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Monday, January 09, 2006

The Best ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the initial stage of the first ever poll to find...

The Best Tranny Movie in the World, Ever!

This is the nominations stage. I want to find out what you think are the top tranny films. And "tranny" is used in the broadest sense of the word: it could be any film that features a male character dressing as a girl, or just a film that trannies really love.

But you don't have to be a tranny to enter, nominations can come from anyone and everyone, as many as possible! You just have to enjoy films.

Once I've compiled a long-list of nominations I'll ask you all to vote on your favorites, and then use that information to compile the more-or-less-definitive list of the best tranny movies, ever!

So I urge you to nominate your choices now, please!

Nina Isabella  This post has been removed by the author. 
Nina Isabella  I'm game for this....

Here is my top 10

1) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2) Tiresia
3) Crying Game
4) Normal
5) Boys Don't Cry
6) The Color of Night
7) Switch
8) Orlando
9) Ma Vie En Rose
10)Victor/Victoria

And er...Psycho?

Luv

Nina

January 09, 2006 
wannatakethisoutside  I vote for Beautiful Boxer. 
Kris  It's a bit obvious, but nonetheless, it's my favourite: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Oh, and are you accepting nominations for the worst? Because it's gotta be Just Like a Woman. A truly, madly, deeply bad film with a toe-curlingly awful script and a director who should be taken out and shot. 
Becky EnVérité  Keep them coming! While I really want people to use the form to nominate, commenting here might act as a memory-jogger to others! I'd forgotten about Ma Vie En Rose, for example! 
Becky EnVérité  It was pretty bad, Kris, but then again some trannies saw that as the first "proper" transvestite in a film. Perhaps it's the movie equavelent of Transformations: a bit shit but the first taste of possibilities! 
Kaye Wilkinson  Sooty and Sweep, when Sue transforms Sweep into a glamorous shedog. 
Becky EnVérité  Er... Sooty and Sweep, the movie? ;-) 
Sarah-F  Nina got things off to a flying start. I'd have to say my top ones would be:

Ed Wood
Stonewall
The Birdcage
Better than Chocolate
The Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert

How about The Hot Chick ?
The Associate has its moments.

Worst ones could be:

Sorority Boys
Nobody's Perfect 
Stephanie Delacey  1. Ma vie en rose
2. Stonewall
3. A Fassbinder file that I can't remember the name of..
4. Ed Wood
5. Farewell My Concubine 
Stephanie Delacey  And films that don't have trannies but should be loved for the clothes or the style:
1. In the Mood for Love
2. Subway
3. Auntie Mame
4. Funny Face or Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. The Devil Loves A Woman 
Becky EnVérité  These are all very good... but people, please, post them on the official form too!

Thanks! :-) 
Charlotte  Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Rocky Horror (passe I know)...my first ever ever outing in public was dressed to see this at university. I even made the student rag!!
Cabaret..... Liza Minneli is SOOOO sexy
Blues Brothers - soundtrack oh and the car chase
High Society 
Selina  I might not be able to see this for looking, but when's the deadline for nominations? I don't want to rush this but I don't want to miss the chance to nominate "Curran - The Motion Picture" either. 
Mia  I'll use the form for the real nominations when I think of some. But the worst shite has to be both Sorority Boys and White Chicks. 
Cathii Scott  I would love to nominate "Breakfast on Pluto" but not having seen it cause there is NO release date for it in Australia, kinda mkaes that difficult. But I think "Boys Don't Cry" was possibly the best trans* movie I have ever seen. Hilary Swank was just amazing in it. 
Cathii Scott  Almost forgot about Psycho Beach Party....great laugh! 
Tiffany  I've submitted mine! Most of them weren't listed here, though. So most of them aren't off-the-top-of-your-head Tranny Cinema. But they still are. :P 
Cathii Scott  Tiffany you have me intrigued, tell us what you recon are the best. 
Lana  1...Has to be "The Rocky Horror Show"
2..Tootsie
3..Victor/Victoria
4.lets not forget Shrek (yes theres a Tranny scene in that) 
Zoe Bergstroem  definitely Priscilla!

1) Priscilla Queen of the desert
2) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
3) Some Like it Hot 
Jane  For awfulness how about Nuns On Run, forgot that one saw it on telly once was too tired/poorly/weak to get up and turn the telly over/off/on-its-side. 
Savannah Hemingway  I've been using Clueless as a source for fashion ideas in Second Life. Does that count?

This subject reminds me of a question I've wanted to ask. I recently rewatched To Wong Foo, and at the end Stockard Channing
says to Patrick Swayze, "I don't think of you as a man. I don't think of you as a woman. I think of you as an angel." To which he replies, "I think that's appropriate." (or words to that effect.) When I heard that, I immediately wondered if that's where the name for the UK Angels came from. So, is it? 
Stephanie Delacey  A bit late...

Five i'd like to see but haven't yet:

1. Tunten lugen nicht
2. Superstar in a Housedress
3. Victor und Victoria
4. Glen or Glenda
5. Flaming Creatures 
Tiffany  Well, I did put one that had been mentioned. Hedwig. So...there. One of my friends at work told me about it. I haven't exactly seen it, but I do know what it's about and such.
I also said RENT...you know, the movie based on the musical. Angel Dumott Schunard, the drag queen. Really the most charismatic character in the whole thing. Gotta love her.
Also, Transamerica...the Felicity Huffman movie that might be up for Oscars or something. She plays a MtoF that finds out she has a son and apparently plot ensues.
And then a movie that my mom and I watched the other night, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Minor character is a tranny/drag queen. I haven't quite decided which.
There was another, because I know I put five, but I honestly can't remember for the life of me. I suppose it doesn't matter because no one's going to vote for mine, anyway! (That's the way it usually worked in school, so why not on the Internet, hm?) 
vegankid  i'd definitely add Iron Ladies to the list. a true-life story of an all-Queer/Tranny football team that makes it to the finals!?! So much more uplifting than Boys Don't Cry, which came close to making me vomit with anger. sorry for the vulgar details. 

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