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p/reviews WHAT NOT TO MISS (beyond the horror genre) WE R E TH E WOR LD MINE This opening night ﬁlm features an angstridden small town prep school teenager (Tanner Cohen) who expresses himself best though fantastic musical interludes composed by Jessica Fogle. Young Timothy has landed himself the part of Puck in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream—and he makes Puck’s love potion himself, then proceeds to use it to make everyone in his school gay. Wouldn’t you? STEAM One of two festival centerpieces, in this ﬁlm three women from different generations ﬁnd their lives intersecting in a health spa steam room: an elderly woman (Ruby Dee) struggles to overcome her grief in the wake of her husband’s passing; a middle-aged woman (Ally Sheedy) struggles to come to grips with single parenting and dating her son’s much younger football coach; and a college-aged woman (Kate Siegel) struggles to come to grips with—you guessed it!—being a lesbian. A scene from the centerpiece ﬁlm, Steam. SAVE M E The other centerpiece ﬁlm is a gripping drama about a gay drug addict (Chad Allen) who overdoses and then ﬁnds himself in the care of Genesis House, a Christian-run recovery center where they attempt to relieve their residents of their addictions—and their homosexuality. Can you guess the gender of the person he falls in love with? Includes a memorable turn by Judith Light as the house matriarch. A scene from the opening night ﬁlm, Were the World Mine. Chad Allen and Robert Gant in the centerpiece ﬁlm, Save Me. WATCH THE TRAILER HERE . FOR MY WIFE One of several documentaries as well as local ﬁlms, this one focuses on activist Charlene Strong, and how being denied basic rights of hospital visitation and burial decision making for her wife, audio book narrator Kate Fleming, turned her into an advocate for same-sex marriage rights. Fleming died in a ﬂash ﬂood during the 2006 Hanukkah Eve Storm; Strong was instrumental in getting Washington state’s domestic partnership law passed. For My Wife is screening at Cinerama, 2100 4th Avenue, Seattle, on Sunday, October 19 at 4:30 p.m. Read a collection of Matthew’s reviews of current and past ﬁlms on the Web at http://cinema-holic. livejournal.com. moseattle.com 25 issue 20 | october 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC_Q44P8_m4 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=831324984463792387&ei=OHfcSL28GaeKqQOmhM2MCw&q=%22save me%22 film trailer&vt=lf http://cinema-holic.livejournal.com http://cinema-holic.livejournal.com http://www.moseattle.com

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'MO- October 2008 Contents Letter From The Editor Voices ’mo-BIZ: MGS Consulting Services GLAAD To Be Aboard Pet Project Instant Activist Sports: Jet City Hoops Tips Off Pro-Equality Candidates Philadelphia Is All About The Love Parenthood Form & Function: Strip It Off For The Holidays Gay City Health Project: Gay Men’s Health Summit The 13th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Capitol Hill Guide SceneOut: People@Places Q&A With Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark ’mo-Single Q&A

'MO - October 2008

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