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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE April 24, 2009

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Growing up in a gritty city or a town under a spell

by Anthony Glassman

Cleveland-Two lyrical films playing in University Circle examine the perils of growing up gay, albeit in strikingly different forms.

Of Time and the City, the latest film by Terence Davies, one of Britain's greatest living filmmakers, is a departure for him.

A documentary on the postwar history of Liverpool, his home town, it is compiled from photographs and old newsreels, narrated by Davies himself,

words, the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe, and the music of Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Anton Bruckner, John Tavener, the Hollies and Peggy Lee, combining the past and present thematically, rather than chronologically. The film was made as part of a new initiative to create low-cost cinema using cutting edge digital techniques, and was one of only three proposals chosen out of over 150 submissions. The other two films are Salvage, a horror film, and the drama Kicks.

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Timothy, the token gay boy in his school, suffers the homophobic taunts of his classmates on a daily basis. The one exception is Jonathon, a rugby player who defends him more often than

not.

Their eccentric English teacher, who may be quite a bit more than she appears, reminds the meat-headed jocks

Eventually, love's labors will be found, but how much damage can a love potion do, when released a little too freely into a small town?

Were the World Mine will be shown at 7 pm on Wednesday, May 6 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard. Tickets are $8, $6 for CMA members, $5 for seniors and $4 for stu-

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and filled with poems of some of his nation's greatest writers.

Life in Britain after World War II was not easy for most of the English, and for a young, gay Catholic, that was most certainly true.

The pomp and circumstance of Queen Elizabeth's coronation contrasted greatly with the working-class poverty experienced by many of her countrymen, and the industrial Liverpool was soon to become known primarily for its most famous exportthe Beatles.

At once witty, heartbreaking and moving, Davies creates a kaleidoscopic mural, combining the images, his own

Of Time and the City plays at the Cleveland Institute of Arts Cinematheque on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26. Admission for both showings, 5:30 pm and 4:15 pm

respectively, is $8, $6 for

Cinematheque members, CIA students and staff. More information is available at www.cia.edu/cinematheque or by calling 216-421-7450.

Across the street and a week and a half later, the Cleveland Museum of Art will show Were the World Mine, a queer fantasia taking place during a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's fairy-filled play.

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that their expensive private school requires participation in the annual play. She then proceeds to cast many of the macho young men as women, following in the custom of the Bard's own times.

Timothy, who gets the role of the mischievous Puck, discovers the recipe for a love spell in the script. Mayhem ensues as he first accidentally ensorcells his best friend, then Jonathon and, eventually, almost everyone in

town.

dents with ID. More information can be found at www.clevelandart.org or by calling 216-421-7350.

For those too far away from Cleveland to see them, Of Time and the City comes out on DVD from Strand Releasing on May 12, and Were the World Mine follows on June 9 from Wolfe Video.

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