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Shortbus (2006) DVD

From the director of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" comes SHORTBUS, an exploration into the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters discover one another — and eventually themselves — when they all converge at a weekly under-ground salon called "Shortbus," a mad collision of art, song, politics, and polysexual carnality.

DVD Features:

- Trailers

- Token and Challenged: The Making of Shortbus

- How to Shoot Sex: A Docu-Primer

- Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker & Cast Commentary

- Trailer Gallery

- Filmmaker & Cast Feature Commentary

- 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround

- 16:9 Anamorphic Full Frame Presentation (1:78:1)

- Closed Captioned

- Spanish and French Subtitles

Drama, color, approx. 102 min.

Copy protection removed

Gay San Francisco

Please visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://californiarevealed.org/node/393627

Description: Male lover San Francisco by Jonathan Raymond, is a previously disoriented documentary depicting gender non-conforming life in San Francisco five decades ago. Shot between 1965-1970, Gay San Francisco features a collection of astonishing footage of San Francisco's thriving LGBTQ culture, with a focus on the Tenderloin, San Francisco's first queer neighborhood. Scenes from male lover bars are intercut with fascinating interviews featuring gay men, lesbians, and gender non-conforming women discussing issues from harassment to sex to occupation security. The motion picture also includes a not-to-be missed Halloween drag show at On The Levee, one of SF's many historic homosexual bars that closed their doors distant ago.

Source: 2 Reels of 2: Film: 16mm

Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).

Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

One of the world’s leading experts on LGBT film history and a longtime champion of LGBT cinema around the world, Olson has been writing about and facilitating access to these marginalized films since 1986. She has published two books on the subject—The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian & Homosexual Film and Video (Serpent’s Tail, 1996) and The Queer Production Poster Book (Chronicle Books, 2005)—andcurated a popular, illuminating series of vintage 35mm movie trailer programs that explore different themes in her collection: Homo Promo and Neo Homo Promo, Trailer Camp and Bride of Trailer Camp, Afro Promo, Trailers Schmailers and Jodie Promo, a chronological coming attractions overview of Jodie Foster’s career. Materials from Jenni’s personal archive of rare LGBT film prints have been featured in dozens of films including the acclaimed documentaries Stonewall Uprising (2010) and I Am Divine (2013).

In addition to her decades of curatorial experience—including stints at the Minneapolis/St. Paul and San Francisco LGBT Film Festivals—Jenni has written extensively about LGBT film since 1987

NARROW ROOMS

January 1 – December 31

In an era of gay big-screen romances, Cable-TV Christmas movies, and prestige Oscar-bait, there’s no shortage of affirming content for homocathected cineastes. Recent years have seen an establishment of a “gay film canon” that pops up on streaming services during Pride month. But there are hundreds of stranger, darker, and more exhilarating films that often fall through the cracks. “Narrow Rooms” is a series that celebrates these weird lgbtq+ films, historically ignored or derided but shared like viruses amongst lovers of edgy, unvarnished homosexual cinema. Taking its name from James Purdy’s twisted queer S&M Southern Gothic novel, “Narrow Rooms” is a celebration of film faggotry, gay villains, horny homos, and heterodoxy. After 12 years co-curating the acclaimed artist-selected Queer/Art/Film series and programming for mainstream LGBT motion picture festivals, filmmaker and writer Adam Baran finally gets to pick his hold favorite flicks for adventurous audiences at Anthology Film Archives, an institution that has celebrated edgy, shocking, groundbreaking male lover cinema for over 50 ye