Two documentaries about ACT UP are playing festivals. I'm half tempted to go to LA for part of Outfest to catch them. If it weren't for the work thang... well, and the cost.
Gonna have to talk to someone about bringing some of these movies here. After several years of blah, suddenly there's a panoply of queer movies that sound well-made and fascinating in subject matter and narrative style.
Here's a very in-depth interview with activist Peter Staley from Treatment Action Group/ACT UP and David France, the director of How to survive a plague . The interviewer in a video on a different site reminded me too much of the interviewer of James Whale in "Gods and Monsters."
The lengths France went to get footage random individuals shot at demos and meetings is pretty amazing alone. And Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard collected a whole other ton of archival material and interviews for their film, United in Anger. Must-sees for me, with what I'm trying to remember to write about that era and ACT UP.
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