Last week the premiered one of its few queer offerings, the documentary Alexis Arquette: She s My Brother. The film follows the notoriously camera-shy (not!) Alexis through several years of navigating the waters of sexual reassignment.
Arquette is an interesting subject, to be sure: for one, she is a member of one of the most successful acting families in Hollywood (brother David and wife Courtney Cox; sister Patricia and husband Thomas Jane; sister Roseanna; father Lewis). For another, she came into the public eye first as a gay man, who appeared in many gay films (Grief, Frisk, Threesome, Wigstock: The Movie) as well as mainstream hits (Pulp Fiction, Bride of Chucky).
As Arquette herself noted, getting to the point of identifying publicly as a female was a journey that had many mile markers -- one of them being out as a gay man.
As she noted at the screening s Q A session, I was out of the closet [as gay], but I was still in the closet, too.
Our pal John Polley over at caught the film and Q A and has a great review up over on his site -- for more on Alexis and the film (which apparently had a journey as bumpy as Arquette s own), check it out. In the meantime, here s a pic of Arquette at the premiere -- is it me, or is she taking some cues from Heroes Ali Larter?
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