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Coming of age drama Water Lilies - San Francisco International Film Festival May 6, 2008

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While I was unpacking from sunny Las Vegas and settling into the chilly bone winter-I mean spring/early summer of San Francisco, I was too busy trying to get the Lesbian pool party pictures off my now defunct digital camera to realize I missed the one movie I was planning on attending on a date with myself. Lesbian coming of age dramas are my favorite genre and this film Water Lilies, by new French feature director Céline Sciamma looks really wet and really good.

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Check out the trailer, we have synchronized swimming, sultry locker room situations, groups of girls, groups of boys, water and flesh. It looks like the perfect date movie. Innocent yet packed with subtle drama and sexuality. I’m sure this will get a theatrical release and all that - so keep an eye out for it, meanwhile I’ll continue trying to get the lesbian pool party photos off of my camera.

 
 

Exploring Female Sexuality with the film The Last Mistress - San Francisco International Film Festival April 24, 2008

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last_mistress.jpg This week my posts are dedicated to the French. Today to Catherine Breillat’s new film The Last Mistress, the opening night film of the San Francisco International Film Festival. According to the festival write up, “The film continues Breillat’s candid exploration of female sexuality in a smartly crafted period drama starring the alluring vulpine Asia Argento.” Did you say female sexuality? Hmmm. Not explicitly a queer film, although the story is based on the controversial novel by 19th century author and dandy Jules-Amedee Barbey d’Aurevilly. If your a lesbian like me, any exploration of female sexuality is worth a good hour and a half of my time. And there’s something about period films that brings a special innocence and excitement to “exploring sexuality.” The film is playing tonight in San Francisco so look for it hitting an art house theatre near you this coming year.To check out the trailer click here.Btw. Asia Argento.

 
 

One More Lesbian - New Lez Media website and the queer film Spiderlilies from Taiwan April 9, 2008

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In San Francisco, the Lesbian filmmaker community is quite small. We all know everyone. Which is not true about the queer community in general. This last week I’ve been out and about and I’ve seen so many cute new faces. There was this one couple in a restaurant the other day that rode up together on a motorcycle looking so hot. I wanted to walk over to their table and ask, “where did you come from?” I held back though.

One of my queer filmmaker friends heard through the grapevine about this new website for lesbian and queer media called One More Lesbian. I checked it out and give it my thumbs up. I might call it a lesbian media filtering site or a collection agency or your one stop shop to all the queer media online today. It’s user run primarily, where you the user embed a lesbian/queer video into one of their four categories being film, TV, music video, and vlog that you dig up from video hosting companies out there today like youtube etc. There’s only one video in the vlog category - here’s your chance for your 15 minutes of fame!

One of my favorite films this year, Spiderlilies, was highlighted on the sight in the “Most popular videos” section. “Behind Every Tattoo, There’s A Secret,” might be the tag line. It’s a coming of age story primarily, with sexuality, tattoos, webcamming, undercover cops, and it offers an interesting cultural lens of Taiwan.

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Juno the movie - Was I the only one who wondered about the pro-life message of the film? April 7, 2008

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I’m flying back from New York on an airline that offers me movies right in front of my face for five dollars. I’m so excited to see Juno and see what this Ellen Page fiasco is all about, never mind to help me endure an 8 hour plane sit. I’m immediately charmed and in love with Juno; I’m sure if I saw this when I was 16 I would have a new star crush even though she’s pregnant half the film. Not that being pregnant isn’t beautiful and all that jazz, but I could imagine it might be hard to hold onto a 16 year old lesbo crush when the crush is pregnant. Although, maybe a 16 year old lesbo and a 16 year old pregnant girl have a lot in common; I might have identified with how she is othered, feels different, and is isolated. A reviewer at www.slashfilm.com describes Juno as “more about the girl’s journey to find herself,”and I can agree with that. He feels women might relate to it better than other films tackling similar themes. And Micheal Cera’s legs are really cute in the short yellow shorts. He is playing the same character as in the TV series Arrested Development. I don’t mind though, it works for both.

Even though I’m charmed, I still feel like some pro-life messages are being thrown our way. It is almost the most comedic part of the film when her classmate just happens to be demonstrating in front of the clinic all by herself, “Your baby has fingernails already.” Then she’s in the clinic with people that ‘are not of her usual surroundings’ making it look like abortions are for freaks, poor people, scum of the earth types, and maybe I saw some people of color? Am I painting the right picture here? Help me out. Are there people with an agenda that funded this film? Hmmm.

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BTW Diablo Cody is an amazing writer. Pant pant pant. Read about her rise to success from office job, to stripper, to writing a blog, to writing a book, to writing her first screen play in this NY Times article.

 
 

I finally found Winona Ryder in the bathroom of Ben’s Kosher Deli - Long Island, New York - and the film L.I.E. March 31, 2008

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Ben’<p>s Kosher DeliAs some of you know, I had a child hood and teenage crush on Winona Ryder.  In fact, one of my first post shared how I used to search for her every summer on the streets of NYC and the beaches of Long Island when I came to visit my grandparents.  For some reason I thought I should spot her in New York, even though I knew she lived in LA and grew up in Petaluma.  So, today on my last trip to Long Island, NY to visit with my grandfather, I finally spotted Winona Ryder framed in the bathroom of Ben’s Kosher Deli in Greenvale, Long Island, NY where we all came to eat and commemorate  grandpa’s life.Winona Ryder  Now, that we are in Long Island I want to share a recent homorific film I finally saw.  It’s not super new, but it’s an Indie film that has been on my list for a while.  I was drawn to it from the picture on the cover; it screamed coming of age story and I’m a boy who looks like a girl.  One of my favorite kinds.  It does have subtle gay under tones as well as other life dramas worth exploring with the star including class consciousness,  abondonment, and confusing mentors (like the almost homorific ones - I know the kinds).  Check out the film L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway - I drove on it tonight)You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video