I love watching movies. Whenever I want to self-indulge, I turn to old movies. I love em all . . . period pieces, black and white, foreign, war time, maritime - and subtitles are wonderful. I belong to the
TCM Wine Club – Pairing Wine and Movies. I do more watching than I do drinking, which is good, I guess. Haha. I am a firm believer that regardless of a person's age (mostly a self-reference), the person should be cultured in many genres and forms of life and entertainment. For example with music, I was born in the late 60s, but it doesn't mean I should only be versed in music of my generation. Moreover, I should know music that pre-dates me. I am fortunate in that regard, having been the youngest in a family of eight (mom, dad, one brother, and four sisters). They each introduced me to different types of music and musicians. The same goes for movies, novels, comics, and even food: my family members were my first influencers. I like to think I have acquired a vast wealth of knowledge not just through my family, but through the different people I have met, jobs I have held, and the many travels and adventures I have partaken of in my lifetime. It would be really wonderful if I could take all of that knowledge and create a classroom where I could share and teach. More distinctly, I would love to teach others about the LGBTQ community through movies. Yes, through movies. I would love to share the movies as I saw them and was able to compare (and contrast) them to my own life. It would be invigorating to share how I took the different meanings and lessons from each movie and explain how I was able to learn from each one. I will list them, but I will not explain why - that is for another post.
Some of the lesbian-inspired movies I would include in my course:
Another Country (1984),
Desert Hearts (1985),
Maurice (1987),
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991),
The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love (1995),
Bound (1996),
Fire (1996),
Chasing Amy (1997),
Gia (1998),
High Art (1998),
Lost and Delirious (2001),
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001),
My Summer of Love (2004),
Saving Face (2004),
Imagine Me & You (2005),
I Can’t Think Straight (2008),
Elena Undone (2010),
Blue is the Warmest Color (2013),
Carol (2015),
Reaching for the Moon (2013),
Tru Love (2013),
Margarita With a Straw (2014),
Jenny’s Wedding (2015),
Duck Butter (2018),
Lizzie (2018),
Tell It to the Bees (2019),
Ammonite (2020) . . . .
These are just a few lesbian-themed movies with which I would first begin the course. My list of LGBTQ movies is extensive, so if I were to include more than just the lesbian movies, the class would be neverending - to say the least. My preference is mostly because of my own personal association with lesbian matters (and affairs of the heart and mind, if you will).
However, if I did have to pick one LGBT, non-lesbian movie, it would have to be
Another Country (1984). I will explain, why I would include this movie in my course - in another post, as I stated previously.
So . . . to each one of these films, I dedicate a special part of me that will never be lost or given away because of their paramount, cardinal meaning and inspiration. Memories deeply instilled of the different nuances of what love once meant to me and what it has come to mean at this juncture of my life.
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