film: a la carte.PARAGRAPH 175: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet) return with this haunting, powerhouse documentary about gay men who survived the Holocaust. (New Yorker Films, September 13) BLOW DRY: It's Strictly Ballroom with extra Final Net as lesbian couple Natasha Richardson and Rachel Griffiths reteam Richardson's ex-husband (Alan Rickman) for one last stab at the British National Hairdressing hairdressing, arranging of the hair for decorative, ceremonial, or symbolic reasons. Primitive men plastered their hair with clay and tied trophies and badges into it to represent their feats and qualities. Championship. (Miramax, September 22) WOMAN ON TOP: Harold Perrineau Jr. (Oz, Smoke) is a bid ol' drag queen in this zesty comedy about a lovelorn chef (Penelope Cruz) and her adventures in San Francisco. (Fox Searchlight, September 22) BEST IN SHOW: Another riotous improv comedy from Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman Waiting for Guffman is a musical mockumentary starring, co-written and directed by Christopher Guest that was released in 1997. It stars a cast of actors who have come to form an acting troupe that has appeared in a series of Guest-directed mockumentaries. ), this time about the world of dog shows--keep an eye on Michael McKean and John Michael Higgins
John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963[1] as superfags who madly pamper pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. their shih tzus. (Warner Bros.-Castle Rock, September 29) THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB--A ROMANTIC COMEDY: The gay movie you can't escape this year features a formidable ensemble in a comedic and dramatic tale of friends on a West Hollywood softball team. (Sony Classics, September 29) BOYS LIFE 3: More fabulous gay short films, including $30 (costarring Sara Gilbert) and Jason Gould's (right, with Elliott Gould) hilarious, semiautobiographical sem·i·au·to·bi·o·graph·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or being a work that falls between fiction and autobiography: a semiautobiographical novel. Adj. 1. Inside Out, (Strand Releasing, October 6) DR. T AND THE WOMEN: Robed Altman's ensemble comedy concerns a gynecologist gynecologist /gy·ne·col·o·gist/ (-kol´ah-jist) a person skilled in gynecology. gy·ne·col·o·gist n. A physician specializing in gynecology. (Richard Gere) with female trouble: His wife is losing it, and his engaged daughter (Kate Hudson) loves another woman (Liv Tyler). (Artisan, October 6) BOUNCE: Out writer-director Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex) returns with the hetero hetero prefix, Latin, different love story of a guy (Ben Affleck) who gives up his seat on a doomed airplane and the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) of the unlucky recipient of Affleck's ticket. (Miramax, October 13) WHAT'S COOKING? Four different families (one Jewish, one African-American, one Asian-American, one Latino) face the uniquely American tribal ritual that is Thanksgiving. Kyra Sedgwick is the Jewish daughter who brings home her shiksa shik·sa also shik·se n. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a non-Jewish girl or woman. [Yiddish shikse, feminine of shegetz, shegetz; see shegetz. lover (Julianna Margulies). (Trimark, October 27) QUILLS: Kinky decadence of all stripes, as director Philip Kaufman (Henry & June) takes on the Marquis de Sade Noun 1. Marquis de Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, de Sade, Sade (played by Geoffrey Rush). (Fox Searchlight, November 10) THE WEEKEND: Gena Rowlands is the matriarch of a dysfunctional family; on the anniversary of the death of Rowlands's gay son (D.B. Sweeney), his ex (David Conrad) shows up with a new boyfriend (James Duval, left), (Strand, November 24) ORIGINAL SIN: A man makes a pass at Antonio Banderas in this new thriller, but that should hardly bother him--the hunky Spaniard does have Philadelphia and all those Almodovar movies behind him. (MGM/UA, November) SONGCATCHER: Turn-of-the-century music teacher Janet McTeer (left, with Aidan Quinn) leaves behind her chauvinist peers in New York and travels to the Appalachians, where her sister (Jane Adams of Happiness) and her sister's lover (E. Katherine Kerr) are schoolmarms. (Trimark, December 1) VATEL: This Cannes feature drew heat for its negative portrayal of a rapacious gay man (played by Murray Lachlan Young Murray Lachlan Young is a British performance poet whose humorous work enjoyed a spectacular but brief vogue during the mid-1990s. He is best known for having signed to EMI amid a blaze of publicity in 1996, reportedly receiving a £1 million advance (though this sum, despite being ), but the plot mostly deals with Louis XIV (Julian Sands) and famed chef Vatel (Gerard Depardieu). (Miramax, December 25) SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE: John Malkovich plays gay director F.W. Murnau in this creepy behind-the-scenes look at the making of the silent vampire classic Nosferatu. Willem Dafoe (above) should snag an award or two for his eerie portrayal of Max Schreck. (Lions Gate, December 29) |
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