The twenty-city “John Waters Christmas Show” tour began November 29 in San Francisco.1PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is appropriated and remade as a gay Frenchman’s love letter to the original version. Hilariously stilted, often overwrought, but always highly entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla finally makes an appearance and Isabelle Adjani soon follows. My God, it’s just plain Douglas Sirk perfect.2 EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)Another tribute film, this time Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar
A successful filmmaker becomes obsessed with a handsome young man in French filmmaker François Ozon’s gender-switched remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant."