Benedikt Erlingsson, Gréta Olafsdóttir and Margrét Jónasdóttir in the arms of Frédéric Boyer Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer met me for a conversation at Benedikt Erlingsson's The Show Of Shows at MoMA PS1's Vw Dome, where Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Tsai Ming-liang's Journey To The West and Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma premiered. Parents came to mind as a theme with Halkawt Mustafa's El Clásico, Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler, Robert Schwartzman's Dreamland, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, Kadri Kõusaar's Mother, Bart Freundlich's Wolves and Christian Tafdrup's Parents (Forældre). Andrew Rossi's The First Monday In May, John Dower's My Scientology Movie, Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai's Reset, Benjamin Ree's Magnus, Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh and Dylan Harvey and Ian Roderick Gray's The Banksy Job are some of the original documentaries of note.
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer met me for a conversation at Benedikt Erlingsson's The Show Of Shows at MoMA PS1's Vw Dome, where Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Tsai Ming-liang's Journey To The West and Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma premiered. Parents came to mind as a theme with Halkawt Mustafa's El Clásico, Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler, Robert Schwartzman's Dreamland, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, Kadri Kõusaar's Mother, Bart Freundlich's Wolves and Christian Tafdrup's Parents (Forældre). Andrew Rossi's The First Monday In May, John Dower's My Scientology Movie, Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai's Reset, Benjamin Ree's Magnus, Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh and Dylan Harvey and Ian Roderick Gray's The Banksy Job are some of the original documentaries of note.
- 4/20/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
June is Lgbt Pride Month, and this weekend is the culmination of Pride events in NYC. Recognizing this, Indiewire's latest curated Documentaries page for Hulu presents five films exploring the diversity of the Lgbt experience. Watch all these docs for free now! "Out in Silence" After filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer place their wedding announcement in Joe's rural hometown's newspaper, they inspire both a controversy and a desperate plea for help from a recently outed and now bullied teen. "Out in the Silence" follows the duo as they return to Oil City, Pa, to try to help the boy and find common ground with their opponents. "The Brandon Teena Story" Sadly, Brandon Teena didn't have this kind of support in rural Nebraska. In 1993, Teena - a female to male transgender - was discovered "passing" as a boy and murdered. Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir's "The Brandon Teena...
- 6/21/2012
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir's "Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement" centers on Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer. The couple never let the fire go out of their 44-year same-sex relationship. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the film itself.
The documentary examines Edie and Thea in the final stages of their whirlwind romance. Its imminent end is due not to age, although both women are approaching their 80s, but to Thea's declining health from her 30-year battle with Multiple Sclerosis.
The women moved to New York before they knew each other. Edie came here after a divorce in order to find herself; Thea, who first came to New York as an adolescent escaping Holland before the Nazi began imprisoning the Jews, had left the city for college, but later returned following her expulsion from the school for having relations with a woman. For Edie and Thea,...
The documentary examines Edie and Thea in the final stages of their whirlwind romance. Its imminent end is due not to age, although both women are approaching their 80s, but to Thea's declining health from her 30-year battle with Multiple Sclerosis.
The women moved to New York before they knew each other. Edie came here after a divorce in order to find herself; Thea, who first came to New York as an adolescent escaping Holland before the Nazi began imprisoning the Jews, had left the city for college, but later returned following her expulsion from the school for having relations with a woman. For Edie and Thea,...
- 12/1/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
2009 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Awards 2009 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Oct. 16-25, 2009 A major box-office hit in its native Norway, Stian Kristiansen’s The Man Who Loved Yngve chronicles the (homo)sexual awakening of a small-town male teenager after another male teen starts attending his school. Jury Awards Best Feature Film: The Man Who Loved Yngve, directed by Stian Kristiansen Feature Film Honorable Mention: I Can’t Think Straight, directed by Shamim Sarif Best Documentary Film: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement, directed by Gréta Olafsdóttir and Susan Muska Best Short Film: Diana, directed by Aleem Khan Short Film Honourable Mention: Claiming the Title, directed by Jonathan Joiner and Robert H. Martin Most Innovative Short: The Apple, directed by Emilie Jouvet Audience Awards Best [...]...
- 10/28/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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