UWM Union Theatre
2007 Milwaukee Asian Film Festival
Friday, March 30 – Thursday, April 5
7pm ** FREE **
Bang Rajan
(Jitnukul Tanit , Thailand , Thai w/ Eng. St . , 118 min., 35mm, 2000)
In 1765, during the legendary struggle between the Burmese and Siamese empires in what is now Thailand , Burmese forces advanced on the Siamese capital. With no support from Thailand 's Royal army, a small village of ordinary men and women with extraordinary courage withheld the advances of the Burmese juggernaut over and over again. Their heroic tale passed through the ages. “Unspeakably Thrilling! It doesn't get more intense or more spectacular than Bang Rajan . A directorial style that seamlessly blends Akiro Kurosawa with Steven Spielberg.” – Stephen Schaefer, BOSTON HERALD
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LGBT Film/Historian Jenni Olson in person to present
the 1969 dykesplotiation classic “That Tender Touch”
Presented by Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
and Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival and the Milwaukee Art Museum are thrilled to welcome LGBT film historian Jenni Olson to Milwaukee to present a rare screening of the beloved – and hilarious -- 1969 dykesploitation B-movie classic That Tender Touch. An evening both edifying and entertaining!
The screening begins at 6:15 pm in the Lubar Auditorium of the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 North Art Museum Drive. The film will be introduced by Jenni Olson and will be followed by a talkback with Olson and Carl Bogner, director of the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival. Tickets are $5 (free to those who join MAM that evening) and are available at the door.
Historian, collector, curator, distributor, and filmmaker, Jenni Olson is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema history.
As a historian, Olson is a champion of a category understood as “dykesploitation,” films such as That Tender Touch, a 1969 feature made by Russel Vincent and marketed to male audiences. The poster for the film promises salacious content with such lines as “A woman’s picture every man must see,” “The Maid: Cute…ready to serve!” and “The Teenager: Young…Vulnerable…Which way will she go?” But, in this same film, Olson suggests, lesbian audiences – and others, for that matter --- can find camp pleasures in the melodramatic representation of a relationship between the female leads while also being engaged by the visible pleasures of the two women and the narrative around their liaison.
