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OutSmart Guide to Houston Gay&Lesbian
FilmFestival 4
• All dates and times are subject
to change, so please call venue to confirm.
••••• Angelika
Film Center
• Queer as Folk and Queer as
Folk 2
June 2–8 (times tba)
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
This provocative series from BBC TV follows the lives
of three gay men living it large in Manchester’s
gay village.
Tickets: $6.75 ($4.50 discount shows,
seniors, and children )
Location: 510 Texas Ave.
Info: 713/225-5232
••••• Aurora
Picture Show
• School’s Out: Gay &
Lesbian Teen Portraits
Tues., May 30, 8 p.m. (75 min.)
A program of short films looking at teenagers coming
to terms with their sexuality. Features include Boy
Next Door; Family; I Know Who I Am...Do You?; and Shari
Shapiro’s Slumber Party.
Tickets: $5
Location: 800 Aurora St. (between N. Main & Cornell
in the Heights)
Info: 713/868-2101 or www. aurorapictureshow.org
••••• DiverseWorks
• The Wrong Body
Wed., May 31, 7 p.m. (105 min.)
An intelligent and often humorous account of a young
person’s struggle of being a man in a woman’s
body. Followed by a discussion led by Rice gender studies
professor Lynne Huffer.
• Forbidden Love in the Twilight
World of the Third Sex
Fri., June 2, 8 p.m. (98 min.)
Examines some of the many faces of discrimination that
are rampant within the larger society and within the
homosexual community. Features Shame No More; Which
Is Scary; Fruit Machine; and A Love Story, which is
a documentary based on the story of Aimee & Jaguar
(two lesbians in Nazi Germany, one a Jew, the other
a Nazi).
• Eating in Bed Is Good
Fri., June 2, 10 p.m. (87 min.)
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
Exploring love, lust, Lisa, and the inner you, this
selection of video shorts focuses on lesbians. Featured
shorts include: B D Women; Lisa, Lisa; I’m Starving;
Bed; Below the Belt; Sex Fish; Women in Black.
Tickets: $6 ($5 members)
Location: 1117 East Frwy (off N. Main at Naylor)
Info: For reservations 24 hours in advance for any screening,
713/335-3445
••••• Landmark’s
Greenway Theatre
• Beefcake
Fri., May 26–June 2, times tba
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
Behind the gleaming, well-oiled muscles and fitness
advice of the 1950s physique magazines was a secret
world of swinging cats, daring hopheads, reckless love
affairs, and repressed sensuality. This is the funny
and provocative true tale of the rise and fall of physique
photographer Bob Mizer. Beefcake is directed by Thom
Fitzgerald, who gave us the beautiful The Hanging Garden,
his debut feature. As themselves: Joe D’Allesandro,
Jack LaLanne, Russ Warner, Dave Martin, Jim Lassiter,
Joe Lietel, and Valentine Hooven. Be warned (or be advised):
nudity.
Tickets: $6.75 ($4.75 for discount shows,
seniors, and children)
Location: 5 Greenway Plaza
Info: 713/626-0402
••••• Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston
• Women of Vision
Sat. & Mon., May 27 & 29, 3 p.m. (80 min.)
This documentary explores a rich but under-represented
component of American art and politics. Each half-hour
segment is composed of six portraits of diverse women
exploring ideas within feminist media. Special appearance
by director Alexandra Juhasz on May 27.
• Those Who Love Me Can Take
the Train
Sat.–Mon., May 27–29, 5 p.m. (122 min.) (subtitled)
A vibrant, emotionally charged peek into the lives of
a group of friends and lovers who bicker and romance
their way to the funeral of an old friend.
• Cheryl Dunyé Short
Films
Sat., May 27, 7:30 p.m. (65 min.)
Filmmaker Cheryl Dunyé presents the following
selection of her short films: Janine; She Don’t
Fade; An Untitled Portrait; The Potluck and the Passion;
and Greetings From Africa.
• The Watermelon Woman
Sat., May 27, 9 p.m. (90 min.)
Cheryl Dunyé’s debut feature follows Cheryl,
played by herself, as she struggles to make a video
documentary about a beautiful 1930s film actress popularly
known as “the watermelon woman.” A cult classic.
• Chocolate Babies
Sun. & Mon., May 28 & 29, 7:30 p.m. (83 min.)
An underground band of HIV-positive queer urban activists
of color stage political actions against New York politicians
who are suspected of maintaining secret lists of HIV-positive
individuals. A roller-coaster ride with engaging characters
and outrageous performances. Preceding are two short
films, A Kiss in the Snow (22 min.) and Your Kiss (4
min.).
Tickets: $5 ($4 for museum members,
seniors, students)
Location: 1001 Bissonnet (enter thru Main St. doors)
Info: 713/639-7515
••••• Rice
University Media Center
• Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis
@ 100
Thurs., June 1, 6 p.m. (60 min.)
Inspiring documentary about Ruth Ellis, the oldest known
“out” lesbian. Winner of the audience award
for best documentary at both the San Francisco and Los
Angeles gay and lesbian film festivals.
• Outtakes
Thurs., June 1, 7:30 p.m. (72 min.)
A charming romantic comedy about the growing attraction
between a lesbian “Casanova” director and
her “straight” assistant director.
• The Hunger
Thurs., June 1, 9:30 p.m. (98 min.)
This vampire classic with delightfully heavy lesbian
undertones stars Catherine Deneuve as an ageless undead
who sets her fangs on the sensuous Susan Sarandon!
• Rice & Potatoes
Fri., June 2, 6 p.m. (58 min.)
Warmhearted documentary about Asian men and the Caucasians
who love them.
• Bedrooms and Hallways
Fri., June 2, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., June 4, 9 p.m. (96
min.)
Director Rose Troche (Go Fish) returns with this triumphantly
comic British romp celebrating the vices and virtues
of gay dating. Stars Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting) and
Hugo Weaving (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).
• Gendernauts
Fri., June 2, 9:30 p.m. (86 min.)
Controversial German director Monica Truet’s (Seduction:
The Cruel Woman) fascinating and sensitive portrait
of female-to-male transsexuals living out what the film
refers to as “gender elimination phenomena.”
Features Texas Tomboy and Annie Sprinkle.
• Gay Youth Symposium
Sat., June 3, 3:30 p.m. (Free Admission)
This symposium underwritten by PFLAG will include a
special screening of the documentary Surviving Friendly
Fire, an account of the controversial play Friendly
Fire, in which 10 homeless gay and lesbian teens performed
each other’s life stories.
• The Man Who Drove With Mandela
Sat., June 3, 5:30 p.m. (82 min.)
Greta Schiller’s (Paris Was a Woman) moving account
of Cecil Williams, a gay British-born theater director
in South Africa who played an instrumental role in the
anti-apartheid movement.
• Lola and Billy the Kid (Lola
und Bilidikid)
Sat., June 3, 7:30 p.m. (94 min.) (German and Turkish
with English subtitles)
The controversial German film about the complex relationship
between three Turkish immigrant brothers torn apart
by a dark secret.
• Sitcom
Sat., June 3, 9:30 p.m. (85 min.) (French with English
subtitles)
Enfant terrible François Ozon (Summer Dress)
returns with this Buñuelian tale of a French
bourgeois family and the lab rat that seduces them into
living out their most repressed desires.
• Myra Breckinridge
Sat., June 3, 11:30 p.m. (94 min.)
Based on Gore Vidal’s trashy novel, this even trashier
interpretation features an all-star cast that includes
Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, Tom Selleck, John Huston,
Rex Reed, and Mae West. Preceding are the short films
Heart On by Heyd Fontenot and Tumbleweed Town by Samara
Halperin.
• Rice Media Center Short Film
Showcase
Sun., June 4, 4 p.m. (2 hrs. 27 min.)
Program includes: The Trey Billings Show directed by
David Briggs; Battle for the Tiara directed by Charley
Lang; A Thousand Miles directed by Sharon Ferranti;
The Olive Tree directed by George Camarda; The First
Day of the Beginning of the End of the World directed
by Jenni Stark. Directors Sharon Ferranti and Jenni
Stark will be in attendance.
• The Night Larry Kramer Kissed
Me
Sun., June 4, 7 p.m. (90 min.)
Performer David Drake’s hugely popular one-man
stage play is brought to the screen by director Tim
Kirkman (Dear Jesse).
Tickets: $5 ($4 students, seniors, and
SWAMP members)
Location: Rice campus at entrance #8 (University Blvd.
@ Stockton)
Info: 713/348-4853 or www.ruf.rice.edu/~cinema
• Houston Gay&Lesbian FilmFestival 4 Website:
www.hglff.org
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