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REVIEW | Just released for the first time ever on DVD, Robert Altman’s 1983 military drama “Streamers” was recently sent our way. The film, an adaptation of the play by David Rabe, while noteworthy in its own right, seems even more relevant now with last night’s promise from our President to finally work towards doing away with the disaster that is “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
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In case you haven’t seen this already, here’s the new poster for Tom Ford’s new film, “A Single Man,” which opens in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 11th — and expands to wider release on December 25th. Based on the Christopher Isherwood novel, “A Single Man,” stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode.
What are you wearing?
I’m wearing a Navy H&M suit, actually, from their fitted line. The tie is from Zara and the shirt is Thomas Pink.
What’s the one thing every man should have in his closet?
You should have a really exceptional pair of black shoes–don’t scrimp on your shoes! You can get a great pair of black shoes and you’ll have those for the rest of your life. If you go to Payless because you’re thinking you’ll save money by buying a $60 pair every year, you’re not.
And what’s the sexiest part of a man’s body?
His smile.
Tom Ford, former Gucci headman and all-around aesthete, has his directorial debut later this year with the release of his first film, “A Single Man.” With a cast that includes Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Matthew Goode in a drama that looks like an intense stylistic mash-up between Mad Men and Erwin Olaf, the film has already generated considerable curiosity. It follows the life of a British college professor (played by Firth) in Los Angeles after the loss of his partner (played by Goode), with a close friend (Moore) there to help him navigate the ensuing heartache. It is scheduled to be released in time for the 2009 awards season.
Filmmaker and photographer Bruce LaBruce is rolling into New York City this Halloween season for a screening of his new zombie porn film, Otto: Or, Up With Dead People, that has been making it’s rounds at film festivals across the globe. The Toronto-based artist is known for his controversial melding of indie filmmaking with gay pornography that has produced cult films like Raspberry Reich, Skin Flick, Hustler White, and Super 8 1/2. Check out the trailer… it should put you in the mood for some ghoulish fun of your own.
THE TRAILER for Gus Van Sant’s highly anticipated new film MILK was leaked less than a week ago, and already we’re hearing the “O” word mentioned. It makes sense. If MILK is anything like the trailer, then Sean Penn is an almost guaranteed Oscar contender. Ted Casablanca has a theory. The idea that if an actor wants to be taken seriously (i.e. to be nominated for an Academy Award), he’s gotta play gay.
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With an upcoming role alongside Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant’s Milk, and with the recent buzz about the homoerotic bromance in Pinapple Express, James Franco is well on his way to becoming the new Jake Gyllenhaal – the straight guy who gay guys love to fantasize about. Here he talks about wearing a prosthetic phallus (because I guess Harvey Milk liked ‘em big?) during love scenes with Penn who plays America’s first openly gay mayor Harvey Milk.
This scene went on for a long time, like half the day, and it’s getting old… and I go over to Sean and I guess he didn’t know that I was wearing a prosthetic. I go, “Sean, you’re such a great actor but you wouldn’t do a scene like this if they asked you; you wouldn’t dive into a pool naked.”
And he said… “Well James, if I was built like you, I would.”
A couple of weeks later we did this scene, where we’re both dancing and we’re naked, and we both have prosthetic penises. He finally put it together that I’m wearing, like, the Boogie Nights prosthetic. [ContactMusic.com]
Hot right? Still, I don’t understand the need for a horse-hung prothesis. On screen we get two choices anymore: Howard Stern’s stump or Mark Wahlberg’s tripod. Whatever happened to average?
The trailer for The Informers (based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, of the same name) was leaked and then later removed, but we found it. Oh yeah, and it’s NSFW.
Set in 1983 Los Angeles, the film is based on Bret Easton Ellis’s (American Pyscho, Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero) 1995 short story collection by the same name. Many of Ellis’ works have been adapted for the screen (see above), except this time Ellis co-wrote the screenplay. The all-star cast includes Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Amber Heard, Kim Basinger, Brad Renfro, and Billy Bob Thornton. There’s no opening date yet, but the synopsis promises “sex, drugs and violence.” Yay!
HIGH VS. LOW — I recommend bypassing X-Files and Step Brothers this weekend opting instead for a little foreign homo onscreen action. Director Leesong Hee-il’s sexy, new film No Regret opens today in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Hee-il explores the dividing incompatibility of “sexual identity and economic need.” Bring your glasses, you’ll read the subtitles faster.
The best thing in “No Regret” is the brothel. Down a dingy alleyway in Seoul, South Korea, the “host bar,” as it is euphemistically known, is announced by a sign that suggestively promises “X Large.” Inside, young men fresh from the provinces cavort with their jaded city colleagues for the delight of an all-male clientele. There is karaoke, binge drinking, lap dancing and intimate entanglements in private rooms, along with fistfights, trash talking, broken hearts and bonhomie. [New York Times] (Photo courtesy of Regent Releasing)
© Photo by Steven Mattson Hayhurst
KISS ME KATE — Ladies, we haven’t forgotten about you. Our new favorite rising starlet/hottie is Kate Siegel (left). She stars in Kyle Schickner’s (right) new film Steam. And yes. We’re kicking ourselves for not having balls enough to ask her a few questions. [Ed Note: Grow a pair!!!] Kate plays Elizabeth, a wholesome college student from a devout catholic family who is struggling with her sexuality: she likes girls. Comforted by the refining heat of the local steam room, she and two other women (Ruby Dee and Ally Sheedy, center) confront their own personal love crises. I won’t say more, except that Kate’s performance is subtle and honest and very funny. Kate’s Elizabeth is timid and cautious, but we watch as she begins to come to terms with who she is, and who she wants to be. During the NewFest Q&A, Kate told story of how she and her agent stalked Schickner for this role. “When I read the script, I knew I had to play Elizabeth,” she says. Ladies, keep both eyes on Miss Seigel, she may surprise us yet.
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If you’ve got 6 minutes. Or once your boss heads out for her 2-hour lunch break, which you know is really her 2-hour mani-pedi break, then check out this video preview of NewFest 2008. Unbeknownst to me, the The Center here in New York, produces these really great streaming video interviews of authors, artists, talking heads, etc. In this case, my new Facebook friend Richard sits down with Basil Tsiokos, artistic director of NewFest, about what’s going to rock New York’s premiere GLBT film festival. And it’s not too late to buy tickets!
Were the World Mine – Photo by Tara White
NewFest 2008, New York’s premiere LGBT film festival is happening right now. And homo-neurotic attended the kick-off and celebration for Tru Loved (more on that later). Amidst the opening-night commotion, NewFest Artistic Director, Basil Tsiokos, answered a few questions about what to expect this year. And you’d better hurry and buy tickets, because the the most anticipated films–like Tom Gustafson’s Midsummer Night’s Dream inspired Were The World Mine (above)–are sold out. Maybe you can find illegal scalp tickets on eBay along with your fake Miley Cyrus backstage passes, but we doubt it.
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Miramax Films: Blindness – Official Trailer – More bloopers are a click away
My boyfriend Gael García Bernal is all over the place this summer…That explains why he hasn’t returned any of my calls, emails, late-night drunk texts, or even those creepy collage cut-out notes/death threats I left under his apartment door. Sigh. Nonetheless, you’ve probably seen his beautiful face plastered accross numerous blogs and magazines this summer. With two movies out and one in the making, it’s no surprise he hasn’t had time to send me some love.
The loudest buz comes from Gael García Bernal’s (we call each other Cookiekins in private) role in Fernando Meirelles’s (City of God) screen adaptation of José Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning novel Blindness, which kicked off Cannes last month. (Never read it.) And recently, my man Gael has been promoting his directorial-debut film Déficit, where he plays a rich, Mexi-brat/ player/ bad-direction-giver Cristobal. Among other projects, he’s finishing production of Pedro Paramo, a film based on Juan Fulfo’s 1955 novella of the same name. Trailers for Déficit.
Deficit – Gael Garcia Bernal – The most amazing videos are a click away
Gael García Bernal talks to the Spanish TV program Cinexprés (CANAL+) about his directorial debut in, Déficit, in the 2 Festival de Granada Cines del Sur.
Gael Garcia Bernal THE KING – More amazing videos are a click away
On June 19 the SF GLBT Film Festival, Frameline32, will open with ‘Affinity‘ a film based on Sarah Waters‘ second novel. The film is directed by British filmmaker Tim Fywell – who, incidentally, made his feature film debut with the Disney chick flick Ice Princess (1995).
This delicious period piece, based on Sarah Waters’ 1999 novel of the same name, is a women-in-prison movie with a gothic Victorian twist. Upper-class Margaret (Anna Madel[e]y), mourning her father’s recent death and looking for diversion, goes to Millbank Prison as a “Lady Visitor” — presumably to improve the female convicts but really as a way to step outside her limited, conventional world. When she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Selina (Zoe Tapper), an attractive young convict, Margaret’s do-gooding quickly falls by the wayside.
According to the San Fransisco Chronicle:
The movie has some big names connected to it. Andrew Davies, who adapted Jane Austen’s novels for the BBC, did the Waters adaptation. Anna Massey and Amanda Plummer co-star.
You might as well read the book first, so you can compare note when the film comes to New York or DVD. Fingers crossed they get a distributor. Earlier this month Logo sponsored the screening of Affinity at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. So that’s certainly good news for the film.
Here’s what Nancy Willard wrote about the novel Affinity in the The New York Times Book Review:
There are two kinds of mystery novels. The first gives us the crime and the clues; the guilty party is then unmasked and the mystery solved. In the other, the crime is solved but not the mystery, which arises from a dark corner of the human condition. Sarah Waters’s remarkable second novel, Affinity, is both of these–and also a wrenching love story.
Of all the French films out this season, I’m most excited about Water Lilies. Check out this from Time Out New York:
Languid, sorrowful and strange, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s debut as a feature writer-director is a sensitive and daring portrait of female adolescence that’s curious about all longings, sexual confusions and grey areas of desire.
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A Four Letter Word Theatrical Trailer – The funniest videos are a click away
It’s so great to be gay in a post-gay world. Luke (Jesse Archer) thinks so–all the fake baking, eye brow waxing, porn watching, Ecstasy popping and sexual compulsion–Alas! Everything is good in the world. (J/K Jesse, I’m just jealous is all–you can blog about me tomorrow.)
Seriously, the music in the trailer is so good, I had to buy it on iTunes. The song is called A Different Kind of Love by Caroline Wennergren — just lovely.
Here’s a clip of Casper Andreas’ previous film <em>Slutty Summer</em>.
Slutty Summer Official Trailer – More amazing video clips are a click away
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Trailer – Click here for this week’s top video clips
Bring on the prozac. Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” is an unforgiving, bleak, if not intelligent, downer of movie. His characters are frustratingly well observed, his imagery dark and disturbing, and, overall, watching his film can be summed up in a scene where Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), overwhelmed and trapped, vomits in dark alley–but that’s exactly why you need to watch this film. It’s like reading Chekov or Gambowicz with sound effects.
