Richter, Suzy

1993

Suzy Richter's Cross Your Heart is a gritty Toronto dyke tale of obsession.

Clarke, Kris

1993

Follow Sandra Bernhard as L.A. dykes on bikes escort her through the streets of tinsel town in this world premiere screening of Confessions of a Pretty Lady. Old home movies and interviews with Sandra Bernhard's mother, aunt, and uncle give a personal touch to Kris Clarke and Sarah Mortimer's colorful and sexy portrait of the controversial ("there are different ways of being a feminist") comedienne. This engaging documentary (from the makers of the hit, Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up) features candid interviews with Bernhard, Martin Scorcese, Paul Mooney, Advocate editor Jeff Yarborough, and yes, Camille Paglia. Extensive footage of Bernhard's celluloid performances in King of Comedy, Without You I'm Nothing, and Sandra After Dark are complemented by exhilarating live footage of her “Giving Till It Hurts” show at Madison Square Garden.

Jabour, Roberto

1993

Features a TV Globo all-star cast in a story of two drag queens adopting a cat in Rio de Janeiro.

Bistecis, Alexis

1993

A brief stroll through London's infamous Hampstead Heath in the company of Derek Jarman.

Ferrera-Balanquet, Raul

1993

Cities of Lust addresses issues of relationships, desire, and ethnicity among African-American and Latino gay men. Filmed on location in Merida, Chicago, and at the last year's San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the tape works best of all as a vivid description of racism and of the social obstacles to romantic fulfillment.

Robles, Augie

1993

Gay life from a Latino perspective: Law of Desire, Low Riders, Catholic eroticism, Castro St. racism, machismo, and narcissism.

Lopez, Temistocles

1993

Farrer, Steve

1982

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Langlois, Michel

1993

Intensely luscious Roy Dupois (the hustler in Being at Home with Claude) stars as a hunky ne'er-do-well who returns home to his claustrophobic family after a long absence. Turns out that both his mother (Andree Lachapelle) and Sister (Elise Guilbault) both seem to want to sleep with him; things aren't helped when an old friend (Gilbert Sciotte) arrives, causing chaos for the polymorphously perverse clan. The first of two ripe family dramas in this year's festival (the other is Under Heat), Cap Tourmente is a striking and award-winning first feature from Montreal screenwriter Michel Langlois, who has previously collaborated with Lea Pool. For a gay audience, the main appeal may be Dupois's on-screen charisma (or "jeans ad posturing" as Variety cattily described it), but Cap Tourmente is also interesting for its seamless incorporation of homosexuality as one of many options for this seductive house of horrors. The plot of Cap Tourmente is not really the point; it’s about confrontations with the sexual undertow of family life. The performers bring the film to life. Besides Dupois's convincing irritating infantilism, Lachapelle is thrilling—in a Jeanne Moreauish way—as the world-weary mother. Moody and austere, maddening and moving, Cap Tourmente is a film which positively spins between the sententious and the subversive.

Phenix, Massie

1993

Acclaimed at the 1994 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, Lucy Massie Phenix's Cancer in Two Voices addresses one of the most urgent and underrepresented health care issues facing women today. This deeply moving film documents the struggle and courage of a lesbian couple dealing with one partner's breast cancer. As an intimate home-movie journal, Cancer in Two Voices deals with their anger and grief, sexuality and friendship, and the painful process of confronting death.