Metrograph Shows 'Queer 90s' Film Series Throughout October

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — Metrograph, an artsy movie theater on the Lower East Side, is holding a queer 1990s cinema movie fest throughout the whole month of October called "Queer 90s" with 29 films as part of the itinerary. The series celebrates independent, documentary, experimental and studio films that feature "visibility of queer bodies."

"The emergence of 'New Queer Cinema,' a movement of filmmakers reacting to the rightward shift in culture and the specter of the AIDS plague, produced formally radical and political works about, and specifically for, LGBTQ audiences," the Metrograph website says.

"We attempt to treat this whole series as an anthology of different voices in a period of time that was tumultuous," Michael Lieberman, Metrograph's head of publicity, told Art News. "It was a transition period from the beginnings of queer civil rights to the present day," he said.

The series began Wednesday night with a showing of the 1991 movie "Poison" by Todd Haynes, the director of 2015's "Carol" with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Some of the more well-known movies shown as part of the series are "Cruel Intentions," "My Own Private Idaho" and "Cruel Intentions." The entire schedule can be found here. Thursday night is a showing of "American Fabulous" and "Set it Off." On Friday night, "My Own Private Idaho" and "Nowhere" will be screened.

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