Tribute to Spanish filmmaker and painter Adorfo Arrieta (above, with Arrieta section programmer Donatello Fumarola), among whose cinematic efforts are El crimen de la pirindola and Jouet criminel. Director and…
It’s always good to hear when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen – as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson,…
Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the…
Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, The Last Time I Saw Paris Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door Pt.1 “A project of his time, Van Johnson illustrates the fantasy world that…
Woody Allen film to open Tribeca Film Festival: Whatever Works. The most recent Woody Allen film, Whatever Works, will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22. Whatever Works…
Gay murder – and political life – that rocked California: Milk. The WGA Awards’ Best Original Screenplay pick was Milk, Dustin Lance Black’s narrative about openly gay San Francisco Board…
Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s muse in films such as Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and Heat (1972), and whose crotch adorned the Rolling Stones’ album “Sticky Fingers,” will…
Jerry Lewis: Comedian host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Telethon will be receiving the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, given since the 1957…
Gay wedding: Queens with Hugo Silva and Raúl Jiménez. In Manuel Gómez Pereira’s fluffy 2005 Spanish comedy Queens, a group of gay men and their mothers get ready for Spain’s…
Ciao: Gay movie features Adam Neal Smith and Alessandro Calza as two strangers living on different continents – Dallas, North America; Genoa, Europe – who form an unexpected emotional bond…
Were the World Mine: Gay romance between bullied, small-town gay adolescent Tanner Cohen (seated) and school rugby team captain Nathaniel David Becker in Tom Gustafson’s mix of romantic yearning, music,…
John Abraham in ‘Dostana’ wallpaper ‘Gay’ Bollywood film ‘Dostana’ banned in Pakistan: Gay marriage, ‘propagation of homosexuality’ to blame Produced by Karan Johar, and written and directed by Tarun Mansukhani,…
Antarctica: Gay population of Tel Aviv dreams about lands far away in ensemble Israeli drama. In writer-director Yair Hochner’s intriguing, multi-layered, remarkably well-acted Antarctica, which Regent Releasing is opening tomorrow,…
The 2008 Pittsburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival continues until October 26. Several of the upcoming films are featured below. Schedule and synopses are from the PLGFF website. 13 MOST…
The 2008 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which runs until Oct. 26, is spotlighting “Homo Horror” flicks. No, those are not a series of Christian (or Muslim or Jewish…
Directed by John Henning and Mike Roth, Saving Marriage presents the fight to rescue that much revered – and much disregarded, disrespected, ridiculed – institution that has been around (in…
A few days ago, when I read an Associated Press report stating that US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s church “is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into…
Somebody Save Me: Gay conversion therapy film Save Me. Save Me is the tale of a couple of troubled gay men (Chad Allen, Robert Gant) who find salvation (of an…
A few weeks ago, when I began watching a screener of director-screenwriter-etc-etc. Brian Pera’s The Way I See Things, I had no idea what to expect. At first, I wasn’t…
Newcastle (top); The New World (bottom). According to its website, the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (website), located in Durham, is the second largest such event in the…
‘First’ Korean gay movie: Lee Young-Hoon in No Regret. ‘First’ Korean gay movie opens in the United States: ‘No Regret’ Leesong Hee-il’s No Regret / Huhwihaji anha, which has been billed…
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Bruce Willis looks none too cheerful. The original Die Hard (1988) will have a special 20th anniversary screening on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 7:30…
What We Do Is Secret with Shane West: The Germs & Darby Crash. I caught What We Do Is Secret as part of the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on…
Give us more bisexual films. Gregg Goldstein in The Hollywood Reporter – “Gay pride abounds, but indie gay films tank”: “Gay pride season seems to be extending well beyond its…
The 26th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest 2008, will take place between July 9-21 at seven venues in the LA area, from downtown’s historic Orpheum Theatre to…
If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as…
Gay Sundance: I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey as the titular “I,” real-life con artist Steven Jay Russell, and Rodrigo Santoro as a wet and thirsty “friend.” Update:…
Brokeback Mountain with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as gay cowboy lovers kept apart by fear and bigotry. Directed by Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), the…
Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon…
The winner of the Teddy Award for best film with a gay/lesbian/bi/transgendered lead/theme, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela chronicles the day-to-day fantasies and…
In The Guardian, Simon Callow reviews Ever Dirk: The Bogarde Letters, a collection of letters written by Dirk Bogarde and edited by John Coldstream, former books editor at the Daily…
July 9 update: The 26th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest, kicked off last night at downtown Los Angeles’ historic Orpheum Theatre with a screening of Laurie Lynd’s…