Max Roeg in this month's Attitude

Rising star Max Roeg is featured in this month's Attitude (Bruno in the buff cover) where he discusses making the film alongside 'Superman Returns' star, Stephen Bender.

Dream Boy is out to buy on DVD this Monday.

Excellent POUT preview in the Guardian!

Fake lesbianism and cele-bi-curiosity are all the rage at the moment, to the justifiable distaste of those who actually do kiss girls and boys, and like it. Fortunately, there's enough real gayness in all its incredibly diverse glory at this queer film festival, to satisfy. There are queer cult classics like The Killing of Sister George, new gay and lesbian-themed films like the Riot Grrrl-inspired All Over Me, a poignant teen love story with a killer soundtrack, and a highlight whatever your persuasion is Before Stonewall, a hugely entertaining documentary on the birth of the gay rights movement.

• ICA, SW1 & Curzon Soho, W1, Sun to 6 Jul

Lost & Delirious School Disco!

FIRST EVER UK CINEMA SCREENING!

Following an exclusive screening of 'Lost & Delirious' at the ICA, POUT 2009 will be hosting a school disco in the bar til late!

Relive those precious teenage memories of your secret crushes & sapphic infatuations, declare your hidden desires and finally tell that oppressive headmistress where to shove it.

DRESS CODE: Preppy boarding school chic or that school kid from the wrong side of the tracks.

ANNOUNCED DJ's: Spanna Wintour & Emo Neice


LOST AND DELIRIOUS (Peccadillo)
Dir. Léa Pool, Canada, 2001, 103mins
Starring: Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré
FIRST EVER CINEMA SCREENING IN THE UK!

Léa Pool's contribution to women's film is often overlooked. Fifteen years after her ground-breaking depiction of lesbian love in the ponderously stylish Anne Trister, sapphic love receives an injection of post-Queer energy. The frisson of boarding school antics and a starlet cast (Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo) doesn't, however, distract Pool from an unflinching portrayal of first love.

I Think I Do - Special Edition, out June 29th.

Alexis Arquette (Last Exit to Brooklyn) stars as Bob in a screwball ensemble comedy where being heterosexual is not as straightforward as it seems! A group of college pals re-unite at a wedding with disastrous results - Will Sarah bed the hunky Brendan? Is Brendan secretly longing for Bob? Or will Bob marry Sterling (Tuc Watkins, Desperate Housewives), and get his hoped-for themed wedding? Most importantly, can Carol ditch the Prozac? The off-the-wall who-will-marry-who antics of 'The Philadelphia Story' are given a gay update in this charming Hollywood classic.

SPECIAL EDITION RELEASE INCLUDES DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY WITH ALEXIS ARQEUTTE PLUS INTERVIEW!

Before Stonewall trailer

Out on DVD June 22nd!

Best Director at Cannes 09: Brilliante Mendoza

Everyone at Peccadillo is very excited by Sunday's news from Cannes that Brillante Mendoza won Best Director for his highly controversial new film, 'Kinatay'. His innovative shooting style and edgy scripts meant that it was about time his visionary talents were soon recognised.

Peccadillo released his cult classic, 'The Masseur' on DVD last year and next year we'll be releasing his intense thriller 'Slingshot' which has been a massive hit at various festivals across the UK.

Congrats Brillante!

POUT - Proud and Out Cinema Week, 28th June - 6th July 2009

POUT

POUT - LGBT Cinema during

London Pride Week

28th June - 6th July 2009

To celebrate this year’s London Pride, Peccadillo Pictures, Verve Pictures, ICA, Club Des Femmes and Curzon Cinemas have teamed up to form POUT, bringing you the very best in queer cinema during Pride week. Catering to every taste and persuasion, classic historical dramas such as BEFORE STONEWALL and THE CELLULOID CLOSET will court controversy alongside British cult classics THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE and cult-in-the-making GREEK PETE. Heart-warming crowd pleasers LOST AND DELIRIOUS and SUMMERSTORM round out a programme that aims to bring a variety of entertaining and thought-provoking LGBT cinema to a modern gay audience.

.Special thanks to the ICA, Curzon Cinemas, Verve Pictures and Club de Femmes.

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ALL OVER ME

Dir. Alex Sichel, USA, 1997, 90mins

Starring: Leisha Hailey, Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser

Mon 6 July, ICA Cinema 2, 7pm

Riot Grrrl culture revisited. Alex Sichel's directorial debut, scripted by her sister, teases apart internalised homophobia, first love, teen angst,music and the city. Made within a couple of years of Larry Clark's Kids and Maria Maggenti's The Incredible True Story of Two Girls in Love, it easily matches them with its downbeat clarity and refreshing visual style.

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BEFORE STONEWALL

Dir. Greta Schiller, USA, 1984, 87mins

Featuring: Rita Mae Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Lisa Ben, Evelyn Hooker

WITH INTRODUCTION FROM KEN LIVINGSTONE

Mon 29^th June, Curzon Soho, 9pm

On June 27, 1969, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. In a spontaneous show of support and frustration, the city's gay community rioted for three nights in the streets, an event that is considered the birth of the modern Gay Rights Movement. Revealing and often humorous, this award-winning documentary exposes the fascinating and unforgettable decade-by-decade history of homosexuality in America, from 1920's Harlem through to World War II and the witch hunt trials of the McCarthy era. Essential viewing for all those who have celebrated their sexuality, or have been persecuted because of it.

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BORN IN ‘68

Dir. Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, France, 2008, 170mins

Starring: Laetitia Casta, Theo Frilet, Yannick Renier, Edouard Collin, Sabrina Seyvecou

PREVIEW SCREENING

Sun 5^th July, ICA Cinema 1, 6pm

It's 1968 and three idealistic hippies decide to set up a commune in the French countryside. Vive la Révolution! Twenty years on, they have raised their children into a new world order that sees the collapse of communism and the spread of Aids. A beautifully shot, multi-generational saga that boldly looks at politics, society and love from generation to generation.

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THE CELLULOID CLOSET

Dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, USA, 1995, 102mins

Featuring: Harvey Fierstein, Tom Hanks and Shirley MacLaine

Fri 3^rd July, Curzon Soho, 6.30pm

An epic story by turns suprising, hilarious and disturbing, the Emmy winning The Celluloid Closet makes us see Hollywood images in a whole new light, exploding sexual myths and examining our attitudes about sexuality and sex roles as they evolved through the 20th Century.

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DREAM BOY

Dir. James Bolton, USA, 2009, 90mins

Starring: Max Roeg, Stephan Bender, Diana Scarwid, Thomas Jane Ryan

WITH INTRODUCTION FROM JIM MACSWEENEY, PROPRIETOR OF THE UK’S FIRST EVER GAY BOOK SHOP, ‘GAYS THE WORD'

Mon 6^th July, ICA Cinema 1, 6.30pm

A page to screen adaptation of the hugely popular and award-winning novel of the same name, Dream Boy is a sensitive depiction of a love affair between two high-school boys in the rural South. Featuring music from Richard Buckner, Rickie Lee Jones and The Sweet Hereafter and starring Max Roeg in his feature debut.

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GREEK PETE

Dir. Andrew Haigh, UK, 2009, 79mins

Featuring: Peter Pittaros, Lewis Wallis

PREVIEW SCREENING, FOLLOWED BY DIRECTOR Q&A

Thu 2^nd July, ICA Cinema 1, 8.30pm + Director Q&A

British talent Andrew Haigh is fast becoming a new director to watch. A highlight of this year's LLGFF, his film follows a group of London rent boys for six months creating a raw semi-improved docu-drama that reveals the ugly side of capitalism as well as scenes of real tenderness. Comparisons to Joe Dallessandro in Paul Morrisey's Flesh are hard to ignore, as Haigh skillfully teases out public and private performances from his subjects.

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HUSTLER WHITE

Dir. Rick Castro and Bruce LaBruce, USA, 1996, 79mins

Starring: Tony Ward, Bruce La Bruce, Alex Austin

Fri 3^rd July, ICA Cinema 1, 10.45pm

Inspired by Billy Wilder`s classic Sunset Blvd. and directed by that notorious director of all things gay, perverse and political, Bruce LaBruce's cult sensation serves up a fresh dose of the seedy and the needy on Santa Monica Boulevard, including a born again country singer, a razor blade masochist, a mortician dominatrix and an amputee fetishist. Starring Madonna's one-time toy boy Tony Ward, Hustler White is an old-fashioned love story wrapped up in titillation, depravity and the most mind-bending of back room shenanigans.

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THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (Club Des Femmes)

Dir. Robert Aldrich, UK, 1968, 138mins

Starring: Beryl Reid, Susannah Yorke, Coral Browne, Patricia Medina

FEATURING A TRIBUTE TO THE INFAMOUS GATEWAYS CLUB

Sun 5^th July, Curzon Soho, 3pm

A failure at the box office due to its controversial X-rated sex scene, this film became an era-defining cult classic. As a special Pride extra the screening also features a tribute to the infamous Gateways Club.

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LOST AND DELIRIOUS

Dir. Léa Pool, Canada, 2001, 103mins

Starring: Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré

FIRST EVER CINEMA SCREENING IN THE UK!

Fri 3^rd July, ICA Cinema 1, 8.30pm + School Disco till late

Sat 4^th July, ICA Cinema 2, 2pm

Léa Pool's contribution to women's film is often overlooked. Fifteen years after her ground-breaking depiction of lesbian love in the ponderously stylish Anne Trister, sapphic love receives an injection of post-Queer energy. The frisson of boarding school antics and a starlet cast (Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo) doesn't, however, distract Pool from an unflinching portrayal of first love.

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SUMMERSTORM

Dir.Marco Kreuzpaintner, Germany, 2005, 98mins

Starring: Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Jürgen Tonkel, Roman Storm

Sat 4^th July, ICA Cinema 1, 4.30pm

Monday 6^th July, ICA Cinema 2, 9pm

A rare example of a coming out tale with brains and brawn. Director Kreuzpaintner's semi autobiographical Bavarian summer camp romantic drama collected a sleuth of awards on its release and achieved that rare thing of achieving critical success with both gay and straight audiences. Who knew that rowing could be so sexy?

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THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK

Dir.Rob Epstein, USA, 1984, 90mins

Featuring: Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Dan White

Wed 1^st July, Curzon Soho, 9pm

Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Harvey Milk's assassination, The Times of Harvey Milk is one of the landmark documentaries of our time. In 1978 Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco City Council, becoming California's first openly gay person to be elected to public office. One year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by fellow Councillor Dan White. The Times of Harvey Milk recreates the story of Milk's grass-roots political organizing and election, through his shocking murder and its repercussions. Narrated by Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) this is an impassioned and profoundly moving portrait of communities in conflict. The film's numerous awards include a Sundance Special Jury Prize and an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

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TROPICAL MALADY

Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2004, 120mins

Starring: Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee

Sun 5^th July, ICA Cinema 2, 2.30pm

Tropical Malady' explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.

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THE WORLD TEN TIMES OVER (Club Des Femmes)

Dir. Wolf Rilla, UK, 1963, 93mins

Starring: Sylvia Syms, Edward Judd, June Ritchie

Sun 28^th June, Curzon Soho, 2.30pm

Possibly the first British lesbian film. At a time when female emancipation and sexual freedom was heavily regulated, Syms delivers a powerhouse performance as a nightclub hostess disgusted with her job and unable to set herself free. With thanks to Story of London.

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For futher details on special events and to book tickets

please go to the ICA or Curzon Cinemas.

BFI LLGFF on Tour 2009

Fresh from the success of the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the best of the fest are about to spread their little wings and go on tour around the country's finest cinemas.

The confirmed titles are:

Baby Love

Bandaged

Born in 68 (Special Preview)

Dolls

Dream Boy

Ghosted

Greek Pete

Nighthawks

Pedro

To Each Her Own

Currently confirmed venues and dates at present:

Greenwich Picturehouse
Greek Pete & Nighthawks - Mon 18 May

Belmont Aberdeen
Greek Pete - Mon 1 Jun
Dream Boy - Mon 6 Jul

Cinema City Norwich
To Each Her Own - Sun 26 July

Dublin GAZE, Irish Film Institute
Thu 30 Jul - Mon 3 Aug. Titles TBC

Broadway Nottingham
July. Dates and titles TBC

Edinburgh Filmhouse
July. Dates and titles TBC

Watershed Bristol
July. Dates and titles TBC

Glasgow Film Theatre, July. Dates and titles TBC.

Stay tuned for further details on more exciting events this July for Pride 2009!

Jim Grimsley at Gay's The Word, April 7th

As part of the BFI LLGFF 2009, Jim Grimsley was in London to promote the film adapation of 'Dream Boy' which was completely sold-out throughout the festival. Peccadillo was fortunate enough to attend Jim's wonderful reading at Gay's The Word, the UK's first ever gay and lesbian bookshop, run by Jim MacSweeney.

The two Jims got on like a house on fire and shared many a gay tale at dinner later that night in Chinatown. Sadly, they're far too tasteless to post here!

Maybe if you pop into Gay's The Word, Mr MacSweeney might share a few...

Before I Forget at the ICA from April 17th

Peccadillo Pictures invites you to attend the opening night of our latest theatrical release, Before I Forget, where director and star Jacques Nolot will be in attendance and discussing the issues raised in the film.

Tickets are available from the ICA here or by telephone on 0207 7930 3647.

Hope you make it!