2/7/2024 0 Comments The best gay movies to watchBut under the glossy surfaces of Haynes’s movies often lies a buried desire known well to queer folks, whether explicit (the modern lesbian classic Carol) or more subtle. He went on to helm acclaimed features like 1991’s Poison, inspired by the French writer Jean Genet, and the Julianne Moore-starring Safe (1995) and Far From Heaven (2002), which don’t seem so queer, at least at first. Haynes, who is gay, became known as a pioneer of what we called the New Queer Cinema movement in the ’90s (ask your Gen X friends, they’ll tell you all about it), after making the experimental, banned Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, in which the singer is literally embodied by a Barbie doll. Since the late 1980s, the director has crafted gorgeous, hyper-intelligent films, often period pieces centering women, with an unmistakably queer streak. 17, a new generation was introduced to the particular, peculiar pleasures of a Todd Haynes movie. ![]() When Netflix’s May December hit theaters on Nov.
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