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No, I'm not off my head...lol.
But I adore rec'ing films - and thought you might enjoy knowing what films you need to be catching in June!!! Sundance is showing its "Out" Films for the entire month.
There are tons to see - several of which I adore. Several of which I'd never heard of before...lol.
Here's the info!!!
For those of you who want to see EVERYTHING...lol, Gay that you can...here is some info on what to see and when to see it!!!
Complete June Film descriptions are found here:
http://www.sundancechannel.com/schedule/descriptions.php?schedDate=2004-06-05%2013:47:44 )
If you want the largest gay film movie review site I've found on the web, here it is - go take a look and get more info on the movies listed below!!!
http://www.movies-too-gay.com/
Ohhhhhhh, and before I forget - they are premiering Margaret Cho's latest live comedy film!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MARGARET CHO'S REVOLUTION
directed by Lorene Machado
Documentary
Never one to play it safe, comedian Margaret Cho (NOTORIOUS C.H.O.) scales cultural and political barricades in this live concert performance. Taking aim with some no-holds-barred observations on racism in America, "the axis of evil," the tyranny of fashion and the President's difficulty pronouncing the word "nuclear," Cho incites an inspiring rebellion of wicked laughter and eye-opening insight. Lorene Machado directed, produced and edited this comedic call-to-arms, praised by the Chicago Sun Times as Cho's "strongest show yet!" TVMA (AC, GL) (2004) Color (85 mins)
June 19 2004 09:00PM; June 22 2004 09:00PM; June 24 2004 10:00PM; June 26 2004 11:00PM; June 27 2004 10:00PM
Here are the films I've seen and would recommend!!!!!!!!!
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AIMEE & JAGUAR
directed by Max Färberböck
World Cinema
Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a Jewish member of the resistance during the Third Reich, was a lesbian, the boldest of a group of friends who led double lives while the war raged around them. When she set her sights on Lilly Wust (Juliane Kohler), the naive wife of a Nazi officer, both became engaged in one of the most perilous love affairs of the war. Former German TV director Max Fdrberbvck, making his directorial debut, adapts Wust's memoirs to the screen in this "lustrously shot, well-acted and immensely moving romantic drama" (San Francisco Chronicle). TV14 (AC, AL, N, V) Letterbox/Subtitles (1999) Color (127 mins)
June 12 2004 09:00PM; June 15 2004 02:00PM; June 27 2004 05:00PM
((Extremely powerful film - beautifully filmed. I highly recommend seeing this one. Get out your kleenex first!))
BUTTERFLY KISS
directed by Michael Winterbottom
World Cinema
When sheltered gas station attendant Miriam (Saskia Reeves) reflects on her attraction to Eunice (Amanda Plummer), an unhinged killer, she simply explains, "The things she did, everyone wants to do in a real way." Plummer, who has excelled playing loopy waifs (HE FISHER KING) and hair-trigger psychos (PULP FICTION), is here a frightening vision of confused anger and vengeance, a possessed, pierced and bruised angel of death. Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (JUDE, GO NOW) and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce present a violent and unsettlingly graphic tale of love, insanity and codependence in this "road movie that suggests a twisted British answer to Thelma and Louise" - The New York Times. TVMA (AC, AL, N, V) (1995) Color (85 mins)
June 02 2004 02:00AM; June 11 2004 10:00PM; June 22 2004 12:30AM; June 25 2004 04:10AM
((Weird as helllllllll, dark - but quirky in a way you have to see the film to believe!!!))
THE COCKETTES
directed by David Weisman and Bill Weber
Documentary
Appeared at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival As the peace-and-love '60s were turning into the sexual-revolution '70s, a rag-tag group of Haight-Ashbury hippies called The Cockettes decided to put on a show. Dressed in outrageous, glitter-festooned thrift-store costumes and high on acid, they performed at midnight movie shows at San Francisco's Pagoda Palace Theater, creating energetic, anarchic, off-the-wall productions that soon caught the eye of the likes of Rex Reed and Truman Capote. Before long, The Cockettes were whisked off to New York and hailed as the toast of the town - until the opening of their show, which was a disastrous flop. David Weissman and Bill Weber's fascinating documentary chronicles the rise and demise of this merry band and features archive performance footage and interviews with, among others, John Waters, who calls the group "insane hippie drag queens on and off the stage." TVMA (AC, AL, N) (2002) Color (100 mins)
June 15 2004 09:30PM
(((Hilarious... You have to see it to believe it.)))
DESERT HEARTS
directed by Donna Deitch
Feature
A landmark when released in 1985, this was the first mainstream film to portray a lesbian love story both romantically and positively. A strait-laced Columbia professor (Helen Shaver) comes to '50s Reno to obtain a quickie divorce and encounters a young, unrestrained casino worker (Patricia Charbonneau) who knows what she wants and thinks nothing of taking risks to get it. The debut feature for both director Donna Deitch and Charbonneau (nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead) also features a classic Patsy Cline soundtrack. With Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Dean Butler and Gwen Welles. R (AC, AL, N) (1985) Color (93 mins)
June 05 2004 11:10PM; June 23 2004 03:55AM
(((It's a classic, folks.)))
DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
directed by Richard Spence
World Cinema
Appeared at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival When ex-boarding school classmates Karl and Paul meet after 16 years, they recognize each other immediately, even though Karl is now Kim (Steven Mackintosh), a quiet blonde postoperative transsexual. They begin a hesitant, awkward relationship as Paul (Rupert Graves), a motorbike messenger with a taste for beer and punk rock, struggles with his attraction toward Kim and the implications it has for his own identity. Richard Spence's film won the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. Look out for an appearance by late punk godfather Ian Dury. R (AC, AL, N, V) Letterbox (1996) Color (92 mins)
June 09 2004 04:00AM; June 16 2004 11:00PM; June 18 2004 02:30AM
(((Hehe - Rupert in leathers - and waving his penis at camera....what's not to like? lol)))
EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE
directed by Yuan Zhang
World Cinema
No surprise the Chinese authorities didn't take a fancy to this dramatic assault on traditional morals and taboos with its reasoned plea for gay rights. While homosexuality is not illegal in China, filmmaker Zhang Yuan was punished with a house arrest for making this film. During a one-night interrogation a traditional police officer (Hu Jun) questions a young man (Si Han) arrested during a roundup of gay men in a park near Beijing's Tiananmen Square. What follows is an eye-opening look at a China seldom seen in the west and a memorable mix of "powerful drama and courageous politics" - The New York Times. TV14 (AC, AL, BN, MV) Subtitles (1997) Color (91 mins)
June 11 2004 08:00AM; June 15 2004 04:05PM; June 20 2004 05:30AM; June 21 2004 10:25AM; June 30 2004 02:30PM
(((I FUCKING ADOREEEEEEEEE THIS FILM!!! It's quite, kinky and amazing. Love it, and You HAVE to see it!!!)))
FIRE
directed by Deepa Mehta
Feature
Organized protests, censorship and violent riots greeted the Indian exhibition of Deepa Mehta's film about two sisters-in-law (Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi) trapped in loveless marriages. Although popularly characterized as "the first Indian film to depict a lesbian relationship," Fire is more substantially an examination of New Delhi's growing middle class, and the tensions that arise when individual desires and the need for self-fulfillment run counter to traditional values. "Provocative, emotionally charged and extremely moving!" - Newsday. TV14 (AC, AL, MV, N) (1996) Color (108 mins)
June 04 2004 09:45PM; June 10 2004 03:30PM; June 22 2004 04:45PM
(((I actually wasn't thrilled - due to the ending. But it's a shock the movie even got made - and caused riots in India when it was released.)))
LAN YU
directed by Stanley Kwan
Feature
An unusual aspect of life in contemporary China is glimpsed in this tragic romance based on a notorious novel first published on the internet. Shot secretly in mainland China, LAN YU chronicles the dysfunctional relationship between two male lovers - a self-centered Beijing entrepreneur (Hu Jun) and an impoverished student (Liu Ye) - during the course of a decade. Stanley Kwan's elegant and mesmerizing film has been favorably compared to some classic Hollywood melodramas of the past with its story of self-sacrifice and shifting fortunes. R (AC, AL, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (97 mins)
June 12 2004 03:30AM; June 21 2004 02:35AM
(((Again - A MUST SEE - has the same lead as East Palace, West Palace - and it's a good movie with *Gasp* S-E-X...lol. Also sad.)))
NOTORIOUS C.H.O.
directed by Lorene Machado
Feature
Dubbed "the Richard Pryor of her generation" (Sacramento Bee), Margaret Cho returns in her second comedy concert film, filmed before a live audience in Seattle. Getting away with saying just about anything -- opening with an outrageous anecdote about doing her part at Ground Zero -- Cho fearlessly reveals the funny side of a colonic irrigation, an encounter with a bossy S&M dominatrix and her search for her G-spot. "Brilliant, over-the-edge ... carries candid sexual humor into previously uncharted territory" -- New York Times. TVMA (AC, GL) CCAP/Stereo/Letterbox (2002) Color (95 mins)
June 19 2004 10:30PM; June 21 2004 01:00AM; June 27 2004 08:25PM
(((How could you NOT adore Miss Cho??? You'll be laughing till you pee yourself....lol.)))
SOLDIER'S GIRL
directed by Frank Pierson
Feature
Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival "Three outstanding performances" (San Francisco Chronicle) by Troy Garity, Lee Pace and Shawn Hatosy highlight this Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated drama, based on the true story of a young American Army private who was murdered for having a romantic relationship with a transgendered club performer. With sensitivity and passion, director Frank Pierson and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (PHILADELPHIA) tell a moving and tragic story of forbidden love against the background of the military's current "Don't ask don't Tell" policy. R (AC, AL, BN, GV) CCAP/Stereo (2003) Color (112 mins)
June 16 2004 09:00PM; June 18 2004 12:35AM; June 25 2004 09:35PM; June 28 2004 01:00AM
(((Again, very powerful. And to think - for you fans of the Real World, that "Danny's" military boyfriend "Paul" was on base - just two dorms over from this on the night it happened. Very scary.)))
SWIMMING
directed by Robert J. Siegel
Feature
It's the start of another Carolina summer, and it's becoming increasingly clear to Frankie Wheeler, a young local, that she wants more out of life than Myrtle Beach can offer her. She spends her days working in her family's restaurant and wastes her nights hanging out on the boardwalk with her best friend, Nicola, proprietor of a piercing shop and self-proclaimed trouble seeker. Frankie has always played sidekick to Nicola, so neither is prepared when two new arrivals, a young siren hired as a waitress, and a drifter selling tie-dyes out of the back of his van, court only Frankie. Nicola's ensuing jealousy sets in motion a series of betrayals driving a wedge into their friendship and forces Frankie to take a stand for herself. SWIMMING is an intimate look at friendship, love and breaking away, set amidst the backdrop of a bustling beach town. Loren King of The Boston Globe calls SWIMMING "a rarity among modern movies...bolstered by a luminous lead performance from Lauren Ambrose" ("Six Feet Under"). (2000) Color (90 mins)
June 02 2004 05:30AM; June 03 2004 05:00PM; June 09 2004 10:25AM; June 13 2004 01:00PM; June 13 2004 10:30PM; June 22 2004 11:00AM; June 25 2004 06:25PM
(((It's an ok film - good to see Lauren Ambrose in it. Her character's a little be in love with the "young siren"...lol.)))
THE FLUFFER
directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash West
Feature
Obsessive infatuation and the deceptive nature of sexual categories lie at the heart of Wash West and Richard Glatzer's comic drama about a young filmmaker (Michael Cunio) who dreams of creating the next CITIZEN KANE, yet finds employment in the world of gay adult cinema. Behind the cameras, Sean (Cunio) works as a "fluffer," responsible for ensuring that the leading man (Scott Gurney) is properly prepared for his explicit close-up. Sean is smitten, but the oblivious hunk is strictly "gay for pay," living a heterosexual life while off screen. TVMA (AC, AL, N, SC) CCAP/Stereo/Letterbox (2001) Unknown (94 mins)
June 14 2004 03:35AM; June 24 2004 11:30PM; June 26 2004 02:00AM
(((It won't win any Oscars...lol, but I like this little film. Maybe it was the lesbian character who says she gets off on gay porn - "I like dicks." hehe)))
WAYDOWNTOWN
directed by Gary Burns and Matthew Sinclair
Feature
In Gary Burns's wry satire of corporate life and modern urban living, four young office workers wager a month's salary in a competition to see who can endure the longest without ever setting foot in the outside world. Tom (Fabrizio Filippo), Sandra (Marya Delver), Randy (Tobias Godson) and Curt (Gordon Currie) have all lasted 24 days as human laboratory rats in their experiment, which has confined them to living within a mall-like modern office, shopping and apartment complex. However, the stresses of this daily existence - under the harsh glare of fluorescent lighting, exposed to mindless piped-in music, nourished by servings from food courts and working in cubicles - is starting to take its toll. Tom believes he has seen a caped superhero just out of the corner of his eye; Sandra is becoming convinced that she is being slowly poisoned by the recycled city air; Randy is giving animal names to all the people in the mall and Curt, better known as the office "slut," is having an attack of raging hormones. And they are not alone: Tom's cubicle mate Brad (Don McKellar), a twenty-year veteran of the corporate world, is starting to staple messages with inspirational mantras on his chest. waydowntown was named Best Canadian Film by the Toronto Film Critics and at the Toronto International Film Festival and was hailed as "a smart, sardonic satire" by the New York Times. R (AC, AL, MV) Stereo (2000) Color (87 mins)
June 03 2004 05:00AM; June 04 2004 02:00PM; June 19 2004 09:30AM; June 19 2004 07:30PM; June 23 2004 07:30PM; June 29 2004 11:30AM
((Ok, so it's not gay. But it does star Fabrizio Filippo - QAF's Ethan.)))
WIGSTOCK: THE MOVIE
directed by Barry Shils
Documentary
Held every year over the Labor Day weekend since 1984, Wigstock is New York's annual outdoor drag fest, a colorful congregation of sequined gowns, stiletto heels, industrial-strength mascara and very big hair. Barry Shils's documentary captures the uninhibited fun of the 1992 and 1993 festivals, and features performances from some of the most celebrated names ever to vamp a catwalk: RuPaul, Lypsinka, Mistress Formika, Lady Bunny and the Dueling Bankheads. "Good-natured, campy fun... a glitzy, lively, lovingly made show" --New York Times.R (AC, AL, N)) Stereo (1995) Color (82 mins)
June 08 2004 03:00AM; June 15 2004 11:15PM; June 28 2004 07:00PM
(((Funny as hell.)))
Here are the films I've not seen but want to watch!!!!
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AMERICAN FABULOUS
directed by Reno Dakota
Documentary
With his performance stage the backseat of a 1957 Cadillac as it rambles the back roads of Ohio, Jeffrey Strouth presents an unforgettable oral autobiography, part outrageous comedy, part American tragedy. Described by some critics as a trailer-trash gay Jack Kerouac, Strouth delivers a mesmerizing and uninhibited narrative about his abusive father, his friends, his encounters with the law and a life in which sex and drugs were constant companions. Director Reno Dakota captures a true American original, who died shortly after this film wrapped. TVMA (AC, GL) (1992) Color (103 mins)
June 07 2004 11:00PM; June 22 2004 03:55AM
BIG EDEN
directed by Thomas Bezucha
Feature
After his beloved grandfather suffers a stroke, New York artist Henry Hart (Arye Gross) returns to his childhood hometown in Montana's Big Sky country. Unexpectedly, Henry also encounters the reason he fled nearly 20 years ago: Dean (Tim DeKay). Now divorced with two young sons, Dean is still Henry's unrequited object of affection. However, in Thomas Bezucha's warm-hearted award winner, returning to live with the colorful folks of Big Eden may have been the smartest thing Henry ever did. PG13 (AC, AL) (2000) Unknown (118 mins)
June 03 2004 11:30AM; June 07 2004 08:00AM; June 11 2004 05:00AM; June 12 2004 01:30PM; June 15 2004 06:00AM; June 15 2004 06:00PM; June 29 2004 05:30AM; June 30 2004 12:30PM
BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, THE
directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feature
Emotional manipulation, claustrophobia and dependency, recurrent themes in the plays and films of Germany's Rainer Werner Fassbinder, are front and center in his early critical success about a wealthy, divorced fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) who falls for a working-class beauty (Hanna Schygulla). Enacted on one set (with props playing critically important supporting roles), this haunting chamber drama masterfully covers a range of universal emotional interactions, from infatuation, jealousy and silent longing to possession and coercion. TV14 (AC, AL) Subtitles (1971) Color (124 mins)
June 02 2004 03:00PM; June 05 2004 02:30AM; June 11 2004 02:30PM; June 24 2004 12:30PM; June 27 2004 01:00AM
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
directed by Harriet "Harry" Dodge and Silas Howard
Feature
Striding boldly into areas rarely visited by filmmakers, this striking first feature by Harriet "Harry" Dodge and Silas Howard - who collaborated on writing, direction and production - stars Howard as Shy, a drag king searching for meaning and love after the death of his terminally ill father. With vague notions of robbing a grocery store, Shy heads to the city and meets Valentine (Dodge), a vibrant, unstable spirit attempting to find her birth mother, and the two begin a friendship that tests and strengthens both of them. Winner of the Grand Jury Award at the LA Outfest and the Award for Excellence at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK was a labor of love for its cast and crew, which includes producer Steak House, performance artist Stanya Kahn, rock icon Joan Jett and cinematographer Ann T. Rossetti (GO FISH). "Raw-edged and not afraid of hard, ugly stuff... but with a poetic sharpness in there too, something to lift up trouble and let it rain down sweet" - Bay Guardian. TV14 (AC, AL, BN, V) (2001) Color (100 mins)
June 03 2004 01:30PM; June 08 2004 12:00PM; June 20 2004 05:45PM; June 23 2004 03:45PM
GARDEN
directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz
Documentary
Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival In a run-down neighborhood of Tel Aviv known as "the Garden," gay hustlers and drug dealers ply their trade. Here, documentary filmmakers Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz spent a year following Nino, a 17-year-old illegal Palestinian, and his 18-year-old friend Dudo, an Israeli Arab. Despite their grim circumstances, Nino and Dudo survive on mutual friendship and dream of a future elsewhere. While showing a segment of Israeli life seldom seen on film, Garden also presents a frank consideration about the urge to find one's place in the world. TVMA (AC, GL, SC, V) (2003) Unknown (90 mins)
June 07 2004 09:00PM; June 10 2004 11:00PM; June 14 2004 11:00PM; June 29 2004 04:00AM
GASOLINE
directed by Monica Stambrini
Feature
Stella (Maya Sansa), a working-class car mechanic, and her bourgeois girlfriend Lenni (Regina Orioli) are the fugitive lovers at the center of Italian filmmaker Monica Stambrini's surreal debut feature. The couple's secret bliss ends when Lenni's domineering mother drops in, and -- with help from Stella -- accidentally drops dead. Suddenly, Stella and Lenni are on the run with a corpse in the trunk and three nasty thrill-seekers on their trail. What's more, poor Lenni can't escape hearing her mom's critical voice coming from the great beyond. TVMA (AC, AL, N, V) (2001) Color (85 mins)
June 03 2004 09:00PM; June 07 2004 04:05AM; June 26 2004 03:35AM
GO FISH
directed by Rose Troche
Feature
Appeared at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival A breakthrough when it was released in 1994, Rose Troche's spunky romance matter-of-factly focuses on the lives of a group of friends, who just happen to be lesbians. Max (co-writer Guinevere Turner), an energetic urban tomboy, and shy Ely (V.S. Brodie) are the unlikely opposites who awkwardly and endearingly attract in this entertaining and high-spirited romp, which won critical accolades for its naturalism, wit and innate charm. With this, her first feature, Troche won the Best Feature Film award at the Berlin Film Festival. R (AC, AL, N) CCAP/BW (1994) Unknown (83 mins)
June 05 2004 01:00AM; June 10 2004 03:35AM; June 24 2004 08:30PM
HERR SCHMIDT AND HERR FRIEDRICH
directed by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken
Documentary
More than a quarter-century ago, when Wilfried Friedrich and Kurt "Kuddel" Schmidt fell in love, there was one major problem: Kurt lived in West Berlin, while Wilfried lived in the East. Despite the presence of the Berlin Wall and the watchful eyes of the East German police, the pair's relationship only strengthened over the years as a result of a lengthy correspondence. Documentarians Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken relate this tragicomic love story and its eventual happy outcome, while also capturing a moving portrait of an aging gay couple. TVPG (AC) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (69 mins)
June 04 2004 07:05AM; June 04 2004 03:45PM; June 15 2004 05:00AM; June 16 2004 10:30AM; June 21 2004 09:00AM; June 21 2004 11:00PM
HIS SECRET LIFE
directed by Ferzan Ozpetek
Feature
After her husband Massimo dies in a street-crossing accident, Antonia (Margherita Buy) discovers that her supposedly perfect middle-class life was a facade. Massimo, it seems, had a secret lover. While investigating, Antonia uncovers even more surprises as she learns that Massimo's lover is many things that she isn't ... including male. In his intelligent and sensitive film, Ferzan Ozpetek (HAMAM: THE TURKISH BATH) brings together the contrasting worlds of Antonia and Michele (Stefano Accorsi) as they bridge the void left by their shared partner. R (AC, AL, MV, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (105 mins)
June 18 2004 08:00PM; June 29 2004 11:00PM
HUSH!
directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Feature
When assertive Asako (Reiko Kataoka) initially spies Naoya (Kazuya Takahashi) one rainy day in Tokyo, she knows she wants him to father her child. Naoya has "fatherly eyes" says Asako. Even though Naoya is gay, this is no impediment for determined Asako. How Asako, Naoya and Naoya's partner Katsuhiro (Seiichi Tanabe) redefine the idea of family in contemporary Japan is the theme of Ryosuke Hashiguchi's witty and profound domestic comedy, which also features an original score and songs by Bobby McFerrin. TV14 (AC, AL, MV, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (216 mins)
June 09 2004 09:00PM; June 17 2004 02:00PM; June 20 2004 12:00PM; June 25 2004 01:00PM; June 29 2004 05:00PM
LAWLESS HEART
directed by Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter
Feature
Wry, interlocking narratives follow the fateful desires of three British men (Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander and Douglas Henshall) in Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger's delightful and astutely observed character study. Following a funeral, a trio of men one gay, one married and one AWOL for the past eight years engage in a moment of unexpected emotional recklessness. Believable, well-conceived characters and innovative overlapping storytelling distinguish this award-winner that "captures some of the essential strangeness of life" (New York Times). R (AC, AL, N) CCAP/Stereo (2001) Color (100 mins)
June 04 2004 08:00PM; June 11 2004 01:15AM; June 17 2004 09:00PM; June 26 2004 12:00AM; June 30 2004 11:00PM
LONGTIME COMPANION
directed by Norman Rene
Feature
Appeared at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival Widely recognized as the first mainstream American film to dramatize the AIDS crisis, director Norman Rene and writer Craig Lucas's award-winner follows a group of middle-class gay men through the 1980s. From the first news reports of a "gay plague" in 1981 to grief at the loss of friends 10 years later, Longtime Companion gives human faces to the decade's grim statistics. Bruce Davison won accolades, including an Oscar nomination for his assured performance as the caregiver for his dying lover. "Intelligent, deeply moving" Washington Post. R (AC, AL, BN) CCAP (1990) Unknown (110 mins)
June 05 2004 09:00PM; June 09 2004 02:00PM; June 13 2004 05:45PM; June 18 2004 01:30PM; June 22 2004 07:05AM; June 22 2004 06:30PM; June 27 2004 05:00AM; June 28 2004 10:00AM
NO SECRET ANYMORE: THE TIMES OF DEL MARTIN AND PHYLLIS LYON
directed by Joan Biren
Documentary
Many chroniclers of gay history mark the birth of the modern American lesbian movement to the formation of the activist group the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955. Co-founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who have lived together for more than half a century -- and were the first couple married in San Francisco's historic ceremonies of February 2004 -- are profiled in this spirited, inspiring and often humorous documentary by Joan Biren. Comedian Kate Clinton narrates a story of two extraordinary women who became united in love and politics. TV14 (AC) (2003) Color (57 mins)
June 21 2004 10:00PM; June 24 2004 07:00AM; June 24 2004 05:00PM; June 26 2004 03:00PM; June 28 2004 01:00PM
OUR HOUSE: A VERY REAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KIDS OF GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS
directed by Meema Spadola
Documentary
Today, it is estimated that between 3 and 5 million children are being raised in homes run by same-sex couples. In Our House, documentary filmmaker Meema Spadola considers a different take on "family values" as she profiles five diverse families to reveal the realities of growing up with gay or lesbian parents. In addition to the challenges that confront all children, the youngsters in these five households also have to deal with their feelings about their parents' sexuality, and prejudice and reactions from friends, relatives and neighbors. TV14 (AC, AL) Stereo (2000) Color (57 mins)
June 21 2004 09:00PM; June 23 2004 05:30AM; June 24 2004 06:00PM; June 26 2004 04:00PM; June 28 2004 12:00PM
THE TASTY BUST REUNION
Documentary
On August 7, 1994, Melbourne, Australia police raided the Tasty, a gay and lesbian nightclub. Nearly all of the 463 clubbers -- including 130 women -- were strip-searched and forced to stand naked during a three-hour ordeal. Now recognized as Australia's Stonewall, the Tasty Raid solidified Down Under's gay community and resulted in a landmark ruling forcing the police to pay more than $4.5 million in damages. Filmmaker Stephen MacLean tells the inspiring story of a group of ordinary people who chose to fight back. TVMA (AC, AL, N, V) Stereo/Letterbox (2003) Color (52 mins)
June 14 2004 09:00PM; June 18 2004 04:10AM; June 21 2004 04:30AM; June 29 2004 03:00AM
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK
directed by Rob Epstein
Feature
Winner of the 1985 Oscar. for Best Documentary Feature, Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen's moving film recounts a pivotal moment in American history, the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was killed along with the city's liberal Mayor George Moscone. By following the parallel lives and careers of gay-activist Milk and his murderer, Dan White, a conservative former Supervisor who often sparred with Milk at City Council meetings, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK presents an unforgettable portrait of communities in conflict. TV14 (AC, AL, V) (1984) Color (88 mins)
June 05 2004 06:00PM; June 10 2004 06:30AM; June 10 2004 05:30PM; June 14 2004 12:40AM; June 23 2004 11:00AM; June 28 2004 03:05PM
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Documentary
Appeared at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival Devout Orthodox and Hasidic Jews who also happen to be gay are often torn by conflict. Passages in the Torah and 16th-century Jewish law cause many rabbis and families to reject the Orthodox gay men and lesbians in their midst. The choices are abstinence, counseling, adopting a heterosexual lifestyle - or abandoning one's religion. In his award-winning documentary, Sandi Simcha DuBowski profiles a group of contemporary Orthodox Jews who are striving to maintain their faith while also living honestly with their sexuality. TV14 (AC) (2001) Color (84 mins)
June 07 2004 06:30AM; June 07 2004 05:30PM; June 12 2004 12:00PM; June 18 2004 09:00AM; June 18 2004 10:00PM; June 29 2004 09:30PM
ZUS & ZO
directed by Paula van der Oest
Feature
It's a battle royal when three middle-aged sisters conspire to ruin the wedding of their gay brother in this Oscar-nominated Dutch comedy. It seems their late father's will left the family fortune - a picturesque beach resort in Portugal - to Nino (Jacob Derwig) on the condition that he weds. Now, as Nino's determined siblings (Monic Hendrickx, Anneke Blok and Sylvia Poorta) try to sabotage the nuptials, the family heads for domestic meltdown. Paula van der Oest serves up a liberated romp that redefines the very idea of family values. TVMA (AC, AL, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (101 mins)
June 08 2004 10:00PM; June 12 2004 11:35PM; June 20 2004 03:45AM; June 24 2004 04:00AM; June 30 2004 09:00PM
SHORTS OUT LOUD
Short
A program of lesbian and gay shorts including: D.E.B.S. Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival A quartet of plaid-skirted high-school girls scores big on a secret test which measures their potential for lying, cheating and killing. Angela Robinson's comic action short won citations at many festivals, including the Audience Award at the L.A. Outfest, and spawned a feature film a year later. "Wickedly funny" - Variety. (2003) BOBBYCRUSH Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker Cam Archer captures the heartbreaking melancholy of unrequited teenage desire in this dreamlike reverie. (2003) LITTLE BLACK BOOT Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Colette Burson presents a same-sex variation on the Cinderella story, set at a high-school prom. Featuring Jane Lynch, Dania Ramirez and Carmen Plumb. (2004) AFTERSCHOOL DELIGHT An older brother's closet becomes the setting for a moment of self-discovery for a 12-year-old girl and her best friend. Eve Bregman directs this short, which won an honorable mention at the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. (2003) STAG On the morning of his wedding day, Sammi (Nitin Chandra Ganatra) discovers that he must consider the unexpected implications of the previous night's drunken stag party. Ian Iqbal Rashid wrote and directed this touching British short. Stuart Laing costars. (2001) TVMA (AC, AL, MV, N) (2004) Color (58 mins)
June 20 2004 08:00PM; June 23 2004 01:05AM; June 27 2004 12:00AM
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Oh and these are great films:
ANGELS AND INSECTS
directed by Philip Haas
Feature
Appeared at the 1995 Sundance Film Fesival Based on the novella Morpho Eugenia by A. S. Byatt, this lush, vivid film by Philip Haas is a bug's-eye-view examination of the sins and secrets of an upper-class family in Victorian England. It stars Mark Rylance as Adamson, a shy naturalist who gratefully accepts the patronage of a wealthy amateur insect-collector after his life's work is destroyed in a shipwreck. Not long after arriving at his patron's country estate, he finds himself entranced by luminous eldest daughter Eugenia (Patsy Kensit) and intellectually challenged by Matty (Kristin Scott Thomas) a poor relative who lives in the house. However, his happiness fades as he begins to discover that all is not what it seems, and that this odd collection of people has some disturbing commonalities with the bugs he studies. Nominated for an Oscar. for costume design. R (AC, N) (1995) Color (117 mins)
June 03 2004 03:00AM; June 09 2004 11:30PM
(((Not gay, mind you - but it IS very shocking in one place - and features full frontal of a main male character WITH erection! hehe - I'm NOT Kidding!)))
THE LOVER
directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feature
Jean-Jacques Annaud (SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, THE BEAR) adapts Marguerite Duras's best-selling erotic novel about a secret love affair set in 1920s colonial Indochina. On a boat crossing the Mekong River, a well-dressed Chinese businessman (Tony Leung Ka Fai) catches sight of a teenage French schoolgirl (Jane March). Despite the difference in their ages and their opposing cultural backgrounds, the pair begins a series of covert rendezvous in a modest rented room, liaisons which Annaud and cinematographer Robert Fraisse record with sensual detail. R (AL, N, SC, V) Stereo (1992) Color (104 mins)
June 19 2004 03:00AM; June 23 2004 02:05AM; June 27 2004 03:05AM
(((One of my all time favorite movies - and if you've read my fic "Enough of Reason" - you'll recognize the car scene. How erotic can the touch of a finger be? This'll teach you.)))
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But I adore rec'ing films - and thought you might enjoy knowing what films you need to be catching in June!!! Sundance is showing its "Out" Films for the entire month.
There are tons to see - several of which I adore. Several of which I'd never heard of before...lol.
Here's the info!!!
For those of you who want to see EVERYTHING...lol, Gay that you can...here is some info on what to see and when to see it!!!
Complete June Film descriptions are found here:
http://www.sundancechannel.com/schedule/descriptions.php?schedDate=2004-06-05%2013:47:44 )
If you want the largest gay film movie review site I've found on the web, here it is - go take a look and get more info on the movies listed below!!!
http://www.movies-too-gay.com/
Ohhhhhhh, and before I forget - they are premiering Margaret Cho's latest live comedy film!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MARGARET CHO'S REVOLUTION
directed by Lorene Machado
Documentary
Never one to play it safe, comedian Margaret Cho (NOTORIOUS C.H.O.) scales cultural and political barricades in this live concert performance. Taking aim with some no-holds-barred observations on racism in America, "the axis of evil," the tyranny of fashion and the President's difficulty pronouncing the word "nuclear," Cho incites an inspiring rebellion of wicked laughter and eye-opening insight. Lorene Machado directed, produced and edited this comedic call-to-arms, praised by the Chicago Sun Times as Cho's "strongest show yet!" TVMA (AC, GL) (2004) Color (85 mins)
June 19 2004 09:00PM; June 22 2004 09:00PM; June 24 2004 10:00PM; June 26 2004 11:00PM; June 27 2004 10:00PM
Here are the films I've seen and would recommend!!!!!!!!!
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AIMEE & JAGUAR
directed by Max Färberböck
World Cinema
Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a Jewish member of the resistance during the Third Reich, was a lesbian, the boldest of a group of friends who led double lives while the war raged around them. When she set her sights on Lilly Wust (Juliane Kohler), the naive wife of a Nazi officer, both became engaged in one of the most perilous love affairs of the war. Former German TV director Max Fdrberbvck, making his directorial debut, adapts Wust's memoirs to the screen in this "lustrously shot, well-acted and immensely moving romantic drama" (San Francisco Chronicle). TV14 (AC, AL, N, V) Letterbox/Subtitles (1999) Color (127 mins)
June 12 2004 09:00PM; June 15 2004 02:00PM; June 27 2004 05:00PM
((Extremely powerful film - beautifully filmed. I highly recommend seeing this one. Get out your kleenex first!))
BUTTERFLY KISS
directed by Michael Winterbottom
World Cinema
When sheltered gas station attendant Miriam (Saskia Reeves) reflects on her attraction to Eunice (Amanda Plummer), an unhinged killer, she simply explains, "The things she did, everyone wants to do in a real way." Plummer, who has excelled playing loopy waifs (HE FISHER KING) and hair-trigger psychos (PULP FICTION), is here a frightening vision of confused anger and vengeance, a possessed, pierced and bruised angel of death. Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (JUDE, GO NOW) and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce present a violent and unsettlingly graphic tale of love, insanity and codependence in this "road movie that suggests a twisted British answer to Thelma and Louise" - The New York Times. TVMA (AC, AL, N, V) (1995) Color (85 mins)
June 02 2004 02:00AM; June 11 2004 10:00PM; June 22 2004 12:30AM; June 25 2004 04:10AM
((Weird as helllllllll, dark - but quirky in a way you have to see the film to believe!!!))
THE COCKETTES
directed by David Weisman and Bill Weber
Documentary
Appeared at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival As the peace-and-love '60s were turning into the sexual-revolution '70s, a rag-tag group of Haight-Ashbury hippies called The Cockettes decided to put on a show. Dressed in outrageous, glitter-festooned thrift-store costumes and high on acid, they performed at midnight movie shows at San Francisco's Pagoda Palace Theater, creating energetic, anarchic, off-the-wall productions that soon caught the eye of the likes of Rex Reed and Truman Capote. Before long, The Cockettes were whisked off to New York and hailed as the toast of the town - until the opening of their show, which was a disastrous flop. David Weissman and Bill Weber's fascinating documentary chronicles the rise and demise of this merry band and features archive performance footage and interviews with, among others, John Waters, who calls the group "insane hippie drag queens on and off the stage." TVMA (AC, AL, N) (2002) Color (100 mins)
June 15 2004 09:30PM
(((Hilarious... You have to see it to believe it.)))
DESERT HEARTS
directed by Donna Deitch
Feature
A landmark when released in 1985, this was the first mainstream film to portray a lesbian love story both romantically and positively. A strait-laced Columbia professor (Helen Shaver) comes to '50s Reno to obtain a quickie divorce and encounters a young, unrestrained casino worker (Patricia Charbonneau) who knows what she wants and thinks nothing of taking risks to get it. The debut feature for both director Donna Deitch and Charbonneau (nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead) also features a classic Patsy Cline soundtrack. With Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Dean Butler and Gwen Welles. R (AC, AL, N) (1985) Color (93 mins)
June 05 2004 11:10PM; June 23 2004 03:55AM
(((It's a classic, folks.)))
DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
directed by Richard Spence
World Cinema
Appeared at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival When ex-boarding school classmates Karl and Paul meet after 16 years, they recognize each other immediately, even though Karl is now Kim (Steven Mackintosh), a quiet blonde postoperative transsexual. They begin a hesitant, awkward relationship as Paul (Rupert Graves), a motorbike messenger with a taste for beer and punk rock, struggles with his attraction toward Kim and the implications it has for his own identity. Richard Spence's film won the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. Look out for an appearance by late punk godfather Ian Dury. R (AC, AL, N, V) Letterbox (1996) Color (92 mins)
June 09 2004 04:00AM; June 16 2004 11:00PM; June 18 2004 02:30AM
(((Hehe - Rupert in leathers - and waving his penis at camera....what's not to like? lol)))
EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE
directed by Yuan Zhang
World Cinema
No surprise the Chinese authorities didn't take a fancy to this dramatic assault on traditional morals and taboos with its reasoned plea for gay rights. While homosexuality is not illegal in China, filmmaker Zhang Yuan was punished with a house arrest for making this film. During a one-night interrogation a traditional police officer (Hu Jun) questions a young man (Si Han) arrested during a roundup of gay men in a park near Beijing's Tiananmen Square. What follows is an eye-opening look at a China seldom seen in the west and a memorable mix of "powerful drama and courageous politics" - The New York Times. TV14 (AC, AL, BN, MV) Subtitles (1997) Color (91 mins)
June 11 2004 08:00AM; June 15 2004 04:05PM; June 20 2004 05:30AM; June 21 2004 10:25AM; June 30 2004 02:30PM
(((I FUCKING ADOREEEEEEEEE THIS FILM!!! It's quite, kinky and amazing. Love it, and You HAVE to see it!!!)))
FIRE
directed by Deepa Mehta
Feature
Organized protests, censorship and violent riots greeted the Indian exhibition of Deepa Mehta's film about two sisters-in-law (Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi) trapped in loveless marriages. Although popularly characterized as "the first Indian film to depict a lesbian relationship," Fire is more substantially an examination of New Delhi's growing middle class, and the tensions that arise when individual desires and the need for self-fulfillment run counter to traditional values. "Provocative, emotionally charged and extremely moving!" - Newsday. TV14 (AC, AL, MV, N) (1996) Color (108 mins)
June 04 2004 09:45PM; June 10 2004 03:30PM; June 22 2004 04:45PM
(((I actually wasn't thrilled - due to the ending. But it's a shock the movie even got made - and caused riots in India when it was released.)))
LAN YU
directed by Stanley Kwan
Feature
An unusual aspect of life in contemporary China is glimpsed in this tragic romance based on a notorious novel first published on the internet. Shot secretly in mainland China, LAN YU chronicles the dysfunctional relationship between two male lovers - a self-centered Beijing entrepreneur (Hu Jun) and an impoverished student (Liu Ye) - during the course of a decade. Stanley Kwan's elegant and mesmerizing film has been favorably compared to some classic Hollywood melodramas of the past with its story of self-sacrifice and shifting fortunes. R (AC, AL, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (97 mins)
June 12 2004 03:30AM; June 21 2004 02:35AM
(((Again - A MUST SEE - has the same lead as East Palace, West Palace - and it's a good movie with *Gasp* S-E-X...lol. Also sad.)))
NOTORIOUS C.H.O.
directed by Lorene Machado
Feature
Dubbed "the Richard Pryor of her generation" (Sacramento Bee), Margaret Cho returns in her second comedy concert film, filmed before a live audience in Seattle. Getting away with saying just about anything -- opening with an outrageous anecdote about doing her part at Ground Zero -- Cho fearlessly reveals the funny side of a colonic irrigation, an encounter with a bossy S&M dominatrix and her search for her G-spot. "Brilliant, over-the-edge ... carries candid sexual humor into previously uncharted territory" -- New York Times. TVMA (AC, GL) CCAP/Stereo/Letterbox (2002) Color (95 mins)
June 19 2004 10:30PM; June 21 2004 01:00AM; June 27 2004 08:25PM
(((How could you NOT adore Miss Cho??? You'll be laughing till you pee yourself....lol.)))
SOLDIER'S GIRL
directed by Frank Pierson
Feature
Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival "Three outstanding performances" (San Francisco Chronicle) by Troy Garity, Lee Pace and Shawn Hatosy highlight this Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated drama, based on the true story of a young American Army private who was murdered for having a romantic relationship with a transgendered club performer. With sensitivity and passion, director Frank Pierson and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (PHILADELPHIA) tell a moving and tragic story of forbidden love against the background of the military's current "Don't ask don't Tell" policy. R (AC, AL, BN, GV) CCAP/Stereo (2003) Color (112 mins)
June 16 2004 09:00PM; June 18 2004 12:35AM; June 25 2004 09:35PM; June 28 2004 01:00AM
(((Again, very powerful. And to think - for you fans of the Real World, that "Danny's" military boyfriend "Paul" was on base - just two dorms over from this on the night it happened. Very scary.)))
SWIMMING
directed by Robert J. Siegel
Feature
It's the start of another Carolina summer, and it's becoming increasingly clear to Frankie Wheeler, a young local, that she wants more out of life than Myrtle Beach can offer her. She spends her days working in her family's restaurant and wastes her nights hanging out on the boardwalk with her best friend, Nicola, proprietor of a piercing shop and self-proclaimed trouble seeker. Frankie has always played sidekick to Nicola, so neither is prepared when two new arrivals, a young siren hired as a waitress, and a drifter selling tie-dyes out of the back of his van, court only Frankie. Nicola's ensuing jealousy sets in motion a series of betrayals driving a wedge into their friendship and forces Frankie to take a stand for herself. SWIMMING is an intimate look at friendship, love and breaking away, set amidst the backdrop of a bustling beach town. Loren King of The Boston Globe calls SWIMMING "a rarity among modern movies...bolstered by a luminous lead performance from Lauren Ambrose" ("Six Feet Under"). (2000) Color (90 mins)
June 02 2004 05:30AM; June 03 2004 05:00PM; June 09 2004 10:25AM; June 13 2004 01:00PM; June 13 2004 10:30PM; June 22 2004 11:00AM; June 25 2004 06:25PM
(((It's an ok film - good to see Lauren Ambrose in it. Her character's a little be in love with the "young siren"...lol.)))
THE FLUFFER
directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash West
Feature
Obsessive infatuation and the deceptive nature of sexual categories lie at the heart of Wash West and Richard Glatzer's comic drama about a young filmmaker (Michael Cunio) who dreams of creating the next CITIZEN KANE, yet finds employment in the world of gay adult cinema. Behind the cameras, Sean (Cunio) works as a "fluffer," responsible for ensuring that the leading man (Scott Gurney) is properly prepared for his explicit close-up. Sean is smitten, but the oblivious hunk is strictly "gay for pay," living a heterosexual life while off screen. TVMA (AC, AL, N, SC) CCAP/Stereo/Letterbox (2001) Unknown (94 mins)
June 14 2004 03:35AM; June 24 2004 11:30PM; June 26 2004 02:00AM
(((It won't win any Oscars...lol, but I like this little film. Maybe it was the lesbian character who says she gets off on gay porn - "I like dicks." hehe)))
WAYDOWNTOWN
directed by Gary Burns and Matthew Sinclair
Feature
In Gary Burns's wry satire of corporate life and modern urban living, four young office workers wager a month's salary in a competition to see who can endure the longest without ever setting foot in the outside world. Tom (Fabrizio Filippo), Sandra (Marya Delver), Randy (Tobias Godson) and Curt (Gordon Currie) have all lasted 24 days as human laboratory rats in their experiment, which has confined them to living within a mall-like modern office, shopping and apartment complex. However, the stresses of this daily existence - under the harsh glare of fluorescent lighting, exposed to mindless piped-in music, nourished by servings from food courts and working in cubicles - is starting to take its toll. Tom believes he has seen a caped superhero just out of the corner of his eye; Sandra is becoming convinced that she is being slowly poisoned by the recycled city air; Randy is giving animal names to all the people in the mall and Curt, better known as the office "slut," is having an attack of raging hormones. And they are not alone: Tom's cubicle mate Brad (Don McKellar), a twenty-year veteran of the corporate world, is starting to staple messages with inspirational mantras on his chest. waydowntown was named Best Canadian Film by the Toronto Film Critics and at the Toronto International Film Festival and was hailed as "a smart, sardonic satire" by the New York Times. R (AC, AL, MV) Stereo (2000) Color (87 mins)
June 03 2004 05:00AM; June 04 2004 02:00PM; June 19 2004 09:30AM; June 19 2004 07:30PM; June 23 2004 07:30PM; June 29 2004 11:30AM
((Ok, so it's not gay. But it does star Fabrizio Filippo - QAF's Ethan.)))
WIGSTOCK: THE MOVIE
directed by Barry Shils
Documentary
Held every year over the Labor Day weekend since 1984, Wigstock is New York's annual outdoor drag fest, a colorful congregation of sequined gowns, stiletto heels, industrial-strength mascara and very big hair. Barry Shils's documentary captures the uninhibited fun of the 1992 and 1993 festivals, and features performances from some of the most celebrated names ever to vamp a catwalk: RuPaul, Lypsinka, Mistress Formika, Lady Bunny and the Dueling Bankheads. "Good-natured, campy fun... a glitzy, lively, lovingly made show" --New York Times.R (AC, AL, N)) Stereo (1995) Color (82 mins)
June 08 2004 03:00AM; June 15 2004 11:15PM; June 28 2004 07:00PM
(((Funny as hell.)))
Here are the films I've not seen but want to watch!!!!
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AMERICAN FABULOUS
directed by Reno Dakota
Documentary
With his performance stage the backseat of a 1957 Cadillac as it rambles the back roads of Ohio, Jeffrey Strouth presents an unforgettable oral autobiography, part outrageous comedy, part American tragedy. Described by some critics as a trailer-trash gay Jack Kerouac, Strouth delivers a mesmerizing and uninhibited narrative about his abusive father, his friends, his encounters with the law and a life in which sex and drugs were constant companions. Director Reno Dakota captures a true American original, who died shortly after this film wrapped. TVMA (AC, GL) (1992) Color (103 mins)
June 07 2004 11:00PM; June 22 2004 03:55AM
BIG EDEN
directed by Thomas Bezucha
Feature
After his beloved grandfather suffers a stroke, New York artist Henry Hart (Arye Gross) returns to his childhood hometown in Montana's Big Sky country. Unexpectedly, Henry also encounters the reason he fled nearly 20 years ago: Dean (Tim DeKay). Now divorced with two young sons, Dean is still Henry's unrequited object of affection. However, in Thomas Bezucha's warm-hearted award winner, returning to live with the colorful folks of Big Eden may have been the smartest thing Henry ever did. PG13 (AC, AL) (2000) Unknown (118 mins)
June 03 2004 11:30AM; June 07 2004 08:00AM; June 11 2004 05:00AM; June 12 2004 01:30PM; June 15 2004 06:00AM; June 15 2004 06:00PM; June 29 2004 05:30AM; June 30 2004 12:30PM
BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, THE
directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feature
Emotional manipulation, claustrophobia and dependency, recurrent themes in the plays and films of Germany's Rainer Werner Fassbinder, are front and center in his early critical success about a wealthy, divorced fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) who falls for a working-class beauty (Hanna Schygulla). Enacted on one set (with props playing critically important supporting roles), this haunting chamber drama masterfully covers a range of universal emotional interactions, from infatuation, jealousy and silent longing to possession and coercion. TV14 (AC, AL) Subtitles (1971) Color (124 mins)
June 02 2004 03:00PM; June 05 2004 02:30AM; June 11 2004 02:30PM; June 24 2004 12:30PM; June 27 2004 01:00AM
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
directed by Harriet "Harry" Dodge and Silas Howard
Feature
Striding boldly into areas rarely visited by filmmakers, this striking first feature by Harriet "Harry" Dodge and Silas Howard - who collaborated on writing, direction and production - stars Howard as Shy, a drag king searching for meaning and love after the death of his terminally ill father. With vague notions of robbing a grocery store, Shy heads to the city and meets Valentine (Dodge), a vibrant, unstable spirit attempting to find her birth mother, and the two begin a friendship that tests and strengthens both of them. Winner of the Grand Jury Award at the LA Outfest and the Award for Excellence at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK was a labor of love for its cast and crew, which includes producer Steak House, performance artist Stanya Kahn, rock icon Joan Jett and cinematographer Ann T. Rossetti (GO FISH). "Raw-edged and not afraid of hard, ugly stuff... but with a poetic sharpness in there too, something to lift up trouble and let it rain down sweet" - Bay Guardian. TV14 (AC, AL, BN, V) (2001) Color (100 mins)
June 03 2004 01:30PM; June 08 2004 12:00PM; June 20 2004 05:45PM; June 23 2004 03:45PM
GARDEN
directed by Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz
Documentary
Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival In a run-down neighborhood of Tel Aviv known as "the Garden," gay hustlers and drug dealers ply their trade. Here, documentary filmmakers Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz spent a year following Nino, a 17-year-old illegal Palestinian, and his 18-year-old friend Dudo, an Israeli Arab. Despite their grim circumstances, Nino and Dudo survive on mutual friendship and dream of a future elsewhere. While showing a segment of Israeli life seldom seen on film, Garden also presents a frank consideration about the urge to find one's place in the world. TVMA (AC, GL, SC, V) (2003) Unknown (90 mins)
June 07 2004 09:00PM; June 10 2004 11:00PM; June 14 2004 11:00PM; June 29 2004 04:00AM
GASOLINE
directed by Monica Stambrini
Feature
Stella (Maya Sansa), a working-class car mechanic, and her bourgeois girlfriend Lenni (Regina Orioli) are the fugitive lovers at the center of Italian filmmaker Monica Stambrini's surreal debut feature. The couple's secret bliss ends when Lenni's domineering mother drops in, and -- with help from Stella -- accidentally drops dead. Suddenly, Stella and Lenni are on the run with a corpse in the trunk and three nasty thrill-seekers on their trail. What's more, poor Lenni can't escape hearing her mom's critical voice coming from the great beyond. TVMA (AC, AL, N, V) (2001) Color (85 mins)
June 03 2004 09:00PM; June 07 2004 04:05AM; June 26 2004 03:35AM
GO FISH
directed by Rose Troche
Feature
Appeared at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival A breakthrough when it was released in 1994, Rose Troche's spunky romance matter-of-factly focuses on the lives of a group of friends, who just happen to be lesbians. Max (co-writer Guinevere Turner), an energetic urban tomboy, and shy Ely (V.S. Brodie) are the unlikely opposites who awkwardly and endearingly attract in this entertaining and high-spirited romp, which won critical accolades for its naturalism, wit and innate charm. With this, her first feature, Troche won the Best Feature Film award at the Berlin Film Festival. R (AC, AL, N) CCAP/BW (1994) Unknown (83 mins)
June 05 2004 01:00AM; June 10 2004 03:35AM; June 24 2004 08:30PM
HERR SCHMIDT AND HERR FRIEDRICH
directed by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken
Documentary
More than a quarter-century ago, when Wilfried Friedrich and Kurt "Kuddel" Schmidt fell in love, there was one major problem: Kurt lived in West Berlin, while Wilfried lived in the East. Despite the presence of the Berlin Wall and the watchful eyes of the East German police, the pair's relationship only strengthened over the years as a result of a lengthy correspondence. Documentarians Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken relate this tragicomic love story and its eventual happy outcome, while also capturing a moving portrait of an aging gay couple. TVPG (AC) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (69 mins)
June 04 2004 07:05AM; June 04 2004 03:45PM; June 15 2004 05:00AM; June 16 2004 10:30AM; June 21 2004 09:00AM; June 21 2004 11:00PM
HIS SECRET LIFE
directed by Ferzan Ozpetek
Feature
After her husband Massimo dies in a street-crossing accident, Antonia (Margherita Buy) discovers that her supposedly perfect middle-class life was a facade. Massimo, it seems, had a secret lover. While investigating, Antonia uncovers even more surprises as she learns that Massimo's lover is many things that she isn't ... including male. In his intelligent and sensitive film, Ferzan Ozpetek (HAMAM: THE TURKISH BATH) brings together the contrasting worlds of Antonia and Michele (Stefano Accorsi) as they bridge the void left by their shared partner. R (AC, AL, MV, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (105 mins)
June 18 2004 08:00PM; June 29 2004 11:00PM
HUSH!
directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Feature
When assertive Asako (Reiko Kataoka) initially spies Naoya (Kazuya Takahashi) one rainy day in Tokyo, she knows she wants him to father her child. Naoya has "fatherly eyes" says Asako. Even though Naoya is gay, this is no impediment for determined Asako. How Asako, Naoya and Naoya's partner Katsuhiro (Seiichi Tanabe) redefine the idea of family in contemporary Japan is the theme of Ryosuke Hashiguchi's witty and profound domestic comedy, which also features an original score and songs by Bobby McFerrin. TV14 (AC, AL, MV, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (216 mins)
June 09 2004 09:00PM; June 17 2004 02:00PM; June 20 2004 12:00PM; June 25 2004 01:00PM; June 29 2004 05:00PM
LAWLESS HEART
directed by Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter
Feature
Wry, interlocking narratives follow the fateful desires of three British men (Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander and Douglas Henshall) in Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger's delightful and astutely observed character study. Following a funeral, a trio of men one gay, one married and one AWOL for the past eight years engage in a moment of unexpected emotional recklessness. Believable, well-conceived characters and innovative overlapping storytelling distinguish this award-winner that "captures some of the essential strangeness of life" (New York Times). R (AC, AL, N) CCAP/Stereo (2001) Color (100 mins)
June 04 2004 08:00PM; June 11 2004 01:15AM; June 17 2004 09:00PM; June 26 2004 12:00AM; June 30 2004 11:00PM
LONGTIME COMPANION
directed by Norman Rene
Feature
Appeared at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival Widely recognized as the first mainstream American film to dramatize the AIDS crisis, director Norman Rene and writer Craig Lucas's award-winner follows a group of middle-class gay men through the 1980s. From the first news reports of a "gay plague" in 1981 to grief at the loss of friends 10 years later, Longtime Companion gives human faces to the decade's grim statistics. Bruce Davison won accolades, including an Oscar nomination for his assured performance as the caregiver for his dying lover. "Intelligent, deeply moving" Washington Post. R (AC, AL, BN) CCAP (1990) Unknown (110 mins)
June 05 2004 09:00PM; June 09 2004 02:00PM; June 13 2004 05:45PM; June 18 2004 01:30PM; June 22 2004 07:05AM; June 22 2004 06:30PM; June 27 2004 05:00AM; June 28 2004 10:00AM
NO SECRET ANYMORE: THE TIMES OF DEL MARTIN AND PHYLLIS LYON
directed by Joan Biren
Documentary
Many chroniclers of gay history mark the birth of the modern American lesbian movement to the formation of the activist group the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955. Co-founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who have lived together for more than half a century -- and were the first couple married in San Francisco's historic ceremonies of February 2004 -- are profiled in this spirited, inspiring and often humorous documentary by Joan Biren. Comedian Kate Clinton narrates a story of two extraordinary women who became united in love and politics. TV14 (AC) (2003) Color (57 mins)
June 21 2004 10:00PM; June 24 2004 07:00AM; June 24 2004 05:00PM; June 26 2004 03:00PM; June 28 2004 01:00PM
OUR HOUSE: A VERY REAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KIDS OF GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS
directed by Meema Spadola
Documentary
Today, it is estimated that between 3 and 5 million children are being raised in homes run by same-sex couples. In Our House, documentary filmmaker Meema Spadola considers a different take on "family values" as she profiles five diverse families to reveal the realities of growing up with gay or lesbian parents. In addition to the challenges that confront all children, the youngsters in these five households also have to deal with their feelings about their parents' sexuality, and prejudice and reactions from friends, relatives and neighbors. TV14 (AC, AL) Stereo (2000) Color (57 mins)
June 21 2004 09:00PM; June 23 2004 05:30AM; June 24 2004 06:00PM; June 26 2004 04:00PM; June 28 2004 12:00PM
THE TASTY BUST REUNION
Documentary
On August 7, 1994, Melbourne, Australia police raided the Tasty, a gay and lesbian nightclub. Nearly all of the 463 clubbers -- including 130 women -- were strip-searched and forced to stand naked during a three-hour ordeal. Now recognized as Australia's Stonewall, the Tasty Raid solidified Down Under's gay community and resulted in a landmark ruling forcing the police to pay more than $4.5 million in damages. Filmmaker Stephen MacLean tells the inspiring story of a group of ordinary people who chose to fight back. TVMA (AC, AL, N, V) Stereo/Letterbox (2003) Color (52 mins)
June 14 2004 09:00PM; June 18 2004 04:10AM; June 21 2004 04:30AM; June 29 2004 03:00AM
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK
directed by Rob Epstein
Feature
Winner of the 1985 Oscar. for Best Documentary Feature, Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen's moving film recounts a pivotal moment in American history, the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was killed along with the city's liberal Mayor George Moscone. By following the parallel lives and careers of gay-activist Milk and his murderer, Dan White, a conservative former Supervisor who often sparred with Milk at City Council meetings, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK presents an unforgettable portrait of communities in conflict. TV14 (AC, AL, V) (1984) Color (88 mins)
June 05 2004 06:00PM; June 10 2004 06:30AM; June 10 2004 05:30PM; June 14 2004 12:40AM; June 23 2004 11:00AM; June 28 2004 03:05PM
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Documentary
Appeared at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival Devout Orthodox and Hasidic Jews who also happen to be gay are often torn by conflict. Passages in the Torah and 16th-century Jewish law cause many rabbis and families to reject the Orthodox gay men and lesbians in their midst. The choices are abstinence, counseling, adopting a heterosexual lifestyle - or abandoning one's religion. In his award-winning documentary, Sandi Simcha DuBowski profiles a group of contemporary Orthodox Jews who are striving to maintain their faith while also living honestly with their sexuality. TV14 (AC) (2001) Color (84 mins)
June 07 2004 06:30AM; June 07 2004 05:30PM; June 12 2004 12:00PM; June 18 2004 09:00AM; June 18 2004 10:00PM; June 29 2004 09:30PM
ZUS & ZO
directed by Paula van der Oest
Feature
It's a battle royal when three middle-aged sisters conspire to ruin the wedding of their gay brother in this Oscar-nominated Dutch comedy. It seems their late father's will left the family fortune - a picturesque beach resort in Portugal - to Nino (Jacob Derwig) on the condition that he weds. Now, as Nino's determined siblings (Monic Hendrickx, Anneke Blok and Sylvia Poorta) try to sabotage the nuptials, the family heads for domestic meltdown. Paula van der Oest serves up a liberated romp that redefines the very idea of family values. TVMA (AC, AL, N) Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles (2001) Color (101 mins)
June 08 2004 10:00PM; June 12 2004 11:35PM; June 20 2004 03:45AM; June 24 2004 04:00AM; June 30 2004 09:00PM
SHORTS OUT LOUD
Short
A program of lesbian and gay shorts including: D.E.B.S. Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival A quartet of plaid-skirted high-school girls scores big on a secret test which measures their potential for lying, cheating and killing. Angela Robinson's comic action short won citations at many festivals, including the Audience Award at the L.A. Outfest, and spawned a feature film a year later. "Wickedly funny" - Variety. (2003) BOBBYCRUSH Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker Cam Archer captures the heartbreaking melancholy of unrequited teenage desire in this dreamlike reverie. (2003) LITTLE BLACK BOOT Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Colette Burson presents a same-sex variation on the Cinderella story, set at a high-school prom. Featuring Jane Lynch, Dania Ramirez and Carmen Plumb. (2004) AFTERSCHOOL DELIGHT An older brother's closet becomes the setting for a moment of self-discovery for a 12-year-old girl and her best friend. Eve Bregman directs this short, which won an honorable mention at the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. (2003) STAG On the morning of his wedding day, Sammi (Nitin Chandra Ganatra) discovers that he must consider the unexpected implications of the previous night's drunken stag party. Ian Iqbal Rashid wrote and directed this touching British short. Stuart Laing costars. (2001) TVMA (AC, AL, MV, N) (2004) Color (58 mins)
June 20 2004 08:00PM; June 23 2004 01:05AM; June 27 2004 12:00AM
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Oh and these are great films:
ANGELS AND INSECTS
directed by Philip Haas
Feature
Appeared at the 1995 Sundance Film Fesival Based on the novella Morpho Eugenia by A. S. Byatt, this lush, vivid film by Philip Haas is a bug's-eye-view examination of the sins and secrets of an upper-class family in Victorian England. It stars Mark Rylance as Adamson, a shy naturalist who gratefully accepts the patronage of a wealthy amateur insect-collector after his life's work is destroyed in a shipwreck. Not long after arriving at his patron's country estate, he finds himself entranced by luminous eldest daughter Eugenia (Patsy Kensit) and intellectually challenged by Matty (Kristin Scott Thomas) a poor relative who lives in the house. However, his happiness fades as he begins to discover that all is not what it seems, and that this odd collection of people has some disturbing commonalities with the bugs he studies. Nominated for an Oscar. for costume design. R (AC, N) (1995) Color (117 mins)
June 03 2004 03:00AM; June 09 2004 11:30PM
(((Not gay, mind you - but it IS very shocking in one place - and features full frontal of a main male character WITH erection! hehe - I'm NOT Kidding!)))
THE LOVER
directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feature
Jean-Jacques Annaud (SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, THE BEAR) adapts Marguerite Duras's best-selling erotic novel about a secret love affair set in 1920s colonial Indochina. On a boat crossing the Mekong River, a well-dressed Chinese businessman (Tony Leung Ka Fai) catches sight of a teenage French schoolgirl (Jane March). Despite the difference in their ages and their opposing cultural backgrounds, the pair begins a series of covert rendezvous in a modest rented room, liaisons which Annaud and cinematographer Robert Fraisse record with sensual detail. R (AL, N, SC, V) Stereo (1992) Color (104 mins)
June 19 2004 03:00AM; June 23 2004 02:05AM; June 27 2004 03:05AM
(((One of my all time favorite movies - and if you've read my fic "Enough of Reason" - you'll recognize the car scene. How erotic can the touch of a finger be? This'll teach you.)))
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Sundance
P.S. I enjoyed Big Eden ... the townsfolk were the way we can only wish more people were ... you gotta love 'feel good' movies from time to time. - Margo
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I agree with Margo: You *must* see Big Eden. It's the happiest film ending ever.
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I did catch The Cockettes while channel-surfing a few months ago, and could not stop watching it. I'm glad I'll be able to go back and watch from the beginning.