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L eaving L as V egas Elizabeth Shue, Nicholas Cage Directed by Mike Figgis ike Carrington, Leaving Las Vegas is an unusual love story about a man and a woman head over heels in love with each other, who live together but don’t have sex, once again making the point that sometimes the two d o n ’t go to gether. Vegas, however, is no pastoral period piece—it is very much set in the harsh, soulless ’90s— and our two protagonists are straight and have absolutely no claim to fame or fortune. He’s a terminal drunk who can’t get it up, and she’s a hooker. T heir paths cross one night as what should be a rou tine sexual en Rachael Crawford (left) and Pascale Bussieres in When Night Is Falling counter turns into falls for a slightly predatory female African Ameri something oddly intimate. Which isn’t to say that can circus performer. Now tell me: What is it about things aren’t tragic, but these two accept each other as they are and a tenuous love survives. dykes and academics (think Lianna, Desert Hearts, Claire o f the Moon)! What is it about dykes and Shue (yes, she’s the sister of the actor who religious women (think Breaking the Silence: Les plays Billy on Melrose Place) is fantastic—tough bian Nuns)! Why do so many films focus on and streetwise, yet hauntingly vulnerable. While women in relationships with secure-but-passion- other current films set in Las Vegas focus on less men whom they leave for bohemian, chaotic people who gamble, win big, then lose it all, women—is this the formula for the lesbian version Leaving Las Vegas is about the nameless, faceless, of a Harlequin Romance? And why have the Cir “unlucky” people who feed the machine. The mes que du Soleil-esque character be a woman of color, sage? You may not be able to save the one you love, when issues of race are never addressed? but the act of loving can save and transform you. The film’s distributor, October Films, claims that Night has the best lesbian love scenes ever to ueer ovie uzz hit the big screen, and on this one point I must agree. The company has also been protesting the rew Barrymore thrilled the crowd when film’s NC-17 rating, which seems to be based she showed up at a humble drag king entirely on the fact that the explicit sex happens event in New York. Cross-dressing is between two women. (What’s more, the film’s something she needs to study for her upcoming lush, seductive ad was recently rejected by The film role based on the true life story of brutally New York Times.) murdered female-to-male transsexual Brandon While the lesbophobia surrounding the film Teena. makes my blood boil, unfortunately, the film itself Coming in January is Antonia's Line by leaves me cold. Marleen Gorris, the director of the Dutch feminist classic A Question o f Silence', in the spring we can look forward to seeing Lili Taylor as Valerie eorgia Solanas (the author of the man-hating SCUM Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham manifesto) in I Shot Andy Warhol, produced by Directed by Ulu Grosbard queer film powers Tom Kalin and Christine Vachon. adie (Leigh) is a stylish, ’90s, Janis Joplin- Reviews by Cathay Che, a cinephile and writer type rebel, a raging smack addict/alcoholic who lives in New York City. and an ambitious mock rock star, who lacks L Q D G S M B