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...with a boy and you will have a tough time finding even a handful of blockbuster movies that apply. Recently, Before Night Falls made a splash as the story of gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. For those thirsting for more such movies, the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival is running from May 2—20 and promises to bring a variety of films and videos that will delight a wide range of audience members...
...those people looking for a slightly different film experience, History Lessons by Barbara Hammer will certainly fit the bill. Far from being a mushy love story, History Lessons is instead a documentary, of sorts. Barbara Hammer (Tender Fictions, Nitrate Kisses), a pioneer in the lesbian film industry who is widely acclaimed for her over 70 films and videos, delves deeply into the history of lesbianism, providing a somewhat irreverent, comical and often very intense look at the portrayal of lesbianism from the first days of cinema. Beware these history lessons...
...within the framework of a person selecting films from an archive, History Lessons has very little dialogue but makes up for this fact with attention-grabbing visual effects. Hammer uses her artistic license generously as she dubs in lesbian-rights messages over women’s voices in old films of a roundtable discussion. This effect, which Hammer uses throughout the film, provides a bit of needed levity. Her presentation of antiquated photographs, transposition of negatives and reverse negative images, and carnivalesque background music creates an interesting mixture of the serious and?...
...cable staple. Showtime's 1998 The Baby Dance, about the class tension between a wealthy couple and the couple whose unborn baby they're going to adopt, and her segment of last year's HBO If These Walls Could Talk 2, with Vanessa Redgrave as an elderly lesbian legally dispossessed when her lover dies, were tough-minded triumphs...
Later this month, BGLTSA is planning a panel discussion on homosexual legal issues with Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), New England's homosexual legal public interest group...