FESTIVAL NEWS

From October 26th until November 4th over one hundred films from all over the world will be screened during the Fourth Dublin Film Festival. Most of these will be shown at Screen Cinema behind Trinity College, with the opening highlight, High Spirits (directed by Neil Jordan), premiering at the Savoy. GCN Arts Editor, Peter Hussey, previews some of the treats in store.

Included in this feast of celluloid are a number of films which are of special interest to gay viewers. Michael Thornhill's The Everlasting Secret Family is one of these, beginning at 2.40pm on October 28th in the Screen 1. It looks, with surreal originality, at the shrouded homosexual society in contemporary Australia, centering around the relationship between a gay senator (Arthur Dignam) and his young lover (Mark Lee). Dignam and Lee give fine performances and John Mellion is quite brilliant as the elderly judge whose tastes run towards bondage and masochism.