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"Genuinely subversive!" - Sight & Sound Tracy Turnblad has big dreams of dancing on TV and she's not going to 1960s conventional beauty standards get in her way. Overnight she becomes the queen of The Corny Collins Show and leads…
“IRONIC! RACY! STUPEFYING! That was one of our top 10 movies! used to watch It every year like families watch The Wizard of Oz” -John Waters In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture…
Todd Haynes may well be America's greatest living filmmaker, and POISON, his second feature (following his brilliant and controversial Karen Carpenter biopic Superstar, made with Barbie dolls), proves why. After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film…
“A black-and-white sci-fi retro-New York micro-budget completely absurdist independent comedy, which also manages to thoughtfully address the pain and confusion of sexual prejudice… Olnek has proven that she can make an important film without having to make a dramatic one.”…
"A lively, subversive high school indie by and for trans people!” - Variety A deliciously campy sendup of gender-bending comedies like She's the Man, Siobhan McCarthy's SHE'S THE HE is a queer cult classic in the making. Just before graduation,…
“Sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny, with a sensational soundtrack... it's like Clueless with nipple rings.” - Paper You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction,…
“Funny, and thoughtful, and deeply, viscerally satisfying.” - Chicago Tribune Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for…
“AN LGBTQ CULT CLASSIC! Satirical and sweet... campy take on gender constructs and a (then) rare, joyful romance between two teenage girls.” - CNN Style A candy-coated comedy with a razor-sharp satirical edge, Jamie Babbit's BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER has…
“Achieves a brilliant nightmarish quality by brooding atmosphere and imagery... one of the most unusual films of the fifties." - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies FROM OUT OF SPACE... CAME HORDES OF GREEN MONSTERS!! In the early 1950s, Cold…
“Really shows what an underground movie was! The first to do vulgarity in an almost opera style.” - John Waters Along with Anger's Scorpio Rising and Warhol's Chelsea Girls, Mike Kuchar's SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS remains one of the most influential films of the '60s…