Seen of Alonso Duralde's 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men

Submitted by ephender on Fri, 05/26/2006 - 02:00
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  1. All About Eve
  2. All About My Mother
  3. The Apple
  4. Auntie Mame
  5. Barbarella
  6. Basic Instinct
  7. Bear Cub
  8. Beautiful Thing
  9. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  10. Big Eden
  11. Boom!
  12. Bound
  13. The Boys in the Band
  14. The Broken Hearts Club
  15. Brother to Brother
  16. Cabaret
  17. Camp
  18. Can't Stop the Music
  19. Carrie
  20. Casablanca
  21. The Celluloid Closet
  22. Chasing Amy
  23. Chuck & Buck
  24. Cruising
  25. The Crying Game
  26. Dog Day Afternoon
  27. Edward II
  28. 8 Women
  29. Far From Heaven
  30. Female Trouble
  31. Fight Club
  32. Fox and His Friends
  33. Funny Girl
  34. The Gang's All Here
  35. The Gay Deceivers
  36. The Gay Divorcee
  37. Giant
  38. Girls Will Be Girls
  39. Glitter
  40. Go Fish
  41. Gods and Monsters
  42. Grey Gardens
  43. Grief
  44. Happy Together
  45. Heathers
  46. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  47. Henry & June
  48. Hustler White
  49. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  50. Jackass: The Movie
  51. The Killing of Sister George
  52. Kinsey
  53. The Last of Sheila
  54. The Living End
  55. The Lonely Lady
  56. Mahogany
  57. Making Love
  58. Manji
  59. Maurice
  60. Moment by Moment
  61. Mommie Dearest
  62. My Own Private Idaho
  63. Myra Breckinridge
  64. The Opposite of Sex
  65. Paris is Burning
  66. Parting Glances
  67. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
  68. The Pillow Book
  69. Prick Up Your Ears
  70. Rock Hudson's Home Movies
  71. Saved!
  72. Scary Movie
  73. Score
  74. Show Me Love (Fucking Amal)
  75. Showgirls
  76. Skidoo
  77. Smile
  78. Some Like It Hot
  79. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  80. A Star is Born (1954)
  81. Suddenly, Last Summer
  82. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  83. Sunrise
  84. Sunset Blvd.
  85. Swoon
  86. Tarnation
  87. Taxi Zum Klo
  88. Tongues Untied
  89. Trick
  90. Unzipped
  91. Valley of the Dolls
  92. Victim
  93. Victor/Victoria
  94. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  95. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  96. Without You I'm Nothing
  97. The Women
  98. Women in Love
  99. Written on the Wind
  100. Xanadu
  101. Zero Patience
Author Comments: 

A better list, at any rate, then the high-cholesterol shitfest that is Gay Cinematherapy (a book my roommate had that was, um, moronic). I like a list that calls the gay on Jackass and Sunrise and is willing to take on the almost assured flak over including stuff wrongly tarred with the label "homophobic" like Cruising.

Still, not much excuse for The Broken Hearts Club, Chuck & Buck and Trick. And some have pointed out the absence of the following (ones I've seen italics):

L'Air de Paris
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All That Heaven Allows
Bad Education
Un Chant d'amour
Come Undone
Daughters of Darkness
Desperate Living
Fireworks
Heavenly Creatures
In a Year of 13 Moons
Johnny Guitar
Law of Desire
Ludwig
Martha
Mysterious Skin
Nighthawks
Pink Narcissus
Rocco and His Brothers
Rope
The Scarlet Empress
Scorpio Rising
Son Frere
Strangers on a Train
Talk to Her
Teorema
The Times of Harvey Milk
Tropical Malady
Veronika Voss
Wild Reeds
Wild Side
The Wizard of Oz

and undoubtedly many many others...

ADuralde05/30/2006

Thanks for reading the book!

Before you castigate me for including "The Broken Hearts Club," please read my commentary on it. And your list of exclusions includes several movies I'd like to get to in a sequel, if anyone wants to publish it. In my defense, I left out movies like "Desperate Living" and "Talk to Her" because I didn't want to overload my book with movies by individual filmmakers -- that's why people like John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar (and Todd Haynes and many others) get the "Auteur Alert," wherein I recommend every film they've made even though I chose only one for the book.

ephender07/15/2006

Whoa. This response completely slipped by me. I know it didn't come across, but I really did enjoy the book, and the ratio of me going "smart choice" to me going "honky please" was favorable. (The interview on Matt Zoller Seitz's blog sold me.)

Sequel ho!