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Jun 15, 2024 · The film Boys Don't Cry came out 25 years ago. A lot has changed in trans representation since then. NPR's Scott Detrow discusses this with the film's director, Kimberly Pierce.
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Last year, Boys Don’t Cry was inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. Peirce went on to direct Stop-Loss (2008), about young soldiers returning from the Iraq War, and Carrie (2013), a remake of the horror classic , and has recently directed episodes of the Netflix show Dear White People and Showtime’s Kidding ...
Jun 16, 2024 · As part of his ongoing look at groundbreaking films from 1999, host Scott Detrow speaks with Kimberly Peirce, the writer-director of Boys Don't Cry. The film starred Hillary Swank, who won an...
The award-winning director of films like Stop-Loss and Carrie left her mark on cinema with her debut feature Boys Don’t Cry.
- Interpreting The Truth About Brandon
- The Positioning of Masculinity
- Building A Martyr
- Carrying The Load
Picking up the news story of a Nebraskan trans man who was the victim of brutal hate crimes in 1993, Boys Don’t Crycame out long after many viewers would’ve heard the basics in national newspapers. What the average viewer (and from reading through reviews, the average film critic as well) wasn’t aware of was the fight over Brandon’s story that had ...
If Boys Don’t Cry’s grasp on Brandon’s identity isn’t laser focused, what does hold up is its portrayal of his masculinity, cutting a path that has been praised over and again while rarely being matched. In his review of the film, Roger Ebert pointed out that it plays like a tragic romance, picking up on Peirce’s stated desire to make the film more...
No matter how much Peirce wanted to play with Brandon’s story, the crux still needed to be the hatred and murder that propelled him to the national stage. His death, out of the numerous murders of trans people that have and continue to occur, had been raised up as a symbol, and Peirce was incredibly successful at isolating the parts of his story th...
You could go on for days, weeks, even years breaking down the successes and failures of Boys Don’t Cry, and people have been doing just that because it’s still one of the few films of its size and success to have centered on a trans man. That’s why so much has been written about it, why it was played at Reed College in 2016, why it holds such a pro...
Oct 22, 2019 · “Boys Don’t Cry” made history in 1999, but two decades its age reveals its ignorance. We examine the film’s shortcomings and why Hollywood has yet to produce a good queer film featuring a trans man.
Oct 9, 2019 · When it was released in October 1999, “Boys Don’t Cry” was the first mainstream film to focus on a transgender man. Twenty years later, it’s still the rare feature to cent er on such a life .
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