Sunday 22 January, 7.30pm. Set in small town Mount Rose, Minnesota, this mockumentary follows the contestants of the Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant, the bottom rung of the pageant circuit. As the girls prepare to compete, it becomes clear that one girl and her…
Sunday 11 December, 7.30pm, GFT. The divine feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford reached its artistic height in this flamboyant slice of grand guignol which earned Davis her eleventh and final Best Actress Oscar nomination. A former child star, Baby Jane now plays caretaker…
“We Were Here” (directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber) is the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded…
Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who’ve never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. However, he’s forgotten to mention one…
The international success of Heavenly Creatures established Peter Jackson (Lord of The Rings trilogy) as a director to watch after his earlier cult horror films. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) is a shy high school student in New Zealand whose drab life is transformed by the arrival…
The origins of the impressionistic elements of director Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk can be seen in this earlier indie drama. River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star as prostitutes drifting across the Pacific Northwest, one a narcoleptic who dreams of…
Sunday 17 July, 7.30pm, GFT. John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus, Rabbit Hole) adapted his off-Broadway hit show to create this, in his own words, ‘post-punk, neo-glam rock musical’. Hansel, an East German boy, falls in love with an American soldier and decides to undergo a sex…