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Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable...
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. 'In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger...
3) 52 Tuesdays
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16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week (only on Tuesdays) these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.
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“Powerful and engaging.” —New York Times
“Brutally honest and funny.” —Marie Claire
“A lyrical exploration of [Jacques’s] gender journey.” —Guardian
“A marvelously nuanced” transgender memoir, “brilliantly contextualized in the disparate worlds of pop culture, football, mass media, and the NHS” (Kate...
“Brutally honest and funny.” —Marie Claire
“A lyrical exploration of [Jacques’s] gender journey.” —Guardian
“A marvelously nuanced” transgender memoir, “brilliantly contextualized in the disparate worlds of pop culture, football, mass media, and the NHS” (Kate...
9) 52 Tuesdays
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Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
10) Sacred country
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"I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." In 1952 at the age of six the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk has a revelation. She isn't Mary. She's a boy. An inexplicable mistake has been made and will have to be rectified. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others fight to discover a place of meaning in a savage and confusing world. Mary's...
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"Beautiful transsexual Charlie Monroe had a rough time becoming the woman he always wanted to be. His father disowned him and his crush almost killed him after word got out that he slept with a man. Despite all the tough times, no one hurt him worse than his long-term jealous friend, Dixie Wood. Dixie's one problem was that Charlie was special. Not only did he learn the illegal trade of silicone injections but he also found the man of his dreams,...
13) The Dog
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Drafthouse Films volume no. 23
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In 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his male lover's sex change operation. Three years later Al Pacino portrayed his crime in Dog day afternoon. We gain a historic perspective on New York's gay liberation movement, in which Wojtowicz played an active role. In later footage, he remains a subversive force, backed by the unconditional love of his mother Terry, whose wit and charm infuse the film. How and why the bank robbery...
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