Tonight, Tuesday October 21, 2008, Bad Boys heat things up at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. At 6pm tonight, October 21st, the Harvard Exit Theatre hosts 69 minutes of FIVE short films about Bad Boys all for only $9. As if love itself weren’t perplexing and perilous enough, these troublesome guys have found ways to create even more complications.
Here is the lineup for Bad Boys: Shorts all at one screening –
LOVE KILLS (Germany – subtitled) – Tim knows he’s gay, and exploring what that means draws him to more and more dangerous encounters. Will anything satisfy him?
PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE – A few days before moving to Spain, Ryan finds out that he may be HIV-positive. A harsh confrontation with his boyfriend leads to an unexpected result.
HERZHAFT (Germany – subtitled) – Fifteen-year-old Felix is secretly in love with Ralf, his 33-year-old coach. Then Mom finds out…
IN THE HIGH SCHOOL (Spain – subtitled) – For Angel, high school is not just for studying.
THE YOUNG AND EVIL – A smart but troubled African-American teen following his compulsion to have anonymous, unprotected sex, courts danger in this tough, controversial film.
Here are the other performances just for today, October 21st:
6:00pm: Searching 4 Sandeep at Northwest Film Forum
Australian filmmaker Poppy Stockell, single and lonely in Sydney, decides to take a light-hearted look at the lesbian Internet-dating scene and the result is a deeply personal, first-person story about love and bridging distances—geographic, cultural, religious, emotional—in our modern digital age.
Post screening reception 7pm at Poco Wine Room 1408 East Pine St.
7:30pm: Derek @ Northwest Film Forum
British filmmaker Derek Jarman, a pioneer of queer cinema, died of AIDS in 1994, but not before he left the world a collection of cinematic gems. This documentary weaves together archival footage, home movies, and interviews with Jarman’s friends to create a remarkable portrait of his life and work.
Post-screening reception 9pm at Purr 1518 11th Avenue.
7:30pm: Between Love And Goodbye at Harvard Exit Theatre
Cute boys, hot sex, and a killer original soundtrack are all highlights of this modern gay drama about falling in love, breaking up, and all the difficult spaces in between. Simon Miller (Kyle) is attending the screening.
Post-screening reception 9pm at Purr 1518 11th Avenue.
9:45pm: Watch Out at Northwest Film Forum
A deeply twisted, jet-black comedy of horrors about a man who is deeply, dangerously in love with himself. Attracted only to his own body, he carries out an erotic relationship with a blow-up doll that resembles him while taking pleasure in rejecting the advances of his many admirers of all genders and orientations.
9:45pm: Newcastle at Harvard Exit Theatre
Hot boys, big waves, and secret desires emerge from the Australian surf in this invigorating debut feature film from Dan Castle about a group of young men struggling to find their own identities. Seventeen-year-old Jesse lives in the shadow cast by his older brother Victor’s failure to become surfing’s next big thing. He sets off on a surf safari with his pals and twin brother Fergus (who can’t hide his attraction for sexy Nathan).
