"This year's Mill Valley Film Festival will open October 2 with director Chloe Zhao's Hamnet and will close October 12 with a screening of Rental Family. In between, there will be opportunities to get a sneak peek at hotly anticipated fall films by gay directors, including Bill Condon's Kiss of the Spider Woman andLuca Guadagnino's After the Hunt, as well as to discover some independent and foreign gems."
"The film consists of Peter recounting his previous day in detail to Linda for a potential project she is working on. He describes visiting Allen Ginsberg, taking two(!) naps, and collecting an order of Chinese food, among other activities. His monologue is at times fascinating and at times boring, and Linda interjects catty and knowing comments. But Whishaw's performance-from the cadence of his voice to his body language as he eats, drinks, and smokes,"
"Blue Moon In the wistful, elegiac , the celebrated and closeted lyricist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), holes up in Sardi's delivering a series of absorbing and occasionally amusing monologues. Hart is bitter that Richard Rodgers' (Andrew Scott) new show Oklahoma!-Rodgers' first collaboration with someone other than Hart-is having its premiere this evening and is going to be a smash hit. He is also hoping that Elizabeth Weiland (Margaret Qualley),"
Mill Valley Film Festival runs October 2–12, opening with Chloe Zhao's Hamnet and closing with Rental Family. The program includes anticipated fall films by gay directors such as Bill Condon and Luca Guadagnino, plus independent and foreign titles. Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day adapts a 1974 interview transcript as photographer Peter Hujar recounts a detailed day with visits, naps, and Chinese food; Ben Whishaw delivers an astonishing, intimate performance. The film was shot on 16mm with nimble framing and editing and examines how characters spend or waste time. Blue Moon centers on closeted lyricist Lorenz Hart delivering absorbing monologues.
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