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"Stereotypical images, like all aspects of culture, change and evolve over the years. Queer women in classical Hollywood films often appeared as spinster aunts or prison matrons, but by the 1970s, they were often being represented as vampires, a trope that turned same-sex love and affection into something cruel and monstrous. By the twenty-first century, a wide variety of openly queer people and queer "looks" has made it more difficult for the mass media to create new stereotypes, but traces of the old ones can still be discerned."

-From Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America by Griffin Benshoff

*Images are from Arsenic and Old Lace (1943), Caged (1950), The Vampire Lovers (1970), and Vampire Killers (2009)
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Ingrid Pitt from the Vampire Lovers was beautiful. I was just watching parts of this movie on YouTube last week. There is a scene where she seduces another woman without words. No dialogue and no nudity but very sexy.
 
sally_sparrow said:
I stumbled across this article about Barbara Stanwyck's performance in Babyface. I've never seen it, but it's now at the top of my queue.

https://medium.com/@MarriedAtTheMovies/the-sexiest-classic-movie-youve-never-seen-aa81afbc2b96
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Barbara Stanwyck was bisexual, and known as "Hollywood’s most well-known closeted lesbian…that everybody knew.” Clifton Webb called her his ‘favorite Hollywood lesbian '.

In the late 1920s, she taught dance at a gay and lesbian New York speakeasy owned by Texas Guinan and was ensconced in the city’s lesbian crowd with Tallulah Bankhead, Marjorie Main, and Blythe Daly.

-From Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions*by E.J. Fleming
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Make that two for the queue!
 
Happy nearly NY everyone.
Because I'm on the spectrum, social interactions can be mystifying to me. I'm following the online bread crumbs for the movie, Carol (and am crushing on Rooney Mara so much I can hardly breathe). So here's a link to an analysis of the eye contact between the protagonists that I found Quite Interesting.

Oh and then I found this interview with the screenwriter
 
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stickygirl said:
Happy nearly NY everyone.
Because I'm on the spectrum, social interactions can be mystifying to me. I'm following the online bread crumbs for the movie, Carol (and am crushing on Rooney Mara so much I can hardly breathe). So here's a link to an analysis of the eye contact between the protagonists that I found Quite Interesting.

Oh and then I found this interview with the screenwriter
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Happy New Year, stickygirl. Thank you for sharing these videos here. I loved the movie Carol, and share your crush on Rooney Mara :) I've read about the male gaze in several articles so this is a nice take on the female gaze and how powerful it is.

I just finished watching the interview with the screenwriter. I never saw Carol as being predatory and I like how she states that she is bold and knows what she wants, and what is the difference between her character instead of a male lead?

This was such a good movie. Makes me want to reread The Price of Salt too.
 
sally_sparrow said:
I loved the movie Carol, and share your crush on Rooney Mara :) I've read about the male gaze in several articles so this is a nice take on the female gaze and how powerful it is.
Makes me want to reread The Price of Salt too.
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Oo thanks for the heads up on Price of Salt which is now on my wishlist.


I'm pretty sure Rooney is on the spectrum, which makes me love her more. Here's a silly interview that is full of 'yups'
 
You know when you've been to a gf's house to celebrate a birthday - take away, wine, talk, then a movie. It was Colette and we all agreed it was the best role Keira ever played and the actress who played Missy, Denise Gough, steals every scene. So I thought I'd enjoy the glow of wine and friendship by sharing that contentment here

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stickygirl said:
You know when you've been to a gf's house to celebrate a birthday - take away, wine, talk, then a movie. It was Colette and we all agreed it was the best role Keira ever played and the actress who played Missy, Denise Gough, steals every scene. So I thought I'd enjoy the glow of wine and friendship by sharing that contentment here

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That's so perfect :heart: Thanks for sharing. That made me smile.
 
sally_sparrow said:
That's so perfect :heart: Thanks for sharing. That made me smile.
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We're so ahead of the loop here - well. Rooney Mara has been cast to play Audrey Hepburn in a new biopic (despite some booing from Lilly Collins fans). The guardian article reveals that the writer Colette ^^ spotted Hepburn as a young dancer and cast her into the role of Gigi.

I'm intrigued to see what the director brings to the film, given that a younger generation won't know much about Hepburn's films. I only learnt about her through a repeated documentary.
 
stickygirl said:
We're so ahead of the loop here - well. Rooney Mara has been cast to play Audrey Hepburn in a new biopic (despite some booing from Lilly Collins fans). The guardian article reveals that the writer Colette ^^ spotted Hepburn as a young dancer and cast her into the role of Gigi.

I'm intrigued to see what the director brings to the film, given that a younger generation won't know much about Hepburn's films. I only learnt about her through a repeated documentary.
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She is perfect for that roll. I'm excited for the biopic. Hepburn had an interesting life and upbringing under Nazi occupation. I first saw Audrey in Charade and was captivated by her grace. Years later I did some artwork featuring her, which I don't remember where I've stored. I completely forgot about it until now. I'll see if I can dig it up to share here.
 
I bought a copy of 'Carol' aka The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. I know within a couple of sentences if I'm going to get on with an author's style and this reads so easily. I'm already loving her observations and how brave she was to throw light on the tiny emotions we regard as static to our everyday experiences to say 'these things are shared, they are real and it's important to acknowledge them'.

Then I read up on her life story on Wiki and I'm like waaat! Crikey-blimey in a Saucepan - she was so wired it defies belief. What a train wreck of a life and not an altogether nice person.

The book is great though - more than great. I'm going to learn so much from her, even though I'm not seeing Rooney Mara on the page :D

ETA Phew, that was a ride! I finished the book today, knowing it was supposed to end happily but I was gripped till the end. Highsmith has a way of making tiny emotions and fragments of thoughts important by setting them on the page.
 
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I did a search so forgive me if this has already been covered. You know me - always late to the party and I've had this as a dvd on my shelf for ages but I was frightened to watch it. I know, weird right? Anyway I was with my SO and we watched it last night.

MY DAYS OF MERCY Official Trailer (2019) Ellen Page, Kate Mara Drama Movie​

This wasn't what I expected and I won't include any spoilers. It is very powerful perhaps because of the juxtaposition of different elements. Good news is that the lesbian relationship is just a given - no criticism and only one snide comment, and the relationship runs parallel to the main story that leads to some uncomfortable situations. The ending wasn't what I expected and it left me thinking, and frankly upset for a day ( I get vicariously affected too easily ).

Elliot Page is extraordinary and Kate Mara has to run to keep up with the portrayal of emotions. The supporting cast are great too, especially Amy Seimetz as Page's older sister. There is sex - woo - but you know what? I hardly noticed because of the main storyline.
 
I am so pleased to see this thread is still here, albeit, inactive. This will change. :)

"…A slender body, hands soft and white, for the service of my delight, two sprouting breasts round and sweet, invite my hungry mouth to eat, from whence two nipples firm and pink, persuade my thirsty soul to drink, and lower still a secret place where I’d fain hide my loving face…"

Isadora Duncan in a letter to Mercedes De Acosta [1927]
 
sallysparrow23 said:
I am so pleased to see this thread is still here, albeit, inactive. This will change. :)

"…A slender body, hands soft and white, for the service of my delight, two sprouting breasts round and sweet, invite my hungry mouth to eat, from whence two nipples firm and pink, persuade my thirsty soul to drink, and lower still a secret place where I’d fain hide my loving face…"

Isadora Duncan in a letter to Mercedes De Acosta [1927]
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I tried my best :confused:
Lovely to see you back 🤗
 
sallysparrow23 said:
I am so pleased to see this thread is still here, albeit, inactive. This will change. :)

"…A slender body, hands soft and white, for the service of my delight, two sprouting breasts round and sweet, invite my hungry mouth to eat, from whence two nipples firm and pink, persuade my thirsty soul to drink, and lower still a secret place where I’d fain hide my loving face…"

Isadora Duncan in a letter to Mercedes De Acosta [1927]
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Welcome back, Sally! I'm looking forward to more of your provocative writing! ;)
 
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