Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Baby Jane by Billy Clift (top); Shirley Knight, Liz Jahren in Not Fade Away (middle); Homewrecker by Paul Hart (bottom)
Reeling 2009, this year’s edition of the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu., Nov. 5, with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical.
Upcoming feature films include:
Billy Clift’s Baby Jane, a recreation of What Ever Happened with Baby Jane? starring real drag queens playing the two female leads — as opposed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis playing drag queens playing the two female leads.
Florencia Manovil’s romantic drama Fiona’s Script, about an insecure bisexual woman who reluctantly enters into a relationship with a ladies’ tomboy.
Rob Williams‘ Make the Yuletide Gay, a family Christmas [...]
by Andre Soares | November 7, 2009
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Tags: Baby Jane, Fiona's Script, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hollywood je t'aime, Homewrecker, Lesbian Interest, Make the Yuletide Gay, Not Fade Away, Reeling
Out on Film 2009: Atlanta’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Stephan Bender, Maximillian Roeg in Dream Boy (top); Sharon Gless in Hannah Free (bottom)
Out on Film, Atlanta’s gay & lesbian film festival, kicked off last night with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical. The festival runs until Oct. 8.
Among the screening films are:
Glenn Gaylord’s Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, featuring hunky guys, some identity mix-ups, a three-way sex scene, and Mink Stole.
John G. Young’s Rivers Wash Over Me, about a gay teen New Yorker who is forced to move in with his family in the rural South.
Ellen Siedler and Megan Siler’s And Then Came Lola, a lesbian-themed version of the German hit Run, Lola, Run.
Doug Sebastian’s A Cross Burning in Willacoochee, a documentary about the [...]
by Andre Soares | October 3, 2009
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Tags: A Cross Burning in Willacoochee, And Then Came Lola, Andy Warhol, Blow Job, Dream Boy, Eating Out 3, Eric Debets, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hannah Free, Hollywood je t'aime, Lesbian Interest, Maximillian Roeg, My Hustler, Out on Film, Shank, Sharon Gless, Stephan Bender
Outfest 2009: Gay Shorts, AND THEN CAME LOLA, HOLLYWOOD JE T’AIME, BOY
Outfest 2009 hightlights on Friday, July 17. Synopses from the Outfest website.
Steam by Eldar Rapaport (top); Vandals by Simon Steuri (middle); El Abuelo by Dino Dinco (bottom)
Safe Words (Fri, Jul 17th 7:00pm, FAIRFAX 1)
Shorts
Program Running Time is 92 min
Steam
Directed By: Eldar Rapaport
USA, 2009, 16 min
Moving between anxiety, reflection and fear, two strangers try to make sense of their predicament…stuck in a steam room. Heat increasing, they need to get out but can’t find the door. What is this place and how did they get here‾
The Island
Directed By: Trevor Anderson
Canada, 2009, 5 min
The filmmaker considers, with the help of animation, a piece of fan mail he received.
Vandals
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by Andre Soares | July 15, 2009
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Tags: And Then Came Lola, Auraeus Solito, Boy, Eric Debets, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Gay Shorts, Hollywood je t'aime, Jason Bushman, Lesbian Interest, Los Angeles Screenings, Outfest, Outfest 2009
Jason Bushman Interview II
Jason Bushman Interview – Part I
My favorite line in the movie has to do with the un-specialness of nonstop sunshine. You show a very deglamorized — i.e., very real — Los Angeles in Hollywood, je t’aime, e.g., people riding buses, homeless people in the streets, dingy motels, etc. Since you’ve referred to Hollywood, je t’aime as your "love letter" to LA, were you ever tempted to glamorize the place?
What I love about Los Angeles isn’t the glamour, and glamour doesn’t turn me on. I live in Silver Lake, and I only ever go to Beverly Hills when I have to, for business or a doctor’s appointment. (That’s not to say the Eastside doesn’t have it’s own bobo snobbiness, but [...]
by Andre Soares | July 2, 2009
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Tags: Chad Allen, Diarra Kilpatrick, Eric Debets, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hollywood je t'aime, Interviews, Jason Bushman, Michael Airington
HOLLYWOOD, JE T’AIME: Q&A with Jason Bushman
Writer-director Jason Bushman’s feature-film debut, Hollywood, je t’aime was recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The tale of a Frenchman befriended by a handful of social outcasts while looking for Hollywood stardom, Hollywood je t’aime turned out to be a quirky, funny, touching revelation. The good news is that those who missed the film at LAFF will now get the chance to check it out at Outfest, where it’ll be screened on Friday, July 17, at 8:30 at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.
In Hollywood, je t’aime Eric Debets plays Jérôme Beaunez (pronounced "Bea-nie" by a clueless casting director), a befuddled blend of Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, and Adrien Brody. ("Beaunez" literally means "Beautiful Nose.") After being dumped by [...]
by Andre Soares | July 2, 2009
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Tags: Chad Allen, Eric Debets, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hollywood je t'aime, Interviews, Jason Bushman, Los Angeles Screenings, Outfest 2009
Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: HOLLYWOOD, JE T’AIME; BRANSON; EL GENERAL
Chad Allen, Eric Debets in Hollywood, je t’aime (top); Branson (middle); El General (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival Sunday, June 21, highlights:
One-hour "Coffee Talks" (W Los Angeles-Westwood Hotel, beginning at 11 am) with directors (Zach Helm, Todd Phillips, Jason Reitman), actors (Andre Royo, Melissa Leo, Freddy Rodriguez), composers (Harry Gregson-Williams, Lyle Workman, Christopher Young), and screenwriters (Nicholas Kazan, Robin Swicord, Alex Tse).
Starring Eric Debets as a befuddled Frenchman who comes to Los Angeles expecting to make it in the movie business, writer-director Jason Bushman’s clever, funny Hollywood, je t’aime (Majestic Crest, 7 pm) seems to be the only narrative film in competition with a gay theme. Debets’ remarkable, understated comic performance would have done Jacques Tati proud, while the colorful characters [...]
