20 ▼ m arch 2 1 , 1997 ▼ ju s t out
C ontuiued from previous pave
who, after being caught cruising by the police,
comes out to everyone in a rollicking musical
number in Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.
B est I ndependently M ade
L esbian F i m
C osta B rava (Marta Balletbô-Coll, director)
A breezy love story set in Barcelona and fea
turing two attractive women who play a romantic
game of cat-and-mouse. Funny, with a great end
ing.
R obin W illiams , who is surprisingly low-key
while still being both funny and poignant as
Armand Goldman, the gay nightclub owner in
The Birdcage.
E verything R elative (Sharon Pollack, direc
tor)
A lesbian Big Chill in which a group of diverse
women descend on a country house to relive old
times and rekindle still-smoldering passions.
B est L esbian C haracter
m a H ollywood F ilm
L ili T aylor , who is ominously real as Valerie
Solanas, the increasingly psychotic revolution
ary-wannabe who shoots her “tormentor,” Andy
Warhol, in / Shot Andy Warhol. Not a good les
bian role model, but at least a complex one.
J ennifer T illy and G ina G ershon , who
redefine lesbian sexuality on screen as well as
offering the queer public two gutsy heroines in
Bound. The two women are slinkily beautiful, the
sex scenes are incredibly hot, and the fact that the
queers don’t get killed off (a standard approach
by Hollywood) makes it a must-see by both les
bians and gay men.
A manda P lummer , in a role that makes
Valerie Solanas seem like a nun in comparison, is
disquietingly memorable in Butterfly Kiss, in
which she plays a woman on the run, searching
for the one woman who showed her love and
compassion.
B est T ransgendered /T ranssexual
C haracter m a H ollywood F l m
I nn T rouble (Cristina Rey, director)
A comedy set in a rambling house, but this
time the women are younger, wilder and much
funnier than in Everything Relative.
T he M idwife ’ s T ale (Megan Siler, director)
An ambitious drama set in medieval times that
deftly explores the forbidden love between a
noblewoman and a midwife.
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candv (Scott Thompson is second from riaht
B est F oreign L anguage F ilm
P eter R uhring , as a British map maker in
The English Patient who begins an affair with a
handsome young Moroccan. He finds his first gay
relationship “natural.”
N icholas B ell , in Shine. Armin Mueller-
Stahl wonders why his son’s piano teacher (Bell)
isn’t married; the teacher is later seen attending
concerts with another man.
A ndrew M c C arthy , in Mulholland Falls.
He plays a sleazy but not offensive gay character
in this Chinatown rip-off.
ines the fragile relationships within a group of
young gay men. At times hilariously painful,
knowingly funny and unflinchingly on-target.
M an of the Y ear (Dirk Shafer, director)
The finely sculpted Shafer both directs and
stars in this faux-documentary about a Playgirl
model and sex symbol (for women) who desper
ately wants to come out.
S tonewall (Nigel Finch, director)
This fictionalized account of the events that led
up to the Stonewall riots makes for a tuneful, fun
and rousing good time. And not a bad history les
son as well.
N athan L ane , as the diva Albert, a quivering
mass of sequined hysteria who teaches his lover,
“son,” and the in-laws what love and family val
ues are all about, in The Birdcage. Lane is a
scream and saves the comedy from any possibili
ty of being offensive.
B est S upportmg L esbian C haracter
in a H ollywood F ilm
S tephen D or it , as Warhol superstar Candy
Darling in / Shot Andy Warhol. His transforma
tion into the dreamy blonde with a willowy voice
and naive Hollywood dreams is startling.
J ennifer D undas , as the openly lesbian
daughter of Diane Keaton in the comedy The
First Wives Club. She is seen as attractive, togeth
er and assertive, even when Mom and her female
cronies visit her at a lesbian bar.
R u P aul , who returns as Mrs. Cummings, the
school guidance counselor who sets her girls on
the right path in the underappreciated comedy A
Very Brady Sequel. You go, girl!
Q ueen L atifah , as Cleo, a gun-toting lesbian,
in the female action film Set It Off. She is seen as
a brash, tequila-swilling butch who boldly kisses
her beautiful lover in front of all.
T he D oom G eneration (Gregg Araki, director)
Araki’s self-styled “heterosexual film” is far
from it— homoeroticism oozes from nearly every
scene. A rough and sexy ride through the
Southwest.
P am G rier , who plays Hershey, a former col
league of Snake (Kurt Russell) who now is a
renegade transsexual gang leader, in Escape from
LA. Her voice was altered to sound more mascu
line.
S woosie K urtz and K elly P reston , as a
pair of lefty, prochoice lesbian activists who kid
nap the pregnant-but-wavering Laura Dem in
Citizen Ruth, a dark comedy about abortion.
B eautiful T hing (Hettie MacDonald, director)
This incredibly true-to-life story of two male
teenagers who fall in love is refreshingly roman
tic and makes for a buoyant good time.
B est S upporting G ay M a le C haracter
in a H ollywood F ilm
H arry L ennie (as the uptight Randall) and
I saiah W ashington (as former Marine Kyle), in
Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus. The two are lovers on
their way to the Million Man March.
C harlayne W oodard , as a lesbian under
cover cop in An Eye fo r an Eye.
B est I ndependently M ade G ay M a le F ilm
B oyfriends (Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger,
co-directors)
This vastly entertaining British drama exam
F risk (Todd Verow, director)
You won’t find a more controversial gay-
themed film than this tale of sexual experimenta
tion, self-hate, S/M, murder and teen love.
Generation X never looked so sick!
S ubstance of F ire (Daniel Sullivan, director)
This drama about a family’s struggles within
its publishing firm features Tony Goldwyn as the
gay son who, with his writer-lover (Timothy
Hutton) in tow, attempts to resurrect the faltering
business.
T he S tar M aker (Italy—Giuseppe Tomatore,
director)
From the director of Cinema Paradiso comes
this dark story of a roving talent scout who uses
people’s vanity to his advantage. One of his vic
tims is a gay man who aspires to being a star.
L es V oleurs (T hieves ) (France— André
Téchiné, director)
Catherine Deneuve creates a fascinating les
bian character—a hard-living grandmother and
philosophy professor who falls hopelessly in love
with a much younger woman. Their bathtub scene
is tenderly romantic and a wee bit erotic.
A ntonia ’ s L ine (Netherlands— Marleen Gorris,
director)
Els Dottermans plays an artist and the lesbian
daughter of an intense matriarch who feels that
men are needed in their lives. The daughter has a
finely drawn relationship with another woman.
C elestial C lockwork (France/Venezuela—
Fina Torres, director)
An exuberant, fanciful comedy that features
Adriadna Gil as a woman who spurns conven
tional marriage for a bohemian life in Paris,
where she finds'love in the arms of a wacky
woman and a green card in the arms of a cheerful
gay man.
T alk of the T own (Germany— Rainer
Kaufman, director)
Several wonderfully-drawn gay characters
provide some not-always-helpful assistance for a
woman who desperately wants to find a man.
Finding a better collection of gay men in one
“mainstream” film would be quite difficult.
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