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boyfriend and girlfriend have departed the city. He broods, he remembers and after brief encounters with both of his ex-lovers, he begins a new relationship with Quentin, a deaf mute. The Third Annual Film Festival features films from six Adam's World, (1989) Intercut with different countries illustrative stock footage, this film presents a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a Pink Ulysees, (1990), A new film from the Looking for Langston (1988). Julian feminist theologian, environmentalist, and Temple’s ground-breaking film stretches the Netherlands, Pink Ulysees is presented futurist. She speaks to us about the severity of courtesy of the San Francisco International definition of documentary as it mixes archival our global environmental crisis, and analyses footage of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Lesbian and Gay Rim Festival and Yuca the root cause of this crisis as lying in the Films. This sexy, artsy film is a patchwork of Renaissance with stylish renderings of black perceptions, beliefs and assumptions of the ideas and gorgeous bodies held together (very gay life, both in the ‘30s and now. Lyrical and patriarchal system we have inherited., lightly) by the 20 year journey of Ulysees' erotic, the film uses Hughes’ poems, as well return from the Trojan war. as works by James Baldwin and Essex The Goddess Remembered, (1989) This Hemphill, to imagine a rich and ongoing black Canadian film is a provocative and lively Superstar, (1989) This is a summation of the gay tradition. documentary that traces the history of the life of pop figure Andy Warhol. Superstar Goddess civilizations before the patriarchy takes a look at the phases of Warhol's career 4000 years ago. Keeping the female and the path his stardom has taken since his perspective as its central focus, the Goddess death. Remembered reveals Stone Age relics of the females honored in prehistoric art Journeys Le Jupon Rouge, (1989) Director Genevieve to Malta, Crete and ceremonial mounds where Lefebure's French film is a romantic story the female deities were worshipped, clearly about three women of various ages and social expresses the teachings of Goddess backgrounds. spirituality (know thyself). The Goddess Remembered offers a sense of wonder, mystery and the presence of the Goddess herself. She Must Be Seeing Things, (1987) Written, Quest for Love, (1989) This is an intelligent produced and directed by Sheila McLoughlin, and compassionate film that traces the this film is an engaging comedy of sexual political and sexual confusion of Alex, a jealousy. Agatha (Sheila Dabney), a woman recently released from a South African competent lawyer .begins to doubt the prison. In retrospect, Alex recalls the days fidelity of her lover Jo (Lois Weaver), a flaky before her arrest which involved an affair with filmmaker. Agatha discovers Jo is sleeping Dorothy and knowledge revealed to her by around with men and explores the extent to Dorothy's boyfriend regarding atrocities which sexual similarity and sexual difference committed by the police. Alex's experiences are arousing for her and Jo. have altered her viewpoints politically and Silence = Death, (1990) Rosa von most definitely, sexually. Follow along with Praunheim's film hammers vividly at the Kamikaze Hearts, (1986) This is a raw story Alex, feel her growth and search for identity. politicization of artists in the AIDS era while about an impossible relationship between a seething with rage and disbelief. This is feisty young woman (Tigr) and the porno star Out of Our Time, (1989) This movie and compelling film making. (Sharon) she becomes obsessed with. Best juxtaposes two circles of women, one a described as a dramatic docu-drama, Kamikaze literary and artistic society of women in Positive, (1990) Second in an uncompleted Hearts is an intensely personal narrative with Chicago circa 1930, the other a contemporary real people playing themselves in scenes trilogy by Rosa von Praunheim, Positive group of feminists. The two circles are linked from their lives. Resisting easy classification by Valerie Ward and Jacquelyn Matthews, focuses on many topics-safe sex, Straight to the Heart, (1989) The story of homophobia, the meaning of death, healing granddaughter and grandmother respectively, Quentin, a photojoumalist who returns to techniques and more. The film hits home, who grapple with the frustrations of not Montreal after a harrowing assignment in it is absurd, ironic and simultaneously brutal, fulfilling themselves as writers, and share a Nicaragua, only to find that both his disturbing and tragic. dream of being published. Just Out and Cinema 21 presents Reel Proud REEL PROUD JUST OUT AND CINEMA 21 PRESENTS PORTLAND’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL FRIDAY, JUNE 22 SALUT VICTOR! USA 7PM Le JUPON ROUGE FRANCE 8:45PM SUPERSTAR USA 10:30PM CINEMA (Ml) REPERTORY SATURDAY, JUNE 23 DOUBLE SHORTS THE MINDERS WITH JUST PASSING THROUGH NEW ZEALAND 2:30PM URINAL CANADA 4:45PM QUEST FOR LOVE SOUTH AFRICA 7PM DOUBLE SHORTS TONGUES UNTIED WITH LOOKING FOR LANGSTON USA 8:45PM KAMIKAZE HEARTS USA 10:30PM HOYT KAMIKAZE HEARTS USA 1PM STRAIGHT TO THE HEART CANADA 2:45PM OUT OF OUR TIME USA 4:30PM SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS USA 6PM POSITIVE ' Ml Tongues Untied (1989). Marlon Riggs’ meditation on contemporary black gay life employs dance, rap and poetry, as well as more conventional interviews. Part personal statement and part social critique, the film uses the director’s experiences as a springboard for a thorough examination of racism and homophobia in the gay and black communities. 223 4044 SUNDAY, JUNE 24 DOUBLE SHORTS Salut Victor! (1988). A favorite at the film festivals in San Francisco and Olympia, Anne Claire Poirier’s film tells the story of two older gay men who meet in an old age home. Phillippe, aristocratic and reserved, is initially put off by the frank friendship offered by the irrepressible Victor, but gradually he learns from him how to live life to its fullest. Tender without being sentimental, the film offers a rare and richly realized vision of older gay lives. In French with subtitles. Urinal (1988). A group of gay and lesbian artists, including Sergei Eisenstein, Frida Kahlo, Langston Hughes and Yukio Mishima, are mysteriously summoned in 1937 to the home of Toronto sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wylie. Once assembled, they are somehow transported to the present, where they are charged with investigating the Ontario police crackdown on washroom sex. The result is a unique mixture of high-minded fantasy and down-and-dirty documentary. Erudite and charming, director John Greyson’s film plays something like a gay Roger and Me. DOUBLE SHORTS POSITIVE WITH SILENCE = DEATH USA 7:45PM MONDAY, JUNE 25 DOUBLE SHORTS GODDESS REMEMBERED WITH ADAM’S WORLD CANADA 7PM PINK ULYSEES HOLLAND 8:40PM WITH USt J just out r 29 T June 1990
