Perspectives from a Professor
This new series on Hulu moved me more than I expected. Much more…
Based on a memoir by Lindy West, Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman, the series stars Aidy Bryant as a woman who, as the logline puts it, “seeks out ways to change her life without changing her body.”
At first, this watershed film — representing a genre now known as queer cinema — seems simplistic, or even slight, but very quickly it becomes engrossing and deeply moving.
Buddies, released in 1985, was the first film released about HIV/AIDS and recounts the story of a friendship that emerges between a gay man who signs up to become a “buddy” with an AIDS patient by visiting him in the hospital at a time when people had many questions and fears about the disease but little information.
