1998
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Darin yearns for Matt's one-night stand lifestyle and ability to leave a date because she reads John Grisham novels. Matt moves from woman to woman and thinks Darin's marriage and stability are a precious commodity. And then there's Kevin. Poor Kevin. A unique case altogether: someone who would pay $20,000 no, make that $50,000 to sleep with the jeans ad model from the bus stop poster. Each is at an impasse in life. But Darin thinks he's found the answer to his ''problem'' from a job offer in Berlin.
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Tolstoy once wrote that all unhappy families are different in their own way. He could also have said this about love affairs. Each one is unique. This is the story of a long love affair between two poets, she German-Jewish, he a Protestant from a bourgeois family. Their lives repeatedly intersect from the early years of the 20th century until the Second World War. It was difficult to be an artist of any kind in the claustrophobic Germany of those years, but particularly for a poet leading a very Bohemian life style with various lovers and spouses.
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Poor Charlie's inner gay self has ''escaped.'' Problem? He has mere hours to decide whether or not to stay in the closet and must choose in front of his landlord and the 911 operator.
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Cinequest proudly presents Neptune's Rocking Horse as our Out Fest at Cinequest event. Five strangers are united when a drag queen is arrested one morning in New York City. Each walks away with a singular perspective. The arrest, which most might quickly forget, haunts these tragic figures and profoundly changes their lives. As the day progresses, they invite the drag queen into their psyche and take a cold hard look at who they are.
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Do you believe in UFOs? Extraterrestrials? If so, this film is for you! Rachel, NV, population 100, is about 110 miles northeast of Las Vegas next to ''Area 51.'' Over the decades, folklore has it that this base is involved in UFOs and extraterrestrials. The more prosaic story is that this facility is used to test top secret advanced aircraft. Interviews with the locals are funny and fascinating for what they tell you about human nature, terrestrial rather than alien. --Ed Soohoo
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To tell you the truth, I never would have been born if it wasn't for a mob of Asian haters.'' With these words and with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop, a smiling Renee Tajima-Pena introduces My America (... or Honk if You Love Buddha). My America is part road movie, part memoir: filmmaker and narrator Tajima-Pena takes to the highway to explore how individuals of Asian descent establish identities in the U.S.
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Director Jon Carnoy may have grown up in Palo Alto, but he sure knows Brooklyn in the O-50s: the turf of Mafia Don Joey ''The Heart'' Aorta. When Joey's key advisor meets with a tragic death, opportunity knocks for a devoted lackey named George. To buy the Don's favor, George gets him a date with Glorice, a tall, attractive prostitute with incredible oral skills. The gambit works as Don Joey falls head over heels for the tough and ballsy Glorice. All is rosy until George discovers that Glorice is not quite the woman he thought.
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Some of the best films which have illuminated American life have been by foreign directors who often see beyond the standard Hollywood cliches. Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger who won the director's Oscar for it, has become one of those movie milestones which are reference points for other film makers because it is impossible to forget. It received an X rating in 1969 for its frank portrayal of prostitution and homosexuality but which today seems relatively tame. The very popular musical theme of the title adds to the impact.
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The expressionless Men in Black, who monitor the presence of the roughly fifteen hundred thousand landed aliens on Earth, are onto the source of real news: supermarket tabloids. Scanning one screaming headline, "Aliens Stole My Husband's Skin," Man in Black "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) calls the tabs "the best damn investigative reporting on the planet," although he grants that the New York Times gets lucky sometimes. The talents behind Men in Black are onto something, too--lovely, laser-keen wit that comes at warp speed with modesty and effortless cool.