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
Sally Potter’s RAGE Multi-Platform Release
Judi Dench, Jude Law (as a female top model), Riz Ahmed
In conjunction with its traditional media release worldwide, Sally Potter’s Rage will be released — as a series of episodes — by web TV service Babelgum online and via mobile through the fall/winter of 2009.
Starring Simon Abkarian, Patrick J. Adams, Riz Ahmed, Bob Balaban, Adriana Barraza, Steve Buscemi, Jakob Cedergren, Lily Cole, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jude Law, John Leguizamo, David Oyelowo, and Dianne Wiest, Rage premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
The film’s setting is a New York fashion house, where a young blogger shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone with an eclectic group of people, including a celebrity supermodel, a seamstress, a [...]
by Andre Soares | May 12, 2009
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Tags: Adriana Barraza, Babelgum, Bob Balaban, Clint Eastwood, David Oyelowo, Dianne Wiest, Eddie Izzard, Gay Interest, Jakob Cedergren, Joan Allen, John Leguizamo, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Lily Cole, Orlando, Patrick J. Adams, Queen Elizabeth I, Quentin Crisp, Riz Ahmed, Sally Potter, Simon Abkarian, Steve Buscemi, Transgender, Yes
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
