In the documentary Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema -- one of the offerings at Q Cinema's eighth annual Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, which gets under way tomorrow in Fort Worth -- more than two dozen actors, directors and critics take us on a guided tour of the history of gay-themed movies.
Beginning with Kenneth Anger's landmark 1947 experimental short film, Fireworks, and working its way to last year's Brokeback Mountain, Fabulous! is a nifty primer on a half-century's worth of gay movies. And it proves particularly illuminating in showing how the independent gay directors who emerged in the early 1990s -- chiefly Gus Van Sant, Gregg Araki and Todd Haynes -- paved the way for gay movies like Brokeback and Boys Don't Cry to reach the multiplexes.
What Fabulous! doesn't do, however, is challenge many of our preconceived notions about gay and lesbian filmmaking. As ...
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