In celebration of Pride Month, we are proud to continue recognizing the stories and contributions of the LGBTQ+ communities all month long here at Film at Lincoln Center. This week’s Community Corner question shined a spotlight on the vital and prolific LGBTQ+ voices that have impacted cinema history by asking you which queer relationships depicted in film have made the biggest impression on you. We put the question to our online community via Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and the responses featured a poignant mix of longing, tenderness, and heartbreak.
Popular responses included romances found in films like Desert Hearts, Moonlight, Tropical Malady, Carol, Mulholland Dr., The Watermelon Woman, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Blue, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Handmaiden, Happy Together, Rafiki, Bad Education, Certain Women, God’s Own Country, Un chant d’amour, Fox and His Friends, Bound, and more. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation! Also, don’t miss our special Pride Month playlist, featuring hours of insightful conversations from FLC that explore the queer experience in cinema.
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— Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren) June 18, 2020
Love triangle in The Doom Generation. pic.twitter.com/mWXiciFIDA
— Nil (@NilHenschke) June 19, 2020
Desert Hearts w/ @helenshaver & Patricia Charbonneau
Portrait of a Lady on Fire w/ Noémie Merlant & Adèle Haenel
When Night is Falling w/ Pascale Bussières & Rachael Crawford
Kiss Me w/ Ruth Vega Fernandez & Liv Mjönes
Gemma Arterton & Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Summerland
— Iamsusanlang (@slangcares) June 21, 2020
Theresa Harris and Barbara Stanwyck in BABY FACE. #TCMParty pic.twitter.com/bHBPCsW2ua
— Sister Celluloid (@sistercelluloid) June 18, 2020
(And thank you, Mr. Jarman.) pic.twitter.com/imPS1O0o2O
— Erik Schut (@MrErikSchut) June 18, 2020
— Old Bean (@TimMcDonough4) June 18, 2020
— Dobromir Harrison (@dobharrison) June 18, 2020
— Brian O’Connell 🏳️🌈 (@_Sheehogue_) June 18, 2020
not enough people know about this movie imo pic.twitter.com/FH2aw7WJsk
— hell king (@bifteckfrere) June 18, 2020
I am endlessly fascinated by this relationship in The Killing of Sister George. pic.twitter.com/55UTFAy1hw
— Scott Grunow, Dame of Antifa (@scottgr60613) June 18, 2020
Charters and Caldicott, from “The Lady Vanishes,” are the gay Nick and Nora Charles. Hitchcock uses them as comic relief here, and then they appear in several British movie and radio plays, including Carol Reed’s film, “Night Train to Munich.” https://t.co/OGdQG3dRB9 pic.twitter.com/7S6H0nJuau
— ben schwartz (@benschwartz_) June 19, 2020
those men in Gilda… https://t.co/4mb3eebN4O pic.twitter.com/CGQAe8pTLC
— Yuki (@yuki_aditya) June 19, 2020
There are dozens, but I think about the subtle threads of love, compassion, understanding and irritation that run through John Lithgow and Alfred Molina’s performances in LOVE IS STRANGE all the damn time. https://t.co/uV2wwVG1z2
— Norm Wilner (@normwilner) June 18, 2020
la ceremonie invented marxism-lesbianism 😌 https://t.co/mvPhDPhpvS pic.twitter.com/IqhuBIsuam
— watch the conformist (@vertoveye) June 20, 2020
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— Austin Dale (@AustinADale) June 18, 2020
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— quarantined for homosexuality (@fivepoisonskid) June 18, 2020
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