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PARTING GLANCES Sunday, June 12 at 9:05 pm F Cinema 2 / and Just Out present the first Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Celebrate PRIDE in Good Health! Dr. Sara Wu T Dr. Marelle O’Meara Visit our booth at the rally, June 18. Enter free drawing for computerized Dietary Analysis. 0 MA H E L L E O'MEARA, he first Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival will feature twelve film programs from Canada, Taiwan, West G erm any, France, Brazil and the United States. On the Brink: An AIDS Chronicle received raves with its United States premiere at the Seattle Film Festival last month. Both Portland showings o f On the Brink will benefit Juniper House, a hospice for PWAs. Rosa Von Praunheim’s Anita: Dances of Vice was the hit o f the New York Film Festival last year and played to packed houses in a short New York run last winter. From Taiwan, The Outsiders was the favorite at the 1987 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It is the first film with gay content to be licensed by the government o f the Republic of China. Northwest filmmaker Barbara Hammer will present an evening o f film and commentary in a special Sunday program. For couch potatoes, all five episodes o f 7Yw and Twenty, the world’s first lesbian soap opera, will be presented in two evening programs. Series tickets are on sale at the Cinema 21 box office during normal business hours and at A W om an’s Place Bookstore. D CHIROPRACTIC HEALTH CARE ' • General Practice — Adults/Children • Wbmen's Health — GYN/PAP Smears • Auto Accident/Workers' Comp/ Spoils Injuries 510 SW 3rd. SU ITE 213. PORTLAND. OR 97204. 227-4709 arting Glances is an extraordinary movie. Robert and Michael are the beautiful couple and Nick, the sick friend, has AIDS. Shot in M anhattan’s “ Yupper” West Side, Parting Glances shows the lives of a group of gays living in a city where gay politics and social issues are an integral part of the con temporary milieu. Watching Parting Glances is like entering a whole new territory. It’s a movie about gay people that’s devoid of all those Hollywood clichés: no guilt — and wonder of wonders, the PWA doesn’t feel guilty, eith er— no long- suffering wife, and so on. The characters are next-door neighbors who happen to be gay. Parting Glances is the kind of movie that celebrates gay life. NOVEMBERMOON THE OUTSIDERS Saturday, June 11 at 8:45 pm; and Thursday, June 16 at 9:20pm. he surprise hit o f the 1987 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Outsiders is based on a popular novel by Shiang Yeong and is the first film with a homosexual theme to be licensed by the government of Taiwan. It is a look at gays in neo-families, depicting four orphans o f the storm, “ throw aw ay” gay youths who find two unlikely, ex uberantly Dickensian protectors: a comic but saintly middle-aged photographer named Yang and his lovable dragon-landlady! (Yu Kan-Ping, 1986, 90 minutes) T NINETEEN, NINETEEN Friday, June 10 at 10:45 pm; Monday, June 13 at 9:25 pm. his fascinating and unusual film is about two former patients o f Sigmund Freud, who meet for the first time in Vienna in 1970 to compare experiences and share memories of his popular film from West German film their treatment 50 years ago. These two solitary maker Alexandra von Grote tells the story o f two women whose relationship and love people (based on real case histories of Freud) are played with remarkable sensitivity and struggles to survive against the backdrop of depth by Paul Scofield (Oscar-winner for Europe in World War II. This is also one of the A Man For All Seasons) and Maria Schell. first German films to deal with the persecution Scofield is Alexander, a Russian aristocrat who o f French and German Jews during the war. never recovered from losing everything in the (1984) Saturday, June 11 at 2:30 pm; and Tuesday, June 14 at 8:50pm. T T POVOIR INTIME Saturday, June II at5 pm; and Tuesday, June 14 at 7 pm compelling psychological thriller (again) from Canada that garnered nine Genie Awards this year! What begins as a simple, classic heist suddenly turns seriously wrong. As the five desperate persons involved struggle to escape from the Pandora’s box of their own making, they are drawn further inside a no-win situation. And the armored car robbery for cash is a red herring: the real reason for the robbery is quite another story. (Yves Simoneau, 1987, 90 minutes) Pouvoir Intime A VERA Revolution. He married a woman he loved but was incapable o f desiring, and he was sexually aroused only by vulgar women he despised. Night Zoo inner o f the Best Actress award at the M aria Schell is Sophie, whose great love was a Berlin Film Festival, Ana Beatriz beautiful woman who was a rich m an’s mis NIGHT ZOO Nogueira plays the title role o f Vera, an inde tress. Their stories, told with creative use of Friday, June 10 at 7 pm. pendent spirit o f intelligence and sensitivity, flashbacks, make an intriguing and thought- rom Canada comes a new film from the who is absolutely convinced that she is a man provoking experience. Also in the excellent producers o f The Decline o f the American inhabiting a female body. When she falls in love cast: Diana Quirk, Colin Firth, and Frank Empire and a jolting debut by writer-director with Clara, a pretty co-worker in a library, the Finlay as the voice o f Sigmund Freud. Directed Jean-Claudc Lauzon. Night Zoo (Un Zoo, La problems and ironies begin to accumulate. Said by Hugh Brody. ‘‘A small, polished gem. Nuit) is a glossy urban thriller, mixing drugs, Vincent Canby in The New York Times of the M esmerizing. Lingering. Provocative. crooked cops and the underworld with an inti director in his debut, “ [Sergio] Toledo is a Brilliant.” ( Jan Hoffman, Village Voice.) mate human drama. It has been setting box- writer and director of real potential.” (Brazil, (1986, 99 minutes) office records in Canada and virtually swept the 1987. 87 minutes) Genie Awards, the Canadian equivalent o f the Academy Awards. (1987. 115 minutes) Saturday, June II at 7 pm; and Wednesday, June 15 at 8:45 pm. W F ANITA: DANCES OF VICE Friday, June 10 at 9.75 pm; Sunday. June 12 at 2:JO pm; anil Wednesday. June 15 at 10:30 pm. ruly a one-of-a-kind feature, the audacious Anita, Dances o f Vice. Rosa Von Praunheim 's New York Film Festival hit. is based on the life o f Anita Berber, considered by many to have been the most scandalous woman in 1920s Berlin. She was the first to dance nude in public; she was openly bisexual; her use o f drugs was no secret; and she preferred her performances to be on subjects such as vice, horror and ecstasy. She died of tuberculosis in 1928. In Von Praunheim’s film the forgotten star becom es alive in the visions o f an old woman who claims to be Anita The police commit her to a mental institution, where in the old w om an’s dreams and exchanges with staff, scenes from the life of Anita appear. As the film offers images of the dancer's great era — expressionist, silent but in shimmering colors — the captive remembers her wild, short life to its T photo laura ewig NATURAL FIBRE CLOTHING now open fridays until 9:00 pm I new market village • 54 SW 2nd • 228-1691 • 10-6 daily • fn till 9 00 J u s t O u t • 18 • June IWX Anita, the Dance of Vice bitter end . . . and dies again. Described as “ ‘the senior member of the Berlin school o f underground filmmaking” — which also includes such important gay directors as Werner Schroeter. Lothar Lambert and Frank Ripploh — Rosa Von Praunheim (nee Holger Mischwitzki) has made over 25 features since 1967, each more controversial than the last. In 1970, German television banned his documentary It’s Not the Homo sexual Who Is Perverse, But the Situation in Which He Lives, and when the film was finally shown, it was the homosexual community that was most outraged because o f the director’s double-barrelled attack on gay monogamy and respectability.