REEL PROUD

1988 June Per Pat Young’s Sept 11, 2000 draft for GLAPNtimeline  “Reel Proud,” the first annual Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, presents 12 | films.

Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) June 10, 1988 FIRST LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL OFFERS 12 FILMS DURING WEEK

June 10, 1988 | Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)

Author/Byline: TED MAHAR - of the Oregonian Staff | Page: E12 | Section: ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

The first Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, comprising 12 films running Friday through Thursday at the Cinema 21, will begin at 7 p.m. Friday with Jean-Claude Lauzon's 1987 Canadian film ``Night Zoo,'' about drugs and bent cops in a big city underworld.

At 9:15 p.m. Rosa Von Praunheim's 1987 ``Anita: Dances of Vice'' will play. Lotti Huber, 75, does a remarkable job as a woman taken to a public asylum for her disruptive delusion that she is Anita Berber, notorious nude dancer, cocaine user and bisexual who scandalized Germany in the '20s. She died of tuberculosis in 1929.

Ina Blum is attractive as Huber's fantasy of Anita, seen in color flashbacks from a black and white present. The film will also show at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Hugh Brody's 1986 film, ``1919,'' will be shown at 10:45 p.m. Friday and 9:25 p.m. Monday. Paul Scofield and Maria Schell play two patients of Freud who meet in Vienna in 1970.

Alexandra von Grote's 1984 ``Novembermoon'' will show at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. It is about two German women in World War II and deals with persecution of French and Jews.

Yves Simoneau's taut 1987 Canadian thriller ``Pouvoir Intime'' is set for 5 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Tuesday and is a well-made drama of an armored car robbery.

Sergio Toledo's 1987 Brazilian ``Vera'' will run at 7 p.m. Saturday and 8:45 p.m. Wednesday. It is about a woman who feels she is a man trapped in the wrong body.

Yu Kan-Ping's 1986 ``The Outsiders,'' based on a popular novel, is the first Taiwan film with a homosexual theme to be licensed by the government. See it at 8:45 p.m. Saturday and 9:20 p.m Thursday.

Gus Van Sant's 1986 ``Mala Noche,'' praised in the New York Times, is slated for 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Made in Portland, it is based on Walt Curtis' autobiographical novel.

The Canadian documentary ``On the Brink: An AIDS Chronicle'' will play at 4:30 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Proceeds go to the Juniper House facility for AIDS patients. It is a vivid, methodical summary of what is known so far.

Evergreen State College instructor Barbara Hammer will present her films at 7 p.m. Sunday.

The 1986 ``Parting Glances'' will show at 9:05 p.m. Sunday. It is about friends coming to grips with one of them having AIDS.

The lesbian soap opera ``Two in Twenty'' will be shown in two parts, three segments at 7 p.m. Monday and three at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Below are from Just Out newspaper, June 1988 - “Reel Proud” was part of Lesbian and Gay Pride.