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…
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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…
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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…
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Gay Murder and political life that rocked California + awards season juggernaut top WGA Awards plus Academy names Holocaust-themed drama producers.
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Jerry Lewis: Comedian gets Academy Honor + becomes enmeshed in Gay Slur and Other Controversies also involving women and people with muscular dystrophy.
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Ciao Gay Movie Portrays Unexpected human connections: Interview with Filmmaker Yen Tan about feature toplining Alessandro Calza and Adam Neal Smith.
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Brokeback Mountain Gay Love Scenes censored on Italian TV while heterosexual Sex Scene Left Intact. Accident? Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star.
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Saving Marriage. 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks. Tom Sizemore, and Matt Damon. Steven Spielberg’s 1998 Best Picture nominee Saving Private Ryan will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion…
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Starring gay MGM contract actor William Haines, the pre-Code comedy Western Way Out West features gay innuendoes just about everywhere you look.
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While London’s Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is proceeding at full speed, here’s a brief q&a (via e-mail) with Lisa Daniel, the director of another gay film festival elsewhere in…
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Banned gay movies in Australia & Singapore And you thought that Australia is a democracy, where adults are allowed to make their own choices regarding the movies (or books?) they…
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Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
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Sundance Film Festival Awards: Immigrant smuggling and skyscraper acrobats + Roman Polanski documentary and (non-winning) ‘gay zombie porn.’
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…
Were the World Mine: Director Tom Gustafson interview discusses his gay musical version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream starring Tanner Cohen.
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…
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…
‘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…
Chris & Don. A Love Story: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Chris & Don. A Love Story opened today in New York City and will…
Edmund Goulding directs a young Joan Crawford in the MGM melodrama Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) at the beginning of their, respectively, directorial and acting careers. Image: Matthew Kennedy Collection.…