Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
5.429
82 minutes
2/12/2006
Overview
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
Cast List
B. Ruby Rich
as Self
John Waters
as Self
Jane Lynch
as Self
Alan Cumming
as Self
Heather Matarazzo
as Self
Todd Haynes
as Self
Christine Vachon
as Self
John Cameron Mitchell
as Self
Rose Troche
as Self
Ang Lee
as Self
Marga Gómez
as Self
Gus Van Sant
as Self
Guinevere Turner
as Self
Dan Bucatinsky
as Self
Angela Robinson
as Self
Jonathan Caouette
as Self
Jennie Livingston
as Self
Ash Christian
as Self
Nina Landey
as Self
Peter Paige
as Self
Jenni Olson
as Self
Billy Porter
as Self
Alice Wu
as Self
Wilson Cruz
as Self
Donna Deitch
as Self
Don Roos
as Self
Patrik-Ian Polk
as Self
James Schamus
as Self
Alonso Duralde
as Self
Tommy O'Haver
as Self
Randy Barbato
as Self
Arthur Dong
as Self
Marcus Hu
as Self
Michael Musto
as Self
Stephen Winter
as Self