David’s Birthday
DVD Wolfe Price: $17.96 Available: November 09, 2010
Synopsis:
While vacationing in an Italian summer home, happily married Matteo (Massimo Poggio) is surprised to find himself attracted to his best friend’s underwear-model son, David (real-life model Thyago Alves). But the plot thickens when David appears to share Matteo’s lust. Although she can’t quite put a finger on the problem, Matteo’s wife (Maria de Medeiros) senses something has happened to their relationship.
Stars: Maria de Medeiros (Henry and June, Shelter Me), Thyago Alves (popular model for Versace, Giorgio, Armani, and Valentino), Alessandro Gassman, Massimo Poggio.
Year Produced: 2009
Directed By: Marco Filiberti
Starring: Alessandro Gassman, Maria De Medeiros, Massimo Poggio, Thyago Alves
Language: Italian
Run Time: 106 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Auraeus Solito (director, BOY)
“The first film that comes in my mind is WHEN NIGHT IS FALLING by Patricia Rozema — for the sensuality between the two characters and the simplicity. It will always be one of my faves.”
Get your hands on Auraeus’s new gay feature film, BOY (coming to DVD on August 10th).
UNDERTOW Wins at QFest, Outfest, Frameline & Galway!
Javier Fuentes-Leon‘s UNDERTOW (which will be released by Wolfe on DVD in 2011) continues to rake in film festival awards galore. Javier is pictured above with Outfest Director of Programming Kim Yutani. The film’s most recent recognitions come from three of the summer’s top LGBT fests:
* Outstanding First Feature Award at Frameline in San Francisco.
* Special Programming Award for Artistic Achievement at Outfest in Los Angeles.
* Best Director and Best Feature Film at QFest in Philadelphia.
* Plus: the Audience Award for Best First Feature at the Galway International Film Festival in Ireland!!
Here’s a beautiful description of the film from the Frameline website:
“Miguel and Mariela are a happily married couple, well-respected in their small seaside fishing village and looking forward to the imminent arrival of their first child. Miguel genuinely adores his devoted wife, yet also carries on a clandestine affair with handsome drifter Santiago, a painter of sensual nudes who is euphemistically referred to as “Prince Charming” by the village gossips. Santiago yearns to celebrate his love openly, while Miguel insists on secrecy for fear of jeopardizing his domestic bliss.
As the story takes an otherworldly turn, rumors force Mariela to question her husband’s sexuality, and Miguel must accept his dual nature in order to refute Santiago’s angry claim that “There are thousands of ways of being a man, and you are none of them.”
Stunning views of Peru’s Cabo Blanco coast provide an appropriately stormy backdrop to the tempestuous emotions of the three protagonists. As its ominous title suggests, Undertow dives far below the seemingly placid surface of self-identity and family ties, churning up waves of passion — and a fateful accident — that overwhelm the film’s bisexual love triangle.
This Sundance award-winner enchants with unforgettable seascapes, and director Javier Fuentes-León eschews melodrama to present a transcendent romance in his remarkably assured feature debut. With moving performances by some of Latin America’s star actors, Undertow makes it easy to get swept away.”
GO Magazine – 100 Women We Love Class of 2010
Check out Wolfe’s founder Kathy Wolfe in GO Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” showcase:
“As founder and CEO of Wolfe Video, Kathy Wolfe heads the largest exclusive distributor of lesbian and gay films. Since 1985, the company has grown from a small mail order business with a vision for community building and social change to providing DVD distribution and on-demand programming online and for television. Wolfe was recently honored with a Maverick Award from Cinequest and a Community Partner Award from the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Now celebrating the company’s 25th year, she views her company’s evolution with pride. “When I look at Wolfe, how it began and what it’s become, I am so proud of the way that we’ve made images of our lives visible and accessible to the world at large; and, even more importantly, of the way in which those authentic images have empowered so many individuals to be themselves.”
via GO Magazine – 100 Women We Love Class of 2010.
8: The Mormon Proposition 2-Pack Special Offer!
DVD Wolfe Price: $19.95
Synopsis:
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“Outstanding and urgent!” – Los Angeles Times
Place your order now and we’ll send you two copies of 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION — keep one for yourself and send the other copy to someone who needs to see it. Share it with your parents, your best friend, your local library. You can make a difference. Place your order today!
8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION is an indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights. The film takes place in California and Utah as Mormons, following their prophet’s call to action, wage spiritual warfare fought with money and lies against US citizens and their fight for marriage equality and the rights that come with marriage.
Narrated by Academy Award winning MILK screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black.
Year Produced: 2009
Directed By: Reed Cowan
Starring: DUSTIN LANCE BLACK
Language: English/Closed Captions
Run Time: 80 min.
Rating: R
Spring Fever
DVD Wolfe Price: $19.95 Now Shipping!
Synopsis:
From the internationally acclaimed directors of SUMMER PALACE and PURPLE BUTTERFLY
Nanjing, present day, springtime. Wang Ping’s wife suspects him of adultery. She hires Lou Haitao to spy on him and discovers that her husband’s lover is a man, Jian Cheng. It’s with this man that Luo Haitao and his girlfriend, Li Jing, form a torrid love triangle. For all three, it’s the beginning of asphyxiating, sultry nights of physical abandon that exalt the senses - a journey into the confines of jealousy and obsessive love.
(Originally titled: Chun feng chen zui de ye wan)
Year Produced: 2009
Directed By: Lou Ye
Starring: Chen Sicheng, Qin Hao, Tan Zhuo, Wu Wei
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Run Time: 107 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Kathy Wolfe on “Our Lesbian Brokeback”
Check out this inspirational op-ed reflection on THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT and the evolution of lesbian cinema in this week’s Frontiers Magazine by Wolfe founder and CEO Kathy Wolfe. Here’s an excerpt:
“This is truly a landmark moment in lesbian film history. We’ve come so far! A big budget film with major movie stars playing lesbian roles! It’s absolutely fantastic that this film is coming out in 2010—twenty-five years after Wolfe first went into business. We’ve been around long enough now to see our stories fully enter the mainstream.
I am personally enormously grateful for this; and also gratified—that Wolfe continues to fulfill our vital role in supporting the careers of lesbian filmmakers and all our LGBT and straight filmmaker allies as well. We’re very proud to say that we first distributed Lisa Cholodenko’s short film The Dinner Party way back in 1997 just before she made her big splash with High Art. Watching our filmmakers advance in their careers is the most rewarding aspect of our work.
I want to encourage everyone to get out to the movies on the July 9 weekend to support Lisa’s movie and send the message to the powers that be in Hollywood and to Lisa: Thank You and We Want More!”
Read the rest at Frontiers IN L.A. | Our Lesbian Brokeback: The Kids Are All Right.
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