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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 2002)
-------------------------------------- Mptomh* 6, 200? J — — l|29 P reviews social worker girlfriend, Alex, and they are very much in love. However, as the holidays approach, pressures from Casey’s conventional family start to strain. Casey is feeling more compelled to he the daughter her uptight mother wants, while Alex is keeping a secret. Director Lauren Himmel offers a rare film treat— a lesbian couple who are at once sexy, inspirational and yet very real. Loved” is the life of Roberta, a 350-pound sec retary who turns 50, gets laid off and is diag nosed with a deadly brain tumor in the same day. Eventually she meets Kevin, a bisexual hustler past his prime, who advertises that “freaks” are his specialty. As her final hours rush by, they develop an intense, sublime and horrifying relationship. In “Take-Out,” typical high schooler Rory meets Pete, a middle-aged man in the midst of a breakdown, and is drawn into a friendship that proves to be a catalyst. F ood of L ove 9:15 p.m. Sept. 23 hen Paul (Kevin Bishop), a young, tal ented music student, gets a job as a page turner for the world-famous Richard Kcnnington’s (Paul Rhys) one-night-only piano recital in San Francisco, the two are instantly drawn to one another. Paul is star- struck by his idol, and Richard finds Paul’s intensity, beauty and innocence irresistible. After a torrid, secret affair in Europe, Paul returns home to attend music schexd, where he begins to question his ability and dates older, experienced men seeking validation of his tal ent. Based on acclaimed author David Leavitts H ilbert goes from successful, straight ad exec to surreal public toilet dweller in Exploding Oedipus novel The Page Turner, Spanish director Ventu ra Pons’ film is a gorgeous piece of work shot in bites hard and leaves marks in the beautiful begin to spin out of control. Wildly gritty and San Francisco, New York and Barcelona. * and dark “Night Trade.” A phone call brings entertaining, Luster is a queer boy’s adventures with it a flood of memories in “Baby Blue." in lust, sex— and maybe even love. T he world spins too fast in the love story A L esbian S urvival G u id e : “Dizzy.” T he rich “N eon” glow of night fades as E xploding O edipus G irl ’ s S horts II the double life led by A m o causes internal 9.1 5 p.m. Sept. 25 7 p.m. Sept. 24 conflicts and danger. “Red ribbons or red tape?" asks “Lost Cause,” as people with A ID S experi eeking refuge in the seedy Marathon n “T he Bounty,” two women steal a rare ence frustration dealing with organizations Hotel, Hilbert (Bruce Ramsay) isolates spenn sample and hightail it with a chauvin designed to help them. It’s “Foucault Night” at himself with a suitcase full of books and ist bounty hunter hot on their heels. The ani the IcKal leather bar and a hasher is on the home movies. Images from his troubled child mated “Ladies Tea” dissects the dynamic patterns lcx»e in “Foucault Who.7” A n Australian man hood flicker on a bed sheet. As he retreats fur that cx:cur in a women’s dance bar. “Turn Me recalls an outrageous story of his mean-spirited ther into self-reflection, Hilbert’s confusion and mother during “In Search of Mike.” A O n ” uncovers the secrets of vibrators, from their desires begin to take on distorted proportions. early days as a medical tool to their emergence as poignant longing for what could have been Forced to re-evaluate himself on the heels of mass-marketed consumer toys. The silent fairy permeates “T h e Moment After.” his father’s heart attack, he becomes tom talc cum B-horror “Pussies from Outta Space” between the possibilities of the future and the L uster tells the cartoonish adventures of a worker-waif ties of his past. He begins to reject a successful and her artist lover. It’s 1975, and 10-year-old 7 p.m. Sept. 25 (the short film "Baby Blue" will career, friends and his loving girlfriend and budding hutch Cassie musters up the courage to be presented before the feature) heads out on a journey into the stained under invite the cute femme down the street to a foot worlds of drugs, booze and bathroom sex in San ball game in “Shaving.” “Marcilla” is a gothic aking up confused after an orgy is only Francisco’s avant-garde art scene. In his direc black-and-white update of the lesbian vampire the beginning of an unforgettable week torial debut, Marc Lafia weaves a rich visual story CarmiUa. “T he Seamstress” turns the sewing end for Jackson, a Los Angeles poet and fabric to create an emotional texture that is table on an uppity supcnncxlel. W hat happens sensual and sophisticated. record store clerk. He thinks he’s in love with when your friends are also your dating pool? Find Billy, whom he met at the orgy. Enter Jackson’s out in the hilarious and instmctional “Tire 10 hunky cousin Jed, who is in town for the week L ost S ouls Rules (A Lesbian Survival Guide).” end. You’re not supposed to have sex with your 7 p.m. Sept. 26 cousin, right? T h en there’s Derek, a store cus N ight T rade : B oy ’ s S horts II tomer who claims Jackson is “the one.” To road trip becomes a journey of loss, self- 9 :3 0 p.m. Sept. 24 complicate matters further, it seems Jackson’s discovery and redemption in “Saturn’s Return.” A n uncompromising work about best friend might not be straight after all. And when Sonny (W illie Garson o f Sex and the he first stop in these edgy shorts exposes the cycle of abuse and the perverse nature of “Rock Bottom " when a lonely john picks City), a closeted rock star, asks Jackson to help desire, “Touch” is a disturbing tale of a teen-age up a charming young street hustler. 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T hree students take a canoe trip on the Kolpa River and, as they float deeper into the woods, their carefree adventure makes unexpected twists and turns. They encounter a mysterious cast o f characters, including the Guardian o f the Frontier, a self- defined defender o f “traditional” Slovenian val ues. W hile two of the girls grow closer and more flirtatious, the other is drawn to the Guardian. This gorgeous film reveals the com plex borders affecting young women coming of age in a transitioning Eastern Europe. I M r . S mith G ets a 9 :3 0 p.m. Sept. 27 H ustler ustlers and johns operate out o f a swank bar run by the maleficent Mr. Lapp (B en jam in Hendrickson). His favorite lapster is handsome 18-year-old Bobby Blue (A lex Feldman), who works to support his mother, a helpless alcoholic. Enter the mysterious and attractive Mr. Sm ith (Larry Pine), who walks in and takes an immediate shine to Bobby— but Mr. Sm ith is not the lonely out-of-towner he pretends to be. Director Ian McCrudden’s adaptation o f the stage play is a sullen tale of broken hearts and homes. H Continued on Page 43
