Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Baby Jane by Billy Clift (top); Shirley Knight, Liz Jahren in Not Fade Away (middle); Homewrecker by Paul Hart (bottom)
Reeling 2009, this year’s edition of the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu., Nov. 5, with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical.
Upcoming feature films include:
- Billy Clift’s Baby Jane, a recreation of What Ever Happened with Baby Jane? starring real drag queens playing the two female leads — as opposed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis playing drag queens playing the two female leads.
- Florencia Manovil’s romantic drama Fiona’s Script, about an insecure bisexual woman who reluctantly enters into a relationship with a ladies’ tomboy.
- Rob Williams‘ Make the Yuletide Gay, a family Christmas comedy about a young gay man who returns to the closet while at his parents’ home, but whose holiday bliss is threatened by the appearance of his fey boyfriend. The drama in this one doesn’t work all that well while the romance feels more than a bit off-kilter, but some of the comedic moments — especially the ones involving Mom (Kelly Keaton), Mom’s Rival Neighbor (Alison Arngrim), and Rival Neighbor’s Deceptively Straitlaced Daughter (Hallee Hirsh), are quite funny. As a plus, Keith Jordan delivers a likable, unaffected performance as the closet case.
- Jason Bushman’s perceptive, funny, and quite touching Hollywood, je t’aime, featuring remarkable performances by Eric Debets, Chad Allen, Diarra Kilpatrick, and Michael Airington.
- Susan and Wayne Boyer’s Not Fade Away, in which a lesbian (Liz Jahren) must resolve lingering issues with her mother (two-time Oscar nominee Shirley Knight), who’ll soon be lost to Alzheimer’s disease.
- Described as a "gay parody of Lifetime Channel movies," Paul Hart’s Homewrecker stars Dylan Vox (of The Lair) as an ex-con intent on ruining the lives of the two male lovers who zapped his up-and-coming career as a sitcom actor.
Reeling, which comes to a close on Nov. 15, will present 59 different screenings, including 33 narrative feature films, 10 programs of documentary features and featurettes, and 16 programs of shorts, in addition to 7 after-parties and a panel discussion.
Festival screening venues include Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema (2828 N. Clark St.), Film Row Cinema (Columbia College, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.), Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport Ave.), and the Festival’s home base at Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.).
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Tags: Baby Jane, Fiona's Script, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hollywood je t'aime, Homewrecker, Lesbian Interest, Make the Yuletide Gay, Not Fade Away, Reeling
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HOMEWRECKER RULES. He can come wreck my home any time he wants.