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by Steve Warren
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March 14, 2013 00:08 |
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One of the queerest mainstream film festivals this side of Berlin, the Atlanta Film Festival begins tonight and runs through March 24 at the Plaza Theatre and 7 Stages in Little 5 Points.
LGBT content overflows the annual Pink Peach competition into other sections of the festival and features everything from the premiere of a locally made documentary to films from around the country and around the world.
A common thread this year seems to be that films are about journeys, not destinations. It takes all or most of “Pit Stop” and “Mosquita y Mari” to bring couples together for relationships that may continue for 50 years or 15 minutes.
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by Steve Warren
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February 15, 2013 00:00 |
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“Did you watch the Super Bowl?” a friend asked.
“It’s not ‘til the 24th,” I replied.
Oh, I knew what he meant, and I watched Beyoncé’s halftime show, but he has his Super Bowl and I have mine.
Mine is the Academy Awards, the 85th edition of which takes precedence over any world events on Feb. 24.
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by Steve Warren & Laura Douglas-Brown
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February 15, 2013 00:00 |
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“Yossi,” director Eytan Fox’s 2012 sequel to his 2002 film “Yossi & Jagger,” returns to Atlanta Feb. 22 for a one-week run at the Midtown Art Cinema.
“Yossi” was among the top 10 films screened at Atlanta’s gay Out on Film festival in last October. It features Ohad Knoller returning as the title character.
The first film was a minimalist gay love story set in a camp near the Lebanese border. Young army officers Yossi and Jagger fall in love, but Yossi is unwilling to risk his military career by being out. Then Jagger is killed in a raid.
“Yossi” is set 10 years later. Yossi, now a cardiologist, is still mourning Jagger. Not yet 34 but already old, he’s as closeted as ever, but the word is out about him in the Tel Aviv hospital where he works.
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by Jim Farmer
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January 18, 2013 00:00 |
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The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the city’s largest film festival as well as the second most attended festival of its kind in the world, kicks off Jan. 30 with an impressive LGBT track. Tickets are on sale now, and some screenings are already sold out.
The 13th annual festival runs through Feb.20. In all, more than 70 films will be shown over a three week period. Opening night this year will be held at the Cobb Energy Centre with the crowd-pleasing “Hava Nagila (The Movie).”
Subsequent screenings take place all over the city, including the Regal Cinemas Atlantic Station Stadium 16, Lefont Sandy Springs, Georgia Theatre Company Merchants Walk, Regal Cinema’s North Point Market 8 and the United Artists Tara Cinemas 4.
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by Gregg Shapiro
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December 07, 2012 00:00 |
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This year ends on an especially high note for LGBT film with “Any Day Now” (Music Box Films), starring out actor Alan Cumming as Rudy, a gay West Hollywood man who must deal with a prejudicial and antiquated court system as he attempts to adopt a boy with Down syndrome in 1979.
Cumming gives the performance of his career and even has the opportunity to sing a couple of numbers in the movie.
“Any Day Now” is written and directed by straight filmmaker Travis Fine, an Atlanta native, based on an original screenplay by George Arthur Bloom.
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