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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 19 sec.) ; 317451970 bytes |
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"For many people my age, there weren't any gay or lesbian films around when we actually needed them. Like many others, I had to filter things out from what was available. Well, we know that in the films of the 1950s every time a homosexual character appeared, they were doomed to either die or go mad at the end. Not a particularly good role model for those at an age when they really needed supporting." - Wieland Speck, Berlin Film Festival.Here's Looking At You, Boy explores the gradual development of self-confidence within the gay and lesbian film community. This self-confidence has been characterised in recent times by films that have received awards at renowned international film festivals like Berlin and Venice and received recognition from the Academy Awards in Hollywood. This coming-out of queer cinema reveals how films made by gay and lesbian filmmakers have had to break through sociological barriers in order to assert themselves. Eventually, these same filmmakers would eventually realise their own coming-out to a broader audience. "When you see a film you learn about someone, you learn about someone's stories," says Jennifer Morris from San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival. "It can dispel so many stereotypes."This sentiment is echoed by director/actor Craig Chester who believes that acceptance of gays and lesbians by the larger, i.e. straight community, is still a long way off. "Gays are really cuddly and cute right now and everybody wants a gay best friend. And that's the trendy thing to have, a gay best friend who's really wise and funny and who's giving you relationship advice and decorating your home, and doing your hair." The rider for Chester is that it's OK to be gay in the USA but only if the gay character is seen as "useful".Here's Looking At You, Boy shows excerpts from films that have changed the landscape of modern cinema - Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, Wolfgang Petersen's The Consequence, Sally Porter's Orlando, Derek Jarman's Edward II, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Satan's Brew, Stephan Elliot's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. The program also hears from both behind and in front of the camera - directors Gus Van Sant, Rosa von Prauheim, John Waters and actors Tilda Swinton, Geneviere Turner, Jeroen Krabbe, Ingrid Caven. (From Germany, in English, German and French) (Documentary) |
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Broadcast 2009-12-02 at 01:20:00 |
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Classification: MA |
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Celebrities -- Interviews.
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Erotic films -- Production and direction.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
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Streaming video
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Chester, Craig, contributor
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Epstein, Rob, contributor
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Frears, Stephen, contributor
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Freihof, Matthias, contributor
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Huestis, Mark, contributor
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Krabbe, Jeroen, contributor
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Lovett, Joseph, contributor
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Main, Stewart, contributor
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Martineau, Jacques, contributor
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Morris, Jennifer, contributor
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Petersen, Wolfgang, host
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Praunheim, Rosa Von, contributor
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Van Sant, Gus, contributor
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Schafer, Andre, director
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Speck, Wieland, contributor
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Swinton, Tilda, contributor
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Warnecke, Gordon, contributor
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Waters, John, contributor
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