Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Sonia Sebastian’s Girl Seeks Girl (top); Glenn Gaylord’s Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat (middle); Jochen Hick’s The Good American (bottom)
The 2009 edition of the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival runs from Oct. 16-25.
Among the screening films are:
Bette Gordon’s Handsome Harry, starring Jamey Sheridan as a 52-year-old, divorced ex-Navy man who, following an encounter with an old — and dying — Navy buddy (Steve Buscemi), decides to face an uncomfortable issue from his past. Also in the cast: Campbell Scott, Aidan Quinn, Titus Welliver, and John Savage.
Two documentaries on transvestites/transsexuals: Fernanda Tornaghi and Ricardo Bruno’s Queen of Brazil, about the 32-year-old Miss Gay Brasil beauty pageant, and Queens at Heart, about pre-Stonewall transsexuals. According to the festival’s [...]
by Andre Soares | September 19, 2009
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Tags: An Englishman in New York, And Then Came Lola, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Handsome Harry, Lesbian Interest, Queen of Brazil, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, The Man Who Loved Yngve
Outfest 2009: Bisex Shorts, John Hurt, RAGING SUN, RAGING SKY
Outfest 2009 hightlights on Sunday, July 12. Synopses from the Outfest website.
Bi-Definition by Kai Salim (top); Mano-a-Mano by Todd Strauss-Schulson (middle); Clearing the Air by David Morgasen (bottom)
Shorts Program: The Bro Job (Sun, Jul 12th 11:30am, DGA 1)
Program Running Time is 92 min
A Mate
Directed By: Teemu Nikki
Finland, 2007, 7 min
Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon.
The Watch
Directed By: Marco Berger
Argentina, 2008, 15 min
Two young men find a surprise connection during an impromptu sleepover.
Mano-A-Mano
Directed By: Todd Strauss-Schulson
USA, 2008, 5 min
Two dudes go head to head [...]
by Andre Soares | July 9, 2009
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Tags: An Englishman in New York, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, John Hurt, Julian Hernandez, Lesbian Interest, Los Angeles Screenings, Outfest, Outfest 2009, Raging Sun Raging Sky
Frameline 33: The 2009 San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
Frameline 33, the 2009 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, kicks off on Thursday, June 18, with screenings of Richard Laxton’s An Englishman in New York (above, top photo), starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp, and Bonham Sláma’s rural Czech drama The Country Teacher (above, lower photo), set universes away from glamorous Park Avenue and the superciliousness of Crisp and his milieu.
Among Frameline 33’s other films are:
Shine Louise Houston’s Champion (above, top photo), the tale of a tough female wrestler who must decide between success and "being herself." ("If you liked Girlfight, but felt like it was missing strap-on action and penetration," reads Frameline’s info on the film, "then Champion is for you!")
Auraeus Solito’s Boy, described as "An exquisitely [...]
by Andre Soares | June 17, 2009
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Tags: An Englishman in New York, Auraeus Solito, Film Festivals, Frameline, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Joe Dallesandro, John Hurt, Lesbian Interest, Little Joe, Quentin Crisp
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: Fred Halsted, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Friday, March 27, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
The Naked Civil Servant
Directed by:
Jack Gold
Cast:
John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge
Country:
UK
Year:
1975
Running time:
85min
This dramatization of Quentin [Crisp]’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’s impassioned speech from the dock when charged with soliciting for an immoral purpose.
Plus an interview with Bernard Braden filmed in 1967. Previously [...]
by Andre Soares | March 26, 2009
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Tags: An Englishman in New York, Bramadero, Erotica, Film Festivals, Fred Halsted, Gabriel Fleming, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, John Hurt, Julian Hernandez, Ken Robertson, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London Screenings, My Cock Is a Dildo, Nighthawks, Paul Hallam, Philippe Gosselin, Quentin Crisp, Ron Peck, Sex, Superm Highway, The Lost Coast, The Naked Civil Servant, The Window
