by brad shaw dvd A-LISTS
Signs of the times A SINGLE MAN tells the tale of gay British import George Falconer’s
(Colin Firth) case of love’s labour’s lost after his longtime companion, Jim (Matthew Goode), dies in 1962 Los Angeles. The movie, directed by Tom Ford and adapted from a Christopher Isherwood novel, follows Falconer on a single day in his life, as he attempts to make sense of the senseless and seeks solace from his grief with his gal pal Charley (Julianne Moore). However, the duo is in the same boat and adrift upon a sea of confusion, as they attempt to forget their collective pasts and beach themselves on the unknown shores of the future. Firth received an Oscar nomination for his work in this tale of isolation, the meaning of gay life and the complexities of the human spirit. Available July 6.
While the documentary FAGBUG does center on a very colorful
VW, it is most definitely not Herbie Re-Reloaded. The film stems from the unfortunate events that Erin Davies encountered at the 11th An- nual National Day of Silence in Albany, New York. Her VW Beetle was parked and simply adorned with a rainbow sticker, which caused the vehicle to be vandalized with the graffiti words “u r gay” and “fag” left on the driver’s side and hood. Rather than give into the pettiness of the perpetrator’s hate crime, and despite her initial shock over the act, Davies literally takes the high road. She drove with the words intact, and added her own personal touches with a rainbow color makeover and the word “Fagbug” written on the door, on a 58-day trip through the U.S. and Canada in her now famous car. Available July 13.
8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION has been described as “a vital,
important cry for an open dialogue” and “one of the buzzier docu- mentaries to debut at this year’s Sundance Film Fest,” by the Salt Lake Tribune and The Washington Post, respectively. The nuts and bolts look inside of the Mormon Church’s association with the support and pas- sage of the dreaded Proposition 8, which banned gay marriages in our state, ironically outs the Church’s crusade against gay rights. The 80- minute documentary, which is subtitled Equality For Some, is narrated by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk), and directed by Reed Cowan. The latter, who grew up gay in Utah as a Mormon, initially set out to make a film about gay homeless teens and suicide in the region, and instead turned the sharp focus of his lens on the historic voting upset and the Church’s indictment “to damage gay people and their causes.” Available July 13.
Classic Fare The 1948 British film THE RED SHOES is
widely regarded as being a seminal classic of the cinema. The premise of the movie, which incorporates backstage existence coupled with the ecstasy of performance, finds young ballerina Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) joining a prestigious dance troupe. She snags the lead role in a production of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale of the same name, and becomes torn between a composer (Marius Goring) and the impresario (Anton Walbrook), who is bent on turning her into the greatest dancer that you’ve ever seen. This Technicolor triumph has inspired many modern day filmmakers, such as Martin Scorsese, who offers up his insights as to why he found the movie to be so motivating on the audio commentary portion of this Criterion Collection release. Available July 20.
Humor Me Ben Stiller stars as GREENBERG, a down-on-his-luck type of New York City guy, who has just become un-
employed. Unsure of what direction his life is taking him in, he decides to become a full-time housesitter for his younger and much more successful brother in Los Angeles. During his free tenure in La La Land, the title character sets out to re-establish his ties with former acquaintances. After it is made abundantly clear that his former BFF’s seem to have outgrown him, he happens upon an unlikely love affair with his brother’s personal assistant (Greta Gerwig). This dramedy, which is directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale), is based on a story by co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Available July 13.
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