When we last left the gay/lesbian/ trans/bi (oh my) film festival,
Rose Troche (director of Go Fish) had finally come
out of a five-year dry spell with her follow-up, Bedrooms
& Hallways, and grandmas were getting busy in Golden
Threads, a documentary about an older-lesbian social club.
This week we bring it on home.
All films are shown at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave.
Tickets for Journey to a Hate Free Millennium are
$15; all other films are $6.
FRIDAY, OCT. 15
7 PM * MY FEMME DIVINE
Director Karen Everett, who
will be on hand for the screening, is an ex-Mormon. And
like many ex-Mormons, Everett is gay, gay, gay. She borrows
a line from the Book of Mormon that says there needs to
be "opposition in all things," the same line that the church
uses to enforce its no-homos rule, and holds it up against
the butch-femme dynamic. Ever wonder what a femme top or
a butch bottom is? Well, Everett's film reveals these little
nuances with interviews from the butch and femme camps and
discussions about her own attractions. There's a great snippet
from a drag-king show, and you have to wonder if the film's
subject might have been served a bit better by focusing
on drag kings and the women who love them rather than on
the lengthy details of Everett's break-up with her femme
divine.
Preceded by Scent uVa Butch, a 35-minute short
that documents the lives of over-20 butches.
9 PM * IN THE FLESH
College student by day, street
hustler by night--Oliver receives quite the liberal education
in this 105-minute film. Things get hairy when he meets
up with undercover vice cop Philip and the two lovebirds
get shoved through the crime-and-punishment meat grinder.
SATURDAY, OCT. 16
3 PM * JOURNEY TO A HATE FREE MILLENNIUM
This
documentary examines the history of homosexual hate crimes
and focuses on several incidents that have rallied our nation
to spread the love. Interviewees include Matthew Shepard's
mother, Judy, who will also attend the screening, and students
and faculty of Columbine High School. John Dye, star of
the television show Touched by an Angel, will be
a part of a panel discussion with Shepard and the filmmakers
after the screening. Bring your hankie.
6 PM * BOYS IN SHORTS
This week the boys put on their
daisy dukes and dance around the shorties. One film of note:
Sunday Afternoon hysterically portrays a break-up,
replacing the actual words with a description of their true
meaning. Example: "Slight putdown, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
Mock bravado." The actors use the appropriate tones for
the replacement words, and it makes you wish there were
one day a month when everyone actually spoke like this.
Wild declaration, cocky presumption.
8 PM * SHOW ME LOVE
Or My So-Called Budding Swedish
Lesbian Life. Two teenage girls bored in the 'burbs
decide to kiss. This was Sweden's entry for this year's
Academy Awards and went head to head with Titanic
as the No. 1 box-office hit in Vanillaville.
10 PM * THE TRIO
A gay father and his hetero daughter
go for the same guy. Those crazy Germans!
SUNDAY, OCT. 17
3 PM * LOVE MAKES A FAMILY
Three short films about
gay and lesbian families.
5 PM * RIGHTEOUS BABES
Another collection of shorts,
this one focuses on sisters doing it for themselves. Pratibha
Parmar's film about female rock musicians, Righteous
Babes, highlights interviews with all the feminist lynchpins
(you've got Andrea Dworkin and Camille Paglia in
the same film!) and explores the rising power of women in
rock. Sinead O'Connor and Ani DiFranco drop some serious
science, but there was just too much Spice Girls-bashing
for this girl-power fan (God, why don't you people get it?).
7 PM * 24 NIGHTS
If you like soap operas, you might
like this. A twentysomething lad asks Santa to bring him
the man of his dreams for Christmas. Much moping, scoping
and hoping ensues with a dash of family dysfunction to spice
it all up. Not for the serious, or picky, cinephile.
9 PM * SECRET SCREENING
You could try bribing me with cocktails or even popcorn
to find out the name of the secret feature, but you'd still
be shit out of luck. We tried the same tactics and failed
miserably. Who knows what the surprise flick will be, though
the folks at Sensory Perceptions say it's a biggie.
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Willamette Week | originally
published October 13,
1999
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