Dever’s Amy has been out since sophomore year, she just hasn’t ever kissed a girl. Following the two goody-goods’ roundabout journey to their first (and last) high school party, “Booksmart” is an ode to female friendship that isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty.
Starring the charismatic duo of Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as best friends who played it safe in high school, “Booksmart” is basically the movie version of that rule-following friend who gets blackout drunk after her first Appletini. “Booksmart”Īs (actually funny) comedies become more and more rare, “Booksmart” arrived guns blazing to kick off a strong 2019 summer movie season.
Here are the 35 best LGBT films of the 21st century.ĭavid Ehrlich, Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Michael Nordine, Chris O’Falt, and Jamie Righetti contributed to this list.
'Obi-Wan Kenobi': Everything You Need to Know About the Disney+ Series 'Dykes, Camera, Action!' Review: A Peppy, If Pithy History of Lesbian CinemaĮmmy Predictions: Outstanding Comedy Series - 'Ted Lasso' Faces A Whole New League of Contenders While there may not be a new wave of queer filmmakers on par with the ’90s boom, in their place we got stories as complicated, sensual, soul-searching, and hilarious as the queer experience itself. There is something about the scrappy DIY aesthetic that will always be essentially queer - and the films below reflect a notable shift in the ambition and scope of contemporary queer films. No longer limited by low budgets, films with gay and lesbian stories have flourished in the first two decades of the 21st century. This has been more than a long time coming: The New Queer Cinema was a major influence on the indie film boom of the ’90s, and set the bar high for the many queer films to follow.
The last few years have not only brought LGBTQ films and stories further into the mainstream, but queer films have dominated awards seasons and found commercial success in unlikely places. It was first published on August 25, 2017. The Unbearably Long Self-Indulgent Director's Cut crosses the line from showing abundant nudity to satirise the cliché of rock star excess in biopics to showing nudity for the sake of nudity and so finds itself as the first entry on our list.This list was updated on Jin celebration of this year’s Pride month. The theatrical release contained more than its fair share of nudity, but the unrated version released on DVD, entitled The Unbearably Long Self-Indulgent Director's Cut, doubled down on the gratuitous nudity and sex, extending a scene of Dewey's band waking up after an orgy in a crowded room of naked people, depicting Dewey reveling in even more coitus and showing Dewey picking up one of the male members of his band. While it failed to recoup its budget at the box office, Walk Hard won over critics and strong word of mouth led to a cult following and significant DVD sales. The film satirises the gratuitous nudity and sex this trope entails by showing the titular rock star, Dewey Cox, engaging in all manners of sexual excess, including orgies and wife swapping. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryĪ hilarious parody of musical biopics, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story skewered the tendency for biographical films about musicians to ignore the music and instead wallow in the excesses of the Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle. It is hardwired into our DNA to enjoy the sexual act, and it's nearly impossible to look away when we see it presented on screen.įilmmakers who portray sex and nudity in their pictures walk a fine line: if you can justify the inclusion of bare skin, like the recent Palme d'Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Colour, a feature that chronicles the love affair between an underage student and her female teacher in graphic detail, then you have earned respectability while also appealing to the baser desires of moviegoers however, if you fail to justify excessive amounts of nudity and sex in your feature, then you have crossed the line from being an artist to a purveyor of smut, like Zalman King.įor your consideration, I present a list of 9 films that crossed the line from art to smut and never looked back, movies that threw as much T & A at the screen as possible for the sake of it: 9 movies with way too much gratuitous sex and nudity.
Ever since humanity learned to doodle on the walls of the caves it called home, we have been treated to depictions of sex and the human body in art.