IFC Buys Jam Fran’s Gay Porn Drama ‘Kg Cobra’

Contents:

• KEEPERS OF THE GAY FILM LEGACY
• IFC BUYS JAM FRAN’S GAY PORN DRAMA ‘KG COBRA’
• IFC BUYS JAM FRAN’S GAY PORN DRAMA ‘KG COBRA’
• DO I SOUND GAY?
• A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
• ‘THE BABADOOK’ CEMENTS STAT AS QUEER CLASSIC WH LIMED EDN GAY PRI RELEASE
• KATHERE HEIGL’S GAY-MARRIAGE DRAMEDY ‘JENNY’S WEDDG’ SELLS TO IFC (EXCLUSIVE)

KEEPERS OF THE GAY FILM LEGACY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTKeepers of the Gay Film LegacyCred... Courty Munich Film MmMarch 16, 2012IN ont of the IFC Center the Wt Village on a recent Monday night a largely gay crowd waed le for a sold-out screeng. It wasn’t the latt gay rom- that had packed them but rather “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, ” Robert Altman’s 1982 film, based on Ed Graczyk’s 1976 play, about female iends who rne at a Texas Woolworth’s on the 20th anniversary of Jam Dean’s ath.

The film’s gay cred is nsirable: bis starrg Cher — godss to drag queens everywhere — featur Karen Black as a sympathetic transsexual screeng was part of the monthly Queer/Art/Film seri started 2009 by the filmmakers Adam Baran and Ira Sachs, whose “Keep the Lights On, ” about a closeted lawyer and his lover, had s premiere at the Sundance Film Ftival this year.

IFC BUYS JAM FRAN’S GAY PORN DRAMA ‘KG COBRA’

“Come Back to the Five and Dime” was chosen by Jack Pierson, part of the Boston School of photographers whose work has been heavily fluenced by gay culture. ” the stereotype is te, whout gay rcuers the Victorian hom of San Francis and the beli of Savannah would be as good as firewood. Likewise gay men and women are also, to borrow a phrase om the thor Will Fellows, “keepers of culture” when to films and the filmgog experience.

IFC BUYS JAM FRAN’S GAY PORN DRAMA ‘KG COBRA’

Through seri like Queer/Art/Film as well as several new movi and books, they are servg as cematic regivers at a time when young gay dienc and mastream Hollywood alike don’t seem terted film’s gay past. Davi has a new film, “The Deep Blue Sea, ” openg this week, the BAMcématek seri is a chance to experience the work of a livg gay director whose early movi, while not totally fotten, are ripe for redisvery. Among the 25 films to be screened, few of which had theatril releas the Uned Stat, is “The Rose Kg“ (1986), a homoerotic tale about a boy, his mother and a young male farm hand.

“It’s a cliché, but I thk gay people really do have special relatnships wh movi, ” said the filmmaker Jefey Schwarz, whose new documentary, “Vo, ” about the gay film historian and AIDS activist Vo Rso, played at the New York Film Ftival last year and is schled to be shown on HBO later this year.

Baran said the impet for his seri was to give new life to what mobile technology and the Inter have nearly stroyed: a munal filmgog experience which gay people get together to watch classic gay movi on the big screen. Baran, who is the programmg ordator for this year’s Outft, the Los Angel gay and lbian film ftival.

DO I SOUND GAY?

”In addn to programmg, gay people are sometim the on dog the actual archival work. The Legacy Project, a llaboratn between Outft and the UCLA Film & Televisn Archive, is foced on rtorg and prervg pennt gay films that more mastream archival anizatns (and Hollywood) perceive as havg ltle mercial value. Grant/Sandstle Five, via Everett Collectn“In any muny the prry is often what tomorrow, ” said Shannon Kelley, who is openly gay and the head of public programs for the UCLA archive.

”Krist Pepe, the manager of the Legacy Project, said her tert prervatn was sparked durg a screeng of her anizatn’s first feature film rtoratn job: Bill Sherwood’s 1986 film, “Partg Glanc, ” about a group of young gay men (one of them played by Steve Bcemi) alg wh AIDS.

A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'

Ruby Rich to note the pennt, transgrsive-md gay films emergg then, like Todd Hayn’s “Poison” and Tom Kal’s “Swoon” Next Sunday the group will prent a digally remastered versn of Gregg Araki’s “ Livg End” (1992) about two HIV-posive gay men on a vlent road seri are also a throwback to the early, post-Stonewall days of gay liberatn when movie stars were objects of worship, and their films uld be seen only theaters. Polo grew up lovg and that gay men, he ntend, react to most strongly.

You thk gay men are gog to rpond to Julia Roberts?

Polo said that for many young gay men the screengs are their first chanc to see Barbara Stanwyck or Bette Davis on the big screen, turng the eveng to a gay cultural iatn. In his book “Celluloid Activist: The Life and Tim of Vo Rso” (2011) Michael Schiavi scrib r screengs at Firehoe Flicks, all-gay viewg parti New York Cy started by Mr.

‘THE BABADOOK’ CEMENTS STAT AS QUEER CLASSIC WH LIMED EDN GAY PRI RELEASE

He realized that the more negative imag of gay people on film, the harr was for them to get rights.

”In addn to “Celluloid Activist, ” several new books are tryg to keep gay film history relevant. Jon released “Halsted Plays Himself, ” a bgraphy of the gay director Fred Halsted, whose pornographic “L. This month Arsenal Pulp Prs, a small publisher Vanuver, Brish Columbia, will release new books about the groundbreakg 1977 documentary “Word Is Out, ” a llectn of first-person acunts of gay life; “Zero Patience, ” John Greyson’s darkly ic AIDS mil om 1993; and Lucho Visnti’s provotive drama “Death Venice” (1971), based on the Thomas Mann novel.

Dpe the screengs and the books, attractg younger — and straighter — dienc to gay film history remas a challenge.

KATHERE HEIGL’S GAY-MARRIAGE DRAMEDY ‘JENNY’S WEDDG’ SELLS TO IFC (EXCLUSIVE)

”“The irony is that a lot of gay culture of the past is available on YouTube, but young people don’t tap to , ” Mr.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn AR, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Keepers of the Gay Film Legacy. Rights to Jt Kelly’s gay porn drama “Kg Cobra, ” starrg Jam Fran, Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton, Keegan Allen, Alicia Silverstone and Molly film was produced by Jordan Yale Leve of Yale Productns; Stt Levenson; Vce Jolivette and Fran of Rabb Bandi Productns; and Shn S.