The criteria, as decided by Kyle 🔪:
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/rayinbruges/list/2021-queer-film-challenge/
Rather than deciding on everything in advance, I'm figuring them out as I go and adding them to the list as I watch them!
1. A film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
> Teorema
2. A film starring or written by Guinevere Turner
> Go Fish
3. A film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia
> The Week of the Killer, aka The Cannibal Man
4. A queer anime (feature or OVA)
> Liz and the Blue Bird
5. A documentary about a queer visual artist
> Laerte-se
6. A documentary about or featuring a queer musician, concert docs 100% allowed
> Bixa Travesty
7. A film based on a story by, a documentary about, or a film…
The criteria, as decided by Kyle 🔪:
letterboxd.conexionsite.com/rayinbruges/list/2021-queer-film-challenge/
Rather than deciding on everything in advance, I'm figuring them out as I go and adding them to the list as I watch them!
1. A film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
> Teorema
2. A film starring or written by Guinevere Turner
> Go Fish
3. A film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia
> The Week of the Killer, aka The Cannibal Man
4. A queer anime (feature or OVA)
> Liz and the Blue Bird
5. A documentary about a queer visual artist
> Laerte-se
6. A documentary about or featuring a queer musician, concert docs 100% allowed
> Bixa Travesty
7. A film based on a story by, a documentary about, or a film with a cameo by William S. Burroughs
> "The Discipline of D.E."
8. A film directed by Paul Bartel
> Private Parts
9. A film discussed on the Girls, Guts, & Giallo podcast:
> The Haunting
10. A film discussed or referenced in Willow Maclay and Caden Gardner’s Body Talk conversations
> Tangerine
11. A film directed by MJ Bassett
> Silent Hill: Revelation
12. Any movie that features canonically bi Catwoman/Selina Kyle, yes the non-Selina Halle Berry movie is allowed
> Batman Returns
13. A film starring Mae West
> Goin' to Town
14. A film with someone from the main (I may be using this loosely but it ran a long time and people came and went) cast of The L Word that isn't Pam Grier
> "Lez Chat"
15. A film starring Pam Grier
> Foxy Brown
16. A film directed by François Ozon
> "A Summer Dress"
17. A film directed by Silas Howard
> By Hook or By Crook
18. A film directed by Ed Wood
> Bride of the Monster, aka Bride of the Atom
19. A high school comedy with a queer main character
> Booksmart
20. A film directed by Celine Sciamma
> TBD
21. A film directed by Marlon Riggs
> TBD
22. A film directed by Andy Milligan
> Blood
23. A film with a non-binary character
> "Orin & Anto"
24. A film directed by Mateo Vargas
> "Return"
25. A lesbian/wlw/sapphic film directed by a woman
> High Art
26. A lesbian/wlw/sapphic film directed by a man
> The Handmaiden
27. A gay/mlm film directed by a woman
> The Blue Hour
28. A gay/mlm film directed by a man
> The Boys in the Band
29. A film featuring an asexual character, or one theorized to be asexual since it's not something that really gets as much identity in film
> Selah and the Spades
30. A film featuring an actual bisexual character
> The Lure
31. A film directed by Parker Brennon
> "Below the Trees"
32. A film from Jourdain Searles' Black Queer Cinema list
> Suicide Kale
33. A film directed by David DeCoteau
> Leather Jacket Love Story
34. A short directed by Lisa Donato
> "Foxy Trot"
35. A film starring Queen Latifah
> Set It Off
36. A film starring Tessa Thompson
> TBD
37. A film directed by Chantal Akerman
> Golden Eighties
38. A musical
> Superstarlet A.D.
39. A film referenced in Jessica Kellgren-Fozard’s History of Queercoding video
> Morocco
40. A film from Autostraddle’s Best Lesbian, Queer, Bisexual Movies of the Decade list
> Professor Marston and the Wonder Women