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For Pride month you may have heard that Rotten Tomatoes has expanded and updated their list of the greatest LGBT films ever to a full 200 movies wide.
Given that they've just done this, we thought it might be a good idea to share multiple "best lgbt films list" to give you lots of rental ideas for Gay Pride month. We've also listed the pros and cons of a few of the key lists out there. Do you feel like you've seen your share of queer classics perusing these or do you have endless hours of screenings ahead to catch up?
The Rotten Tomatoes list and 4 additional lists are after the jump. Which lists is friendliest to your tastes?
Did you know that without Natalie Wood, the seminal gay play and subsequent film The Boys in the Band (1970) might never have existed? 1970 is our year of the month but the story began much earlier when Natalie met the playwright Mart Crowley on the set of Splendor in the Grass (1961). He was working as an assistant to Elia Kazan but Natalie immediately snatched him up for herself, taking him along for her West Side Story ride...
• RackedTitanic's necklace almost bankrupted a whole company! • My New Plaid Pants geeking out over Ms. Laura Dern who spoke to NYC at the Film Society of Lincoln Center recently • Deadline an interview with the great production designer Santo Loquasto on Wonder Wheel • Out Ryan Murphy's Boys in the Band Broadway Revival has cast a bunch of its players already and it's basically all the famous gays: Charlie Carver, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Zachary Quinto some of whom at least have stage experience. • The Muse talks to Glenn Close who has some interesting things to say about gossip, Harvey Weinstein, and being an older actor in Hollywood
• Indie Wire on the multi-pronged creative casting efforts for The Florida Project • Vanity Fair interviews Joe Wright of Darkest Hour, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice fame • Variety the Roseanne reunion sitcom will start airing March 27th. Wheeee • Mubi on the Berlinale lineup or February 2018 • / Film If you only think of Disney/Fox merger in terms of superheroes, you'll probably be overjoyed • Vox remembering what might be 2017's signature movie scene "No Man's Land" in Wonder Woman • Broadway World the cast of Cats posing with adoptable felines. Awww • Variety that young JRR Tolkien biopic starring Nicholas Hoult has wrapped. Biopics aren't always Oscar favorites anymore but we shall see. • Film School Rejects looked at new releases of old movies on dvd: Election, China Moon and more • Deadline TV/film producer Martin Ransohoff has died. Among his credits The Sandpiper, The Cincinatti Kid, The Beverly Hilbillies and Jagged Edge
Star Wars Time Again • The Verge thinks Rogue One is about net neutrality • /Film 10 the greatest female characters in the Star Wars universe (wait, there are ten?) • Vanity Fair the plea for LGBT characters in the Star Wars movies and why they've been ignored
Exit Video James Corden's Crosswalk the Musical welcomes The Greatest Showman's Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 12:15PM 
by Nathaniel R
