Parting Glances screens

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If you’ve been a good little soldier and read up on your biographical information, you’d know that Buscemi got his big break back in the black-and-white days of 1986 with Parting Glances, playing a gay rocker living with AIDS.

The movie was screened recently as part of Outfest, a gay and lesbian film festival in Los Angeles. Buscemi was in attendance, as were several of his former co-stars.

“I can’t tell you what it means to see this film and to have this place so filled,” Buscemi told the audience. “It’s just so moving to me.”

Check out The Outfest Legacy Project for more information on the preservation and archiving of the most important and influential LGBT films of our time.

Parting Glances will also screen at New York City’s Lincoln Center on October 29.

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1. [...] OutFest will once again screen the 1986 film Parting Glances on October 29, this time in New York’s Lincoln Center. This movie is absolutely brilliant, and if you can’t catch the screening I absolutely recommend you get the DVD and check it out. I had to watch it twice; the first time I kept getting lost in John Bolger’s dreamy eyes. The difference between Nick, Buscemi’s handsome and brooding rocker and any of the flaky, zany and nasty characters he’s played since is amazing. Considering how well he portrayed the part, though, there’s no surprise how in demand he became. I was talking to a straight friend recently about “gay stuff,” telling him why I wasn’t going to see Chuck and Larry at the cineplex: I didn’t trust the movie to get it right. [...]

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