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work in his oeuvre, Time to Leave still bears the mark of an accomplished, world-class filmmaker. B + —CM HERE I RM: COMING OUT IN R JEWISH SCHOOL 7 p.m. Oct. 1I Perfectly timed for National Coming Out Day, this documentary chronicles a lesbian student’s fight to establish a Gay Straight Alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area. RMNESIR: THE JRMES BRIGHTON ENIGMR 9 p.m. Oct. 1 1 Queer Canadian cinema is on a roll. shrouded in shadows and there are no full-frontal disclosures. His dark In March the outstanding gay coming-of-age drama C.R.A.Z.Y. and brooding presence is perfect for the character, though his over swept the Genies, Canada’s equivalent to the Academy Awards. board outburst in one scene is hard to take seriously. Unfortunately, C.R.A.Z.Y. isn’t playing at the Portland Lesbian & Along with numerous scenes of gay clubs and male intimacy, Gay Film Festival, but audiences can still get a refreshing dose of Amnesia packs a bit of lesbian heat. In the course of her investigation, northern exposure by watching the deft psychological drama Amnesia. the Ph.D. candidate has a tender bedroom rendezvous with one of her The film is a fictionalized account of real events concerning a interview subjects. Local couple Eugene Woodworth (left) and Eric Marcoux reflect on their 51 years together in The Man You Had in Mind. male amnesia patient whose sole memory was that he was gay. Langlois so effectively enters the confused mind of his protagonist Constructed in nonlinear order by writer and director Denis Langlois, that, at times, the film rivals Memento for its capacity to disorient the QUEENS the film is a jigsaw puzzle that comes together through flashbacks, viewer. But unlike Memento, Amnesia ultimately deposits a satisfying 9 p.m. Oct. 13 dreams, memory flashes and the investigative efforts of a woman amount of concrete information in our memory banks. B + writing her Ph.D. thesis on the case. With Spain already well ahead of the United States in legalizing —SB Amnesia starts off with a chilly, somber tiTne and becomes more same-sex marriage, it’s no surprise that one of the first films exploring the issue, albeit in a comic way and not very well, would be this emotionally accessible as the protagonist collaborates with others to MRS. STEVENS HERRS THE MERMRIDS SINGING Spanish film. Director Manuel Gómez Pereira is known for his farci try to piece his life together. As the film opens, a young man who has 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 cal romances, but this one’s more farcical—and not in the good apparently suffered a major trauma wakes up naked in a Montreal This Merchant-lvory-esque romance tells the story of Hilary parking lot and undergoes extensive medical testing. He’s certain that Stevens, a 70-year-old lesbian poet who wrote a shocking novel he’s gay, and he believes that his name is James Brighton. But when he appears on television, several people identify him as a Tennessee resident named Matthew Honeycutt. A trip to Tennessee sense—than romantic. The story takes place in the few days before Spain’s first gay wedding. about love between women in the 1920s. When a volume of her It focuses initially on three couples: Miguel, a rich boy who wears a sonnets strikes a chord with a new generation in 1964, two young white wig, and Oscar, an Argentinian masseur; Hugo, a nervous nellie, critics visit for an interview. and Narciso, who has a nasty little secret; and another rich boy, Rafa, chums up few memories for him, though the film provides us with a who’s set to wed his mom’s gardener’s son, Jonas. These characters are plausible and horrifying account of the homophobic hate crime that THE MAN YOU HRD IN MIND barely distinguishable from each other thanks to the drabness of the act stripped him of his memory and his clothes. 9 p.m. Oct. 12 ing, and it soon becomes clear who the title refers to. The “queens” are Yugoslavian-born actor Dusan Ducik is easy on the eyes in the This touching documentary explores the intimate lives of five in fact the over-the-top mothers of the boys, and they’re played with lead role, but don’t get too excited about the nude scene because he’s Oregon gay male couples who have been together between one and varying degrees of success by the cream of Spanish actresses. Carmen 51 years. Director James Tuchschmidt Maura registers nicely as an icy hotelier; Verónica Forqué cartoonizes and the subjects of the film will he in her nymphomaniac; Mercedes Sampietro bores as a homophobic judge attendance. forced to officiate at her son’s wedding; Betiana Blum increasingly annoys as a bimbo whose dog gets lost; and Marisa Paredes impresses MOM most as a famous actress who’s hot for her hunky gardener (who bares 7 p.m. Oct. 13 all in one scene). This comic adventure follows a The film time-shifts to a dizzying degree, with titles informing us market researcher (with aspirations of it’s "Four Hours Later" or “Four Hours Earlier,” though the plot is so being a TV news field reporter) and hyzantine, and so loaded with coincidences and sheer incident, that her butch, talkative camerawoman it becomes almost impossible to follow. 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