The gay Super Bowl, which some refer to as the Academy Awards, is still months away, but if you can’t wait that long to throw your support behind the year’s best film, here’s good news. Queerty readers can tell us which was the film most likely to become a future queer classic. There were so many deserving projects to choose from this year, but we managed to narrow it down to six. Watch the trailers for each and then click over to the 2014 Queerties ballot page to cast your vote.
The Imitation Game: A look at events in the life of Alan Turing opens next month but is already being heralded as one of the year’s best films, due primarily to Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of the late persecuted gay hero.
Lilting: Exquisite cinematography and a delicate performance by out actor Ben Whishaw helped make this gentle drama about a mother coming to terms with her dead son’s lover one of the year’s most rewarding films.
Love Is Strange: The latest from acclaimed director Ira Sachs starred master thespians John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a couple whose long relationship is challenged after they finally tie the knot.
Neighbors: Seth Rogen showed that he can make homoerotic comedies without the aid of bestie James Franco. Zac Efron costarred as “something a gay guy designed in a laboratory.”
The Normal Heart: Larry Kramer‘s powerful stage drama about the early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York City finally made it to film, thanks to Ryan Murphy and a stellar cast, led by Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer.
Pride: This crowd-pleaser, currently in theaters, depicts the true story of a ragtag group of young gay and lesbian activists in London in the mid-1980s who decided to raise money to support the striking miners of a small Welsh town.
VOTING IN THE QUEERTIES IS EASY: Just head over to the ballot page and click on your favorite nominees.
You can come back and vote once every day until the contest closes on November 02, 2014, at midnight Eastern.
doug105
The Imitation Game shouldn’t have even made the list.
Gothrykke
@doug105: Quite right. It should be listed under “Bryan Fisher’s you can pray the gay away” category.
lykeitiz
Neighbors? Really?
Seth82
The Normal Heart is definitely the best.
I’d put it up there as one of the best films of the year even.
TrueWords
here is a GREAT movie many people are probably going to miss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9RFKaZoDQ
Mykaels
Weekend.
drivendervish
Neighbors is not an LGBT movie by any stretch of the imagination. There is some homoerotic comedy which was required to accurately depict the interactions of young men at a frat house.
TrueWords
@drivendervish: it has Queerty crush Ms. Efron so it makes the list…
Queer1
I nominate “The 10 Year Plan” – classic gay rom com – http://youtu.be/b7eCIfx1A6A
Queer1
pjm1
‘The Normal Heart’
“Pride”, and
“The Way He Looks”
are excellent movies. I have not seen “The
Imitation Game” so cannot comment.
“Lilting” was good/ok but not quite up to the story telling of
three listed above.
pjm1
@pjm1: Forgot to mention, “Stranger by the Lake” (French)
a simple but gay suspenseful movie. A good movie also.
pjm1
@pjm1: ok, one final movie that you may
want to see “The Circle” — it is a swiss movie and a true story — actors
and the real characters.
“The Circle” and “The Way He Looks” received the top awards at Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco’s
gay movie festival that is arguably/almost certainly the best gay film festival in the world (and it is great). IF
you never have been to the festival it is worth making a trip to SF for (in June, during/around, gay pride).