Fearless: Strand Releasing Turns 20 March 6, 2009

When:
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm: Love is the Devil by John Maybury
Saturday, March 7, 7:00pm: Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming-Liang
Saturday, March 7, 9:30pm: Help Me Eros by Lee Kang-Sheng
Sunday, March 8, 7:30pm: The Living End by Gregg Araki

What:
FEARLESS: STRAND RELEASING TURNS 20
(Series continues from February)
Fri, March 6 – Sun, March 8
Strand Releasing is the probably the boldest, most risk-taking film distributor in the country. Though specializing in gay-oriented subject matter, their complete library reveals a very wide range of provocative material. We celebrate 20 years of their heroic efforts with this tribute.

LOVE IS THE DEVIL
BY JOHN MAYBURY
Fri, March 6, 7:30 pm
This searing portrait of the English painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) at the height of his fame is one of the most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed. It tells the story of the colossally self-absorbed painter and his self-destructive younger lover, George Dyer (Daniel Craig), and begins when Bacon awakens in his studio one night to discover a burglar on the premises. Sizing up the thief as an appetizing piece of rough trade, Bacon makes a proposition. If the robber sheds his clothes and comes to bed with him, he promises he can have anything he wants… (1998, 91 min, 35mm)

DOUBLE FEATURE
Sat, March 7

WAYWARD CLOUD
BY TSAI MING-LIANG
7:00 pm
Set against the backdrop of Taipei, a jaded adult movie star daydreams in elaborate musical fantasies. Award-winning film director Tsai Ming-liang weaves the mesmerizing, candy-colored musical numbers into a tale of voyeurism. When sexual fantasies and realities collide, the line blurs, creating an outrageous tale of obsession. (2005, 112 min, 35mm)
-followed by-
HELP ME EROS
BY LEE KANG-SHENG
BAY AREA PREMIERE!
9:30 pm
Tsai Ming-Liang’s favorite actor and alter-ego Lee Kang-Sheng directs and stars in this film, a darkly comic and sexy tale that follows a penniless stock broker who consoles himself with marijuana. In his misery, he calls a suicide help line and falls for his counselor, which sets a love triangle in motion when he projects his fantasy of her onto another girl. (2007, 104 min, 35mm)

THE LIVING END
BY GREGG ARAKI
Sun, March 8, 7:30 pm
One of the key films of the “New Queer Cinema” movement, this is a tale of two HIV-positive gay men -- one a writer, the other a studly drifter -- who hit the road after the drifter shoots a cop. Taking "until death do us part" as their motto (literally), this pair of outlaw lovers with nothing left to lose embark on an anarchic car trip across California financed with stolen credit cards and punctuated by shoot-outs and hot sex. (1992, 85 min, 35mm)

Who:
Films distributed by Strand Releasing

Where:
YBCA Screening Room, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Info:
415-978-2787 or ybca.org
$8 regular; $6 students, seniors, teachers & YBCA members

Official Website: http://www.ybca.org