Jerry Douglas) Ballet Down the Highway…. © Letterboxd Limited. Il sert dans la US Army entre 1950 et 1952, puis il travaille à New York chez Pocket Books pendant deux ans avant de se lancer dans la publicité. Film data from TMDb. I had stayed connected to Artie through my high school and college years, and I continued to contribute music to those films. I moved into my first apartment, living amid low-income families, trans people, sex workers, drug addicts and the homeless in a shared $125 per month Tenderloin studio. Preservation funding provided by The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation, Frameline and Outfest. Richard, behind bars, yearns for Larry and imagines him near. I wrote in my diary: "I really dug Artie's films — especially Boys because it's so much like how I feel and how much I'd like to — and he really dug mine.".
Sure, the actors can barely act, the budget is of the nano level, and the soundtrack is as amateurish as it can get, but Bressan Jr. has a very unified, flowing vision, where his talent fuses the cinematic fragments into a love letter for that genuine human connection and passionate desire. It’s undoubtedly one of the best gay films of the 70s — hardcore or otherwise — and a title that deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as other reclaimed and legitimized works like Wakefield Poole’s Bijou or Fred Halsted’s L.A. Been trying to think of the right words to talk about Forbidden Letters for a couple days now. His sense of urgency arose out of a desire to combat the virulent homophobia of Anita Bryant’s June 1977 “Save Our Children” campaign. It’s a far cry from the romantic, warmly-light color sex scenes of Larry’s memory. Hearing that I was a high school senior, Artie decisively said I should contact Van Halsey, director of admissions at Hampshire College in Amherst; surely I'd be scholarship material. Use the HTML below. Among his better-known films is the landmark GAY USA (1978), the first feature-length documentary made by and about persons from the LBGTQIA+ community, which embodies that duality more straightforwardly but no less intriguingly; later, in 1985, he wrote and directed BUDDIES, a strikingly sensitive endeavor and the first film to address the burgeoning AIDS…, absolutely a masterwork, i think to categorize this as a porn film does a disservice to potential viewers who may be put off from watching it because of that (also i realize thats a very fraught discussion but just to be clear i dont think something being a "porn" means its of lesser value")But the camera work in this film is brilliant, and to me reads as almost anticipatory of a kind of film-making that wouldn't really rise to prominence until much later in more "mainstream" hetero films. A lot. Meanwhile, Artie's career flourished, and watching his films gave me a vicarious connection to filmmaking. I was 16.

Bressan revisits some of the San Francisco locations that were in Passing Strangers, and adds a few more for good measure. John Yau, né le 5 juin 1950 à Lynn dans le Massachusetts [1], est un poète, critique d'art, essayiste, éditeur, commissaire d'expositions [2] et universitaire américain [3].Il enseigne à la Mason Gross School of the Arts (en) [4] de l'Université Rutgers.Il est une des figures marquantes des écrivains sino-américains.En 2002, il est décoré chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Working across multiple genres including documentary, narrative, adult and short form filmmaking, Bressan's boldness and artistry as a writer-director earned him both acclaim and... Seeking Utopia at the End of the World: Close-Up on "The Daughters of Fire", Thank You, Mr. President: The Press Conferences of JFK, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. One of the pioneers of independent gay cinema in the 1970s and ‘80s, Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. is best known for his devastating 1985 drama, Buddies (the first feature film about AIDS). In a sense though, I was, and still am, his for life; I can’t help thinking the way he taught me to think. TMDb It was filmed in New Zealand. The Bressan Project is currently undertaking efforts to preserve and make them available once again. I don't remember meeting Artie again, and I never heard back from Hampshire College. Takahashi, a trendy gift shop notorious for its young gay clerks, hired me at $2.16 an hour. To book the film contact Frameline Distribution. I recently attended a screening… hadn’t seen it in many years and the film held up beautifully. I remember the name Luann put on her membership card was Frank Capra. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.

Looking back, I can see now that Artie's encouragement and his choice of stories to tell on screen had an indelible impact on me, a young gay filmmaker, at a time when such mentors were absent. About Artie’s pornography: You’ll see a clip from one of his porn flicks, (as he called them) Passing Strangers, in tonight’s film [Buddies].

One of the pioneers of independent gay cinema in the 1970s and ‘80s, Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. is best known for his devastating 1985 drama, To learn more about Arthur and his work please read Caden Mark Gardner's in-depth appreciation at, Implementing his vision to create an uplifting nationwide portrait of the gay and lesbian community, Arthur J. Bressan Jr. enlisted film crews in multiple cities across the country to shoot footage and interviews at the gay pride celebrations of June 26, 1977.

It kind of covers the same thematic ground as Michael Wallin's film The Place Between Our Bodies; sex without intimacy is just masturbation. This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle through a myriad of sexual encounters, from a soccer game's locker room to a dreamy... See full summary ». Download to watch Offline. Buddies is available on Blu-ray/DVD via Vinegar Syndrome, Amazon and other retailers. Men jeg er så her for komboen av seriøs handling og eksplisitte sex scener! Les thématiques de John Yau, comme cela a été souligné plus haut sont les processus d'identification culturelle, la production des préjugés raciaux, les effets de l'exil et du déracinement, l'interculturalisme. Blackie Norton was the character Clark Gable played in the 1936 movie San Francisco.

And I met Artie Bressan. He was 26. The films were shown on 16 millimeter and there was an arcade behind the screen where audience members could "get to know" each other. Title: No other American filmmaker embodied the spirit of the gay liberation movement like Arthur Bressan, so it's no surprise that his second feature -- shot and released in the middle of the fight against Briggs and Anita -- moves far beyond the simple utopian romanticism of his debut, injecting overt political messages about gay imprisonment and the emotional tolls of the closet into his love story. Forbidden Letters

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Shot in 1975 following the release of his debut, Passing Strangers , the film wouldn’t see release until Valentine's Day 1979, by which time the gay socio-political landscape had changed entirely. Shot on location at Alcatraz under false pretenses, the scene is genuinely haunting; its dizzying mix of discordant music, rapid editing, and expressionistic photography rendered in cold black-and-white managess to unsettle as well as arouse. Newly opened, Hampshire was a progressive, even experimental college that bucked traditions and allowed students to shape their own curriculum. Ever. That sounds like Artie, who liked to unbalance people. Y'all wouldn't believe the number of gay experimental films I've found, it's ridiculous. It was described as Lord of the Flies meets The X Files. The use of music and sound in the editing of Buddies helped so much in the flow of the film and the transitions between scenes.
The best example of this is a nightmare sequence in which Larry and Richard jack off in adjoining prison cells; they’re close, but apart. He wanted to make movies like the melodramas and screwball comedies that he loved, about real relationships, in which the characters were shown doing what real people do in real relationships, especially new relationships: they have sex. Arthur's rousing 1977 film, Gay USA is now available to watch via Vimeo On Demand; it was restored in 2019 by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Frameline and Outfest. Porn sites have become the new gay archive. He had long hair then, perhaps tied in a ponytail, but maybe I'm thinking of Harvey Milk — the two had similar looks. It’s always interesting when films take on unintended new meanings by the time they hit theaters — and this is especially true of Arthur Bressan’s second narrative feature, Forbidden Letters. I'll take that over a Hollywoodian blockbuster with Chalamet any day. Artie believed that love could conquer violence and cynicism. Listed in chronological order of when I watched them. Together again, will Larry and Richard find the love they once shared? The first film to be released by The Bressan Project — in collaboration with acclaimed Blu-ray label, Vinegar Syndrome and Frameline Distribution — is a new 2K digital restoration of Bressan's 1985 independent drama, Buddies which premiered at Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival on June 21st 2018 followed by a one-week theatrical run in New York City at the Quad Cinema.

He just walked up to me. Maybe…, “I think of the area of magic as a metaphor for the homosexual situation. That’s who he was. Check out our picks for movies that (hopefully) won't keep you up at night. He just walked up to me. Included below is a personal remembrance from acclaimed author and documentarian Arthur Dong. Sad boys in the sand. © 2020 Arthur Dong, DeepFocus Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Released in 1979, this second feature film from gay indie pioneer Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. offers up one of the most romantic and cinematically sophisticated gay adult dramas of all time.

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