2011-10-29

Coming Soon: Into the Lion's Den directed by Dan Lantz

This is a perfect Hallowen's movie! I think it's premiering somewhere in the USA, but if not, it will be available in December in DVD

Year Produced: 2011
Directed By: Dan Lantz
Starring: Ronnie Kroell, Jesse Archer
Run Time: 82 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Amazon: Into the Lion's Den (2011)

Bored with the West Hollywood gay scene, best friends Michael, Johnny and Ted have embarked on a cross-country road trip from LA to New York City. Though their friendship hits a few speed bumps along the way, the trio decides to have one last hurrah during their final night on the road. That’s when fate brings them to the Lion’s Den, a secluded backwoods bar where not everything is as it seems. As the three out-of-towners toast the end of their journey, someone at the bar is watching them and setting a deadly trap. Now, as closing time draws near, a night of unspeakable horrors is about to begin…

Jesse Archer (Violet Tendencies, Going Down in LA-LA Land) and Ronnie Kroell (Eating Out: Drama Camp, Bravo’s Make Me a Super Model) headline in this bold, uncompromising thriller that plunges into the depths of human depravity. With its unpredictable plotline and raw performances, Into the Lion’s Den is a twisted nightmare that viewers won’t soon forget.

Coming Soon: Into the Lion's Den directed by Dan Lantz

This is a perfect Hallowen's movie! I think it's premiering somewhere in the USA, but if not, it will be available in December in DVD

Coming Soon: Romeos directed by Sabine Bernardi

Year Produced: 2011
Directed By: Sabine Bernardi
Starring: Maximilian Befort, Rick Okon, Liv Lisa Fries
Language: German
Run Time: 94 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Amazon: Romeos (2012)

Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.

“CHARISMATIC!” - Jay Weissberg, Variety
“YOUNG AND HIP, VIBRANT AND OCCASIONALLY RECKLESS, AND FUNNY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME VERY SERIOUS – Ethan L. McMahon, Edge

Coming Soon: Romeos directed by Sabine Bernardi

Coming Soon: KickOff directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair

Year Produced: 2010
Directed By: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Starring: Jack Shalloo, Jai Rajani, Ludvig Bonin, Craig Storrod, Duncan MacImmes, Rebecca Joerin, Alexis Gregory, Kyle Treslove, Sasha Frost, Samantha Lyden, Ryan Quartley, Micheal Lindall, Stephen Hoo, Jay Brown, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Ian Sharp, Jason Maza, Nathan Clough
Language: English/Closed Captions
Run Time: 99 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Amazon: KickOff (2010)

A funny, sexy, high-energy and extremely gay British comedy from the fabulous Rikki Beadle-Blair (Metrosexuality, Stonewall)!

What happens when the hardest team in the Sunday Soccer league comes up against a gay team and finds they’ve finally met their match? Watch and wince as fledging referee Elton Glixton struggles to control this testosterone tsunami as rude-boy meets bum-boy in this outrageous new comedy set in the crazy gung-ho world of 5-a-side football.

Trailblazing British director Rikki Beadle Blair’s (Metrosexuality, Stonewall) latest celebration of youth and being out and proud stars a whole slew of exciting young British talent, with some familiar faces in Stephen Hoo (FIT), Jay Brown (Summer) and Jason Maza (TV”s Casualty).

“A vibrant medley of comedy, drama and football!” – Gay Celluloid.com
“The energy, wit and affection for his characters that Rikki Beadle-Blair brings to the film is highly infectious.”–That Gay Movie.com
“Deft character development!” – SoSoGay.com
“The sexy piece of cinema contained in one afternoon soccer match manages to deliver hilariously funny observations on masculinity, drug use, racism, and gay identity.” – Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Coming Soon: KickOff directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy (October 1605, 16 – October 29, 1677)

Charles Coypeau (16 October 1605 Paris – 29 October 1677, Paris) was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s he began using the nom de plume "D'Assouci" or "Dassoucy".

From the time he was eight or nine, Charles Coypeau began running away from home. His father then placed him in the Jesuit College of Clermont, where he acquired a solid education in classics and Christian doctrine; but the boy was always sneaking away to watch the puppeteers and organ grinders on the Pont-Neuf. These contacts with players and musicians were a major factor in the formation of Charles's musical and poetic talents, and encouraged his bent for the "burlesque".

By the time he was seventeen, Charles had left Paris and had begun his long life of wandering, eking out a livelihood by composing, singing for local elites, and teaching the lute. By his mid-twenties, he apparently had made his way to Italy: at any rate, by the early 1630s he had mastered the Italian theorbo, an instrument still rare in France.

In 1630, while in Grenoble, Charles met Pierre de Nyert, the gifted singer. Shortly after that, he went to England and performed at the court of Charles I, and then to the Low Countries, where he played and sang for exiled Marguerite de Lorraine, duchess of Orléans. By 1636, Charles, who now called himself "Charles Coypeau, sieur of Assoucy" (or simply "d'Assoucy"), was living in Paris. Having been presented to Louis XIII, he was soon entertaining the French court and writing poems for the royal family. For over a decade, d'Assoucy participated in numerous court concerts, having been made a "musician in ordinary to the King" (musicien ordinaire du Roi).

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coypeau_d%27Assoucy

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Richard Hall (November 26, 1926 - October 29, 1992)

In his novels and short stories, plays, and critical writings, Richard Hall focused almost exclusively on issues of gay identity and community.

Hall was born Richard Hirshfeld in New York City on November 26, 1926, into an extended family of transplanted Southern Jews. In 1934, his immediate family moved to the New York suburb of White Plains, where his mother became active in the Episcopal Church and he and his sister were baptized. In 1938, after an antisemitic incident involving his sister's admission to a church-affiliated camp, Hall's mother changed their name and moved the family to another suburb.

Hall matriculated at Harvard in 1943 and graduated cum laude in January 1948. In the 1950s, he underwent deep-Freudian analysis in an attempt to change his sexual orientation but abandoned psychiatric treatment in 1960 when he fell in love with a young Texan named Dan Allen, whom he described as the greatest influence on his life.

After a career in advertising and publishing, Hall entered New York University to earn an M.A. in English Education. On graduation in 1970, he accepted a job at Inter American University in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he served as acting director of the University Press until 1974.

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And then, there is the book. Couplings by Richard Hall. The edition I have was printed in 1982 (I was two years old), is in decent condition with a slightly tattered cover. It was purchased on a vacation in Palm Springs; this was the year after the Lambda Literary Foundation closed its DC offices and I was laid off. In fact, I wouldn‘t have recognized the name and title if it weren‘t for that job. In 2003, I had helped organize the last Richard Hall Memorial Short Story Contest. Richard Hall was the first openly gay critic elected to the National Book Critics Circle and the author of three collections of short stories and two novels, one published a year before he died of AIDs in 1991 at the age of 65. At work I was suddenly one of the facilitators of the Lammy Awards, my name was printed on the masthead of the Lambda Book Report. Each new fact learned, new acquaintance made, was flaunted among my college friends. This was also a much-needed wake-up call: I was not the only aspiring gay writer around. For the first time, I had to acknowledge decades of literature and history that came before me and had to learn as much of it as possible before I could ever hope to contribute on my own. --Jonathan Harper in The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

LGBT Ebook and Print Releases October, 2011

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