AFI Fest called it a wrap yesterday, bringing to a close this year's ten-day festivities. The longest-running film festival in Los Angeles celebrated its twentieth anniversary this year by honoring, among others, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The French biopic received the Audience Award for dramatic features, while Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story took the prize for documentaries.Two of our favorite actresses received special tributes this year: ageless French beauty Catherine Deneuve and the all-American Laura Linney. They both have extensive filmographies, but fans of queer cinema will of course remember Deneuve from her sultry turns in The Hunger and 8 Women, while Linney will always be Mary Ann Singleton to most of us.
Links via AFI.com, Imdb.com and Altfg.com.
2 comments:
Outfest is the largest and longest running film festival in Los Angeles at 25 years this past July. I should know I have been to all 25. AFI is what used to be FILMEX which ran for many years until the the men behind it died from AIDS, and they were lovers. But there was an interupption of many years.
You are so correct, and I should have remembered that, as I covered OutFest's 25 right here on MD this past summer.
On the AFI site (here: http://www.afi.com/onscreen/afifest/2007/att-gi.aspx ) they claimed this, but they also said that AFI Fest is "one of the most influential film festivals in North America" (which, I think we all know, it isn't really), so that should have given me the heads up.
Thanks for setting the record "straight", so to speak, I-guy.
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