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AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

June 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

Vincent Gagliostro was an ideal person to ask my pop-quiz question during the second Frameline press day on June 23, 2017. The question was why arts are important in the age of Trump, and Gagliostro, whose film, AFTER LOUIE is the festival’s closing night film, is a man who has worked in many media, some… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, After Louie, AIDS, Allan Cumming, art, history, LGBTQI, protest, survivor's guilt, Vincent Gagliostro

THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR — Jeffrey Schwarz Interview

June 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR — Jeffrey Schwarz Interview

Jeffrey Schwarz loves the tell the story of a showman.  Hence, bringing up William Castle, the subject of one of his earlier docs, seemed like the obvious place to start when I talked with him by phone on June 5, 2017 about his latest, THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR.  Both were larger than life, and both… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Allan Carr, Brett Ratner, Harvey Fierstein, Hill Haven, La Cage Aux Folles, Lorna Luft, Oscars™, Robert Hofler, Rock Hudson, THE DEAR HUNTER, Tom Mount, Vito Russo, William Castle

PUSHING DEAD with Tom E. Brown

June 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment

PUSHING DEAD with Tom E. Brown

One of the first things I established with Tom E. Brown when I spoke with him on June 17, 2016 was that his debut feature film, PUSHING DEAD, was not autobiographical. It does, however, reflect his mordant sense of humor about living with HIV+ status, and it includes an interlude where a character is pelted… Read More »

Tagged With: absurdity, AIDS, black comedy, diagnosis, Frameline, health insurance, HIV, HIV meds, narrative film, salvage therapy, San Francisco, Sundance Labs

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, THE

Well, there is just no getting around it. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner’’s name recognition is off the charts. And the one thing that everyone knows for sure about her are those eyelashes. Long, thick, seemingly prehensile, they frame eyes that have wept more than everyone on your block combined, and for more TV cameras than… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, evangelicals, Fenton Bailey, inclusion, Jim Bakker Pat Boone, Randy Barbato, religion, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, television evangelicals

HELL HOUSE – DVD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HELL HOUSE – DVD

HELL HOUSE is one of the scariest documentaries you will ever see. In it, fundamentalists with what they consider to be the purest of motives, put on a Halloween house in which scenarios are staged depicting violence that is intensely disturbing both emotionally and graphically. It’s all meant to convert the unsaved by demonstrating a… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Cedar Hill, Christianity, damnation, documentary, fundamentalism, George Ratliff, Halloween, Hell, homophobia, misogyny, Texas, Trinity Church

LOVE! VALOR! COMPASSION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LOVE! VALOR! COMPASSION! is a romantic comedy, full of great one-liners, that, nonetheless is not shy about taking on serious subjects, such as the human heart. Forget space, this is the real final frontier. Nothing else has such an infinite capacity to delight, destroy, and surprise. The story takes place over three holiday weekends during which a… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Jason Alexander, John Glover, LGBT, romance, stage to screen

George Ratliff Guides Us Through HELL HOUSE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

George Ratliff Guides Us Through HELL HOUSE

George Ratliff’s documentary, HELL HOUSE, chronicles the building of a Halloween house that doesn’t purvey ghouls, werewolves, or vampires. Instead, this brainchild of the sincere folks of Trinity Church in Texas use the concept of a Halloween fright fest to convert the unsaved to their brand of fundamentalism. A fundamentalism in which abortion, raves, and Harry Potter are presented as… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Cedar Hill, Christianity, damnation, documentary, fundamentalism, George Ratliffe, Halloween, Hell, homophobia, misogyny, Texas, Trinity Church

James Cromwell on ANGELS IN AMERICA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

James Cromwell on ANGELS IN AMERICA

I could talk a lot about the HBO presentation of ANGELS IN AMERICA adapted by Tony Kushner from his play and directed by Mike Nichols, a director who has proven has proven his chops with incisive dissections of the moral and political state of the nation with films such as CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and THE GRADUATE.… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, Al Pacino, Angels in America, HBO, James Cromwell, LGBT, Mike Nichols, Roy Cohn, Tony Kushner

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