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Gena Marvin Talks 'Queendom' and Queer Protest

Gena Marvin Talks 'Queendom' and Queer Protest | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Agniia Galdanova's documentary film "Queendom" follows Gena Marvin from Magadan to Moscow in their pursuit of art-making, protest and freedom. Here, the director and Marvin discuss the making of "Queedom," leaving Russia and the risks associated with public, queer protest.

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‘Sebastian’: Sundance Film With the Most Gay Sex Scenes Is Important

‘Sebastian’: Sundance Film With the Most Gay Sex Scenes Is Important | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The director and star of “Sebastian,” the movie that steamed up Sundance with its frank depiction of gay sex work, tell Obsessed about their nakedly (literally) ambitious movie.

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‘I Saw the TV Glow’: Jane Schoenbrun Made Sundance’s Hottest Horror Movie

‘I Saw the TV Glow’: Jane Schoenbrun Made Sundance’s Hottest Horror Movie | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ director talks buzzy new A24 horror film ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ its epic soundtrack, and life as a trans person.

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Willow Defebaugh: Evolution Is a Human Right. That’s Why I Let Nature Guide My Transition

Willow Defebaugh: Evolution Is a Human Right. That’s Why I Let Nature Guide My Transition | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In this op-ed, Willow Defebaugh reflects on nature, evolution, and her new book The Overview: Meditations on Nature for a World in Transition.

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Will Ferrell’s road-trip doc could be the biggest in Sundance history

Will Ferrell’s road-trip doc could be the biggest in Sundance history | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In “Will & Harper,” Will Ferrell drives across America with Harper Steele, his friend of 30 years who’s recently transitioned.

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People Like You

People Like You | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Aiden and Ernesto, a couple who have been together for a year, decide to move to Amsterdam. However, things "take a dark turn" when Aiden realizes that Ernesto is not who he seems to be, and their relationship becomes increasingly toxic. The book provides a raw and realistic portrayal of the challenges and struggles of being in a harmful relationship and the haunting effects that it can have on one's life.

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River Gallo on the Sundance Success of ‘Ponyboi'

River Gallo on the Sundance Success of ‘Ponyboi' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

"Ponyboi," which Gallo originally conceived while at NYU more than 10 years ago, follows an intersex sex worker in New Jersey over the course of Valentine's Day.

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Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation Partners With New Broadway Show ‘My Son's a Queer'

Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation Partners With New Broadway Show ‘My Son's a Queer' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The partnership will see the organization creating multiple activations during the show's upcoming run.

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‘Ponyboi’ Star River Gallo Says the Key to Accurate LGBTQ Representation Is the ‘Bravery to Be Messy’

‘Ponyboi’ Star River Gallo Says the Key to Accurate LGBTQ Representation Is the ‘Bravery to Be Messy’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Sundance 2024: “He’s kinda f–ked up,” Gallo says of their character in the film The post ‘Ponyboi’ Star River Gallo Says the Key to Accurate LGBTQ Representation Is the ‘Bravery to Be Messy’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

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Loneliness is our deepest shame – can cinema help us confront it?

Loneliness is our deepest shame – can cinema help us confront it? | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

LET’S UNPACK THAT: In the ghostly new drama ‘All of Us Strangers’, director Andrew Haigh casts Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as gay men who find each other in a lonely London. Sophie Monks Kaufman speaks to Haigh and author Olivia Laing about why artists have always been drawn to isolated people on society’s fringes

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Breaking Baz: Scottish-Italian Newcomer Ruaridh Mollica On His Breakthrough Performance In Mikko Makela's Sundance-Bound ‘Sebastian'

Breaking Baz: Scottish-Italian Newcomer Ruaridh Mollica On His Breakthrough Performance In Mikko Makela's Sundance-Bound ‘Sebastian' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Ruaridh Mollica says he had a year to prepare for his "role of a lifetime - so far" in Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela's powerful new film Sebastian, which premieres at Sundance on Sunday. The film follows a culture journalist who goes undercover and leads a double life as a sex worker to research a debut novel.

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Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Long Marriage Shaped Their Lesbian Road-Trip Movie

Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Long Marriage Shaped Their Lesbian Road-Trip Movie | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

How Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen collaborated on Drive-Away Dolls, a lesbian road trip movie decades in the making.

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‘Layla' Review: An Arab Drag Queen Gets Lost and Found in a Feel-Good but Frustrating Queer Romance

‘Layla' Review: An Arab Drag Queen Gets Lost and Found in a Feel-Good but Frustrating Queer Romance | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Drag performer turned filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi's liberating feature is buoyed by assured camerawork, a charismatic lead, and a convincing love story, even as some of the screenplay beats feel manufactured to create tensions.

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Fool Me Once Netflix star says gay representation is important

Fool Me Once Netflix star says gay representation is important | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Dino Fetscher says it is important to show queerness as part of life, rather than the focus.

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Michael Urie Gets Medieval (And Musical) In ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

Michael Urie Gets Medieval (And Musical) In ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In ‘Maestro,’ Michael Urie played choreographer-director Jerome Robbins. He now finds Robbins’ spirit haunting the rehearsal spaces at New York City Center, where he’s performing …

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Theda Hammel Talks Stress Positions and Queer Beauty

Theda Hammel Talks Stress Positions and Queer Beauty | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The NYMPHOWARS co-host's feature film debut, "Stress Positions," premiered at Sundance this year. Here, a wide-ranging conversation covering her career with music and sound design, the notion of freedom and why we’re all kind of annoying the first time we go to Fire Island.

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'I Saw the TV Glow' review: Queer horror has a new arthouse masterpiece

'I Saw the TV Glow' review: Queer horror has a new arthouse masterpiece | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Jane Schoenbrun's latest Sundance entry is a unique, overwhelming piece of avant-garde cinema.

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“Cheers, Queers” Event Celebrates Queer Cinema and Filmmakers at Sundance Film Festival

“Cheers, Queers” Event Celebrates Queer Cinema and Filmmakers at Sundance Film Festival | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In a first-time partnership, GLAAD joined with two of the world’s most notable LGBTQ+film festivals to host “Cheers, Queers,” a panel and party in Park City on Friday, co-presented in partnership with Acura and co-host IMDbPro.

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Will Ferrell and Trans Comedy Writer Harper Steele's Heartfelt Documentary Draws Multiple Standing Ovations at Sundance Premiere

Will Ferrell and Trans Comedy Writer Harper Steele's Heartfelt Documentary Draws Multiple Standing Ovations at Sundance Premiere | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Unlike Cannes and Venice, Sundance isn't a film festival that inspires too many standing ovations. But moviegoers at the Eccles Theatre were moved (more than once!) to stand up and applaud after the premiere of "Will & Harper," a funny, heartbreaking and poignant documentary about Will Ferrell taking a road trip with his longtime friend,

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Alok Vaid-Menon: ‘When I'm Feeling Despair, I Turn Towards Artists'

Alok Vaid-Menon: ‘When I'm Feeling Despair, I Turn Towards Artists' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The subject of eponymous short documentary "Alok" addressed the new Utah anti-trans bill that is "trying to criminalize us out of existence" while at 2024 Sundance.

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‘Sebastian' Review: A Gay Writer Takes Research to Extremes in a Dark and Steamy Sex Work Drama

‘Sebastian' Review: A Gay Writer Takes Research to Extremes in a Dark and Steamy Sex Work Drama | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Queer sexuality gets an explicit exploration in this moving second film from Mikko Mäkelä about a 25-year-old London writer living a double life.

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Sundance movie review: Shocking LGBTQ bodybuilder crime invigorates 'Love Lies Bleeding'

Sundance movie review: Shocking LGBTQ bodybuilder crime invigorates 'Love Lies Bleeding' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

"Love Lies Bleeding," which screened Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival, stars Katy O'Brien as a bisexual bodybuilder in a crime saga with her gym owner lover (Kristen Stewart).

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‘Love Lies Bleeding' Review: Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian in a Queer Romantic Noir That Goes to Extremes

‘Love Lies Bleeding' Review: Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian in a Queer Romantic Noir That Goes to Extremes | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Stewart invests the role with an avid hunger, stripping away her normally cool façade to give the film a charged center of vulnerability.

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‘Sebastian' Director Mikko Makela on Providing a ‘Frank and Honest' Portrayal of Queer Sexuality in Sundance Pick

‘Sebastian' Director Mikko Makela on Providing a ‘Frank and Honest' Portrayal of Queer Sexuality in Sundance Pick | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Finnish-British director Mikko Mäkelä isn't shying away from sexual content in "Sebastian," which has its world premiere on Sunday at Sundance Film Festival. "As was already the case with ‘A Moment in the Reeds,' I wanted to provide a very frank and honest portrayal of queer sexuality," he tells Variety, referencing his 2017 debut. "For

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‘The L Word' Pilot Turns 20 - Amid the Worst LGBTQ Backslide in Television History

‘The L Word' Pilot Turns 20 - Amid the Worst LGBTQ Backslide in Television History | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Queer TV is facing an uphill battle in the streaming age. The anniversary of Showtime's iconically flawed lesbian franchise reminds us what could have been.

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