I would be interested. Sadly I have nothing recent for you.
Peking Opera Blues is a Hong Kong action film with crossdressing both ways, a bit of history, and a lot of fun. I picked it up while I was taking a class on the subject and it's one of my favorites. A lot of my movies are "issue" movies, no matter who creates it, but this one is just sheer fun, if you can get it.
Sankofa written and directed by Haile Gerima reminds one of Kindred, if you've read it, only the protagonist, a self-absorbed model, is transported into the deep south and experiences slavery there as though she's a part of the setting, not a person from the future gasping at being in the past. It's really an excellent film. It's pretty heavy, but worth it.
Native American: Powwow Highway is a barrel-load of fun and meaning (Written by David Seals and directed by Jonathan Wack). It's been years since I watched this one, but it is essentially a buddy-film that puts a post AIM-type with his more easygoing friend together on a road trip to release the former's sister.
The Business of Fancydancing is another favorite (written and directed by Sherman Alexie, which explains it). It may make you cry, however. It's about a NA openly gay author who has had some success as a poet and feels conflict between his identity at the Rez and the persona he puts out for his readers. After a friend commits suicide, he has to return home.
Keep in mind that both deal with 'issues,' but it isn't all depressing. In BoF, I both cried and burst out laughing. There are "slice of life" vignettes. I wish I owned these two so I could read them continuously. I'd recommend Alexie as an author overall, but I liked what he did here. He allowed a lot of freedom with his actors, and I wish he could have done more movies, gotten a budge, evolved as an author and director, etc.
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Date: 2009-03-12 01:24 am (UTC)Peking Opera Blues is a Hong Kong action film with crossdressing both ways, a bit of history, and a lot of fun. I picked it up while I was taking a class on the subject and it's one of my favorites. A lot of my movies are "issue" movies, no matter who creates it, but this one is just sheer fun, if you can get it.
Sankofa written and directed by Haile Gerima reminds one of Kindred, if you've read it, only the protagonist, a self-absorbed model, is transported into the deep south and experiences slavery there as though she's a part of the setting, not a person from the future gasping at being in the past. It's really an excellent film. It's pretty heavy, but worth it.
Native American:
Powwow Highway is a barrel-load of fun and meaning (Written by David Seals and directed by Jonathan Wack). It's been years since I watched this one, but it is essentially a buddy-film that puts a post AIM-type with his more easygoing friend together on a road trip to release the former's sister.
The Business of Fancydancing is another favorite (written and directed by Sherman Alexie, which explains it). It may make you cry, however. It's about a NA openly gay author who has had some success as a poet and feels conflict between his identity at the Rez and the persona he puts out for his readers. After a friend commits suicide, he has to return home.
Keep in mind that both deal with 'issues,' but it isn't all depressing. In BoF, I both cried and burst out laughing. There are "slice of life" vignettes. I wish I owned these two so I could read them continuously. I'd recommend Alexie as an author overall, but I liked what he did here. He allowed a lot of freedom with his actors, and I wish he could have done more movies, gotten a budge, evolved as an author and director, etc.