"This Marching Girl Thing" is from Kelli Simpson in Australia. Our star is a baton twirling hotshot and he is about to discover she has a lesbian relationship.
"Go Girl" is from Switzerland's Katrin Barben and is a delightful 7 minute musical search for the girl of your dreams.
"Dancing", from Scotland, stars Sylvia Syms who finds in a song the bittersweet recollection of an old lesbian affair. Herstorically poignant since Syms played the wife in Victim, Britain's 1961 groundbreaking film on homosexuality. Directed by Steven Rimkus, 22 minutes.
"Casting" set in Germany is an edgy, erotic lesbian casting call. Directed by Katrin Barben, 20 minutes.
Finally there is the fun of "A Day in the Life of a Bull Dyke" directed by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan from Canada.
11 minutes. This is the story of a big-boned butcher who finds passion and purpose in unusual ways. From dawn to dusk we follow her into skirmishes, drag and the arms of a beautiful recruit.
Three short films that Naiad Press judged to be the best of 1996.
"but would you take her back?" asks that burning question of seven lesbians and listened to their poignant answers.
"Uncommon Ground" looks at two very different sisters, one lesbian and one disapproving.
"The Cowgirl Sweethearts" looks at this fun band of dykes both on and off-stage. On June 18th, 2003, seven out comedians took to the stage of Gotham Hall in Santa Monica, California and told their coming out stories for this DVD.
This video has high production values for a small project of this sort. Made with humor and intelligence, Coming Out Party fills a need and will make you laugh.
Sabrina Matthews - Sabrina Matthews (TV’s “Comedy Central Presents Sabrina Matthews”) is an openly lesbian comic who relates the absurd in everyday life in a witty anecdotal style.
Offering her stream of criticisms, witticisms and comic observations, Matthews discusses being gay and proud of it
Rene Hicks - One of the top black female comediennes, Rene Hicks (TV's "Full Frontal Comedy") talks about growing up under the strict, watchful eye of her father, a Pentecostal preacher - and how he received the news about her sexual orientation Eastern and Western culture collide in this poetic tale of infatuation and self discovery.
Meihua, a Chinese painter, comes to Paris from the southern reaches of the Yangtze River where she is immediately drawn to Stephanie, a French photographer.
What begins as a mutual admiration leaves two women to confront the realization that they share a passion for more than the arts.
As the forces of culture and the demands of family tug at this budding relationship, the women face an agonizing choice.
Will they risk their identities and relationships to indulge in their newfound lust, or will their passionate love affair end before it begins? Four sex stories with dills, hands, tongues and boots.
The video opens with “Mass Transit” and introduces Mistress Cobra, a fast-talking, funny sexy professional femdom who thought she would be meeting a client on an abandoned graffiti-ridden bus. A sexy butch and her two FTM buddies have been hanging around, bored and just waiting for a little excitement.
“Butch Fire” is a wild ride with two butches in love and determined to make each other come.
“The Attic” is an exquisite, hard-loving lesbian clip, riding the edge between pleasure and danger. These daring queers stop at almost nothing in their rough and passionate lovemaking.
And in the most romantic of the vignettes, “Full Load,” a femme and her FTM lover get frisky down in the basement laundry.
Not Rated
2001
A young woman moves in with four models and is attracted to her fashion executive neighbor in the apartment across the way, despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone. Filled with good-natured pokes at models and the fashion industry, "Head Over Heels" is a romantic comedy. Includes one lesbian in the mix (well, it starts off as just one…)
Director: Mark Waters
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Actresses: Monica Potter, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare, Kristina Copeland
Length: 87 min.
Genre: Romance
Not Rated
1996
"Su Friedrich's brilliant new film mixes documentary and fiction to create a fascinating portrait of lesbian childhood. Revealing the imaginary universe of young lesbians, it's about being at an age when sexual feelings are still vague. The fictional narrative tells the story of Lou: a twelve year old girl living in Brooklyn in the mid 1960's coming to terms with her burgeoning sexuality.
Her story is skilfully woven between interviews with twenty adult women who recount salient moments from their childhood's including their first attractions, how they felt when they first heard the word lesbian and thoughts about the possible cause for their homosexuality. Mixing several genres, the film also includes more that 100 photographs of lesbians when they were young girls, and archival footage from educational films and home movies. A must see!
"
Not Rated
2003
A gore-fest. Marie has a crush on herschool chum, Alex, and when they head off together to Alex' family's chateau, Marie thinks she has it made. But then this psycho killer shows up, kills Alex' family and hogties Alex.
Marie must now rescue the woman she lusts after from a not-really-dead guy who has a thing for necrophilia and chainsaws.
Ah, but wait, there's this twist, see. It turns out that the killer is actually… Marie!
Well, a he-Marie, a version of that naughty lesbian who never should have masturbated while watching her friend shower. Far bloodier than usual killer-lesbian flicks (check out the pic with this review). So, the lesson of this film is, that unless lesbians are fully accepted as anintegral part of society, and allowed to masturbate feverishly, they go psycho and kill entire families!
Director: Alexandre Aja
Language: French, dubbed English
Actresses: Cécile De France, Maïwenn Le Besco
Length: 91 min.
Genre: Thriller
Not Rated
1995
Student activists include a Lesbian, and a woman who is discovering her sexuality. In remarkable detail, the story shows the fractious campus life awaiting a group of college freshman.
As the students come to adhere to their own agendas -- racial, sexual, political -- the cookie-cutter story lays the way to a tragic but inevitable climax.
Director: John Singleton
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Actresses: Kristy Swanson, Tyra Banks, Jennifer Connelly
Length: 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
1997
A hilariously surreal comedy set in a rarefied dream world of drag queen glitter and lovelorn lesbian longing, Homo Heights features delicious performances by comedienne Lea DeLaria and high-camp icon Quentin Crisp.
Heights tells the story of Malcolm , a gay guru who's being held hostage by his one-timeprotégé, the all-powerful drag queen Maria "The Donna" Callous, and the efforts of his close friend Clementine to help him escape from Maria's evil clutches. As Clementine tries to juggle escape plans and the sudden reappearance of her long-lost lover Stella, Maria becomes more determined than ever to keep Malcolm away from all outside influences.
Not Rated
2004
A film about same-sex marriage, narrated by BettyDeGeneres, mother of comedian and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres.
This educational film explores the real life stories of 20 long term gay and lesbian couples (each have been together anywhere from 10 to 55 years!), and reveals the obstacles they encounter due to not being able to marry in the U.S.
Included are pertinent facts and information from specialists on this topic, including renowned civil rights attorney Evan Wolfson of The Freedom to Marry Organization, and John J. McNeill, author of "The Church and the Homosexual."
Not Rated
2003
Gays and lesbians of Middle Eastern descent in the US suffer not only general societal homophobia, but also homophobia within their own families and communities and vilification in the media and popular cultural for their ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds.
Through personal stories from lesbian and gay individuals and their families - including Jews, Christians, and Muslims from Armenia, Syria, Iran, Egypt, and Sudan - I Exist gives a much-needed voice to a largely invisible and oppressed community.
Director: PeterBarbosa, Garrett Lenoir
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Length: 56 min.
Genre: Documentary
Not Rated
2003
Inspired by a true lesbian story, this explicit film gives new meaning to the phrase "what goes around, comes around.
" What happens when a lover says something familiar – a whisper from your past, but you just can't remember where or when it’s from? "I Wish You Would," reveals just how an intimate remark can travel from one lover to another in a series of hot and sexy flashbacks.
Director: Kelly Howard
Language:
Actresses: Lauren Tate
Length: 60 min.
Genre: Erotica
Not Rated
1966
This groundbreaking, sexually explicit drama focuses onSiv, a beautiful and innocent country girl from a deeply religious family. She drops her staid (no sex before marriage) boyfriend and the restrictiveness of provincial life to move to the big city and satisfy her raging libido. Siv is a beguilingly attractive character who rejects the conventional in pursuit of simple pleasures and freedom.
Director: Mac Ahlberg
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Actresses: Essy Persson
Length: 92 min.
Genre: Bisexual
Not Rated
2001
Diverging from the shtick that made us laugh in her debut A Family Affair, Helen Lesnick has created a sultry erotic drama about two women having a torrid, secret affair. Two best friends and ex-lovers, Susan and Beth plan a long-awaited reunion in Oregon with their current lovers.
As the two head off to work-related seminars, their current girlfriends Jesse and Chloe try to politely get along and stay out of each other’s way but erotic tensions ignite. The simple task of washing dishes together ignites a steamy tryst. Taking charge of the situation, Jessewilfully dives into Chloe’s sexy mystique and soon no stitch of clothing comes between fervent, sweaty bodies.
They experience the burning passion and fierce intimacy they long for, but don’t get, with their existing lovers. As the two continue to meet at a motel every day, fear and guilt consume their thoughts.
Director: Helen Lesnick
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Length: 81 min.
Genre: Erotica
Not Rated
1999
An entirely mixed film for an entirely mixed audience, ‘Just One Time’ starts from an age-old premise - every straight boy's 'readers' wives' fantasy of getting it on with two girls at the same time...
Anthony is a New York fire-fighter engaged to Amy, the woman of his dreams, and heading for wedded bliss within the fortnight. But Anthony's a good Catholic boy, and wants to get a long-standing fantasy off his chest before settling down to a respectable future. Amy's less than thrilled by the concept of a three-way so, like the good lawyer she is, suggests a deal: she'll do same-sex but only if he will too.
If it looks familiar that's because it is - director Janger made the film as a short which we screened at last year's festival - now you get to find out what happened after the end credits rolled. There is another film by the same name.
Director: Lane Janger
Language:
Actresses: Joelle Carter, Jennifer Esposito
Length: 94 min.
Genre: Erotica
Not Rated
1996
The ancient Indian sex guide the Kama Sutra becomes the basis for director Mira Nair's exploration of female sexuality in 16th century India. A servant girl becomes jealous of her one time friend, now a princess, so she seduces her fiancé, the king. The servant is banished and winds up studying the Kama Sutra and becoming an acclaimed courtesan.
From there, she again becomes the king's mistress and again the rival of her one time friend. The movie shows the intense eroticism derived from the teachings of the Kama Sutra and the women are sexy, exotic and sultry.
Not Rated
1977
This bizarre fantasy is a lurid exposé on the life of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino.
Opening with the frenzied scene at his funeral, flashbacks attempt to chart his rise to fame and uncover the man behind the image. Rudolf Nureyev as Valentino looks the part, but he's woefully wooden and uninspiring. Though director Russell downplays the homosexual aspects of the Latin Lover's life, he offers some lesbian images, including a scene in which the "evil" Nazimova (Leslie Caron) accompanies Valentino's ex-wife/her lover Natasha Rambova (Michelle Phillips) to the funeral.
Not Rated
2002
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show. Governed by their overprotective boss, the girls' routine of glittery neon lights and lecherous customers is soon disrupted when an enigmatic stranger enters the scene.
Not Rated
1981
Possibly the weakest of Lily Tomlin's performance videos despite the presence of several of her trademark characters and the cameo appearances of Paul Anka, Dolly Parton, Liberace and Joan Rivers.
With the lure of gobs of money, Lily agrees to do the "Strip" and venture into the tacky world of Vegas. She soon finds out, however, that her subtle "message-laden" character comedy is no match for the glitzy pizzazz of Vegas superstar-lounge lizard Tommy Velour (Lily doing an on-target spoof of Wayne Newton) and his gaudy,mega-charged ilk. But Lily decides to sell out and the result is a show that would make any polyester-wearing grandmother from Indiana flush with excitement.
However, this parody of an already existing parody proves to be tiresome and makes one yearn for Lily to return to her "highbrow" comedyshtick.
Director: Bill Davis
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Actresses: Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Liberace, Dolly Parton
Length: 50 min.
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
1992
The bevy of gun-toting female assassins in this wildly over-the-top action flick are so tough, steely-eyed and man-hating as to make Catherine Trammell (of Basic Instinct) look like a virginal nursery school teaching by comparison.
There are spectacularly aerodynamic action sequences that boarder on the hallucinogenic as well as several scenes where the gorgeous hit women kill men for both their money and the fun of it! And shooting off their testicles are extra points. Master killer Sister Cindy (Sugawara) recruits Kitty (Yau) after she is ceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend (don't worry he paid dearly for that indiscretion).
A rival team of evil lesbian killers -- Princess (Ng) and her girl-toy lover Baby (Yao) -- get into the action as well. Princess is a former "student" of Sister Cindy who develops a fierce and violently jealous attraction for the lovely but heterosexually taken Kitty. There are several lovemaking scenes involving the women, the most interesting being one cross-cutting a scene featuring Kitty and her boyfriend with Princess and Baby.
Princess, the cigar-chomping lesbian is seen as a bitter ex-lover bent on revenge (who could blame her?). And check out the gratuitous nudity…of the men!
Director: Clarence Yiu-leung Fok
Language: Cantonese w. subtitles
Actresses: Carrie Ng, Madoka Sugawara
Length: 98 min.
Genre: Action
Not Rated
An Australian television series that got play in Canada during the 80s and then again in 2002.
Prison is the setting for this not-so-light soaper, with butch Frankie and "Vinegar Tits" Vera the prison guard, the evil Sharon and her American lover Judith… but alas, the entire program is not yet available on DVD.
Experience the best of Prisoner Cell Block H., now available in the U.
S. for the first time ever. Outlandish yet utterly gripping, this legendary cult hit from Down Under includes three volumes of memorable highlights—complete and uncensored.
The Early Years: Four priceless episodes, including the famous tunnel escape, the great fire, the arrival of prison officer Joan “The Freak” Ferguson, and the sad departure of Top Dog “Queen” Bea.
The Terrorist Siege: A terrorist squad breaks into Wentworth. Their mission: to rescue the wife of a major crime boss.
When the plan goes awry, hostages go bye-bye.
Not Rated
2002
Ariel, a teenager, lives with her single Dad, Sam, in a troubled and vaguely incestuous relationship. At one point, Arial demands that her doctor father perform a breast exam on her.
This is merely the first time we are treated to Ariel's nubile, perky little breasts. When Sam stars dating Mary seriously he brings her home to meet the daughter - and you guessed it - bad stuff happens. Ariel actually slugs the girlfriend!
Not Rated
2002
From the director of All God's Children comes a women's music documentary. This film chronicles the Women's Music Cultural Movement and its evolution from a "girl with guitar" to a revolution in the roles of women in music and culture. The movement gave birth to an alternative industry that changed women and music forever.
Through festival and performance footage, interviews, and archival material, the film delves into the rich and beautiful history of women creating a cultural life based in a commitment to diversity, personal integrity, feminism and women loving women. In its heyday, during the 1970s and 80s, women's music offered a different message than mainstream musical culture. It opened doors for women musicians, producers, sound and light technicians and for new women-owned recording companies and women-oriented shows.
Pioneers like Cris Williamson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Margie Adam and Linda Tillery recall the frustrations and the triumphs of finding women sound engineers and other professionals in a completely male-dominated industry.
Director: Dee Mosbacher
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Actresses: Cris Williamson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Margie Adam, Linda Tillery, Meg Christian
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Music
Not Rated
1985
Blair is captured by Communists after inadvertently witnessing the abduction of a political dissident.
She is sent to a hell-hole women's prison where the lesbian warden is sexually kept in check by prisoner Sylvia Kristel. A campy Kristel is the power-hungry vixen who reigns over a bevy of tattooed beauties. The film's darker, anti-gay side makes this action drama of real social interest for its equating of lesbianism with Communism and repression -- only the "bad girls" are lesbian.
Not Rated
1966
Adapted from Denis Diderot's famous 18th-century novel about Suzanne Simonin--an illegitimate teenager forced to enter a convent by her family--this is the most accessible by far of all of Rivette's features. It has a straightforward narrative that mainly concentrates on Suzanne's experiences at two convents--one severe and punitive, the other "progressive" and more worldly (though no less stifling for Suzanne when she finds herself pursued by the lesbian mother superior)--before she escapes to encounter a different kind of oppression in the world outside. Far from a nonbeliever, Suzanne is a devout character without a religious calling, and the film as a whole is a complex celebration of her continuous drive toward freedom.
From France.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Language: French
Actresses: Anna Karina
Length: 140 min.
Genre: Lesbian Nuns
Not Rated
2002
Join bisexual singer Ani Difranco, her band, and members of the extended Righteous Babe family as they criss-cross the country in this long-awaited, one-of-a-kind portrait of Ani at work.
Videographers spent years on Ani's trail, capturing her onstage, in the studio, and on the tour bus--footage which Ani herself shaped into a very personal self-portrait. The resulting movie, which draws on material from as far back as 1997, focuses on her 2000 and 2001 tours. This impressionistic collage takes you way behind the scenes; you'll watch a new song take shape and learn the stories behind some favorite older ones.
Over two dozen songs are featured, including two brand new Ani songs and previously unreleased live versions of many of her classics. As dynamic, thought-provoking, and fun as one of her concerts, Render gives you a sneak peek into Ani's life and music in her own words, on her own terms. It's a visual live album, it's a road film, it's an art flick, it's a document of a movement in time.
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Actresses: Ani DiFranco
Length: 112 min.
Genre: Music
Not Rated
Eager for a career in modeling, naive-and-not-very-bright Karen Anderson signs with a creepy brother and sister team whose Rent-a-Girl agency actually procures women for a rich and kinky clientele. Starting with posing for pictures in the nude, Karen soon graduates to being The Guest of Honor at a Special Party thrown by wealthy Harriet Grant, "a disgusting lady who enjoys whipping little girls 18 to 22.
" Full of sick eccentrics, the party's highlight comes when two women beat the bejesus out of Harriet before Karen is blindfolded and branded on the leg with a red hot poker! Plus: A "Sex Killer" prowls the streets of Manhattan killing hookers: "This guy is a nut! He'll grab any woman he thinks is a whore!
" But when the lesbian lover of working girl Ginny Smith is strangled by the Aroused maniac, Ginny turns vigilante and, together with some of her prostitute pals, invades the creepy mannequin-filled apartment of their number-one suspect whom they plan on turning into "a boy soprano." Also: LSD causes Sebastian Gregory to tell a hooker all about how he and a bad blonde named Barbara murdered a teenage hitchhiker before he in turn hacked up Barb. The hooker thinks the acid is making him hallucinate -- until she finds blood in his bathroom and a trunk full of bones.
So live dangerously and let these three strange Nudie-Noirs bring out the Freak in you!
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Length: 215 min.
Genre: Camp
Like a madcap cross between "Making the Band" and "Project Greenlight," IFC's hip, new series offers a riveting glimpse into a world most of us only dream about, as Gershon and indie rockers Girls Against Boys go on an erratic, multi-city tour across the U.
S. With only two weeks to rehearse, and music critics waiting to tear apart the latest actor-turned-musician, will the band succeed or get laughed out of their venues?
Not Rated
2001
A must-have for Rocky Horror Picture Show fans.
A peek at the phenomena of the legions of Rocky Horror Picture Show fans who dress up and throw a party every night the film plays somewhere in America. For twenty-five years people have been dressing up as Dr. Frankenfurter, No-neck and the whole cast, throwing rice, burning candles and putting newspaper over their heads.
This is the first documentary to explore the subject. And if you have no idea what this is all about, go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Director: Scott Mabutt
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Length: 75 min.
Genre: Documentary
Not Rated
1998
In a phenomenal film debut, Natali Broods portrays a beautiful, young Belgian woman known only as S. She has moved to New York with her abusive boyfriend, and leads a life filled with chaos, trauma, and loneliness. Her distant mother is an alcoholic prostitute; her father was executed for murder.
S's relationships are full of violence and twisted love.
After her boyfriend sleeps with an ex girlfriend in her presence, S. is so disgusted, she shoots them both in a strangely calm fit of passion.
She returns to Brussels, where she becomes involved with the beautiful Marie. However, love is not enough, and she descends further into a downward spiral of insanity, manifesting in promiscuous sex, violence, and murder.
Containing graphic violence, with both heterosexual and lesbian sex, this film is like a car wreck—you can't help but stare.
Crossing the fine line between reality and surrealism, while juxtaposing stunning cinematography with raw imagery, this is a strangely disturbing portrait of a physically beautiful young woman, unable to cope with the demons that are gripping her soul. With an edgy musical soundtrack, and lush cinematography, dysfunction has never looked so good! Filled with feminist and religious metaphor, there is more than meets the eye to this haunting vision of a girl on the edge!
Not for the faint of heart, this film will not easily be forgotten. From Belgium,
Director: Guido Henderickx
Language: French w subtitles
Actresses: Natali Broods
Length: 94 min.
Genre: Bisexual
Not Rated
Salome - Alla Nazimova directed (under her husband Charles Bryant's name) this extravagant version of the Oscar Wilde play, with sets and costumes by Valentino's wife (and Nazimova's lover) Natasha Rambova, who based her work on the erotic drawings of Aubrey Beardsley.
Sensual and wildly stylized, the story of Herod's vixen stepdaughter who danced for the head of John the Baptist is delightfully outrageous. Reportedly, the film was made with an all-gay/lesbian cast and crew. (Color Tinted)
Lot in Sodom - This European-influenced, avante-garde interpretation of the Old Testament tale of the trials of Kit features homoerotic imagery, sensual dances and distorted multiple images in telling its tale of a good man and his family living amidst a sexually charged band of homosexual Sodomites.
The handsome angel, sent down by God to find 50 good men in the city, finds only writhing, half-naked bodies and thus destroys the city. (Black White)
Director: Alla Nazimova (Charles Bryant), James Watson, Melville Webber
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Actresses: Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione
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Genre: Classic
Not Rated
1999
Originally made for HBO, this incisively funny comedy/performance piece by "bad girl" actress and comedienne Sandra Bernhard is a delight from beginning to end. Filmed in Francisco and shot by famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, both the video and DVD includes 30 minutes of bonus material not seen on the cable broadcast.
From her acting debut as the crazed, yet vulnerable kidnapper of Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy her career has been successful ( if a bit notorious.) Who could forget her memorable screen performances, her deliciously scandalous and stormy relationship with Madonna, her Off-Broadway one-woman shows and her self-acknowledged bisexuality. Yes, Miss Bernhard is a force to be reckoned with!
Dangerously witty, sarcastic and intelligent yet oddly romantic, this performance targets a wide range of topics from politics to pop culture to celebrities (Courtney Love, Rosie O’Donnell, Mariah Carey and Fleetwood Mac are just a few of her victims). Super-pregnant at the time of filming for her first Broadway show, the lady is armed and ready to take aim! If you're in the public eye (and just a wee bit pretentious), duck!
DVD contains 30 minutes of bonus material. It's presented full-frame with stereo sound.
Director: Marty Callner
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Actresses: Sandra Bernhard
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
Not Rated
1973
"A campy romp among swinging couples, Radley Metzger's 1973 movie is an early example of bisexual erotic film. Score may remind you of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - but here, the games are less traumatic and far sexier. Elvira and Jack bet on which of them can seduce a young innocent first.
..to the delights of (surprise!
) same-sex lovemaking. There's a dinner party, parlour games, and a session of dress-up playacting, all leading to the inevitable girl-girl, boy-boy sex scenes. All this is handled with the requisite style of soft-core maestro Metzger, whose first foray into elegant hard-core eroticism will be appreciated by today's lesbian, gay and - especially - bisexual audiences in a way he may not have expected.
Bring a friend...
or two...
and take bets on who will score first."
Not Rated
2004
The film chronicles the rapid social rise of Sandrine and Nathalie, two avowed non-lesbians who set out on a quest for power using sexuality as their principal weapon. They learn to arouse themselves, to control and simulate pleasure as needed, and to guard against love, the main obstacle for aspiring femmes fatales.
It may be the product of naiveté, and it certainly leads to a bloody catastrophe, but their program of political resistance is directly related to the imaginary. Voyeurism with only one eye open.
Not Rated
1999
Mariel Hemingway is Marty's quietly contented wife Laura whose libido is set afire after she reluctantly agrees to allow another women in bed with her and her husband.
Before one can spell out Sapphic, the blonde Laura is seducing just about every woman she meets -- and the gals aren't complaining! Laura's long pent-up lesbian desires explode into a frenzy of kisses, grinding and other oral pleasuring. And all of this action leaves Marty the odd man out.
A pleasant and quite funny sex romp suitable for both leering heterosexual men and Hemingway-loving lesbians.
Director: Mike Binder
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Actresses: Mariel Hemingway, Renée Humphrey, Missy Crider
Length: 97 min.
Genre: Bisexual
Not Rated
2004
The basic premise: Lesbian galore use the high-priced services of an attractive man as a sex partner/sperm donor.
The controversy: Lots of lesbians paying to have sex with a guy, which is nothing more than a heterosexual male fantasy.
Well-known lesbian author and sex educator Tristan Taormino, hired as a consultant by Lee (just as the Warchowski Brothers hired Susie Sexpert for Bound), defends the film, saying lesbians face a variety of options for getting pregnant. “ I can appreciate when lesbians say that they feel like they don’t see themselves, their lives, or their realities represented in this film, but I don’t think it is meant to represent all lesbians of color, all upwardly-mobile dykes, all lesbian moms, etc.
,” she said.
Not Rated
1968
Start by making a cheap "nudie," throw in some Russ Meyer touches (see Faster Pussycat..
.Kill! Kill!
); and top off with "Big Shin" (a tough talking' power-hungry dyke with a penchant for conical shaped bras and leather undies); and you've got yourself 79 minutes of cheesy, guilty-pleasure excitement. Ringleader Big Shin (Marni Castle) and four of her girls break out from a women's prison and hole up in a farmhouse. The women, all sexually starved, silicone-breasted beauties, are tired of masturbating (Big Shin watching and slobbering) and want a man (read dick).
So to keep her girls in line, Shin kidnaps a rich businesswoman's paid stud, and while waiting for the ransom, lets her ravenous underwear-clad women at him. Things get out of hand when Baby, Shin's favourite, joins in the hetero fun. The businesswoman (also played by Castle) has balls herself and hires "girl detective" Sweetie (Monique Duvall) (read bimbo with a gun) to recapture her invaluable gigolo.
Truly a '60s camp wonder with outrageous outfits and an unbelievably vicious lesbian villain who dies in a blaze of gunfire in a grand "Is this the end of Rico?" finale.
Director: Alfred Sack
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Actresses: Marnie Castle, Monique Duvall
Length: 79 min.
Genre: Camp
Not Rated
2002
This roller coaster ride depicting four days in the life of a group of speed freaks has a real gay feel to it. Blondie diva Deborah Harry plays a nosy man-hating, butch-dyke neighbor who steals the girl, Eric Roberts dives right into the role an over-the-top totally queenie drug dealer adorned on both sides by hunky Abercrombie and Fitch-type models. Openly gay Alexis Arquette butches it up as a drug-addicted cop with some wild sunglasses.
A heavily tattooed ex-Judas Priest front man Rob Halford (who it is rumored was booted out of the band for coming out) makes an appearance as the manager of an adult video arcade. And sexy John Leguizamo spends most of the film either half dressed or undressed as he performs a hilarious extended masturbation scene wearing only a sock over his dick. All this, a great story and a terrific soundtrack.
We advise you not to rent the R-rated version of this racy movie, there's lot of annoyingly foggy body parts and bleeping.
Director: Jonas Akerlund
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Actresses: Mena Suvari, Brittany Murphy, Deborah Harry
Length: 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
2000
The story is told entirely through the lens of VH1 reporters, commercials, a paparazzi documentarian and news reports.
Everything told in the film has a slant or an angle. We never learn who our characters actually are, only what we see through the eyes of manipulative news reporters. Tina Menzhal (Pare) is a woman's hockey player who is "discovered" by a sports photographer who shows her image to a modelling agency.
Tina's presence impresses the agency and she is hired to do some minor modelling work. Tina goes to Paris, fails, and returns home disgusted. Her journey takes her back to New York and she achieves success and "stardom".
Along the way she falls for a sexy photographer and a sad middle aged restaurateur, Barry Levine (Aykroyd). Dan Akroyd turns in an excellent performance, breaking the mold in much the way his Saturday Night Live compatriot, Bill Murray, did two years ago in the brilliant Rushmore. Lots of gay and lesbian characters everywhere in the script keep it interesting.
Director: Denys Arcand
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Actresses: Jessica Paré
Length: 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
1999
From TV's Comedy Central to your home. Jerri Blank, a 46 year old bisexual high school freshman who has returned to school after being a teenage runaway prostitute and drug addict.
She tries to reform and act like the other kids, but her streetwise ways get her into nasty trouble. These first ten episodes chronicle her tragic adventures and are a comic treat. With buck teeth, nasty wrinkles, bad hair and bad dress, Jerri grabs her biology books and forges her way into a foreign world.
Supporting characters play upon various politically incorrect stereotypes, like the African-American principal named "Onyx Blackman" or the very butch, innuendo-heavy gym coach Cherri Wolf. Hideous, trashy, and hilariously pushing the boundaries of sex and raunchiness as Comedy Central has oft been known to do, Strangers With Candy is not to be missed.
Director: Danny Leiner, Peter Lauer, Adam Bernstein
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Length: 246 min.
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
2002
From its brilliant opening credit sequence, in which the cast of characters is introduced in clockwork miniature, you know that lesbian filmmaker Rose Troche’s latest film will be more than just another entry in the pantheon of films about ordinary suburban people living quiet lives of quiet desperation. No indeed, Troche covers this by now well-tread ground with a fresh perspective, imbuing her film with a surreal sense of otherworldliness and humor absent in such entries as American Beauty. In that opus, though a seductive sense of danger lurked beneath the veneer of lily white America, things really were all they seemed to be.
In this suburbia, as based on the writings of A.M. Homes, no one really fills their appointed roles very well.
To be sure, there are midlife crises and other petty banalities, but these are offset by things like illicit affairs between a single mother and a neighbor’s teenage son (who now lies in a vegetative state as a result of an accident), young boys who develop secret affairs with their sister's dolls, young girls who are more butch than their brothers and landscapers with a seemingly unhealthy regard for such tom-girls. Troche weaves back and forth between tragic past and dreaded future, at each step dipping just a bit further into her characters’ fractured lives.
Director: Rose Troche
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Length: 121 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
Not Rated
1991
This delightful and engaging Tony Award-winning two-hour, one-woman show can easily be considered Lily Tomlin's magnum opus. The show centers around Trudy the Bag Lady as she escorts a group of visiting aliens from outer space and attempts to enlighten them on human idiosyncrasies. Using this premise, Lily jumps from one character to another amazingly giving life -- without benefit of makeup or costume -- to such Tomlin creations as Chrissie, making time at her aerobics workout; the punked-out Agnes Angst on a memorable visit to Grandma and Grandpa's; a male weightlifter; streetwalkers Tina and Brandi who entertain the press; and, as the centerpiece of all of this, Lynn, Marge and Edie (a middle-class white woman, a black radical and a drunken feminist), who make their way through the '70s and the early days of the women's movement.
The best humor in the piece comes from Trudy, however, as she pontificates on her own unique brand of cosmology. Relying primarily on footage from the actual show, the film occasionally cuts to staged re-creations of the vignettes.
Director: Jane Wagner
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Actresses: Lily Tomlin
Length: 120 min.
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
Not Rated
1969
With a title like that, and know it's got to be campy. Made on a no-money budget, the tale features a detective who becomes involved with a strange group of blackmailers who run a white slavery ring. The top dog (and what a bitch!
) is this slinky blonde lesbian who, while not torturing victims, enjoys flings with her female followers. When she is accused of being sick, she retorts, "Is it I who is sick, or is it you, Mr. Man!
" You gotta love it.
Not Rated
1996
Shakespeare's ribald tale of mistaken identity and transgendered hilarity is brought to the screen with verve and vigour by stage veteran Nunn and a splendid cast. Imogen Stubbs is Viola, a young maiden who, shipwrecked and separated from her identical twin brother, takes on the appearance of a man (Cesario) in order to win favor in the court of Orsino (Toby Stephens).
Orsino, it turns out, is intent on winning the love of Olivia (Helena Bohnam Carter), and Cesario takes on the call of winning her over on behalf of the moody prince. But, of course, people's affections fail to land on their intended targets and before long all-out farce rules the day. To top it all off, Olivia's maid Maria (Imelda Staunton) conspires with Sir Toby Belch (Mel Smith) to humiliate the steward Malvolio (a brilliant Nigel Hawthorne) by convincing him that he is the object of Olivia's fancy.
Ben Kingsley and Richard E. Grant round out the ensemble as the wandering storyteller Feste and the comic fop Sir Andrew Aguecheek, respectively.
Director: Trevor Nunn
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Length: 134 min.
Genre: Comedy
Lots of critics love this film. Hilary and Chloe were nominated for Oscars. Boys Don't Cry was a big disappointment.
First, I should point out that I don't consider this a lesbian film: Brandon is portrayed as a woman who shouts "I'm not a lesbian!" and the entire story revolves around her unwillingness to accept her sexuality (she can't accept being female, never mind lesbian). The film stands as a cautionary tale against hating yourself, but that's it.
People in the audience were talking and yawning during the film. Do yourself a favour, watch the Brandon Teena story instead.
Chloe Seveigny said " I first met Kim (Pierce) when I went in to audition for Brandon and my agent set it up.
It was pretty much by the book. I went in, met with her, talked about the story and I'd known about it since, like, '96 maybe and talked about Brandon and Lana and girls wanting to be boys and this and that. She said, "Have you ever wanted to be a boy?
'Cause the girl who plays this part had at least this desire." I said, "No," I couldn't lie to her and, "maybe I should come back," and then I never came back in. I just got the part after lots of campaigning.
" Another wild film from Lynch which has a young aspiring actress getting involved with an amnesiac woman. Don't try to understand it: it's all a dream. Zoom in on the pillow, dream time.
The Cowboy says to wake up, it's time to wake up. I can't believe I missed a Buffy rerun for this.
If you are discussing this film with a stuffy, arrogant know-it-all, call the film a Mobius Strip of the subconscious, performance art that, because it's on tape, it's on tape (add the emphasis, just like in the movie), transcends live performance art, life itself, because it must be repeated, without variance, every time.
Although each time you watch it, it's different (raise your eyebrow here, smile knowingly and nod slightly as you reach for your drink). Wait for a response.
Note: do not confuse this with Mulholland Falls, which has a gay character.
Rating: 3
1998
Converted to Tickling" is part two of a three part series "Box of Laughter" exploring the often overlooked fetish of tickling. Some say originality is a sin, a deviance to be corrected. What could be a more original form of correction, or deviance for that matter, than tickling?
What could be a more sinful scenario than the nun meets the schoolgirl? Could it get any more sacrilegious? Come on though.
It's laughter we're talking about as punishment. That's not so bad. Or is it?
Perhaps it is...
If you are caught on the receiving end. It seemed innocent enough. A school girl.
A nun. The Act of Confession. A typical morning at parochial school, on the surface.
Look a little deeper. Imagine our mother superior pierced in places God might never suspect. Imagine our schoolgirl as not so innocent.
Our mother superior discovers our schoolgirl has been admiring other students at this fine girl's school and must pay for her sins. Now imagine how we punish naughty little girls in our tale of conversion. Tickling.
What else? 35 min. Erotica
Director: Maria Beatty
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Actresses: Ginger Lynn Allen, Elizabeth Saltarrelli, Andrea Scarpa, Karen Black, Sarah Todd.
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 3
2005
Based on the play “Real Girls,” this romantic comedy begins as Robin, who is essentially married to her girlfriend of six years, and Lacie, who has never had a relationship lasting past sunrise, are cast to play lesbian lovers in a stage play. Enter the flamboyant director who takes them through rehearsals to bring more intimacy to their performances, bringing Robin and Lacie closer together—on stage and off.
As the two women grapple with their confusing new emotions, they tell the stories of their lives—hilarious and tender both, as well as scintillating and sexy—to find out if they are truly a match made in heaven.
Rating: 3
1999
Winner of the1999 Director's Award at the San Diego Gay And Lesbian Film Video Festival, My Femme Divine takes us into the romantic world of butch and femme relationships. Part personal memoir and part documentary, the films draws from poetry, photography, discussion groups, and Jungian psychology to explore the butch/femme mystique.
Or, it's a crock of bullshit, with each woman looking for her 15 minutes of fame by playing up stereotypical, outdated roles. Your choice.
Rating: 3
2001
Queer As Folk is unquestionably the gay cultural phenomena of the new millennium.
The American Queer as Folk is set in a mythical Pittsburgh - it's not West Hollywood or the West Village - it's a blue collar city where gay people co-exist with straight - just like where most of us live (actually, a lot of it was filmed in Toronto, where the OutTakes headquarters are located). Lindsay (Thea Gill, the blonde) is the mother of young son, who she had via artificial insemination with one of the other main characters, Brian. She's a house mom who is dedicated to her baby and sometimes to her lover Melanie (Michelle Clunie, the brunette).
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