Metro Weekly

Reel Affirmations

  • FOOD OF LOVE

    By on October 16, 2002

    Tuesday, Oct. 22, 9:30 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Spanish director-screenwriter Ventura Pons brings the David Leavitt novella The Page Turner to the big screen as...

  • AFRICAN STORIES

    By on October 16, 2002

    Sunday, Oct. 20, 3 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Simon & I () chronicles the lives of two South African gay civil rights activists,...

  • ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 18, 9 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Let's get one thing perfectly clear: Matt LeBlanc does not make a pretty woman. Nor...

  • A.K.A.

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 25, 9:30 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 What is class? What is social status? What makes one person another's better? What if, at the...

  • YOU 2: LESBIANS IN LOVE AND OUT

    By on October 16, 2002

    Tuesday, Oct. 22, 9 p.m. JCC Theatre, $9 Paula J. Durette's Nesting Season () starts off this segment of shorts with some cute animation and...

  • BAD GENRES (MAUVAIS GENRES)

    By on October 16, 2002

    Sunday, Oct. 20, 2 p.m. JCC Theatre, $9 First off, you need to get past the title, Bad Genres. The film's opening credits actually translate...

  • HIS SECRET LIFE

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Antonia's life would seem to be perfect. When not working at the hospital as a nurse giving...

  • GUARDIAN OF THE FRONTIER

    By on October 16, 2002

    GUARDIAN OF THE FRONTIER Friday, Oct. 25, 9 p.m .JCC Theatre, $9 Maja Weiss delivers a disturbing allegorical treatment of man's inhumanity to (wo)man in...

  • OUT OF SIGHT

    By on October 16, 2002

    Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Short films always run the gamut. But you may want to run far away from this gamut...

  • DADDY & PAPA

    By on October 16, 2002

    Sunday, Oct. 20, 1 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Adults who make infantile goo goo ga ga noises at babies are a joke. Or...

  • LEAVING METROPOLIS

    By on October 16, 2002

    Thursday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $15 Brad Fraser is one of Canada's premiere playwrights. He is not, it so happens, one of its...

  • YOU'LL GET OVER IT

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Do not go to Fabrice Cazenueve's absorbing and honest coming out film for the shot...

  • BLUE GATE CROSSING

    By on October 16, 2002

    Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. JCC Theatre, $9 Seventeen-year-old Meng (Guey Lun-Mei) has feelings for her best friend Lin (Liang Shu-hui), who has...

  • STRAIGHT

    By on October 16, 2002

    Sunday, Oct. 20, Noon JCC Theatre, $9 David Schmader's approach to solo performance in Straight -- a rudimentary videotaping of Schmader in front of a...

  • FISH & ELEPHANT

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. JCC Theatre, $9 In the opening scene of Fish & Elephant, Xiao Qun explains to her boyfriend that she isn't...