Most Cake Reader’s Choice at ‘Fringe! the gay film fest’ – What film would you like to see?
by Petit Fours
Dear readers, The Most Cake is hosting a film showing on the 8th April as part of the Fringe! film fest and we’d like you to tell us what you’d like to see. We were asked to pick a fun lez classic, so we’ve lined up four of our favourites and then thought we’d leave it up to you guys… They’re all great.
Show Me Love // High Art // Desert Hearts // But I'm a Cheerleader
The film festival is the one you may remember us mentioning a couple of weeks ago – it’s now a real thing, called Fringe! the London gay film fest and is running from the 7th – 10th April (Facebook page). The Most Cake film will be screened in the Dalston Rio at 1.30pm the afternoon of Saturday 9th April and there’s a bar open in the Rio so come and chat to us afterwards!
Stick it in your diaries, but first – vote in our poll and tell us what you’d like to see.
Here are the contenders. Synopses courtesy of imdb, comments courtesy of us.
Desert Hearts – USA, 1985
“It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She’s unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner’s daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian’s insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs.”
our thoughts: Mmm… sweet lesbian love on the ranch. Digging on that backdrop of rocky landscapes
High Art - USA, 1998
“A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.”
us: haha. Somehow this reminds me of this. Sounds great. Supposed to be sexy.. By the director of The Kids Are Alright.
Show Me Love (orig. Fucking Åmål) – Sweden, 1998
“Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.”
us: hellO Swedish teenagers.
But I’m A Cheerleader – USA, 1999
“A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.”
us: sweet romcom is a slapstick lesbian take on cheerleader films.
oh by the way – the boys have a separate showing elsewhere in this time slot so this film can be as lesbian as you want
But I’m A Cheerleader x 1239. God, I love Clea Duvall.
aw i’m gunning for High Art – early lisa choldenko – new york lesbians, sexual tension in the workplace, great reviews….
love that stuff
As long as it’s not Fucking Amal. I hated that movie.
If These Walls Could Talk 2!
For boys- Argentinian film called Glue, or that British classic, Beautiful Thing.
But I’m a Cheerleader!
If these Walls Could Talk 2 is amaaaazing, but a TV series, surely.
C’mon Desert Hearts… coming up on the rear!!
HIgh Art because dysfunctional is best and I’ve never seen it. Or But I’m a Cheerleader, Clea 4eva yeah.
Am i going crazy or is the saturday actually the 9th of april?
You are going to have to show something quite out of this world.
Desert hearts! We’ve all seen cheerleader enough times already. Amal was worthy but dull. If there was optional preferential voting, if these walls could talk would get my #2
@rosie – yes saturday certainly IS the 9th April – updated. thank you!
Where’s Desperate Living on this list?!
It’s without a doubt surely the best and most realistic film about sapphism ever seen.