Gattaca
Director: Ethan Hawke; Andrew Niccol
Year: 1998
Subject: Feature Film
Running Time: 107 minutes
Comments: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this
engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a
system obsessed with genetic perfection. Hawke stars as Vincent, an "In-Valid",
who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of
travelling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However,
a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a
relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with
beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent’s dreams steadily unravel.
GE Appliance Ads
Year 1950s era
Subject Commercial clips
Gene DeFilippo: Athletic Director at Boston College
Year 2002
Subject Lecture
Language English
Running Time 92 minutes
Distributor Trustees of Dartmouth College
Get Real
Director Simon Shore
Year 1999
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 111 minutes
Distributor Paramount
Comments: A gay English teenager struggles with coming of age and coming out
of the closet, trying to attain his first boyfriend while also dealing with
fear and gay-bashing at school. "...a far more realistic and compelling vision
of teen-age growing pains and peer pressure than any of the recent high-school
movies from Hollywood" (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Based on Patrick
Wilde's play, What's Wrong with Angry? Audience Award winner at the
Edinburgh Film Festival
Get Real: Straight Talk About Women's Health
Year 1995
Running Time 27 minutes
Distributor U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health
Comments: An award-winning collection of true stories of women who have each
struggled with health and lifestyle issues. The women speak candidly of their
personal experiences with alcohol, sexuality, eating disorders, violence,
breast cancer and osteoporosis. Accompanied by a comprehensive facilitator's
guide, the video is a powerful tool to provoke discussion among young women
ages 15-24 on these important subjects.
GirlFriends: An Anthology of Lesbian Short Films
Directors Barbara Rose Michels; Barbara Heller; Mitch McCabe; Ela
Troyano
Year 1994-5
Running Time 80 minutes
DistributorFirst Run Features
Comments: This entertaining collection of lesbian-friendly cinema features
four talented, up-and-coming filmmakers. In Watching Her Sleep, a young woman's
imagination runs wild after spotting a drop-dead gorgeous woman in a
supermarket checkout line. Little Women in Transit takes a ride with a young
girl in the backseat of the family stationwagon, as she writes the Louisa May
Alcott-inspired Girls Galore. In Playing the Part, a college girl tries to come
out to her parents, but her angst-ridden efforts keep on ending in futility.
And in Carmelita Tropicana, an East Village Latina performance artist winds up
in jail with some other riot grrls. Mayhem ensues!
Girls' Hoops
Director Justine Amata Richardson
Year 1998
Running Time 27:12 minutes
Distributor Appalshop Film & Video
Comments: In Kentucky, basketball is a cultural obsession. The enthusiasm of
Kentucky fans permeates every community in the state. Communities draw a sense
of pride and identity from successful high school teams, and people support
these teams by the thousands, especially in the rural, Appalachian mountain
region of the state. In the towns of Whitesburg, Jenkins, and Hazard, girls
teams dominate the basketball spotlight. Girls' Hoops explores the history of
girls high school basketball in Kentucky from its flourish in the 1920's,
through a 40-year statewide ban, to its reemergence in the mid 1970's, archival
photographs and film, and footage of present day teams - intense games,
enthusiastic fans, rousing half-time talks and exhausting practices. With
today's fast-paced, physically demanding high school basketball games, young
women can look forward to a college scholarship. With these higher stakes come
higher levels of commitment from the girls, their parents, their coaches, and
the community itself. Viewers will experience the passion and dreams that small
towns put into its young women athletes and see the history which brought us to
the present day sport.
Girls Town
Director Jim McKay
Year 1996
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 90 minutes
Distributor Evergreen Entertainment
Comments: Lili Taylor heads an impressive ensemble cast in this gritty
coming-of-age tale of 4 tough inner-city high school friends and the unexpected
forces that tear them apart. Patti and her posse, Angela, Emma and Nikki have
only a few weeks left of their senior year before they graduate and go their
separate ways. It's a bittersweet time for these unlikely best friends, who
together have shared the many challenges of growing up female. Suddenly, an
unforseeable tragedy shatters their already fragile world, hurling them into a
soul-wrenching struggle over loyalty, love, betrayal and identity in this
funny, raw, exciting slice of real life.
A Girl Thing
Year 2001
Subject TV Miniseries, Parts 3 and 4
Language English
Running Time 111 minutes
Distributor Showtime
Comments: A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New
York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Stockard Channing is the
therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of
having a relationship, it stars Elle Macpherson and Kate Capshaw. Hour Two is
about sisters who hate each other, trying to get along one last time, it stars
Glenne Headly and Emmy winner Allison Janney, Hour Three is about adultery and
it stars Lynn Whitfield, Linda Hamilton, Mia Farrow and Scott Bakula. Hour Four
stars Camryn Manheim and Peta Wilson.
Gods and Monsters
Director Bill Condon
Year 1999
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 106 minutes
Distributor Universal
Comments: The final days of film director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride
of Frankenstein, Show Boat), who died under mysterious circumstances, are
speculated upon and dramatized in this wonderfully acted feature. Ian McKellen
is superb as the aging filmmaker, an open homosexual at a time when
society--and especially Hollywood--preferred gay artists to stay in the closet.
Brendan Fraser co-stars as the working class laborer who strikes up an
unexpected friendship with his famous employer, while Lynn Redgrave contributes
an amusing performance as Whale's housekeeper. Writer-director Bill Condon won
an Academy Award for his screenplay (based on the novel Father of
Frankenstein), and McKellen and Redgrave were also nominated for their roles.
McKellen was honored as Best Actor by the Chicago and Los Angeles Film Critics'
Associations and by the National Board of Review.
Go Fish
Director Rose Troche
Year 1995
Subject Feature
Running Time 83 minutes
Distributor The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Comments: A sassy, playfully sexy look at love among a small circle of gay
young women, Go Fish made a major splash at the prestigious Sundance
Film Festival with a beguiling mix of humor and sensuality. Max is a vivacious,
aspiring writer with plenty of opinions on almost everything and a tendency to
complain about being single while never actually doing anything about it. Ely,
on the other hand, is a quiet, thoughtful woman whose mysterious out-of-town
relationship may or may not be a cover-up for her extreme shyness. For mutual
friends, Kia, Evy and Daria, the challenge of getting Max and Ely together
makes for a delightfully insightful, erotically charged film about dating,
friendship, love and sex from a uniquely feminine point of view.
Growing Up Gay and Lesbian
Director Brian McNaught
Year 1993
Subject Educational
Language English
Running Time
Distributor Motivational Media
Comments: Brian McNaught, acclaimed author and lecturer, presents
"everything you always wanted to know about homosexuality but were afraid to
ask" in a sensitive but straightforward question-and-answer session.
Growing Up in America
Director Morley Markson
Year 1988
Running Time 90 minutes
Comments: In 1969 Morley Markson made a film that captured the heard and
soul of the 1960's/ Called Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric
Family, it showed in their full glory the luminaries of the age: Allen
Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, and jerry Rubin, to name
a few. Eighteen years later, Markson tracked down these living legends to see
what they were up to and how ther perspective of the Sixties may have changed.
Asked to look at the footage of their younger selbes, they reflect on how much
their lives and the times have changed. This new film, in color, was married
with the old one, in black and white, creating a cultural time-sandwich that is
both entertaining and thought provoking.
Guerrillas in Our Midst
Year 1992
Subject Documentary
Language English
Running Time 35 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Comments: Guerrillas in our Midst presents a savvy exploration of
the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s, and
brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen. This anonymous group of art
terrorists has succeeded in putting racism and sexism on the agenda in the
art-world since 1985, and their witty and creative tactics have changed the
face of political and cultural activism. Interviews with key figures in the
Manhattan art scene, record-breaking auction sales, exhibition openings and
interviews with the Guerrillas Girls themselves combine to highlight how the
myth of the heroic male painter is perpetuated.
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