LGBTQ Film Series Presents “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME”

Film Director and Professor Anthony Perrotto hosts a series, sponsored by the LBGTQ+ Community at St. Bart’s, about films with LGBTQ+ themes. The films will all be on Friday's at 6:30 at St. Bart’s.
Please enter at 109 East 50th Street and proceed to Room 33.
Film will be preceded by introduction followed by a Q & A session and optional dinner at a TBD restaurant near St.Bart’s.

Friday, March 10th:

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME; James Ivory-- Oscar Winning Screenplay; MULTIPLE AWARDS. It's 1983, 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the summer at his parents’ in Northern Italy. A handsome American graduate arrives to help his professor father. Elio develops a crush on the charismatic Oliver who, reluctantly reciprocates. A deeply moving romance story for the ages (96 WINS & 261 NOMINATIONS) Companion to Maurice

Friday, March 24th:

CABARET 8 Oscars; 39 Wins & 18 Nominations; OSCARS to Liza Minelli & Bob Fosse for Directing. In 1931 Berlin, a young, openly promiscuous American Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. (LIZA MINNELLI) To her, the point is to laugh, sing & live in the moment; refuse to take things seriously--even Nazism. She is capable of warmth and emotion. When the chips are down, she's as decadent as the "divinely decadent". The rise of fascism is an ever-present undercurrent throughout the film.

Friday, April 14th:

A SPECIAL DAY; SOPHIA LOREN & MARCELLO MASTRIANI; WWII- Italy. A sensitive theme and love story. The day is of Hitler's 1938 state visit to Rome. He was given a gigantic, enthusiastic reception by Mussolini. This film is about 2 people, not really a couple: their brief encounter lights up the screen--with a brilliance you get only from great movie actors! Antonietta, (mother of 6), while Gabriele is fired from announcer’s job, suspected of being GAY, which he is. In Italy,1938, homosexuals were rounded up and sent off to camps.

Friday, April 28th:

ROPE by LEGENDARY ALFRED HITCHOCK 1948 (James Stuart)
American psychological crime thriller. Rope is notable for its one-take gimmick, the “perfect murder” premise, and very explicit HOMOSEXUAL UNDERTONES. Hitchcock often looked at taboo gender and sexuality expressions in his films.

Friday, May 12th: TBD