Sexion Q 2-3
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 22, 2002 Q1 CYMK COVER STORY Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Highlights By Mary Damiano Treading Water, The Fourth Annual Miami Gay & Thursday, May 2, 7pm Lesbian Film Festival is back, with lots of Casey is in exile from her well-to-do film, premieres, panels and, of course, parties. Catholic family, living just across the bay The festival runs from April 26-May 5, and (but worlds apart) from their pristine will showcase feature films, documentaries, waterfront home, in a tiny house boat that shorts, presentations and panels that will she shares with her girlfriend Alex. But when entertain, inform and excite the expected Christmas rolls around, familial duty calls, audience of 15,000. and even the black sheep must make an All films will be shown at the Colony appearance. Director Lauren Himmel will Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami, except attend the screening. A South Florida the opening and closing night films. premiere. Tickets to the film and the post- Here are some highlights of this year’s screening Reel Women reception are $20. film offerings: The Cockettes Tuesday, April 30 7pm An east coast premiere, this film captures The Cockettes, the legendary drag- musical theater phenomenon, and the rarified air of the free-love, acid-dropping, gender- Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House Circuit Saturday April 27, 2:30pm bending hippie capital of San Francisco they inhabited in the late 1960s. Features Sylvester Friday, May 3, 9:30pm If Dorothy and Blanche on The Golden Sugar Sweet Dirk Shafer’s hallucinatory new film finds Girls had ever (finally) come out, they’d Saturday, April 27, 9:30pm and Divine, who both appear in the film, along with other notable witnesses to history, such the soul of the circuit and seeks redemption be Ruthie and Connie, the real-life same- Naomi makes lesbian porn. But it’s not in the soul of everyone who dances, drugs sex couple who are the focus of this the over-the-top-dumb-dialogue kind of as John Waters and Holly Woodlawn. Directors Bill Weber & David Weissman will and screws their way across the screen. The delightful new documentary. While these lesbian porn that guys get off on, so her film revolves around John, a hunky but retired but still feisty Florida snowbirds producers demand a re-shoot. This is a campy attend. This is the MGLFF Centerpiece film. Tickets are $20 for the film; $30 includes closeted small-town cop, who moves to Los have found a way to stay together for more and sex-filled rambunctious trip through Angeles and cannot escape the allure of the than 40 years, there was a time when they Japanese urban dyke culture, filled with wacky screening and Centerpiece party at the Delano Hotel. scene. Director Dirk Shafer, and producers couldn’t even utter the word “lesbian” characters, that’s also a romantic movie, as Steven Wolfe and Michael Roth, will attend aloud. Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz will well. In Japanese with English subtitles. This the screening. A South Florida premiere. attend the screening to discuss the film, is a North American premiere, and director Tickets to the film and the post-screening and their lives, with the audience. United Desiree Lim will attend the screening. The party are $25 States. East Coast premiere. Sweet Thing party follows; tickets for the film and the party are $25. The Journey to Kafiristan Saturday, May 4, 7pm dance culture in the mix Bringing to mind the dreamy erotic Saturday, April 28, 11:30pm landscapes of The English Patient and The World premiere saluting the real heroes Sheltering Sky, this film is set in 1939 and a of the red-hot South Beach club scene, the Europe bracing for war. In an old Ford, two DJs and drag divas who can make a crowd of women embark on a road trip that will take thousands explode with propulsive rhythmic Love/Juice them to Afghanistan. They grow ever closer, energy. The film features an in-depth behind- Tuesday, April 30, 9pm exploring exotic cultures and their own the-scenes tour of the music, the parties and Love/Juice examines the world of Kyoko, shifting feelings for one another, in this Miami’s very own demimonde. With DJs a straight girl who is an uninhibited free-spirit, erotically-charged and breathtakingly Victor Calderone, David Knapp and Danny and her cool-headed, protective pal Chinatsu, photographed film. In German with English Tenaglia, and drag icons Connie Casserole, a budding lesbian exploring her sexual subtitles. Co-director Fosco Dubini will Power Infinity and Kitty Meow. Director identity. The intense connection between attend the screening. East Coast Premiere. Michelle Lindenberger will attend the these two is playfully erotic, laugh-out-loud screening. funny, exhilaratingly free, and achingly familiar. A Florida premiere, in Japanese with English subtitles. I Love You Baby Food of Love Bette Midler: Dirty Girl in a Bathhouse Monday, April 29, 9:30pm Wednesday, May 1, 9pm Guardian of the Frontier Saturday, April 28, 4:30pm The sparks fly, literally, in this provocative A comedy of manners about Paul, an Sunday, May 5, 5pm This year’s clips-talk, sort of like The new comedy starring Belle Epoque’s Jorge aspiring musician on the edge of adulthood Described as a female Deliverance, three Celluloid Closet, only presented live, Sanz as Marcos, a country boy who comes to who’s smitten with his idol, Richard college friends embark on an innocent kayak pays homage to the Divine Miss M. and Madrid to find his fortune. Instead, he finds Kennington, a handsome concert pianist trip that starts out as a wilderness adventure also critically examines why gay and Daniel, played by Santiago Magill), a struggling who’s pushing 40. Based on the novel The but becomes an unsettling tale of sexual Jewish audiences particularly perceive her actor with a penchant for Boy George and an Page Turner by the award-winning novelist awakening, sunbathing in the nude and as a celebrity icon. idealistic approach to relationships. But fate David Leavitt, this film features twists of a flaunting the dangers that await in the Host Andrew Ingall leads the audience intervenes when Marcos gets a blow to the plot that includes a trip to Barcelona, a steamy unknown countryside. As two of the women through the highways and byways of head from falling disco ball and decides he is gay affair, a deceived mother and a grow sexually more intimate in a flirtatious Bette’s early career, using vintage footage really straight. suspicious lover. Director Ventura Pons will erotic dance, one embraces the darker side from 1971 to 1982 to illustrate her special A North American premiere, in Spanish attend the screening. U.S. premiere, from of her (hetero)sexuality. A North American brand of camp. with English subtitles. Germany and Spain. Premiere. Q2 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 22, 2002 CYMK SixFeetUnderMusic.com Above Ground An Exclusive Express Interview with Six Feet Under Music Supervisors Thomas Golubic and Gary Calamar By Ian Drew began working together), have defined the The hit HBO series Six Feet Under has show with a cutting mix of musical genres all broken down boundaries in many ways. blended into one unusual sonic concept. The show takes a surreal-noir look at the Their wild mix of everything from PJ Fishers, a dysfunctional family who own and Harvey to Peggy Lee has recently been operate a funeral home in Los Angeles. The released as a soundtrack album, and the pair quirky mix of characters and in-depth look at spoke with The Express about cutting across their personal struggles have made it one of definitions to create the sound behind one of the most acclaimed shows on television, even television’s biggest hits. earning it a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama last year. Ian Drew: What was your initial idea in The show features what is possibly the creating the sound of Six Feet Under? first major gay character on television whose Thomas Golubic: Our big goal was to sexuality doesn’t define who he is, but is rather create a cohesive soundtrack to bring people just a part of who he is, much like real life. on a journey through Six Feet Under in a In step with such invention is the show’s parallel way. The show doesn’t fit into genres, eclectic musical narraration, as assembled by and neither does the music. We wanted it to music supervisors Thomas Golubic and Gary show that music is music, and genre Calamar. breakdowns are arbitrary. All music has The duo, who still host programs at inspiring and beautiful elements that are same. progressive Los Angeles public radio station ID: Where did you get the idea to use KCRW/89.9 FM (where they originally met and such variant styles in such a cohesive way? Thomas Golubic Gary Calamar: A lot of it ties back to our of each character’s oddities. The show experience at KCRW in that it is very eclectic constantly presents new challenges to and adventurous, but it is also music that reinterpret each character in the context of the needs exposure. Charlie Parker once said that world they are in. music is music, and defining it takes it away ID: How did you decide which songs to from its natural beauty. So we took that idea put on the soundtrack album? and put into the context of a real journey. It is GC: We wanted to use songs that best like life, and the life of this family, in that it is reflected the show, and songs that are under hard to define because it is so indefinable.