further’ if Oliver Stone doesn’t spell out that his 2004 epic is ‘pure fiction.’

Starring Colin Farrell as a maybe (maybe not) gay Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone’s movie about the megalomaniac Macedonian conqueror is a grandiose but dismal effort.

Foreign Language Film Oscar get entries from 49 countries, but 2 internationally acclaimed Gael García Bernal movies have ended up as Academy Award orphans.

Starring Liam Neeson as the polemical sex researcher, Bill Condon’s otherwise well-made Kinsey movie biopic suffers from an excess of scruples. Laura Linney and Peter Sarsgaard costar.

Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’