(Martha Coolidge, US 1983, 95 min., 35mm)

A ditzy but lovable California high-schooler (Deborah Foreman) finds herself confronted with an impossible decision: her crush (hunky Nicolas Cage in his first significant role) or her clique. The script is outfitted with lines such as, “I like totally don’t love you anymore,” and the light and poppy soundtrack features Modern English, Bananarama, and Men at Work.

Then at 9 pm:

(Thom Eberhart, US 1984, 95 min., 35mm)

It’s Clueless meets Night of the Living Dead when a noxious comet passes by Earth destroying just about everything in its trajectory…except for two lucky Valley girls (played by Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) and a battery of bloodthirsty zombies. Co-presented by Godiva’s Vintage Clothing. Two films for one admission price.

(Ken Loach, UK 1984, 56 min., 16mm)

Made for British television, but withdrawn before it could be broadcast, Loach’s powerful, polemic documentary takes a close look at the momentous UK miner’s strike of 1984 to 1985. Followed by CARRY ON KEN (Toby Reisz, UK 2006, 40 min., Digital projection) The life and work of Ken Loach, cinema’s greatest champion of the working class, is explored through up close and personal footage, as well as interviews with his key collaborators. Two films for one admission price.

(James Crump, USA 2007, 77 min., Video)

The revealing documentary, Black White + Gray, explores the complex relationship between the innovative museum curator and influential art collector Sam Wagstaff, and the “bad boy of photography” Robert Mapplethorpe – both major forces in the art world. In doing so, first-time director James Crump reestablishes Sam Wagstaff’s importance as artistic visionary, instead of a mere collaborator to Mapplethorpe’s meteoric rise in the art world. Just who is Sam Wagstaff? He only single-handedly established the modern market for photography, and is also the influence behind the works of Mapplethorpe, his lover. This film gives us the dirt and the facts on the collaboration that took the world of photography by storm, while also paying tribute to a forgotten icon.

For complete selections and ticket information for ImageOut, upstate New York’s largest LGBT cultural event, call (585) 271-2640 or visit www.imageout.org. No Take-10 tickets or passes will be accepted for ImageOut screenings.

(Kirsi Liimatainen, Germany 2006, 72 min., German with subtitles, Video)

In a coming of age tale that everyone can appreciate, director Kirsi Liimatainen (Modlicha, The Time of Spring) offers us a glimpse into the lives of Sonja (Sabrina Kruschwitz) and Julia (Julia Kaufmann), two teenaged girls attempting to navigate the hazardous terrain of their own burgeoning sexualities. While Sonja revels in each stolen moment of intimacy, Julia seems more ambivalent – leading Sonja to wonder if she and her friend can really see eye to eye. Kruschwitz and Kaufmann turn out subtle, emotional performances, evoking with equal sensitivity both the anxieties and joys of teenaged girlhood. Winner of a number of festival awards, including Best Foreign Feature at the Panorama of Independent Film Makers, Sonja is a moving and beautifully understated tribute to adolescence and how sometimes a single moment can become your entire world.

For complete selections and ticket information for ImageOut, upstate New York’s largest LGBT cultural event, call (585) 271-2640 or visit www.imageout.org. No Take-10 tickets or passes will be accepted for ImageOut screenings.

(Marco S. Puccioni, Italy 2007, 99 min., Italian with subtitles, Video)

When Anna (Maria de Medeiros, Henry & June) and Mara (Antonia Liskova) return to Italy from a romantic vacation in Tunisia, they are shocked to discover they’ve brought more than just souvenirs and photographs with them across the border. In their trunk they find Anis, a teenaged stowaway from Morocco who wants to make a life for himself in Europe. Anis’s presence in Anna and Mara’s lives radically alters the already-strained dynamics of the lovers’ relationship, setting the stage for a soulful character-driven drama about class politics and the sometimes-detrimental blindness of love. An official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival last February, Shelter Me explores the tenuous balance between having too much compassion and not having enough, and how sometimes holding someone too close will only drive them further away.

For complete selections and ticket information for ImageOut, upstate New York’s largest LGBT cultural event, call (585) 271-2640 or visit www.imageout.org. No Take-10 tickets or passes will be accepted for ImageOut screenings.