New York's NewFest 2008 Announces 200+ Films
In June, New York's LGBT film festival now known as NewFest and celebrating its 20th Anniversary, will include adaptations of Sarah Waters' Affinity and Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy, but where is Michael Downing's Breakfast with Scot? (Click, watch, love.) Opening night June 5 is the lesbian movie Tru Loved, starring Jane Lynch and Marcia Wallace, and the closing night film June 15 is Were the World Mine, an expansion of the short Fairies. Were the World Mine earlier this spring closed Miami's LGBT film festival (when the Miami Herald gave it two and a half stars), and goodness knows I hope you like the idea of a high school musical version of Midsummer Night's Dream but, golly, did I have a tough time getting through the minute and a half of breathy crooning: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed/I pray thee gentle mortal sing again. Several of the documentaries look great, especially the recent TriBeCa Film Festival's SqueezeBox!, the Iranian Be Like Others, and, most of all, the awesome, Oscar winner Debra Chasnoff's update It's STILL Elementary. The NewFest website is stuck on the 2007 schedule, but this year's list of features can be found here. All films will be shown at the AMC Theater on 34th Street.
When Jay brings me coffee in bed on Saturday mornings, he quotes 10 Wms ("Rise and shine, rise and shine") and I quote Shakespeare {"What angel wakes me from my flowery bed!") So perhaps that minute and a half of breathy whatever would be less offensive to me than it was to you.
Posted by: ChiChi Fargo | May 13, 2008 at 06:14 AM