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Entertaining Mr. Sloane
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Thursday Oct 1, 2009 (7:30–9:30pm)
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$12.00
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by director John Cameron Mitchell.
"Entertaining Mr. Sloane is the unsung black comedy gem of Swinging Sixties-era British film. Closely adapted from Joe Orton's 1964 hit play, it concerns a certain young libidinous lodger fought over by a wacky middle-aged brother and sister. It's Pinter crossed with Dame Edna. It combined the broad, skeptical music hall humor I learned from my youth in a Scottish Catholic boarding school with the giddy homo outrage I felt coming out in the AIDS-benighted 80's. Orton, the openly queer, rudely promiscuous bomb-thrower of the British stage, was all the rage in the mid 60's to the point of being commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles (sadly unrealized). Some folks aspire to play Hamlet and Lear. The old men in Beckett and Orton are the only roles I still feel the need to essay. And maybe Kath in Sloane, though it's impossible to imagine topping Beryl Reid's tour de force in this film."
—John Cameron Mitchell
Director: Douglas Hickox. 94 min. 1970.
Curated by Butt magazine contributing editor Adam Baran and filmmaker Ira Sachs, the Queer/Art/Film series invites some of the most exciting, innovative (and homosexual) artists from the dance/performance/film/visual and literary arts to present and discuss their favorite films, in rare prints, on the big screen.
