Seven years before the infamy of Cats, Tom Hooper (fresh off the Oscar-sweeping success of The King’s Speech) helmed this star-studded big-screen take on one of the longest- running musicals in history. Other People (2016)Ī splendid tragicomic performance from Molly Shannonis the big draw in this dramedy, a semi-autobiographical look at writer/director Chris Kelly‘s family life. Shannon won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work here. Rain Man won Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, as well as four Oscars including Best Picture, and Best Actor for Hoffman. Cruise stars as a shady operator who learns of his autistic brother (Hoffman)’s existence when his late father nixes him from his will.
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman star in Barry Levinson‘s touching road drama, the highest-grossing motion picture of 1988. Close’s chameleonic and surprisingly understated performance is outstanding. When the picture does occasionally swerve into caricature or soapiness-and it does-strong turns from Amy Adams and Glenn Closekeep the story’s emotional core alive. Audiences perhaps are more keen than critics to notice this Hillbilly Elegyis already a substantial hit for Netflix. Ron Howard‘s vision of the small-town South-and of a family suffering through the cycle of addiction-is largely on point. Million Dollar Baby was released around Christmas 2004, ultimately upsetting early frontrunner The Aviator in major Oscar categories, with wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor ( Morgan Freeman) and Best Actress. Roger Ebert hailed the picture as a “masterpiece” that holds nothing less than the secrets of life and death.
Million Dollar Baby (2004)Ĭlint Eastwood‘s sports drama, starring the veteran actor as a grizzled boxing coach who reluctantly trains a girl ( Hilary Swank) from the wrong side of the tracks, is along with the likes of The Hustler and select other masterworks, one of the finest sports films in history. The film peters out at some point, but the masterful opening stretches sear the mind it’s certainly worth the watch. Alex Strangelove (which featured on our Valentine's Day list this past February) has a young man at its heart, while The Half of It has a young woman, working out her sexuality while she writes love letters to a woman for a male friend.Previously best known as an action star, Vanessa Kirby received rapturous reviews, Venice’s Volpi Cup and an Oscar nod for an astonishingly physical portrayal of a woman reeling with grief in Kornél Mundruczó‘s harrowing drama. The Half of Itīisexual representation in film has also often been compromised, with bi people often portrayed as rampant nymphomaniacs or as people lying to themselves on their way to becoming fully heterosexual.Ī recent set of Netflix bisexual coming-of-age movies, however, have attempted to change this trend.
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This often shameful history is unpacked in documentary Disclosure, which takes us from silent movie drag acts to groundbreaking shows like Pose and Orange is the New Black.
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Trans people have had a difficult time of it in films, with decades of movies portraying them as either sick jokes or depraved serial killers–or in some cases, both at once.
Though viewers can take issue with the all-straight cast, few can deny it is one of the most beautiful films ever released by a major studio with a queer love story at its heart. The Ang Lee film quickly became the butt of many jokes as the "gay cowboy" movie–even though if people actually watched it they would realize it is about bisexual shepherds. Here are some of the best Netflix subscribers can enjoy this Pride Month. One of the few movies about a transgender character on the streamer, for example, is the oft-criticized The Danish Girl, the film from Cats director Tom Hooper, led by cisgender actor Eddie Redmayne.ĭespite the Netflix catalog having some notable omissions when it comes to depicting the whole spectrum of queer life, it does contain some excellent films that have turned LGBTQ+ stories into sublime comedy, activism-stoking tragedy and awareness-raising documentaries. Netflix's catalog reflects this, with the streamer's movie collection featuring a lack of films featuring, for example, trans people. Hollywood has been notoriously slow in telling the stories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters, never mind those of others who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. Pride Month is marked every June, when the lives of the LGBTQ+ people are celebrated, and those within the community reflect on how far they have come–and how much still needs to change.