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Out Loud Film Festival
Out Loud Film Festival - Sundance Channel
The boys are back in town, and so are the girls, as Sundance Channel celebrates Gay Pride Month with a Film Fest that has become an annual favorite. Now in its third year, Out Loud showcases a wide range of genre-spanning features, documentaries and shots that look at gay and lesbian life in all its emotional colors.
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Writer-Director Ira Sach’s feature debut, set in Memphis, Tennessee, follows Lincoln (Shayne Gray) a typical teen who drinks beer and hangs out with his buddies – and leads a double life that involves cruising adult movie locales and secluded areas, looking for likeminded men for stolen moments of intimacy. When he meets Vietnamese immigrant Minh (Thang Chan), there is an instant, if ambiguous, attraction. Minh sees Lincoln as the archetype of the American dream, while Lincoln views Minh as a mysterious, exotic alternative to his middle-class existence. But their differences may prove to be their undoing, as societal forces and the revelation of personal secrets encroach on their fledgling relationship. Shot using first-time actors, The Delta has a spontaneous, naive atmosphere and a cinema verite tone. Walking an intriguing like between idyllic, Huck Finn-like voyage of discovery and the gritty reality of modern urban alienation, The Delta “peels back layers that movies hardly ever visit,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
June 15, 9 pm; June 19, 11 pm; June 24, 12:30 pm; June 30, 3:35 pm.
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Described by one critic as no less than “the Citizen Kane of twisted-geek movies,” Miguel Arteta’s (Star Maps) creepy comedy follows the bizarre reunion of two junior-high school buddies, Charlie (Chris Weitz) a California music executive, and Buck (Mike White, who also wrote the screenplay) an unsettling case of arrested development who appears never to have matured beyond age 11. After receiving an unexpected letter from Buck, Charlie attends the funeral of his old friend’s mother, but within a few days Buck is stalking Charlie and his fiancÈe, attempting with needy insistence to resume their old bonds. A provocative and moving film about friendship, unrequited love and loss as well as a fascinating study of social behavior that violates the rules. With Lupe Ontiveros, winner of the Best Supporting Actress Award from the National Board of Review.
June 22, 9 pm; June 24, 9 pm; June 27, 5 pm; June 30, 11 pm