#the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love 1995

[sapphicides]

saw my list of black sapphic books to read this month, but don’t really read? i got you, here’s a list of black sapphic films (or films featuring black sapphics) to watch this black history month

documentaries:

stormé: lady of the jewel box (1991, dir. michelle parkerson)*

black/womyn: conversations with lesbians of african descent (2008, dir. tiona nekkia mcclodden)*

difficult love (2010, dir. zanele muholi & peter goldsmid)*

shakedown (2018, dir. leilah weinraub)*

drama:

the watermelon woman (1996, dir. cheryl dunye)*

pariah (2011, dir. dee rees)*

rafiki (2018, dir. wanuri kahiu)*

selah and the spades (2019, dir. tayarisha poe)*

valley of a thousand hills (2022, dir. bonie sithebe)*

tahara (2020, dir. olivia peace)

mars one (2022, dir. gabriel martins)

rom-com:

the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love (1995, dir. maria maggenti)

comedy:

d.e.b.s. (2004, dir. angela robinson)*

bottoms (2023, dir. emma seligman)

horror:

the mark of lilith (1986, dir. bruna fionda, polly gladwin, & isiling mack-nataf)

good manners (2017, dir. juliana rojas & marco dutra)

the perfection (2018, dir. richard shepherd)

jagged mind (2023, dir. kelley kali)*

bodies bodies bodies (2023, dir. halina reijn)

thriller:

set it off (1996, dir. f. gary gray)

the eiffel tower mystery (2016, dir. léa fazer)

how to blow up a pipeline (2022, dir. daniel goldhaber)

short films:

sunday’s child (2019, dir. maisie richardson-sellers)*

tender (2019, dir. felicia pride)*

ìfé (2020, dir. uyaiedu ipke-etim)*

the beginning & the middle (2021, dir. alexis g. zall)

heart shot (2022, dir. marielle woods)

grace (2024, dir. natalie jasmine harris)*

honorable mention: i saw the tv glow (2024, dir. jane schoenbrun), for what i felt was some undeniable implied sapphicism between the two main characters but was never actually explicitly canonized

additional info:

* indicates that the film listed was directed by a black woman/non-binary person

-> “why wasnt this film with black sapphics listed?” likely because the film doesn’t feature a black sapphic(s) as the main character. i tried to create a list of films that are least somewhat centric on black sapphics, no background characters or subplots

many of these films require trigger warnings, especially the dramas, horrors, and thrillers. please do your due diligence and search up warnings for yourself, as there are too many to list here. https://www.doesthedogdie.com is a good resource for this

feel free to add more to this post if you have more recs! happy black history month

[princesspierpaolo]

the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love (1995) dir. maria maggenti

[cleoenfaserum]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) (reblog 1269)

link https://youtu.be/A3qBbLyRixg

reblog source roseillith origiin Apr 14

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is a 1995 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Maria Maggenti and starring Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, and Maggie Moore.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and said it is "warm-hearted, funny, and involving" and "the two leads are well-cast." Ebert lambasted the MPAA for giving the film an R rating for a love scene between two young women, arguing "a [similar love scene] between a boy and a girl wouldn't have qualified for the word 'strong'; the MPAA is shocked by the homosexuality. The R rating is ironic when you reflect how much healthier and more thoughtful this film is than so much mindless, action-oriented 'family entertainment,' and how likely it is to inspire conversation about its values."

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE (1995) dir. MARIA MAGGENTI

The story is abouty two very different high school girls who fall in love.

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love - Wikipedia

An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) - IMDb 6'6

link https://ok.ru/video/1490459888166

[wozardofiz]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)

dir. Maria Maggenti

[firelise]

God Evie, you are so sheltered. Well...unshelter me.

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)

[roseillith]

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE (1995) dir. MARIA MAGGENTI

[kuwdora]

Saturday Morning Vid Recs - Space and Robots

@tafkarfanfic asked me for vid recs that are similar to the following vids:

Data’s Dream by GayleF (Gayle) and TasheryS which premiered at Escapade in 1994 - made on a VCR!! - and was remastered by morgandawn in 2004. Definitely check out the Fanlore page about Data’s Dream. Star Trek + multi-source.

Starships by bironic. Multi-source. The history of Starships on Fanlore.

These two vids are iconic. Please check them out and learn about their history from the Fanlore page, it's a great look at some vidding history and culture. Amazing vids, do love. As for some recs. I love this kind of prompt. More vids like [this vid] is so much fun. I dug deep into my vid rec archives and brain and bookmarks. I’ve also crowdsourced some recs from the vidding discord. Thank you to @rukbat3, @sandalwoodbox, @fairestcat, @monkeyswithjetpacks, @grammarwoman for the reccing help! And everyone else I might have forgotten.

From Land to Sky - and kicking ass while you're there!

Landsailor by @singlecrow/raven. Multi-source. Swades (We, The People); Master and Commander; 3 Idiots; The Dish; The West Wing; Parks and Recreation; Flight of the Phoenix; NASA archive footage; Apollo 13. ❤️ We're gonna need a bigger boat. Come O’ Eclipse by melodytree. Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer. Calendar-making! Math puzzles! Astronomy! Politics! Eclipses! Oh my! Galaxyrise by starlady. Multi-source. Apollo 13 (1995), Interstellar (2014), Gravity (2013), Europa Report (2013), Contact (1997), The Martian (2015). This vid is full of so much wonder! The sky calls to us/If we do not destroy ourselves/We will one day venture to the stars. Going through space with the world by bironic. Space Exploration RPF. ❤️❤️❤️ From "day in the life of an astronaut" videos to international stardom; or, Chris Hadfield and his adorable mustache. Monsters of the Cosmos by CherryIce. Thor/MCU. Jane Foster/Science.Cherry’s editing is goddamn incredible. In the last century, black holes have gone from being mathematical curiosities to real objects in the cosmos. This is a vid about Jane Foster and her one true love, Science. Also, Thor is there. Toxic by JinkyO. The Planets (TV - 2019). Humanity/The Solar System. This vid is so fucking brilliant and makes me cackle in love and awe so much. It's dangerous, I'm loving it. Sci-Fi Friday in a Blender by Luminosity. Multi-source. Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. So much happening in this vid. This is among one of the earliest vids I remember watching and became obsessed with back in the day. Supernova Girl by @usuallyhats. Multifandom. Doctor Who, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Steven Universe, Andromeda, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Mass Effect, Stargate. So many wonderful brilliant amazing EXCELLENT supernova women and girls. Zoom, zoom, zoom. Space Girl by @aurumcalendula. Multi-source scifi. Inspired by Charmax’s Space Girl vid and Bironic’s The Greatest. This vid has a great selection of newer tv shows and films and it’s fun to play spot that character. But also this vid will grab you by the heart, too. Utterly brilliant, perfection. A must watch!! 'I've been as far in hyperspace as anybody can.' One Girl Revolution by bessyboo. Star Wars, original and prequel. Padme and Leia!! Seeing these two focused on in one Star Wars vid is an adventurous kickass ride. I'll be everything that I want to be. Space Girl by charmax. Multi-source scifi. One of the most beautiful epic space vids out there! I know I’ve recced this before and I’ll rec it again and again and again. My momma told me I should never watch Sci-fi but I did, I did, I did.

Robots! More than wires.

If a Machine by caramarie, Multi-source. Robot narrative focusing on machine origin, intelligence, and interaction with humanity. And Human fallibility. An incredibly rewarding watch and rewatch. This is the story of cables and copper wirings. Electric Avenue by @monkeyswithjetpacks. Multi-source robots! Nate’s multi-vids are always so fun, especially when it’s showcasing classic cinema and all these excellent serials. Electric Avenue has source from 1919 to 2015. His editing is always on fucking point. Don’t miss this vid. We’re gonna rock down to electric avenue. Everybody by @kuwdora. Star Trek, the Borg. This vid was actually inspired by the Backstreet Boys original music video. I still have the vivid memory of watching or rewatching the original music video in @ars-amatoria ’s kitchen. And then at some point realizing it is perfect for the Borg. Am I original, am I the only one? Fembots by Grammarwoman. Multi-source. Sexy sharp editing and fun use of all the sources. The intersection of women and technology: a spectrum of clones, AIs, gynoids, cyborgs, and other artificial creations. On by @rhoboat77. Star Trek: Picard. A Soji fanvid. Rho has the sharpest editing skills this side of the Internet and this Soji vid is so fucking badass and worth 100 rewatches. Can’t hold me down cuz you know I’m a fighter. Que Sera Sera by @ohvienna. Star Trek Voyager and Picard. Seven of Nine.Nobody vids their Seven of Nine love like @ohvienna. You gotta watch this if you love Seven. Whatever will be, will be…"

Journey through Space.

To Touch the Face of God by destina. Multi-source. The Right Stuff (1983, )The Dream Is Alive, From the Earth to the Moon (TV).This is one of the most beautiful moving vids you will EVER, and I mean EVER see. From Chuck Yeager, to the Mercury 7, and on to Apollo and the Space Shuttle Program (STS) - a very human history of the triumphs, joys, and tragedies of the USA's journey into space. Doctor Who on Holiday by sisabet. Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. A mashup vid of Luminosity’s Sci-Fi Friday in a Blender. This vid inspired me so much. And I have 10 very intense ideas about how I would do my own remix of this vid if I were to make it right now. Fly Me To the Moon by thirdblindmouse. Multi-source. This vid has everything! Alien sex! Xenophilia! Zero-gravity sex! Mpreg!!! Because everyone knows this song is about space sex. Game Night in Space by garrideb. Multi-source. This vid!!!!! IS! SO! MUCH! FUN!! Game on! How are you going to spend those long nights on your starship? Play games, of course! Space poker, space chess, space Monopoly… this is a fanvid celebrating game night in space, set to Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. Starships (Monochromatic Remix) by @monkeyswithjetpacks. Multi-source. See the Fanlore page on the history of Starships (Monochromatic Remix). ALSO check out jetpack-monkey’s extensive notes and side-by-side comparison vid of the original vid and his vid!! He matched Starships shot-for-shot! Most brilliant work ever. The vid notes aren’t on the ao3 page so I HIGHLY recommend checking out the notes on his dreamwidth page! This vid is 10 million kinds of brilliant and technical prowess and perfection.

Vidshow Rec

Alien Invasion! - 30 vids curated and organized into a show by @tafadhali for VidUKon 2024. Featuring films and tv shows: Nope, Attack the Block, Pacific Rim, Venom, Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek, Prey, Smallville, Rowswell, Supergirl, Arrival, Starship Troopers and more.

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[celluloidrainbow]

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE (1995) dir. Maria Maggenti Randy Dean, a boyish lesbian who works at a gas station, has trouble performing in high school and is treated badly by bigoted locals because of her sexual identity. She begins an unlikely friendship with one of her school's popular girls, the affluent Evie. But when their friendship blossoms into a romance, the two find themselves struggling with the intricacies and pitfalls of discovering love, and having to reveal their relationship to friends and family. (link in title)

[yellowjacketslesbian]

this is a VERY important PSA for all lesbians and sapphics that the incredibly true adventures of two girls in love (1995) is on netflix!!! it’s quite literally one of THE best and most underrated lesbian coming of age films

please take this opportunity to watch it!

[shesnake]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) dir. Maria Maggenti

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Bengiyo's Queer Cinema Syllabus

For those of you who don’t know, I decided to run the gauntlet of @bengiyo’s queer cinema syllabus, which is comprised of 9 units. I have completed four of the units (here is my queer cinema syllabus round up post with all the films I’ve watched and written about so far). It is time for me to make my way through Unit 5- Lesbians, which includes the following films: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995), Bound (1996), Water Lilies (2007)[finally got my hands on this one but I still need to watch it], Saving Face (2004), D.E.B.S. (2004), Set It Off (1996), The Handmaiden (2016), Carol (2015), Imagine Me and You (2005), Two of Us (2019), Rafiki (2018), and The Color Purple (1985). 

Today I will be watching

Imagine Me & You (2005) dir. Ol Parker

Summary: A newlywed bride becomes infatuated with another woman who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends.

Cast: - Piper Parebo as Rachel - Lena Headey as Luce

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THIS SHIT WAS CUTE! I have never seen it before, despite seeing the cover for this film for years of my life. I expected it to be your standard romcom, and for the most part it was but to be quite honest, I was kind of surprised that they made Heck a genuinely good guy and therefore complicating the decision for Rachel to leave. 

It’s strange for me in that this is the queer cinema syllabus, right? So you would think that I would focus more on the queer aspect of this story than anything else. Except, I kept getting hung up on how much I genuinely loved the portrayal of domesticity between Heck and Rachel. They made, to me, a believably happily married couple at the beginning, with her doing her makeup in the bathroom while Heck is peeing, them being in bed together passing sections of the newspaper back and forth, and honestly even with Heck not being concerned at all about Rachel renting a porn film and being genuinely interested and excited to sit down and watch it with her. Obviously for him, he thinks it’s more foreplay in to sex rather than Rachel exploring her own sexuality, but regardless I really liked those little moments. 

Sure, Cooper is kind of a dick, and that at first would leave me to believe that Heck is kind of a dick. But he genuinely loves Rachel, and I did not expect to be so surprised that he knew that her favorite flowers were lilies (maybe that’s unfair towards heterosexual men in romcoms on my part but) and that he never really thought about the fact that Luce might be in love with Rachel. Which I also appreciate from the perspective of, say, Cooper who immediately figures it out and goes to harass Luce about it. 

I love the little romance moments between Luce and Rachel, the way Rachel is thinking about touching Luce during the school presentation, and the way that she responds to Luce touching her diaphragm during the football/soccer game. I like that it is Rachel that makes the decision to initiate the kiss, and I understand why after listening to the conversation that Luce and Heck have that she would want to cut off contact with Luce and try to maintain the life that she has with Heck. Heck and Rachel both have a lot to lose, and Rachel and Luce both know that there is a really wonderful guy here that they are or will be hurting by following their feelings. 

I was really happy that Heck decided the right thing to do was to let Rachel go. I’m glad that we got that little epilogue during the credits to see that he will in fact meet someone else, and that Rachel and Luce are still happy. 

And also, in a kind of tangent, I wanted to commend the writing of the parents in this film. The way all three of them were written made the personalities of the children (meaning Rachel, H, and Luce) very identifiable and their connection to each other believable. I loved the honesty that Rachel’s dad spoke with and the way that Rachel’s mom looked genuinely surprised and hurt that her husband felt like she was just tolerating him and that she would leave him the second she found a better offer. 

And shout out to city living for inventing traffic and making sure that Luce couldn’t run away. 

Favorite Moment 

My favorite moment is honestly when H goes by herself to check on Heck and make sure that he is doing okay. That she sits there with him, and lets him cry, and brings him candy is such a lovely, caring thing to do and I appreciate that she recognized that in all the excitement to get Rachel to reunite with Luce that H was probably hurting and needing people in his corner too. I think it speaks a lot to the way they wrote H’s character too, that she is a little girl who asks too many questions despite knowing that her family gets annoyed at everything she wants to know and who is pawned off to Luce the second that Luce humors any question that makes her the exactly correct character to think about the forgotten person in all of this.

Favorite Quote 

“Don’t forget me.”  “I won’t remember anything else.” 

Such a tragic fucking line. 

Score 

8.5/10

I do not have any major complaints about this film. Sure there was homophobia written in it but that was definitely and obviously intentional and also I loved how the different moments of intimacy were interrupted. First by Michael and Michael which…lmfao of course. Secondly by rose thorns to the ass because what else do you think is going to happen when you make out in a flower shop? Also, I know I keep saying names of actresses and stuff but like…thank you to the casting director for making sure that there is at least one film out there with Lena Headey being gay as hell.

[lgbtqmovierecs]

LGBTQ Movie of the Day:

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love

Description:

Randy Dean, a boyish lesbian who works at a gas station, has trouble performing in high school and is treated badly by bigoted locals because of her sexual identity. She begins an unlikely friendship with one of her school's popular girls, the affluent Evie. But when their friendship blossoms into a romance, the two find themselves struggling with the intricacies and pitfalls of discovering love, and having to reveal their relationship to friends and family.

Title: The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love

Genre: Romance / Comedy

Age Rating: 15

Release Date: 1995

Relationships: WLW (Main plot)

Representation: Lesbian

Running Time: 1h 34m

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Box Office: $2.2m

Warnings: Sex, nudity, violence, profanity, homophobia, underage drinking, underage smoking, underage drug use

Starring: Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Maggie Moore, Dale Dickey

Submitted by @lawldog

[genevieveetguy]

. Unshelter me.

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Maria Maggenti (1995)

[cosmicanger]

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE (1995) dir. MARIA MAGGENTI

[icarus-archives]

Well... Unshelter me.

Walt Whitman, I Sing The Body Electric, 1855 / The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love, 1995, dir. Maria Maggenti.

[cantsayidont]

Two movies with actual wlw content:

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE (1995): Low-budget lesbian teen romcom, written and directed by Maria Maggenti, about the budding romance between 17-year-old baby butch Randy (Laurel Holloman, who later played Tina on THE L WORD), who works at a gas station and is in danger of not graduating high school, and a rich Black classmate named Evie (Nicole Ari Parker), who drives a $50,000 SUV and reads Walt Whitman. Cute and generally charming, though mostly at a sitcom level, it's most interesting when it contrasts the girls' home lives (Randy lives with her lesbian moms and aunt, while Evie lives with her affluent control freak single mother, played by Stephanie Berry). A somewhat disquieting element is teenage Randy's ongoing on-the-down-low affair with an older married woman (Maggie Moore), a situation that doesn't seem to trouble anyone other than the woman's boorish husband (John Elsen), and which the movie ultimately plays for laughs. CONTAINS LESBIANS? It's a lesbian movie, Bront. VERDICT: Pleasant, inconsequential.

JAGGED MIND (2023): Awkwardly titled, awkwardly realized lesbian thriller about a young Black artist named Billie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), on the rebound from an emotionally unavailable ex (Rosaline Elbay), who jumps impulsively into a new relationship with a white woman named Alex (Shannon Woodward) despite struggling with debilitating memory problems that result in frequent déjà vu and jarring flashbacks to arguments and even violent incidents that can't have actually happened. (Or can they? Etc.) The editing tricks used to illustrate Bilie's flashbacks are dramatically effective, but the eventual explanation of what's going on is not, involving too big a leap from what's already been established while leaving some important story threads (and character motivations) largely unexplained; the film ends up relying heavily on Richardson-Sellers' looks and charm to paper over an abundance of holes in the plot. Perhaps most interesting as a companion piece to the 2022 movie HEATWAVE, with Kat Graham, another recent thriller about a queer Black heroine falling, at her peril, for a mysterious white woman — an emerging sub-genre of gay cautionary tale? (Of the two, HEATWAVE is better, mostly because while it also falls short, its more modest ambitions keep it from bruising itself quite so badly in the fall.) CONTAINS LESBIANS? Almost exclusively! VERDICT: Good-looking, half-baked.