The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Latest: WALLS.
The Troupe’s resident playwright Michael Gene Sullivan talks Wall, politics, and the myth of the middle class. Click here to listen. Four performers (Rotimi Agbabiaka, Velina Brown, #LizzieCalogero and Marilet Martinez) with both passion … Continue reading
Frameline 41, The Pop Quiz: Part 2
FRAMELINE 41 initiated a pair of press days for those of us covering the festival, and it offered me a rare opportunity to talk to many of the participating filmmakers … Continue reading
Frameline 41, The Pop Quiz: Part 1
FRAMELINE 41 initiated a pair of press days for those of us covering the festival, and it offered me a rare opportunity to talk to many of the participating filmmakers … Continue reading
Why Frameline Matters
Last night at the closing night of Frameline 41, during the Q&A following the screening of After Louie – A Film by Vincent Gagliostro, a young man ran onto the … Continue reading
Trudie Styler and James St. James Light Up Frameline 41
Green Room scenes at the Castro Theater on June 24, 2017 just before the Frameline screening of Trudy Styler’s film FREAK SHOW, starring the fabulous James St. James. Styler celebrates … Continue reading
Memory and Activism at Frameline 41
Specifically two films, AGAINST THE LAW and AFTER LOUIE. The former a docu-drama about the reluctant activist, Peter Wildeblood, whose imprisonment for being gay led to a book and the … Continue reading
LENA HALL Rocks Frameline 41
Lena Hall before last night’s Frameline 41 screening of BECKS, co-directed by Daniel Powell and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh. The film was written by Powell, Rorhbaugh and Rebecca Drysdale. Hall rocked the … Continue reading
CAROL SUPPORT GROUP — Allison Tate and the Inevitability Factor.
Sometimes I do things that make me so much more than happy,that I struggle to find a way to adequately express it in words. That was the case in talking … Continue reading
ALABAMA BOUND – Carolyn Sherer
Carolyn Sherer, co-director of Alabama Bound, in my impromptu studio at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square (yeah, that’s quite a view). Her film about lesbian couples fighting the good … Continue reading
Farewell, Robert Osborne
I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking with TCM‘s Robert Osborne twice, and each time it was a learning experience from someone whose knowledge of movies was nothing less than phenomenal, … Continue reading
