Hedwig and the Angry Inch, May 04, 2012 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

With in person.

Tickets On Sale

Tickets Available Soon

Director

John Cameron Mitchell

Year

2001

Run Time

95

min

Country

United States

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an ‘internationally ignored’ but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a ‘beautiful gender of one’.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

We begin our run at the coolidge-corner-theater with two midnight screenings of John Cameron Mitchell’s acclaimed film Hedwig and the Angry Inch which tells the story of an ‘internationally ignored’ rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love. Born a boy named Hansel who searches for love, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. The operation is botched, leaving her with an ‘angry inch’. Finding herself divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she forms a rock band and encounters a lover, Tommy, who leaves her, steals her songs, and becomes a rock star. Touring with her pan-Slavic band, The Angry Inch, Hedwig shadows Tommy’s stadium tour, performing in near-empty restaurants for bewildered diners and a few die-hard fans. Somewhere between the crab cakes and the cramped motel rooms, between the anguish and the acid-wash, she pursues her dreams and discovers the origin of love.

Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with

No items found.

Presented with...

Program includes...

This short film program includes the following films:

No items found.

Other events you may like

Special Guest

Short Film Program

Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together

FREE

Sat, May 05 @ 6:00 pm

Brattle Theater

min total program

Wendy Jo Carlton

Got it Bad for the Wrong Girl? From the director of the festival circuit hit Hannah Free comes Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together, a romantic musical comedy that tells the story of two queer girls whose codependent, loyal friendship is fraught with erotic tension. Jamie is moving from Chicago to Brooklyn with hopes of becoming a Broadway actress. Her best friend Jessica is bummed because she thinks she’s in love with Jamie. As moving day gets closer, Jessica tries to make Jamie jealous by dating other women, but Jessica’s plan backfires in a way she could never imagine. Within this world of love and lust, Jamie and Jessie must figure out how to grow together, or how to grow apart. “Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together is a sweet, appealing musical comedy,” Roger Ebert.

Jamie is moving in two weeks from Chicago to New York hoping to become a Broadway actress. Her best friend Jessica is bummed because she’s not-so-secretly in love with Jamie. As moving day gets closer, Jessica tries to make Jamie jealous by dating other girls. But Jessica’s plan backfires, in a way she could never imagine. Set in working class Chicago and infused with musical dance numbers, “Jamie and Jessie are Not Together” is a love letter to those gray areas of love and lust and to the young romances we will never forget.

Special Guest

Short Film Program

Cloudburst

FREE

Sun, May 06 @ 7:00 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

min total program

Thom Fitzgerald

Director Thom Fitzgerald (The Wild Dogs; The Hanging Garden) evokes virtuoso performances from Oscar-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker in this uproarious dramedy about two women – lovers for 31 years – who must go on the run in order to stay together. Fitzgerald’s film is especially timely against the backdrop of the current marriage battle in Maine taking place this summer. Dukakis plays Stella, an antagonistic, foul-mouthed old bull dyke who lives with her long-time lover– the near-blind and slightly dotty Dot (Fricker)–in their bucolic home by the sea. When Dot’s neurotic granddaughter Molly shows up, announcing that she’s putting Dot in an old folks home, Stella throws her out, giving her an earful in the process. Not to be put off, Molly returns with a policeman and takes Dot away, leaving Stella bereft, but not beaten. Stella soon breaks her out of the home, and the two head for Canada to get married, picking up a young hitchhiker on the way. Thus begins an alternately poignant and riotous comedy that has much to say about the true nature of love and commitment.

When Dot’s granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

Special Guest

Short Film Program

Young Leaders Council Shorts

FREE

Tue, May 08 @ 7:30 pm

Fenway Community Health Center

min total program

Please join us for a special screening of short films at the Fenway Community Health Center. The Boston LGBT Film Festival and Young Leaders Council (YLC) are presenting a series of short films that celebrate the LGBT Community. Young Leaders Council (YLC) is an initiative of Fenway Health to empower emerging LGBT leaders and allies to shape their community’s future