Monday, September 30, 2013

What Now? Remind Me (Trailer)



Stunning and deeply moving documentary on what it is like to actual endure clinical trials of toxic, mind-altering drugs to stay alive, THE NYFF presents noted Portuguese film maker Joaquin Pinto's deeply personal story of how his health condition and treatment choices impact on his life, creative work, relationships and his place in the world. We have seen recent documentaries on AIDS activism but not since the personal films of Derek Jarman has a filM maker put front and center a personal this-is-my- life dealing with HIV and Hepatitis C. A poetical journey through the ups and downs of treatment and his life changing choices It may sound clinical but it is much more than about medical experiment trials. WHAT NOW REMIND ME soures like a classical music vamp and soothes like a Moby lullaby. It fills the screen with the heartbeat of the living and resonates with such self-acceptance and resolve that it's message is more a mediation on what matters than a clinical study. An artistic study on the treatment of his physical body and his soul balancing .....and you will meet four dogs and one husband that you wish were your next door neighbor.... ONE MORE SCREENING OCT 1st

Sunday, September 29, 2013

C0STA de MORTE most beautiful film at NYFF 2013

This may be the  most beautiful film I have seen all year. Part of the Avant-Garde Program at the New York Film Festival plays Oct 4th 1 pm  Howard Gillman Theater Lincoln Center

Lois Pantino's Costa da Morte

COSTA de MORTE clip 1

COSTA de MORTE clip 2

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

NEW YORK: Gay rights protester disrupts Met Opera gala - People Wires - MiamiHerald.com

PLEASE READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS ASKED AT END! Metropolitan OPERA PROTEST UPDATE: While queer nation HELD A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE THE MET PROTESTING Russian GOVERNMENTS PASSING LAWS BANNING public knowledge of homosexual relations , INSIDE four activists stood up and shouted out about the treatment of gays in RUSSIA and called upon two of the OPERA STARS and the CONDUCTOR to SPEAK OUT against the PUTIN governments promulgation of legal sanctions against public display of homosexual relations. THE DISRUPTION TOOK PLACE AS THE OVERTURE FOR THE OPERA Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin began. How do you feel about the disruption of a performance? Is this any difference when Mayor Giuliani went into a performance at Lincoln Center and forcibly ejected Palestinian leader Arraft who was in NYC for the annual opening of the UN? When should artist not politicians be the target of activist rage? Would you honor a boycott of Russian products in protest of the treartment of Pussy Riot and the enforcement of anti-gay laws in Russia? Would you support the call for a boycott by international artist of performing in the Russia until Pussy Riot are released and anti=gay laws revoked? Note: CHER has just announced she has turned down an invitation to perform at the Winter Olympics because of the anti-gay laws passed

NEW YORK: Gay rights protester disrupts Met Opera gala - People Wires - MiamiHerald.com

Sunday, September 8, 2013

The Devotion Project: Foremost in my Mind featured in program 1 NEWFEST docs program 2013

Two black women  fall in love. One an Olympian the other a former editor at Vogue. Age 58 and 76
. Gives new meaning to the words old, senior, elder. Just try not to fall in love with them yourself !