The high point of this year’s Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film
Festival is a scrappy indie movie from 1986 starring Steve
Buscemi as a rock star on the ascent who’s also an AIDS patient on the
decline. Tender and resolutely unsentimental, Parting
Glances avoided future AIDS movie clichés not because the
example had yet to be set, but because its interests lay
elsewhere—in a study of a sexually complicated friendship and in a loving portrait of bohemian New York suddenly aware of its own
foreshortened prospects. (SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St,
www.seattlequeerfilm.org.
7 pm, $9.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...