While Hollywood still has a long way to go in supporting queer stories and storytellers, we're living in a relative golden age of LGBTQ cinema compared to what has come before. Netflix has not always chosen to support the LGBTQ community in their business decisions, but the streamer has played a major role in increasing the visibility of queer characters and storylines in both film and TV, and in supporting queer creators in telling stories. As.
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Isabel Sandovalâs achievement in
Lingua Franca, I submit, isnât so much the breaking of boundaries or the allusion to current events (transgendered-directed film on transgendered relationships, and the perils of undocumented immigrants) but her plainspoken way of creating a mood, a feeling, the ambiance of an eerily depopulated, subtly menacing New York just this much more hostile to the marginalized.
Olivia (Sandoval) works as caregiver to the increasingly forgetful Olga (the late lovely Lynn Cohen) in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of New York (Olga sits with an orange in a kitchen, calls Olivia by phone, demands to know when she can go home; Olivia patiently reminds her that she is in fact at home, sitting in her own kitchen, surrounded by wallpaper she herself picked out). Olivia has two strikes against her: sheâs undocumented, and sheâs transgendered; she not only has to deal with ICE agents but when presentin
ThyBlackMan.com) 2020 kept us on our toes. Adapting became a way of life especially for
films and their fans. Part of the adjustment movie lovers had to make was viewing films on VOD and streaming services while only a few enthusiasts ventured out to near-empty theaters.
Within that context, here’s a look at the best and the brightest in films no matter where you saw them.
Enjoy.
The Closet
( ) – Bless the demon children in this atypical genre film. Better yet bless the young actresses (Yool Heo and Si-ah Kim) who play them for crying and screaming like they’d just been told there’s no Santa Clause. Korean director Kwang-bin Kim gives this cautionary tale about abused and neglected kids a home in a horror movie that beats out all the other contenders (and there were many) that graced fright screens this year. A stormy cloud of reality, mysticism and intrigue presses all the right buttons and makes you scared in the right ways.