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Queer Film Classics

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Death in Venice

A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who ...

Word Is Out

A Queer Film Classic on the groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiles the lives of ordinary gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds. Word Is Out found a wide audience theatrically ...

Zero Patience

A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient ...

Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic
is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman ...

Fire

Fire: A Queer Film Classic delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian
love story by Indian-born director Deepa
Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class
Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is ...

Montreal Main

Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic considers the brilliant yet
neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's
bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailed
at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of
American ...

Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, deals with the acclaimed 1998 film about openly gay film director James Whale,
best known for the Frankenstein ...

Law of Desire

Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodovar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. ...

Trash

Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, delves into the legendary 1970 film that was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey ...