In an encore of the WPL Film Club’s debut screening, Dames Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Joan Plowright star alongside Cher and Lily Tomlin in Franco Zeffirelli’s heartfelt account of his boyhood in fascist-era Florence and the English and American...
Dame Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter CBE star opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins in Merchant & Ivory’s adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel about two progressive sisters drawn into a chauvinistic upper-class Tory family. This film is Rated R with...
Dame Vanessa Redgrave is the title character in this adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s problematic memoir Pentimento. With Jane Fonda cast as Hellman, the film relates the author’s 1937 journey across Europe to help her childhood friend, an anti-Nazi activist. With Jason Robards...
SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY 110 minutes Although shot in 1970, this film is years ahead of its time with its naturalistic depiction of a gay relationship. Directed by John Schlesinger fresh off of Midnight Cowboy, the film stars Peter Finch and...
THE BIRDCAGE 1996 117 minutes Given the recent “Don’t say Gay” initiative of Florida’s governor, here is a film set on Miami’s South Beach belting the word out in grand style. Based on the 1978 La Cage aux Folles, the...
