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.
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
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.
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 5th 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 3rd 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
Mon 6th 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
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 3rd 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 5th 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 3rd July, ICA Cinema 1, 8.30pm + School Disco till late
Sat 4th 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 4th July, ICA Cinema 1, 4.30pm
Monday 6th 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 1st 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 5th 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 28th 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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