Lynn Shelton’s final Washington-state film-filmed on location in Granite Falls, all gray skies and verdant foliage-is also her finest. For proof of the film’s persisting relevance, you need only know that it ends with people complaining about condo construction. But Hype! smartly looks at how grunge was as much a feat of marketing (especially by Sub Pop) as of art. Hype! (1996)Ī grunge documentary could easily become another part of the brouhaha around early ’90s Seattle. What could just yuk it up for bromance laughs instead becomes a tender, intelligent take on sexual identity, masculinity, and progressive Seattleite inclusiveness. The late writer-director Lynn Shelton’s breakthrough piece remains a vital work of local moviemaking, following two straight male friends who decide to have sex with each other on camera. The story is well worn, but even three decades after its release, the chemistry between the three leads feels brand-new. Though set in the late 1980s, this calls back to 1940s Hollywood romance and glamour-all pianos and innuendo, cigarettes and bad behavior. When they bring a singer into the fold-a former escort played by Michelle Pfeiffer-things get romantically and filially complicated.
Beau is the dorky, married businessman Jeff is the louche, laconic, gifted artist. Real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges star as the Baker boys, a piano jazz duo who slink around Seattle playing small-time lounges. And it’s “just the right amount of pretentious.” The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) “It’s less superficial than other drag scenes I’ve seen,” Hoffer says, noting that here drag cross-pollinates with other art forms.
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Told through interviews with Hoffer, friends, and family, the movie offers a funny and holistic look at Hoffer’s life on stage and off, as well as what sets the Seattle drag scene apart. This documentary traces the life of Seattle’s Jerick Hoffer (the person behind the Jinkx persona) as they grow up, start doing drag at 15, head to Cornish College of the Arts, become Monsoon, win that season of Drag Race, and have their career blossom.
Jinkx Monsoon was the first queen from the Pacific Northwest to appear on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Image: Tim Evanson / CC Drag Becomes Him (2015)
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