VIP Fave Q Movie Pick
Where we ask today’s hottest queer and queer-friendly filmmakers, stars and community leaders to answer the question:
“One of my favorite LGBT movies is...”
Dan Castle (writer-director, NEWCASTLE)
“I love The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert because it is a celebration of a world, a reality, a land and a circle of friends that is so foreign yet at the same time so relateable. At the end of that film all I wanted to do was get on that bus with those crazy characters and go wherever they were going. It is funny that years after seeing it, I myself ventured down to Australia and made my own Australian film, NEWCASTLE – so no doubt the film had a huge impact on me. My boyfriend is from OZ and his mom lives in Broken Hill, the Outback town the characters visit and walk down the main street in drag – so every time we visit Broken Hill I always pop my head into the pub where Terrance Stamp had his drink out with the tough broad. And PRISCILLA is a movie about gay characters but I wouldn’t limit it to being just a gay film – the film proved to be hugely popular to a mass audience all over the world because it had a bigger sense of itself and ultimately it is a film about integration and not just being in our own world so I think that is a very positive and necessary message to keep sending out to the world through film and what I explored with NEWCASTLE as well.”
NEWCASTLE writer-director Dan Castle is pictured above (center) flanked by the film’s co-stars James Triglone and Lachman Buchanan.
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