#cloudburst 2011

[celluloidrainbow]

CLOUDBURST (2011) dir. Thom Fitzgerald Stella and Dotty are an older lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved into a nursing home by her granddaughter. Along the way they pick up Prentice, a hitchhiker travelling home to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother, and the three bond as they travel together. (link in title)

[hakkiest]

I love you grumpy old angry butch grandma Stella. I adore you

[lupinus-bicolor]

Cloudburst healed something in my soul. like fundamentally

[deramin2]

Reasons you should watch Cloudburst (2011) for Lesbian Visibility Week:

One of the only films about old lesbians

Commentary on ableism and familial manipulation

Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as lesbians

Historical context of a time when gay marriage was legal in Canada but not most of the United States

Story of loving and supporting a blind woman

Lesbian road trip with hijinks and a hitch hiker

Incredibly gorgeous footage of Maine and Nova Scotia

The interplay of objection to the institution of marriage as a tool of state control vs. providing a set of legal rights so a loving partner can make decisions instead of a hostile/indifferent blood family

Will make you cry bittersweet tears

[veryqueermovies]

Happy Women's History Month!

Here's a list of films about Queer Women! 🏳️‍🌈

For every list I post there's always more films out there, Letterbox'd is a great place to find movies.

(This was supposed to be up yesterday for International Women's Day but I've been sick for while and don't know what day it is ✌🏼)

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Desert Hearts (1985)

The Women Of Brewster Place (1989)

When Night Is Falling (1995)

Fire (1996)

Bound (1996)

Set it Off (1996)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

But I'm A Cheerleader (1999)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Saving Face (2004)

Fingersmith (2005)

Imagine Me & You (2009)

Black Swan (2010)

Cloudburst (2011)

With Every Heartbeat (2011)

Pariah (2011)

The Guest House (2012)

Stud Life (2012)

Liz In September (2014)

Carol (2015)

La Belle Saison (2015)

The Girl King (2015)

Bessie (2015)

Lovesong (2016)

AWOL (2016)

Our Love Story (2016)

Below Her Mouth (2016)

The Handmaiden (2016)

Carmilla (2017)

The Feels (2017)

Disobedience (2017)

Professor Marston And The Wonder Women (2017)

Princess Cyd (2017)

The Favourite (2018)

Duck Butter (2018)

Tell It To The Bees (2018)

Vita & Virginia (2018)

Rafiki (2018)

Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (2018)

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)

Elisa & Marcella (2019)

Booksmart (2019)

The World To Come (2020)

The Half Of It (2020)

My First Summer (2020)

Ammonite (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

Fear Street Part One (2021)

Fear Street Part Three (2021)

Do Revenge (2022)

Beauty (2022)

[bitter69uk]

“Faithfull’s voice, raggedly notched and erratic, sometimes starts flat or strikes a note that’s like a bald tire hitting a patch of glare ice. But what’s there all the time is this ripping knife of an alto, rueful and accusing and strangely vulnerable. What is in this voice? Only a few notes perhaps but a gallon of prussic acid, a season of tropical cloudbursts, the grittiest pale Northern skies, the emptiest grey hotel rooms. And endless, sleepless flights, thousands of cigarettes, Remy Martin, sex that’s the nostalgia of sex and happiness that’s just the memory of happiness. Hope that if you die before you awake you really won’t be aware of it. And the most unexpected sweetness.”

/ Gary Indiana reviewing Marianne Faithfull’s concert at the Bottom Line in NYC for The Village Voice on 15 December 1987 /

Happy birthday to exquisitely ravaged, resilient and timeless gravel-voiced art-rock diva of broken hearts (and the woman Tom Waits describes as “the aunt offering you a cigarette at a wedding when you’re 11”), Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946). The closest equivalent we have to a present-day, post-punk Dietrich, Piaf or Holiday turns 77 today. Pictured: portrait by Wayne Maser, circa 1995 (around the time of her A Secret Life album). Read my 2011 interview with Faithfull here.

[malicious-compliance-esq]

Thanks to @goldfishgrahamcracker for tagging me in this game about favorite movies!

List 10 of your favorite movies. Then tag others whose choices you'd like to see.

I am monstrously terrible at making ranked lists! It's not the way my brain works and I really struggle with picking "favorites" when that feels like comparing apples to oranges.

I started writing up a list of movies that are special to me and it wound up 3x as long as the set of 10 stipulated by the game. So I gave myself a cutpoint of "favorite movies since 2000" and wound up with a more manageable list of the first ones that came to mind. Here it is! Films organized in order of release.

Quills (2000)

The Rules of Attraction (2001)

Secretary (2002)

Mean Girls (2004)

Casino Royale (2006)

American Gangster (2007)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Cloudburst (2011)

Hot Guys with Guns (2013)

King Lear (2018)

Tagging @sleepingfancies and @puddinginthemix if y'all feel inclined to jump in on this!

[indie-queer-movie-tournament]

Entries List (which I will keep updated)

Anything in bold has propaganda

Alex Strangelove (2018)

Alice Junior (Alice Júnior) (2019)

A Moment in the Reeds (Tämä hetki kaislikossa) (2017)

A Single Man (2009)

And Then We Danced (და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ) (2019)

Beach Rats (2017)

Big Eden (2000)

BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)

Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2) (2013)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Booksmart (2019)

Bottoms (2023)

Bound (1996)

Boys (Jongens) (2014)

Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Breakfast with Scot (2007)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

Camp (2003)

Can You Ever Forgive Me (2018)

Carol (2015)

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Center of My World (Die Mitte der Welt) (2016)

Chasing Amy (1997)

Closet Monster (2015)

Cloudburst (2011)

Colette (2018)

Crash (1996)

Crush (2022)

Dating Amber (2020)

D.E.B.S. (2004)

Desert Hearts (1984)

Disobedience (2017)

Duck Butter (2018)

Edge of Seventeen (1998)

Elephant (Słoń) (2022)

Esteros (2016)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Fire Island (2022)

Freak Show (2017)

Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列) (1969)

Get Real (1998)

God’s Own Country (2017)

Grandma (2015)

Handsome Devil (2016)

Happiest Season (2020)

Happy Together (春光乍洩) (1997)

Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

I Can't Think Straight (2008)

I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en otro idioma) (2017)

I Killed My Mother (2009)

I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

In & Out (1997)

Jenny's Wedding (2015)

Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

Kajillionaire (2020)

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Kinky Boots (2005)

Latter Days (2003)

Longtime Companion (1989)

Mario (2018)

Maurice (1987)

Milk (2008)

Moonlight (2016)

Mosquita Y Mari (2012)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Mysterious Skin (2004)

Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)

North Sea Texas (Noordzee, Texas) (2011)

Operation Hyacinth (Hiacynt) (2021)

Pariah (2011)

Patrik Age 1.5 (Patrik 1,5) (2008)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (2019)

Princess Cyd (2017)

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Rafiki (2018)

Rūrangi (2020)

Saving Face (2005)

Selah and the Spades (2019)

Shiva Baby (2020)

Sorry Angel (Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite) (2018)

Straight Up (2019)

Swan Song (2021)

Tangerine (2015)

Tár (2022)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen Der Petra Von Kant) (1972)

The Bubble (הבועה) (2006)

The Conformist (Il conformista) (1970)

The Feels (2017)

The Half of It (2020)

The Handmaiden (아가씨) (2016)

The Kids Are All Right (2010)

The Lost Boys (Le Paradis) (2023)

The Meetings of Anna (Les Rendez-vous d'Anna) (1978)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Strong Ones (Los fuertes) (2019)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) (2014)

The 10 Year Plan (2014)

Tomboy (2011)

Totally Fucked Up (1993)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

Transamerica (2005)

Water Lillies (Naissance des Pieuvres) (2007)

Yossi & Jagger (יוסי וג'אגר) (2002)

You, Me and Him (2017)

[moregraceful]

postcard about my day:

had the stats class I TA this morning and then worked through homework questions with some students who were like -- i thought you said we weren't doing math in this class 😭. I wish academia wasn't such a shithole because I genuinely love working with college students. gossiped over the fence with a couple of my neighbors. was reminded once again why the elitism of world major races makes my eyes roll back into my head. picked up a cross stitch I started working on in 2020 that I still intend to gift to a friend. oh also I watched cloudburst, which feels very 2011 especially in the particular flavor of fatphobia, but it's a story about lesbians in their 70s running away to Canada to get married before one of their granddaughters puts them in a home. -patrichornkissed

that movie sounds delightful despite the fatphobia! also academia....word. college students are so delightful, yet so many faculty in both of my colleges sounds absolutely Done whenever they talked about anything other than teaching. congratulations on picking up the cross stitch again! this is wonderful, thank you

[lonesomedotmp3]

my lesbian movie rec is cloudburst 2011 which is fun & made me laugh 👍

ohhh I saw u rb some gifsets of it and added it to my watchlist it looks like such a fun little movey 🫶 I can't remember ever watching an old lesbian couple in like anything I def have to watch that soon 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

[kawaknown]

oasis:mixtape 1994-2024

DJ Mixed by Kawaknon

(It's Good) To Be Free - Oasis [1994]

To Be Where There's Life - Oasis [2008]

Columbia - Oasis [1994]

In the Heat of the Moment - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds [2023]

Listen Up - Oasis [1994]

Supersonic - Oasis [1994]

Open The Door, See What You Find - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds [2023]

Some Might Say - Oasis [1995]

Cloudburst - Oasis [1994]

Flick of the Finger - Beady Eye [2013]

Fuckin' In The Bushes - Oasis [2000]

Just Another Rainbow - Liam Gallagher & John Squire [2024]

Guess God Thinks I'm Abel - Oasis [2005]

Sons Of The Stage - Beady Eye [2010]

Greedy Soul - Liam Gallagher [2017]

Roll With It - Oasis [1995]

Morning Glory - Oasis [1995]

Acquiesce - Oasis [1995]

Doesn’t Have To Be That Way - Liam Gallagher [2017]

She Taught Me How To Fly - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds [2018]

It's A Beautiful World (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds [2018]

Falling Down (The Prodigy Version) - Oasis [2009]

Let Forever Be (feat. Noel Gallagher) - The Chemical Brothers [1999]

Better Days - Liam Gallagher [2022]

Go Let It Out - Oasis [2000]

Wall of Glass - Liam Gallagher [2017]

Bag It Up - Oasis [2008]

Stop The Clocks - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds [2011]

Gallagher Knows Whatever (Mashup) - Oasis [2022]

[hakkiest]

ME

[esonetwork]

An LGBT Look At Cloudburst

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/an-lgbt-look-at-cloudburst/

An LGBT Look At Cloudburst

The Earth Station One Rainbow Room screens the 2011 film adaptation of Thom Fitzgerald’s stage play. Mike, Mike, Mary, and Ciaran Moffatt hit the road for this heartwarming and heartbreaking story starring Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker. All this, along with Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take, Ashley’s Box Office Buzz, Michelle’s Iconic Rock Moment, Creative Outlet with Jim Beard, and Shout Outs.

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[deramin2]

Tonight I got to show my boyfriend Big Eden (2000). I love that movie so much. It's sappy and cheesy but no one had EVER made a gay romcom like like that. No queer movie had existed with that softness and living acceptance. It's 5 years older than the homophobic misery porn of Brokeback Mountain being held up as representation we should be grateful for. Big Eden broke as many barriers as Philadelphia (1993) or The Boys in the Band (1970).

Queer romcoms are only now becoming common 20 years later. Bros (2022) would have no queer Hallheart movies to simultaneously mock and long for without Big Eden. No The Way He Looks (2014), no Cloudburst (2011), no Fire Island (2022), no Spoiler Alert (2022), no Booksmart (2019), and no countless other films.

They exist because Thomas Bezucha said we deserve these stories, too. We deserve gentleness and love and small town crushes held onto for decades and someone who pours all their feelings into cooking for you and pretends it's not him because he's too shy. He deserve a Greek Chorus of old men who do nothing all day getting roped into it and hardware store lesbians and an old busybody playing matchmaker that realizes her errors. We deserve silly love triangles with gentle endings for everyone. We deserve the fantasy of it all. We deserve no queer people dying or being pressured by their family or corrected by anyone. Just love. Sappy, soft, gentle, healing, protective love. We deserve our own take on old tropes. And that's still something special.

[lesbianelsas]

The sun is about one inch above the horizon, changing color from yellow to red. Like a blood orange. Some dangerous clouds look like they could burst out any minute. Tide is high, running out. Ferguson’s already got his traps, and he’s almost around the point.

What shapes are the clouds?

There’s a donkey, carrying two nuns and a beagle. Racing across the sky.

Cloudburst (2011) dir. Thom Fitzgerald