CANCELLED - More for Gay Men Movie Night - Brokeback Mountain

Out of an abundance of caution, and after several updates from the Illinois Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot, urging social distancing due to the COVID 19 virus, this quarter's movie night is cancelled.

This movie will be rescreened at later time, once public health officials and local governmental officials approve of social gatherings.

Note: We are starting this movie at 6:15 pm, due to the length of the film.

MORE for Gay Men Movie Night - Brokeback Mountain

Friday, March 20th, 6:15 - 9:00 pm

Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted Street

Admission: $5 suggested donation

"Brokeback Mountain"

In celebration of Brokeback Mountain’s debut 15 years ago, we will be viewing Brokeback Mountain as our first movie night of the 2020 season!

Annie Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain" is one of the great modern love stories.

The year is 1963 and two jobbing farmhands (Gyllenhaal and Ledger) take a gig tending sheep on a remote mountain. During their months alone, they form a bond that leads to a sexual relationship. Once they complete the job, they return to their daily lives. However, the attraction remains, and will haunt them for the next two decades.

For a good part of the movie, Jack and Ennis are apart. In fact, they don’t even communicate for four years. In the meantime, they settle into drudgery and roles they resent.

Both enter so so marriages, have children and take jobs they don’t like. Yet, the memory of their time together on the mountain lingers. Could their love last in the real world? Jack, the idealist, thinks so; Ennis, the fatalist and the realist, knows otherwise, shrinking back into his armor of plaid and leather.

Yet, the only vital thing in their lives is their brief, furtive, once-a-year meetings.

Ang Lee's movie felt like a breakthrough film when it was made in 2005 because he recognized a heartbreaking love story when he saw it. Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion.

Brokeback Mountain is a film about love – a love that can never be revealed.

Come discover again how the desire for connection and love is so eloquently painted on the screen.

Come see a different way to watch the movies.

Movie followed by facilitated discussion.

Light refreshments will be served.