Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009
Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009 poster (top); Alexandre and Victor Carril in Give Me Your Hand (middle); Hello My Name Is Lesbian by Iben Haahr Andersen, Minna Grooss (bottom)
The 2009 edition of the Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival runs Oct. 16-25.
Among the festival’s "themes" this year are "Documenting Denmark," "Daddy Cool," "Cry for Me Argentina," and "Bollywood Goes Gay."
Rückenwind by Jan Krüger (top); Daddy’s Love by Mette Aakerholm (middle); Nobody Passes Perfectly by Saskia Bisp (bottom)
Screening films include Jan Krüger’s Rückenwind, which follows a young couple (Sebastian Schlecht, Eric Golub) on a bike trip in the woods that turns nightmarish after they meet with a lone mother and her shy teenage son; Iben Haahr [...]
by Andre Soares | September 26, 2009
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Tags: A Fish Child, Conrad Veidt, Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Daddy's Love, Different from the Others, Dream Boy, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Give Me Your Hand, Lesbian Interest, Louis Garrel, Love Songs, Lucía Puenzo, Nobody Passes Perfectly, Rückenwind
Best Films – 1924
Erich von Stroheim’s masterpiece and one of the best silent films ever made, Greed remains a powerful indictment against the deadly sin of the title. Based on Frank Norris‘ McTeague, the film revolves around the misdeeds of a California dentist (Gibson Gowland, center), his miserly wife (ZaSu Pitts, left), and her former lover (Jean Hersholt, not in the above picture), all of whom sacrifice their selves to the all-powerful God of Dollar Bills. Stroheim’s initial cut had 47 reels, though eventually Greed was pared down to 10 reels (approximately 2h15m). That is all that is known to survive from the original film. But in spite of the drastic cuts, many of Stroheim’s magnificently perverted excesses are very much [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Best Films, Classic Movies, Conrad Veidt, Douglas Fairbanks, Eleanor Boardman, Emil Jannings, Enid Bennett, Erich von Stroheim, George Hackathorne, Gibson Gowland, Greed, He Who Gets Slapped, Laura La Plante, Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Richard Barthelmess, Silent Films, The Enchanted Cottage, The Last Laugh, The Sea Hawk, The Thief of Bagdad, The Turmoil, Victor Sjöström, ZaSu Pitts
CASABLANCA IV – Ingrid Bergman
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
CASABLANCA III – Humphrey Bogart
That brings me to the last and least of the trio of star performances: Ingrid Bergman’s rather mediocre portrayal of Ilsa Lund. First, it’s not a truly bad performance, but it’s nowhere near great. One need only look at contemporaneous performances by, say, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, or even Judy Garland, to see how much Bergman pales in contrast. Ilsa is a pawn, a toy, a heroine whose life is the plaything of the two men in her life — and, incidentally, isn’t it interesting how similar in facial construction both Henreid and Bogart are? A fortuitous development that adds some [...]
by Dan Schneider | December 22, 2008
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Tags: Casablanca, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Film Reviews, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre