Saturday, July 02, 2011
Outfest 2011: Groundbreaking transgender films and more |
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Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBT film festival is next week, and I encourage everyone to come to some of this year’s amazing trans-themed work. Our opening night film, Gun Hill Road, is a festival favorite starring trans actress Harmony Santana, who is scheduled to be there.
http://www.outfest.org/tixSYS/2011/filmguide/films/3321
I wrote up a preview of some of my own edgier recommendations here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/outfest-2011-preview.html
Be sure to check out Calpernia Addams in Woman’s Picture July 11 or July 16 at the Directors Guild of America.
http://www.outfest.org/tixSYS/2011/filmguide/films/3478
Here are a few more favorites of board members:
GUN HILL ROAD (Opening Night July 7th)
This is an excellent film - well written, beautifully directed, high production-values - that was nominated for a jury award at Sundance. We are in a new beautiful party space that will feel more like our beloved outdoor parties. Also, Ru Paul will present the 2011 Achievement Award to Randy and Fenton of World of Wonder. It will be a super fun night, please come!!SHE MONKEYS (Friday, July 8)
Set in the world of female equestrian acrobatics, the competition gets hot when 15-year-old Emma is assigned to train with the older, self-confident Cassandra. Winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Grand Jury prize for Best Feature.WE WERE HERE (Saturday, July 9)
Director David Weissman (THE COCKETTES) returns to Outfest with this moving chronicle of the earliest years of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. I thought this film was going to be sad, but it is actually uplifting b/c it shows how a community came together in a time of crisis, making it a universal story.CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE (Sunday, July 10)
This film made me fall in love with Carol Channing!! She is 91, she is witty, smart, generous, present and totally amazing. Dori is a skilled filmmaker and this film is a real treat.MARY LOU (Sunday, July 10)
What MAMMA MIA! did for ABBA, MARY LOU does for Israeli pop sensation Svika Pick. Directed by Eytan Fox who made THE BUBBLE, YOSSI & JAGGER and more....3 (Monday, July 11 - Broad Centerpiece)
This is such a pretty film, as we have come to expect from Tom Tykwer (RUN LOLA RUN) and it is very German in it’s portrayal of a complicated relationship between a woman and a man...and a man. 3 says it all. 3 premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and earlier this year at the 2011 Berlinale.OLD CATS (Thursday, July 14)
From Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano who made THE MAID - which I loved! This film has a similar style as it follows a lesbian couple who are vieying for their ailing mother’s gorgeous apartment. This is an hilarious and oddly moving dark comedy.HIT SO HARD (Thursday, July 14)
Follows the life of former HOLE drummer Patty Schemel and features intimate footage and exclusive interviews with Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Melissa Auf der Maur, Eric Erlandson, and other important figures. Patty will play with an AMAZING all star band after the film! Sia Furler, Linda Perry, Eric Erlandson (HOLE), Roddy Bottum (Faith No More) Jorjee Douglass (The Citizens Band and Stone Fox), Clint Walsh (Gnarls Barkley), Larry Schemel (Midnight Movies) and MORE!!HARVEST (Saturday, July 16)
HARVEST has super sexy leads and is set on a farm (what else do you need to know) but is actually a film that uses the beauty of its surroundings to create an intimate story of two young men finding their way in life.CHO DEPENDENT (Saturday, July 16)
Miss Margaret Cho is back, and she has a few things she’d like to share with you. From her hilarious recounting of her backstage feud with the Palins during “Dancing with the Stars” to musical interludes featuring Cho’s witty original songs, this new concert film from our favorite all-American girl will have you howling from beginning to end.
Please come say hi when you see me!
Outfest site:
http://www.outfest.org/fest2011/index.html
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