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I couldn't find any source online to refer people to concering these movies, but some of them sound pretty interesting (particularly the last two).
To: MLGPA Action Alert Network
The following information is from the Maine International Film Festival:
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The following films will be showing at the 6th Annual Maine International Film Festival, July 11-20, 2003, in Waterville, Maine. For more information on our complete film line up and schedule, visit our web site at www.miff.org. Individual tickets are $8 and are available shortly before show time. Partial ($75) and full festival ($125) passes are available at 207-873-7000.
LOCK UP YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Show times: Tuesday, July 15 at 9:30PM, Railroad Square Cinema; Wednesday, July 16 at 5:00pm, Railroad Square Cinema
USA, 1955-2001 70 min. video in English
In the words of Bill Taylor, who compiled this jaw-dropping group of vintage and not-so-vintage "educational films," "The program deals with how films 'educated' the public on how 'nasty' homosexuality is/was and can be, from simple children's educational films, to films shown to civic groups to downright religious hate propoganda. The films are sometimes scary, hateful, but all of them are VERY funny to watch. The program includes:
ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON (1955): A stereotypical example of how gay people were percieved to be in the movies and television in the early 50's. aka the swishy, limp-wristed fop. This film about PHONE COLORS (!) FAR FROM HEAVEN meets the industrial film, with a very swishy angel presiding!
PERVERSION FOR PROFIT (1965) This except, featuring Geoge Putnam ("Outstanding News Reporter"), is very simple. It features, a man, a desk, a few charts, some pictures. But it speaks VOLUMES about the PERVERSITY that's WRECKING our JUDEO-CHISTIAN HERITAGE and advocates it's OVERTHROW! (quoting from the film...)
ANTI-DISNEY SNIPPETS (circa 1990's): An amazing collection of snippets from various anti-Disney propaganda films, made by unknown religious organizations to show how DEPRAVED the Disney corperation is! You get: The Disney Boycott: A Just Cause; The Dark Side Of Disney (Narrated by 'The Beast', it laments the loss of 'Christian pronciples' and the rise in 'Secular Communism' in the Disney product and Disney Cartoon Proof: A myriad of cartoon examples that purport to show show obscene behavior in Disney cartoons.
SOAPY THE GERM FIGHTER (1958):This very curious short features Billy, dirty kid. Parents beg him to wash. No can do. Why? "They just want me to be a sissy." One night, Billy has a dream... It's SOAPY! Soapy sets Billy straight, telling him it's not sissy to be clean... but wait! Sissy looks to be one big queer himself, with his frilly sleeves, pink leotards, and his insistance that Billy is his 'partner'.
THE GAY AGENDA (1990's): This notorious video was widely distributed by various religious groups in the 1990's to warn people about those darn homosexuals.
THE HETEROSEXUAL AGENDA (2001) This VERY funny spoof of "The Gay Agenda", made by Vancouver filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods, REVERSES everything that the Gay Agenda stood for."
SUDDENLY (TAN DE REPENTE)
Show times: Friday, July 18 at 9:30pm, Railroad Square Cinema; Saturday, July 19 at 5:00pm at Railroad Square Cinema
Argentina, 2003 35mm 94 Min. In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Diego Lerman
Screenplay: Diego Lerman, Maria Meira, from the novel "La Prueba" by Cesar Aira
Producers: Lita Stantic, Diego Lerman
Cinematography: Luciano Zito, Diego del Piano
With: Veronica Hassan, Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Beatriz Thibaudin
Print courtesy Empire Pictures
An Argentinian lesbian road movie shot in stunning black and white that never goes where you think it will-either literally or narratively- SUDDENLY is "a delightfully unpredictable sleeper that starts scary, moves through deadpan comic, and comes out with a whimsical tenderness for its characters that audiences will share"-Deborah Young, Variety. Marcia is young and overweight and lives a grey, routine life in the city of Buenos Aires. Mao and Lenin, a punk girl couple, run into Marcia and for some inexplicable reason decide to abduct her. Fanciful Mao declares she's in love with Marcia and attempts to "prove it" by taking her to the ocean. From there, the three (daring couple and bewildered Marcia) embark on a journey whose end and date of return keep being delayed, as the odd trio and SUDDENLY detour to Lenin's past-and perhaps a possible future. NOT the film you think it is!
WU YEN
Show times: Monday, July 14 at 9:15pm, Railroad Square Cinema; Thursday, July 17 at 4:30pm, Railroad Square Cinema
Hong Kong, 2001 126 Min. 35mm In Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
Directors, Producers: Johnny To & Wai Kai-fai
Screenplay: Wai Ka-fai, Yau Nai-hoi, Ben Wong King-fai
Cinematography: Cheng Siu-keung
Cast: Anita Mui, Sammi Cheng, Cecilia Cheung.
Print courtesy Tai Seng Films
Talk about gender bending comedies! In the new film from Johnny To, the fabulous Hong Kong-based director of such triumphs as THE MISSION and THE HEROIC TRIO, ALL the major parts of this "traditional" folktale set 2000 years ago (including the Emperor) are played by women! And what women: three of the finest actresses in Hong Kong, Anita Mui (THE HEROIC TRIO, THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER), Cecilia Cheung (KING OF COMEDY) and Sammi Cheng (INFERNAL AFFAIRS) deliver fabulously great, over-the-top performances in WU YEN. Wanting the beautiful Wu Yen for herself, evil male/female sorceress Yin Chun implants a red mole on the side of the young woman's face to ensure that no one else will fall in love with her. But when Emperor Qi is determined to marry Wu Yen anyway, Yin Chun transforms herself into a sexy woman to seduce the emperor, at the same time appearing to Wu Yen as a hot stud. The confusion of identities that ensues leads to hilarious, farcical confusion as the trio engage in a battle of wits to see who will ultimately win Wu Yen's heart.
Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance
PO Box 1951
Portland, ME 04104
207-761-3732
207-761-8484 fax
www.mlgpa.org
mlgpa@mlgpa.org
To: MLGPA Action Alert Network
The following information is from the Maine International Film Festival:
********************************************************************************************
The following films will be showing at the 6th Annual Maine International Film Festival, July 11-20, 2003, in Waterville, Maine. For more information on our complete film line up and schedule, visit our web site at www.miff.org. Individual tickets are $8 and are available shortly before show time. Partial ($75) and full festival ($125) passes are available at 207-873-7000.
LOCK UP YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Show times: Tuesday, July 15 at 9:30PM, Railroad Square Cinema; Wednesday, July 16 at 5:00pm, Railroad Square Cinema
USA, 1955-2001 70 min. video in English
In the words of Bill Taylor, who compiled this jaw-dropping group of vintage and not-so-vintage "educational films," "The program deals with how films 'educated' the public on how 'nasty' homosexuality is/was and can be, from simple children's educational films, to films shown to civic groups to downright religious hate propoganda. The films are sometimes scary, hateful, but all of them are VERY funny to watch. The program includes:
ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON (1955): A stereotypical example of how gay people were percieved to be in the movies and television in the early 50's. aka the swishy, limp-wristed fop. This film about PHONE COLORS (!) FAR FROM HEAVEN meets the industrial film, with a very swishy angel presiding!
PERVERSION FOR PROFIT (1965) This except, featuring Geoge Putnam ("Outstanding News Reporter"), is very simple. It features, a man, a desk, a few charts, some pictures. But it speaks VOLUMES about the PERVERSITY that's WRECKING our JUDEO-CHISTIAN HERITAGE and advocates it's OVERTHROW! (quoting from the film...)
ANTI-DISNEY SNIPPETS (circa 1990's): An amazing collection of snippets from various anti-Disney propaganda films, made by unknown religious organizations to show how DEPRAVED the Disney corperation is! You get: The Disney Boycott: A Just Cause; The Dark Side Of Disney (Narrated by 'The Beast', it laments the loss of 'Christian pronciples' and the rise in 'Secular Communism' in the Disney product and Disney Cartoon Proof: A myriad of cartoon examples that purport to show show obscene behavior in Disney cartoons.
SOAPY THE GERM FIGHTER (1958):This very curious short features Billy, dirty kid. Parents beg him to wash. No can do. Why? "They just want me to be a sissy." One night, Billy has a dream... It's SOAPY! Soapy sets Billy straight, telling him it's not sissy to be clean... but wait! Sissy looks to be one big queer himself, with his frilly sleeves, pink leotards, and his insistance that Billy is his 'partner'.
THE GAY AGENDA (1990's): This notorious video was widely distributed by various religious groups in the 1990's to warn people about those darn homosexuals.
THE HETEROSEXUAL AGENDA (2001) This VERY funny spoof of "The Gay Agenda", made by Vancouver filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods, REVERSES everything that the Gay Agenda stood for."
SUDDENLY (TAN DE REPENTE)
Show times: Friday, July 18 at 9:30pm, Railroad Square Cinema; Saturday, July 19 at 5:00pm at Railroad Square Cinema
Argentina, 2003 35mm 94 Min. In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Diego Lerman
Screenplay: Diego Lerman, Maria Meira, from the novel "La Prueba" by Cesar Aira
Producers: Lita Stantic, Diego Lerman
Cinematography: Luciano Zito, Diego del Piano
With: Veronica Hassan, Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Beatriz Thibaudin
Print courtesy Empire Pictures
An Argentinian lesbian road movie shot in stunning black and white that never goes where you think it will-either literally or narratively- SUDDENLY is "a delightfully unpredictable sleeper that starts scary, moves through deadpan comic, and comes out with a whimsical tenderness for its characters that audiences will share"-Deborah Young, Variety. Marcia is young and overweight and lives a grey, routine life in the city of Buenos Aires. Mao and Lenin, a punk girl couple, run into Marcia and for some inexplicable reason decide to abduct her. Fanciful Mao declares she's in love with Marcia and attempts to "prove it" by taking her to the ocean. From there, the three (daring couple and bewildered Marcia) embark on a journey whose end and date of return keep being delayed, as the odd trio and SUDDENLY detour to Lenin's past-and perhaps a possible future. NOT the film you think it is!
WU YEN
Show times: Monday, July 14 at 9:15pm, Railroad Square Cinema; Thursday, July 17 at 4:30pm, Railroad Square Cinema
Hong Kong, 2001 126 Min. 35mm In Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
Directors, Producers: Johnny To & Wai Kai-fai
Screenplay: Wai Ka-fai, Yau Nai-hoi, Ben Wong King-fai
Cinematography: Cheng Siu-keung
Cast: Anita Mui, Sammi Cheng, Cecilia Cheung.
Print courtesy Tai Seng Films
Talk about gender bending comedies! In the new film from Johnny To, the fabulous Hong Kong-based director of such triumphs as THE MISSION and THE HEROIC TRIO, ALL the major parts of this "traditional" folktale set 2000 years ago (including the Emperor) are played by women! And what women: three of the finest actresses in Hong Kong, Anita Mui (THE HEROIC TRIO, THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER), Cecilia Cheung (KING OF COMEDY) and Sammi Cheng (INFERNAL AFFAIRS) deliver fabulously great, over-the-top performances in WU YEN. Wanting the beautiful Wu Yen for herself, evil male/female sorceress Yin Chun implants a red mole on the side of the young woman's face to ensure that no one else will fall in love with her. But when Emperor Qi is determined to marry Wu Yen anyway, Yin Chun transforms herself into a sexy woman to seduce the emperor, at the same time appearing to Wu Yen as a hot stud. The confusion of identities that ensues leads to hilarious, farcical confusion as the trio engage in a battle of wits to see who will ultimately win Wu Yen's heart.
Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance
PO Box 1951
Portland, ME 04104
207-761-3732
207-761-8484 fax
www.mlgpa.org
mlgpa@mlgpa.org
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