Swedish romance KISS ME is part of NewFest at Lincoln Center
NY’S PREMIER LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St. at Amsterdam Ave.
July 27-31, $12-$50
212-875-5601
www.filmlinc.com
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The twenty-fourth annual NewFest gets under way today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, kicking off five days of screenings examining and celebrating the LGBT community. The opening-night selection is Brooklyn-based director Joshua Sanchez’s Four, about four people, including a young white man (Emory Cohen) and an older black man (Wendell Pierce) who meet online, faced with some hard personal choices; members of the cast and crew will attend the screening, which will be followed by an after-party. Other highlights include Andrea Esteban’s Born Naked (MLB), about a young lesbian couple traveling through Europe; Travis Mathews’s I Want Your Love, a graphic look at a man and his ex-boyfriend in San Francisco; Thom Fitzgerald’s Cloudburst, in which Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play a longtime lesbian couple; Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, with Carol Alt and Pat Cleveland joining the famed photographer for a Q&A; Kieran Turner’s Jobriath A.D., a documentary about the first openly gay rocker; and the closing-night film, Marialys Rivas’s Young & Wild, which follows a teenager’s sexual coming-of-age. Other docs look at such figures as Joe Brainard, Arthur Russell, and Bishop Gene Robinson. Special events include “Careers in Focus: A Conversation with Charles Busch,” with free tickets available here