Kathy Lynn's

A courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the century disguises herself as a man in order to enter an orthodox Jewish school. Barbra Streisand co-wrote, produced, and directed, as well as starred in this popular motion picture.
Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Supporting Actress--Amy Irving, Best Song ("Papa, Can You Here Me?"), Best Song ("The Way He Makes Me Feel").
Academy Awards: Best Song Score.

Although I despise Barbara Streisand, I include this one because I love Michel LeGrande who did the music. ! - Kathy Lynn

Cheerfully outrageous comedy about three flamboyant lip-sync performers--two drag queens and a transsexual--who journey to a remote desert gig on a converted schoolbus named Priscilla. Diverting, if you can get past the bitchy banter, and anchored by Stamp as the transsexual. A must for ABBA fans. Oscar winner for Costume Design.
--Leonard Maltin

A woman disguises herself as a man in order to make it in the rough-and-tumble Old West. When she falls in love with a man, she must risk her life if she is to reveal her secret.

Controversial period drama starring Hiel Thi Le (Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth) as a young maid who comes of age in a brothel populated by transsexual and transvestite prostitutes in Singapore's red light district, Bugis Street.

Doris Day stars in the title role and Howard Keel portrays "Wild Bill" Hickock in this musical extravaganza about the legendary female sharpshooter. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Sound Recording.
Academy Awards: Best Song ("Secret Love").

Sequel to EVIL OF FRANKSTEIN finds Dr. Frankenstein (Cushing) tring to put the soul of recently (and wrongly) executed man into body of scarred lover (Denberg). Everything goes wrong, including script. Followed by FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED!.
--Leonard Maltin

A French diplomat falls prey to a Chinese double agent in a chessgame of cultures that involves both the politics of east and west and of female and male.

Based on the fantastical novel of 1928 by Virginia Woolf about a mythical being named Orlando who starts life as an Elizabethan nobleman and transforms over 300 years into a woman poet of vast social insight. Richly filmed and interpreted by Director Potter.
Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction.

Queen Christina of Sweden shocked all of Europe by abdicating herself from the throne for her true love.

FBI trainee Foster is recruited to attempt to get through to a brilliant psychotic criminal, ``Hannibal the Cannibal'' Lecter (Hopkins), in the hope that he may help catch a serial killer. Almost unbearably intense, brilliantly acted (by Foster and Hopkins), and cannily put together--though the subject material is at times repellent. Based on the Thomas Harris best-seller; the Hannibal character appeared in a previous Harris adaptation, MANHUNTER.
Oscar winner for Best Picture, Actor (Hopkins), Actress (Foster), Director, and Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally).
--Leonard Maltin

Zach loves his ex-wife. He loves her so much he's willing to do anything to get her back. Except give up women. Give up booze. Or go back to work.

“Holly” (transvestite Holly Woodlawn) is as tough and resourceful and smashed down as she was in real life. Like many of Morrissey’s characters, these actors use their real names, or a close variant, pushing realism into the fictional frame.

A futuristic, outer-space casino is the setting for this campy, all-drag, sci-fi musical comedy. That's right, all the "actresses" are in heavy drag, a la "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "To Wong Foo..."

New York drag queens and Warhol superstars Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn, and Candy Darling play the three "revolting" women. They form a group called P.I.G.S. (Politically Involved Girls) and spend half their time fleecing their relatives and various old queens for The Cause and the other half brawling and secretly compromising their politics, carrying on affairs with musclebound macho pigs and casting couch directors.

The soul and spirit of a crotchety millionairess (Tomlin) enter the body of a young, idealistic lawyer (Martin) with often hilarious results. Uneven comedy-fantasy actually gets better as it goes along, and characters become more endearing. Martin's performance is a comic tour-de force.
--Leonard Matlin

I included this one because I just love the little scene where 'Nick' checks the TV when he is told just 'what' she is... -Kathy Lynn

A gay drag performer (Ian Williams) dies of AIDS but returns to settle some unfinished business with his butch ex-lover (Thomas Arklie) in this sweet comedy about love, commitment, and remembrance

Adaptation of Manuel Puig's highly regarded novel actually gets better as it goes along, revealing layers in story of gay man and political activist locked together in South American prison cell. Hurt is superb in Oscar-winning performance as man whose only food for survival is his memory of tacky Hollywood movies. Script by Leonard Schrader. Later a Broadway musical.
--Leonard Maltin

Hunter and Divine descend on a New Mexico hellhole--he (like most of the cast) to locate some buried treasure, she (he?) to fulfill a dream of becoming a saloon singer. Dreadful attempt at camp despite an apparently whimsical casting director; what's to say about a movie where Divine's warbling is the comical highlight?
--Leonard Maltin

Fassbinder, through the course of filming a
modernized version of Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' becomes obsessed with both his stars. He marries his leading lady, played by Lisa Kreuzer, while carrying on with Walter (Stocker). An affair between Walter and the wife further complicates the triangle.

Introduces an attorney, a community organizer, an older man from an earlier generation of gays, and three transvestites and transsexuals who all share the same issues of coming to terms with being black and gay.