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1. Queer Son (Vickie Seitchik [1994, USA, video, 48 minutes, color, English] @PQ
   Seitchik deals with her responses to her son Mark's coming out.
2. Reach For Glory
   [1962, film?, English]
   During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it. John, one of the younger members, is increasingly torn between these peer group values and his deepening homoerotic friendship with Mark, a gentle Jewish refugee whom his gang has ostracized as a sissy and a coward. Based on the novel The Custard Boys, by John Rae. Reminiscent of Lord of the Flies in depicting adolescent cruelty growing unchecked to tragic extremes. [Paul Emmons. pemmons@wcupa.edu]
3. The Return of Sarah's Daughters
   Marcia Jarmel [1997, USA, 16mm, 56 minutes, color, English]
   "A compelling chronicle of the filmmaker's investigation of her roots as a Jew. In her search she encounters Rus, a vivacious woman who has embraced Chasidism with great enthusiasm and commitment, and Myriam, a lesbian who is drawn to the Orthodox community's warmth and companionship but finds it difficult to reconcile that with religious prohibitions against her lifestyle."
   Review: 'Sarah's Daughters' probes live of Orthodox women [Michael Fox/Jewish Bulletin]
4. Rights And Reactions
   Phil Zwickler [1987, USA, 16mm, color, 60 minutes, English] @PQ
   Traces the history of an (ultimately successful) attempt to persuade the New York City Council to pass a gay rights bill, but the subject is wider than homosexuality. When Zwickler introduced the documentary at the Berlin Film Festival, he noted that it was quintessentially a New York movie, and it is: the level of aggression on all sides of the issue is phenomenal. Jews battle Jews, nuns square off against their archbishop, and men and women in the street come to vituperative verbal blows in front of the cameras. The testimony is alternately historical and hysterical, but always fascinating. Because so much material has been compressed into one hour, Zwickler has jokingly dubbed (it) "Homo 101." In reality, it's a graduate-level seminar in human nature.
5. A Safe Place
   Amos Gutman [1977, Israel, 16mm, 29 minutes, b/w, Hebrew w/English subtitles] @PQ
   A high school boy's struggle with his emerging gay identity as he encounters underground sex in a cinema hall.
6. The Second Coming
   Jack Walsh [1995, USA, 16mm, 53 minutes, b/w, English]
   "a triumphant mixture of science fiction, political agitprop, and experimental montage. In the near future, Christian fundamentalists attempt a coup d'etat in the U.S. Meanwhile, Carlos and Ben, two high school classmates in New York, are falling in love despite the homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic attacks of their peers."
   Print source: Jack Walsh, 654 Vermont Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Telephone: (415) 206-9596 Fax: (415) 826-7023.
   • Youths fight right-wing coup in fable 'The Second Coming' [Michael Fox/Jewish Bulletin]
7. Searching For The Contact
   Nina Dabek [1992, USA, 16mm, 7 minutes, English] @PQ
   Nina Dabek muses on Yiddish, our relationship to history, and our need for continuity with our heritage.
8. Separate Skin
   Deirdre Fishel [1987, USA, 16mm & video, 26 minutes, color, English] @PQ
   Focuses on Emily, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Through flashbacks, contrasts her childhood dreams and doubts with the realities of her adult relationships.
9. Seth's Aunt
   Nina Dabek [1991, USA, 16mm, 3 minutes, b/w, English] @PQ
   The story of a young boy who cannot tell the difference between Nina, his Jewish-lesbian aunt and her lover Penny.
10. Sex Is...
    Marc Huestis [1993, USA, 16mm, 80 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    A documentary about the evolution of gay sexuality as reflected through interviews with 15 men. One of the film's subjects, discrimination investigator Larry Brinkin, is Jewish, as is the film's cinematographer, Fawn Yacker, and the film's producer, Lawrence Helman. [Also watch for San Francisco-based photographer Mark I. Chester]
11. Sha'ar Zahav 18/10 Commemorative Video
    Robert Tat [1995, USA, video, 14 minutes, color, English]
    no description available.
12. She Makes Love with Her
    Nili Shmueli [1992, Israel, video, color, 15 minutes, Hebrew] @PQ
    "Yonit and Limor share the meaning of emerging lesbian identity in Israel."
13. Silent Pioneers
    Lucy Winer [1984, USA, 16mm & video, 42 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Landmark film in which older gays describe how they survived the social pressures of their day. One interviewee is the late Fred Gottschalk, a German Jew who talks about life in the old country under the anti-gay Penal Code in which Paragraph 175 made homosexual acts illegal. "We must be grateful to the kids today," he says, "for continuing the battle." Includes interviews and profiles of six lesbian and gay senior citizens. Also examines the services available to senior gays in cities around the United States.
14. Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend
    [1981, USA]
    "NBC made-for-TV movie. Tony Randall as a middle-aged New York Jewish homosexual"
15. Six Million And One
    Michal Goralsky [1993, USA, video, 20 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    About the paralyzing struggle a lesbian experiences when she begins to address the complexities of her Jewishness, the Holocaust, and memory.
16. Soap
    [1979, UK?]
    "Alice (Randee Heller), Jodie's house-mate who seems to have been programmed to be suffocating and fussy" [Keith Howes "Broadcasting It" p. 408]
17. Spring Break: Holiday adventures of a young girl
    Emily Nahmanson [USA, Super-8, 4 minutes, color, English]
    "[a] home-movie descent into the suburban Hell of her family's Passover Seder (and footage of her elementary school, junior high school, and the lawn of her house) set against a punk soundtrack.
18. Strait VeLaInian [Straight Ahead]
    [1994, Israel, video, color, Hebrew]
    A sitcom featuring a young gay male, Ronny, who shares an apartment
    with a young straight female. Ronny is cute, clever, and not in the least bit closeted.
19. Stud Me
    [USA, video, color]
    Homo-erotic video in which one of the actors is wearing a "chai" (Hebrew for "life") medallion.
20. Sunday, Bloody Sunday
    John Schlesinger [1971, USA, 35mm, color, English]
    Dr. Daniel Hirsch (Peter Finch) is a Jewish doctor involved in a love triangle another man and a woman.
21. Surviving Memory
    Ellen R. Flanders [1996, Canada, video, 8 minutes]
    "An experimental film about the role of loss in the formation of identity. The viewer is lead through a narrative about a Jewish woman, her lovers and her engagements with political forces of the past and present."
    Source: Saidie Productions, Toronto, Canada. Telephone: (416) 977-684 Fax: (416) 977-8025 Email: erfland@aol.com
22. Swoon
    Tom Kalin [1992-3, USA, 35mm & video, b/w, English] @PQ
    "A gay version of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case wherein the villians are homophobia and anti-Semitism, not the self-declared übermenschen of 1920s Chicago. Director Tim Kalin's vision is both visually delirious and intellectually shocking. The sort of movie that gives gay murderers a good name."
23. Thank You and Good Night
    Jan Oxenberg [1991, USA, 16mm, 83 minutes, color, English] @PQ
24. Tidy Endings
    Gavin Miller [1988, USA, video, 60 minutes, color, English]
    When a gay man dies of AIDS, his lover Arthur (Harvey Fierstein) and ex-wife (Stockard Channing) must come to legal as well as emotional terms with the loss. Initial hostility gives way to mutual understanding and love. Throughout the video Arthur recollects the harrowing effects of the disease upon his dying lover.
25. Time Off
    Eitan Fuchs [1990, Israel, 16mm, 45 minutes, color, Hebrew w/English subtitles] @PQ
    "It is 1982 shortly after the outbreak of the Lebanon War. Yonatan, a soldier and a loner, discovers an unfamiliar attraction for his commanding officer during practice field maneuvers. His unit is given an afternoon off in Jerusalem before they move to the northern border. After comic encounters with American girls and contact with a seductive female soldier, Yonatan wanders to Independence Park, a well-know place for homosexual trysts. He then witnesses something that transforms his life. Time Off is the first Israeli film to address homosexuality and the military."
26. The Times of Harvey Milk
    Robert Epstein [1984, USA, 16mm & video, 87 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Narrated by Harvey Fierstein.
27. To Be or Not To Be
    Alan Johnson [1983, USA, 35mm & video, 108 minutes, color, English]
    A Mel Brooks' remake of the 1942 Ernst Lubitsch film. This is the first mainstream film to acknowledge the Nazi persecution of gays. It includes an openly gay character, dresser Sasha Kioski (James Haake), who is arrested by the Nazis, forced to wear a pink triangle, and threatened with deportation to a concentration camp.
28. To Spark A Fire
    Mellisa Shore [1993, USA, video, color, English]
    A work-in-progress on the blossoming gay and lesbian rights movement in the (former) Soviet Union. Last July, Ms. Shore documented the First International Gay & Lesbian Symposium and Film Festival in Russia. Her video recounts the events associated with the conference, including visits to an AIDS ward and a prison, condom distributions, and demonstrations in the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The video addresses anti-Semitism and gay bashing, along with other forms of oppression prevalent in both the Commonwealth of Independent States and North America. Print source: LightRed Productions, 2431 Delmer Street, Oakland, CA 94602.
29. Tomboychick
    Sandi DuBowski [1993, USA, video, 15 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    "New Yorker Sandi DuBowski dresses up drag-esque with his grandmother and comes up with a moving portrait of a Jewish woman's life and her struggle with gender and patriarchy."
30. Torch Song Trilogy
    Paul Bogart [1987, USA, 35mm, laser disk & video, 119 minutes, color, English]
    The classic film written by and starring Harvey Fierstein.
31. Transeltown
    Myra Paci [1992, USA, 16mm, 23 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    "A trip through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in Times Square where a lost, lonely girl drags home the naked body of a genital-less blonde." Includes a section with an elusive Hasidic drag king who lures the girl into a Passover Seder's inner chamber.
32. Treif ("not kosher" in Yiddish)
    Cynthia Madansky & Alisa Lebow [1998, USA, 16mm, 54 minutes]
    An unorthodox film by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover seder.
    Information: Treyf Productions, 310 First Avnue #2E, New York, NY 10009; Telephone: (212)673-6791; Fax: (212)6736791; Email lebow@is2.nyu.edu.
33. Trembling Before G-d
    Sandi DuBowski [1997, USA, video, color]
    "an hour-long experimental documentary about
    and abandon their intertwined worlds of family and faith. and abandon their intertwined worlds of family and faith. It also portrays those who choose to remain Orthodox and how they trickily negotiate their sexuality in religious communities."
34. Triangle
    Robert Anthony Doucette [1989, USA, 16mm & video, 6 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Animated short about the Nazi's internment of gays. Included in "ince Stonewall" - a collection of gay short films.
35. A 25 Year Old Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman
    Phillip B. Roth [1990, USA, video, 22 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    Gay and Jewish Phillip B. Roth gets it on with Lesbian and Jewish Annie Sprinkle... go figure.
    Print source: Phillip Roth, 130 West Houston, NYC, NY 10012. (212)388-9223. Fax: (212)982-2642.
36. Unzipped
    Douglas Keeve [1994, USA, film & video, 76 minutes, color, 1994]
    Keeve's documentary about his ex-lover, Isaac Mizrahi.
    
    • "Looks Heaven" [David Barba]
    • UNZIPPED [Gemma Files]
    • Unzipped [Bryant Frazer]
    • 'Unzipped' follows fall & rise of designer Mizrahi [Dylan Howard]
    • Documentary takes below-the-belt look at designer [Paula Nechak]
    • UNZIPPED (Strike Up The Gam) [Linda-Marie Singer]
    • Unzipped
37. We At Her
    Cynthia Madansky [19??, Super 8mm]
    An experimental film about a lesbian relationship in Jerusalem. It was screened in Jerusalem at the Cinematheque and at the New York Gay and Lesbian festival.
    Print source: Cynthia Madansky, 310 First Avnue #2E, New York, NY 10009 or e-mail cmad@pipeline.com.
38. We were marked with a big 'A'
    Joseph Weishaupt [1991, Germany, video, 44 minutes, color & b/w, German w/English subtitles] @PQ
    Produced by a German regional television network, this film chronicles the experiences of three gay men [Kurt von Ruffin, Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim, Paul Gerhard Vogel] imprisoned by the Nazis in concentration camps because they were gay.
    Print Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Shop, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2150; tel. 202-488-6144.
39. When Shirley Met Florence
    Ronit Bezalel [1994, Canada, video, 27 minutes, color, English] @PQ
    This Montreal film is the story of two older women who have been friends since childhood, one lesbian and the other non-lesbian. This feature film has received rave reviews.
    [NFB reference #9194063 (Toll free: 1-800-267-7710 Voice & TDD)]
40. A Woman's Heart
    Imri Marian [1990, Israel, video, 12 minutes, Hebrew] @PQ
    A painful and moving portrait of Zalman Shoshi, the most famous drag queen in Israel, looking at Zalman's life, sex, work, and need for love.
41. A YINGL MIT A YINGL HOT EPES A TAM: Lesbian & Gay Subtext in Yiddish Film
    [aka: Beyond the Pale: The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film]
    Eve Sicular [1994, USA, video, 100 minutes, b/w, English] @PQ
42. You Can Reach Me Today At...
    Allen Braude [1994, CANADA, b/w, English]
    "It is obvious that 'You Can Reach Me Today At...' tries to be very poetic. But, as the 'I want to lick your Jewish mind...' slogan is repeated, a young Ashkenazi gay man puts his shawl and phylacteries on. To pray? -- Not. To be mocked-mimicked by his goy boyfriend who wraps himself in a feather boa." [Miodrag Kojadinovic] Screened at the 1994 "Out on Screen" Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Vancouver.