Outfest on Wednesday announced the full lineup for the LGBTQ film festival’s 40th anniversary, presented by Warner Bros. Discovery and IMDb. Outfest Los Angeles will take place July 14-24 at multiple locations around the city. The event will also feature a 20th anniversary screening of “Far From Heaven,” the 2002 Todd Haynes film that stars Julianne Moore. Haynes, Moore and producer Christine Vachon will attend the screening in person.
The lineup includes more than 200 films of all kinds, with 42 world premieres. As previously announced, Billy Porter’s directorial debut “Anything’s Possible” will open the festival, and the closing night gala will feature the premiere of LGBTQ slasher film “They/Them.”
“I’m incredibly proud of the work our programming team has done to craft a lineup that celebrates the history of the Lgbtqia+ community and the art we create, and that also spotlights innovative new work that will pave...
The lineup includes more than 200 films of all kinds, with 42 world premieres. As previously announced, Billy Porter’s directorial debut “Anything’s Possible” will open the festival, and the closing night gala will feature the premiere of LGBTQ slasher film “They/Them.”
“I’m incredibly proud of the work our programming team has done to craft a lineup that celebrates the history of the Lgbtqia+ community and the art we create, and that also spotlights innovative new work that will pave...
- 6/22/2022
- by Sasha Urban and Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
God save the audience for “God Save the Queens,” a muddled drag artist-focused comedy with zero laughs that also features some implausible dramatic interludes.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which popularized and mainstreamed drag for the masses, has now been running for 14 seasons; the show has become a sort of institution, still zealously watched and dissected by fans, but drag artists find themselves in an increasingly awkward position in the current landscape of heated debates on gender and sex. That awkwardness is sometimes the very tentative subject of “God Save the Queens,” which retreats into vague uplift whenever a truly serious side of this issue might emerge.
First-time writer-director Jordan Danger attempts to center the film on four struggling drag artists who are sent to a therapy retreat to work out their issues with each other, but this lame plot device kicks in about midway through the movie, and this sometimes makes...
“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which popularized and mainstreamed drag for the masses, has now been running for 14 seasons; the show has become a sort of institution, still zealously watched and dissected by fans, but drag artists find themselves in an increasingly awkward position in the current landscape of heated debates on gender and sex. That awkwardness is sometimes the very tentative subject of “God Save the Queens,” which retreats into vague uplift whenever a truly serious side of this issue might emerge.
First-time writer-director Jordan Danger attempts to center the film on four struggling drag artists who are sent to a therapy retreat to work out their issues with each other, but this lame plot device kicks in about midway through the movie, and this sometimes makes...
- 6/11/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
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