1998
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Castle is Doug Ing's look at the city. Colors dance on buildings and streets as the city vibrates with life.
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Here is one of those boy-meets-boy, boy-loses-boy, boyfriend-gets gay-bashed, boy-finds-love-and-his-true-self stories I want to see on TV, but my cable operator doesn't offer QTV... Suffice to say that Defying Gravity is not your typical love story... it's better. Poor Griff, studly frat boy that everyone wants to be friends with, he's ''the ultimate boy next door,'' and has a great friend with his fraternity brother Todd. Griff also has a big secret: Pete. Griff and Pete get together for trysts now and again, but until he is given an ultimatum by Pete, Griff tries to pretend he's straight.
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A leather bar, a glance across the room and a spirited musical number.
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Blue Heaven exists on the border between the city and the country, between urban sprawl and rural purity, and three generations of women struggle to maintain some balance in their lives on that edge. Czech director Eva Borusovicova's first feature is a poetic film, a tragicomedy about a mother, daughter, and grandmother forced by circumstance and tenuous relationships into living and coping together. Out of a sincere effort to help one another, they struggle to understand and accept each other's failings. Unfortunately, they're not always able to.
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Drifting, alone but for the memories of youth, the eminent Greek poet C.P. Cavafy lies ill in a hospital bed in Alexandria. But his memories are revived through the words of the young biographer who has come to read his writings to Cavafy, seeking the poet's accord before publishing. Alexandria, his childhood, the poet's relationship with his mother, the life of ease until the Arab uprising, and their flight to Constantinople all are part of Cavafy's life. But it is the city night life and its pervading eroticism etched in his memory, and his sexual preference begins to blossom.
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Local filmmaker and festival favorite, Jenni Olson, introduces her short film about a young woman's affectionate encounter with another.
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Here's your chance to finally catch the rarely seen director's cut of a certifiable cult classic, called by American Cinematheque ''...completely repulsive and fascinating at the same time.'' Bloodsucking Freaks is the story of Dr. Sardu and his Theatre of the Macabre. On the surface an impresario and master of ceremonies with a sick sense of humor and a compulsive need to shock and offend, Dr. Sardu turns out to be a much more sinister and dangerous sort. In his basement he is hiding a prison of horrors where beautiful young women are tortured and mutilated.
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As we all know from reading ''tell-all'' biographies of American politicians, sex and politics are a natural mix and have been, from the earliest days of the Republic. But rarely has the liaison of a well-known politician and an ''exotic'' dancer been so public as that of former Governor Earl Long of Louisiana and the well-known stripper of her day, Belle Starr. Ron Shelton's Blaze shows Long and Starr's earthy and hilarious goings-on in the full light of day, all of which is well covered by the tabloid press.
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Don't Run, Johnny ''Tom E. Brown is the Jerry Lewis of AIDS movies.'' -- AMP Magazine