Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
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Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
John Lithgow stars in the title role—a portmanteau of “Jim” and “grandpa”—as a brilliant and flamboyant professor living in Amsterdam. He’s the grandfather of a nonbinary “grandthing,” as he calls the fifteen-year-old Frances.
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Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
Dreams is a contemporary drama centering on a female high school student that becomes an exploration of three generations of women and a sublimated lesbian love affair.
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Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
WHILE NOT an LGBT event, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) always offers plenty of grist for this magazine’s mill. My annual dash around P’town turned up several films that I found worthy of consideration for review. Here’s the second of five.
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Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
WHILE NOT an LGBT event, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) always offers plenty of grist for this magazine’s mill. My annual dash around P’town turned up several films that I found worthy of consideration for review. Here’s the first of five – Strange Jouney: The Story of Rocky Horror.
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Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
Merchant Ivory turned it into a film starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby in 1987. Soucy stresses the boldness of this release at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
As the presence of Alan Cumming might suggest, Mad About the Boy doesn’t hold back on Coward’s gayness and treats his double life as a leitmotif.
Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
Sebastian is a film of dualities. The title refers to the assumed identity of Max, a successful short story writer who’s trying to write a novel and works as a hustler (okay, sex worker) to get material for his fiction.
Indies in P’town
Movie Review By Richard Schneider
Filmed in Provincetown, High Tide evoked cries of recognition from the PIFF audience, which was primed to love this boy-meets-boy, boy-loses-boy romance.
As Long as I’m Famous, A Movie Review
By Allen Ellenzweig
As Long As I’m Famous wishes to be an exposé of Broadway and Hollywood in the period after World War II; the narrative action mostly takes place in 1948. It focuses on a half-dozen overlapping relationships, but mostly zeroes in on the young Montgomery Clift …
