Look back in wonder: FLARE 2016 critics’ roundtable
On its thirtieth anniversary, the erstwhile London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival had plenty to reflect on, from biopics and revionist histories and rereleases to the new places queer cinema is going. Claire Kurylowski, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters share notes in this podcast.
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In this discussion —
01m 28s
Biopics, historical dramas and a sense of reflection, stock-taking and nostalgia across this year’s programme
03m 22s
Increasing documentation of queer lives
05m 17s
1980s-model public lives and group identities
08m 25s
Ways of looking back
10m 24s
Reenactments and troubling reflexivity
12m 11s
Queering the mainstream: secrets and thrills
14m 55s
Los Angeles as a queer city
17m 50s
Physical interiority and chamber pieces
20m 00s
Beyond identity politics: spending time with characters
22m 09s
Revivals and correctives
23m 36s
New economic identities
25m 27s
Wild spaces
26m 58s
Transgender director Silas Howard
31m 30s
Transform and the lives of trans people
32m 34s
Magical nonrealism and the fruits of progress
35m 41s
Queer horror
37m 08s
Queer technologies and scifi
39m 11s
Queer films from Latin America
40m 05s
Claire’s favourite film
42m 12s
Ben’s favourite films
44m 56s
Sophie’s most missed programme – Night School – plus censored scenarios and fantasies from Matilda
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