In celebration of this year’s 30th BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, the British Film Institute have released a list of the top 30 LGBT films of all time, taking votes from 100 film experts to compile the list. Coming in at number 10 on the BFI list is My Own Private Idaho and it seems as good a time as any to revisit and review the 1991 Gus Van Sant classic, together with a brief discussion of its place and importance in relation to New Queer Cinema more broadly. As ever, the review will contain spoilers.