Posted on: Friday, May 25, 2001
Movies
'Hedwig and Angry Inch' kicks off Gay & Lesbian Festival
Advertiser Staff
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| From left, Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell in a scene from "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," which kicks off the annual Adam Baran Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Mitchell wrote the musical on which the movie is based, directed the film and stars as Hansel/Hedwig. Gannett News Service photo Adam Baran Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Film Festival |
The Adam Baran Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Film Festival celebrates its 12th year with a lineup of award-winning features, film festival favorites and short films at the Honolulu Academy of Arts theater:
Thursday
Opening night, reception 5:30 p.m., film at 7:30 p.m.; $15
• "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," (2000; 95 minutes) winner of the Teddy (Gay/Lesbian) for Best Feature Film, 2001 Berlin International Film Festival; Audience Award (Drama), Directing Prize, 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Based on the off-Broadway hit, this comic drama/musical appears to be headed for cult fame. It's about a transsexual rocker whose sex change is botched, leaving an "angry inch." She finds herself stranded in a Kansas trailer park, occasionally finds love and abandonment and does form a rock band, called The Angry Inch. Directed by and starring John Cameron Mitchell as Hansel/Hedwig.
June 1 • 6 p.m.: "101 Rent Boys (2000; 85 minutes). A documentary that looks at 101 hustlers, but focuses on the lives and loves of a few on the Santa Monica Strip. Preceded by "Traditional Family Vampires" (2000; 17 minutes), about a right-wing family of bloodsuckers. • 8 p.m.: "Lost and Delirious" (2000; 100 minutes). Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré and Mischa Barton star in a tale about young love and passion in a posh girls boarding school. Preceded by "The Deal" (2000; 10 minutes): What happens when an aspiring actress meets a powerful lesbian producer?
June 2 • 4 p.m.: Mixed plate of short films, including "The Man in the Irony Mask," "Constructions," "Confidences," "Coming to Terms," "Blue Horizon," "Override," "Dykes and Their Dogs." "Constructions" director Kathryn Xian, Blanden Blinn of "Confidences" and Don Brown of "Blue Horizon" will be on hand to present their films. • 6 p.m.: "Portland Street Blues" (1998; 114 minutes). Set in the violent world of Hong Kong triads, this is a thriller about Sister Thirteen, the only female in a group of 13 gang lords, who reflects on her formative teen years and the loves of her life. • 8 p.m.: "Big Eden" (2000; 114 minutes). Winner of the Audience Award, New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Best Actor award for Eric Schweig, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
Henry (Arye Gross) returns to his hometown to care for his grandfather. He's reunited with Dean (Tim DeKay), his best friend from high school, but attracts the attention of Pike (Schweig), the general-store owner.
Preceded by "Coffee Date" (2000; 17 minutes), about a straight guy whose first blind date is to take place in a gay coffeehouse. Director Stewart Wade will introduce the film.
June 3 • 2 p.m.: "That's a Family!" (2000; 35 minutes) and "Our House: a very real documentary about kids of gay and lesbian parents" (1999; 56 minutes). Free.
"That's a Family!" — Audience Winner, Barcelona and San Francisco Gay & Lesbian film festivals — looks at nontraditional families from the children's points of view. "Our House" — Documentary award winner, 2000 Outfest — focuses on five families led by same-sex parents. • 4 p.m.: "Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale" (2001; 90 minutes). Jury Prize, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2000; Best Documentary, Hamptons International Film Festival, 2000; Special Critics Award, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, 2000.
This is the story of gay New York intellectual Tobias Schneebaum, who in 1955 joined a cannibalistic tribe in New Guinea. • 7 p.m. "Lost at the Pershing Point Hotel" (2000; 107 minutes). Based on Leslie Jordan's award-winning play, this film follows the TV sitcom comic's journey in the 1970s to Atlanta, where he spends three years among the seedy drag queens and hustlers of the Pershing Point Hotel. It's billed as a mix of "Trainspotting," "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Bird Cage."
