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Join us every Tuesday at 2 p.m. for a great movie followed by
discussion/social time at the Pride Center (18
Trinity Place, Buffalo). For more information, e-mail
info or call
716-852-PRIDE (7743).
Click here to suggest a movie.
MAY MOVIES
May 31:
Gia
Starring
Angeline Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl.
Novelist
Jay McInerney and playwright
Michael Cristofer (who also made his feature film directorial debut)
collaborated on the script for this bio of doomed supermodel Gia Carangi.
Gia (Jolie), a gorgeous Philadelphia native who arrives in New York City
to become a model, immediately makes an impression on high-powered agent
Wilhelmina Cooper (Dunaway).
Gia's fierce good looks make her a star, as does her willingness to pose
nude. Gia becomes entangled in a passionate affair with a photographer's
assistant, Linda (Mitchell), but Linda is more conflicted about her
bisexuality, driving Gia away and fueling the model's craving for
mood-altering drugs. Failed attempts at reconciliation with both Linda
and her mother Kathleen (Ruehl)
drive Gia further over the edge from cocaine to heroin, her emaciated
body and sunken eyes becoming the catalyst for the "heroin chic" look.
Although Gia is eventually able to kick her powerful habit, she learns
that an infected needle has resulted in her contracting the AIDS virus.
JUNE MOVIES
June 7: De-Lovely
Starring
Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce. Musical performances by Robbie
Williams, Natalie Cole, Elvis Costello, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow.
A musical portrait of American composer
Cole Porter (Kline) in which the musician looks back on his life as if
it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of
his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate
production numbers Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light ---
including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse,
Linda Lee Porter (Judd), and the many men in his life.
June 14: If These
Walls Could Talk 2
Starring Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Redgrave, Elizabeth
Perkins,
Paul Giamatti, Michelle Williams, Chloe Sevigny, Nia Long, Kathy Najimy.
This three-part
drama, produced for HBO, examines the changing tides of the lives of
lesbians in America, both politically and personally, as we eavesdrop on
three stories taking place in the same house over a span of five
decades. In 1961, the house is home to Edith (Redgrave)
and Abby (Marian
Seldes), an elderly lesbian couple whose lifestyle is not accepted
or acknowledged by their families. In 1972, the house is home to four
college students, Michelle (Amy
Carlson), Linda (Williams),
Karen (Long),
and Jeanne (Natasha
Lyonne), all of whom are actively involved in the women's movement
and also happen to be lesbians. Linda faces hostility from her friends
when she becomes involved with Amy (Sevigny),
a very butch townie. In 2000, Fran (Stone)
and Kal (DeGeneres),
a happy and committed couple, are sharing the house, and after much
discussion, they decide that they want to take their relationship to the
next level and have a baby.
June 21: Hedwig
and the Angry Inch
Starring
John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor.
Adapted from the hit
off-Broadway musical of the same name is this tale of an
"internationally ignored" rock & roll singer who hails from Communist
Berlin and who dreams of becoming an American sensation. Hedwig (Cameron
Mitchell), born a boy named Hansel, is raised by a single mother (Alberta
Watson) who wishes to see her son do better than his
poverty-stricken family. Some years later, Hansel is attracted to a
good-looking American G.I, who promises a better life overseas for young
Hansel, under one condition: that he undergo a sex-change operation to
become a fully functional female who he can then marry. The operation is
seriously botched, leaving the now-renamed Hedwig with an "angry inch"
only to be stranded in a dingy Kansas trailer park on the day the Berlin
Wall comes tumbling down. Hedwig supports herself through a series of
ill-fated lounge gigs and side jobs, meeting up with 16-year old Tommy
Gnosis (Michael
Pitt), a religious type who befriends her and later steals her songs
and becomes the rock star Hedwig always dreamed of being. Undeterred,
Hedwig continues to perform in the shadow of Tommy's sold-out stadium
tour, attempting to make herself whole in spirit, if not physically.
June 28: It's My
Party
Starring Margaret Cho, Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Marlee Matlin,
Roddy
McDowall, Olivia Newton-John, Bronson Pinchot, George Segal.
Nick
(Roberts) a young gay man whose AIDS symptoms become life threatening
decides to toss a final party before he ends his life, inviting his
friends and family to this most special of special occasions. But then
the ex-love of his life --- film director Brandon (Harrison) who
bailed on him after he was diagnosed with AIDS -- arrives.
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