Seven for the season: what's to see after you catch Brokeback Mountain this holiday season? Plenty.1 The Family Stone * December 16 a.k.a.: Attack of the Perfect Liberal Family The Stone family--led by Craig T. Nelson Craig T. Nelson (born Craig Richard Nelson on April 4, 1944 in Spokane, Washington) is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous motion pictures. He starred in three television shows, Coach, Call to Glory and The District. and Diane Keaton--is such a model of New England liberal acceptance, they evidently think nothing of inviting their gay son's black boyfriend to their home for the holidays. But how will they take to the eldest son (Dermot Mulroney) bringing his formal, tense, career-driven Manhattanite new girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker) for the Christmas festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. ? (Fox) 2 Memoirs of a Geisha * December 9 a.k.a.: Tea Had It Coming Steven Spielberg circled this project to direct for years, but ultimately out Chicago director Rob Marshall took the reins, bringing his impeccable sense of visual pageantry to this epic story of a young Japanese girl trained to become a famed geisha geisha Member of a professional class of women in Japan whose traditional occupation is to entertain men. A geisha must be adept at singing, dancing, and playing traditional musical instruments (e.g., the samisen) in addition to being skilled at making conversation. (Ziyi Zhang) in pre-World War II Japan. (Columbia) 3 Munich * December 25 a.k.a.: Tony Kushner's War on Terror This article is about U.S. actions, and those of other states, after September 11, 2001. For other conflicts, see Terrorism. The War on Terror (also known as the War on Terrorism This sure-to-be-controversial film about the Israeli military response to the 1972 assassination of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian terrorists was set to go before Steven Spielberg's cameras last year, but instead the director turned the script over to playwright Tony Kushner--yes, that Tony Kushner--and then rushed through production this year. Insert joke about Angels in America's "very Steven Spielberg" line here. (Universal/DreamWorks) 4 Rent * November 23 a.k.a.: The Bohemian AIDS Rock Opera It's the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Broadway musical about AIDS, progressive politics, bohemian culture, drag queens, and smokin'-hot lesbians, coming to a multiplex near you, and with a PG-13 rating, no less. (Columbia) 5 The Producers * December 16, limited a.k.a.: The "Gay Hitler Musical Comedy" Musical Comedy It was 1968 when Mel Brooks first offered up his story of a nebbishy accountant and a theatrical producer who hire a lavishly gay director to mount surefire Broadway failure Springtime for Hitler A fictional play in Mel Brooks' The Producers, Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Eva and Adolf at Berchtesgaden is a musical about Adolf Hitler written by Nazi Franz Liebkind. , and legend has it the film almost wasn't released. Ah, how a record-busting Broadway musical smash can change things. Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Gary Beach, and Roger Bart reprise their Broadway roles, and look for a cameo by Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez. (Universal) 6 The Libertine lib·er·tine n. 1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person. 2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker. adj. Morally unrestrained; dissolute. * December 23, limited a.k.a.: The Stealth Bisexual Movie There were reports of a passionate kiss between Johnny Depp (as the scandalously debauched de·bauch v. de·bauched, de·bauch·ing, de·bauch·es v.tr. 1. a. To corrupt morally. b. To lead away from excellence or virtue. 2. 17th-century poet John Wilmot) and his character's male lover, but alas, even though Wilmot was openly bisexual, the smooch has not made the final film. There does remain a stage show with women handling, um, rather large phallic objects, which, you know, didn't happen all that often back then either. So there's that. (Weinstein) 7 Transamerica * December 23, limited a.k.a.: The Transgender Road Movie Felicity Huffman won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Actress award for her role as a pre-op MTF (1) (Modulation Transfer Function) A measurement of monitor sharpness. MTF compares the contrast ratio between alternating black and green lines that are one pixel thick. traveling cross-country with a teenage son she unknowingly fathered 17 years previous. But Huffman is such a class act she skipped accepting the plaudit so she could kiss fellow Desperate Housewife Marcia Cross at the 2005 GLAAD Media Awards The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1990 by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to recognize and honor the mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives. in Los Angeles. Well, wouldn't you? (Weinstein/IFC Films) [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] |
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