• Parting Glances
  • Memento Mori
  • Trevor

Parting Glances

New Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

featuring

Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan, Kathy Kinney,

Parting Glances is a love story of friendship and romance, old and new; it is also an AIDS narrative. The film tracks its characters across a twenty-four-hour period. Set in a long-ago funky and hip New York City, where nothing is a surprise and everything is possible, this film is a joyous comedic romp made buoyant by a charming and, at the time, unknown cast, including Kathy Kinney in her first on-screen performance. Bill Sherwood’s legacy shines bright here in his rejection of what would become Hollywood’s familiar approach of playing into sentimentalized storylines and characterizations of gay men as their community faced the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

Maya Montañez Smukler
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Bill Sherwood
Cinematographer
  • Jacek Laskus
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 90 mins
Source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
  • First Run Features
Additional Info
  • Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation and Outfest
Preceded By

Memento Mori

Jim Hubbard, United States, 1995

A moving, queer meditation that individualizes the immeasurable collective trauma left in the wake of the AIDS epidemic.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 16 mins
source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
permission
  • Jim Hubbard

Trevor

Peggy Rajski, United States, 1994

A charming story of self-realization and advocacy. 

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 23 mins
source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
permission
  • Peggy Rajski
Additional Info
  • Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive