Pariah 2011

Slate's Black Film Canon is two things: first, a reaction to #OscarsSoWhite and the exclusion of black filmmakers from most canonical film lists. Second, by challenging how film lovers think about which films matter in cinema history, the hope is Hollywood will encourage and honor black stories told by black filmmakers.

Slate asked "prominent filmmakers, critics, and scholars" (including Ava DuVernay, Robert Townsend, Charles Burnett, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Wesley Morris, and Henry Louis Gates Jr) and used their lists of favorite movies to develop a curated canon of fifty great films by black directors made in the Americas and Africa. The project excluded movies about black people but directed by non-blacks (A Raisin in the Sun, Coming to America). It is also not a poll: it’s an unranked list presented chronologically.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/05/the_50_greatest_films_by_black_directors.html

Queer films, shorts & series. Themed or open, by release date.

All the movies I watched in 2020
January: 1 movie
February: 40 movies
March: 83 movies
April: 20 movies
May: 12 movies
June: 12 movies
July: 24 movies
August: 27 movies
September: 17 movies
October: 34 movies
November: 14 movies
December: 37 movies
(Numbers may not add up, bc I watch some movies more than once)

black women's stories

Movies released from 2010-2017 to watch

Only things I recommend!
A bit of everything

Movies that caught my attention

mulheres que amam mulheres

Films & series based on the MCU, DC, 2000A.D, Dark Horse etc comics & graphic novels. Animated, or visually enhanced.
Originals + great or awful remakes, or ongoing franchises.

Pulled from: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2011

Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. To date, more than 150 filmmakers have made it into the collection.

Source: https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Criterion&m=dvd&s=spine

5.10-8.11

A list of the films added to the National Film Registry. (Updated 11/1/23)

Only includes films where the main character(s) is(are) part of the LGBT+ community. The plot of the film doesn't necessarily have to revolve around their sexuality and/or gender identity though - yes, this means there will be films here where the character is just ambiguous, fight me.