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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Gay and Lesbian</title>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Documentary / Short Film Lineup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Village Romance: Lesbian Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bongo Bong]]></category>
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Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Documentary / Short Film Lineup
Documentaries  IN COMPETITION 
Boriven  nee yu pai tai karn kuk kun (This Area is Under Quarantine) by Thunska Pansittivorakul (Thailand, 2009) 
  friday 24 april,  16.45 &#8211; monday 27 april,   11.30
Out  in India: A Family&#8217;s Journey by Tom Keegan (USA/India, 2007)
  friday  24 april,  18.30 &#8211; saturday 25 april,  11.30

Intimidades  de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo (Shakespeare and Victor Hugo&#8217;s Intimacies) by Yulene Olaizola (Mexico, 2008)
  friday  24 april,  15.30 (Sala 3) &#8211; saturday 25 april,  11.30 (Sala 3)
Giorgio/Giorgia&#8230;  storia di una voce (Giorgio/Giorgia&#8230;History of a Voice) by Gianfranco Mingozzi (Italy, 2008)
  saturday  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auraeus Solito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beautiful Crazy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Martineau]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Light Gradient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lola Dueñas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Prison Yard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olivier Ducastel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Trapero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Villaluna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabioso sol rabioso cielo]]></category>
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Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup
Feature Films IN COMPETITION 

Rückenwind (Light  Gradient) by Jan Krüger (Germany, 2009)
  friday 24 april,   18.30 &#8211; saturday 25 april,  14.30

El  patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard) by Belén Macías (Spain, 2008)
  friday  24 april,  22.45 &#8211; saturday 25 april,  11.30

Gu  huo (Fire in Silence) by Shen Weiwei (China,  2008)
  saturday  25 april,  18 &#8211; sunday 26 april,  14.15

Leonera (Lion&#8217;s  Den) by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil,  2008)
  saturday  25 april,  20 &#8211; monday 27 april,  11

Selda  (The Inmate) by Ellen Ramos,  Paolo Villaluna (Philippines, 2008)
  saturday  25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Greyson Boycotts 2009 Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In  Haaretz.com, Cnaan Liphshiz discusses the reactions to Toronto-based filmmaker John Greyson&#8217;s refusal to attend the 2009 Tel Aviv International LGBT film festival, which runs June 23-27. Below are a couple of brief quotes from Liphshiz&#8217;s piece:
&#34;&#8217;What Greyson has done is an act of violence both  against Israeli gays as well as [gay] Palestinians, for whom this  festival is a rare ray of light,&#8217; said Yair Hochner, the festival&#8217;s  Israeli-born organizer and an internationally-acclaimed director.  Greyson told Anglo File this week: &#8216;With ongoing violations by Israel  of Palestinian human rights and given the specific content of my film,  screening it in Israel would be hypocrisy.&#8217; The film, Fig Trees,  deals with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Q&amp;A with Festival Director Giovanni Minerba</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Divina Creatura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federico Mancini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferzan Ozpetek]]></category>
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Giovanni Minerba (above), director of the Torino GLBT Film Festival,  and his staff have been busy selecting entries for the 24th edition of  Turin&#8217;s annual gay &#38; lesbian film event, which will take place April 23-30. 
In addition to competition and out-of-competition screenings, the festival will feature homages, retrospectives, and assorted sidebars, including a tribute to Spanish director Ventura Pons, best known internationally for the touching Food of Love; a screening of the films of author-filmmaker Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, whose best-known directorial effort is probably &#8216;Tis Pity She&#8217;s a Whore; and a sidebar featuring several entries handpicked by filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek and another showcasing campy sword-and-sandal epics of the early &#8217;60s.
Festival director Minerba has kindly agreed to answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheryl Dunye&#8217;s THE WATERMELON WOMAN at the REDCAT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/cheryl-dunye-the-watermelon-woman-redcat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Actress-filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of Dunye&#8217;s 1996 feature The Watermelon Woman on Monday, May 11, at  8:30 pm. The film will be screened  in Beta SP. A fundraiser for the restoration of The Watermelon Woman will be held earlier that day (6:00-7:30 pm) at the Phyllis Stein Art, also in downtown LA. (More information below.)
Called  both a &#8220;saucy, daring, insidiously smart debut&#8221; (The Boston Phoenix) and &#34;flotsam floating down a sewer&#34; (Christian right-winger Jesse Helms) The Watermelon Woman is, according to the REDCAT press release, &#34;the first-ever theatrical feature directed by an African American [actually born in Liberia] lesbian.&#34; The film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CELLULOID CLOSET, VICTOR/VICTORIA in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/the-celluloid-closet-victor-victoria-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Via David Hudson&#8217;s The Daily, who got it via Ed M. Koziarski&#8217;s brief piece in The Chicago Reader:
Queer Cinema 101 is a  five-week film series showcasing gay-themed films picked by gay film critics. The weekly series kicks off  Monday, April 13 at Chicago&#8217;s GLBT Center on Halsted and continues  through Monday, May 11.
The five films are:

The Celluloid Closet (1995, above, k.d. lang sings &#34;Secret Love&#34;), hosted by Richard Knight Jr., Cinema Writer, Windy City Times, Monday, April 13;  round table discussion afterward the screening
Velvet Goldmine (1996), hosted by Hank Sartin, Film section Editor and Critic, Time Out Chicago, screens Monday, April 20
The Killing of Sister George (1968), hosted by Charlie Shoquist, Film Critic, Gay Chicago Magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Auraeus Solito&#8217;s BOY</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/turin-gay-film-festival-2009-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros]]></category>
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Filipino filmmaker Auraeus Solito, best known for his 2006 Teddy Award-winning The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, will be at the   Torino GLBT Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, as a member of the international   jury and to present the world premiere of his new feature, Boy, recently banned in   Singapore.
In Boy, a young  poet  sells his comic books to   afford a one-night stand with a macho  rent-boy on New Year’s Eve. However, their   relationship will not end that night as the boy in question will  learn to accept his   sexuality.
Tuli (2005) and Philippine Science (2007); the latter follows  eight students at the elite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: TO FARO, BABY LOVE, Lesbian Shorts</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-lesbian-shorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In Twilight's Shadow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Wednesday, April 8, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

&#34;Mortal Desires&#34;
Vampires, hoodlums, a hot detective and a few high class call girls make up this programme of sexy lesbian shorts. 
In Twilight&#8217;s Shadow (above)
  USA 2008. Dir T.M. Scorzafava. 12min.
Carlisle&#8217;s girlfriend is being held hostage and she&#8217;ll do all it takes to get her girl back before sunrise.
Crazy Baby
  USA 2008. Dir Jules Nurrish. 3min.
An unhinged patient, a sexy nurse and a very large needle&#8230;
Liminal
  USA 2008. Dir Stephen Keep Mills. 14min.
A powerplay between lovers escalates with devastating results.
At Home (or Love as well)
  Spain 2008. Dir Mariel Macia. 25min.
Rosa&#8217;s first time has to be perfect.
What I found in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: DREAM BOY, SOCIETY</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-dream-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Monday, April 6, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
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&#34;Home&#34;
An international selection of films exploring the idea of home. 
Lot&#8217;s Wife
  Turkey 2008. Dir Harjant Gill, Koray Durak. 9min.
A reworking of the biblical story of Lot&#8217;s wife, set in the outskirts of Istanbul, where three uncles intend to break up a happy home.
Boxed In
  USA 2007. Dir Joy E. Reed. 10min.
A comedy demonstrating the importance of clearing out your closet when you move home.
The Turkey
  France 2008. Dir Anna Margarita Albelo. 10min.
A wife and mother runs off with her battery operated birthday present.
Two Spirits
  USA 2007. Dir Ruth Fertig. 22min.
Queer Native Americans fight to reclaim the place of honour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: WRANGLER: ANATOMY OF AN ICON, CHEF&#8217;S SPECIAL</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-jack-wrangler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Sunday, April 5, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Out Late



Directed by:
Beatrice Alda, Jennifer Brooke


Country:
USA


Year:
2008


Running time:
62min



&#160;
A truly inspiring and important film about the experiences of LGBT  elders, specifically those who have come out in their sixties and  seventies. There are stories about coming out in church, discovering  The L Word for the first time at eighty and transitioning from male to  female after a lifetime in the navy and raising a family. The film  movingly explores the difficulties and liberation of discovering  sexuality later in life and in particular highlights the often  unsuccessful search for life partners in a world that places so much  value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: APRES LUI, FUCKING DIFFERENT TEL AVIV</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-apres-lui/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-apres-lui/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Saturday, April 4, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Après lui



Directed by:
Gaël Morel


Cast:
Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Adrien Jolivet


Country:
France


Year:
2007


Running time:
90min



&#160;
Following the sudden death of her son Mathieu in a car accident,  Camille (Catherine Deneuve) reaches out to his best friend Franck in an  attempt to cope with her loss and gain a focus for her pain. However,  this initially cathartic relationship soon begins to border on the  obsessive, and Camille&#8217;s family begin to question her state of mind as  she devotes more and more time to Franck. While the film hints at a  possible sexual relationship between Franck and Mathieu in the opening  scenes, sexuality is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: BANDAGED, 57000 KM BETWEEN US</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-bandaged/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-bandaged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Friday, April 3, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Johanna D&#8217;Arc of Mongolia



Directed by:
Ulrike Ottinger


Cast:
Delphine Seyrig Xu Re Huar, Inès Sastre


Country:
West Germany


Year:
1989


Running time:
165min



&#160;
All aboard the Trans-Siberian railway where you&#8217;ll find titled  ladies, Broadway stars, camp cabaret acts and a Mongolian princess who  has come to kidnap them all. This sumptuous epic from Ottinger ranges  from the obvious artifice of a studio film to an almost documentary  realism when the film moves from train to the glorious vista of the  Mongolian landscape. As the culture clash between the Western women and  their Mongolian &#8216;hosts&#8217; intensifies a sweet love affair blossoms  between the princess and the young Giovanna, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: GHOSTED, THE AMERICAN SOLDIER</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-ghosted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-ghosted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Wednesday, April 1, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Before Stonewall



Directed by:
Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg


Distributor:
Peccadillo Pictures


Country:
USA


Year:
1984


Running time:
87min



&#160;
25 years ago this film felt like a revelation of a hidden gay  history. Conventional wisdom had defined the modern movement for gay  liberation from the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York, however,  this film shows just how much activism and creativity haad been going  on before 1969. A dazzling line-up of interviewees includes poets,  writers, political organizers, dancers, actors who bear witness to a  life before Stonewall, including Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Barbara  Gittings, Harry Hay, Ann Bannon and many more. 
The courage and bravery of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: PEDRO, MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-pedro-stonewall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-pedro-stonewall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Tuesday, March 31, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Madame X &#8211; An Absolute Ruler



Directed by:
Ulrike Ottinger


Cast:
Tabea Blumenschein


Country:
West Germany


Year:
1977


Running time:
141min



&#160;
Adventure and fun on the high seas comes at a price for this band of  stereotyped women, who answer a call to join Madame X on her ship  Chinese Orlando and experience a life without rules and patriarchal  tyranny. However old roles reassert themselves and the women find  themselves swapping one kind of servitude for another as Madame X  demands complete devotion from her shipmates, even the ones she is  enamoured with.
An early low-budget film from renowned avant-garde filmmaker  [Ulrike] Ottinger, who actually took all crew positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: EROS O BASILEUS, STEAM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-eros-o-basileus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-eros-o-basileus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Monday, March 30, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Lion&#8217;s Den



Directed by:
Pablo Trapero


Cast:
Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Laura García


Distributor:
Unanimous Pictures


Country:
Argentina


Year:
2008


Running time:
113min



&#160;
Julia, a two weeks pregnant 25-year-old student is sent to prison for a  crime she may or may not have committed &#8211; the murder of her boyfriend&#8217;s  male lover. No one can remember what happened that night, and as Julia  adjusts to life inside prison walls, gradually commanding respect from  other inmates on the &#8216;maternity&#8217; wing and developing a tender and  loving relationship with fellow internee Marta, she not only has to  fight her wrongful incarceration, but also for her son Tomas, born  inside prison and due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: BORN IN 68, Latin American Shorts</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-born-in-68/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Sunday, March 29, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Born in 68



Directed by:
Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel


Cast:
Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët 


Distributor:
Peccadillo Pictures


Country:
France


Year:
2008


Running time:
170min



&#160;
Festival favourites Martineau and Ducastel return to the LLGFF with an  epic drama covering life and sexual politics in France. Friends and  lovers caught up in the excitement of May &#8216;68 at the Sorbonne  eventually leave Paris for a communal life in the country. The  collective seems at first like a fairytale of left wing hippydom. But  principles are betrayed as members of the commune drift away to  bourgeois careers. Laetitia Casta gives a great performance as the  central figure, Catherine, loved by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: DOLLS, THE DEVIL&#8217;S CLEAVAGE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-dolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-dolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Saturday, March 28, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Dolls



Directed by:
Karin Babinská


Cast:
Marie Dolezalová, Sandra Nováková, Petra Nesvacilova


Country:
Czech Republic


Year:
2007


Running time:
99min



&#160;
This debut feature from Karin Babinská is a beautifully made and  poignant coming of age tale, about three best friends from high school  embarking on their last summer together before going their separate  ways at summer&#8217;s end. Iska, struggling to understand her burgeoning  sexuality and why she feels different from other girls, has been forced  to join her little brother Vojta at a summer camp for athletes. Whilst  he can back flip and somersault like a pro, the timid Iska can barely  hold her own against a punch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: Fred Halsted, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-fred-halsted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-fred-halsted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Friday, March 27, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

The Naked Civil Servant



Directed by:
Jack Gold


Cast:
John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge


Country:
UK


Year:
1975


Running time:
85min



&#160;
This dramatization of Quentin [Crisp]&#8217;s first volume of autobiography won  BAFTAs for its director Jack Gold and its star. John Hurt gives a  dazzling performance as the young Quentin, a flame-haired flamboyant  homosexual when such things were not permitted. It contains much of the  wit and wisdom of Quentin and celebrates a life lived in a refusal to  conform. The highlight is Quentin&#8217;s impassioned speech from the dock  when charged with soliciting for an immoral purpose. 
Plus an interview with Bernard Braden filmed in 1967. Previously  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, THE LARAMIE PROJECT Offend</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/otto-or-up-with-dead-people-the-laramie-project-offend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tina O&#8217;Grady, a member of the Ohio Department of Public Safety&#8217;s  &#34;cultural competency initiative&#34; was scolded by her boss after co-workers complained about an e-mail she  had forwarded  promoting the gay-themed Out@Wex Film Festival in Columbus.
As per the Columbus Dispatch, O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s co-workers seemed to be particularly offended by the festival&#8217;s  description of Bruce LaBruce&#8217;s Otto; or, Up With Dead People in its release. Otto is summed up as an &#34;art-porn provocation [that] depicts an explosion of cannibalistic, sodomy-seeking zombies in Berlin.&#34;
What exactly in that sentence &#8212; art, porn, provocation, explosion, cannibalism, sodomy, zombies,  Berlin &#8212; offended some of the Ohio Department of Public Safety workers remains unclear.
The  judges at the Milan International Lesbian and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Tributes &amp; Retrospectives</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/turin-gay-film-festival-2009-tributes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;From Sodom to Hollywood,&#34; that&#8217;s the tagline of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, whose 24th edition runs from April 23-30, 2009.
Among the 2009 Turin  festival highlights are a retrospective of director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi&#8217;s &#34;transgressive&#34; oeuvre;  an homage to Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons, whose Food of Love I highly recommend;  and the sidebar Muscles in Skirts: The Italian Peplums, featuring bulging pecs and thighs in sword-and-sandal epics of the 1950s and 1960s.
Also, Barbara Hammer&#8217;s latest two movies; screenings of Wieland Speck’s Westler (1985) and Heiner Carow’s Coming Out (1989), both set in Berlin during the time when The Wall was still standing; tributes to Filippo Timi, Guy Gilles, Adolfo Arrieta, and Dorothy Porter; and filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAYS OF &#8216;36 d: Theo Angelopoulos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/days-of-36-d-theo-angelopoulos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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Meres tou &#8216;36 / Days of &#8216;36 (1972)
Direction: Theo Angelopoulos
Screenplay: Theo Angelopoulos, Petros Markaris,  Thanassis Valtinos and Stratis Karras
Cast: Giorgos Kiritsis, Christoforos  Chimaras, Takis Doukakos,  Kostas Pavlou, Petros Zarkadis,  Christophoros Nezer
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Greek film director  Theo Angelopoulos&#8216; 1972 effort  Meres  Tou &#8216;36 / Days of &#8216;36, winner of the International Film Critics Association award at the  Berlin Film Festival, is the least of  the several films of his that I&#8217;ve seen. It is also, by over a decade and a  half, the earliest  one I&#8217;ve seen so far, and at one hour and 45  minutes it is by a good margin the shortest as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Q&amp;A with Filmmaker James C. Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/james-c-ferguson-happy-holidays-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m always happy when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen &#8212; as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. 
Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson (right, in blue), whose Happy Holidays (written by Ferguson and Tom Misuraca) is a three-way character study about old school friends who are reunited   at their Connecticut hometown for a brief period right before Christmas. During that time, deeply buried emotions burst to the surface, old secrets are revealed, and one character ends up suffering a  nervous breakdown. Old buddies can do that to you.
Shot in black in white during the course of two weeks, Happy Holidays features Paul Hungerford as Patrick Donovan, an openly gay man and avowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvatore Samperi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Director Salvatore Samperi, the maestro dell&#8217;erotismo all&#8217;italiana best known for the 1973 social/sex comedy Malizia / Malicious (above), died on March 4 in Bracciano, near Rome. He was 64.
Invariably pushing the boundaries of the socially &#8212; and erotically &#8212; acceptable by the hypocritical, image-conscious bourgeoisie in Italy and elsewhere, the Padua-born (July 26, 1944), former left-wing militant  tackled subjects that  American movies, with rare exceptions, wouldn&#8217;t dare get close to then or now. 

For instance, Grazie, Zia / Thank You, Aunt (above, 1968), his feature-film debut (inspired by mentor Marco Bellocchio&#8217;s I Pugni in tasca / Fist in His Pocket), tells the story of a wealthy young man (Fist in His Pocket leading man Lou Castel)  who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIDNIGHT COWBOY at the DGA in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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John Schlesinger&#8217;s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners,  will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, March 16, at  7:30 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York City.  
David V. Picker, the executive-in-charge at United Artists during the  making of Midnight Cowboy, will moderate an onstage discussion with Academy Award-winning producer Jerome Hellman,  Academy  Award-nominated (supporting) actress Sylvia Miles,  actor Bob Balaban, cinematographer Adam Holender, composer  John Barry, and costume designer Ann Roth.
Adapted by Waldo Salt from  James Leo Herlihy&#8217;s  novel, Midnight  Cowboy stars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fusion 2009: Los  Angeles Gay People of Color Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/fusion-2009-gay-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Fusion 2009: The Sixth Annual Los  Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival will be presented by Outfest and  HBO on March 6-8, 2009. The three-day festival includes screenings of features and short films,  in addition to panels, workshops, and parties throughout the Los Angeles area. The screenings  will be held at the  Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood; the  panels and workshops will take place at Universal Studios and the   Village at Ed Gould Plaza. 
As per the Outfest press release, Fusion &#34;is a growing part of Outfest and is the only  multi-racial, gender-inclusive film festival of its kind.&#34; I don&#8217;t believe that the color white is included, but I&#8217;m not going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CineKink NYC 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinekink-nyc-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a film festival&#8217;s  community sponsors have names such as  DDevious Delights, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Gay Male S/M Activists, Leather Invasion, Lesbian Sex Mafia, the film festival in question must be  CineKink NYC, currently taking place at the Anthology Film Archives, at 32 Second Avenue &#38; 2nd St. in New York City.
Among the screening films are Daryl Wein&#8217;s  documentary Sex Positive, about an early AIDS activist; Robert Pratten&#8217;s  horror thriller Mindflesh; a shorts program called &#8212; I kid you not &#8212; &#34;Whips &#38; Restraint&#34;; the documentary Graphic Sexual Horror; and the sex-film industry parody The Auteur, which happens to be the only film among those listed that I&#8217;ve seen. (The best thing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Dustin Lance Black&#8217;s Acceptance Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/dustin-lance-black-acceptance-speech-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tina Fey and Steve Martin present the best original screenplay award to Dustin Lance Black, whose Milk chronicles the life and murder of openly gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk.
&#34;When I was 13 years old &#8230; I heard the story of Harvey Milk,&#34; Black declared, &#34;and that gave me hope, gave me the hope to live my life as who I am and that even I one day could fall in love and get married &#8230; If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he’d want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches, by the government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Sean Penn&#8217;s Acceptance Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Best Actor winner Sean Penn (for Milk) caused an uproar in some quarters because of the actor&#8217;s pro-gay equality, pro-Obama acceptance speech.
&#34;Thank you. Thank you. You commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns,&#34; Penn said, later adding &#34;And finally, &#8230; for those who saw the signs of [anti-gay] hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren&#8217;s eyes if they continue that way of support. We&#8217;ve got to have equal rights for everyone.&#34;
Later on, once again remarking on the anti-gay bigots outside the Kodak Theater, Penn said, &#34;I&#8217;d tell &#8216;em to turn in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque&#8217;s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26  to screen two movies as a tribute to someone called Van Johnson, an old-time actor who died at 92 in Nyack, NY, last December 13.
Well, though hardly remembered nowadays, the tall, red-headed, freckle-faced Van Johnson  was a major box-office attraction in the United States in the second half of the 1940s. In mid-decade, while MGM&#8217;s Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, James Stewart,  Robert Montgomery,  and others were embroiled in the war overseas, Johnson rose  from the ranks of MGM&#8217;s B-unit to (briefly) become the studio&#8217;s biggest male attraction. 
His  meteoric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Johnson: Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Van Johnson romancing Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Van Johnson: Part I
Van Johnson: The Boy in the Closet Next Door
&#34;A project of his time,  Van Johnson  illustrates the fantasy world that Hollywood projected during the 1940s and 1950s,&#34; writes Ronald L. Davis in Van Johnson: MGM&#8217;s Golden Boy. &#34;&#8230; Any dishonesty in his life was part of a desire, dominant during the heyday of Hollywood&#8217;s big studios to produce pristine likenesses of an idealized society in which all but the most indolent sought the glories and riches of the American dream fulfilled.&#34;
Needless to say, in the mid-20th century the glories and riches of the American dream fulfilled could never have belonged to a guy [...]]]></description>
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