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by Ryan Watkins
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April 06, 2012 14:40 |
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Gay filmmaker Patrik-Ian Polk of “Noah's Arc” and “Punks” fame will release his latest feature “The Skinny” for a special one-week showcase in Atlanta.
“The Skinny” centers on a group of four young black gay men and their best lesbian friend who arrange a reunion in New York City a year after graduating from Brown University.
Though the film is a comedy, Polk says that serious issues affecting the LGBT community are addressed in the film, including HIV/AIDS, infidelity and date-rape.
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by Steve Warren
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March 30, 2012 00:00 |
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When Jesus said, “Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend,” cosmetic surgery was not an option.
Genesis P-Orridge (of the industrial bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and Lady Jaye Breyer had the nip/tuck option and took it.
Rather than having children together they decided to “create a new person” by having themselves surgically altered to look like each other.
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by Steve Warren
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March 15, 2012 22:26 |
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Judging from available information, there will be as many LGBT faces on movie screens this spring as on the committee drafting the Republican platform. Even Focus Features, which gave us “Beginners” last year and “The Kids Are All Right” the year before, has nothing to offer.
While hoping for some surprises, we’ll mention a few titles that still should interest our readers.
Fresh from their Oscar triumph with “The Artist,” The Weinstein Company has two films with Atlanta dates to be announced. “Bully” is the documentary about school bullying that’s stirred up a storm because of the Restricted rating that will keep unaccompanied youngsters from seeing it.
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by Steve Warren
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March 15, 2012 22:16 |
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It’s the large Pink Peach (LGBT) section that makes the Atlanta Film Festival (March 23-April 1 at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinemas and other venues) Atlanta’s second-gayest film festival; Out on Film, the winner and still champion, returns October 4.
Of the three Pink Peach features in competition for best LGBT film, two were unavailable for preview while the third is a bit less impressive than some of the other LGBT-interest films which are not part of the competition. The three up for best film are: “Glitterboys & Ganglands,” “Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads,” and the one that was available for preview -“The Grove.”
“The Grove” shows how hard it is to reach a consensus in San Francisco. It’s the story of the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park, called “San Francisco’s best kept secret.” (I lived in S.F. in 1991 when the Grove started and never knew about it.) The film’s recap of the AIDS era is to last year’s “We Were Here” what the Grove is to the Quilt: a weak relation. Amid squabbling over adding architectural features to the natural setting, no one mentions the elephant in the Grove, a stone circle with names of AIDS dead carved in it.
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by Dyana Bagby
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February 23, 2012 14:12 |
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Andy Ditzler loves George Kuchar. And he wants to share his love of this gay legendary filmmaker with you.
Film Love, a series that "provides access to great but rarely-screened films, and promotes awareness of the rich history of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking" is curated by Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals.
On Friday, Feb. 24, the series will show several shorts by Kuchar, including his masterpiece "Hold Me While I'm Naked," as part of a tribute at 8 p.m. at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Kuchar died last September and this is one of ongoing tributes Ditzler is planning for him.
"My admiration for him is so unbounded," Ditzler says. "There are few filmmakers who are as fun and interesting."
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