Priscilla

Trailer for A Few Best Men. In his smash hit, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, director Stephan Elliot put Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving in an ancient tour bus and flamboyant drag in the middle of the Australian outback. How can you top that? Here's how: a wedding in the outback with a fabulous pop icon (Olivia Newton-John, as the Aussie mother-in-law-to-be), a teen-throb star from the Twilight series (Xavier Samuel, as the British groom-to-be) and Ramsey, a much-beloved male sheep. In this outrageous comedy of ill manners (think Bridesmaids meets Mel Brooks on Planet Apatow), the class roles are topsy-turvy, with the Aussies as arbiters of taste, charm and conservative family values, and the incoming Brits (Samuel and 'best men' Kris Marshall and Kevin Bishop) as scud-missiles of scatology and 'Superbaaaaad' habits. Without giving anything away, suffice it to say that our young lovers are tested and poor Ramsey literally 'gets it in the end.' 'Shear' delight!

A housekeeper at the motel comes across Jimmy (Brian Posehn) and Gloria (Priscilla Barnes) murdered in the bathroom, then stumbles upon Wendy Banjo (Kate Norby) alive and wearing the face of her dead husband.

It's hard to say exactly what triggers the split. One night they were having sex, he was taking her roughly and she wasn't enjoying it. (She later thought of it as a rape.) Next morning, as usual, he left without a word. That evening she decided to cut her hair very short, and threw him out. He needed her blood (he required regular transfusions and she shared his rare-ish blood type) but she was unforgiving. Tell your new girlfriend to call me when you're dying. That's what she said when they met in the park some time later. Charliebebs Gohetia cut his teeth as editor on Brillante Mendoza films (he's also the editor of two other films in this year's program) and turned director three years ago to make The Thank You Girls (VIFF 2008), a feature about drag-queen beauty pageants, a kind of grunge Priscilla. This second feature is something else again, a beautifully stylized meditation on what we think about when we're in a relationship and having sex. It's in two long chapters, titled 'She' and 'He,' giving both antagonists equal weight, and is coolly shot in monochrome widescreen. It's radically unlike any other Filipino indie movie you have ever seen, and it's mesmerizingly grown-up.

During the transatlantic slave trade in 1756, a 10-year-old girl by the name of Prsicilla was kidnapped in Sierra Leone, west Africa and brought to Bunce Island, one of the most notorious slave trading fortresses in the world. NBC s Ron Allen takes a tour of the island with American history professor, Joe Opala. Watch Ron Allen's full report, 'Priscilla's Roots' Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.