“Their constant conflict with a creature that is a monstrous exaggeration of reproduction is a determination to not be defined by biology and live free from others perception of binary.”
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The Magic of Nostalgia and Longing in ‘Grey Gardens’ (1975)
As the Maysles’ lens captured the faded glamour, the raccoons and Little Edie’s fabulous outfits, I found myself becoming ever more entranced by the sad lives of the two women, and the way that their isolation and longing is portrayed.
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PRIDE 2020: ‘This is How the World Ends’ (2000) Could Have Been A Cultural Reset For LGBTQ+ TV
Following Lynch’s lead, queer independent filmmaker Gregg Araki almost added his name to that small list with his project This is How the World Ends, almost a decade later. However, this project never came to be and has instead been left to float around the realms of YouTube.
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MHAM: ‘Fleabag’ (2016-2019) and the Messy Reality of Mental Illness
“Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) can’t be easily defined. She is layered, she is real, she is – in all honesty – a disaster.”
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The Art of Yearning in Lesbian Cinema
“WLW are deeply intimate with the quiet and soft expression of yearning and no filmmaker encapsulates this better than Céline Sciamma.”
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MHAM: Fat People Have Eating Disorders Too – A Love Letter To ‘My Mad Fat Diary’
For this edition of the Fatness In Film column, Sophie Butcher does a deep dive into ‘My Mad Fat Diary’ and its depiction of eating disorders.
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‘A Secret Love’ (2020): A Bridge Between Generations
When I found out about two women who had to keep themselves and their love a secret for sixty-five and a half years, I was shocked and sad. But at the same time, I admired their strength.
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Forget Crazy Rich Asians – Saving Face Is Still the Best Asian-American Rom-Com
One of the opening scenes in Alice Wu’s whimsical 2005 romantic comedy Saving Face is set at Planet China, a social dance for the Chinese community of Flushing, New York. Wil (Michelle Krusiec) begrudgingly attends, forced to dance with the latest in a string of eligible bachelors scouted by her mother Ma (Joan Chen), who…
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30 Years On, Twin Peaks Proves That It’s Damn Fine to be Weird
In an era where a lot of things feel and look the same, based on templates for success, churned out as quickly as they can be made, how could you not cherish something as defiantly different as Twin Peaks?
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Flip Screen’s Guide to April (Quarantine Edition)
James Palmer and George Forster are here to give you 10 recommendations available online right now to help get you through these hard times.
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