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
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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Tags: Divina Creatura, Federico Mancini, Ferzan Ozpetek, Film Festivals, Gay Classics, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Giovanni Minerba, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Julian Hernandez, Leonera, Pablo Trapero, Rabioso sol rabioso cielo, Terence Stamp, Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009, Ventura Pons, Westler, Wieland Speck
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
