Not too long ago, I interviewed Hedwig and the Angry Inch writer/director/star John Cameron Mitchell about his prized creation, which he originally developed off-Broadway with composer Stephen Trask before bringing it to the big screen in 2001. Mitchell told me he never made money with his musical story of a gay East German boy-turned-genderqueer-rock-diva who sings about the “angry inch” she received during botched gender reassignment surgery. Nevertheless, it was a labor of love that still brought him so much more. “We did it for the purity of what we loved,” he said, “and it has brought me so many benefits emotionally, personally, more than anything I’ve ever made in my life. And it allowed me to do everything I care about.” He also believes that it might’ve inspired hetero moviegoers to see that “queerness is not that big a deal — and, in fact, can be rather fabulous, you know.” Saturday, drag/burlesque performer (and “invasive Southern species”) Virginia Creeper will introduce a fabulous midnight screening of the film at the Belcourt.
Midnight at the Belcourt
2102 Belcourt Ave.
