OCTOBER
18-27, 2002

Introduction
Index of Films

10/18, Friday
10/19, Saturday
10/20, Sunday
10/21, Monday
10/22, Tuesday
10/23, Wednesday
10/24, Thursday
10/25, Friday
10/26, Saturday
10/27, Sunday

Print Version

CPArts

Queer Notions
Reel Affirmations Festival

21MONDAY

OUT in the Cold
This film by American directors Eric Criswell and Martin Bedogne looks at the plight of homeless gay youth and the societal pressures that drive them from their families and communities.
At 6 p.m. at the DCJCC. Free.

Cock & Bull Story
Behold Brian Austin Green's bare ass: You didn't see that on 90210! And you sure as hell didn't see him skank up the streets as a booze-addled hustler begging for handjobs and getting two-by-four'd in the gut by cold-blooded pimps. In Cock & Bull Story, Green is convincingly shifty as slick-haired Jacko, bad influence and best friend to Travis (Bret Roberts), a sweet, clean-cut boxing prodigy hoping to fight his way outta the South Side of Chicago. Travis talks gals with his best pal and acts silly with his doe-eyed girlfriend, but in the ring, going skin to skin, sweat to sweat, something happens to the pugilist: He gets sexually excited "in the clinch" with his male opponents. As Travis deals with his male-bonding issues and pummels the men he craves most, Jacko hits on his best friend's confused girl and starts a neighborhood war all leading up to a powder-keg finish. Loaded with convincing perform ances especially by Green, who managed to sprout some serious talent after fleeing Beverly Hills the movie is helped further by director Billy Hayes' thriller-style pacing and brutal fight scenes. And Hayes should certainly know something about gritty lifestyles: His seven years served in a Turkish prison for drug trafficking were the inspiration for Alan Parker's 1978 film Midnight Express.
—Sean Daly
At 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre.

We Need You...to Become a Filmmaker
This presentation about women in the movie industry includes pre-talk screenings of Erin Greenwell's 21, Courtenay Singer and Melanie Wood's Changing Room, Paula Durette's Ladies Tea, and Catherine Crouch's Pretty Ladies: A Super8explosion. Afterward, Greenwell, Singer, Durette, and Pretty Ladies producer K.J. Mohr will discuss how they financed, shot, and promoted their films.
At 7 p.m. at the DCJCC.

Lez-Be-[Canadi]an: Women's Shorts
This program of short films by Canadian directors includes Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature, Allison Mitchell and Lex Vaughn's Bon Bon, and Cassandra Nicolaou's Interviews With My Next Girlfriend.
At 9 p.m. at the DCJCC.

Sex and the Single Male
This 115-minute program of shorts examines the risks and rituals of gay courtship. It includes Brian Sloan's Bumping Heads, Larry Lafond's Gaydar, Steven Sprung's Hotbod.com, Jorge Ameer's Misguided Piss, and Randy Eisenberg's Two Big Fags.
At 9 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre.

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