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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PREVIEWS
The Reviews section takes an issue off for
this look at the fall's hottest new movies,
art, music, theater, and books. From
Nathan and Matthew (on film) to Nathan
and Matthew (onstage), it's all here
FILM
September
Capote _ (United Artists):
Truman Capote (the brilliant
Philip Seymour Hoffman)
develops an intense bond with
the accused killer at the heart
of his true-crime book In Cold
Blood. Catherine Keener is a
standout as a very funny, very
gay Harper Lee of To Kill a
Mockingbird fame. (Sept. 30)
Cote d'Azur _ (Strand): See
page 52. (Sept. 9) Flightplan • (Touchstone/
Imagine): Jodie Foster plays a
widowed mom taking her
daughter from Berlin to New
York. In mid flight the child
disappears, and everyone
insists to the increasingly
panicked Foster that the little
girl was never aboard. (Sept. 23)
Forty Shades of Blue
_ (Vitagraph): Out filmmaker
Ira Sachs (The Delta) returns
to his hometown of Memphis
for this drama about a music
producer (award-worthy Rip
Torn), his young Russian wife, • Howdy, pardner: Ledger (left) and
Gyllenhaal are amorous cowpokes in
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.
and his estranged adult son.
(Sept. 28 NYC; nationally Oct.)
HellBent _ (Here):
West Hollywood's annual
carnival is always scary (Is my
headdress slipping off?), but
out writer-director Paul
Etheredge-Ouzts makes it
really terrifying in this queer
horror flick. (Sept. 16)
74 I September 13, 2005 www.advocate.com October
Before the Fall. (Picture This):
In a Nazi academy in 1942,
Friedrich (Max Riemelt) is un
moved by Hitler but desperate
to escape his poor background.
Boxing is his ticket, and
Friedrich makes the most of it
until he bonds with "sensitive"
poet Albrecht, who can't
remain silent in the face of
atrocities. (Oct. 7 NYC)
Domino _ (New Line): Keira
Knightley turns it on as the
real-life Domino Harvey, a
Ford model turned badass
bounty hunter. Another tough
chick to watch for this fall:
dome-headed Natalie Portman
as a freedom fighter in V for
Vendetta. (Oct. 14)
Dorian Blues _ (TLA):
Writer-director Tennyson
Bardwell spins a sweet tale of
a boy (Michael McMillian) who
worries that he's gay and
turns to his jock older brother
for help. (Oct. 14 NYC)
The Dying Gaul _ (Strand): In
Craig Lucas's directorial debut,
Hollywood wants to buy Peter
Sarsgaard's wrenching, person
al screenplay about the death
of his lover from AIDS. But
could Sarsgaard change the
lover from a man to a woman?
Campbell Scott is the exec who
THE ADVOCATE
------------------------
sleeps with Sarsgaard while ignoring his
wife, Patricia Clarkson. (Oct. 28)
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the
Cinematheque _ (Leisure Time):
The cofounder ofthe Cinematheque
Fran~aise, one of the world's first film
archives, Langlois was probably at least
bisexual. This documentary shows the
vital role he played in saving classic films
and turning Paris into a movie lovers'
paradise. (Oct. 25 NYC)
The Last Day _ (Strand): Gorgeous
Gaspard illliel (A Very Long
Engagement) plays 19-year-old Simon,
who picks up a girl on the train. They
share a bed, but it never occurs to him to
make a move. Things grow tense when
Simon introduces the girl to his best pal,
the handsome lighthouse attendant. (Fall)
Separate Lies _ (Fox Searchlight): Oscar
winning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford
Park) dissects the upper class with this
drama about a husband (Tom Wilkinson)
torn between protecting his wife (Emily
Watson) and exposing what he imagines
is her affair with Rupert Everett. (Oct. 7)
Strangers With Candy _ (Warner Indepen
dent): Jerri Blank, 46-year-old ex-con
and former addict, decides to finish high
school in this prequel to the cult TV se
ries. The cast includes Stephen Colbert
of The Daily Show, Matthew Broderick,
Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Janney,
and, of course, Amy Sedaris as Jerri.
(Oct. 21 NYC, L.A.)
Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
_ (ThinkFilm) : Just your typical boy
meets-boy-meets-girl documentary. One
boy is Sam, who says he's the son of a
Mafia hit man. The other boy is Steven,
who gets an offer he can't refuse (or
doesn't want to) when Sam suggests
bringing a girl into the mix. Enter
Samantha and, eventually, a baby that
changes everything. (Oct.)
Unveiled _ (Wolfe): Director Angelina
Maccarone tells the beautiful, utterly
original story of a lesbian (Jasmin
Tabatabai) fleeing Iran because ofperse
cution. She takes on the identity of a
75 western caribbean
ABOARD ~lO!.LAND A~1£Ri(A ;j MS WES r£ R )/~M· -f\HbHT cRUISE
JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 5, 2006
The incomparable Lily Tomlin makes her Olivia debut with a speCial
performance in Ft. Lauderdale. Enjoy the comedy of suzanne Westen hoefer,
golf with 13-time LPGA champ Rosie Jones and more. Relax, play, daydream
and explore the unspoiled beaches, lush jungles and intriguing Mayan ruins
of the Caribbean with the women of Olivia.
olivia
FEEl.. FREE
800.631.6277 I olivia.com
PREVIEWS f--1 ---- ---- ---
male refugee and gets into
Germany disguised as a
man-where she works at a
sauerkraut factory and draws
the attention of another
woman. (Oct.)
November
Breakfast on Pluto
II (Sony Pictures Classics):
"It Boy" Cillian Murphy
jumps from Batman Begins
and Red-Eye into an evening
gown to tell the story of an
orphan who travels from
Ireland to London to become
a fabulous transvestite
cabaret star. Directed by Neil
Jordan from the Patrick
McCabe novel. (Nov. 18)
The Family Stone II (20th Cen
tury Fox): Dermot Mulroney
brings home girlfriend Sarah
Jessica Parker, and everyone
in the family hates her. Tyrone
Giordano as Mulroney's gay
ART
September
Dialogues:
Duchamp, Cornell,
Johns, Rauschen
berg II Dallas: Dallas
Museum of Art.
Sept. 4-Jan. 8 and deaf brother is naturally
the exception, since gay people
have great taste. (Nov. 4)
Gay Sex in the '70s II (Lovett
Productions): This documen
tary by director Joseph Lovett
is an ode to the sexual Prague
Spring that lasted from the
Stonewall riots in 1969 until
the first case of AIDS in 1981.
Filled with footage that de
tails the explosion of empow
erment and queer sexuality,
Gay Sex in the '70s is a capti
vating time capsule of an era
that may never return.
(Nov. 4 NYC, S.F.)
Rent. (Sony): Almost 10
years after it debuted on
Broadway , this Tony-and
Pulitzer-winning musical
hits the big screen. Most of
the original cast is here, in
cluding Anthony Rapp,
Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel,
Jesse L. Martin, and Taye
II A Rauschenberg "combine " Diggs, along with the new
to-Rent Rosario Dawson
and Wonderfalls' Tracie
Thoms. (Nov. 11)
Summer Storm II (Here):
See page 56. (Nov. 4)
December
Brokeback Mountain
• (Focus): First, people were
worried director Ang Lee
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon) might downplay
the romance between
cowboys Jake Gyllenhaal
and Heath Ledger. Then
stories leaked out that
the love scenes were so
physical that it might be
"too" gay. In any event,
queer audiences can't wait
to see this adaptation of the
memorable short story by
Pulitzer Prize-winner
E. Annie Proulx. (Dec. 9
NYC, L.A., S.F.)
Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Nov. 13-Jan. 29
Now in Greenville ,
S.c., this traveling
show takes the out
African-American
painter from New
York realism to Paris
abstracts.
December
Robert Rauschen
berg: Combines
II New York City: Four major 20th
century artists. two of
them gay: Jasper
Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg form
half of this aesthetic
discourse.
Warhol Legacy:
Selections From the
Andy Warhol Muse
um II Washington, D.C.: the queer high priest
of pop art.
October tographs and sculp
tures, including Wa
ters's "little movies,"
which reduce a whole
film to a single still. Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Dec. 20-April 2
Rauschenberg is back
with this exhibit de
voted to his signature
"combines"-mi xed
media pieces in which
painting, sculpture ,
found objects, pho
tographs, and atti
tude come together
in style.
76 Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Sept. 24-Feb. 19
More than 150 paint
ings, sculptures, films,
and other pieces by John Waters:
Change of Life
II Newport Beach, Calif.:
Orange County Museum
of Art, Oct. 30-Jan. 15
Some 80 recent pho-
September 13, 2005 November
Beauford Delaney:
From New York to
Paris. Philadelphia:
www.advocate .com -Angie J. Han Loggerheads II (Strand):
A handsome drifter (Kip
Pardue) comes to town to
protect the loggerhead turtle
but ends up protecting the
local hotel manager even
more. Meanwhile Bonnie
Hunt arrives to track down
the boy she gave up for
adoption, and Tess Harper has
to decide whether to stand by
her preacher husband or her
son. (Late 2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha II (Sony):
Gay director Rob Marshall
follows his smash Chicago
update with this lavish
adaptation ofthe best-selling
novel about a geisha who
flourished in the early 1900s.
Ziyi Zhang, Li Gong, Michelle
Yeoh, and Ken Watanabe
head the stellar cast. (Dec. 9)
The Producers II (Universal) :
Nathan Lane brings his
Tony-winn ing Max Bialystock
to the big screen, with
Matthew Broderick , writer
Mel Brooks, and director
Susan Stroman along for the
ride. (Dec. 21)
Stryker II (Strand): Queer
Canadian director N oam
Gonick (Hey, Happy!) stirs
up controversy like his idols
Bruce La Bruce and Guy
Maddin with this look at
gang warfare on the streets
of Winnipeg . Things get messy
when the onetime-male strip
per head of the Asian Bomb
Squad falls for the girlfriend
of the lesbian leader of their
sworn enemy, the Indian
Posse. (Dec. 2 NYC)
A Year Without Love
II (Strand): This Teddy Award
winner charts the journey
of a man living with AIDS
and scared of dying. He
cruises the nightlife of
Buenos Aires and falls into
the world of S&M and
leather. (Late 2005)
-Michael Giltz
THE ADVOCATE
The Reviews section takes an issue off for
this look at the fall's hottest new movies,
art, music, theater, and books. From
Nathan and Matthew (on film) to Nathan
and Matthew (onstage), it's all here
FILM
September
Capote _ (United Artists):
Truman Capote (the brilliant
Philip Seymour Hoffman)
develops an intense bond with
the accused killer at the heart
of his true-crime book In Cold
Blood. Catherine Keener is a
standout as a very funny, very
gay Harper Lee of To Kill a
Mockingbird fame. (Sept. 30)
Cote d'Azur _ (Strand): See
page 52. (Sept. 9) Flightplan • (Touchstone/
Imagine): Jodie Foster plays a
widowed mom taking her
daughter from Berlin to New
York. In mid flight the child
disappears, and everyone
insists to the increasingly
panicked Foster that the little
girl was never aboard. (Sept. 23)
Forty Shades of Blue
_ (Vitagraph): Out filmmaker
Ira Sachs (The Delta) returns
to his hometown of Memphis
for this drama about a music
producer (award-worthy Rip
Torn), his young Russian wife, • Howdy, pardner: Ledger (left) and
Gyllenhaal are amorous cowpokes in
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.
and his estranged adult son.
(Sept. 28 NYC; nationally Oct.)
HellBent _ (Here):
West Hollywood's annual
carnival is always scary (Is my
headdress slipping off?), but
out writer-director Paul
Etheredge-Ouzts makes it
really terrifying in this queer
horror flick. (Sept. 16)
74 I September 13, 2005 www.advocate.com October
Before the Fall. (Picture This):
In a Nazi academy in 1942,
Friedrich (Max Riemelt) is un
moved by Hitler but desperate
to escape his poor background.
Boxing is his ticket, and
Friedrich makes the most of it
until he bonds with "sensitive"
poet Albrecht, who can't
remain silent in the face of
atrocities. (Oct. 7 NYC)
Domino _ (New Line): Keira
Knightley turns it on as the
real-life Domino Harvey, a
Ford model turned badass
bounty hunter. Another tough
chick to watch for this fall:
dome-headed Natalie Portman
as a freedom fighter in V for
Vendetta. (Oct. 14)
Dorian Blues _ (TLA):
Writer-director Tennyson
Bardwell spins a sweet tale of
a boy (Michael McMillian) who
worries that he's gay and
turns to his jock older brother
for help. (Oct. 14 NYC)
The Dying Gaul _ (Strand): In
Craig Lucas's directorial debut,
Hollywood wants to buy Peter
Sarsgaard's wrenching, person
al screenplay about the death
of his lover from AIDS. But
could Sarsgaard change the
lover from a man to a woman?
Campbell Scott is the exec who
THE ADVOCATE
------------------------
sleeps with Sarsgaard while ignoring his
wife, Patricia Clarkson. (Oct. 28)
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the
Cinematheque _ (Leisure Time):
The cofounder ofthe Cinematheque
Fran~aise, one of the world's first film
archives, Langlois was probably at least
bisexual. This documentary shows the
vital role he played in saving classic films
and turning Paris into a movie lovers'
paradise. (Oct. 25 NYC)
The Last Day _ (Strand): Gorgeous
Gaspard illliel (A Very Long
Engagement) plays 19-year-old Simon,
who picks up a girl on the train. They
share a bed, but it never occurs to him to
make a move. Things grow tense when
Simon introduces the girl to his best pal,
the handsome lighthouse attendant. (Fall)
Separate Lies _ (Fox Searchlight): Oscar
winning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford
Park) dissects the upper class with this
drama about a husband (Tom Wilkinson)
torn between protecting his wife (Emily
Watson) and exposing what he imagines
is her affair with Rupert Everett. (Oct. 7)
Strangers With Candy _ (Warner Indepen
dent): Jerri Blank, 46-year-old ex-con
and former addict, decides to finish high
school in this prequel to the cult TV se
ries. The cast includes Stephen Colbert
of The Daily Show, Matthew Broderick,
Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Janney,
and, of course, Amy Sedaris as Jerri.
(Oct. 21 NYC, L.A.)
Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
_ (ThinkFilm) : Just your typical boy
meets-boy-meets-girl documentary. One
boy is Sam, who says he's the son of a
Mafia hit man. The other boy is Steven,
who gets an offer he can't refuse (or
doesn't want to) when Sam suggests
bringing a girl into the mix. Enter
Samantha and, eventually, a baby that
changes everything. (Oct.)
Unveiled _ (Wolfe): Director Angelina
Maccarone tells the beautiful, utterly
original story of a lesbian (Jasmin
Tabatabai) fleeing Iran because ofperse
cution. She takes on the identity of a
75 western caribbean
ABOARD ~lO!.LAND A~1£Ri(A ;j MS WES r£ R )/~M· -f\HbHT cRUISE
JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 5, 2006
The incomparable Lily Tomlin makes her Olivia debut with a speCial
performance in Ft. Lauderdale. Enjoy the comedy of suzanne Westen hoefer,
golf with 13-time LPGA champ Rosie Jones and more. Relax, play, daydream
and explore the unspoiled beaches, lush jungles and intriguing Mayan ruins
of the Caribbean with the women of Olivia.
olivia
FEEl.. FREE
800.631.6277 I olivia.com
PREVIEWS f--1 ---- ---- ---
male refugee and gets into
Germany disguised as a
man-where she works at a
sauerkraut factory and draws
the attention of another
woman. (Oct.)
November
Breakfast on Pluto
II (Sony Pictures Classics):
"It Boy" Cillian Murphy
jumps from Batman Begins
and Red-Eye into an evening
gown to tell the story of an
orphan who travels from
Ireland to London to become
a fabulous transvestite
cabaret star. Directed by Neil
Jordan from the Patrick
McCabe novel. (Nov. 18)
The Family Stone II (20th Cen
tury Fox): Dermot Mulroney
brings home girlfriend Sarah
Jessica Parker, and everyone
in the family hates her. Tyrone
Giordano as Mulroney's gay
ART
September
Dialogues:
Duchamp, Cornell,
Johns, Rauschen
berg II Dallas: Dallas
Museum of Art.
Sept. 4-Jan. 8 and deaf brother is naturally
the exception, since gay people
have great taste. (Nov. 4)
Gay Sex in the '70s II (Lovett
Productions): This documen
tary by director Joseph Lovett
is an ode to the sexual Prague
Spring that lasted from the
Stonewall riots in 1969 until
the first case of AIDS in 1981.
Filled with footage that de
tails the explosion of empow
erment and queer sexuality,
Gay Sex in the '70s is a capti
vating time capsule of an era
that may never return.
(Nov. 4 NYC, S.F.)
Rent. (Sony): Almost 10
years after it debuted on
Broadway , this Tony-and
Pulitzer-winning musical
hits the big screen. Most of
the original cast is here, in
cluding Anthony Rapp,
Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel,
Jesse L. Martin, and Taye
II A Rauschenberg "combine " Diggs, along with the new
to-Rent Rosario Dawson
and Wonderfalls' Tracie
Thoms. (Nov. 11)
Summer Storm II (Here):
See page 56. (Nov. 4)
December
Brokeback Mountain
• (Focus): First, people were
worried director Ang Lee
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon) might downplay
the romance between
cowboys Jake Gyllenhaal
and Heath Ledger. Then
stories leaked out that
the love scenes were so
physical that it might be
"too" gay. In any event,
queer audiences can't wait
to see this adaptation of the
memorable short story by
Pulitzer Prize-winner
E. Annie Proulx. (Dec. 9
NYC, L.A., S.F.)
Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Nov. 13-Jan. 29
Now in Greenville ,
S.c., this traveling
show takes the out
African-American
painter from New
York realism to Paris
abstracts.
December
Robert Rauschen
berg: Combines
II New York City: Four major 20th
century artists. two of
them gay: Jasper
Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg form
half of this aesthetic
discourse.
Warhol Legacy:
Selections From the
Andy Warhol Muse
um II Washington, D.C.: the queer high priest
of pop art.
October tographs and sculp
tures, including Wa
ters's "little movies,"
which reduce a whole
film to a single still. Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Dec. 20-April 2
Rauschenberg is back
with this exhibit de
voted to his signature
"combines"-mi xed
media pieces in which
painting, sculpture ,
found objects, pho
tographs, and atti
tude come together
in style.
76 Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Sept. 24-Feb. 19
More than 150 paint
ings, sculptures, films,
and other pieces by John Waters:
Change of Life
II Newport Beach, Calif.:
Orange County Museum
of Art, Oct. 30-Jan. 15
Some 80 recent pho-
September 13, 2005 November
Beauford Delaney:
From New York to
Paris. Philadelphia:
www.advocate .com -Angie J. Han Loggerheads II (Strand):
A handsome drifter (Kip
Pardue) comes to town to
protect the loggerhead turtle
but ends up protecting the
local hotel manager even
more. Meanwhile Bonnie
Hunt arrives to track down
the boy she gave up for
adoption, and Tess Harper has
to decide whether to stand by
her preacher husband or her
son. (Late 2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha II (Sony):
Gay director Rob Marshall
follows his smash Chicago
update with this lavish
adaptation ofthe best-selling
novel about a geisha who
flourished in the early 1900s.
Ziyi Zhang, Li Gong, Michelle
Yeoh, and Ken Watanabe
head the stellar cast. (Dec. 9)
The Producers II (Universal) :
Nathan Lane brings his
Tony-winn ing Max Bialystock
to the big screen, with
Matthew Broderick , writer
Mel Brooks, and director
Susan Stroman along for the
ride. (Dec. 21)
Stryker II (Strand): Queer
Canadian director N oam
Gonick (Hey, Happy!) stirs
up controversy like his idols
Bruce La Bruce and Guy
Maddin with this look at
gang warfare on the streets
of Winnipeg . Things get messy
when the onetime-male strip
per head of the Asian Bomb
Squad falls for the girlfriend
of the lesbian leader of their
sworn enemy, the Indian
Posse. (Dec. 2 NYC)
A Year Without Love
II (Strand): This Teddy Award
winner charts the journey
of a man living with AIDS
and scared of dying. He
cruises the nightlife of
Buenos Aires and falls into
the world of S&M and
leather. (Late 2005)
-Michael Giltz
THE ADVOCATE