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San Francisco, California
June 2010 |
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Frameline Film Festival - June 17 to 27
By Tom Mayer
During the 11 days of the festival, people from the Bay Area and all over the world, attending the best LGBT films from more than 20 countries, including Brazil, China, Norway, Tunisia, and the Bahamas. The festival opens June 17 at the Castro with The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister by James Kent, about a British lesbian who defied Victorian conventions by living with a female lover until her death in 1840. The film is based on Lister’s diaries, written in code and only recently deciphered. The festival will close on June 27 with Howl, about the early years of poet Allen Ginsberg. SF filmmakers Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk) and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet) combine genres to portray the dawn of a literary revolution. The cast includes James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, David Strathairn as the prosecutor, and Jon Hamm (Mad Men). The Centerpiece film on June 22 at the Castro, will be the amazing feature film Contracorriente (Undertow) from Colombia, in which a married fisherman tries to reconcile his attraction to his male lover in the face of village disapproval. On Sunday, June 20 at the Castro, the new documentary We Were Here: Voices From the AIDS Years in San Francisco, directed by David Weissman, will have its world premiere. On June 23 at the Castro, the Centerpiece Documentary will be Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, about the famous and fabulous Andy Warhol superstar, Candy Darling. Frameline will feature a Warhol retrospective with early films by the pop art master. Curated by Yale University professor Ronald Gregg, this series will explore queer subject matter in Warhol's works, as well as his influence on and mainstream gay cinema. The series will include Haircut #1, Blow Job, Vinyl, and My Hustler. For more info, see www.frameline.org.
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