A Four Letter Word (Opens March 28th)
From director Casper Andreas (Slutty Summer) comes A FOUR LETTER WORD, a fun new gay romantic comedy starring Charlie David (Dante’s Cove, Kiss the Bride), Jesse Archer (Slutty Summer, Boy Culture and OUT magazine columnist) and JR Rolley. Opening in NYC at Chelea Clearview on March 28 and at Sunset 5 in Los Angeles, as well as at the Palme D’Or in Palm Springs, on April 11th. Other cities to follow in April and May including San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, San Diego and Boston. Find complete details on the Official Website.
Stop-Loss (Opens March 28th)
From Kimberly Peirce, director of BOYS DON’T CRY, comes this timely and powerful drama starring Ryan Phillippe (54) and Channing Tatum (Step Up 2 The Streets). Co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin, Latter Days) and Abbie Cornish (The Monkey’s Mask).
Decorated war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) returns to his Texas hometown following his tour of duty in Iraq. He attempts to resume the life he left behind but the Army orders him to return to duty in Iraq. The film takes on the military’s controversial Stop-Loss policy which sends soldiers back into action even after they have completed their tours of duty in Iraq.Opens March 28th.
More details at the Official Website.
New In Theaters: March 14th
Paranoid ParkThe latest from gay filmmaker Gus Van Sant, PARANOID PARK exists in a world of “throwaway kids” who are into skateboarding above all else. Paranoid Park in Portland Oregon is a homemade boarding facility popular with the sport’s more renegade practitioners. At the center of the tale is Alex (Gabe Nevins), a good-looking, shaggy-haired 16-year-old who is variously seen writing in a diary and watching, more than participating in, skateboarding, at which he feels he’s not that good. A security guard has been run over in the rail yards nearby and foul play is suspected. Alex is soon a suspect. With a soundtrack that features songs from Nino Rota, and cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li, the film was cast with actors found through MySpace. Opens March 14, 2008 at the Bridge in San Francisco, Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley, Camera 12 Cinemas in San Jose. PARANOID PARK, an IFC First Cut release, runs 78 minutes, is in English and is not MPAA rated.Girls RockAmerican girls are struggling with a bewildering and heartbreaking array of challenges to their self-image. Everything from eating disorders to drugs to sexual harassment makes girlhood a virtual battlefield. But Portland Oregon’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls is a place where 8-18 year olds come from all over the country to learn Rock DIY-style–forming bands, writing songs and building community. In the words of former Camp Assistant Director Jen Agosta, “it is 100% ok to be exactly who you are.” GIRLS ROCK! follows four campers: Laura, an articulate adopted Korean girl from Oklahoma obsessed with death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a life of meth addiction, homelessness and gang activity; Palace, a sweet-seeming 8-year-old with a heavy metal sneer and “rawk” heart, and Amelia, another 8-year-old, who’s writing a 14 song cycle about her Chihuahua Pippi and loves “crazy noise music.” Forming bands, writing songs and playing a gig in one week, these girls and the rest of the campers engage in an experiment meant to change their perception of themselves and each other. Backed with the driving sounds of notable female rockers — from Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon to Veruca Salt – GIRLS ROCK! discovers the act of picking up a guitar and making noise can still become a truly personal act. In Limited Release.Lagerfeld ConfidentialTwo years in the making and honed out of 200 hours of digital and Super8 footage, LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL offers an unprecedented look at the number one man at Chanel. The perpetually pony-tailed designer, who is obviously one of the most powerful figures in the fashion biz, is observed preparing and running catwalk shows, sketching designs for dresses, taking photographs of models (including actress Nicole Kidman) and interacting regally with an endless procession of slightly nervous looking underlings. Snippets from a face-to-face sit down interview with the filmmaker are interspersed throughout the film — in which Lagerfeld talks about his formidable-sounding mother, his love life and work. Opens March 14, 2008 at the Roxie Cinemas in San Francisco. LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL, a Koch Lorber Films release, runs 89 minutes, is in French and English and is not MPAA rated.
Opening Feb 29th: Vivere
From German director Angelina Maccarone (Unveiled), Vivere is a romantic drama about three women on the run, saving each other, and saving themselves. On Christmas Eve, Francesca’s little sister, Antonietta, runs away to Rotterdam with her musician boyfriend. On the way to find her, Francesca picks up Gerlinde, a suicidal lovesick woman. Now she has two lives to save. With the paths of three lost souls criss-crossing in Rotterdam, it soon is hard to tell who is saving whom.
Winner of the Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award at Outfest and Best Screenplay Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the film opens Feb 29th in New York and Los Angeles.
Opening Feb 29th: Penelope
We’re always trying to expand the definition of queer cinema. The new Christina Ricci vehicle, Penelope looks like a prime fresh example of that unique sub-genre of: misfit-movies-with-special-resonance-for-LGBT-audiences. Ricci stars as a girl born with a pig’s snout for a nose and is ostracized accordingly. Co-starring James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon and Peter DEATH AT A FUNERAL Dinklage.
New In Theaters: Feb 15th
The Witnesses
Director André Téchiné’s (Wild Reeds) fast-paced and compelling story features a wonderful cast and fascinating characters, set in Paris in the mid-1980s, an era of sexual freedom. Recent parents Sarah (Emmanuelle Beart), a novelist, and Mehdi (Sami Bouajila), a vice cop, both sleep with other partners. Enjoying a summer holiday at the seashore, Sarah invites her friend Adrien (Michel Blanc), a middle-aged doctor, who brings his handsome young protégé Manu (Johan Libereau). Surprisingly, Mehdi and Manu begin a passionate affair. But everything changes when a mysterious new disease appears. Opens Friday, February 15th Los Angeles, Seattle, Cambridge, Irvine and Pasadena. Look for screenings in additional cities in coming weeks.
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