![]() But why All About Eve (8:30pm, July 20)? That's a rhetorical question the gay audience has long been under the delusion that the late-period Bette Davis is a man in disguise. The yearning anthem "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" primes the pump for the tears in both The Crying Game (4pm, July 20) and Boys Don't Cry (1pm, July 21). It was the forerunner of decades of fatal romance, leading to the dyke-noir of Russ Meyer's immortal Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (11pm, July 20) and Bound (8:30pm, July 21).Īnd despite hundreds of homosexual jokes in pre-Code movies, from Mae West to Betty Boop, gay film likewise really begins with The Wizard of Oz (9pm, July 19). The German-made film tells of doomed passion in a third-rate Potsdam girls' school. It's "one of the few films to have an inherently gay sensibility," wrote historian Vito Russo in The Celluloid Closet. Without doubt, lesbian film begins with 1931's Maedchen in Uniform (6pm, July 20). Still, the festival has booked a broadly themed slate of revivals, claiming them as gay with a hegemonic gusto that Slobo Milosevic would envy. When I mentioned the popularity of gay film in San Jose to Hedwig star John Cameron Mitchell, he speculated, "Maybe they're assimilated down there." But these days, Mitchell added, "there are lots of shitty gay films." The cinema that brings us Kiss Me Guido, the very sticky Broken Hearts Club (6pm, July 21) and Big Eden has some explaining to do. Mostly what the festival's calendar suggests is that gay people, who often don't have to worry about the tedious matter of hiring a baby-sitter, are the backbone of the repertory and art-movie audience. The festival closes with an early preview of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (8:30pm, July 22), the much-recommended musical about a German transsexual punk rocker on the warpath. WHAT EXACTLY is a gay film? The minimarathon of 15 films constituting this year's San Jose Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (July 19-22) is a tangle of different strains. ![]() ![]() Only Her Hairdresser: Jaye Davidson (top) stars with Miranda Richardson in 'They Crying Game.'įilms run the gamut at SJ Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Metroactive Features | San Jose Gay & Lesbian Film Festival ![]()
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