THE DL CHRONICLES

DUCK SEASON

DIR. Fernando Eimbcke, 2004, Mexico, 35mm, 87 min.

Set in an apartment in Mexico City, two 14-year-old friends (Moko and Flama) are left home alone with their teenage boy indulgences—pizza and video games; but Jarmuschian absurdity prevails and the flirtatious neighbor girl and the unpaid pizza delivery guy invade their solitary paradise. These distractions are frustrating, funny and seductive as the boredom and confusion of adolescence dances with their burgeoning sexualities. Amidst pot brownies, porno mags and the uninvited guests Moko and Flama also experiment with their friendship and ultimately question its origin and future. Be sure to stick around for the end credits.

PRINT COURTESY OF: Warner Independent Pictures

IN COLLABORATION WITH: The Trevor Project and REACH LA

DIR. Desiree Lim, SCR. Karen X. Tulchinsky & Desiree Lim, 2005, Canada, video, 50 min

This touching family comedy sheds a whimsical light on the universal human needs of love, acceptance and the joy that comes from showing the world who you really are. Cara and Janet’s relationship is challenged by Cara’s fear of commitment and a surprising visit from her conservative Chinese parents. Cut to newly “out” teen heartthrob Jesse, whose world is turned upside down when his hip, trendy and now gay birth dad comes into the picture. Living in the same apartment complex, the lives of the two families are floored with a twist in this thoughtful double comedy that sports a frantic apartment de-dyking, a professional "Queer Eye"-style makeover and plenty of tofu.

Plus Short: SOME REAL FANGS
DIR. Desiree Lim, 2004, Canada, video, 34 min.
A vampiric baby-dyke must put some fangs into her French kiss in order to inherit her matriarchal creature of the night legacy.

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Visual Communications

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CABARET

DIR. Bob Fosse, 1972, USA, 35mm, 124 min.

Boasting eight Oscars and a host of openly gay creative talent, Director Bob Fosse’s CABARET set standards of excellence in the musical film genre. Set in decadent 1930’s Berlin, where life inside and outside the Kit Kat Klub is brilliantly told through the clever blend of story and musical numbers, as the outside world of Nazi politics grows into a brutal force, slowly affecting everyone in the film. The impulsive and morally liberal agent provocateur, Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) meets the scholarly and handsome Bryan (Michael York) and the two develop an intimate relationship unknowingly sharing a bisexual lover. Androgynous Master of Ceremonies Joel Grey brings the cabaret to life with Kander and Ebb’s exquisite lyrics and music depicting 1930’s pansexual, yet politically violent Weimar Germany.

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Dance Camera West

DIR: Paul Verhoeven, 1992, USA, 35mm, 128 min.

Dripping with predatory prowess and armed with a phallic murder weapon, BASIC INSTINCT has slashed its way through 14-years of controversy—and the sequel is about to be released! Met with protests from various L.G.B.T. organizations, Joe Eszterhas' notoriously offensive screenplay revisits one of classical Hollywood's most sizzling screen legends—the femme fatale. Draped with duplicitous danger and impenetrable mystery, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone—with a splash of Hitchcockian blonde), pits an abundance of psychotic bisexuality against the embittered live-wire police detective, Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) in this chess game of terminal seduction. Indulge in post-feminism and savor the tasty carvings of this camp feast.