Could This Truly Be The Year of the Hot Lesbian Movie?



Circumstance 2011

I knew I could catch your attention with that. This is not my idea - this is my friend Tristen's observation. She's a Sundance veteran, and she told me that in 2 days she'd seen four movies with hot lesbians. That got me thinking...I'd only seen two (MY IDIOT BROTHER and CIRCUMSTANCE) but that was in one day. I think it's worth thinking about. Ok, I have to interrupt this intellectual discourse with some plain old self-promotion. This is a photo that appeared on a website called SF360, published by the San Francisco Film Society. This is myself and my boss Paul Richardson outside the Egyptian on opening day:


Photo: Hilary Hart SFFS

Perhaps its time to discuss the films I've been seeing, but to do that I need to start with yesterday, since I didn't post last night.We've been hitting the 9 am Eccles screenings to catch the premieres the day after. The Eccles is huge - and this year we industry folk are allowed to enter in a side door versus mingling with the great unwashed as in previous years. Yesterday we saw one of the most commercially viable films, WIN WIN with Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan (Gabriel Byrnes shrink on this season of IN TREATMENT). It was good, and I'm sure we'll be playing it. The director Tom Mc Carthy (THE VISITOR, THE STATION AGENT) came for the Q+A after. Alas, no stars, but they'd all been at the party we were at the night before so...ho hum.

We hurried back over to the Holiday for one of the most enjoyable docs I've ever seen, CORMAN'S WORLD, about Roger Corman. Goodness this man made an indelible impression on the film industry, and started the careers of luminaries such as Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdonovich, FF Coppola and Jack Nicholson. Here's a photo of his crowning achievement film, Little Shop of Horrors:

I took the afternoon off to wait for the handyman to fit the 324 things that are not working at the condo. After he left after fixing nothing, we slogged back to the Holiday to watch Morgan Spurlock's new doc, THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD. The premise of the film is to reveal the world of product placement in movies, but Morgan decides to fund the movie entirely with product placement. I shall leave my opinion to myself at this point. Today we hit Eccles in the wee morn again with MY IDIOT BROTHER (oh ye of hot lesbians - Rashida Jones and Zooey Deschanel) with Paul Rudd as a happy go lucky f-up.



Director J. Peretz, Zooey, Emily, Elizabeth and Paul



Saw HERE, then my other Lesbian extravaganza, CIRCUMSTANCE, where the action is in Tehran. Really. My last movie of the day was Vera Farmiga's directorial debut HIGHER GROUND about a hard core Christian enclave. Interesting choice for a first film. Before I forget, went to the Skywalker Sound party tonight and saw a buch of the wonderful Bay Area film crowd. Had a wonderful time! Carmel Apples = 0 (tomorrow!tomorrow!) Celebs = 5