To all who were anxiously awaiting the post, U-Haul vs The Long Haul, which is what I had planned on posting today, I do apologize. Work and overtime sometimes has a funny way of interfering with my life. I will post U-Haul vs The Long Haul next week. For anyone wanting to participate in a little informal research for that post, I have a relationship survey on my blog, gaymo, that I'd love for you to take part in. In the mean time, I'll share some of my favorite lesbian films.

They say you can't choose a book by its cover, but I'm quite famous in my house for picking movies by their's. If a box has nudity, two women kissing, or even the slightest implication that there is some lesbian content, I'll rent it. I've seen the good the bad and the ugly, and I've probably watched it all the way through regardless how awful it was.

One day, way back in 1997, while at the video store to pick up Thieves (Les Voleurs), a Cathrine Deneuve flick, and I mean who doesn't love Catherine Deneuve, that Betty Please and I had been long waiting for to come out on video, we stumbled across a little Australian film, Love and Other Catastrophes. Love and Other Catastrophes, is a fun, quirky indie film about love, relationships, and well, other catastrophes. The main character, Mia(Frances O'Connor), struggles with commitment issues with her girlfriend, Danni(Radha Mitchell), at the same time dealing with trying to change majors. Mia's roommate, Alice, struggles with finding the right boy and finishing her thesis, 'Doris Day as Feminist Warrior.' There are lots of inside film references, but even if you're not a film buff, this movie is fun and light hearted. It also has lots of great music. This movie isn't so much a lesbian film, but rather a film in which the main character happens to be a lesbian.

Sticking with fun and campy lesbian films, next on my list of favorites is But I'm a Cheerleader. But I'm a Cheerleader stars Natasha Lyonne as Megan, and Clea DuVall as Graham, two teens sent to a rehab camp called True-Directions to be set "straight," who instead end up falling in love with one another. They are saved by a couple of ex-ex-gays who run an underground homo railroad, as they call it. This film pokes fun at the the ridiculous and seriously disturbing notion that homosexuality can be cured with a 12 step program and the strict adherence to stereotypical gender roles.

Before I move on to the more serious dramas, I have to mention my guilty pleasure, D.E.B.S. Now I have to admit that I am a sucker for bad-ass hot chicks in school girl uniforms, so I'm sure that kind of clouds my judgment about this movie. And yes, I do love roller derby. Why do you ask? D.E.B.S. is a fun, semi-action flick where the hero, played by Sara Foster, falls for the villain, played by Jordana Brewster. I wasn't sure how well the short film D.E.B.S., with Tammy Lynn Michaels who blogs at Hollywood Farm Girl, would work as a full length feature, but it did. It's not life changing, award winning, or packed with great meaning. It's cute girls wearing school girl uniforms, wielding guns. It's a guilty pleasure movie, and one I would definitely have rented base solely on the box it came in.

Following my thought train from my proclivity for school girl uniforms stemming from my Catholic School up bringing, to my own struggles with religious beliefs and sexuality, we land on my next lesbian film pick, When Night Is Falling. A movie that I didn't know anything about at the time, but picked solely based on the promise of hot sex sold on the box. A VHS box, I might add. And boy did it deliver. In When Night Is Falling, Camille (Pascale Bussieres), a mythology professor at a Calvinist University, falls in love with a young and free spirited circus performer, Petra(Rachael Crawford). Camille struggles to reconcile her Calvinist beliefs, her feeling for her boyfriend, and her new love, Petra. Aside from capturing a struggle many of us face, religion vs sexuality, the movie is also visually quite beautiful. When Night Is Falling is 2nd only to my favorite movie, High Art.

High Art, is with out a doubt my favorite movie. High Art is about a once famous photographer, now a jaded heroin addict, Lucy (Ally Sheedy), who becomes torn between her life with her partner, Greta (Patricia Clarkson), a once famous German film star also turn heroin addict, and the hope of and inspiration of someone ambitious and new, Syd (Radha Mitchell). Syd, an aspiring magazine editor at a prestigious photography magazine, becomes fascinated with Lucy and her world. Syd hopes to jump start her career and revitalize Lucy's all at the same time by getting her a spread in the magazine she works for. In the process, Syd and Lucy become lovers. Perhaps this movie just came along at the right time for me so I read so much more into it than was intended, but I think this movie runs much deeper about relationships, figuring out who you are as an individual, maintaining autonomy and self within a relationship, and so much more than is on the surface of this film.

These are just a few of my favorite movies. For more lesbian movie reviews check out these other sites.
Mary Foulk, writes lesbian movie reviews for About.com: lesbian life.
PlanetOut.com, Get reviews of movies out in theaters and on dvd, and watch short films at PopcornQ Movies.
The Encyclopedia of Lesbian Movie Scenes, (link may not be safe for work) a pretty complete list of lesbian scenes found in movies and television shows.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Support Services Library, reviews music, movies, books. And seeing this sort of resource, makes me think I live in the wrong University town in Indiana.