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WATCH: Trailer for James Franco Co-Directed Sundance-Selected 'Porn,' 'Interior. Leather Bar.' (Video)
The meta-documentary, "Interior. Leather Bar.," a riff on the missing forty minutes of William Friedkin's cult film "Cruising," was recently announced as a selection in the Sundance New Frontiers program as well as the Berlinale's Panorama section.
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Que(e)ries: Was 2012 a Good Year For LGBT Representation in American Film?
Of the top 25 grossing films at the U.S. box office in 2012 (so far, at least), there are actually three more films that feature Channing Tatum as a lead actor than feature anyone as an openly LGBT character with more than a couple lines. And there's three Channing Tatum films in that top 25.
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Did the AIDS Doc 'How to Survive a Plague' Force Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch to Have a Change of Heart About ACT UP?
When David France was in the middle of production of his film "How to Survive a Plague" (Sundance '12 and an IFC Films/Sundance Selects release), which looks at the AIDS activist group ACT UP from its creation and most robust years through to challenges launched by the Treatment Action...
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New York's Queerest, Most Dynamic Film Festival Celebrates Its 25th Year (And Launches a Kickstarter Campaign)
Twenty-five years ago, filmmaker Jim Hubbard and writer Sarah Schulman started the MIX NYC festival for queer experimental film. Over time, the festival has been crucial to the careers of many queer filmmakers. Jonathan Caouette debuted "Tarnation" at the festival. MIX was the fiscal sponsor for ...
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Movie Lovers We Love: Kristin Pepe Helps Save Queer History with the Legacy Project
When Hitler took over Germany in the 1930's, not only was Jewish culture virtually obliterated, so too was the country's robust homosexual and transgender literature and culture. The Nazis famously destroyed the extensive archive of the sexologist Mangus Hirschfeld. As part of that purge, all copies...
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What's Behind the Petition to Save India's Indie Cinema?
In the last decade or so, India's exhibition world has been rocked by the impact of multiplexes. Large, single-screen theaters showing Hindi films with wide appeal once dominated, but when multiplexes came onto the scene their smaller screens were seen as a place for films from the parallel cinema t...
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Will You See This Movie?: First-Time Writer and 'Jawbreaker' Director Team for 'G.B.F.,' a Gay Best Friend Teen Comedy
Last spring, George Northy was working at an ad agency and chipping away at a screenplay, "G.B.F.," about a school with a new trend: All the girls need to have this season's hottest accessory of a gay best friend.
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FUTURES: 'The Outs' Creator Adam Goldman On Creating a Gay Web Series He Can Relate To
Why He's On Our Radar: Adam Goldman has managed to do what few people before him have done: he has made a narrative web series that people are actually talking about.
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Happy Pride Month: Here's 43 Great LGBT Films To Help You Celebrate
This June marks the 43rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the iconic New York City uprising that played a considerable role in the pioneering years of the gay and lesbian rights movement. Mass LGBT pride celebrations will be happening all over as a result, but you can also go no further than your...
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Napa Valley Film Festival Carries On
A few weeks back I had the distinct pleasure of attending and serving on the jury of the premiere edition of Napa Valley Film Festival. I want to promote / publicize their 2nd outing later this year but first I want to use this forum to say why I think they at Napa – and events like them ...
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