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Every Queer Criterion Closet Video

It’s such a joy to watch people geek out about movies! And so I’ve gathered all the Criterion Closet videos from queer people with some thoughts on their selections.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jun 30, 2025

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Performance 1970: a close up on Mick Jagger

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Over Half a Century Before ‘Emilia Pérez’, the Story of a Gender-Fluid Gangster Was Done Right

Influential, puzzling, and still effective, Performance — now available in a new restoration from The Criterion Collection — is a reminder that the struggle between gender fluidity and traditional gender…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 25, 2025

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A collage of Catherine Breillat films: Last Summer, Anatomy of Hell, 36 Fillette

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How Do You Know If Your Desires Are Wrong?

Controversial French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has an oeuvre centered around the ways women are often betrayed by their own urges.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 20, 2025

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The Top 10 Queer Home Video Releases of 2024

Physical media is back! Or, for some of us, it never left. Here are the best queer Blu-Ray and DVD releases of 2024.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Nov 29, 2024

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The Criterion covers of Querelle, Bound, and Anatomy of a Fall.

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With Its Pride Slate, the Criterion Collection Wants Us To Be Gay and (Maybe) Do Crime

To even say, Criterion’s Pride releases is a sign of our changed — and improved — times.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jun 18, 2024

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Bound Joins the Criterion Collection, a Win for Sapphic Cinephiles

It will become the 9th film directed by and about queer women to join the collection. Listen, I know this is important for Cinema reasons, but it’s important for Horny…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 15, 2024

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Graphic of Cheryl Dunye's face on a poster of the classic Black queer film The Watermelon Woman bleeding into a painting of Heloise in a green dress taken from Celine Sciamma's Portrait of A Lady On FIre

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Criterion’s “Portrait Of A Lady on Fire” Release Is Incredible — We Still Deserve More

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is only the third film in the Criterion Collection to feature queer women that’s actually directed by a queer woman.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 14, 2020