I love the tagline for Hannah Free: “A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.”
How perfect is that? I don’t even have to see the movie to get teary-eyed.
In the film, Hannah (Sharon Gless) and Rachel (Maureen Gallagher) are two women who face the conflict between small-town values and their relationship.
According to the movie’s website:
Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial.
Here’s the trailer. (If you get a request for your age at...
How perfect is that? I don’t even have to see the movie to get teary-eyed.
In the film, Hannah (Sharon Gless) and Rachel (Maureen Gallagher) are two women who face the conflict between small-town values and their relationship.
According to the movie’s website:
Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial.
Here’s the trailer. (If you get a request for your age at...
- 10/28/2009
- by thelinster
- AfterEllen.com
This week finds early awards season contenders lining up alongside a queer cinema double bill, a troupe of unorthodox vampires and a horror movie franchise that's become torturous in more ways than one.
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"Amelia"
Awards season takes flight with celebrated director Mira Nair's biopic charting the early life and rise to prominence of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank produced and stars as the elusive Kansas-born pilot as she perilously navigates the skies, the trappings of fame and her romances with publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) and Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones and Mia Wasikowska join the heavyweight cast in this pic whose Oscar-friendly subject matter may allow it to fly under the Academy's expanded Best Picture tent.
Opens in limited release.
"Antichrist"
Controversial from the word go, Danish...
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"Amelia"
Awards season takes flight with celebrated director Mira Nair's biopic charting the early life and rise to prominence of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank produced and stars as the elusive Kansas-born pilot as she perilously navigates the skies, the trappings of fame and her romances with publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) and Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones and Mia Wasikowska join the heavyweight cast in this pic whose Oscar-friendly subject matter may allow it to fly under the Academy's expanded Best Picture tent.
Opens in limited release.
"Antichrist"
Controversial from the word go, Danish...
- 10/19/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
One of my favorite sites, Melissa Silverstein's Women&Hollywood.com, recently published an interview with Wendy Jo Carlton, the director of the new lesbian film Hannah Free. The film made its world premiere last night in San Francisco at Frameline (the world's oldest Lgbt film festival).
In the interview, Carlton says that while working on the Chicago Gay History Project, she met playwright Claudia Allen, and along with executive producer Tracy Baim, the three women decided to adapt Allen's play, Hannah Free, for film.
Starring Sharon Gless (Queer as Folk) and Maureen Gallagher, the film follows two women throughout their lifelong love affair. Here's the synopsis from the official site:
Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving...
In the interview, Carlton says that while working on the Chicago Gay History Project, she met playwright Claudia Allen, and along with executive producer Tracy Baim, the three women decided to adapt Allen's play, Hannah Free, for film.
Starring Sharon Gless (Queer as Folk) and Maureen Gallagher, the film follows two women throughout their lifelong love affair. Here's the synopsis from the official site:
Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving...
- 6/29/2009
- by karman
- AfterEllen.com
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