The 13th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival runs from Friday, November 5, through Sunday, November 14, at Chicago Filmmakers, 1543 W. Division, and the Music Box, 3733 N. Southport. Tickets are $4 or $5 for most matinees, and $5 or $6 for most evening shows. Tickets go on sale a half hour before the first show; advance tickets for all programs can be purchased at Chicago Filmmakers the day before the scheduled screening. Festival passes and discount cards are also available. For further information call 384-1406 or 384-5533.
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In Peter Mettler’s 1992 Canadian picture, a woman named Madeleine is disappointed in her romantic love for her male art professor and runs off to Venice, where she falls in love with a Scottish woman; when Madeleine resurfaces in Manhattan, her professor has adopted the name Jennifer and is hosting a radio talk show. (Music Box, 3:00)
Half a dozen short films by women: Jackie Farkas’s Australian Amelia Rose Towers (1992), Marta Balletbo-Coll’s Spanish Intrepidissima (1992), Lea Pool’s Canadian Rispondetemi (1992), Christine Parker’s Peach from New Zealand, and, from the U.S., Christine Rasmussen’s Doll Shop (1991) and Liz Foley’s Jeanne & Hauviette. (Music Box, 7:00)
Half a dozen films drawn from the Friday and Saturday shorts programs: Jackie Farkas’s Australian Amelia Rose Towers (1992), Isaac Julien’s British The Attendant (1992), Marta Balletbo-Coll’s Spanish Intrepidissima (1992), Christine Parker’s New Zealand Peach, Lea Pool’s Canadian Rispondetemi (1992), and from the U.S., Steve Levitt’s Deaf Heaven (1992). (Music Box, 1:00)
A Queer Feeling When I Look at You: Hollywood Stars and Lesbian Spectatorship in the 1930s
