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For Pride 2021, writer and festival programmer Shayna Maci Warner curates twenty films, in no ranked order, that exemplify queer principles of anti-assimilation, collective strength and/or straight-up crime. Read Shayna’s accompanying essay for Letterboxd on the joys of watching movies about “being gay and doing crime”.
Movies where B&W cinematography is an aesthetic choice, after the industry standard was 100% color. Suggestions welcome! I think I'm only going to do feature-length titles, because the B&W decision is so much easier to make in non-commercial contexts. Movies that alternate between black and white and color (to separate two narrative lines or for other reasons) aren't included, though sometimes it pains me. (8/30/2019: Right now, I am tentatively beginning to include films that are less than 100% B&W, but I haven't made a final decision yet and want to give it some in-depth thought some day when I…