Alexis Arquette's long and winding road

Last week the Tribeca Film Festival premiered one of its few queer offerings, the documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother. The film follows the notoriously camera-shy (not!) Alexis through several years of navigating the waters of sexual reassignment.

Arquette is an interesting subject, to be sure: for one, she is a member of one of the most successful acting families in Hollywood (brother David and wife Courtney Cox; sister Patricia and husband Thomas Jane; sister Roseanna; father Lewis). For another, she came into the public eye first as a gay man, who appeared in many gay films (Grief, Frisk, Threesome, Wigstock: The Movie) as well as mainstream hits (Pulp Fiction, Bride of Chucky).

As Arquette herself noted, getting to the point of identifying publicly as a female was a journey that had many mile markers -- one of them being out as a gay man. As she noted at the screening's Q&A session, "I was out of the closet [as gay], but I was still in the closet, too."

Our pal John Polly over at NewNowNext caught the film and Q&A and has a great review up over on his site -- for more on Alexis and the film (which apparently had a journey as bumpy as Arquette's own), check it out. In the meantime, here's a pic of Arquette at the premiere -- is it me, or is she taking some cues from Heroes' Ali Larter?