The Reeling Film Festival opens tonight here in Chicago. There’s a whole mess of great movies to check out, and you can read some tidbits about some of them right here.
I’ll be introducing two of the films:
The Adults in the Room (with filmmaker Andy Blubaugh in person)
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (a co-presentation of the Queer Film Society)
Hope you can make it!
Four Lions [2010]
1. “Invisible? You mean like the time you baked the cake in the form of the Twin Towers and left it in front of the synagogue on 9/11?”
2. “Jews invented spark plugs to control global traffic!”
3. The sniper takes down the wookiee.
The Desert of Forbidden Art [2010]
1. “There was no one around to see, except tarantulas, and scorpions, and archeologists.”
2. A wide purple road.
3. Museum staff sets out giant pans of water in each room because the climate is so hot and dry. Primitive humidifiers.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein [1994]
1. A disgusting amount of amniotic fluid.
2. The stitch on his lip ensures a perpetual sneer.
3. A very bad way to go: someone literally rips your heart out and then you roll off the bed, knock over a lamp, and your hair catches fire.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula [1992]
1. Rabbit-head helmet.
2. Melting flowers.
3. As a last defense, she vomits blood all over him.
Fit [2010]
1. The discolored teeth of the football promoter.
2. He pulls up the picture on the phone and zooms in on Tegs’ chest.
3. “You’re not a straight knob, you’re just a knob.”
This film screens Friday, November 12 as part of Reeling, The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival.
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger [2010]
1. Sign attached to a crib: AIDS–DO NOT TOUCH.
2. He’s thrown head-first into a giant vat of grapes.
3. Rock Hudson: “Will you scratch my back? No one will touch me.”
This film screens Tuesday, November 9 as part of Reeling, The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival. I’ll be introducing the screening on behalf of the Queer Film Society. Hope to see you there!
Beeswax [2009]
1. “Not radio silence. A middle ground between radio silence and hot sex.”
2. He’s wearing a Brown ’92 t-shirt.
3. “See what I did there? Did you see that? That was hilarious.”
The Game of Juan’s Life [2009]
1. “100 will get you 150 if you win,” the bookie tells him.
2. A man bangs on the bathroom door. “Open up. I’m about to give birth.”
3. He has left his sandals behind. He walks barefoot down the street, helping her push the cart.
This film screens Saturday, November 13 as part of Reeling, The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done [2009]
1. Puritan Oatmeal.
2. The handler gently retrieves the eyeglasses from the ostrich’s throat.
3. He releases the flamingos. The SWAT team moves in.
Terrible. Some arresting moments, and a 100% committed performance by Michael Shannon, cannot disguise how pointless this movie is.
