Film Review

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Tipping the Velvet is a historical novel written by Sarah Waters published in 1998.

Set in Victorian England during the 1890s, this tells a coming of age story about a young woman named Nan who falls in love with a male impersonator (Drag King) Kitty, follows her to London and finds various ways to support herself as she journeys through the city.

Tipping the Velvet won the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction in 2000 and the Betty Trask Award, given to Commonwealth citizens who have produced their first novel before reaching the age of 35. Tipping the Velvet was adapted into a BBC television drama serial of the same name, originally screened in three episodes on BBC Two in 2002.

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When Night Is Falling is about this uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival that comes to town.

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Kissing Jessica Stein is this film where Jessica Stein, this hard-to-please journalist/artist who is constantly plagued by people trying to find the right "one" for her. When her ex-fiancée tells her she's too picky, she answers Helen Cooper's personal ad looking to make a friend. And gets more than she expects. Jessica doesn't think their is just one person out there for everyone, because plenty of people are kissing Jessica Stein.

Kissing Jessica Stein: 2001 independent romantic comedy film, written and co-produced by the film's stars, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen. The film also stars Tovah Feldshuh and is directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. This is also one of first film appearances for actor Jon Hamm. This film is based on a scene from the 1997 off-Broadway play by Westfeldt and Juergensen called Lipschtick.

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Break My Fall is about three days in the lives of four friends on the streets of East London. Girlfriends Liza and Sally have a band to pull together and birthday to celebrate, yet from this moment after their lives change forever.

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Morocco is this 1930 American romance drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the novel 'Amy Jolly' by Benno Vigny and adapted by Jules Furthman. This film is about a cabaret singer and a Legionnaire who fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by his womanising and appearance for a rich man who is also in love with her. This film is most famous in this scene where Dietrich performs a song dressed in a man's tailcoat and kisses another woman, to the embarrassment of the latter; both of which were rather scandalous for the period.

Morocco: nominated for four Academy Awards in the categories of Best Actress in a Leading Role (Marlene Dietrich), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Director (Josef von Sternberg). In 1992, Morocco was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American independent romantic drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatisation of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a trans man played in the film by Hilary Swank, who is beaten, raped and murdered by his male acquaintances after they discover he is anatomically female. The picture explores the themes of freedom, courage, identity and empowerment. The film was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and was released theatrically in October 1999.

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Bound is this 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by The Wachowskis in their feature film directorial debut. Violet (Jennifer Tilly), whom longs for escaping this relationship from her mafioso boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). By entering into this clandestine affair with alluring ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon); where these pair hatch their scheme for stealing $2 million from Mafia money. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly alight cinema screen's on fire with this clever, insightful yet female-powered twist in produced standard Mob caper film. Gershon (Corky), this ex-con renovating neighbouring apartment, where Tilly's Violet lives. Violet being this moll for psychotic gangster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), whom uses this apartment for his occasional location for meetings and beatings. Likewise, uses Violet like some occasional plaything for his Mob cronies. Violet becomes attracted from super-sexy Corky, where these pair begin their intense affair. Corky hatches her plot for escaping with $2 million, which Caesar plans paying his Mob boss, and this mayhem escalates from there.

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Go Fish is this great film where Max is a young lesbian student in Chicago who has gone ten months without having sex. She and her roommate and college professor Kia are in a coffee shop when they run into Ely, this almost hippie looking woman with long braided hair, whom Max initially dismisses. Max and Ely do end up going to a cinema together. After the cinema they both return to Ely's place and after some flirtatious conversation, they kiss. Suddenly a call comes in from Ely's partner Kate, with whom Ely has been in a long-distance relationship for more than two years, which puts this damper on things.

Ely decides to cut all her hair, leaving this with a very short butch style. She runs into Max in a bookstore and Max does not initially recognise her.

Ely and her roommate Daria throw a dinner party where after this spirited game of "I Never", Max and Ely reconnect. They make plans to go out again and then begin kissing. They have several phone conversations, in the course where Ely reveals that she's "sort of broken up" with Kate. They get together for a second date but they never make it out of the apartment. Max ends up trimming Ely's fingernails. This turns into foreplay and they make love.

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Heavenly Creatures is about these two girls sharing this intense fantasy life. Their parents becoming concerned about their fantasy is too intense, separate them and the girls take revenge.

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And Then Came Lola is about this talented but distracted photographer Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work and could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time. But as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make this right. In a desperate race through the streets and back rooms of San Francisco, time grows short; will Lola make it? Will she come at all? With this pop sensibility that mixes live action, animation and still photography. 'And Then Came Lola' explores love's age old question in a fresh new way: "If you try, try again, will you finally get it right?"

And Then Came Lola (2009): is a lesbian themed twist on Tom Tykwer's frenetic indie speedball Run Lola Run, co-directors Ellen Seidler and Megan Sidler's sexy romantic comedy follows skilled but perpetually tardy photographer Lola (Ashleigh Sumner) as she races through the streets of San Francisco to make an important meeting. With her career and her relationship hanging in the balance, Lola switches into high gear and speeds toward her destination.

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La Haine 'hate' is a 1995 French black-and-white drama/suspense film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Commonly released under its French title in the English-speaking world, although its U.S. VHS release was entitled Hate. This is about three young friends and their struggle to live in the banlieues of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds hatred."

This film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, this black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody.

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Lost and Delirious being this 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on her novel:'The Wives of Bath' by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious filmed from perspective from Mary (Mischa Barton), who observes changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline (Piper Perabo) and Victoria (Jessica Paré). This film premiered and shown during 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Lost and Delirious being this story about three adolescent girls' first love, their discovery for sexual passion and search for own identities. Set in this posh, private boarding school, surrounded from luxuriant green forest. Lost and Delirious moves swiftly from academic routine, homesickness and girlish silliness; within own darker region in their lover's intrigue.

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BloodRayne
In Eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother's rape by her father, Kagan: King of Vampires. Two vampire hunters, Sebastian and Vladimir, from the Brimstone Society persuade her to join their cause.

BloodRayne is this 2005 fantasy action film set in 18th-century Romania, directed by Uwe Boll. The film stars Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane, Meat Loaf and Matthew Davis. It is based on the video game of the same name from Majesco and the game developer, Terminal Reality.

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When Night Is Falling
Film star Pascale Bussières as Camille Baker; university literature professor at a religious college struggling with both her tenure-track career and her troubled relationship with fellow professor Martin (Henry Czerny). When this carnival subsequently comes to town, Camille is confused by her unexpected lesbian attraction to Petra (Rachael Crawford): sexy and free-spirited circus performer.

When Night is Falling is a 1995 Canadian drama film directed by Patricia Rozema and was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Better Than Chocolate is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy film shot in Vancouver directed by Anne Wheeler.

This film is about Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) who recently moved out on her own and started this relationship with another woman: Kim (Christina Cox). However, Maggie's mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) and brother, whom are forced to move into her loft sublet with her, are unaware that she is a lesbian. Maggie's freedom is compromised and believes she must keep her blossoming affair her secret. However, this clandestine romance introduces Maggie's family to new experiences, many of which are "better than chocolate".
The cast also includes Ann-Marie MacDonald as Frances, the owner of a lesbian bookstore where Maggie works and Peter Outerbridge as Judy; this trans-woman with a crush on Frances.