Pariah
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Synopsis:
From acclaimed out writer-director Dee Rees! The Sundance hit film, PARIAH follows a 17-year-old African American butch lesbian torn between the demands of her conservative family and the comfort of community among her friends in the outside world. As groundbreaking as it is entertaining, PARIAH is a must-see lesbian drama.
Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay) who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger sister Sharonda (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school.
Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura (Pernell Walker), Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’ marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion. Pressed by her mother into making the acquaintance of a colleague’s daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), Alike finds Bina to be unexpectedly refreshing to socialize with.
Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.
Year Produced: 2011
Directed By: Dee Rees
Starring: Aasha Davis, Adepero Oduye, Afton Williamson, Kim Wayans
Language: English/Closed Captions
Run Time: 87 min.
Rating: R
The Dreya Weber Set
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Synopsis:
One of the all-time hottest lesbian heart-throbs, Dreya Weber heats up the screen in two of her top motion pictures. Enjoy her athletic exploits as aerialist Jane Hawkins in the wildly popular romantic drama, The Gymnast; and savor her turn as the charming daredevil Luce in the hilarious lesbian reunion classic, Everything Relative. 2 DISC SET.
Starring: Dreya Weber
Language: English/Closed Captions
Run Time: 208 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Surf and Turf Double Feature
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Synopsis:
This bargain-priced pair of excellent men’s dramas each boast a tremendous ensemble cast. Aussie heart-throb Xavier Samuel (Twilight: Eclipse, Anonymous) headlines the youthful high-energy surf story, Newcastle; while tough guy Terry Serpico (Army Wives) tops the super-smart New York City urban-professional drama, The New Twenty. 2 DISC SET.
Language: English/Closed Captions
Run Time: 199 min.
Rating: Not Rated
2: VOODOO ACADEMY
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Synopsis:
Sexy, Supernatural Thriller! UNRATED DIRECTOR’S CUT!
Young hot travellers are sidelined by a road blocked with fallen trees, and stop for a night at the mansion belonging to sexy Sebastian. The house has a history of voodoo, mayhem and horror, and new arrivals are fresh meat for the hungry house…
Year Produced: 2012
Directed By: David Decoteau
Starring: Alex Bugaj, Alex Fox, Brandon Schinaman, Josh Randall, Michelle Bauer, Richie Nuzzolese, Shane McGlashen
Language: English
Run Time: 72 min.
Rating: Not Rated
5 Questions With Aussie Actor Xavier Samuel
The folks at NextMovie.com have a great interview with Xavier Samuel — and we’re excited to report that Xavier’s 2008 homoerotic surfing drama NEWCASTLE is being re-released as part of a fresh Double Feature DVD aptly entitled THE SURF AND TURF DOUBLE FEATURE (coming April 24th and on sale now for only $17.96 — an extra 10% off — exclusively at WolfeVideo.com)! Check out an excerpt and link to the interview and watch the trailer below!
“If you live in North America, you probably first saw 28-year-old Australian actor Xavier Samuel in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as Riley Biers, the (doomed) vampire tasked with helping to create a new vampire army. Twi-hards know that Samuel won’t be sinking his teeth into another Twilight film, but you can see him in the pseudo-historical drama Anonymous now available on DVD and Blu-ray. The twisty film is based on the theory that the historical William Shakespeare is a fraud and the real Bard is Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Samuel plays Henry Wriothesley, the illegitimate son of de Vere and Queen Elizabeth I. We called Down Under, where Samuel’s new romantic comedy A Few Best Men just opened in theaters, and asked the affable actor to wax philosophical about the impact of Shakespeare and vampires on his life.”
via 5 Questions With ‘Anonymous’ Aussie Actor Xavier Samuel.
Get your copy of THE SURF AND TURF DOUBLE FEATURE (on sale now for an extra 10% off for only $17.96 exclusively at WolfeVideo.com) — featuring the high-energy surfing drama, NEWCASTLE and the upscale NYC urban drama, THE NEW TWENTY.
Lillian Faderman (scholar and historian)
“My favorite LGBT movie? One of my favorite movies period (not just in the LGBT category): AIMEE AND JAGUAR. I thought the movie was even better than the book—and how often does that happen? The movie captured so well the insanity and terror of Nazi-Germany in the early War years—life ostensibly going on for Aryans, as usual, in nightclubs and restaurants and on the streets, while some Jews and homosexuals (and homosexual Jews like the lesbian Jaguar) tried to find surreptitious ways to live and love in the belly of the beast. Powerful.”
Find out more about Lillian Faderman and her important work as a lesbian historian and writer at LillianFaderman.net and get your hands on the recently re-issued paperback of her pioneering volume, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America.
San Francisco International Film Festival LGBT Preview
The oldest film festival in North America is turning 55 this year and the lucky residents of San Francisco will be treated to more than 100 features and documentaries (alongside a whopping 69 shorts) from some 45 countries across the globe. Unspooling at the Castro Theatre, Sundance Kabuki, SF Film Society Cinema and other venues around the city from April 19th to May 3rd this year’s event includes some great LGBT highlights. See below for short descriptions of a half-dozen highlights and consult the festival guide for playdates and tickets.
Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA
Set in Huntington Park, near downtown Los Angeles, this earnest and beguiling coming-of-age tale follows two Chicana teens in the midst of the delicate dance of self-discovery and sexual awakening as they explore a new friendship and young love. An assured feature debut that puts the Chicana experience firmly on the cinematic map.
Acid Queens: Peaches & Tommy
As her very name suggests, San Francisco midnight movie maven Peaches Christ has a passionate understanding of cinematic religiosity and cult rites. These enthusiasms also run wildly through the outrageous career of Ken Russell (1927-2011), including one of Russell’s greatest commercial successes, the 1975 rock opera Tommy. Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey and Tina Turner as the Acid Queen are all at their peak of their sex appeal in this musical tale of pinball wizardry and modern idolatry gone mad. For one night only, the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas will be the Church of Ken Russell, and Peaches will be your preacher.
Cherry, Stephen Elliott, USA
Author Stephen Elliott’s debut film, a visual love letter to San Francisco, takes a gritty look at a youth who never loses her innocence, even as she delves into the fetish world of porn. Cherry considers the delicate tension between body and self by focusing on society’s objects of desire.
Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot, France/Spain
Sumptuous and intimate, Benoît Jacquot’s portrayal of court life at Versailles during four crucial days of the French Revolution is a fascinating picture of social breakdown—mounting chaos calmly observed. Diane Kruger is electric as the youth-obsessed Marie Antoinette, and Léa Seydoux wonderfully enigmatic as the queen’s reader and confidante.
How to Survive a Plague, David France, USA
Unavoidably elegiac yet also defiantly joyous, this stirring history of AIDS activism revisits the controversial kiss-ins and “Silence = Death” sloganeering of agitprop groups ACT UP and TAG, whose street-savvy members challenged governmental indifference and Big Pharma greed to achieve remarkable breakthroughs in HIV treatment.
Your Sister’s Sister, Lynn Shelton, USA
Iris (Emily Blunt) sends her best friend Jack (Mark Duplass) to a cabin on Puget Sound, thinking the isolation will help him come to terms with his brother’s death. Friendships and sibling bonds are soon tested in this funny, truthful and largely improvised dramatic comedy from the maker of Humpday.
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Del Shores (Writer/Director, SORDID LIVES)
“Well, for obvious reasons SORDID LIVES has certainly been very good to me, so I have to list it as my favorite. Seriously, when I think of having the most fun at a gay movie, I’d have to go with TRICK. First of all, I love go-go boys and Coco Peru‘s “It burns” line still makes me laugh when I think about it.”
Get your hands on Del’s modern gay classic, SORDID LIVES and don’t miss the brand new DVD release of Del Shores: My Sordid Life — Del’s hilarious one-man show (new on DVD April 3rd).
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