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Photo: From Venus Boyz: Bridge Markland and Dee Finley.Chicago Cultural Center presents The Factory Films: Warhol and Morrissey, a two-night examination of films created and inspired by Andy Warhol and his Silver Factory studio. Nov. 14, 1965’s Vinyl, with Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick. 8 p.m., 77 E. Randolph, (312) 744-1424. Nov. 15, Trash, Morrissey’s 1970 breakthrough film featuring Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro.
Gerber/Hart Library’s Queersploitation, a once-a-month film group that will view and examine the treatment of homosexuality in some exploitation films of the ’70s and ’80s, begins Thursday, Nov. 13, with a screening of the film The Big Bird Cage, a women-in-prison flick starring Pam Grier. At 7 p.m., $3 donation, 1127 W. Granville, (773) 381-8030.
Facets Cinema is hosting two courses of interest to GLBT film lovers. One is on Pedro Almodovar, the other on Marlene Dietrich. Facets states on Almodovar: ‘Emotional. Controversial. Outrageous. Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar (Talk to Her, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) fills his movies with a parade of sympathetic transvestites, nymphomaniacs, transsexuals, and obsessive fundamentalists. Fascinated with the fringes of sexual identity and the strength of women, Almodovar dishes up an irresistible mix of hilarious antics and profound melodrama. Come discover Spain’s delirious cult gay filmmaker and Academy Award winner, Almodovar.’
E-mail melika@facets.org or call (773) 281-9075; 1517 W Fullerton.
www.facets.org/cinematheque/filmschool.