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The Act Of Killing (15)
(Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012, Den/Nor/UK/Swe/Fin) 122 mins
This astounding documentary is so packed with surreal scenarios, casual corruption and inhumanity, it's difficult to believe it's actually true. It tracks down perpetrators of Indonesia's 60s anti-communist massacres, finding them openly unrepentant about their past atrocities; so much so, they're happy to re-enact them as cinematic scenarios. As well as illuminating modern Indonesia, the process says much about history, its representation and its victors.
This Is The End (15)
(Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, 2013, Us) Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill. 107 mins
The apocalypse crashes James Franco's Hollywood house party, resulting in a enjoyably crude comedy that mixes stoner-buddy goofing...
The Act Of Killing (15)
(Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012, Den/Nor/UK/Swe/Fin) 122 mins
This astounding documentary is so packed with surreal scenarios, casual corruption and inhumanity, it's difficult to believe it's actually true. It tracks down perpetrators of Indonesia's 60s anti-communist massacres, finding them openly unrepentant about their past atrocities; so much so, they're happy to re-enact them as cinematic scenarios. As well as illuminating modern Indonesia, the process says much about history, its representation and its victors.
This Is The End (15)
(Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, 2013, Us) Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill. 107 mins
The apocalypse crashes James Franco's Hollywood house party, resulting in a enjoyably crude comedy that mixes stoner-buddy goofing...
- 6/29/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★☆☆☆ Banned from Sydney's Mardi Gras Film Festival due to its graphic real sex and ardently defended by friend-of-director James Franco, Travis Mathews' I Want Your Love (2012) has traversed a treacherous path on its way into UK cinemas. A classic 'point-in-time' tale of middle-class frustration, Mathews' debut is an intriguing - if incredibly flawed - examination of contemporary gay culture. After a decade of trying to make it as a performance artist in San Francisco, Jesse (Jesse Metzger) has decided to move back to his Ohio roots, due largely to a recent break up and the fact he can no longer afford to live in the city.
Jesse's flatmate (who has numerous relationship issues of his own) is organising a mammoth party to celebrate his final night. However, with Jesse clearly hesitant about the big move, this debauched shindig seems to only exacerbate our protagonist's apprehensive feelings about leaving his beloved San Fran.
Jesse's flatmate (who has numerous relationship issues of his own) is organising a mammoth party to celebrate his final night. However, with Jesse clearly hesitant about the big move, this debauched shindig seems to only exacerbate our protagonist's apprehensive feelings about leaving his beloved San Fran.
- 6/27/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Get Franco! Australia bans another film Directed, co-written and edited by Alberto Viavattene, the horror short film Morgue Street, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's story, was scheduled for a screening at the A Night of Horror Film Festival, which runs until April 21 in Sydney. However, some serious problems arose: Two days prior to the show, the Australian Classification Board, the same bastions of morality who denied a classification for Travis Mathews' gay -- and sexually explicit -- sort-of love story I Want Your Love earlier this year -- thus irritating James Franco, who created a protest video -- , put a stake through Morgue Street's heart with an Rc -- "Refused Classification" -- rating, officially as a result of "material that is considered to offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults." Left bleeding by the Australian censorship board, Morgue Street cannot...
- 4/18/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
U.S. Indie of the Month: You might have first heard of I Want Your Love (Tla Releasing) after James Franco defended the film against Australian censorship, and now that it’s on DVD, you see what all the hubbub is about. (Franco is such a fan of the film that he hired director Travis Mathews to collaborate with him on this year’s buzzy Sundance hit Interior. Leather Bar.) Mathews takes the premise that John Cameron Mitchell brought to Shortbus — that explicit sex scenes can underscore character and advance narrative in the same way that the best musical numbers can — but accomplishes it, I think, more successfully than Mitchell did. If you can handle a gay movie that’s “mumble-hard-core,” it’s a fascinating and boldly sexual bit of...
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- 3/29/2013
- by Alonso Duralde
- Movies.com
One movie featuring explict gay sex is to serve as "consolation" for the banning of another such movie at a film festival in Australia (pictured above: Brenden Gregory and Jesse Metzger in Travis Mathews' romantic / psychological drama I Want Your Love) Travis Mathews and James Franco's explicit Interior. Leather Bar, about how "straight" and "gay" actors react while filming the recreation of footage supposedly cut from William Friedkin's much criticized 1980 crime thriller Cruising, will be screened as a sort of "consolation movie" for Mathews' own explicit effort I Want Your Love, the tale of two gay male friends who opt to make their friendship into something more physical. Scheduled for a presentation at the 2013 Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Mathews' movie was banned by Australia's Classification Board. Here's a great quote: David Cronenberg, the director of dozens of movies such as Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, A Dangerous Method,...
- 3/16/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The controversial banning of film I Want Your Love from the 23rd Melbourne Queer Film Festival has prompted Academy Award nominee James Franco and director Travis Mathews to donate their latest project in its place. I Want Your Love was banned from screening at the festival by the Australian Classification Board on the grounds that explicit sex scenes in the film are not supported by narrative context. An application for an exemption was denied. Franco, who co-directed replacement film Interior. Leather Bar. with Mathews, has taken to YouTube to express his disappointment that the film was refused entry. .This just is such a disappointment to me and seems really silly. The reason I approached Travis to make a film (Interior. Leather Bar.) was because of his work in I Want Your Love,. he said in his video, which was directed to the Australian Classification Board. .It.s very short-sighted and very hypocritical.
- 3/13/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
The controversial banning of film I Want Your Love from the 23rd Melbourne Queer Film Festival has prompted Academy Award nominee James Franco and director Travis Mathews to donate their latest project in its place. I Want Your Love was banned from screening at the festival by the Australian Classification Board on the grounds that explicit sex scenes in the film are not supported by narrative context. An application for an exemption was denied. Franco, who co-directed replacement film Interior. Leather Bar with Mathews, has taken to YouTube to express his disappointment that the film was refused entry. .This just is such a disappointment to me and seems really silly. The reason I approached Travis to make a film (Interior. Leather Bar) was because of his work in I Want Your Love,. he said in his video, which was directed to the Australian Classification Board. .It.s very short-sighted and very hypocritical.
- 3/13/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
James Franco is up in arms over a movie ban Down Under. The actor has come out in support of the film I Want Your Love after the gay drama was barred by the Australian Classification Board from being screened at several film festivals in the country due to its explicit content. The film, about a gay man's last hurrah in San Francisco the night before he moves back to the Midwest, was directed by Travis Mathews, with whom Franco collaborated on their Sundance project, Interior. Leather Bar. I Want Your Love reportedly includes a six-minute scene in which two actors engage in unsimulated sex. Franco defended Mathews in a video posted on YouTube Monday. "This is such a disappointment to...
- 3/5/2013
- E! Online
In a YouTube appeal, the American actor and film-maker calls censors' reaction to the movie's gay sex scenes 'embarrassing'
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James Franco has called on Australian censors to overturn their ban on a Us film that features a number of explicit gay sex scenes.
In a YouTube appeal, Franco labelled the decision to ban I Want Your Love "embarrassing". The film is directed by Travis Mathews, the Us actor's collaborator on Sundance entry Interior. Leather. Bar. Australia's classification board has refused producers permission to screen it at the forthcoming Melbourne and Brisbane queer film festivals, deeming it overly sexually explicit.
"I don't know why in this day and age something like this, a film that's using sex not for titillation but to talk about being human, is being banned," Franco said in his YouTube appeal, which was posted on Monday. "It's just embarrassing.
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James Franco has called on Australian censors to overturn their ban on a Us film that features a number of explicit gay sex scenes.
In a YouTube appeal, Franco labelled the decision to ban I Want Your Love "embarrassing". The film is directed by Travis Mathews, the Us actor's collaborator on Sundance entry Interior. Leather. Bar. Australia's classification board has refused producers permission to screen it at the forthcoming Melbourne and Brisbane queer film festivals, deeming it overly sexually explicit.
"I don't know why in this day and age something like this, a film that's using sex not for titillation but to talk about being human, is being banned," Franco said in his YouTube appeal, which was posted on Monday. "It's just embarrassing.
- 3/5/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor. Author. Artist. Director. Oscars host. James Franco has many impressive titles to his name and now he's adding another — activitist.
The Spider-Man actor, 34, posted a YouTube video early Monday to protest Australia's "really silly" decision to ban a film made by his friend and collaborator Travis Mathews.
Photos: Should these shows end?
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The Spider-Man actor, 34, posted a YouTube video early Monday to protest Australia's "really silly" decision to ban a film made by his friend and collaborator Travis Mathews.
Photos: Should these shows end?
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- 3/4/2013
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
James Franco is speaking out against Australia's ban on "I Want Your Love," the new gay-themed film directed by Travis Mathews.
In a new video originally posted by Out Magazine, Franco, who collaborated with Mathews on "Interior. Leather Bar.," calls the Australian Classification Board's decision to yank the film from planned screenings at gay film festivals in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane "really silly" and "very short-sighted."
Noting that "sex in films hasn't had a chance to grow and become a sophisticated storytelling device," Franco adds, "Frankly, adults should be able to choose ... I don't know why in this day and age, something like this...is being banned. It's just embarrassing."
According to its official website, "I Want Your Love" tells the story of a young gay man in San Francisco who prepares to return to his Midwestern roots. "Torn between his creative dreams and the reality of earning a living,...
In a new video originally posted by Out Magazine, Franco, who collaborated with Mathews on "Interior. Leather Bar.," calls the Australian Classification Board's decision to yank the film from planned screenings at gay film festivals in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane "really silly" and "very short-sighted."
Noting that "sex in films hasn't had a chance to grow and become a sophisticated storytelling device," Franco adds, "Frankly, adults should be able to choose ... I don't know why in this day and age, something like this...is being banned. It's just embarrassing."
According to its official website, "I Want Your Love" tells the story of a young gay man in San Francisco who prepares to return to his Midwestern roots. "Torn between his creative dreams and the reality of earning a living,...
- 3/4/2013
- by Curtis M. Wong
- Huffington Post
Travis Mathews' "I Want Your Love" -- which has been screening at festivals for the past year -- has now been banned in Australia, where it was scheduled to play the Melbourne Queen Film Festival, Sydney's Queer Screen and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival. James Franco, who collaborated with Mathews on "Interior. Leather Bar." (they co-directed the film, which recently premiered at Sundance) has released a video expressing his support of the filmmaker, asking Australia to reconsider. "He was using sex in a very sophisticated way," Franco says of Matthews in his video. "I don't think we'd be having this conversation if he's made a very violent film." In a statement, Mathews writes: "With my films I have always sought to capture honest and intimate depictions of modern gay life with everyday men,..this involved a throughline of intimacy and that meant not shying away from sex,..[sex is] a tool to show character development,...
- 3/4/2013
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Iran Dismisses ‘Argo’ As “Anti-Iran”, Pro-cia Iran’s culture minister blasted Argo, a day after it won the Best Picture Oscar, calling it anti-Iranian and weak artistically. Iran’s state TV also called the movie “an advertisement for the CIA.” “This anti-Iran film lacks any artistic aspects and it is a very weak film from an artistic perspective and we don’t expect anything else from the enemy,” Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency and reported by Reuters. Mehr called the Oscar “politically motivated” because first lady Michelle Obama joined Jack Nicholson via video link from Washington to help present the best picture award. Argo has not screened in any Iranian theaters but the movie has been widely available on bootleg DVDs in the black market in Tehran. The Iran hostage drama also won best film editing and best adapted screenplay.
- 2/26/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
How far should national censors go in limiting the kind of sex we can see onscreen? The Australian Classification Board has come under fire for banning Travis Mathews film I Want Your Love due to its unsimulated gay sex scenes - not least because it recently approved scenes of real life bestiality in Canadian documentary Donkey Love.
The history of films featuring real sex that are aimed at general audiences rather than just the pornography market is a strange one. Until the late Sixties, no national censor would certify them and they simply weren't shown in mainstream cinemas. More recently, the UK's BBFC has agreed to certify films like The Idiots, Baise-Moi and 9 Songs, showing more sympathy to film with arthouse appeal and turning down those whose sexual content it describes as gratuitous. A few films, like Pink Flamingos, have been successfully argued to have content whose gratuitous...
The history of films featuring real sex that are aimed at general audiences rather than just the pornography market is a strange one. Until the late Sixties, no national censor would certify them and they simply weren't shown in mainstream cinemas. More recently, the UK's BBFC has agreed to certify films like The Idiots, Baise-Moi and 9 Songs, showing more sympathy to film with arthouse appeal and turning down those whose sexual content it describes as gratuitous. A few films, like Pink Flamingos, have been successfully argued to have content whose gratuitous...
- 2/23/2013
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Travis Mathews on Interior. Leather Bar, James Franco, and Cruising "I’ve shot stuff that’s sexy, and I’m sure people have jerked off to it, but it’s honestly not something I think about." by Alex Heigl Travis Mathews is mostly known for his in-depth looks at male intimacy in films like I Want Your Love and In Their Room. Last year, though, he was tapped to work on Interior. Leather Bar, James Franco's re-imagining of forty minutes of footage cut from William Friedkin's 1980 film, Cruising. As Interior: Leather Bar rides out its Sundance debut, we talked to Travis about the film. What prompted you to collaborate with James Franco on Interior. Leather Bar? He contacted me first, and we started talking about different ideas. He knew he wanted to do something that was a bit of nod to Cruising without being a [...]...
- 1/23/2013
- by Alex Heigl
- Nerve
This Saturday night, James Franco and filmmaker Travis Mathews ("I Want Your Love," "In Their Room") debuted their doc/narrative hybrid "Interior. Leather Bar." to a captive audience that was either slightly confused or completely excited. The film does its best to recreate the 40 lost minutes of William Friedkin's controversial 1980 thriller "Cruising" -- footage excised from the film that's assumed to be scenes depicting sex in the leather bars in which Al Pacino's detective character goes undercover. "Interior. Leather Bar." is much about the actual process of recreating those scenes as it is about the qualms the actor playing Pacino, Franco's friend Val Lauren, has about acting in the film. Read More: Sundance Review: James Franco Discusses His Sexuality (And Yours) In 'Interior. Leather Bar' Many in the audience wondered aloud why Franco wanted to delve into the themes in the film;...
- 1/21/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
William Friedkin's 1980 East Village crime drama "Cruising," in which Al Pacino memorably goes undercover as a gay leather enthusiast to apprehend a killer, remains as divisive and controversial as it was upon its initial release. "Interior. Leather Bar," a 60-minute collaboration between queer filmmaker Travis Mathews ("I Want Your Love") and James Franco, aims to reenact the 40 minutes Friedkin cut from the film in order to secure an R rating, footage that was subsequently lost. In doing so, it also attempts to provoke strong reactions from the audience, but with far greater intellectual finesse. Instead of merely presenting imagery bound to titillate and create unease in equal measures, "Interior. Leather Bar" takes the form of a behind-the-scenes peek at the production to question the societal forces that engender the material's contentious nature. As a fleeting essay on sexual biases, it encourages a thoughtful debate, but...
- 1/20/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
San Francisco-based gay filmmaker Travis Mathews built his reputation as one of the leading figures in the latest new wave of gay independent cinema on the back of a series of award-winning intimate, confessional documentary films about young homosexual men, In their Room. His first narrative feature, I Want Your Love, explored gay friends negotiating their way towards and through sexual relationships and featured unsimulated sex. His new film, Interior. Leather Bar, co-directed with the actor James Franco, is just as honest in its depictions. This film within a film begins with a re-imagining of the lost 40 minutes of …...
- 1/19/2013
- by Julian Hoxter
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
#5. Interior. Leather Bar
Who: While everyone may be familiar with actor/director James Franco, they not be as aware of the filmmaker he’s paired with to direct Interior. Leather Bar, Travis Mathews. With a background in documentary, Mathews professes to use this and his Masters in Counseling Psychology to make films that focus on gay men and intimacy. He already has a series of short films about gay men and bedrooms and a well received 2012 feature film, I Want Your Love to his name.
What: His pairing with Franco on a project aims to recreate the lost 40 minutes of footage that William Friedkin was forced to cut from his controversial 1980 film Cruising.
Where: Franco’s interview also features a clip, while Franco’s co-director posted the trailer on his vimeo channel.
When: Shot in Los Angeles, CA over the course of a day in July, 2012, produced by RabbitBandini Productions...
Who: While everyone may be familiar with actor/director James Franco, they not be as aware of the filmmaker he’s paired with to direct Interior. Leather Bar, Travis Mathews. With a background in documentary, Mathews professes to use this and his Masters in Counseling Psychology to make films that focus on gay men and intimacy. He already has a series of short films about gay men and bedrooms and a well received 2012 feature film, I Want Your Love to his name.
What: His pairing with Franco on a project aims to recreate the lost 40 minutes of footage that William Friedkin was forced to cut from his controversial 1980 film Cruising.
Where: Franco’s interview also features a clip, while Franco’s co-director posted the trailer on his vimeo channel.
When: Shot in Los Angeles, CA over the course of a day in July, 2012, produced by RabbitBandini Productions...
- 1/17/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Indiewire has been tracking "Interior. Leather Bar.," the collaboration between filmmaker Travis Mathews ("I Want Your Love," "In Their Room") and James Franco, for several months now. Today, the project released its festival poster, which may not be what you expect. Read More: Exclusive: James Franco Teams With Gay Art-Porn Director Travis Mathews For a 'Cruising'-Inspired Film The designers have allowed the film to speak for itself with this one. The film will debut at this month's Sundance and is set to screen at the 2013 Berlinale, also. Check out the minimalist design here:...
- 1/5/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
pssst. 7 Days Until Oscar Nominations!
Oscar ballots are due tomorrow, and for whatever problems AMPAS had with its non beta-tested new online voting system, only one measly 24 hour extension came their way. So we have to start drawing barely visiblie lines in the blog sand and collect ourselves to look back now that we're in the before & after week... "This is where we've been!". Just in case you've missed any of this film year's interviews *thus far* here they are collected for you. (I'll update this index when more 2012 related interviews come our way, via DVD releases, continuing Oscar campaigns and whatnot.)
Actors
Alan Cumming in Any Day Now
Ann Dowd in Compliance
Eddie Redmayne in Les Misérables
Kerry Washington in Django Unchained
Logan Lerman in The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy
Nicole Kidman on the 10th anniversary of her Oscar win in The Hours...
Oscar ballots are due tomorrow, and for whatever problems AMPAS had with its non beta-tested new online voting system, only one measly 24 hour extension came their way. So we have to start drawing barely visiblie lines in the blog sand and collect ourselves to look back now that we're in the before & after week... "This is where we've been!". Just in case you've missed any of this film year's interviews *thus far* here they are collected for you. (I'll update this index when more 2012 related interviews come our way, via DVD releases, continuing Oscar campaigns and whatnot.)
Actors
Alan Cumming in Any Day Now
Ann Dowd in Compliance
Eddie Redmayne in Les Misérables
Kerry Washington in Django Unchained
Logan Lerman in The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy
Nicole Kidman on the 10th anniversary of her Oscar win in The Hours...
- 1/3/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Guys, sit down, because we're not sure you're going to be able to handle this. James Franco has made an art project. No, seriously. But kidding aside, it still seems like not a film festival can go by without Franco showing up with cannisters under his arm, and indeed, he'll be at the Sundance Film Festival for something that is truly...Franco-ian. As was reported over the summer, Franco has teamed with avant-garde gay porn director Travis Mathews for "Interior. Leather Bar." which certainly doesn't shy away from its title. The project reportedly began with Franco wanting to remake William Friedkin's "Crusing" (which involves Al Pacino as a cop delving into the gay S&M underground scene to track down a serial killer), but he was unable to get the rights. So instead, he sought out Mathews, whose earlier films like "I Want Your Love" have featured explicit sexual scenes,...
- 12/19/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The meta-documentary, "Interior. Leather Bar.," a riff on the missing forty minutes of William Friedkin's cult film "Cruising," was recently announced as a selection in the Sundance New Frontiers program as well as the Berlinale's Panorama section. The film, a collaboration between actor James Franco and director Travis Mathews ("I Want Your Love," "In Their Room"), who has made quite the mark in the genre of "art porn," explores the motivations of all of the people involved with the recreation of Friedkin's scenes. From Franco and Mathews to the various actors who must decide if it's worth appearing in something that will, to paraphrase the trailer, almost surely be called pornography, even if it's co-directed by a Hollywood star. It debuted in a shorter form earlier this year in a New York fashion boutique, but here's the trailer for the extended cut, ready to debut in January in Park.
- 12/18/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
A fresh crop of directors are rejecting stereotypical roles and predictable plots, creating films that deal with real life and rounded characters
Ira Sach's new film, Keep the Lights On, follows the decade-long relationship between two men who meet on a New York phone-sex line in 1998. It includes explicit sex and copious drug use; it also includes domestic squabbles, quotidian work hassles and meals with friends, straight and gay. No one comes out or dies, and everything is shown with the same fluid, elegant transparency. "I feel very few films convey the communal nature of urban life these days, the lack of boundaries," Sachs says. "'Those are the gays over there' – that's not how we live any more."
Keep the Lights On is at once very good and conspicuously ordinary. Like several other recent features about gay characters by gay directors, it deploys naturalism – often shooting handheld in found locations...
Ira Sach's new film, Keep the Lights On, follows the decade-long relationship between two men who meet on a New York phone-sex line in 1998. It includes explicit sex and copious drug use; it also includes domestic squabbles, quotidian work hassles and meals with friends, straight and gay. No one comes out or dies, and everything is shown with the same fluid, elegant transparency. "I feel very few films convey the communal nature of urban life these days, the lack of boundaries," Sachs says. "'Those are the gays over there' – that's not how we live any more."
Keep the Lights On is at once very good and conspicuously ordinary. Like several other recent features about gay characters by gay directors, it deploys naturalism – often shooting handheld in found locations...
- 10/4/2012
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
James Franco Remaking the Lost 40 Minutes of ‘Cruising’ With ‘In Their Room’ Director Travis Mathews
When William Friedkin submitted Cruising – his Al Pacino-starring thriller about a murderer targeting gay men into the S&M scene – the MPAA slapped it down with an X-rating. Probably not enough violence for them. Famously, Friedkin cut 40 minutes from the film in order to secure an R-rating, but when he wanted to include the deleted footage in a DVD release, he discovered that United Artists no longer had it. Apparently James Franco does. According to IndieWire, the actor/producer/backslash-lover has been working with Travis Mathews on recreating those lost 40 minutes. Mathews is best known for his documentary series In Their Room and the film I Want Your Love, which he made with porn company NakedSword. “[Franco] knew he wanted real gay sex in it,” Mathews commented. “His people went looking for a filmmaker who had filmed real gay sex, and I suspect someone who would complement his vision. We talked about why we would be interested in...
- 8/23/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
NewFest, New York’s Lgbt film festival, returns this year with bicoastal fortification, its programming taken over by the folks at L.A.’s Outfest, whose motive for the merge is to foster a national queer arts entity. But is the alliance holy? With Outfest having just wrapped its 30th anniversary, an 11-day event that boasted nearly 150 titles (including Ira Sachs’s Keep the Lights On, Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, and David France’s riveting Act Up doc, How to Survive a Plague), NewFest has the not-so-faint whiff of an afterthought, its 18-feature lineup looking more like the subpar cache of a scavenger than a carefully curated medley. The only films that seem to leap out as hot tickets are Yossi, Eytan Fox’s tender sequel to Yossi and Jagger; Cloudburst, a geriatric lesbian dramedy with Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis; I Want Your Love, Travis Matthews’s arthouse-porno expansion of his 2010 short; and Four,...
- 7/28/2012
- by R. Kurt Osenlund
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Oh, Franco. You can do Spider-Man, Planet of the Apes, and some silly pot comedies with Danny McBride, but your heart is deeply embedded in the indie world. Whether it’s directing efforts you probably know nobody will see — some, at most, will only get a few eyes here and there — work with Harmony Korine, or exhibitions dedicated to My Own Private Idaho, you just do things your own way. And I love you for it.
But this latest project? It might even be new territory for someone who, from what I can tell, has done almost everything. On his website (via ThePlaylist), filmmaker Travis Mathews (I Want Your Love) revealed that Franco‘s agent asked about collaborating on “a homo-sex-art-film” that, in a single week, has already gone into pre-production. The thing — which, thankfully, he promises will “ruffle some feathers” — is going before cameras at the end of this month and,...
But this latest project? It might even be new territory for someone who, from what I can tell, has done almost everything. On his website (via ThePlaylist), filmmaker Travis Mathews (I Want Your Love) revealed that Franco‘s agent asked about collaborating on “a homo-sex-art-film” that, in a single week, has already gone into pre-production. The thing — which, thankfully, he promises will “ruffle some feathers” — is going before cameras at the end of this month and,...
- 7/10/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
After delving into the world of erotic gay cinema with his film school short adaptation of Anthony Hecht's "Feast Of Stephen," which portrayed one man's viewing of a pick-up basketball game in New York, all around multi-hyphenate James Franco has now set up a teaming with filmmaker Travis Mathews (who wrote/produced/directed "I Want Your Love") for what's being described as a "homo-sex-art-film" that's sure raise a few eyebrows. "Last week I got an email from James Franco's agent asking if I'd be interested in collaborating with him on a homo-sex-art-film," Mathews wrote on his website. "A day later we were on the phone and a week later we're in pre-production! We'll be shooting at the end of July, I'll be editing in August, and in September it's going to play in a show in NYC. We're staying pretty mumsy on the specifics for now, but I...
- 7/10/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
No doubt exhausted by a rigorous schedule of portraying James Franco both on and off the screen, an agenda that has left his hands cracked and calloused from always straining against margins, James Franco has decided to relax into banality by making a "homo-sex-art-film" with Outfest indie breakout Travis Mathews. According to Mathews' website (via Vulture), Franco had his agent email Mathews after the latter garnered attention for his film I Want Your Love, which features unsimulated sex scenes (at least insofar as any sexual act—or any act of human behavior—can be said to be free of simulation ...
- 7/9/2012
- avclub.com
Noted homophile James Franco is collaborating on a new short film involving gay sex. It must be a weekday! This latest news comes from filmmaker Travis Mathews, whose scruffy, sexy Outfest indie I Want Your Love features totally unsimulated coitus. "Last week I got an email from James Franco's agent asking if I'd be interested in collaborating with him on a homo-sex-art-film," wrote Mathews on his website. "A day later we were on the phone and a week later we're in pre-production!" Will the new piece, which will "play in a show in NYC" this September, feature more nude basketball players? "I can tell you that it's going to ruffle some feathers," says Matthews. Stay tuned!
- 7/9/2012
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Craig here, with a preview of Travis Mathews’ debut feature I Want Your Love and an interview about the film with the director.
Jesse Metzger stars in the explicit drama about a performance artist leaving San Francisco
This week sees the return of the Fringe! Gay Film Festival to East London. From the 12th to the 15th of April a wide range of films (new features, experimental shorts, premieres) are showing alongside a host of parties, shows and events. This year’s opening film was I Want Your Love, Travis Mathews’ (In Their Bedroom – Berlin) poignantly affecting and intimately explicit debut feature. It stars Jesse Metzger as Jesse, a love-lost San Francisco performance artist about to leave his life and career frets behind for a fresh start in Ohio. We see him hang out with friends, and follow how their lives reflect, and differ from, Jesse’s as they prepare...
Jesse Metzger stars in the explicit drama about a performance artist leaving San Francisco
This week sees the return of the Fringe! Gay Film Festival to East London. From the 12th to the 15th of April a wide range of films (new features, experimental shorts, premieres) are showing alongside a host of parties, shows and events. This year’s opening film was I Want Your Love, Travis Mathews’ (In Their Bedroom – Berlin) poignantly affecting and intimately explicit debut feature. It stars Jesse Metzger as Jesse, a love-lost San Francisco performance artist about to leave his life and career frets behind for a fresh start in Ohio. We see him hang out with friends, and follow how their lives reflect, and differ from, Jesse’s as they prepare...
- 4/13/2012
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
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