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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Original title: Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Year: 2006
Running time: 81 min.
Country: United States
Director: Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg
Cast: Documentary
Music: Ari Gold, Billy Porter
Cinematography: Ruben O'Malley, John Pirozzi
Producer: Orchard Films, The Independent Film Channel
Genre: Documentary | Movie Documentary. Gay & Lesbian
Synopsis: A chronological look at films by, for, or about (or 'by, for, and about') homosexuals in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, from Kenneth Anger's 'Fireworks' to Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain'. Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing chronology and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, independent films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, female romances, films about A.I.D.S. and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transsexual films, films about diversity and various cultures, and then main-stream Hollywood drama. What might come next?

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

2006

Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg