When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own? A comedy/drama with James Roday, Danny […]
For March’s 2nd Thursdays we present a special night for fans of the German New Wave: the 4K restoration of Fox and His Friends. Brilliant, provocative and prolific, director Rainer W. Fassbinder made 33 films before his death at 36. Fox and His Friends (along with Ali: Fears Eats the Soul and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) is […]
HURRICANE BIANCA New York substitute science teacher/stand-up comic Richard Martinez – who isn’t even remotely effective at either – finally lands a full-time position in Texas through the Teaching Ambassador Program, but his stint falls short when it’s discovered he’s gay. With only one friendly local behind him, Richard returns to the school as sassy Bianca Del Rio, an outspoken […]
Esteros (Estuaries) Matias and Jeronimo have known each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening. Matias’s father breaks up their relationship by accepting a job very far away. The family’s contempt against homosexuality brings Matias to deny his friend and himself. More than ten […]
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is the new film by Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,) and the subject is a direct hit on the controversial director’s sweet spot. Russian cultural icon Sergei Eisenstein is revered for his innovative, political silent films like Potemkin and October: Ten Days That Shook the World – but not so much […]
Co sponsored by Out Film CT and The Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective. PARIS 05:59: Théo & Hugo (THEO AND HUGO DANS LE MÊME BATEAU) This month’s First Thursday film comes from the City of Light, where a couple falls in love at first sight at a club, then spend the night in Paris – riding bikes on cobblestone […]
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story Thursday, April 14 7:30pm Chuck Holmes might have been the most influential gay filmmaker in our history, his work viewed by millions of gay men at a time when most representation of gay life was either homophobic or relegated the art house. He dined with Gorbachev and Gore, threw parties at Calvin Klein’s and […]
Cruising is a 1980 American psychological thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name, by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a serial killer targeting gay men, in particular those associated with the leather scene. Directed by William Friedkin, 102 min, USA Trailer:
(118 min, US, 2015) Directed by Todd Haynes. Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Carrie Brownstein. While many of Patricia Highsmith’s books from Strangers on a Train to The Talented Mr. Ripley have a gay subtext, only one (published under a nom de plume in 1952) […]
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