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- Twenty years after its initial release, Boys Don’t Cry has been cemented as a critical entry in queer cinema. It was the first mainstream feature with a trans man as the main character, and the film greatly helped further the conversation about trans people, their lives, and their inherent human rights.
blog.taste.io/the-20th-anniversary-of-boys-dont-cry-taking-a-critical-look-back-at-the-landmark-film-65241e2bf0d720 Years Later “Boys Don’t Cry” is Still One of the Most ...
Oct 23, 2019 · They’re not about being queer. In “Boys Don’t Cry,” Kimberly Peirce begins to build a visual language for how to be trans on camera. She’s interested in how trans bodies are looked at, and what it means to perceive trans people as people, not gags or murderers.
Dec 12, 2019 · Produced by Killer Films’ Christine Vachon (among others), “Boys Don’t Cry” was the wildly successful final chapter of the New Queer Cinema, the kind of scrappy, risk-taking, independent cinema...
- Jude Dry
Boys Don't Cry: Directed by Kimberly Peirce. With Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III. A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Kimberly Peirce
- 2000-03-31
- Lucas Silveira, Musician
- Anna Daliza, Writer and Model
- W.M. Martin, Microbiologist
- Caden Mark Gardner, Film Critic
- Zackey Lime, Drag King, House of Kings
- SD Holman, Artist and Artistic Director of Queer Arts Festival / Sum Gallery
I waited to watch Boys Don't Cry until after it was released on video. I was one of the too few who knew of Brandon Teena's story before it came out, and I was concerned it would be too traumatic to watch in a public setting. I made the right decision. The first time I'd heard of Brandon was on the trashy Geraldo Rivera daytime talk show. I was 12....
When I was very young, I would go into town with my parents on Sundays to rent movies. On the few occasions we brought home a Hilary Swank flick, I remember my dad remarking on how beautiful she was. Suffice to say we had never brought home Boys Don't Cry. And in more recent years, I've avoided it based on my friends' cautions. But I watched it tod...
Boys Don't Cry was the only game in town. As a young person questioning their gender identity, I had systematically watched nearly every film I could find featuring trans women. Trans men-led media was much harder to come by. I don't remember if I even made it the whole way throughBoys on the first pass. The film seemed very dark, both in cinematog...
I sawBoys Don't Cry when I was not supposed to be up — and not at a suggested age to watch a hard R-rated film. I was 10 years old and it was an early Saturday morning. I was up before my parents were. I did not seek it out; it was a product of channel-surfing. I watched about the last 75% of it, so it took a moment to realize what it all was and t...
As a non-binary, "FTM" transmasculine person, I did not need to watch this film. The first half is long and tedious, the second half tragic and humiliating. This film does not deepen understanding of myself or of the world around me. I don't need to see violence and humiliation on a screen to know that it exists. But maybe cis people did; maybe the...
Who's your audience? This is a key question for every artist, and Boys Don't Cry is the example I often use. I don't know many queers who've watched that movie. I don't know that we need to — we've lived it. I watched it; I don't need to again. I remember the man who came with a gun to my house in Rock Creek to shoot me. We don't need a film to rel...
Jun 15, 2024 · DETROW: "Boys Don't Cry" was the first mainstream film centered around a transgender man. MACLAY: At the time, it was considered a big moment in queer cinema and in cinema at large.
- Scott Detrow
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....
Feb 28, 2024 · Directed by Kimberly Peirce, this 1999 film focuses on a real-world murder case that occurred in 1993. While the event itself was a brutal hate crime that resulted in the death of a transgender...
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