Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

Actors: Heath Ledger (actor), Heath Ledger (actor), Todd Haynes (actor), Randy Jones (actor), Harry Hamlin (actor), Sean Hayes (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Alan Cumming (actor), Randy Barbato (actor), Sean Hayes (actor), Tom Arnold (actor), Adam Goldberg (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Ang Lee (actor),

Plot: A chronological look at films by, for, or about (or "by, for, and about") gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain." Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?

Keywords: cinema, film-history, gay, gay-interest, homosexual-cinema, homosexual-history, lesbian, lesbian-interest, queer, social-change
Genres: Documentary,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Jane Lynch: For the longest time I couldn't put a name to who I was. I didn't have an image of anybody else who was like me, and it was torture.

[last lines]::B. Ruby Rich: I want to see all kinds of movies about people living lives that I led, lives that I didn't lead, lives that I saw but didn't see on screen and lives that I hadn't imagined that I want to discover on screen. There's no reason to shut down shop now. There's lots more movies still to be made.

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

Actors: Hilary Swank (actress), Brendan Sexton III (actor), Nathan Larson (composer), Jonathan Sehring (producer), Caroline Kaplan (producer), Sarah Nean Bruce (miscellaneous crew), John Sloss (producer), Christine Vachon (producer), Gabriel Horn (actor), Chloë Sevigny (actress), Peter Sarsgaard (actor), Ross Miller (miscellaneous crew), Jeannetta Arnette (actress), Lee Percy (editor), Paul Brennan (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart.

Keywords: 1990s, apostrophe-in-title, arrest, bar, bare-breasts, based-on-true-story, beating, bigotry, binding-breasts, biology
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: A true story about finding the courage to be yourself.

Quotes:

Brandon: Lana, you are one cranky girl.

Lana: "Well, you'd be cranky too, Mister I'm going to Graceland, Memphis Tennessee

Lana: I hate my life.::Brandon: I hate your life, too.

Lana: You don't have to be sober to be able to weigh spinach.

Brandon: Boy, I really fucked up. I borrowed one of Candace's checks. Then I got that speeding ticket, and now it's all in the papers. I just need to learn to stay home, huh?::Lana's Mom: I invited you into my home and you EXPOSED my daughter to your sickness! Did you ever think about Lana in all this?::Brandon: Yes, ma. She's all I think about.

Lana's Mom: I don't want IT in my house.

[last lines]::Brandon: "Dear Lana, By the time you read this I'll be back home in Lincoln. I'm scared of what's ahead, but when I think of you I know I'll be able to go on. You were right, Memphis isn't that far off. I'll be taking that trip down the highway before too long. I'll be waiting for you. Love always and forever, Brandon."

Lana: Shut up, that's your business. I don't care if you are half monkey or half ape, I'm gettin' you out of here!

[John and Tom have pulled Brandon's pants down to show Lana that her boyfriend is biologically female, but Lana refuses to acknowledge it]::Lana: Leave him alone!::John Lotter: HIM?

Lana: No.::Brandon: Why not? You're beautiful.::Lana: Come over here.

The European Film Awards (1999)

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Ralph Fiennes (actor), Mel Smith (actor), Kevin Spacey (actor), István Szabó (actor), Ray Winstone (actor), Annette Bening (actress), Carole Bouquet (actress), Penélope Cruz (actress), Melanie Griffith (actress), Cecilia Roth (actress), Hilary Swank (actress), Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress),

Genres: ,

Boys Don't Cry (1995)

Actors: Shawn Hueston (miscellaneous crew), Justin Zackham (actor), Sean Sweeney (actor), Kimberly Peirce (director), Kimberly Peirce (writer), Adria Tennor (actress), Natalie Zea (actress), Anna Grace (actress), Anna Grace (actress), Beverley Sutherland (producer), Angela Marie Baker (actress),

Genres: Short,