BFI Flare names Carol best LGBT film of all time

We ran a similar poll in 2011. Your Favorite Gay Films: 30 Years of LGBT Cinema. 3 years ago I put together a list of 375 Milestones of Gay and Lesbian Cinema

The Guardian reports:

Todd Haynes’ atmospheric lesbian love story, Carol, has been named the best LGBT film of all time in a top 30 list that stretches to a Weimar-era pupil-teacher romance from 1931.

Carol, which was released last year and stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, came top of a poll compiled to mark the 30th anniversary of the London lesbian and gay film festival, BFI Flare.

Just behind Carol was Andrew Haigh’s 2011 film, Weekend, followed by Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 Hong Kong romance, Happy Together, and at No 4, Ang Lee’s tearjerker Brokeback Mountain.

But it was Carol, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, which topped a poll of more than 100 film experts that included past and present festival programmers.

It was a film adored by critics, including the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw who called it intoxicating. He added: “It is almost as if the transgression, secrecy and wrongness must paradoxically emerge in the well-judged rightness and just-so-ness of all its period touches.”

It got six Oscar nominations and nine Bafta nominations, although it came home empty-handed from both award ceremonies.

Top 30 and runners up on the BFI Flare list:

The top 30

1. Carol (2015)
Director Todd Haynes

2. Weekend (2011)
Director Andrew Haigh

3. Happy Together (1997)
Director Wong Kar-wai

4. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Director Ang Lee

5. Paris Is Burning (1990)
Director Jennie Livingston

6. Tropical Malady (2004)
Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul

7. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Director Stephen Frears

8. All about My Mother (1999)
Director Pedro Almodóvar

9. Un chant d’amour (1950)
Director Jean Genet

10. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Director Gus Van Sant

11=. Tangerine (2015)
Director Sean S. Baker

11=. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder

11=. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Director Abdellatif Kechiche

14=. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Director Leontine Sagan

14=. Show Me Love (1998)
Director Lukas Moodysson

14=. Orlando (1992)
Director Sally Potter

17. Victim (1961)
Director Basil Dearden

18. Je, tu, il, elle (1974)
Director Chantal Akerman

19. Looking for Langston (1989)
Director Isaac Julien

20=. Beau Travail (1999)
Director Claire Denis

20=. Beautiful Thing (1996)
Director Hettie MacDonald

22=. Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Director Alain Guiraudie

22=. Theorem (1968)
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini

22=. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Director Cheryl Dunye

22=. Pariah (2011)
Director Dee Rees

22=. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Director David Lynch

27=. Portrait of Jason (1967)
Director Shirley Clarke

27=. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Director Sidney Lumet

27=. Death in Venice (1971)
Director Luchino Visconti

27=. Pink Narcissus (1971)
Director James Bidgood

27=. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Director John Schlesinger

27=. Tomboy (2011)
Director Céline Sciamma

27=. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Director Toshio Matsumoto

The following films received five votes or more.

7 votes

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Blue (1993)
Bound (1996)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Cabaret (1972)
Desert Hearts (1985)
Edward II (1991)
Go Fish (1994)

6 votes

Fox and His Friends (1975)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Law of Desire (1987)
Nighthawks (1978)
Pride (2014)
Querelle (1982)
Scorpio Rising (1964)
A Single Man (2009)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Young Soul Rebels (1991)

5 votes

Born in Flames (1983)
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
The Crying Game (1992)
Fireworks (1947)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
Michael (1924)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Poison (1991)
Sebastiane (1976)
Tongues Untied (1989)