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You can either watch the single screen version of Duncan Roy’s 703- set drama, AKA (Millivres Multimedia DVD retail 0000 ), or the split screen version which played in the cinemas. Either way, AKA is a compelling feature about a young man escaping his abusive working- cIass Romford background. He steals the identity of a young lord, and gains access to the hedonistic, coke- sniffing,world of the aristocracy. Duncan Roy pulled such a scam himself, and was jailed for it, and his film is shot through with a truthfulness and insight that makes it really special. There is a riveting performance from Mathew Leitch (Band of Brothers) as the con-boy outsider who comes to realise that being mistaken for rich can rob you of an identity. Highly recommended. Minimal extras.
A romantic ramble on the somewhat incestuous dating scene of Dublin’s shiny bars and clubs, Goldfish Memory (Millivres Multimedia DVD retail (0 ) attempts to capture the cavalier attitude of sexy young things towards sex and relationships. But too many characters and not enough plot undermine the already variable acting and direction, making it hard not to be cynical from the off.
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The cast are at least nice to look at and the music is lovely - the perfect accompaniment for the film this would no doubt like to be. The endless repetition and goldfish metaphors grow tiresome in the extreme, and any questions over the likelihood of a cop-out at the end are all but mute after the first half an hour. Thankfully the
torture is not prolonged by ‘bonus’ material. Now here’s a great two-in-one edition featuring a brace of the great Bruce LaBruce’s most controversial films - Super 8 and a Half/No Skin off My Ass (Millivries Multimedia DVD retail 0000 ). In Super8 1/2, Bruce LaBruce plays Bruce, a porno star way ‘past his prime’ who sees his chance to make a ‘cum-back’ via Googi (Liza Lamonica), a mercenary dyke documentary filmmaker. But as ever with LaBruce, things are not quite what they seem. His most poetic film No Skin Off My Ass fetishises a baby-faced skinhead (Klaus von Buecker) in an elegant broadside
which seems to condone the neo- fascist movement (LaBruce is too intelligent a filmmaker to be doing anything of the sort). As an introduction to LaBruce, you can’t go wrong with this: he is a filmmaker whose work echoes that of Jarman, Warhol and John Waters, yet never imitates it. Is it porn or art? Who cares. Minimal extras. Forget Doris Day in Calamity Jane. When it comes to A- List lesbian icons there’s none bigger or better than Joan Crawford’s Vienna in Nicholas Ray’s bizarre 1954 cult Western, Johnny Guitar (Universal DVD retail 0... ). Black stetson- wearing Vienna is a successful landowner who runs the local saloon with plans to expand and build a railway station, much to the horror of the locals. Arch- rival Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge) will do anything to destroy Vienna - the
town simply isn’t big enough for the both of them. Given 24 hours to leave, Vienna hires her former lover Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden) to protect her from forces that conspire against her. This is a baroque tale from one of cinema’s most respected auteur directors. Extras include an introduction by Martin Scorsese. (John Binnie, Mark Edmundson, Paul Dale)
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Burly is the guys’ club with attitude and it has been piling them in at the Arches in Glasgow for some time. ‘Every month,’ says Brian Johnstone - one of the three promoters, ‘we get a bunch of guys travelling from Edinburgh asking why it can’t happen there too.’ So Burly came to Edinburgh on Good Friday and created its unique atmosphere at the Commplex in Leith. ‘We took our time because we wanted the right venue and the right experience,’ says Johnstone. And as far as the 370 men who packed the venue were concerned, the wait was worth it. The numbers were so high that the bar struggled - a feature to be addressed (without this problem the event would have won a five star rating). But the look, with camouflage nets tenting the dance area and the pulsing red lights and images, was exactly right. And the sounds, with progressive house from the commanding Hifi Sean, had the dance floor packed all night. By midnight, the men of the east had selected overdrive - joined by a bus load of enterprising men of the west - all togged out in uniforms, leathers and rubber. The last time we saw men as good as this, they were riding out on the plains of Minas Tirith led by Theoden. (Graham Turnbull)
I Next Bur/y [Apr/l IS Sports Theme Month]: Saturday 16th April, Commplex
SCOTTISH CLERGY STANDS FIRM
The College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church has come under intense pressure to retract its recent statements, suggesting that being gay was not a bar to becoming a priest. Meetings between Scottish bishops and conservative colleagues in the Anglican church have not resulted in a climb-down. However, the bishops were forced last month to issue a statement, claiming that their comments were no indication of a policy change; simply that, unlike elsewhere, ‘there is no current bar to ordination’ for people in same sex partnerships. (Nick Barley)