Glazier, Alison
Arbogast, Eve

1994

San Francisco comics Suzy Berger, Amy Boyd, Mimi=Freed and Karen Ripley entertain and amuse us.

Hildebran, Gretchen

1994

A small-town boy is secretly sleeping with a closeted member of his underground rock band in Gretchen Hildebran's plaintive How He Goes. Meanwhile their band is on the verge of breaking up. Unable to come out in this oppressive environment our young hero hits the road.

Kllc, Aaron

1994

A very funny story about a straight woman who sets out to procure a man for her bisexual boyfriend

Mootoo, Shani

1994

Shani Mootoo combines elegant poetry with stunning imagery and we get a glimpse at the beginnings of a romantic affair set to the tune of “Me & Mrs Jones.”

Jackson, Peter

1994

This thoroughly original must-see introduced Kate Winslet to the world. She plays a posh new girl who enters Christchurch Girls High School in a modest New Zealand town. There she befriends Pauline (later known as Paul), a brooding defiant loner who can shoot the most disturbing drop-dead looks. On the surface their friendship seems like a mishap — Juliet is polished and confident, Pauline more sulking and gawky. But their vivid imaginations and free spirits unite them in a profound relationship. They begin co-writing a fantastical medieval story, focused on the fictional characters Charles and Deborah. Reality begins to weave in and out, and the girls use the fictional world as an outlet for expressing their deepening attraction. When Juliet contracts TB and they are forced apart, they correspond through letters, impersonating the loving characters in their heavenly world. Both sets of parents become concerned that the "friendship" is becoming "unwholesome," and they attempt to separate the girls. This effort only increases their mutual dependence and leads them to a grisly and drastic conclusion. What was once a creative and satisfying relationship becomes neurotic and confusing with the pressures of parental control.

Litten, Peter Mackenzie

1994

Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to experience and express feelings. Simon is adamant that feelings, especially love, are not for him. Subplots develop as Mark and Simon observe their neighbor Siobhan's love life and as Simon spends his days as a satellite-TV installer partnered with Dogger, a homophobe ignorant that Simon is gay. Is there any key that can unlock Simon's feelings and allow Mark to rest in peace? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com> [from IMDB]

Stephens, Kathy

1994

Set in the long, hot, English summer of 1976, Sally is obsessed with the girl next door, nineteen-year-old sophisticated Louise.

Surkis, Alisa

1994

A look at restroom confusion.

Stevens, Ylonda

1994

A lesbian remembers her gay male friend lost to AIDS.

Troche, Rose

1994

Go Fish serves up bundles of gossip, drama, and sex as it tracks the lives of an extraordinary group of lesbian friends. Kia (T. Wendy McMillan), a professor, is involved with Evy (Migdalia Melendez), a divorcee who's not out to her mother, yet. Kia decides to set up her roommate Max (Guinevere Turner) with an ex-student of hers, Ely (V. S. Brodie), who's just ending a long-distance relationship. And then there's the perpetually horny Daria (Anastasia Sharp). Many years in the making, this debut feature from writer/director Rose Troche and cowriter Guinevere Turner was one of Frameline's 1992 Completion Fund grant recipients. Co Executive-produced by Tom Kalin (Swoon) and 1994 Frameline Award–winner Christine Vachon, Go Fish has the charm and audacity of such debut independent features as She's Gotta Have It and Slacker. A three-star review from the prestigious Screen International compares Go Fish to 1991's Poison, suggesting that Go Fish signals "the belated advent of lesbian cinema," and it brightly pegs the film's key audience as, simply: "lesbians everywhere."