From Feb. 23-28, in a series curated by Gay City News' Steven Erickson, Anthology Film Archives presents DOCUMENTARY, IRANIAN STYLE: the most complete retrospective in the US of Iranian director Mehrdad Oskouei, whose work suggests a cross between Frederick Wiseman and Abbas Kiarostami. For full program notes and schedule, take a look at http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenin…/series/48575.

Join NewFest: The NYC LGBT Film Festival at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) for the documentary "Woman On Fire," about Brooke Guinan, the first out transgender firefighter in NYC, followed by a talkback & reception with hometown hero Brooke! Use code NFGCN for $5 off the $15 tickets: http://bit.ly/2o3U3Vx

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From Gary Kramer: Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a 25th anniversary screening of Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman's “Silverlake Life: The View from Here,” an intimate look at Joslin and his longtime partner Mark Massi both confronting AIDS in 1990. Feb 25 at 4:30 p.m. ACT UP NY ACT UP NY Alumni

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Adam Davidson explains why it's important that Matthew Shepard be a real living character in The Wandering Theatre Company production of "The Laramie Project Cycle" opening next week at Access Theater on Lower Broadway. (Thanks to Cathy Renna)

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David Noh writes about the Tennessee WIlliams exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum: Contained in one not-enormous room, “Tennessee Williams: No Refuge But Writing” is a small but surprisingly comprehensive exhibit, including journals, letters, poems, scripts, posters, programs, and photographs, which only takes the playwright to the time of his last stage hit, ‘The Night of the Iguana” (1961). Curator Carolyn Vega perhaps discreetly decided not to cover the years that followed before his untimely death in 1983