special presentations Magic Mike XXL
SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING
DIR Gregory Jacobs 2015 USA 111 min
The original Magic Mike (2012) built a cult following among gay men — and the women who love them, happy to spend a raucous couple of hours admiring real-life former male stripper Channing Tatum and real-life gay icon Matt Bomer. Embracing the gleeful queer gaze at the film, savvy studio Warner Bros. even released an especially gay-friendly trailer and brought Magic Mike floats to pride parades. Now, with Magic Mike XXL’s special preview screening in the Castro Theatre at Frameline39, the cult following promises to become an open love affair. Magic Mike XXL picks up three years after Mike (Channing Tatum) bowed out of the stripper life and finds the remaining Kings of Tampa (Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, and Gabriel Iglesias) likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their own way: burning down the house at one last blowout performance in Myrtle Beach, with legendary headliner Magic Mike returning to share the spotlight. On the road to their final show, the guys shake off the past — not to mention everything else — in surprising ways. Directed by Emmy Award winner Gregory Jacobs (Behind the Candelabra) and executive produced by longtime collaborator and the first film’s director Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike XXL will heap your plate with the extra, extra ample helpings of muscle and moves you’ve been waiting for.
Saturday, June 27, 8:30 pm · Castro
Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
$10 members, $12 general · MAGI27C
Written by Reid Carolin and produced by Nick Wechsler, Gregory Jacobs, Channing Tatum, and Reid Carolin, the film also stars Amber Heard, Donald Glover, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Magic Mike XXL is set for release on July 1st, 2015.
Querelle
RETROSPECTIVE
DIR Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1982 West Germany, France 108 min
In English and French with English subtitles
New German Cinema wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 swan- Wednesday, June 24, 1:00 pm · Castro song, a fever-dream adaptation of Jean Genet’s classic 1947 novel of exis- $8 members, $10 general · QUER24C tential homoeroticism, stars hairy-chested Brad Davis (Midnight Express) as the titular sailor caught up in dangerous games of sadomasochistic seduction proudly sponsored in a French port town teeming with lustful lads and phallic architecture. by Notorious thief, murderer, and prick-tease Querelle arrives in Brest and visits the local bar-cum-brothel overseen by Lysaine (French New Wave doyenne Jeanne Moreau), who is shacking up with both her husband, Nono (the smoldering Günther Kaufmann), and her lover Robert, who happens to be the sailor’s brother — such is this pulse-quickening melodrama’s propensity for incestuous coincidence. Dogged by corrupt police chief Mario, hot-and-bothered construction worker Gil (a dead ringer for bro Robert), and smitten shipmate Lieutenant Seblon (Euro film icon Franco Nero), our antihero succumbs to temptation and discovers the orgasmic thrills and back-alley betrayals of la petite mort. More than thirty years after its initial release, Querelle remains a singularly sensual work and is now clearly recognized as a hugely influential precursor to the New Queer Cinema movement. Wondrously imaginative in its nonlinear storytelling and spectacular production design, this visionary film — whether seen for the first or tenth time—dazzles as an opium-addled ode to sex, death, and bell-bottoms. — STEVEN JENKINS
This retrospective screening of Querelle is being shown in conjunction with the new documentary Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands (see page 55), in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Fassbinder’s birth.
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