John Hoffman and Janet Tobias got to see some sides to Dr. Anthony Fauci that most people have never seen while they were making “Fauci.” “There’s material that Janet shot… it was Tony at work on a Saturday spending the entire day working at his computer, often at a standup desk, listening and singing along to Barbra Streisand,” he reveals to Gold Derby during our recent Meet the Experts: TV Documentary panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). Tobias added that it wasn’t just Streisand that he liked to sing while at his desk. “I will add that he also plays The Village People and really enjoys Village People on the weekends.”
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“Fauci,” which is currently streaming on Disney+, examines the 50-year career of the current head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
See over 200 interviews with 2022 Emmy contenders
“Fauci,” which is currently streaming on Disney+, examines the 50-year career of the current head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
- 5/20/2022
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
The Quebecois director Jean-Marc Vallée is being remembered by the entertainment industry, with heartfelt tributes emerging from the late filmmaker’s peers and collaborators.
Vallée, who directed films such as “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Wild” and helmed TV projects including “Big Little Lies” and “Sharp Objects,” died suddenly at his cabin outside Quebec City, Canada on Saturday. He was 58 years old.
“I am in shock. Complete and utter shock,” “Big Little Lies” actress Shailene Woodley wrote in an Instagram story. “I guess somehow I know you will turn it into a grand adventure and one of the books, one I can’t wait to read and watch when my time comes. It doesn’t make sense though, dude. It doesn’t make sense. Maybe when we wake up tomorrow you’ll be there laughing saying it was just a satirical short film you made. That it’s not real.”
Canadian...
Vallée, who directed films such as “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Wild” and helmed TV projects including “Big Little Lies” and “Sharp Objects,” died suddenly at his cabin outside Quebec City, Canada on Saturday. He was 58 years old.
“I am in shock. Complete and utter shock,” “Big Little Lies” actress Shailene Woodley wrote in an Instagram story. “I guess somehow I know you will turn it into a grand adventure and one of the books, one I can’t wait to read and watch when my time comes. It doesn’t make sense though, dude. It doesn’t make sense. Maybe when we wake up tomorrow you’ll be there laughing saying it was just a satirical short film you made. That it’s not real.”
Canadian...
- 12/27/2021
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”
I just got back from New York City, where I covered the MTV VMAs red carpet. To see Lil Nas X blazing his rainbow trail continues to amaze me in the most beautiful way. He is LGBTQ power and awareness personified. And then to top it all off, I had Troye Sivan teasing the upcoming video for his new sex-centric single, “Angel Baby.” Reflecting on his career and now Lil Nas X’s monumental rise, Sivan says, “We’re moving in the right direction.”
Meanwhile, Lil Nas X, whose debut studio album “Montero” drops on Sept. 17, says he’d also love to work with Drake and Nicki Minaj. “I love them,” he says. When I suggest a three-way collaboration, Lil Nays says with a big smile, “Let’s do both of them at the same time!”.
In LGBTQ-adjacent news, it sounds like...
I just got back from New York City, where I covered the MTV VMAs red carpet. To see Lil Nas X blazing his rainbow trail continues to amaze me in the most beautiful way. He is LGBTQ power and awareness personified. And then to top it all off, I had Troye Sivan teasing the upcoming video for his new sex-centric single, “Angel Baby.” Reflecting on his career and now Lil Nas X’s monumental rise, Sivan says, “We’re moving in the right direction.”
Meanwhile, Lil Nas X, whose debut studio album “Montero” drops on Sept. 17, says he’d also love to work with Drake and Nicki Minaj. “I love them,” he says. When I suggest a three-way collaboration, Lil Nays says with a big smile, “Let’s do both of them at the same time!”.
In LGBTQ-adjacent news, it sounds like...
- 9/16/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
As usual, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled their 2021 lineup just moments before the event gets underway. Taking place from Thursday, September 2 through Monday, September 6, 2021, the lineup features Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, as well as Cannes highlights Bergman Island and Red Rocket, and more.
See the lineup below.
The Automat (d. Lisa Hurwitz, U.S., 2021) In person: Lisa Hurwitz
Becoming Cousteau (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2021) In person: Liz Garbus
Belfast (d. Kenneth Branagh, U.K., 2021) In person: Kenneth Branagh, Jamie Dornan
Bergman Island (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany/Sweden, 2021) In person: Mia Hansen-Løve
Bitterbrush (d. Emelie Mahdavian, U.S., 2021) In person: Emelie Mahdavian, Colie Moline
C’Mon C’Mon (d. Mike Mills, U.S., 2021) In person: Mike Mills,...
See the lineup below.
The Automat (d. Lisa Hurwitz, U.S., 2021) In person: Lisa Hurwitz
Becoming Cousteau (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2021) In person: Liz Garbus
Belfast (d. Kenneth Branagh, U.K., 2021) In person: Kenneth Branagh, Jamie Dornan
Bergman Island (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany/Sweden, 2021) In person: Mia Hansen-Løve
Bitterbrush (d. Emelie Mahdavian, U.S., 2021) In person: Emelie Mahdavian, Colie Moline
C’Mon C’Mon (d. Mike Mills, U.S., 2021) In person: Mike Mills,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Mike Mills’ Joaquin Phoenix drama “C’mon C’mon,” Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Broadway musical “Cyrano” and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard,” with Will Smith in the story of the tennis-titan Williams sisters and their father, Richard, are among the films that will play at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, Telluride organizers announced on Wednesday.
The annual Colorado festival, which was canceled last year because of the Covid pandemic, has been expanded by one day this year, beginning on Thursday instead of Friday. As usual, it did not announce its relatively small and carefully curated lineup until the day before the festival begins.
Among the films that will join “C’mon C’mon,” “Cyrano” and “King Richard” as Telluride world premieres are a number of documentaries, including Liz Garbus’ “Becoming Cousteau,” E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “The Rescue,” John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” and Julie Cohen & Betsy West’s “Julia.
The annual Colorado festival, which was canceled last year because of the Covid pandemic, has been expanded by one day this year, beginning on Thursday instead of Friday. As usual, it did not announce its relatively small and carefully curated lineup until the day before the festival begins.
Among the films that will join “C’mon C’mon,” “Cyrano” and “King Richard” as Telluride world premieres are a number of documentaries, including Liz Garbus’ “Becoming Cousteau,” E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “The Rescue,” John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” and Julie Cohen & Betsy West’s “Julia.
- 9/1/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
During amfAR’s virtual conversation for It’s a Sin, HBO Max’s epic tale of the HIV crisis in England, host and Tony-nominated playwright Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) asked creator Russell T. Davies to respond to criticism of the show from such well-known AIDS activists as Peter Staley.
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
During amfAR’s virtual conversation for It’s a Sin, HBO Max’s epic tale of the HIV crisis in England, host and Tony-nominated playwright Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) asked creator Russell T. Davies to respond to criticism of the show from such well-known AIDS activists as Peter Staley.
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
On May 21st, veteran AIDS activist Peter Staley marked the 30th anniversary of Act Up’s “Storm the Nih” demonstration by sharing a video of the pivotal event to make sure the coalition’s demands were heard for greater access to and involvement in clinical research. The group’s protests helped wake the nation up to the reality of the people who were dying and being ignored by the government.
Tbt. Getting arrested at Act Up's "Storm The Nih" demo, May 21, 1990. They had to walk me through Niaid's Building 31 to...
Tbt. Getting arrested at Act Up's "Storm The Nih" demo, May 21, 1990. They had to walk me through Niaid's Building 31 to...
- 6/18/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
When the world suddenly changed back in March due to Covid-19 — some have even been so bold as to say the world “stopped” — and governments, scientists, doctors, emergency workers, and everyday people banded together to combat the horrible spread of this latest virus, I also felt a dizzying swirl of emotions: disoriented, anxious, fear. But quickly, I felt angry.
After the New York Times published its Sunday cover story over Memorial Day weekend, “U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss,” with its stark presentation of names and obituaries, I felt a confusing mix of emotions.
After the New York Times published its Sunday cover story over Memorial Day weekend, “U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss,” with its stark presentation of names and obituaries, I felt a confusing mix of emotions.
- 6/2/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Andrew Garfield is facing some major backlash following comments he made on Monday, in which he said, "I am a gay man right now, pretty much, just without the physical act."
The 33-year-old actor, who is currently starring as Prior Walter in a London production of Angels in America, opened up about how he prepared for his role as a gay man during a Q&A panel and the issues he faced when taking on the role.
"One of my main concerns, which I feel every day when I do this play, is that, as far as I know, I am not a gay man," the actor said. "Maybe I’ll have an awakening later in my life, which I’m sure will be wonderful and I’ll get to explore that part of the garden, but right now I’m secluded to my area, which is wonderful as well. I adore it...
The 33-year-old actor, who is currently starring as Prior Walter in a London production of Angels in America, opened up about how he prepared for his role as a gay man during a Q&A panel and the issues he faced when taking on the role.
"One of my main concerns, which I feel every day when I do this play, is that, as far as I know, I am not a gay man," the actor said. "Maybe I’ll have an awakening later in my life, which I’m sure will be wonderful and I’ll get to explore that part of the garden, but right now I’m secluded to my area, which is wonderful as well. I adore it...
- 7/6/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Troye Sivan is grateful for the opportunity to "shine a light" on those who have worked tirelessly in the Lgbtq community.
Et's Denny Directo caught up with the "Youth" singer at the GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, where he was presented with the Stephen F. Kolzack Award for using his platform to promote equality and acceptance -- and used his acceptance speech to pay tribute to those whose work often goes unrecognized.
Exclusive: Troye Sivan to Become Youngest Recipient of GLAAD's Stephen F. Kolzak Award
"This award is so much larger than me," Sivan said in his acceptance speech, before thanking Lgbtq activists like Peter Staley, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Bayard Rustin and Gilbert Baker. "This moment is about visibility and about representation. What and who we see in the media defines our perception of the world around us, and so to see ourselves in this picture of what is ‘normal’ and what is...
Et's Denny Directo caught up with the "Youth" singer at the GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, where he was presented with the Stephen F. Kolzack Award for using his platform to promote equality and acceptance -- and used his acceptance speech to pay tribute to those whose work often goes unrecognized.
Exclusive: Troye Sivan to Become Youngest Recipient of GLAAD's Stephen F. Kolzak Award
"This award is so much larger than me," Sivan said in his acceptance speech, before thanking Lgbtq activists like Peter Staley, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Bayard Rustin and Gilbert Baker. "This moment is about visibility and about representation. What and who we see in the media defines our perception of the world around us, and so to see ourselves in this picture of what is ‘normal’ and what is...
- 4/6/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The National Enquirer’s cover declaring “AIDS Killed Prince!” is “deeply offensive” to people living with HIV/AIDS because it reinforces a stigma they’ve spent decades fighting, a prominent activist told TheWrap. The tabloid claimed this week that Prince died after refusing to take AIDS medications. But Peter Staley, a leading AIDS activist who was featured in the 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” says the Enquirer is shamelessly sensationalizing the disease for a quick buck. “They’re turning AIDS into Godzilla,” Staley told TheWrap. “These headlines are deeply offensive to the over 1 million Americans who are living with HIV.
- 4/29/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Peter Staley remembers the deafening silence of the Reagan administration during the hellish AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. As gay men died in droves, President Reagan refused, until late in his second term, to even speak the name of the virus that was killing them. So Staley — an AIDS activist prominently featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague” — was stunned last Friday when his preferred presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, praised Nancy Reagan’s “low-key advocacy” to fight AIDS in an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “Bottom line, it was a Wtf moment,” Staley told TheWrap. “It didn’t make any sense.
- 3/15/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Update, Jan. 13, 2016 3:27 Pst: Sheen’s manager Mark Burg tells TheWrap that Sheen has resumed taking hismedication. According to Burg, Sheen stopped taking his HIV medication for about four weeks but went back on them as soon as his viral load went up. Burg says Sheen will continue looking for a cure. Charlie Sheen announced on Tuesday that he quit his HIV meds, and the AIDS activist featured in Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague” is fuming. “He’s shitting all over us, frankly,” Peter Staley told TheWrap. “He’s alive today because of the work we did.” Sheen...
- 1/13/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Olympia Dukakis speaks for equality, Disney unveils Big Hero 6, John Cameron Mitchell recalls frosty Hedwig welcome from David Letterman
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now, but John Cameron Mitchell recalls a frosty reception when he appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote the original run of the play fifteen years ago. “And then on David Letterman’s show, we did the soundcheck and there was a voice from the booth that said, ‘Could you please not remove your wig during the song?’ … So I removed it after, and they cut it off, they wanted people to think I was a woman. And David wouldn’t shake my hand. I love David Letterman. I wanted to touch him.”
Gary Goddard, another defendant on the Michael Egan sex abuse case, has filed for dismissal on grounds that he was never in Hawaii during the period,...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now, but John Cameron Mitchell recalls a frosty reception when he appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote the original run of the play fifteen years ago. “And then on David Letterman’s show, we did the soundcheck and there was a voice from the booth that said, ‘Could you please not remove your wig during the song?’ … So I removed it after, and they cut it off, they wanted people to think I was a woman. And David wouldn’t shake my hand. I love David Letterman. I wanted to touch him.”
Gary Goddard, another defendant on the Michael Egan sex abuse case, has filed for dismissal on grounds that he was never in Hawaii during the period,...
- 5/23/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
The documentary How to Survive a Plague shows inspirational footage of 1980s Aids activism in the Us – and the message is still relevant today
In 1987 Peter Staley was a closeted young bond trader working in New York in an environment he describes as hideous and stifling.
"It was like a high-school football team locker room," he says. "Sexist and homophobic and filled with testosterone. You had to play the part in order to survive. I didn't like what it did to me, but being in the closet was that much worse."
No one at work knew he was gay, but he was also keeping secret his recent diagnosis of what was then called Aids‑related complex. Staley's life, he says, changed when he was handed a flyer one day on the way to work. It was from Act Up, the Aids Advocacy group, and he'd just walked past its first demonstration,...
In 1987 Peter Staley was a closeted young bond trader working in New York in an environment he describes as hideous and stifling.
"It was like a high-school football team locker room," he says. "Sexist and homophobic and filled with testosterone. You had to play the part in order to survive. I didn't like what it did to me, but being in the closet was that much worse."
No one at work knew he was gay, but he was also keeping secret his recent diagnosis of what was then called Aids‑related complex. Staley's life, he says, changed when he was handed a flyer one day on the way to work. It was from Act Up, the Aids Advocacy group, and he'd just walked past its first demonstration,...
- 10/28/2013
- by Hermione Hoby
- The Guardian - Film News
The HIV Equal campaign officially launches at the World Health Clinicians' wellness event on October 26th and includes an exhibition of the first set of photographs featuring Broadway star Nick Adams 'La Cage Aux Folles,' 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert', Congressman Jim Himes, AIDS and gay rights activist Peter Staley, Tony Award winning actorsinger Billy Porter 'Kinky Boots', and drag superstar Bianca Del Rio, among many others. Click below to watch a promo video...
- 10/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ezra Miller says that he's been gay bashed twice. The first was quite severe, resulting in retinal tears, but the second, when he was walking with his mother, he makes sound almost comical. "He went pussy. And I was like, that guy just spat out the most non-sensical of masculine, gay-bashing skewers. He didn't even know what angle to take. He tried the mother angle, he tried the pussy angle, the what-is-with-this-jacket angle. The first guy was a more self-assured, confident gay-basher. That second guy needed to sober up, figure out his hate crime a little more."
Brian Sims, the first out captain of an Ncaa football team says that his teammates brought him out of the closet, and in a good way. "The truth is I was gay my whole life. I had dated girls in high school. I think I knew I wasn't straight long before I knew I was gay.
Brian Sims, the first out captain of an Ncaa football team says that his teammates brought him out of the closet, and in a good way. "The truth is I was gay my whole life. I had dated girls in high school. I think I knew I wasn't straight long before I knew I was gay.
- 2/10/2013
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
A Hitchhiker’s Guide: France’s Documentary a Masterful Ode to AIDS Activism
By focusing on the birth of the Activist group Act Up in 1987, when the United States was already six years into the AIDS epidemic and the crisis was still being largely ignored by the powers that be, documentary filmmaker David France uses this as a jumping board into a massive and overwhelming subject. With How to Survive a Plague, he manages, largely through actual film and media compiled from the period, to streamline the history of the ongoing AIDS crisis, homophobic informed politics, and gay rights while honoring the history of the brave souls that challenged the system in an arduous battle that finally developed a manageable and helpful treatment to those infected. This heartfelt and moving documentary, opening in a particularly hopeful period of time in the ongoing struggle for Lgbt American citizens to obtain equal rights,...
By focusing on the birth of the Activist group Act Up in 1987, when the United States was already six years into the AIDS epidemic and the crisis was still being largely ignored by the powers that be, documentary filmmaker David France uses this as a jumping board into a massive and overwhelming subject. With How to Survive a Plague, he manages, largely through actual film and media compiled from the period, to streamline the history of the ongoing AIDS crisis, homophobic informed politics, and gay rights while honoring the history of the brave souls that challenged the system in an arduous battle that finally developed a manageable and helpful treatment to those infected. This heartfelt and moving documentary, opening in a particularly hopeful period of time in the ongoing struggle for Lgbt American citizens to obtain equal rights,...
- 12/12/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A chronicle of AIDS activism in New York, "How To Survive a Plague" shows how a group of men and women fought against a homophobic establishment to help bring life-saving drugs to America. It's a remarkable part of American history that too few are aware of, and one that comes to theaters exactly 25 years after Act Up (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) -- the activist group at the core of "Plague" -- held its first demonstration. Shortly after the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Indiewire sat down with three New Yorkers pivotal to the film's existence: Director David France, producer Howard Gertler and Peter Staley, one of the primary protagonists in the film's narrative. Honor Roll is a daily series for December that will feature new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-persons of some of the year's most notable cinematic voices. Today we're revisiting an interview we did.
- 12/1/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Review by Barbara Snitzer
This movie is an excellent, engrossing, and necessary document to an important period of history.
Living in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was familiar with Act-up. At least I thought I was.
Act-up is the acronym for the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, an organization founded by gay activists to pressure the powers that be to help them fight the deadly disease ravaging their community. Their accomplishments have benefited every citizen of the United States, gay and straight, and they deserve our recognition and gratitude.
After watching this movie, I felt old and sad. Old because I remember how frightening AIDS was. I remember learning of the deaths of artists I had just discovered, like the fashion designer Patrick Kelly and disco diva Sylvester. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Freddie Mercury had died. Having dated some “confused” guys,...
This movie is an excellent, engrossing, and necessary document to an important period of history.
Living in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was familiar with Act-up. At least I thought I was.
Act-up is the acronym for the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, an organization founded by gay activists to pressure the powers that be to help them fight the deadly disease ravaging their community. Their accomplishments have benefited every citizen of the United States, gay and straight, and they deserve our recognition and gratitude.
After watching this movie, I felt old and sad. Old because I remember how frightening AIDS was. I remember learning of the deaths of artists I had just discovered, like the fashion designer Patrick Kelly and disco diva Sylvester. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Freddie Mercury had died. Having dated some “confused” guys,...
- 10/19/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This weekend -- after a hugely successful run on the festival circuit -- "How To Survive a Plague" is hitting theaters. A chronicle of AIDS activism in New York, the film shows how a group of men and women fought against a homophobic establishment to help bring life-saving drugs to America. It's a remarkable part of American history that too few are aware of, and one that comes to theaters exactly 25 years after Act Up (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) -- the activist group at the core of "Plague" -- held its first demonstration. Shortly after the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Indiewire sat down with three New Yorkers pivotal to the film's existence: Director David France, producer Howard Gertler and Peter Staley, one of the primary protagonists in the film's narrative. A longtime journalist, France made his first foray into filmmaking with "Plague,...
- 9/19/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Before I get into discussing How to Survive a Plague, I just want to say that every gay man needs to see this film. Full stop. There's a reason why it's on our list of the 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries. It's a fundamental part of our community's history and an essential chronicle of a transformative social movement that simply cannot go unseen. See it.
In the late 1980s a group of angry, frustrated, and exhausted people in New York City gathered to discuss what to do about the worsening AIDS problem. Many of them had contracted HIV themselves and refused to accept the death sentence it equaled. They were frustrated that six years into the epidemic, which had thus far claimed 20,000 reported lives, the White House had yet to even directly acknowledge the crisis. The coming together of the group - mostly gay people and their allies, who were tired of...
In the late 1980s a group of angry, frustrated, and exhausted people in New York City gathered to discuss what to do about the worsening AIDS problem. Many of them had contracted HIV themselves and refused to accept the death sentence it equaled. They were frustrated that six years into the epidemic, which had thus far claimed 20,000 reported lives, the White House had yet to even directly acknowledge the crisis. The coming together of the group - mostly gay people and their allies, who were tired of...
- 9/17/2012
- by brian
- The Backlot
Title: How To Survive A Plague Sundance Selects Director: David France Screenwriter: David France, T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk Cast: Peter Staley, Garance Franke-Riuta, Mark Harrington, Spencer Cox, Larry Kramer, Bill Bahlman, David Barr, Gregg Bordowitz, Gregg Gonsalves, Derek Link, Iris Long Screened at: Broadway, NYC, 8/13/12 Opens: September 21, 2012 How effective are demonstrations? If their major aim is to allow protesters to let off steam, they are undoubtedly potent. If their aim is to achieve the demands of the protesters, that’s a mixed bag. The Vietnam demonstrations aimed to end the war quickly. They did not. At best, they may have succeeded in forcing President Johnson to [ Read More ]...
- 8/14/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
In the documentary, How to Survive a Plague, award-winning journalist/author turned first-time filmmaker, David France explores the AIDS epidemic that took over our country in the '80s and '90s. In a 10-year span France covers an enormous amount of ground. From archival footage of dramatic protests to a look at the activist group Act Up to the pharmaceutical history of AIDS, France leaves no stone unturned in this documentary -- but as an admirer of social justice documentaries such as Paris is Burning insists that his first film goes beyond the topic of AIDS. He stresses that it's also about taking "heroic action."
The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundace Film Festival and is doing even more festival rounds. We had the opportunity to talk to David France during his time at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
After Elton: Why do you think now...
The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundace Film Festival and is doing even more festival rounds. We had the opportunity to talk to David France during his time at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
After Elton: Why do you think now...
- 4/30/2012
- by Dino-Ray
- The Backlot
This weekend in New York, "How To Survive a Plague" comes home. Two months after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival to intense acclaim, the film will screen as part of the 41st edition of New Directors/New Films. A chronicle of AIDS activism in New York, the film shows how a group of men and women fought against a homophobic establishment to help bring life-saving drugs to America. It's a remarkable part of American history that too few are aware of, and one that comes to New York almost exactly 25 years after Act Up (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) -- the activist group at the core of "Plague" -- held its first demonstration. Shortly after the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Indiewire sat down with three New Yorkers pivotal to the film's existence: Director David France, producer Howard Gertler and Peter Staley --...
- 3/23/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
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