The Atlantic Film Festival kicks off on September 17th and runs until September 26th. As part of their programming, they offer That's So Gay - a selection of movies of interest to our community. Given the number of movies, there will be no official Out @ the Movies event but I do encourage you to go as many as you can! Show the AFFA that there is interest!
Look below to find out the movies and their screenings.
Friday, September 18th @ 9:35 PM @ Park Lane - 3
J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
97 min.
ATTENTION: Cette film est présenté en Français seulement (this film will be presented in French only)
Hubert Minel n’aime pas sa mère. Du haut de ses 17 ans, il la jauge avec mépris, ne voit que ses pulls ringards, sa décoration kitsch et les miettes de pain qui se logent à la commissure de ses lèvres quand elle mange bruyamment. Au-delà des irritantes surfaces, il y a aussi la manipulation et la culpabilisation, mécanismes chers à sa génitrice. Confus par cette relation amour/haine qui l’obsède un peu plus chaque jour, Hubert vague dans les arcanes d’une adolescence à la fois marginale et typique - découvertes artistiques, ouverture à l’amitié, ostracisme, sexe - rongé par la hargne qu’il éprouve à l’égard d’une femme qu’il aimait pourtant jadis.
Saturday, September 19th @ 7:15 PM @ Park Lane - 3
Drool
85 min.
Anora Fleece has got it rotten. Her husband is abusive, her children are disrespectful and she lives in the middle of nowhere, feeling like a nobody. Then Imogene Cochran moves into the neighbourhood. Imogene sells Kathy K. Kosmetics makeup for the cocoa-skinned woman. The neighbours don’t like cocoa-skinned anything but that doesn’t stop Imogene and Anora from becoming friends and, well, more than friends. When Anora’s husband Cheb finds them, all hell breaks loose but the tables are turned when Anora accidentally shoots Cheb dead. Anora and Imogene then pile the kids in the Kathy K. car, throw the corpse in the trunk and ride off on a family road trip to bury Daddy.
Sunday, September 20th @ 9:35 PM @ Park Lane - 3
Shank
89 min.
Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from the his fellow happy slapping gang members despite their often futile and violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays etc. Hooking up with a random stranger (Scott), Cal is unaware that this chance meeting will eventually provide him with choices and routes of escape from the tedium of his unambitious and depraved life. When his world collides with Olivier, a student he rescues from a pointless beating, he encounters a lifestyle that presents as many new experiences as it does obstacles.
Monday, September 21st @ 9:25 PM @ Park Lane - 7
Men For Sale
145 min.
New Brunswick filmmaker Rodrigue Jean filmed male prostitutes in Montreal over the span of a year to create this vastly unconventional but startlingly illuminating documentary. Between the candid conversations are cool, nighttime urban compositions that blend austerity with a rigorous formalism; Jean’s origins as an experimental filmmaker are clearly on display as he gently explores the sex workers’ stark—and sometimes darkly humorous—confessions.
Tuesday, September 22nd @ 9:35 PM @ Park Lane - 3
Pornography
113 min.
A journalist named Michael moves into a too-good-to-be-true Manhattan apartment with his partner and begins to notice strange details about the space. As he investigates the situation, Michael uncovers mysterious activity surrounding the haunting disappearance of an adult film star and an engrossing darker conspiracy. As he closes in on the truth, the lines of reality start to blur and the increasingly surreal twists of this bold, psychological thriller prompt echoes of David Lynch's work.
Wednesday, September 23rd @ 9:35 PM @ Park Lane - 3
Fig Trees
104 min.
Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, multitalented and versatile director John Greyson (The Law of Enclosures, Proteus) delivers a poignant message about HIV with this beautiful collision of music, art and film. A visually stunning experimental documentary opera about pills, Gertrude Stein and AIDS activism. Possibly one of the most important and creative statements this year from a Canadian artist and filmmaker.
Thursday, September 24th @ 7:15 PM @ Park Lane - 3
It Came From Kuchar
86 min.
Before John Waters, there were the Kuchars. Early pioneers of the low-fi, camp aesthetic, the Kuchars became unlikely heroes of the New York underground film scene of the 1960s. Inspired by the Hollywood movies of their youth, these filmmaking twins began making their own homespun melodramas using just an 8mm camera, friends, family and their love of movies.
Combining interviews with the Kuchars and their famous admirerers (including John Waters and Guy Madden) and a hit parade of Kuchar movie clips, director Jennifer M. Kroot pieces together an inspiring portrait that should be required watching for all aspiring filmmakers.
Friday, September 25th @ 9:35 PM @ Park Lane - 3
Pop Star On Ice
85 min.
Olympic skater and three-time National Champion Johnny Weir taught Kathy Griffin to skate, modelled for Heatherette and rocked the skating world with his irreverent public remarks. This playful documentary reveals how a young Russophile and Chihuahua lover from rural Pennsylvania rose to pop stardom.
