Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Cinematic institution The Wizard of Oz turns 82 this week, and on this momentous occasion, we again wrestle with the question: is it the greatest movie ever made?What more can we say about the 1939 classic that hundreds of other writers haven’t observed before?
We could rave about the movie’s breathtaking visual style, a combination of sepia tone and Technicolor imitated by countless other films.
We could praise the groundbreaking make-up and special effects, which made Wicked Witches, houses and monkeys fly, transformed humans into a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, and brought to life a giant, fiery floating head..