Queer & Now & Then

Architectures of desire: Tsai Ming-liang's Vive L’Amour and No No Sleep saturate the screen with psychosexual intensity

Even beyond its female, queer Jewishness, there’s something about Yentl that made people uncomfortable: Streisand’s chutzpah

Images of possibility: Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied was and remains a radical work of American art

A regular fella: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy questions definitions of masculinity in what the filmmaker called "the first homosexual picture"

Burn, Hollywood, burn: the scandalizing Myra Breckinridge and its fearless star Raquel Welch will not be forgotten!

New beginning: Gregory Markopoulos's beautiful experimental film Christmas U.S.A. explores identity and doubling at a landmark postwar moment

Under the radar: in Pit Stop, future Ballad of Buster Scruggs star Bill Heck impressed smaller audiences in a queer drama, like others before him

Friends and allies: Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays is a Thanksgiving classic that understands deeply the comfort and the harm that family can offer

On the verge: Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d’Anna locates sexual fluidity in an otherwise stultifying modern world

Blithe spirit: for the two women in Robert Wise's adaptation The Haunting, there is more to reckon with than the possibility of a supernatural presence