Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

May 4 - 24, 1984

The first year of the festival that would become Wicked Queer, hosted at The Nickelodeon on Commonwealth Ave.

Jury Award Winners

from Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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Jury Honorable Mention

from Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
No items found.

Audience Awards

from Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
No items found.

Best in Show Shorts

from Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
No items found.

All Feature Films

from Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1973
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

A Bigger Splash

Artist David Hockney’s life and art dissected by filmmaker Jack Hazan, in this film that includes some of the frankest footage of a homosexual's love life.
After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends.
Jack Hazan
106
 min
English
United Kingdom
1973
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1979
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

A Woman Called Eve

Een Vrouw als Eva

Monique Van de Verr and Maria Schneider in a wonderful lesbian love story involving a married woman. A Dutch film that recalls John Sayles' Lianna.
A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.
Nouchka van Brakel
103
 min
Dutch
Netherlands
1979
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1970
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

Russ Meyer directs Roger Ebert's (that's right... Roger Ebert of "At the Movies") script depicting homosexuality, rape, sex orgies, and rock 'n roll. Rated X.
An all-female rock group finds fame, love, and drama when they move to LA in order to claim the lead singer’s inheritance.
Russ Meyer
109
 min
English
United States
1970
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1932
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Call Her Savage

Clara Bow in a 1931 curiosity featuring the very first gay bar scene in the history of U.S. cinema. Very funny all on its own.
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
John Francis Dillon
88
 min
English
United States
1932
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1974
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Conversation Piece

Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno

The original Italian version, this film stars Burt Lancaster as an aristocratic homosexual and Helmut Berger as his terrorist lover. Directed by Luchino Visconti (“The Leopard”).
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants’ machinations, and everybody’s life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Luchino Visconti
121
 min
Italian
Italy
1974
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1971
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Death In Venice

Morte a Venezia

Luchino Visconti again with Dirk Bogarde as an aging homosexual madly in love with a teenage angel. A gay masterpiece.
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Luchino Visconti
13
 min
English
Italy
1971
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1977
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Desperate Living

Director John Waters' trilogy of Bad Taste Cinema features three outrageous, brilliant comedies. Waters, the sultan of low-budget satire who, through Waters' works, has propelled cult into film stardom.
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
John Waters
91
 min
English
United States
1977
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1979
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Ernesto

A ravishingly photographed story of a rich man’s infatuation with his uncle’s day laborer.
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle’s factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle’s employees.
Salvatore Samperi
98
 min
Italian
Italy
1979
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1974
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Female Trouble

Director John Waters' trilogy of Bad Taste Cinema features three outrageous, brilliant comedies. Waters, the sultan of low-budget satire who, through Waters' works, has propelled cult into film stardom.
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.
John Waters
98
 min
English
United States
1974
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1975
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Fox And His Friends

Faustrecht der Freiheit

R W Fassbinder directs and stars in this story of a working class homosexual's rise and fall at the hands of his bourgeois lover. Fassbinder's most outspoken depiction of the homosexual lifestyle.
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn’t without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
125
 min
German
West Germany
1975
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Invitation Au Voyage

Invitation au voyage

A young man obsessed by his dead sister, in a “Diva”-like story of obsession and sexual confusion.
After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.
Peter Del Monte
93
 min
French
France
1982
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1970
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Myra Breckinridge

The camp classic that brought Mae West back to the screen, while featuring Farrah Fawcett and Raquel Welch in a lesbian scene and Tom Selleck as one of West's studs.
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron’s widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Michael Sarne
94
 min
English
United States
1970
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1972
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Pink Flamingos

Director John Waters' trilogy of Bad Taste Cinema features three outrageous, brilliant comedies. Waters, the sultan of low-budget satire who, through Waters' works, has propelled cult into film stardom.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.
John Waters
93
 min
English
United States
1972
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Querelle

The uncut, original English language version of Fassbinder’s last film — truly outrageous. Starring Brad Davis.
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
108
 min
English
West Germany
1982
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Scrubbers

Mai Zetterling's inside look at the "Hellhole Bitches," a group of lesbian convicts in a British prison for women.
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Mai Zetterling
90
 min
English
United Kingdom
1982
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1980
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Slow Attack

Endstation Freiheit

A convict is released from prison and becomes an instant celebrity because of a novel written while behind bars.
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.
Reinhard Hauff
112
 min
German
West Germany
1980
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1968
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Teorema

Teorema

Pier Paolo Pasolini's tale of a young man (Terence Stamp) who seduces an entire family.
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
95
 min
Italian
Italy
1968
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1978
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Deputy (Confessions Of A Congressman)

El diputado

The East Coast Premiere of the acclaimed Spanish film that eerily predicts the fate of a left-wing politician brought down by his sexual infatuation with a beautiful male hustler. Directed by the man acclaimed as the Spanish Fassbinder, Eloy de la Iglesia.
Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can’t resist the cheap beautiful street teenagers that are thrown his way for various pleasures.
Eloy de la Iglesia
106
 min
Spain
Spain
1978
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1943
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Gang's All Here

Starring Carmen Miranda as the all-time camp/gay icon, complete with her banana headdress and famous 8 inch wedgies. A brand new 35mm print.
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Busby Berkeley
103
 min
English
United States
1943
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Trout

La Truite

Joseph Losey’s (The Servant) brilliant exploration of the sexual arrangements of two women (Isabelle Huppert & Jeanne Moreau) married to homosexuals; and of one woman who has made love to 300 men, but never in a city with a populations of less than 300, 000 (Alexis Smith).
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
Joseph Losey
103
 min
French
France
1982
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1975
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Thundercrack

A mad cross between “Deep Throat” and the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” — KINKY SEX at its best and raunchiest… Be forewarned!
An eccentric and alcoholic widow hosts a motley assortment of travelers - four men, three women and one gorilla - who arrive one eventful night to get out of a torrential rainstorm.
Curt McDowell
160
 min
English
United States
1975
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1970
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Trash

Andy Warhol’s underground classic of the permissive sixties has an abundance of good drugs and gorgeous studs. Rated X.
The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe’s problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
Paul Morrissey
110
 min
English
United States
1970
 min total program
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1952
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Water, Water Every Hare

Bugs Bunny camps out of the closet as o gay haredresser (sic) in Water, Water Every Hare. Didn't you ever wonder why Mickey Mouse had a Minnie but Bugs never did have a lady friend? Hmmmm... Whal's Up Doc?
Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.
Chuck Jones
7
 min
English
United States
1952
 min total program
No items found.

All Short Film Programs

from Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
No items found.
No items found.

Screenings & Events

May 4 - 24, 1984

SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Scrubbers

FREE

Fri, May 04, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Mai Zetterling's inside look at the "Hellhole Bitches," a group of lesbian convicts in a British prison for women.
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Mai Zetterling
90
 min
English
United Kingdom
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1973
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

A Bigger Splash

FREE

Sun, May 06, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Artist David Hockney’s life and art dissected by filmmaker Jack Hazan, in this film that includes some of the frankest footage of a homosexual's love life.
After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends.
Jack Hazan
106
 min
English
United Kingdom
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1972
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Pink Flamingos

FREE

Tue, May 08, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Director John Waters' trilogy of Bad Taste Cinema features three outrageous, brilliant comedies. Waters, the sultan of low-budget satire who, through Waters' works, has propelled cult into film stardom.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.
John Waters
93
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1974
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Female Trouble

FREE

Tue, May 08, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Director John Waters' trilogy of Bad Taste Cinema features three outrageous, brilliant comedies. Waters, the sultan of low-budget satire who, through Waters' works, has propelled cult into film stardom.
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.
John Waters
98
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1977
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Desperate Living

FREE

Tue, May 08, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Director John Waters' trilogy of Bad Taste Cinema features three outrageous, brilliant comedies. Waters, the sultan of low-budget satire who, through Waters' works, has propelled cult into film stardom.
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
John Waters
91
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1970
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Trash

FREE

Wed, May 09, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Andy Warhol’s underground classic of the permissive sixties has an abundance of good drugs and gorgeous studs. Rated X.
The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe’s problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
Paul Morrissey
110
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1968
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Teorema

FREE

Wed, May 09, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Pier Paolo Pasolini's tale of a young man (Terence Stamp) who seduces an entire family.
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
95
 min
Italian
Italy
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1932
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Call Her Savage

FREE

Thu, May 10, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Clara Bow in a 1931 curiosity featuring the very first gay bar scene in the history of U.S. cinema. Very funny all on its own.
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
John Francis Dillon
88
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1943
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Gang's All Here

FREE

Thu, May 10, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Starring Carmen Miranda as the all-time camp/gay icon, complete with her banana headdress and famous 8 inch wedgies. A brand new 35mm print.
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Busby Berkeley
103
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1952
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Water, Water Every Hare

FREE

Thu, May 10, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Bugs Bunny camps out of the closet as o gay haredresser (sic) in Water, Water Every Hare. Didn't you ever wonder why Mickey Mouse had a Minnie but Bugs never did have a lady friend? Hmmmm... Whal's Up Doc?
Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.
Chuck Jones
7
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1978
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Deputy (Confessions Of A Congressman)

FREE

Fri, May 11, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
The East Coast Premiere of the acclaimed Spanish film that eerily predicts the fate of a left-wing politician brought down by his sexual infatuation with a beautiful male hustler. Directed by the man acclaimed as the Spanish Fassbinder, Eloy de la Iglesia.
Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can’t resist the cheap beautiful street teenagers that are thrown his way for various pleasures.
Eloy de la Iglesia
106
 min
Spain
Spain
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Trout

FREE

Sun, May 13, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Joseph Losey’s (The Servant) brilliant exploration of the sexual arrangements of two women (Isabelle Huppert & Jeanne Moreau) married to homosexuals; and of one woman who has made love to 300 men, but never in a city with a populations of less than 300, 000 (Alexis Smith).
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
Joseph Losey
103
 min
French
France
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Invitation Au Voyage

FREE

Tue, May 15, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
A young man obsessed by his dead sister, in a “Diva”-like story of obsession and sexual confusion.
After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.
Peter Del Monte
93
 min
French
France
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1982
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Querelle

FREE

Tue, May 15, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
The uncut, original English language version of Fassbinder’s last film — truly outrageous. Starring Brad Davis.
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
108
 min
English
West Germany
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1970
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Myra Breckinridge

FREE

Thu, May 17, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
The camp classic that brought Mae West back to the screen, while featuring Farrah Fawcett and Raquel Welch in a lesbian scene and Tom Selleck as one of West's studs.
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron’s widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Michael Sarne
94
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1970
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

FREE

Thu, May 17, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Russ Meyer directs Roger Ebert's (that's right... Roger Ebert of "At the Movies") script depicting homosexuality, rape, sex orgies, and rock 'n roll. Rated X.
An all-female rock group finds fame, love, and drama when they move to LA in order to claim the lead singer’s inheritance.
Russ Meyer
109
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1979
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Ernesto

FREE

Fri, May 18, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
A ravishingly photographed story of a rich man’s infatuation with his uncle’s day laborer.
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle’s factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle’s employees.
Salvatore Samperi
98
 min
Italian
Italy
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1979
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

A Woman Called Eve

FREE

Sun, May 20, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Monique Van de Verr and Maria Schneider in a wonderful lesbian love story involving a married woman. A Dutch film that recalls John Sayles' Lianna.
A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.
Nouchka van Brakel
103
 min
Dutch
Netherlands
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1975
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Thundercrack

FREE

Sun, May 20, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
A mad cross between “Deep Throat” and the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” — KINKY SEX at its best and raunchiest… Be forewarned!
An eccentric and alcoholic widow hosts a motley assortment of travelers - four men, three women and one gorilla - who arrive one eventful night to get out of a torrential rainstorm.
Curt McDowell
160
 min
English
United States
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1974
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Conversation Piece

FREE

Tue, May 22, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
The original Italian version, this film stars Burt Lancaster as an aristocratic homosexual and Helmut Berger as his terrorist lover. Directed by Luchino Visconti (“The Leopard”).
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants’ machinations, and everybody’s life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Luchino Visconti
121
 min
Italian
Italy
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1975
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Fox And His Friends

FREE

Wed, May 23, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
R W Fassbinder directs and stars in this story of a working class homosexual's rise and fall at the hands of his bourgeois lover. Fassbinder's most outspoken depiction of the homosexual lifestyle.
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn’t without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
125
 min
German
West Germany
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1971
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Death In Venice

FREE

Wed, May 23, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
Luchino Visconti again with Dirk Bogarde as an aging homosexual madly in love with a teenage angel. A gay masterpiece.
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Luchino Visconti
13
 min
English
Italy
 min total program
in person
SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 1980
SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Slow Attack

FREE

Thu, May 24, 1984 @ 7:00 pm
The Nickelodeon
A convict is released from prison and becomes an instant celebrity because of a novel written while behind bars.
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.
Reinhard Hauff
112
 min
German
West Germany
 min total program
in person
Boston Premiere Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

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May 4 - 24, 1984

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