First Run Features: Theatrical Catalog

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	Animation
	Cult Classics
	Documentaries
	Erotica
	Family
	Films About Faith
	Foreign
	Gay & Lesbian
	Jewish Interest


Gay and Lesbian

After Stonewall	John Scagliotti, Janet Baus, Dan Hunt	88 min, 16mm, Color, English, 1999
A Film by John Scagliotti, Janet Baus and Dan Hunt. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, this sequel to Before Stonewall chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the millenium.

Agnes and His Brothers	Oskar Roehler	35mm, 115 minutes, German w/English Subtitles, 2004
Agnes and his brothers have little in common except an eccentric father, relationship problems that are screwing up their lives, and a suspicion that there is a distinct possibility those two things are connected.

Anita: Dance of Vice	Rosa Von Praunheim	85 min, 16mm, Color, English, 1987
A Film by Rosa von Praunheim. Von Praunheim explores - and takes a few liberties with - the scandalous life of the first nude dancer in Weimar Berlin.

Bedrooms and Hallways	Rose Troche	96 min, 35mm, Color, 1999
Witty, pansexual romantic romp from director Rose Troche (Go Fish) stars Kevin McKidd as a thirtysomething man looking for meaning in his life.

Before Stonewall	Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller	87 min, 16mm, Color, English, 1984
Produced by Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti and Greta Schiller. When the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, three nights of rioting sparked a national gay liberation movement.

Boot Camp	John Scott Matthews	6 min, 16mm, Color, 1996
A film by John Scott Matthews. A cross between a leather bar-S/M fantasy and an RKO musical.

Boyfriends	Neil Hunter	82 min, 16mm, Color, 1996
Three male couples converge on a beautiful English country house for a supposedly relaxing weekend. What ensues is a witty exploration of gay relationships in the 90's.

Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst is your Waffen	Ela Troyano	28 min, 16mm, Color, 1994
A Latina performance artist who supports herself as a building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side winds up in jail with some riot girls. Humorous monologues, soapy melodramas, and campy production numbers.

Didn't Do It For Love	Monika Treut	80 min, 16mm, Color, 1997
A Film by Monika Treut. A fascinating look into the incredible life of sexual revolutionary Eva Norvind. The blond, buxom Norwegian was Mexico's Marilyn Monroe and New York's most famous dominatrix.

Dirty Baby Does Fire Island	Todd Downing	9 min, 16mm, Color, 1998
This movie examines a population of men seasonally indigenous to a small sundrenched strip of sand off of Long Island.

The Embalmer	Matteo Garrone	100 min, 35mm, Color, Italian w/English Subtitles, 2002
The story of a romantic triangle that starts when a middle-aged dwarf and zoo taxidermist, Peppino befriends an extremely tall teenager, Valerio, offering him his first job as Peppino's assistant, and then a place to stay, out of a growing love for Valerio. Peppino's hopes for a relationship with Valerio are frustrated however, when a young woman, Deboarah, enters the picture.

Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship	Christina Andreef	12 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
This is "a silent musical" that was selected for official screening at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It is the first major work of an exciting and innovative producer-director team (Helen Bowden and Christina Andreef).

Female Misbehavior	Monika Treut	80 min, 16mm, Color, 1992
Films by Monika Treut. From Camille Paglia to Annie Sprinkle, to S&M and transsexuals, Treut uncovers four controversial, outrageous and thoroughly captivating women.

The Fluffer	Wash West & Richard Glatzer	95 min, 35mm, Color, 2001
The story, set in the world of adult entertainment, centers around three characters: Johnny Rebel, a straight man who has become a star in the world of gay porn; Johnny's stripper girlfriend, Babylon; and Sean, a naive young man in love with Johnny, who ends up becoming Johnny's "fluffer."

Heaven's A Drag	Peter MacKenzie Litten	96 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
Britain's first gay mainstream movie. A romantic comedy about commitment, AIDS, death, mourning and recovery.

History Lessons	Barbara Hammer	65 min, 35mm, Color, 2000
A Film by Barbara Hammer. Lesbian history is presented in an extraordinary array of archival footage that is playfully manipulated to make it seem as though lesbians were everywhere!

I,The Worst of All	Maria Luisa Bemberg	105 min, 35mm, Color, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 1990
A Film by Maria Luisa Bemberg. In 17th century Mexico, the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) enters a convent, and the local vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes her protectress and erotic muse.

Jumping The Gun	Jane Schneider	10 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
On the morning after a one-night stand, a woman fantasizes life together with her sleeping trick from honeymoon to breakup.

Just Desserts	Monica Pellizzari	14 min, 35mm, Color, 1993
A riotously funny look at the development of Maria Stroppi's sexuality through food. Set in the 1970s, the film deals with Maria's memories of her turbulent past growing up in an Italian Catholic family in Australia.

Karen Black Like Me	Jane Schneider	10 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
Karen Black Like Me is a hilarious spin off of the classic tv film Trilogy of Terror in which Karen Black is chased around her apartment by a vicious warrior doll.

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film	Marc Mauceri	57 min, Color, 1997
From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, Lavender Limelight explores seven successful lesbian directors with revealing interviews and entertaining clips.

Like It Is	Paul Oremland	93 min, 35mm, Color, 1998
London's gay club world comes alive in this sexy, funny drama about two young men who fall in love despite enormously different backgrounds.

Little Women in Transit	Barbara Heller	7 min, 16mm, Color, 1995
Twelve-year-old Jennie is seated in the back seat of the wood-panelled station wagon, wedged between her two jeering sisters, enduring that special hell--the family car trip

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness	Kermit Cole	72 min, 16mm, Color, 1993
A Film by Kermit Cole. A crowd-pleasing, eye-opening film about HIV positive people who rely on dignity and humor to combat images of HIV and AIDS.

Making Grace	Catherine Gund	86 min, Color, 2005
Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan want to be mothers - together. Making Grace allows us to experience with Ann and Leslie the challenges and joys of motherhood, including those unique to lesbians.

Melvyn Schmatzman, Freudian Dentist	David Grotell	20 min,16mm, Color, 1997
A sexy comedy, the film was Grotell's thesis film.

Midnight Dancers	Mel Chionglo	100 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
A Film by Mel Chionglo. The erotic yet compassionate story of three brothers who work as exotic dancers in a Manila gay club.

My Body	Joel Moffett, Matthias Visser	30 min, 16mm, Color, 1997
After years of denial, Charlie opens himself up to his true sexual orientation, leading to a new and rare disease called "Sexually Repressed Shedding Disorder."

My Father Is Coming	Monika Treut	82min, 35mm, Color, 1990
A Film by Monika Treut. When Vicki, a New York actress, finds out her father is about to visit from Germany, she goes to great lengths to hide her bisexuality.

Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity	Rosa von Praunheim	87 min, 16mm, Color, 1995
A Film by Rosa von Praunheim. Like a gay Citizen Kane, this hilarious mockumentary uses interviews with angry ex-lovers, trips to dark sex clubs, and scenes from Rosa's films to uncover the life and times of the notorious German filmmaker.

One of Them	Stewart Main	46 min, Color, 1998
New Zealand director Stewart Main helmed this short about the tentative, emerging relationship between two gay teens in a small town during the 1960s. Gradually accepting their sexuality, the two bond as the two endure taunts, check out cute boys, and talk about fashion.

Only The Brave	Anna Kokkinos	62 min, 16mm, Color, 1994
Vicki and Alex are two teenage girls growing up on the outskirts of Melbourne, and on the fringes of society. Both teens, who come from broken homes, want nothing more than to escape from their drab surroundings.

Parting Glances	Bill Sherwood	90 min, Color, 1991
The gay scene in Manhattan is the setting for this contemporary love story revolving around a book editor, his friend and former lover who is dying from AIDS, and his current lover. All are just trying to get through life the best that they can.

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End	Monte Bramer & Lesli Klainberg	90 min, 16mm, Color, 1997
A Film by Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg. Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance, this eloquent portrait of the late gay writer explores Monette's life and work.

Peach & Bitter Song	Christine Parker	16 min, 35mm, Color, 1997
This documentary offers an overview of lesbian cinema and contains interviews with several leading lights in the area including Jennie Livingston and Rose Troche.

Playing The Part	Mitch McCabe	38 min, 16mm, Color, 1994
An angst-ridden, yet humorous, essay by a young lesbian filmmaker who depicts her attempts to juggle her happiness against her parents' expectations.

The Queen	Frank Simon	70 min, 35mm, Color, 1968
A Film by Frank Simon. Long before Paris is Burning, The Queen celebrated drag queens by capturing the glamour and competition of the 1968 Miss All America Drag Beauty Pageant.

She Must Be Seeing Things	Sheila McLaughlin	95 min, 16mm, Color, 1988
A Film by Sheila McLaughlin. When a woman reads her lesbian lover's diary she becomes jealous, disguises herself as a man, and spies on her companion.

Silence=Death	Rosa Von Praunheim	60 min, 16mm, Color, 1990
A Film by Rosa Von Praunheim. A Film by Rosa von Praunheim. Explores how artists like Keith Haring and David Wojnarowicz use art to combat AIDS.

Something to Sing About	Martin Daley	55 min, B&W, 1988
A Film by Martin Daley. The inspiring story of the celebrated Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir.

Stolen Moments	Margaret Westcott	91 min, 35mm, Color/B&W, 1997
A Film by Margaret Wescott. Stolen Moments weaves together the lost threads of lesbian history to create a panoramic view of lesbian culture and life, from Sappho's lyric poems to Gertrude Stein's Parisian salon and beyond.

Swerve	Andrea Dorfman	15 min, 16mm, Color, 1990
A Film by Andrea Dorfman. The story of an all-girl love triangle taking place on a road trip.

Twilight of the Gods	Stewart Main	15 min, 35mm, Color 1990
A Film by Stewart Main. Two men of war, a Maori warrior and a European soldier, meet in an explosive clash of two cultures.

Virgin Machine	Monika Treut	86 min, 16mm, Color, English & German w/English Subtitles
Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in the Tenderloin, she peeps in on neighbors' bizarre sex rituals as well as does sightseeing of the more traditional kind

A Virus Knows No Morals	Rosa Von Praunheim	82 min, 16mm, Color, 1987
A black comedy filled with everyone's worst fears of the AIDS crisis. Savagely funny and deadly serious, it covers every aspect of AIDS and its effects as well as attacking the rumors surrounding it.

Watching Her Sleep	Rose Michels	6 min, 35mm, Color
A Film by Rose Michels. A girl imagines entire relationship as she waits by a supermarket's checkout counter.

The Watermelon Woman	Cheryl Dunye	85min, 16mm, Color
Cheryl, a young black woman working in a video store, is making a documentary about an obscure black actress (known as "the Watermelon Woman") who had a white lesbian lover. Cheryl just happens to fall in love with a very cute white woman herself!