Tag: drag in cinema

Drag in Cinema: Time Trippin’

| Sep 28, 2020 | Reply

Today we slip the constraints of linear time and bounce around the time stream to check out drag in cinema that missed covering in previous editions of Drag in Cinema. We look at Back to the Future, Part II, Trick from 1999, and the 2006 feature She’s The Man which features a female character impersonating her brother at an exclusive school. Then we stop 2010 for All Good Things, a film based on the exploits of suspected murderer Robert Durst.

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Drag in Cinema: More Films From the ’90s

| Aug 31, 2020 | Reply

When Drag in Cinema looked at the films of the 1990s we missed a few instances of men in drag. Among the Pedro Almodóvar’s ninth film High Heels. It was released in 1991 and featured a male actor portraying a judge who adopts a drag performer disguise as well as another male disguise. Then we take a look at Mixed Nuts, the 1994 remake of a French comedy that features Liev Schrieber in drag. 1996 brought us I Shot Andy Warhol with two male actors portraying Warhols superstars, and then in 1999 Willem Defoe does a scene in drag in the vigilante action pic Boondock Saints. Get ready to go to the movies with Drag in Cinema!

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Drag in Cinema — The 1990s

| May 11, 2020 | Reply

Today Drag in Cinema looks at the use of drag in films from the 1990s. The decade kicked off with Tila Swinton in male drag in Orlando. It ended with the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a character identified as a drag queen in the film Flawless in the last year of the decade. In between there are several films that used drag for mostly comedic purposes, and one film that celebrates drag for the joy it can bring.

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Drag in the Cinema: The Late Sixties

| Dec 24, 2018 | Reply

Years ago on TGForum Laurie Sheril did a series of articles on drag in the cinema. She started back in the days of silent film and worked her way forward in time to the ’90s. Today we dip into the TGForum Archives to bring you her thoughts on films from the late 1960s. More examples of feminine disguise being adopted by secret agents, hapless heroes, and just regular guys.

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Drag in the Cinema — The Mid ’60s

| Nov 26, 2018 | Reply

Years ago on TGForum Laurie Sheril did a series of articles on drag in the cinema. She started back in the days of silent film and worked her way forward in time to the ’90s. Today we dip into the TGForum Archives to bring you her thoughts on films from the mid 1960s that featured characters in drag.

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Drag in the Cinema — The Early 1960s

| Oct 29, 2018 | Reply

Years ago on TGForum Laurie Sheril did a series of articles on drag in the cinema. She started back in the days of silent film and worked her way forward in time to the ’90s. Today we dip into the TGForum Archives to bring you her thoughts on films from the early 1960s that featured characters in drag.

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