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Jonathan Schaech and Rose McGowan in Gregg Araki’s “The Doom Generation.�
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is some homoeroticism in the Lestat/ Louis scenes as well as when Armand (Antonio Banderas) turns up and has designs on Louis. However, while much of “Interview with the Vampireâ€? is elaborately staged and bloody, it’s campiness — such as Lestat dancing with a corpse — undercuts its earnestness. “Gothicâ€? (Dec. 10, 5:30 & 9:45 p.m.) Ken Russell’s 1986 horror film about Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands), and Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson) in a villa during a dark and stormy night, is a fast-paced thrill ride that features goofy spectacle and copious screaming. The characters, which include the gay Dr. Polidori (Timothy Spall), conjure up a handful of waking nightmares after conducting a sĂŠance. There are several episodes of same-sex affections and plenty of arresting images — Sands naked on a rooftop in the rain among them. The characters may go mad over the course of their wild, debauched night, but none goes madder than Russell, who directs “Gothicâ€? in his patented over-thetop style. “The Doom Generationâ€? (Dec. 8, 2:15 & 7 p.m.) New Queer Cinema icon Gregg Araki dubbed his 1995 film “The Doom Generationâ€? his “heterosexual movie.â€? It opens with a signpost that reads, “Welcome to Hell.â€? (The end credits also indicate the film was “shot on location in Hell.â€?) There are numerous verbal and
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Rupert Everett in Michele Soavi’s “Cemetery Man.�
visual references to skulls, skeletons, and the number 666. A lovers-on-the-run road movie, the film has foul-mouthed teens Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) and Jordan White (James Duval), her wishy-washy boyfriend of three months, encountering murder and mayhem after they pick up the sexy Xavier Red (Jonathan Schaech). Amy thinks there is “something evil� about X, as he’s called, and while she may be right, she fucks him repeatedly anyway. Jordan doesn’t seem to mind; he and X have some palpable sexual tension between them, as well. “The Doom Generation� comments on teen angst with pop culture references, celebrity cameos, and nihilistic violence. The colors are vivid and the soundtrack is fabulous, filled with ‘90s goth bands, but a little of Araki’s early anarchy goes a long way these days. Other films with queer threads in the series include: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic “Rebecca� (Dec. 3, 3 p.m.), which features Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers, a repressed lesbian who is extremely devoted to the deceased title character; the 1963 version of “The Haunting� (Dec. 10, 1 & 5:15 p.m.), where Claire Bloom plays a medium who clearly has a thing for Julie Harris; the 1968 entry “The Devil Rides Out� (Dec. 10, 1:15 p.m.), in which a young man is in the thrall of an older male Satanist; “Cemetery Man� (Dec. 9, 3:30 p.m.) from 1994, which features out actor Rupert Everett fighting zombies; and gay filmmaker Andrew Fleming’s 1996 flick, “The Craft� (Dec. 1, 3:15 p.m.) about outcast teen witches.
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