The history boys (2006) - Nicholas Hytner

I'm a Jew... I'm small... I'm homosexual... and I live in Sheffield. I'm fucked.

How do I define history? Well it's just one fucking thing after another.

[about A.E. Housman]
Timms: Wasn't he a nancy, sir?
Hector: Foul, festering, grubby-minded little trollop! Do not use that word!
[Hits him on the head with an exercise book]
Timms: But you use it, sir!
Hector: I do, sir, I know, but I am far gone in age and decrepitude.

[talking about the Holocaust]
Posner: But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.

Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude?

Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you'll understand it... whenever.

The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Fuck the Ren-ai-ssance! And fuck literature, and Plato, and Michaelangelo, and Oscar Wilde, and all the other shrunken violets you people line up. This is a school, and it isn't normal!

Tied hands (2006) - Dan Wolman

The excellent acting and script prevent the cliché-ridden storyline of a mother caring for her son dying of AIDS from getting soppy.

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Keep not silent (2004) - Ilil Alexander

Ilil Alexander’s debut film documents the clandestine struggle of three women fighting for their right to love within their Orthodox communities in Jerusalem. All three are pious, religiously committed women. All three are lesbians, and members of a secret support group called the “Ortho-Dykes.”