It's so fabulous that JD goes around the entire festival capturing the glamorous (and mundane) moments of any given evening. And then she writes about it! Visit TheSmokingCocktail.com for all the scoop.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
Beyond Chron review of 575 Castro St.
The San Francisco International Film Festival press office just sent me clippings of coverage they got for my short when it played the festival in May. Consider me extremely impressed! And thrilled about this quite substantial review from BeyondChron:
"The titular "575 Castro Street" of Jenni Olson’s short is the address of slain supervisor Harvey Milk’s camera shop. Viewers of the film “Milk” know this shop as the base for the gay leader’s political runs for office. But the shop also processed the Super 8 studies in light and motion that became the basis for the San Franicsco Gay Film Festival.
Olson’s short pays homage to both these legacies. Visually, the viewer is treated to static shots of the shop’s interior, which was meticulously reconstructed for “Milk.” Reflections from the outside traffic resemble rivers of quietly flowing light. The effect renders the shop as a contemplative shrine.
The audio track will rattle certain viewers’ cages. Despite being recorded over three decades ago, Harvey Milk’s posthumous post-assassination message still has the power to discomfit. His reminders about the evils of organized religion, complacency in the LGBT community, and those who put their egos above the movement is still timely advice that has been sometimes ignored in the decades after his death.
Olson’s union of these two individually powerful elements creates a mournful whole. Milk’s monologue feels like wind whispering through a mausoleum. But it also stimulates the viewer’s imagination to visualize the many political meetings in that shop and to muse over the sociopolitical changes brought to the LGBT community by ensuing decades. Unmediated by Sean Penn, Milk’s voice still compels."
The Hefty Gift Bag from Frameline Women's Brunch
Photographer Ana Grillo took this awesome shot of one of the Wolfe gift bags at last week's Women's Brunch during Frameline33. We crammed them with all kinds of great stuff including ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE t-shirts, Wolfe lollipops and Wolfe's "Big Picture" LGBT DVD catalog.
The Hefty Gift Bag from Frameline Women's Brunch
Photographer Ana Grillo took this awesome shot of one of the Wolfe gift bags at last week's Women's Brunch during Frameline33. We crammed them with all kinds of great stuff including ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE t-shirts, Wolfe lollipops and Wolfe's "Big Picture" LGBT DVD catalog.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sharon Gless & Rosie O'Donnell Kissing
Sharon Gless jokingly kissed Rosie O'Donnell onstage at the Frameline closing nite party - after earlier in the evening, Rosie had spoken to the audience about her lifelong desire to kiss Sharon when she introduced the world premiere of the new lesbian feature film, HANNAH FREE. (Photo by Debra St. John).
Saturday, June 27, 2009
I am #74 on the Top Hot Butches List!
What a fabulous honor to have bestowed upon me this Pride Weekend. And you have to go browse this terrific list of:
The 100 hottest butch, masculine, androgynous, genderqueer, transmasculine, studs, AGs, dykes, and queers, a project by Sinclair Sexsmith, the kinky queer butch top behind Sugarbutch Chronicles.
Visit TopHotButches.com and enjoy the eye candy (and intelligent reflections on female masculinity, etcetera).
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Jeanne Dielman coming to DVD
Now THIS is exciting! Chantal Akerman's brilliant rarely-seen masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is coming to DVD at last. Click to order your copy from Amazon now. This is a double-disc set from Criterion and the street date is August 25th 2009 (a new great moment in cinema history).
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Opening Night Party @ Terra Gallery Frameline 31
My annual Frameline sighting of Christopher Lee captured by photographer Joie Ray Cohen!
Frameline Opening Night
My annual sighting of Monica and Julie Ann captured on film by photographer Debra St. John!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
575 Castro St. at Frameline
Please come see 575 Castro St. in the Calling All Nerds and Art Freaks program at the Roxie on Saturday June 20th at 1:15 pm!
See you there!
Hotel Tip: The Americania in San Francisco
Jenni's (and Julie's) recent review of the Hotel Americania in San Francisco, on OutTraveler.com:
"San Francisco's gay-owned boutique hoteliers, Joie de Vivre have done it again. Like their equally creative Best Western makeover in Japantown (The Hotel Tomo), their latest lodging facelift job spiffs up a 143-room South of Market motel into a playful, creative and fun property for grown-ups and kids alike, The Americania Hotel (121 7th St, San Francisco, CA 94103; 415.626.0200)."
Read the rest of the rave review HERE!
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