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| Welcome to the Outsiders Film Festival archive 2005 ! |
Director Miguel Albaladejo
SPAIN 2004, 99 mins Certificate 18 Starring Jose Luis Garcia Perez, David Castillo, Ampar Ferrer, Diana Carez A hit with audiences at lesbian & gay film festivals worldwide, Miguel Albaladejo's 6th feature film is the sexy, funny and moving Bear Cub. Pedro (Garcia Perez) is the Bear. Bernardo (Castillo), his 10 year old nephew, is the Cub, dumped on a reluctant Pedro by his wayward sister. But no sooner has Pedro accepted the fact that he is stuck with the boy and even grown to like having him around than he is caught up in a vicious custody battle with Bernardo's Grandmother. And Pedro has a secret one that Bernardo's Grandmother will mercilessly exploit to ensure that she wins the case. ... We don't want to spoil it for you here but rest assured you will be surprised and moved by this ‘serious comedy’. And don't forget, your ticket for this screening entitles you free entry into the fabulous, boozy opening night party! In Spanish with English subtitles. Original Spanish title: Cachorro Bear Cub is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Gael Morel
FRANCE & SWITZERLAND 2004, 90 mins Certificate 15 Starring Nicholas Cazale, Thomas Dumerchez & Stephane Rideau Three brothers. Three beautiful leading men. Director Gael Morel draws passionate performances from his key players in this gentle, erotic and (briefly) shocking study of masculinity in modern day France. The brothers are Marc (Cazale), a petty criminal destroyed by his unconsummated desire for revenge, Christophe (Rideau), an ex-con determined to go straight, and Olivier (Dumerchez), the youngest, a student, gay - and the most sorted of the three. Or is he? “Rape me but don’t hurt me,” says Olivier to his Arab boyfriend Hicham: it may be the most important line in this truthful, visually impressive film. In French with English subtitles. The Clan is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Mike Nicholls
UK 2003, 50 mins + extras Featuring Boy George, Marilyn, Phillip Sallon, Steve Strange & Leigh Bowery Everything Taboo is simply a delightful take on the making of the hit musical Taboo. Packed with bitchy interviews, backstage goss and rare, wonderful footage of the late Leigh Bowery, this (debut) documentary from the Tony-award winning costume designer for Taboo is a powerful reminder that even today we live in the shadow of Boy George and friends. Has there been anything as radical as gender-bending in gay culture since them? We don’t think so. It took balls to walk down the street wearing sexually-aggressive drag in 1980. Today we’re all at it. Clubbers and queers take note: it’s all been done before, darlings! |
(UK PREMIERE) 
Director Rosa von Praunheim
GERMANY 2004, 90 mins One thing’s for sure – you can’t ignore Rosa von Praunheim. His first film, It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverted, but the Situation in Which He Lives (1970) effectively founded the new German gay movement. Later films, such as A Virus Knows No Morals (1985), were among the first to deal with AIDS. Nor has Rosa been afraid to make enemies in the cause of gay liberation: his public outing of German celebrities in the early 90s even led to a boycott of his work. His 60th film, Heroes and Gay Nazis, which we’re screening here for the first time in the UK, is sure to be controversial: it is, simply, a historical and contemporary portrait of a number of gay fascists. Expect abhorrent opinions from these right-wing loons – Rosa, naturally, refuses to censor his subjects. You have been warned. Screening with A LIFE IN VAIN (dir. Rosa von Praunheim/GERMANY 2004/16 mins). In German with English subtitles. Original German titles: Manner, Helden und Schwule Nazis and Umsonst Gelebt. |
Director Greta Schiller
UK + USA + BELGIUM 1998, 82 mins Starring Corin Redgrave, Walter Sisulu, Joseph Bale, Gavin Hayward South Africa, the early 1960s: Nelson Mandela is engaged in an armed struggle with the racist Apartheid regime. Organizing that struggle means moving around the country from meeting to meeting. But, as a black man, Mandela can’t travel freely. The ANC come up with a plan. A white man will drive with Mandela. Mandela will be disguised as his chauffeur. And on the day of Mandela’s arrest in 1962, the man in the car with him was Cecil Williams, a white gay theatre director and Communist party member (played by Corin Redgrave). Lesbian director Greta Schiller’s Teddy award-winning documentary The Man Who Drove with Mandela tells his fascinating story - and the story of what it was like to be gay, black or white, under Apartheid. Check out the movie at www.jezebel.org/films/mandela.html Screening with HEY JIMMY! (dir. Ming-Chieh Sung/TAIWAN 2004/16 mins). |
Director Gregg Araki
USA 2004, 106 minutes Based on the novel by Scott Heim Starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, Brady Corbet, Elizabeth Shue & Zane Huett By turns funny, frightening and moving, Mysterious Skin is one of the most powerful movies ever made about sexual abuse. The plot is simple: Brian, an asexual teenager living in a small town in Kansas, believes that he was abducted by aliens as a child. His quest for the truth, however, leads not to the stars but to Neil, a local rent boy, who has a terrible tale to tell. ... That this story can even be told on screen is testament to the skill and taste of director Gregg Araki and proof along with Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) and The Raspberry Reich (Bruce La Bruce) that the New Queer Cinema has come of age big time. Check out the movie at www.imdb.com/title/tt0370986/ Mysterious Skin is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director James Bidgood
USA 1971, 70 mins Certificate 18 Starring Bobby Kendall Exotic, erotic and utterly hallucinatory, the 8mm masterpiece Pink Narcissus was allegedly 'found' in 1972 and credited to 'anonymous'. In reality it was entirely shot over a period of 7 years in the New York apartment of its director, James Bidgood, a Young Physique photographer and performer at the infamous drag bar Club 82. The achievement, nonetheless, is extraordinary: Bidgood variously transforms his alter ego, the beautiful, pouting Bobby Kendall, into a toreador, a Roman Slave and an Arabian Knight! The result is a landmark in undergound gay art cinema that will still be viewed with pleasure a hundred years from now. |
Director Alex Steyermark
USA 2003, 104 mins Starring Gina Gershon, Lori Petty, Drea de Matteo, Shelly Cole Dyke icon Gina Gershon (Bound) stars in this dark, sexy and violent portrait of life at the bottom of the LA music scene, based on the autobiographical musical by Cheri Lovedog. Jacki (Gershon) is the leather-clad lead singer of Clamdandy, an all-girl rock and roll band that’s been around the block but never quite made it big... and now looks set to fall – or be ripped - apart. Each of the band members are battling their personal demons – drug addiction, male violence – but the band, it turns out, is more than the sum of its parts: the band somehow represents their collective desire to keep fighting, to rise above everything life can throw at them. … Political, moving and lesbionic, Prey for Rock and Roll was the opening night movie at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival this year. Prey For Rock And Roll is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Lukas Moodysson
SWEDEN + DENMARK 1998, 89 mins Certificate 15 Starring Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Mathias Rust, Erica Carlson Lukas Moodysson’s first feature (Together, Lilya 4-Ever and A Hole in My Heart were to follow) is the delightful Show Me Love, which against all odds out-grossed Titanic in its native Sweden. Agnes (Liljeberg) is 16, shy and painfully lonely. Elin (Dahlstrom) is blonde, wild and popular. Agnes, inevitably, has a doomed crush on Elin. But when one day Elin kisses Agnes - for a dare, to humiliate her - Elin begins to feel a little strange, and the stage is set for a battle of the heart that may or may not end with a (literal) coming out of the closet. Winner of the Teddy at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, Show Me Love is probably one of the best lesbian date movies ever made and (according to Ingmar Bergman) a masterwork of European Art-house cinema. In Swedish with English subtitles. Original Swedish title: Fucking Amal. Show Me Love is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
(UK PREMIERE) 
Director Richard Day
USA 2004, 96 mins, Adults Only Starring Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Veronica Cartwright, Adam Greer Fans of our opening night movie 2004 Girls will be Girls will love Straight Jacket, the second comedy from director Richard Day. This time it's Hollywood in the 1950s and gay movie star Guy Stone (Letscher) has just been caught in the act in a ‘homo vice den’. Worse, the press have got hold of the story. Cue a shotgun marriage of (in)convenience to silly studio secretary Sally (Preston) which would be enough to save Guy's career but for the fact that he's about to meet the true love of his life, cute commie Rick (Greer) and Sally is beginning to wonder why Guy hasn't come to bed yet. ... Featuring fabulous turns by Veronica Cartwright (The Witches of Eastwick) and Jack Plotnick (Girls will be Girls), Straight Jacket is a funny and ultimately serious movie which we were delighted to screen for the first time anywhere in the UK. And don't forget your ticket for this screening entitles you to free entry into our fabulous closing night party! Check out the movie at www.straight-jacket.com Straight-Jacket is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Diego Lerman
ARGENTINA 2002, 90 mins Certificate 15 Starring Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan, Beatriz Thibaudiin Buenos Aries, Argentina. Marcia (Saphir), a lonely, overweight lingerie salesperson, is kidnapped by two lesbian punks, Mao and Lenin. Mao (Crespo) claims to be in love with Marcia. Lenin (Hassan) is mysterious and a little scary. But although Diego Lerman’s first feature sounds like a wild, dark road movie it’s actually a gentle, deeper film about character and friendship - as we discover when the trio turn up at Lenin’s great-aunt Blanca’s house, and decide to stay. Mao now has Marcia; Marcia, it’s clear, is made up to be have been kidnapped. But what will become of Lenin? … Shot in gorgeous black and white and played by a cast of (mostly) non-professional actors, Suddenly is a subtle, rewarding, atmospheric experience: sit back, relax and enjoy. In Spanish with English subtitles. Original Spanish title: Tan de repente. SUDDENLY is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director John Palmer
CANADA 2004, 78 mins Certificate 18 Starring Brendan Fehr, Andre Noble, Maury Chaykin, Sarah Polley Long before he became a filmmaker Bruce La Bruce (The Raspberry Reich - which we screened last year) wrote a series of autobiographical short stories called JD (Juvenile Delinquent). These stories have now made it to the screen in the form of the sexy, shocking Sugar, the acclaimed second feature from legendary theatre director John Palmer. A suburban boy, Cliff (Noble), goes out on his 18th birthday armed only with a skateboard, a subway pass and a joint. He very quickly meets - and falls in love with - Butch (Fehr), a street hustler. But intimacy doesn’t come easily to Butch, who rents in order to finance a terrible crack habit, and Cliff is irrevocably drawn into his boyfriend’s violent, X-certificate world. Sugar is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Jonathan Caouette
USA 2004, 35mm, 88 mins Certificate 18 Starring Jonathan Caouette, Michael Cox, Adolph Davis and Renee LeBlanc Made for just $218 and exec produced by Gus van Sant, Jonathan Caouette’s autobiographical debut feature Tarnation is a minor miracle. Filled with true tales of Texan madness and abuse, including extraordinary self-shot footage of Jonathan, aged 11, performing in drag, this is a terrifying and moving account of coming out/coming of age in America in the 80s. Best described as a horror-doc, Tarnation was one of the hottest tickets at Sundance in 2004 and is worth seeing for Caouette's (totally weird) High School musical production of Blue Velvet alone. Check out the movie at www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=56 Tarnation is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Jeff Orbach
CANADA 2002, 100 mins Starring Jeff Sutton, David Turnball, Ardith Boxall, Tom McCamus Canada in the 1950s is the setting for the strange, beautiful, ‘unclassifiable’ Zombie movie that is Jeff Orbach's debut feature The Nature of Nicholas. Nicholas (Sutton) is 10, gay, and in love with his best friend Bobby (Turnball). But when one day Nicholas kisses Bobby, Bobby turns his back on him. In his place comes an undead version of his ex friend a Zombie, in fact, and one that Nicholas must keep hidden from everyone. Meanwhile, in a series of scenes reminiscent of the better work of David Lynch, Nicholas is literally haunted by the ghost of his dead father. ... Understated performances throughout compliment this rarely seen film, which the director himself describes as a horror story about the shame of puberty! Check out the movie at www.imdb.com/title/tt0305882/ |
Director Basil Dearden
UK 1961, 100 mins/Certificate PG Starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Sims, Dennis Price, Hilton Edwards In the first of his darker roles (The Damned and Death in Venice were to follow), Dirk Bogarde is Meville Farr, a married, successful, closeted gay lawyer. Boy Barrett is his lover, the victim of the title, who kills himself rather than reveal their relationship. Farr, however, refuses to be a victim. He determines to track down the blackmailer who tormented Barrett... even if it means the end of his career, even if it means having the truth “ripped out” of him by his wife (Sylvia Sims, in a role no other female actor of the day would touch). Be warned: the plot twists and turns many times in this landmark British thriller, which features a host of gay actors (Dennis Price, Hilton Edwards), and the blackmailer is not who you think it is! Check out the movie at www.imdb.com/title/tt0055597/ Victim is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |
Director Robert Aldrich
USA 1962, 132 mins Certificate 12A Starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Anna Lee Robert Aldrich’s terrifying camp classic boasts two of the greatest performances of all time – from two Hollywood legends who hated each other off screen. Bette Davis is Baby Jane, the grotesque former child star reduced to caring for - and tormenting - her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford). But who, exactly, is responsible for the mysterious car crash that crippled Blanche and ended her career?… Beloved of gay audiences and Liverpool audiences (thanks to a legendary all-male stage version by Hollywood TNT), Baby Jane is simply a must-see-again movie and we’re delighted to be screening it at the fabulous Philharmonic Hall. Watch out for the rat, Joan!  Check out the movie at www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/ Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is currently available to rent or buy on DVD in the UK |