#the queen 1968

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this is so painfully niche i can only hope and pray it finds the right individuals

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favorite first watches of june (happy pride month ❣️❣️❣️)

tangerine (2015) - hilarious and dirty and mean and manic. this life fucking sucks but you have to keep living it so you may as well find the beauty in it

the queen (1968) - i’m so in love with this movie. it’s just a portrait of such a specific moment in a specific culture it feels like a couple of months encased in amber. i feel bewitched. also fun fact i saw pink flamingos in a movie theater this month and the poster of this movie was in the background of some scenes <3

shakedown (2018) - a doc abt a black lesbian strip club i was in love with these women with the relationships they built for themselves the space they built where they could be beautiful and free. the femmes and the studs and the queens and the respect and love they held for eachother. again another portrait of a specific moment in a specific scene

i saw the tv glow (2024) - i can’t really talk abt this movie. but it did change my life. and it haunts my thoughts. it’s one of a kind i’ll think abt it forever. you still have time. god.

gay usa (1977) - doc abt the san francisco pride parade right after harvey milk was murdered. really really interesting to see what were the most talked abt topics and what felt most urgent back then. it’s a lot of interviews with the queer ppl and allies present and it just warms the heart 💝

only lovers left alive (2013) - i love!! vampire love!! it’s so lonely and old and unconditional. to know someone perfectly well and float back to them again and again as the world changes around you

blue (2002) - i love movies abt teen girls who are in love with each other and wildly codependent and toxic abt it. i love the way they loved each other i loved how they just couldn’t say what they meant i loved the way love just made them more lonely. there’s a scene where one of the girls is trembling with desire and hurt and confusion and it makes me crazyyyyyy. such a beautiful movie as well, this moment where you’re a few months away from not being a child anymore and you don’t know what to do with the fact that your entire life has already passed you by

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Happy birthday, drag icon Flawless Sabrina! (1939 - 2017) Here's some art inspired by The Queen to mark the occasion!

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This was a great film

THE QUEEN (1968) Directed by Frank Simon, Narrated by Flawless Sabrina

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Today in Hip Hop History:

LL Cool J was born January 14, 1968

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Le viol du vampire (1968)

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Olivia Hussey as Princess Aemma Velaryon, the Daughter of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and Ser Leanor Velaryon.

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Brigitte Bardot photographed by Just Jaeckin on the cover of Queen magazine, February 1968.

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Prince Edward, Prince Philip, Queen, Elizabeth II, Princess, Anne and Prince Andrew at frogmore 1968

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Marsha Hunt photographed by John Vaughn for the cover of Queen magazine (1968).

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SAMOA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE (1968) - JUNGLE QUEENS IN MOVIES (Part 2/10)

Italy loves their Jungle Queens, especially as they are as stunning as a pre-Giallo famed Edwige Fenech in the Guido Malatesta directed cult classic co-starring Femi Benussi

Set in Borneo, the scantily clad Samoa (yert not nude) fiercely defends her jungle and native tribe against white diamond robbers.

Above are the original movie posters from the Belgium, France and Italy (click on each image for details)

Director: Guido Malatesta Actors: Edwige Fenech, Femi Benussi, Roger Browne

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On March 17, 2020 The Queen debuted to a limited release in Germany.

Here's a new portrait of Flawless Sabrina!

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Late 1968 - Tim Staffell introduced Freddie Bulsara to Brian May and Roger Taylor

👉 In the early '60s, two high school friends in London—Tim Staffell and Brian May—formed a five-piece rock band called 1984. Despite the Orwellian band name, Staffell says it was actually a "kind of fun covers band" that got regular gigs around London. After high school, the band broke up, but Staffell and May stuck together, and eventually found a drummer named Roger Taylor to form a new group called Smile.

Although the band was together for only two years, it has an important place in music history as the rock group that laid the foundation of what would become Queen. Between 1968, when the band was formed, and 1970, when Staffell left, Smile was a powerful voice in the '60s London rock scene. It was a tight-knit community, and Staffell and the other members of Smile were friends with a young musician who called himself Freddie Mercury and played music with a few other bands.

The story of Smile, Staffell leaving the band, and Mercury joining with May and Taylor to form Queen serves as the opening backstory to the Oscar-nominated biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

But the story that audiences have seen in the movie—which broke box-office records for the highest-grossing music biopic—isn't the real one. The film shows a young Mercury attending a concert at a London club. The band performing is Smile, playing its original song "Doin' Alright," which was later re-recorded by Queen. (That's Tim Staffell's voice in the movie; he recorded a version of the song for Bohemian Rhapsody.) After the show, Mercury watches as Staffell heatedly quits the band. Seeing his opportunity, Mercury walks up to the remaining musicians, introduces himself, and stuns the guys by singing his own a cappella version of the song. The rest is history ... or at least it would be if Bohemian Rhapsody didn't tell a fictionalized version of Queen's story.

- The True Story of How Freddie Mercury Joined Queen, According to The Band's Original Singer: Tim Staffell explains what Bohemian Rhapsody got wrong about how he left Smile -

by Matt Miller

(read more: 👇 https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/amp26147572/how-freddie-mercury-joined-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-true-story/?fbclid=IwAR0wg4W-wD4k1yKcdCyi-DKNGgib-Ilbw14CHdU30Xtcu0AEooYgSbz6X6A)

📸 Photographer © Doug Puddifoot

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Today in Hip Hop History:

LL Cool J was born January 14, 1968

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