Outfest 2007 - Monday
by Andre Soares
The restored Parting Glances (1986), one of the most acclaimed films about gay relationships, will have its world premiere at Outfest at 8 p.m. Monday at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood.
Directed by Bill Sherwood, Parting Glances stars Richard Ganoung as a man who is about to be abandoned by the two loves of his life: The Current lover (John Bolger) is going away on a work assignment in Africa that’ll last two years; the former lover (Steve Buscemi) has AIDS. (Director Sherwood died of AIDS-related causes in 1990.)
I wasn’t at all crazy about Parting Glances when I first saw it, but it’s undeniably one of the seminal films of its kind. Even if for that reason alone, it’s a must-see for those who haven’t yet sat through it.
The Outfest Legacy Project (in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive) has blown up the film from its original Super 16mm negative to an archival 35mm preservation negative. Additionally, the soundtrack has been fully restored.
Buscemi, Ganoung, and Kathy Kinney (who plays the hostess of the film’s going-away party) are expected to attend the screening.
Also at Outfest on Monday:
- Pratibha Parmer’s Nina’s Heavenly Delights (above, at 9:15 p.m., DGA), which follows the romantic and professional challenges faced by a young woman upon her return to Scotland following the death of her father.
- Rosser Goodman’s Holding Trevor (at 7 p.m., Santa Monica Laemmle), about a young man who must make some tough decisions when he decides to dump his junkie boyfriend for another man.
- Sam Zalutsky’s You Belong to Me (at 8 p.m., Showcase), a suspense-cum-horror thriller about a man who, after having been dumped by his lover, moves into an apartment building where eerie things happen.
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