The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival runs from Friday, November 11, through Sunday, November 20, at the Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, and Chicago Filmmakers, 1543 W. Division. Tickets are $6 for evening programs (except on opening night, when they’re $8), $5 for matinees; discount passes are also available. For further information call 384-0605 or 384-5533.
Fantastic Imaginings: International Lesbian Shorts
Not Angels but Angels
This 1990 feature by Youssef Chahine, the most famous living Egyptian filmmaker, concludes his autobiographical trilogy. Described as his “coming out” film, it partly concerns the shooting of a musical about Alexander the Great and is said to satirize the Egyptian filmmaking scene. (Music Box, 5:00)
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A British documentary by Kris Clarke and Sarah Mortimer about comedienne Sandra Bernhard (1993). On the same program, Woman of the Wolf, a short narrative film by Greta Schiller (Before Stonewall) set during the Victorian era. (Music Box, 7:00)
Skin
Five shorts from the U.S.: Julie Zando’s Uh! Oh! (a “rereading of Pauline Reage’s Story of O”); Tony Pemberton’s Description of a Struggle (1993), adapted from a Kafka story; Melodie Calvert’s Dirty Little Story; Georgia Wright’s Stellium in Capricorn; and Maria Beatty’s The Elegant Spanking. (Chicago Filmmakers, 9:30)
