Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Ventura Pons, STRANGERS
2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: Catalonian filmmaker Ventura Pons (above right, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents his latest feature, Forasters / Strangers. Pons, among whose credits are Actresses (1997), Caresses (1998), Food of Love (2002), and Barcelona, a Map (2007), was also given a special award for his contributions to gay cinema. (Photo: M. Maldonado.)
In Strangers, a traditional family goes through two traumatic experiences over the course of four decades. First, one family members passes away; later on, their apparent familial harmony is disrupted by the arrival of two neighbors, strangers. Directed and adapted by Ventura Pons from a play by Sergi Belbel, Strangers stars Anna Lizaran, Joan Pera, Manel Barceló, Aida Oset, Dafnis Balduz, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 26, 2009
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Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Ferzan Ozpetek
2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: Filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek (above, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents "the films of his life."
Ozpetek’s quotes below are from the festival’s press release.
"I couldn’t have been happier when Giovanni Minerba made this proposition to me. I wanted to start out with a series of ‘Madames,’ ranging from the splendid Madame X, by David Lowell Rich, with Lana Turner, to Madame Rosa, [starring] Simone Signoret, and then on to Madame Sousatzka by John Schlesinger, with the intriguing Shirley MacLaine, and finishing off with Madame de… directed by Max Ophüls, in 1953.
"Unfortunately there were problems in getting the films, so the only remaining ‘madame’ [...]
by Andre Soares | April 26, 2009
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Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Q&A with Festival Director Giovanni Minerba
Giovanni Minerba (above), director of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, and his staff have been busy selecting entries for the 24th edition of Turin’s annual gay & 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 ‘Tis Pity She’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 ’60s.
Festival director Minerba has kindly agreed to answer [...]
by Andre Soares | April 15, 2009
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