Brocka’s follow-up to Eating Out is a sexy, funny, and sharply written gay comedy of manners. “X” is a hooker with morals in need of a dose of intimacy. He is secretly obsessed with his roommate, Andrew (Darryl Stephens of Noah’s Arc), who is starting to experiment on the scene. Then there’s Joey, their young sexually voracious “son” who completes the threesome. When “X” meets an enigmatic older trick, he begins to drop his guard; as he does, all their relationships spin out into intricate and hilarious patterns. This is gay life tempered with real heart, intelligence, and emotional integrity. Boy Culture turns you on, makes you think about your own relationships, and leaves you with a smile on your face. Description adapted from the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

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his is the first British Dogme 95 film and was made on a shoestring budget by first-time director Jan Dunn. It tells of the impact of Tasha, a Czech refugee who affects one unhappy British working-class family. The same story is told from three radically different perspectives: that of the good-hearted mother who welcomes Tasha, the teenage daughter who turns against Tasha, and the fed-up father who loathes Tasha. The bare-bones style (no music, no artificial lighting, and actual locations) gives the story a documentary realism that, combined with a determination to tackle a taboo subject head-on, makes this similar in many ways to the films of Ken Loach. Description adapted from the Borderlines Film Festival.

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Fabulous! charts the evolution of independent gay and lesbian cinema from experimental filmmakers of the 1940s and 50s, to underground filmmakers of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, to the breakthrough “New Queer Cinema” of the 90s, and the cutting-edge gay filmmakers of today. The documentary features directors Todd Haynes and Jennie Livingston, as well as John Cameron Mitchell, John Waters, and Angela Robinson; actors Guinevere Turner, Alan Cumming, and Heather Matarazzo; producer Christine Vachon; and journalists Michael Musto, B. Ruby Rich, and Alonso Duralde—all waxing eloquent on the movies queer audiences are lucky to have. Followed by a discussion on current trends in GLBT film with panelists including filmmaker Debra Wilson, Yusuf Nasrullah of MASALA, James Nadeau of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program, and film critic Loren King.

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