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Outfest Wednesdays screens twice a month at the historic Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Boulevard) in Hollywood in collaboration with the American Cinematheque. |
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SCREENINGS: [MAY-JUNE] |
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Wednesday May 10, 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre @ the Egyptian |
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TOTALLY F***ED UP
DIR: Gregg Araki, 1993, video, USA, 78 min.
The first installment of Araki’s Teen Apocolypse Trilogy (along with DOOM GENERATION and NOWHERE) begins with a video confessional by the main character who wants to “show things the way they really are” for a group of gay, bored and disenfranchised L.A. kids facing a hostile sociocultural climate – AIDS epidemic, rampant homophobia and displacement within the mainstream gay community.
SCREENING HOSTED BY: Alonso Duralde, arts and entertainment editor of the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate and author of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books, November 2005).
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Wednesday May 24, 7:30pm, Rigler Theatre @ the Egyptian |
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PHAEDRA
Dir. Jules Dassin, 1962, 35mm, Greece/USA 115 min.
After the monster success of PSYCHO, Tony Perkins could write his own ticket in Hollywood – so he left for Europe to work with a more “intellectual” crowd! Unfortunately, brains and celluloid don’t always mix, as evidenced in PHAEDRA, a campy re-telling of the Greek myth about a princess who falls in lust with her stepson. Tigress Melina Mercouri chews up the scenery in the title role – and chews up Perkins in a nude scene that was scandalous at the time.
SCREENING HOSTED BY: Charles Winecoff, author of Anthony Perkins: Split Image (Alyson Books, 2006) and senior writer on the E! True Hollywood Story. A Q/A and book signing will follow the screening.
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Wednesday June 7, 7:30pm, Rigler Theatre @ the Egyptian |
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THAT MAN: PETER BERLIN
Dir. Jim Tushinski, 2005, video, USA, 80 min.
With his trademark Dutchboy haircut, Tom of Finland physique and over-the-top-skin-tight fashion, Peter Berlin became the poster boy for hedonistic gay male sex iconography in the sexually liberated 1970’s. Director Jim Tushinski spent 18 months with Berlin, tracing his life over the past 40 years with interviews, astonishing archival footage and photos awash in eroticism, intrigue and insight that paints a touching portrait of the elusive subject.
IN PERSON: Director Jim Tushinski
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Tom of Finland Foundation
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Wednesday June 28, 7:30pm, Rigler Theatre @ the Egyptian |
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Sneak Preview Screening
STRANGERS WITH CANDY
Dir. Paul Dinello, 2005, 35mm, USA, 97 mins.
STRANGERS WITH CANDY is a daring leap…backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the story of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 46-year old one time “loser, boozer and user” who returns to high school to start her life over and right her 32-years of debaucherous wrongs – only to find that the cool kids, teen adolescence and the State Science Fair prove to be the more dangerous terrain than her former life. Also starring Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello.
PRINT COURTESY OF: THINKFILM
POST-SCREENING RECEPTION HOSTED BY: ABSOLUT
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