Buddies
Leaving March 31
•
1h 19m
Directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. • 1985 • United States
Starring Geoff Edholm, David Schachter, Billy Lux
The first feature-length drama about AIDS remains an urgent and timeless record of an entire era in gay history. When twenty-five-year-old gay yuppie David (David Schachter) volunteers to be a “buddy” to an AIDS patient, the community center assigns him to Robert (Geoff Edholm), a politically impassioned gay California gardener abandoned by his friends and lovers. As David is changed by knowing Robert, so, too, are we. In the simplicity of the story and the elegance of its unfolding, this groundbreaking independent film by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.—his last before his own death from AIDS—achieves a rare perfection.
Up Next in Leaving March 31
-
Loose Corner
Directed by Anita Thacher • 1986 • United States
Starring Catherine Lloyd, Owen Roth, Jeffree ClappLike the challenges to our assumptions posed by “Alice in Wonderland,” issues of scale, materiality, and relationships are raised within a child’s “game-like” structure in this film/installation w...
-
Kissing Jessica Stein
Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld • 2001 • United States
Starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Scott CohenThe early-2000s romantic comedy gets a bi-curious twist with this girl-meets-girl indie charmer. After dating a string of disappointing men, neurotic New York journalist Jessic...
-
The Conversation
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1974 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen GarfieldThe ultimate Watergate-era paranoia thriller, Francis Ford Coppola’s cold-sweat neonoir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an obsessive audio-surveillance expert who has been hired to track ...
