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composed of films with sexuality themes,
begins tonight
Yael Menahem
Oregon Daily Emerald
«ff f it weren’t for
j|; gays, honey,
ff| there’d be no Hol
m lywood,” Eliza
beth Taylor is quoted as say
ing.
But does Hollywood por
tray gay and lesbian rela
tionships accurately? The
answer is “no,” members of
the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender Alliance
agree.
“Does ‘You’ve Got Mail’
correctly depict a heterosex
ual romance?” Kathleen
Workman points out. “Proba
bly not.”
“Hollywood doesn’t accu
rately depict a heterosexual
or homosexual relation
ship,” Kayla Emmons adds.
The eighth-annual Queer
Film Festival begins tonight
with a handful of films, but
just because they portray
gay and lesbian relation
ships, doesn’t mean they
represent them correctly.
They are a step up from gay
representation in films from
the 1970s and 1980s, how
ever.
Those movies “depicted
gays as cruising sexual
predators,” Jason Maas
Despan asserts.
Even though Hollywood
might not represent gay re
lationships accurately, “at
least they’re getting repre
sented,” Maas-Despan adds.
The film festival starts
with the British film “Bed
rooms and Hallways.’’Made
in 1998, the film follows a
dozen 20-something Lon
doners in search of love as
one character, Leo, is reach
ing the big 3-Oh.
Leo is searching for stabil
ity, sex and identity, but not
necessarily in that order. Af
ter getting some advice from
his eccentric neighbors, he
joins a “New Man” therapy
group. What ensues is any
one’s guess, from a new
crush to a childhood sweet
heart who’s back in town.
The film stars Kevin McK
idd (“Trainspotting”), Si
mon Callow (’’Shakespeare
in Love”) and Harriet Walter.
Friday night’s feature,
“Show Me Love,” was nom
inated last year for an Acade
my Award for Best Foreign
Language Film.
Agnes and Elin are two
teenage girls stuck in a
small town, and the two are
full of boredom. Agnes is
the shy, new girl in town
and she has a crush on Elin.
Elin is popular, goes to par
ties, drinks and finds nu
merous boyfriends. Eventual
ly, the two find each other.
“Show Me Love” deals
with teenage angst, adoles
cent love and courage; Re
becca Liljeberg and Alexan
dra Dahlstrom are the two
principal stars.
Saturday introduces two
features, Australia’s “Head
On” and Canada’s “Beef
cake.”
The former is described
as a “narcotic ride through a
powder keg of racial ten
sion, police homophobia
and sexual abuse, all framed
by a day in the life of a trou
bled soul who must con
front his status as an immi
grant and a gay man.”
“Beefcake” seems to turn
the tables on women’s beau
ty magazine by paying hom
age to the 1950s muscle
magazines. The film profiles
photographer Bob Miser,
creator of the Athletic Mod
els Guild, an agency for buff
young men who posed for
magazines like Physique
Pictorial, Adonis and To
morrow’s Man.
“Beefcake” is a blend of
documentary and fiction
film directed by Thom
Fitzgerald.
The film festival takes a
little break until it returns
Feb. 18 with several shorts:
“Atlanta,” “Top of the
World,” “The Offering,”
“Das Clown” and “Adam.”
Saturday returns with
two features, “Das Trio” and
“Living with Pride.”
“Das Trio” follows three
small-time thieves and pick
pockets who break the
group’s rule of “no exchang
ing bodily fluids within the
team.”
The film focuses on three
different people who are
brought together by their ba
sic needs and are tom apart
by their unruly desires.
“Living with Pride” docu
ments the life and times of
Ruth C. Ellis, who is recog
nized as the world’s oldest
“out” African-American les
bian. The film offers an op
portunity to experience a
century-long history of
African-American gays and
lesbians as seen through the
life of one inspiring woman.
The last film of the festi
val, “Better than Choco
late,” is a romantic comedy
that centers on 19-year-old
Maggie, a college dropout
who works in a lesbian
bookstore. One night, she
meets Kim and the two fall
in love.
Trouble arises when Mag
gie’s mother and brother,
who are unaware of her sex
ual orientation, move in
with her because of her
mother’s divorce from her
second husband. Other
characters appear, including
a transgendered nightclub
performer who is pursuing
Frances, the bookstore own
er.
“Better than Chocolate” is
a film filled with love, ro
mance and sex.
The Queer Film Festival
starts tonight, runs Friday
and Saturday, and contin
ues February 18-20.
All films start at 8 p.m. in
180 PLC. Tickets are $4 for
students, $5 for the general
public per show, or $12 for
students and $15 for the
general public for a pass to
all six nights.
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