On Demand DVD New Releases May 6-12 The big films this week are Jack Reacher, Mama and Safe Haven, but that’s just three of the titles debuting in this busy week. Lots of familiar faces in this crop of titles, including Parker Posey (And Now a Word From Our Sponsor), Daryl Hannah and Michael Madsen (Garbage), Al Pacino and Christopher Walken (Stand Up Guys) and Hugh Laurie and Catherine Keener (The Oranges). Hollywood to Dollywood In this documentary, twin young men from North Carolina on a quest to meet their idol Dolly Parton find more than they bargained for in [...]
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- 5/6/2013
- by Meredith Ennis
- ChannelGuideMag
Daft about Dolly
Twins Gary and Larry Lane share a lifelong passion for the big songs and bold personality of country music legend Dolly Parton. This month they visited Glasgay with Hollywood To Dollywood, the documentary about their quest to meet her in person, and they revealed the personal story behind it.
In person, Gary and Larry are almost completely identical. It takes a little while to learn to tell them apart, and the clues come mostly from their personalities - Larry is the shy one, smart but self-effacing,...
Twins Gary and Larry Lane share a lifelong passion for the big songs and bold personality of country music legend Dolly Parton. This month they visited Glasgay with Hollywood To Dollywood, the documentary about their quest to meet her in person, and they revealed the personal story behind it.
In person, Gary and Larry are almost completely identical. It takes a little while to learn to tell them apart, and the clues come mostly from their personalities - Larry is the shy one, smart but self-effacing,...
- 10/22/2011
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
I must start my coverage of my second half of aGLIFF by correcting a grievous omission in my coverage of the first half. Hollywood to Dollywood screened along with two notable shorts. The first of these was a mind-blowing three minutes of J-Pop music video meant to explore ideas of body image and gender identification. Dokka Dokka (Pounding Ground) is viewable on YouTube and worth a watch. The second of the two shorts was an intriguing and contemplative piece. Tu E Eu presented a couple's argument and breakup over the phone, but the conversation was repeated by different pairs of varying races and genders. As they argued about their parents' refusal to accept their choice of partner, viewers are left to reflect based on their own assumptions about the participants.
Moving on, the weekend encompassed the bulk of the festival. Because of traffic and Austin's new extended parking meter hours,...
Moving on, the weekend encompassed the bulk of the festival. Because of traffic and Austin's new extended parking meter hours,...
- 9/13/2011
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
The programming for this 24th year of aGLIFF offers a frequently dark and somber lineup of selections. Opening-night film The Lulu Sessions, covered by Jenn in Dispatch #1, was a sobering look at the final days of a terminal cancer patient. This was presented along with Communication, a 20-minute short that also dealt with the death of a loved one, as a youth contemplates the missed possibility of an almost-relationship with his former professor.
Though I was unable to attend the earlier screenings Thursday, they continued the morbid trend with So Hard to Forget, which includes the words "painful" and "bitter loss" in the synopsis. Meanwhile on the other screen, We Were Here documented the early days of AIDS with a movie that was described by one viewer as "devastating, but incredibly well done."
In the later time slot was Amphetamine, a Chinese romance complicated by drug addiction. However, I opted...
Though I was unable to attend the earlier screenings Thursday, they continued the morbid trend with So Hard to Forget, which includes the words "painful" and "bitter loss" in the synopsis. Meanwhile on the other screen, We Were Here documented the early days of AIDS with a movie that was described by one viewer as "devastating, but incredibly well done."
In the later time slot was Amphetamine, a Chinese romance complicated by drug addiction. However, I opted...
- 9/9/2011
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
The 15th Annual Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Plgff) begins September 30 and runs through October 8 at Cinema 21. This year the festival begins September 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Cinema 21 with a very special screening of local filmmaker David Weissman’s deeply moving We Were Here. The film chronicles the heavy impact the AIDS crisis had on San Francisco in the 80s through the eyes of five survivors. David Weissman will be in attendance. One of the subjects of the film is also scheduled to attend. This special screening is followed by a Gala Opening Night Party at 23Hoyt with hosted appetizers and drinks as well as a full cash bar and Holcombe Waller will perform a short set. Tickets for this event go on sale September 1.
The festival concludes on October 8 at Cinema 21 with the BBC production of The Night Watch based on the novel by Sarah Waters. Following four...
The festival concludes on October 8 at Cinema 21 with the BBC production of The Night Watch based on the novel by Sarah Waters. Following four...
- 9/4/2011
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Garry and Larry Lane at an idol of their idol
I first learned about Larry Lane earlier this year when I interviewed him after he and his twin brother won the campy reality show Wipeout (in terms of competition, it was, um, a wipeout). The world has long been fascinated by twins, and I figured our readers would be particularly interested in these twins, because they're gay (and because, um, they're cute).
And sure enough, you were.
At the time, Larry told me about a documentary he and twin brother Gary were working on that told their whole life story, centered around a trip they made to hand-deliver a script they'd written for their idol, Dolly Parton. In fact, they used their considerable prize money from Wipeout to buy the rights to use fourteen of Dolly's songs in the movie.
Last week, Larry sent me a copy of the movie,...
I first learned about Larry Lane earlier this year when I interviewed him after he and his twin brother won the campy reality show Wipeout (in terms of competition, it was, um, a wipeout). The world has long been fascinated by twins, and I figured our readers would be particularly interested in these twins, because they're gay (and because, um, they're cute).
And sure enough, you were.
At the time, Larry told me about a documentary he and twin brother Gary were working on that told their whole life story, centered around a trip they made to hand-deliver a script they'd written for their idol, Dolly Parton. In fact, they used their considerable prize money from Wipeout to buy the rights to use fourteen of Dolly's songs in the movie.
Last week, Larry sent me a copy of the movie,...
- 6/29/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
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