Gender Discussions and Films.......

[KewTnCurvy GG]

Just been researching the net and these are some new resources I've found (knowing they may be old resources to others). Oddly and weirdly enough (as I am a Certified Film Nut) I've not seen Ma Vie en Rose but must see soon, it looks fabulous!

hugs
kew

http://archive.salon.com/directory/topics/cross_dressing/

http://www.timeout.com/film/81472.html

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/mavieenrose/

http://www.mediarights.org/search/browse.php?cat_id=00066

http://www.transgendercare.com/superstore/default.asp?sb=s&asin=&field-keywords=Photoessays+&+Documentaries&schMod=books&type=&lNode=25

[Julie York]

I've actually seen that film. (I think?) I remember the two boys pretending to get married. Can't remember much about it though.

There is also another very good film you should look out for called "A Bit Of Lippy". It's probably some obscure Independant U.K. production but it was very good. Girlfriend catches boyfriend in full-on tranny gear and..."drama ensues!" :eek: And it has a happy ending.....(sniffle.)

[Kimberly]

I forget the name of the film, but I saw it with the guy out of the Motorcycle Diaries...

It was about two gay catholic schoolboys in Spain, and how one turned into a TG, and tried to re-unite his first love through a film script of their life.

Ugh... what's its name?!

[Julie]

Here's a link to a number of TG movies. Maybe the one you're thinking of Kimberly is among them.

http://www.bcholmes.org/tg/tgmovies.html (http://www.bcholmes.org/tg/tgmovies.html)

JJ

[Cissy Suzie]

Just been researching the net and these are some new resources I've found (knowing they may be old resources to others). Oddly and weirdly enough (as I am a Certified Film Nut) I've not seen Ma Vie en Rose but must see soon, it looks fabulous!

hugs
kew

http://archive.salon.com/directory/topics/cross_dressing/

http://www.timeout.com/film/81472.html

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/mavieenrose/

http://www.mediarights.org/search/browse.php?cat_id=00066

http://www.transgendercare.com/superstore/default.asp?sb=s&asin=&field-keywords=Photoessays+&+Documentaries&schMod=books&type=&lNode=25

Connie and Carla stars Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette as women posing as guys in drag after they witness a mob murder. It's sort of a different take on Some Like it Hot, from 1959.

I like both movies, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon in dresses hanging out with Marilyn Monroe! Woo Hoo! I wonder if it is just a coincidence that I began dressing up in 1959? Hee Hee! :rolleyes:

Connie and Carla has a lot of cross dressed guys, it handles how friends, family, and loved ones react to situations that probably a lot of us may or may not face in real life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345074/

[DonnaT]

Try this one:

http://members.fortunecity.com/jayekayetv/tmovies/9.htm

[Shy Charlotte]

Heya Curvy,

I remember watching Ma Vie En Rose a long time ago, and actually found that it has more to do with Gender Dysphoria than Transvestitism. I was going to suggest another interesting movie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but then realized that it is more about a gay man who was forced into a sex change. Still damn entertaining, assuming that you're into musical-theater-rock-opera-stage to movie- adaptations. Hmm, not sure if you'd seen Better than Chocolate, but it's so-so. Has some transsexual issues, but mostly focuses on lesbians. Can't recommend it personally, but I'm a bit of a movie snob myself.

Hmm, on a side note, why is it that almost every movie that involves crossdressing either focuses on:
Drag Queens
Transsexuals
Crossdressing as a form of disguise/camoflage
Crossdressing as a form of comedy (Bugs Bunny, Busom Buddies, Some Like It Hot)

Hmm, seems like few movies actually portray straight crossdressers, unless they're some sort of serial killer. Why is it that whenever we see a Drag Queen on screen (ooh, almost a haiku), we think "Oh, this is going to be a grand, motherloving good time", but when we see crossdressers in the movies, we think "uh oh, wonder where's he's hiding the butcher knife". I know that we're (present company excepted) considered ugly red-haired step sisters to drag queens, if we're not mistaken for drag queens ourselves, but come on, someone cut us some slack. We need a movie that shows us as fun-loving, non-homicidal, regular human beings. Ah well, first day back on the board in a while and I go off on a rant already.

Just my 3 cents...