Jacob

Jacob

Favorite films

  • The Watermelon Woman
  • Memories of Underdevelopment
  • The Living End
  • Some Like It Hot

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  • Angels in America

    ★★★★½

  • Amadeus

    ★★★★½

  • The Women

    ★★★★

  • Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

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  • Amadeus

    Amadeus

    ★★★★½

    Forman, Schaffer, Abraham & Hulce… the men that you are…

  • The Women

    The Women

    ★★★★

    Cukor kinda invented gay film culture if you think about it.

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  • Khush

    Khush

    ★★★★

    One of my biggest pet peeves is when people frame communities of color as innately patriarchal and significantly more misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic than white society. So it was great to hear Khush’s subjects condemn colonialism for instilling compulsory heterosexuality in the first place, as well as providing examples of queer desire throughout South Asian history.

  • How to Survive a Plague

    How to Survive a Plague

    ★★★

    Though this is a solid documentary, and I have only the utmost respect and appreciation for the queers, feminists, PWAs, and activists of the time, the controversies surrounding David France and How to Survive prevent me from giving it an enthusiastic review.

    For one, I encourage viewers of this film to look up how France capitalized on the labor of Black trans filmmaker Tourmaline to create his Netflix documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.

    For another, I…