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French Lesbian Love Blossoms When a Wife and Mom Finds “The New Girlfriend”

  François Ozon means to grab your attention from the very first frame of this movie which shows a young bride in a wedding dress lying in a coffin surrounded by white roses and sobbing mourners. Standing besides David her husband is Claire who has been Laura’s best friend since childhood and she finishes her emotional eulogy by promising to look after Laura’s baby and her husband too. In the weeks that follow Claire is too distraught over the loss that she resists checking up on her new charges.  When she does finally pop in to their nearby house one […]

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“54” – The Director’s Cut” Is The Film That Should Have Been Released

The movie opens with a very hunky bare chested young man in a New York street late at night trying to cover up and keep warm. You can hear him start to explain. “I’m not going to bullshit you, it was the greatest party in the history of the world.  My boss said the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Maybe it did. One thing for sure it was the ultimate escape from a fucked up city in a fucked up time.   But like any great escape, it never lasts” He’s talking of course about the infamous […]

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First-time Filmmaker Joey Kuhn’s “Those People” Chats Up His Luscious Film and His First Frameline

Obsession, scandal, and shifting loyalties put pressure on a lifelong friendship and a new relationship in Joey Kuhn’s erotic, arresting directorial debut. Budding artist Charlie (Jonathan Gordon) is so hung up on handsome, vain BFF Sebastian (Jason Ralph) that when asked to paint a self-portrait, he can only deliver yet another painting of his friend. In the wake of a scandal that envelops Sebastian after his Bernie Madoff-like father goes to jail, Charlie moves into Sebastian’s luxurious Manhattan apartment, the perfect setup for getting closer to the object of his affection. But Sebastian is like a mirage, always just out […]

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First-time Director Mikki del Monico Sings Out About “Alto” His Fabulous Lesbian Mob Story which Redefines Rom-Com

In director Mikki del Monico’s “Alto”Rising singer-songwriter Francesca “Frankie” Del Vecchio (Diana DeGarmo) is engaged to her promising musical career and to frozen-food entrepreneur Tony, happily devoted in equal measure to traditional Italian-American culture, her famiglia, and Mom’s lasagna. Frankie’s bella vita is perfectly peaceful—until a dead body shows up in the trunk of her rental car. Obsessed with the exploitative (and hugely popular) TV show Mob Hit, Frankie’s sister Heather convinces Frankie to attend the mafioso’s wake, setting off a string of fateful introductions to the real mobsters in their midst. The entrancingly seductive Nicolette, the daughter of newly […]

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Director Michael J. Saul Talks About His Stunning First Feature and Frameline

In Michael J. Saul’s “The Surface” an aimless young man happens upon a yard sale, where he’s drawn to a vintage 8mm camera. His impromptu purchase awakens unexpected impulses, both artistic and personal, which adjust his life’s course and set him on unfamiliar paths toward illuminating destinations. Evan—played with great delicacy by lithe newcomer Harry Hains—is a waiflike, orphaned 22-year-old who grew up in the foster care system and is still feeling unmoored as he enters adulthood in Los Angeles. He is uninspired by his college classes, growing frustrated with his increasingly critical boyfriend, and eager to find something meaningful […]

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“Baby Steps” Walks Viewers Through a Gay Adoption

American/Taiwanese Danny has been with his artist boyfriend Tate for two years now and to mark their anniversary Tate gives him a portrait of them both that he has painted.  However what Danny really wants is a baby.  So too does his mother back in Taiwan who is desperate to be a grandmother, something that her straight single elder son refuses to play along with. When mother gets wind of Danny’s dream she hopes that her openly gay son is now suddenly ‘batting for the other team’ to make this happen  and she is bitterly disappointed to discover that his chosen […]

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Women Filmmakers Take Center Stage at Frameline 39

Frameline, the world’s largest LGBTQ media arts nonprofit organization, is proud to feature a full slate of films made by women. As a world-renowned stage for the newest and most exciting voices in independent cinema, Frameline39 boasts an astounding 63 films created by female filmmakers—from those helmed by celebrated auteurs like Jamie Babbit (FRESNO), Jean Carlomusto (LARRY KRAMER IN LOVE AND ANGER), Jenni Olson (THE ROYAL ROAD), and Barbara Hammer (WELCOME TO THIS HOUSE, A FILM ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP), to the beguiling Centerpiece THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE by Alanté Kavaïté and provocative Closing Night presentation BARE, directed by first time […]

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“Folsom Forever” Offers the Low Down of SF’s Iconic Gay Event

Mike Skiff’s illuminating new documentary on the Folsom Street Fair, one of San Francisco’s iconic gay events, starts off by dispelling a few of the myths that surround its 30 year history. Initially the Fair was created in 1984 as part of a growing protest movement that objected to the enforced gentrification of what previously had been one of the most blighted areas of the city. The inhabitants of the skid row houses and the working men bars were being forced out as the Authorities bulldozed their way through the area to put up shiny new expensive buildings. This was […]

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German Import “More Than Friendship” Explores Twenty-somethings Fluid Sexuality

Twenty-something-year-olds Lukas, Mia and Jonas have been best friends since their childhood, but then three years ago this all changed. They fell in love with each other and became a very happy menage-a-trois. They decried society’s contempt for their unusual relationship and became totally committed to each other even though it meant making a break from their parents who vehemently disapproved of their arrangement. Since then once a year every summer the trio went on a camping trip together touring the countryside where they were able to be completely free from everyone’s prying eyes and pointed fingers. This year however […]

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“Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks” Fails to Prove Itrself Worthy of its Taleanted Leads

Thirty-something-year-old ex Broadway chorus boy Michael has run out of options and is down on his luck and the only job he can get is teaching old ladies to dance.  There are plenty of them here in sunny Florida and all of them are looking for ways to pass their time in their twilight years. His first client is feisty 75 year old wealthy widow Lily, but the two of them take an instant dislike to each other the moment he arrives at her oceanside apartment. With a very short fuse on his temper combined with a natural talent to […]

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