Midnight Cowboy rates landmark status as not only a multi Oscar winner but the first major studio production to be branded with an X rating. Voight is incredible as Joe Buck, a naive Texan who is convinced he can make a living as a hustler to old lonely rich women. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant as Ratso Rizzo, the seedy, crippled con artist who becomes Joe’s only friend. Between the two down-and-out characters, cameos are played by New York’s mod squad of screaming Sixties superstars Viva, Ultra Violet, International Velvet, Taylor Mead and Paul Morriessey.

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A rip-roaring, in-your-face musical about AIDS starring a gay ghost—the infamous Quebecois flight attendant “Patient Zero”—who seduces a 170-year-old sexologist, the Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Combining influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, Busby Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and Barbra Streisand, director John Greyson exposes the greed, homophobia, and careerism underlying both media and scientific responses to the AIDS epidemic. Outrageously funny, with eye-popping sets and tuneful musical numbers, Zero Patience manages to celebrate the anger as well as the compassion and love in the gay community.

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In the spring of 1988, video artist/activist Gregg Bordowitz tested HIV-positive, quit drinking and doing drugs, and came out to his parents about his homosexuality. This imaginative film, which came to include a questioning of his understanding of the diagnosis and of the relationship between illness and history, is a kaleidoscopic blast of visual stimulation, intellectual irreverence, and emotional confrontation. “The riskiest film about AIDS made to date. Finally someone has the guts to face despair honestly and without a trace of self-pity… angry, mournful, cynical, funny, moving and wise” - Douglas Crimp

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