That sounds really silly looking back but that’s what it was.” “It was a throwaway pop song about not wanting to be a flashy millionaire. He ended up rewriting it for Life in Plastic. Tom explores those themes in “Millionaire”, a song that was originally written more than a decade ago, but shelved. “I present myself to the world as this pop star, but the reality is that I do live at home with my parents and I do everything myself, even though it doesn’t look like I do,” he says. Most of the time, people are projecting an image of themselves to the world that’s different from reality. Tom was eager to explore the differences in the way he presents himself to the world and what the reality is actually like. Writer-director Dee Rees’s 2011 debut simmers with strength, foregrounded in both a captivating naturalism and an intoxicating dreaminess, an ode to liberating oneself in a world hostile to Black queerness.The reality is that I do live at home with my parents and I do everything myself.
She turns to poetry to search deeper within. Available on Criterion Channel, HBO MaxĪlike (Adepero Oduye) finds herself caught between two worlds: the candy-colored neon of New York lesbian clubs where she dons “stud” looks of loose-fitting jerseys, slack jeans, and a baseball cap while hanging out with her lesbian friend Laura (Pernell Walker), and the bland brightness of her middle-class Black home where she is expected to fit the traditional mold. Both a strikingly honest portrayal of star-crossed lovers who do not belong together and an anxiety dream of Mainland China and Hong Kong’s geopolitical relationship, the film is replete with explosively intimate scenes, including a steamy kitchen tango. Toggling between bleeding yellows and greens and moonlit black and white, 1997′s “Happy Together” is a rush, a direct shot into the veins of love and heartbreak, as they struggle to stay in love, break up, get back together, and cycle through the process again and again. Available on HuluĮlizabeth Carmichael in the 2021 HBO documentary miniseries "The Lady and the Dale."Īs the handover of Hong Kong from Britain back to China was imminent, “Chungking Express” director Wong Kar-wai and actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing traveled to Argentina, where they enacted a sweltering, torrid, and dysfunctional love affair between two men. Anchored by tremendous performances from Booster, Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, and Matt Rogers, “Fire Island” finds heat and heart as a comedy of bad gay manners. Probing the social and class politics of gay and queer men, Booster’s barbed screenplay and Ahn’s sensitive aesthetic impulses are adroitly joined, bringing to the film both a clever sharpness and a tender vulnerability. From gay road trips to drag queen contests and queer buddy comedies to circuit parties, here are 11 gems to check out this Pride Month.Ĭoming out June 3, writer-star Joel Kim Booster and director Andrew Ahn’s charming “Clueless”-esque riff on “Pride and Prejudice” relocates Austen to the gay enclave of Fire Island, amid love and friendship. And, also, there’s always time to delve into the rich history of LGBTQ film as it continues to grow and evolve.
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