Queer & Now & Then

J'accuse!: William Wyler’s These Three is a fascinating, recalibrated tale with traces of the queer themes of its source material

Close to you: Todd Haynes’s Superstar uses disease as cover for a social rot so entrenched there may be no cure

Bang bang: Fassbinder’s debut, Love Is Colder Than Death, is a genuinely fluid depiction of identity, sex, and love that reflected the director’s own matter-of-fact bisexuality

Out of the shadows: The Uninvited’s phantom lesbianism is exhilarating in making its subtext almost visible

What’s your pleasure? Clive Barker’s Hellraiser couples S&M with a heavy dose of homoeroticism that makes it an unapologetic violation of heteronormative standards

Over the rainbow: The Harvey Girls offers a quintessential example of the complex Judy Garland persona, embodying her movie star effervescence yet pointing toward darker roads

Missing persons: Joseph Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer is fascinating and pleasurably aberrant, a miracle of queer impropriety.

Looking back: Lucio Castro’s End of the Century is a temporally unexpected work in which possible pasts and potential futures intermingle to create an unstable now

School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust

Cleaning up well: Saturday Night at the Baths is part charmingly awkward coming-out narrative, part document of a disappearing culture