The FSC owns several 35mm prints, including The Crying Game (Jordan, 1992), Ma Vie en Rose (Berliner, 1997), Madame Sata (Aïnouz, 2002), and Pariah (Rees, 2011), and more than twenty DVDs, including Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Anger, 1954), Myra Breckinridge (Sarne, 1970), La Cage aux Folles (Molinaro, 1979), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Babenco, 1985), Paris is Burning (Livingston, 1990), Orlando (Potter, 1992), Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Elliott, 1994), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (Kidron, 1995), The Birdcage (Nichols, 1996), Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce, 1999), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001), The Cockettes (Weber and Weissman, 2002), Transamerica (Tucker, 2005), Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (Silverman and Stryker, 2005), and XXY (Puenzo, 2007).Pride month may be over, but Outfest Los Angeles is very much ready to keep its spirit alive this month of July.
In recent years, a growing number of films have explored trans characters and situations with varying degrees of sensitivity. And Bugs Bunny never passed up a chance to don an evening gown: The Rabbit of Seville (Jones, 1950, 35mm) and What’s Opera, Doc (Jones, 1957, 35mm). All films are on DVD unless a different format is noted.Ĭlassical Hollywood was fascinated with cross-dressers, as evidenced by two prints in the FSC collection: Queen Christina (Mamoulian, 1933, 16mm) and Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959, 35mm). And a growing number of films included HIV+ characters, even when they did not focus on the disease: Savage Nights (Collard, 1992), The Cure (Horton, 1995, 35mm), The Adventures of Felix (Ducastel and Martineau, 2000, 35mm), Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Daniels, 2009, 35mm). Some of the most heralded plays and films of the 1980s and 1990s made AIDS their starting point: Angels in America (Nichols, 2004), Rent (Columbus, 2005).
Documentaries chronicled the devastation of AIDS and the response of AIDS activists: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (Epstein and Friedman, 1989), Positive (Von Praunheim, 1990), Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Joslin and Friedman, 1993), We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco (Weissman, 2011), United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (Hubbard, 2012), How to Survive a Plague (France, 2012). Experimental films challenged the dominant representation of HIV and people with AIDS: The ADs Epidemic (Greyson, 1987), They are Lost to Vision Altogether (Kalin, 1989), This is Not an AIDS Advertisement (Julien, 1990), Silence=Death (Von Praunheim, 1990), Zero Patience (Greyson, 1993). Melodramas solicited the empathy of outsiders for people with AIDS: Longtime Companion (René, 1989, 35mm), An Early Frost (Erman, 1985), Parting Glances (Sherwood, 1986), Philadelphia (Demme, 1993), Dallas Buyers Club (Vallée, 2013).
The FSC’s DVD and VHS collection includes many of the most important early Hollywood films representing homosexuality the films of Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Su Friedrich, and other queer avant-garde filmmakers the new queer cinema and more recent films such as Brokeback Mountain and television and cable series and network specials featuring LGBT characters.Īddress: Sterling Memorial Library, 7th Floor, 120 High Street, New Haven, CTįilmmakers, many of them HIV+ themselves, responded to the AIDS epidemic with an extraordinary outpouring of films. The collection includes rare 16mm prints of films by the queer underground filmmaker José Rodriquez-Soltero and the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, the art video work of Sadie Benning, and prints of important individual films ranging from pre-Stonewall classics such as Queen Christina, Strangers on a Train, and Boys in the Band, to more recent landmark films such as Milk, All About My Mother, and The Adventures of Felix.
The Yale University Film Archive maintains an extensive collection of films, videos, and DVD’s for use in teaching and research.