#also a film that critiques masculinity. but m&n is better so

[lesbiancolumbo]

im sure you've been asked this before but got any westerns you'd recommend and/or movies about masculinity by women or queer filmmakers? been thinking about men™ recently

my favorite westerns are:

the ox-bow incident westward the women (which is not really about men at all but you just said westerns so i'm putting it on here under a technicality 😎) the man who shot liberty valance red river blood on the moon the naked spur shane (this is ABSOLUTELY a film about masculinity no matter what any hater tries to tell you) 3:10 to yuma ride lonesome buck and the preacher thomasine & bushrod cowboy

films about masculinity by women/queer filmmakers: (i'm playing a bit of jump rope with this topic because i'm not sure what, specifically, you're looking for. toxic masculinity? hypermasculinity? i've picked films that for me best interrogate masculinity)

beau travail (this is the obvious rec, i assume you've seen this) mikey and nicky tea and sympathy tongues untied midnight cowboy god's own country the power of the dog (this is also a western fwiw) one night in miami farewell my concubine (this filmmaker is not queer but this film absolutely belongs in conversation here) poison fox and his friends chevalier (athina rachel tsangari)

#asks #and i wanted to include jcass's husbands here as a joke but he is neither a woman nor queer no matter how badly i want to believe!!!!! #also a film that critiques masculinity. but m&n is better so #*recs #gonna start tagging these so i can find them later lol