[net.movies] News England Gay & Lesbian Fil Festival: Week #1 Schedule

rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) (06/04/85)

The New England Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: First Week's Schedule
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(Info taken from Orson Welles Theater bulletin)

June 5/6  Wed/Thurs
DRIFTING (Amos Guttman, Israel)         4:30, 8:00
Budding filmmaker Robi lives with his grandmother in Tel Aviv. One night
he brings home "two Arab studs" who may be terrorists.  Boston premiere.

EACH OTHER (Michal Bat-Adam, Israel)    2;45, 6:00, 9;45
A love story between two young women.  Boston premiere.

June 7/8  Fri/Sat
BLACK LIZARD (Kenji Fukasaku)           1:00, 4:30, 8:00
A Japanese DIVA?  Starring Akihiri Maruyama, Japan's most famous onna-gata,
or female impersonator, as a "wicked woman" in a "kooky kabuki" caper film.

CORRUPT                                 2:45, 6:15, 9:45
Sex Pistol John Lydon has an intense S&M "thing" for cop Harvey Keitel.
"Cameo performance by the real Sylvia Sidney."  Boston premiere.

June 9/10/11 Sun/Mon/Tue
SCRUBBERS (Mai Zetterling)              1:15, 4:35, 8:00
Featuring the escapades of the Hellhole Bitches, a dyke prison gang.

SCUM                                    2:55, 6:15, 9:45
A male version of SCRUBBERS set in a borstal (British reform school).
Watch Julian Firth get molested by everyone.  Boston premiere.

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PLEASE NOTE:  The above is only the first of 3+ weeks of the Festival.
My worklaod does not allow me to type more in now.  But stay posted!

						Breathlessly,
						Ron Rizzo