Wednesday, March 11, 2009

2009 Notebook: Vol 9

I have to write a piece on the local gay & lesbian film festival... things aren't looking good.

The New Favorites

La fidélité - dir. Andrzej Żuławski - 2000 - France - with Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Michel Subor, Edith Scob, Magali Noël, Manuel Le Lièvre, Marc François, Aurélien Recoing, Marina Hands, Guy Tréjan, Jean-Charles Dumay

Middle of the Road

Away with Words - dir. Christopher Doyle - 1999 - Hong Kong/Japan/Singapore - N/A - with Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock, Georgina Hobson, Christa Hughes, Mavis Xu

Between Something & Nothing - dir. Todd Verow - 2008 - USA - Water Bearer Films - with Tim Swain, Julia Frey, Gil Bar-Sela, Philly, Todd Verow, Brad Hallowell, Francisco Solorzano

Finding Me - dir. Roger Omeus - 2007 - USA - TLA Releasing - with RayMartell Moore, Eugene Turner, J'Nara Corbin, Derrick L. Briggs, Maurice Murrell, Ronald DeSuze

Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon - dir. Jeffrey Schwarz - 2008 - USA - TLA Releasing

The Bad

On ne devrait pas exister [We Should Not Exist] - dir. Hervé P. Gustave - 2006 - USA - N/A - with Hervé P. Gustave, LZA, Bertrand Bonello, Benoît Fournier

Shitfests

Between Love & Goodbye - dir. Casper Andreas - 2008 - USA - TLA Releasing - with Simon Miller, Justin Tensen, Rob Harmon, Jane Elliott, Aaron Michael Davies

Schoolboy Crush - dir. Kohtaro Terauchi - 2007 - Japan - TLA Releasing - with Atsumi Kanno, Kazunori Tani, Yoshikazu Kotani, Yuuki Kawakubo

Watercolors - dir. David Oliveras - 2008 - USA - N/A - with Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Ellie Araiza, Casey Kramer, Jeffrey Lee Woods, Karen Black, Greg Louganis

Revisited: Les Autres

9 to 5 - dir. Colin Higgins - 1980 - USA - 20th Century Fox - with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden