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7:00pm Dir: Franco Zeffirelli, SCR: Alessio Vlad, 2002, France, 35mm, 108 min. The vision of renowned opera and film master Franco Zeffirelli (ROMEO AND JULIET, TEA WITH MUSSOLINI), the powerful and touching performances of Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons, and the unsurpassed singing voice of opera diva Maria Callas make this a breathtaking experience for lovers of opera and film. In this fictional look at the final days of Callas, Larry Kelly, her gay impresario/friend, reenters her life and convinces her to make a comeback of sorts. No longer able to sing, she agrees to lip-synch her old recording of Carmen to a new film version of the opera. Despite her belief that lipsynching would be cheating her fans, the idea of doing Carmen, which she recorded but never performed on stage, offers Callas a final attempt to relive her glorious past. |
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Monday, November 8 |
9:30pm Dir: David Moreton, SCR: Dennis Hensley & David Moreton, 2003, Argentina/USA, 35mm, 101 min. Graphic novelist Dean (Todd Sutcliffe) has a great life, a best-seller and a stunning boyfriend named Pablo (Antonio Sabato, Jr). His foul-mouthed editor (the ever outrageous Jennifer Coolidge) demands greatness from his follow-up, but when Pablo goes out one night for cigarettes and never returns, Dean suffers from a lonely and hopeless case of writer’s block. Desperate to reclaim Pablo’s love and salvage his inspiration, Dean heads to Argentina, where he encounters Pablo’s heartless mother (film diva Sonia Braga) intent on preserving a traditional life for her son. Sexy siblings Sofia and Marcos further complicate Dean’s paranoiac odyssey through a world of menace and suspicion. Based on the novel by James Robert Baker, co-author Dennis Hensley and writer/director David Moreton (EDGE OF SEVENTEEN) have crafted a sultry black comedy about the lengths to which one man will go to get his groove back. |
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7:00pm This dazzling, impressive collection of girls’ shorts is about love and longing. From first crushes to a flag football comedy, these well-executed, highly entertaining tales of lesbian life are sure to amuse and delight. A WOMAN REPORTED... OLIVE SAINT HENRY BINGE BABES AT THE TRUCKSTOP SQUEEZE PLAY DRIVE ME CRAZY |
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9:30pm Featuring some of the best shorts from Outfest 2004, this wildly entertaining collection celebrates the fabulous complexities of gay men’s lives. WITH WHAT SHALL I WASH IT? A FERRET CALLED MICKEY ALL OVER BRAZIL WELCOME TO LIFE BOBBYCRUSH FAR WEST |
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7:00pm Dir: Rob Marshall, SCR: Bill Condon, 2002, USA, 35mm, 113 min. You had it coming. Join us for a massive, interactive love-in for the most acclaimed movie musical of our time, Oscar’s reigning Miss Best Picture, CHICAGO. Rob Marshall’s astoundingly kinetic directorial debut features career-altering star turns from Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere and Queen Latifah (winner of the Outfest Screen Idol Award for this performance). A wry Prohibition-era tale of gun-wielding chorus girls and the tabloid culture that makes them momentary celebrities, CHICAGO chronicles a time and place somewhat less cynical than our own—but with considerably better music. And with every song lyric projected onscreen, you’ll give us the old razzle dazzle ‘til Harvey Weinstein wonders what all the noise in the hills is about. |
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Wednesday, November 10 |
9:30pm Dir/Scr: Ekachai Uekrongtham, 2003, Thailand, 35mm, Subtitled, 116 min. Directed with consummate grace, BEAUTIFUL BOXER recounts the epic true saga of Nong Toom, one of the most celebrated kick boxers in Thai history. Nong Toom ended his career the day he checked into a hospital to have his body surgically transformed into the woman he always knew he was. In the interim, he became a cult hero as he increasingly embraced his feminine side. The more mascara he put on, the fiercer he would fight, defeating scores of opponents and crushing long-held notions of masculinity along the way. BEAUTIFUL BOXER is a highly-polished, heartwrenching film that seamlessly reveals the specific humanity of one transgendered soul, and in so doing, opens our hearts and minds to what it means to be man, to be woman, to be human. |
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7:00pm Dir/Scr: Rodney Evans, 2004, USA, video, 90 min. Winner of three Outfest 2004 awards: Grand Jury Awards for Outstanding American Narrative Feature and Outstanding Actor (Roger Robinson), and Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Feature. Using the powerful legacy of the Harlem Renaissance as its inspiration, BROTHER TO BROTHER is a stirring and captivating contemporary tale about a young, gay Black artist struggling to find his place in the world. Perry Williams is a talented painter attending school and working in New York City. One afternoon, while listening to his friend Marcus perform a new poem, an old man approaches and recites a verse of his own. Perry recognizes the man as forgotten Harlem Renaissance poet Bruce Nugent and befriends him. They visit the now-dilapidated house where Bruce lived in the 1930s with Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston. Through Bruce’s vivid memories, Perry is transported to a time of creative integrity, radical discourse, unabashed gay sex and great pride. Perry begins to recognize that this era is part of his personal history and is empowered with a stronger sense of identity and purpose. |
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Thursday, November 11 |
9:30pm Dir/Scr: Marco Filiberti, 2002, Italy, 35mm, Subtitled, 105 Min. Director/writer Marco Filiberti plays Ricky Kandinsky, a well-known Italian gay porn star. Attending the funeral of his affluent father, Ricky rekindles a relationship with his estranged brother Federico who knows nothing of his porn life. But when straight, uptight Federico learns the truth (and even visits Marco at work!), they only become closer and even unite to help Ricky adopt an orphaned child. A dazzling and provocative feature debut, ADORED: DIARY OF A MALE PORN STAR unapologetically celebrates the joy of sex, the glories of Italian men and the diversity of family. |
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