Recently Added Films

	Date Added/ Length	Ratigs IMDB/ MY	Genre/ Tags	Plot	Notes
Swan Lake - The Kirov Ballet Details	4/1/2021 8:30:09 PM/ 115 mins	8.0 9	Ballet/Dance	This classic Kirov production of Swan Lake by Oleg Vinogradov, filmed at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad in December 1990, includes a happy ending in the final act, where Siegfried fights and ultimately defeats the evil magician, von Rothbart, and at dawn is reunited with Odette. Yulia Makhalina stars as Odette / Odile and Igor Zelensky, now an international star, is Prince Siegfried.	Swan Lake is a tragedy. Tragedy should not have a happy ending. which this presentation unfortunately does, more or less. It left me with a hole! Otherwise a very solid performance. YouTube Amazon (not available) DVD Empire (not available)
Drawn Back Home Details	4/2/2021 8:12:11 PM/ 107 mins		Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	The awkward reacquaintance of two men, former best friends separated by different life choices who try to find their way back home, gives way to a depth of feeling they both must navigate to resolve issues of the past while dealing with uncertainties of the future.
The Big Snore Details	4/2/2021 8:15:40 PM/ 9 mins	6.1	Comedy; Drama; Short film night candidate	A light sleeper struggles one night to get some rest amid his man's loud snores.
Swan Lake - American Ballet Theater Details	4/2/2021 11:48:43 PM/ 117 mins	9.1 9	Music	Swan Lake performance featuring Agnes Letestu, Jose Martinez, Karl Paquette, and Muriel Halle The story is adapted from an old Russian folk tale. Princess Odette (Gillian Murphy) is captured by the evil sorcerer Rathbart (Isaac Stappas) and cursed to be changed into a swan. Young Prince Siegfried (Angel Corolla) is being pressured by his mother (Georgina Parkinson) to find a bride. Irritated, he runs out into the woods and finds Swan Lake, where Odette has become queen of the swans. He learns that only by someone swearing eternal love to her can the spell be broken, and he does so. At a ball, numerous princesses are paraded before the prince, who shows little interest. But when Rathbart, in human form (Marcelo Gomes), arrives with his daughter Odile (Murphy), enchanted to resemble Odette, Siegfried is deceived. Swearing love to Odile, and betraying Odette, he may have condemned her to spend the rest of her life as a swan.	Another fine performance. Even though the role is relatively minor, I thought that Herman Cornejo was especially impressdve as Siegfried's friend Benno. "Thank goodness they do die. Soviet-style happy endings kill the meaning of Tchaikovsky's music and the 19th-century choreography by Petipa and Ivanov. The selfless double suicide of Murphy and Corella, on the other hand, kills the villain instead, and liberates the sisterhood he has ensnared." [Boston Globe] . However, I still much prefer the dramatic drowning engineered by Rothbart. + Review: Boston Globe [Christine Temin June 20, 2005] This 'Swan Lake' makes lofty viewing + Review: Digitally Obsessed [Mark Zimmer, January 31, 2006] + Reeview: danceviewtimes [Dale Brauner June 20, 2005] Amazon [DVD is pricey, $53+]
Fag (PD) Details	4/4/2021 1:24:30 PM/ 35 mins	8.0	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Silent coming out; coming of age; Youth	Thomas, a 17-year-old high school student, finds himself attracted to Esteban, another boy from his school. The rumor of Thomas's homosexuality is spreading fast, and he begins to suffer the gaze of others.
Billy Budd Details	4/9/2021 2:41:29 PM/ 123 mins	7.8	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Billy Budd Details	4/9/2021 2:57:01 PM/ 155 mins		Opera; Queer Themes/Interest
Ballet National de Marseille: Châtelet Theater, Paris Details	4/9/2021 3:07:59 PM/		Ballet/Dance	At Ballet National de Marseille, a varied night of dances by Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty.
Hip Hop Nutcracker Details	4/10/2021 6:03:35 PM/	9	Ballet/Dance; Musical	Directed and choreographed by Jennifer Weber, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music. A unique and joyful event, this evening-length production is performed by a supercharged cast of a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop’s founding fathers, who opens the show with a short set.	Wonderful. Joyous. Who would'a thought -- hip-hop Tchaikovsky.
Native Moments Details	4/10/2021 9:43:29 PM/	7	Drama; Poetry; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Taylor Mac, ALL ARTS' first artist-in-residence, on the draw of Walt Whitman's poems and why Mac chose to engage with the works so deeply, in nature, in drag. Taylor Mac recites three interpretation of Wal WEhitman's poem Native Moments NATIVE moments! when you come upon me—Ah you are here now! Give me now libidinous joys only! Give me the drench of my passions! Give me life coarse and rank! To-day, I go consort with nature's darlings—to-night too, I am for those who believe in loose delights—I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers, and drink with the drink- ers, The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I take for my love some prostitute—I pick out some low person for my dearest friend, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done; I will play a part no longer—Why should I exile myself from my companions? O you shunned persons! I at least do not shun you, I come forthwith in your midst—I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest. [Walt Whitman]
To a Stranger Details	4/13/2021 10:28:36 PM/		Drama; Poetry; Queer Themes/Interest; Short
Night Creature Details	4/15/2021 9:43:36 PM/	9	Ballet/Dance	Alvin Ailey’s Night Creature is a bubbly champagne cocktail of a dance, a perfect fusion of Ailey’s buoyant choreography and Duke Ellington’s sparkling music. At once wistful and sassy, it beckons viewers into a nocturnal world populated by jazz babies and night owls. Ellington said that “night creatures, unlike stars, do not come OUT at night­– they come ON, each thinking that, before the night is out, he or she will be the star.” This large ensemble work is full of such stars — strutting, leaping and slinking through a variety of dance idioms as they flaunt and flirt with each other and the audience. They hold their hands like paws, as if they’re cats on the prowl, then slide seamlessly into balletic allegro jumps, Martha Graham-like contractions and Lester Horton layouts. It’s the definitive dance homage to the exuberance of The Duke’s sophisticated symphonic work.	'Night Creature' is available on-demand from All*Arts and YouTube through Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7pm EDT. Learn more at AlvinAiley.org/AileyAllAccess
Sequin In A Blue Room Details	4/18/2021 12:36:56 PM/ 80 mins	6.8	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	Favouring the instant gratification of anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters over meaningful relationships, high schooler Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but never-engaged, hook-up generation. He ghosts ex-partners and remains emotionally unavailable. That’s until he finds his way to an anonymous sex party, where a whole new dizzyingly alluring world unfolds before him. In one scene, Sequin connects with a mysterious stranger, but they are separated suddenly. Utterly fixated on this man, Sequin sets off on an exhilarating and perilous mission to track him down.	To be released May 17, 2021
The Half Of It Details	4/18/2021 11:19:45 PM/ 104 mins	6.9	Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance teen; coming of age; coming out	Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
Chasing Amy Details	4/18/2021 11:37:41 PM/ 113 mins	7.2	Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance teen; coming of age	Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
When I Heard at the Close of Day Details	4/20/2021 7:10:28 PM/	9	Drama; Poetry; Queer Themes/Interest
The Alaska Thunderfuck Extra Special Comedy Special Details	4/20/2021 10:06:25 PM/		Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest
The Sound of Identity Details	4/27/2021 6:42:34 PM/ 90 mins		Documentary; Music; Opera; Queer Themes/Interest transgender	In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the U.S.	Said to be available on multiple platforms June 1, 2021
Charlatan Details	4/27/2021 10:01:10 PM/ 118 mins	6.8	Drama; History; Queer Themes/Interest	Born in the early 20th century, herbalist Jan Mikolasek became rich and famous after curing countless diseases with unorthodox means. A true emblem of Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer became even more appreciated during the Nazi occupation and the communist regime. Each regime appreciates his skill and protects him. But how much will it cost him to maintain his status in a new political change?
Frederick Ashton: The Dream/Symphonic Variations/Marguerite And Armand Details	4/28/2021 1:53:46 PM/	0 9	Ballet/Dance; Music
Song of Myself: XXIV Details	4/28/2021 9:27:11 PM/ 6 mins	8	Poetry; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Taylor Mac interprets Walt Whitman's poem.	YouTube: Song of Myself XXIV- Taylor Mac Whitman in the Woods Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs! Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the cur- rent and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Through me many long dumb voices, Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves, Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs, Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion, And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff, And of the rights of them the others are down upon, Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised, Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung. Through me forbidden voices, Voices of sexes and lusts, voices veil'd and I remove the veil, Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd. I do not press my fingers across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart, Copulation is no more rank to me than death is. I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from, The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it, Translucent mould of me it shall be you! Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you! Firm masculine colter it shall be you! Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you! You my rich blood! your milky stream pale strippings of my life! Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you! My brain it shall be your occult convolutions! Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you! Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you! Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you! Sun so generous it shall be you! Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you! You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you! Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you! Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you! Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you. I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious, Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy, I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish, Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again. That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be, A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the meta- physics of books. To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate. Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding, Scooting obliquely high and low. Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs, Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven. The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction, The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head, The mocking taunt. See then whether you shall be master! Walt Whitman
Stone Fruit Details	4/29/2021 9:36:41 PM/ 95 mins	7.2 6	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	A gay couple heads to Central Coast California to celebrate their newly-inked divorce with wine, sun, a threesome, and more wine.
The Gust Details	4/29/2021 9:42:01 PM/ 31 mins		Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Weeks after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, a lonely middle-aged man finds himself obsessing with his neighbor, a young closeted and tormented athlete who insistently pursues his attention.
What Women Want: Gay Romance Details	4/29/2021 9:46:55 PM/ 49 mins	6.2	Documentary; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	The biggest readers and writers of gay romance books are women. LGBTQ and m/m (or male/male) romance are the fastest expanding book genres, seeing larger growth in readership than any other publishing segment. The documentary travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico to attend Gay Rom Lit, one of the biggest romance conventions in the world to find out why.
Complete Strangers Details	4/29/2021 9:53:07 PM/ 105 mins	3.6	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Thriller	A recovering alcoholic returns to his hometown after a hiatus, and falls in love with a man who will turn his world upside down.
Marathon Details	4/29/2021 10:02:57 PM/ 90 mins	6.5	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry including the 1988 Pulitzer prize.
Members Don't Get Weary Details	4/30/2021 1:02:19 PM/	8	Ballet/Dance; Short	Ailey All Access presents the online premiere of 'Members Don’t Get Weary,' the first work Resident Choreographer Jamar Roberts created for the Company. He says this ensemble work set to the music of legendary American jazz artist John Coltrane, “takes an abstract look into the notion of one ‘having the blues.’” Music: "Dear Lord" and "Ole" by John Coltrane	'Members Don't Get Weary' will be available on-demand through Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 7pm EDT. Learn more at AlvinAiley.org/AileyAllAccess