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TV from Spain has gone crazy... nothing seems "forbidden" anymore. Check this clip from ep8 from this series. Literal translation "Is Someone There"
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¿Nueva pareja? La serie es Hay alguien ahi se emite en la cuatro(tv spain)...For the complete ep go here. Ok, this is the translation(or an approximate translation), sorry about my english.
The woman is Nieves N ; The girl is AmandaA
N: Did you speak with your mother?
A: Yes, She was sleeping
N: Where is she?
A: In New York
N: When she back?
A: In two weeks almost She going to do a concert in Sydney.
N: You have a lot of luck; your mother is an amazing artist. You can be here all the time that you want.
A: Though, she'll go to Sydney in two weeks I will go out.
N: You have just come and Do you want go out yet?
A: Is that...
N: nothing, you can be here until your mum back.... What?...Come here. I know that you miss her but everything going to be ok.
A: no is about this.
N: then?
A: Ok, is this but... my mum go out I'm alone, Is Fausto (is a friend who died) is everything
N: you are a sensitive girl
A: thank you, you are amazing with me
N: Is so easy be fine with you, I hope that your mother is ok with her career because she is Getting lost the best to the live.
A: Do you think?
N: You are wonderful. And if you know about this you'll be better with you
A: Why?
N: Because you are special... And I like you...(kiss)... I'm sorry
A: Don't, I like it.
Well, this is a mystery series about the Pardo family that moves to a new house where "strange" things start to happen as the family has a curse... (lol!) Nieves is Silvia Latiegui (who's Iñigo Pardo girlfriend) mother and Amanda is a friend of Iñigo; Amanda will be staying in the Latiegui home as the mother (Cordelia) is renown opera singer (?) and Luis Latiegui (Nieves husband) is the real estate development manager where the Pardo's family bought the house... but Nieves Bruc or Amanda Rios do not belong to the Pardo family -yep, they are secondary characters-... so probably was one scene in one episode -maybe not-... gosh, perhaps I'll watch more eps as the series has great production values. By the way this scene is the episode 6 from season 1 and is called "Blai se ha ido" (Blai is Gone). According to IMDb both characters are in 12 episodes... IMDb
The series is available in DVD... hmm! Interesting!
Well, this is all for today!!
This is the second lez movie I ever watched! Wow! For those that have never seen it, is complete even if quality is not the best.
To watch the other parts go here.
From Cassandra Nicolau this short from 1995.
Episode 45 from Israel TV show that looks like a soap to me but seems is a series, anyway here it is. Has English subs. They are Shira and Teri and this is their first kiss.
Episode 48
Episode 49
Episode 51
Ep 54 Part 1
Ep 54 Part 2 (this one is cute...)
And continues until episode 79/80 that if you want to watch more go here.
I have NOT seen this movie... and I forgot about it. Well, I will try to see it!
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I saw this movie a long time ago, but this fan made video is better than the movie, just check it.
Seems that in the next ep Pepa and Silvia will get married, or as they say: the wedding is confirmed!!! But La Camorra (everyone that saw Gomorrah knows what La Camorra is, isn't?) will be there too and Silvia dissapears... so who knows what will happen!!! Here are some pics.
This is the best pic of ALL!!!
If you feel like watching online the complete episode -some eps are really funny and other storylines (besides Pepa and Silvia) are quite good- go here available only in Spanish. Also there is a new user that has the complete episode with English subtitles here. So there are many ways to watch this show!
If you want to have an idea of what's going to happen in the next ep, check the previews... that will spoil a little the ep, but we know that things will not be easy.
This is exciting!!! Just read many comments the girls are posting about the next episode and many are hilarious! Some expect a Kill Bill wedding! LOL! If you understand Spanish click the pic to make it bigger and read the artcile.
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I didn’t watch Los Hombres de Paco last season, as I knew that Pepa and Silvia had “problems’… but when was over, went to It’s Only Love and watch the complete season plus the new eps from the current season and unfortunately I got hitched again into watching every week. Yes, Pepa and Silvia are back together and the scenes got great again.
But the reason I’m writing about the show is that I was told that the series is being broadcasted by Antena 3 International TO THE WORLD and is TRUE!!! So, check your cable/satellite to find if you have the channel and start to watch the COMPLETE episodes that just have a delay of about a week (or so). I’m watching every Thursday night and I think they have re runs other days, as I saw the episode on a Saturday too.
I always wondered if the very nice people that do the summaries were or were not “cutting” scenes… and well, from the few complete eps I have seen my conclusion is that yes, they do cut a few moments when whatever is happening has Pepa and Silvia, but also other characters in fast entwined scenes with all the story lines.
So, now those that understand Spanish have the great opportunity to watch the complete episodes in your living room or wherever you have your TV. Great!!! Check Antena 3 International schedule here.
Enjoy!!!
Here is ep9 with English subs, if you do not see them, press the CC button. Episode is really Cute!
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The show will be back (after cancellation) next Friday, June 26 and here is the infamous kiss that everyone claimed as the reason for not broadcasting the show after episode 8.
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This is an Italian series that is being transmitted in Rai Due since August 29 2008 and you can say that is the Italian version of Hospital Central, which now happens in a hospital in Milan. The series has 18 episodes in the first season. There is a lez interest storyline that starts in the same way as in Hospital Central, the only good thing is that we do not have to wait eight seasons as here in the first ep Marina and Esther meet.
If you understand Italian you can check Marina profile here and Esther profile here. And if you want to check the series synopsis is here.
Right now my connection simply does not work, so here is the first part of the first episode with English subtitles that I haven’t been able to watch completely, but my first impression is that performances and tech specs are a lot better than in Hospital Central. The series is aired every Thursday.
Just discovered that is a remake of Hospital Central (which many call the Spanish remake of ER) and many are “surprised” that in the first eps the series shows a lesbian interest story, lol!
There is a site that’s doing screencaps and translations into English that is here if you want to check it. But most interesting is her opinion expressed here.
Seems that finally this series will make some Italian sisters to ‘come out’ in the net and I just say that you’re totally welcomed!!! And let’s hope that the community grows as much as it did when Hospital Central first aired the lez storyline. Bravo!!!
I know that some of us like to see the series in the original language with no subs, so if you also do go to kissesbyitaly that has the episodes.
I imagine that if the series succeeds eventually they will have to depart from the Spanish version storyline and then it will be more interesting to watch it.
Last here are some nice pics from the actresses that play Marina and Esther.
Alessia Barela (Marina)
Elisabetta Rocchetti (Esther)
Perhaps some of you will be interested in watching this sports related -but is about discrimination- documentary by Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker that won the Audience Award at the 2009 frameline 33.
Tag line: The Rules - No drugs, No drinking, and No Lesbians.
Synopsis
Training Rules examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, collude in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes.
Watch trailer @ Documentary site
Gosh. Gosh. Gosh. I dared to read the complete article in UK’s Mail Online with the title: “Lipstick lesbians: How this kiss sparked a teenage trend that will disturb every parent” written by Penny Marshall, published on July 2, 2009. I do not regret it, but definitively this very unscientific article (has to be more gossip than anything else) is really dumb.
The summary is the following formula: girls+drinks=kissing=no “harm” done, thanks to Madonna and Britney 2003 MTV Video awards kiss.
But the formula evolves take a look.
Girls+Drinks=Kissing=No Harm done=Faux Lesbianism=Lipstick Lesbian!
Whatever you believed the label Lipstick Lesbian meant, according to this article, it does no longer means that. As of this date Lipstick Lesbian means Faux Lesbianism!
A little more seriously, the reason I wrote about this here is because I’ll share some work stuff with you all.
In a more serious research done during 1999 and 2000 in many countries all over the world, we found an increasing trend among female teenagers to freely/openly accept that they do engage in girl-girl sexual activities while they are in their tweens and teens years. If after those years they go on doing whatever they did we do not know it as we didn’t explored; this research study was NOT about lesbianism, it was about teenage attitudes.
So, there is some truth to the article, but it started before the infamous kiss and now in 2009 has become fashionable when celebrities that surely were in 1999/2000 tweens or teens now are young adult women and publicly continue to do it.
But what really bothered me is gossip media playing around with lesbian labels and gathering mass and niche media attention. This is not positive.
If you feel like reading the complete article go here and perhaps you’ll understand why I had to voice my opinion… even if there is no video attached to the article.
I was reluctant to post this web series, but acting is above average so here are the first and second episodes. The series is directed by Lisa Hayes. Series Site
Ep 1.1
Ep 1.2
About the filmmaker
Lisa Hayes has written and directed eight short films and produced one feature film. These award winning films have been shown at over 100 film festivals around the world, and have been broadcast in France, Canada, USA, Spain, and Australia.
Lisa's film, Women Are Not Little Men has been used widely in educational settings and is included on two different educational DVDs: Fem Crit - Selected Experimental Works for Educational Environments, produced by the CFMDC and Reading Television.
In addition to making her own films, Lisa has worked on dozens of film productions, filling a variety of positions, from Picture Editor to Camera Assistant. She was the Technical Co-ordinator at a film co-op, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) for over five years, and was an Associate Producer at Savi Media with veteran producer, Alex Raffé for three years.
Lisa is currently working as an internet content producer and writes her own blog, Toronto Money Pit.
Meet the Filmmaker
Seems that we continue with the "fashionable" trend of renown actresses playing lesbian characters which honestly I do not mind at all! This time are Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck) and Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot). Check the news from Variety.
Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in road-trip comedy "Cloudburst" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, with Thom Fitzgerald directing from his own script.
SKE is financing "Cloudburst"; Fitzgerald is producing with Doug Pettigrew while William Jarblum exec produces. Production starts this month in Nova Scotia.
Story centers on two women who have lived as lovers for 30 years and decide to break out of the nursing facility where one of them has been committed.
Dukakis most recently starred in "Away From Her" with Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. Fricker recently co-starred in Richard Attenborough's "Closing the Ring" with Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. Fitzgerald most recently produced and directed "The Gospel According to the Blues" for Canadian television.
Being a Canadian production with a so-so director (remember 3 Needles?), I honestly do not expect much and imagine that could be melodramatic; but hopefuly the comedy label will prevail.
Will update when videos become available.
Kristen Stewart may star in a steamy bedroom scene with one of her costars. And, no, we’re not talking about Robert Pattinson. According to “Life & Style,” the “Twilight” starlet will try her hand at some girl on girl action with 15-year-old Dakota Fanning in the upcoming Joan Jett biopic “The Runaways.”
The script reportedly calls for Stewart, who plays Jett in the film, to swap spit with Fanning, who stars as singer Cherie Curie, resulting in their clothes being “scattered all over their hotel room floor in one scene,” according to a source. Stewart said, “Dakota’s very controlled and poised. She’s going to have to lose herself in this because it’s pretty heavy.”
Fanning, who first made a name for herself as the precocious child star of films like “I Am Sam,” is no stranger to “heavy” roles. In 2007, she played a rape victim in the indie flick “Hounddog.” Despite the fact that she’s growing up before our eyes, Fanning will keep things PG this fall, starring opposite Stewart once again in the upcoming “Twilight” sequel “New Moon.”
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Some of you know that I had to write about this film, just because I’m a huge fan of Kristen Stewart long before she became a “star” in the first Twilight film. So here is what I want to share with you today.
The film is written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, an Italy born Canadian-naturalized photographer and director… of music videos! She has a short Postmortem Bliss that you will find at the end of this post so we can learn a little about her style. The Runaways will be her first feature film and I hope that will look like other films about rock groups done by first time directing but long time acclaimed music video directors like, for example, the extraordinary film Control by Anton Corbijn.
If you want to learn more about Floria Sigismondi you can browse her official site that is here. More than her music videos I was curious about her photography that I find interesting which is kind of special, as I do appreciate more black and white photography than color or those photos that are so dramatic that seem colored, which is her case. But the sepia ones are quite interesting and I suggest you to check them.
As a matter of fact the beautiful Kristen photo in the post comes from Sigismondi site and have to say that if she selected/approved the photo then she absolutely has a great eye for photographs. The same applies to Joan Jett pic that is quite impressive as a photo.
For those that haven’t heard the much publicized news the film is “A coming-of-age biopic about '70s teenage band The Runaways” and if still you have no idea who the Runaways are, then I suggest you check wiki to read about the first all-girl rock band to have hit songs, record platinum albums, tour internationally, and acquire fame. From the band members perhaps the most famous is Joan Jett and Kristen will perform her in the movie and was confirmed that Dakota Fanning will play Cherie Currie.
Then if by a remote chance you do not know who Joan Jett is check her official site here and especially The Runaways site that’s here.
So if you really have no idea of why I’m writing about this movie, then I suggest you check Afterellen more often… here is an excerpt from an article there.
I suppose I shouldn’t get ahead of myself, but the word is already out about a possible on-screen hookup between Stewart and Dakota Fanning, who will play Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie. Life & Style reports: In one scene, the girls share an intense lip-lock and their clothes end up scattered all over their hotel-room floor. "Dakota’s very controlled and poised," observes Kristen. "She’s going to have to lose herself in this, because it’s really pretty heavy."
Kristen and Dakota??? This is awkward for me, but then they will be playing characters and to my eyes they are good actors. Then here is en excerpt from a Kristen interview
Is there a sequence that you're looking forward to shooting in The Runaways?
KS:God, yeah. There are so many iconic ones. The relationship that's really interesting is Cherie [Currie] and Joan, the two front women of the band. They get tattoos together in Japan and obviously they still have those tattoos. I'm looking forward to that just because it's such a fun part of the movie. I like the big conflict. Cherie can't really handle the success, nor does she want it necessarily in that respect. Joan is a very steady, self-assured and she knows this kick started her whole career. So to watch it all fall apart and her still stand, I'm excited about that. It's a really explosive scene. Amps are kicked through and guitars are smashed.
Well enough for today, the movie is still in production and will be released in 2010, but I know that sooner than later videos will start to appear from the film and will post them here. Movie IMDb
But I wanted to leave here info about the filmmaker and here it is starting with her first (and only) short film based on her husband Lillian Berlin book, that I find visually very interesting. Of course there is nothing lez in the short, but if you watch it you will get an idea of her filmmaking style.
Postmorten Bliss
Meet the filmmaker/photographer
Floria Sigismondi is a photographer and director. Apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing music videos. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People", has been replicated by a great number of directors since. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Her family, including her sister Antonella, moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was two. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting. Later, from 1987 she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art, today's Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD). When she took a photography course, she became obsessed once more, and graduated with a photography major. Floria started a career as a fashion photographer. She came to directing music videos when she was approached by the production company The Revolver Film Co., and directed music videos for a number of Canadian bands. Her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works, located in sceneries she once described as "entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings", attracted a number of very prominent musicians. With her photography and sculpture installations she had solo exhibitions in Hamilton and Toronto, New York, Brescia, Italy, Göteborg, Sweden and London. Her photographs also were included in numerous group exhibitions, together with those of photographers like Cindy Sherman and Joel-Peter Witkin. The German art press Die Gestalten Verlag has published two monographs of her photography, "Redemption" (1999) and "Immune" (2005).
Sigismondi wiki Sigismondi IMDb
I'm sure that this film by Lisa Cholodenko is going to be a must be seen. Still in production but check today's news.
I had heard about Lisa Cholodenko's new movie, The Kids Are All Right, which she cowrote with Stuart Blumberg. (Michael Fleming runs the official start of production announcement here.) It's a great story: Julianne Moore and Annette Bening are long-time partners; each mothered a kid with sperm from the same anonymous donor. Doctor Bening has a brainy achiever girl (Mia Wasikowska), while designer Moore's son is a jock (Josh Hutcherson). He wants to meet his father (Mark Ruffalo) and talks his 18-year-old sister into getting permission to approach him. The father doesn't mind. But complications ensue when he gets involved with his son's mother.
I hear the script is very sexy. We'll see how much winds up in the indie movie, which started shooting in L.A. Tuesday. Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) has great chops, but hasn't broken into the mainstream. One market niche the filmmakers can count on: the under-served lesbian audience will come in droves.
(well, that's for sure that we are under-served!!! lol!)
This is the production annoucement @ Variety
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in "The Kids Are All Right." Director Lisa Cholodenko ("High Art") begins shooting today from the script she co-wrote with Stuart Blumberg.
Pic revolves around a brother and sister (Hutcherson, Wasikowska) who set out to find their same-sex parents' sperm donor, who totally upsets their family dynamic once he enters their lives. Bening and Moore play the parents, and Ruffalo plays the donor.
Inferno Intl. is handing international sales on the film. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte of Antidote Films is producing with Plum Pictures' Celine Rattray and Daniela Taplin-Lundberg, UGC PH's Philippe Hellmann and Gilbert Films' Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz.
IMDb
As soon as videos start to appear I'll update the post.
According to some sources, this 15 minute short won the Audience Award of the frameline33 fest, but their official site does not have the official winners. Anyway this short could be interesting.
Directed by Maria Breaux.
Synopsis: El Salvador’s civil war sets the stage for a narrative short where Lucha and Isabella must face hard truths. Is non-violence more powerful than armed resistance? Does love of country trump romantic love?
Longer synopsis
Lucha is a narrative short shot on HD, set in 1982 El Salvador in the midst of the country's civil war. While President Reagan sends funds and arms to the Salvadorian military to kidnap, torture, and kill the people of El Salvador, Lucha and Isabella decide their fate. Is non-violence more powerful than armed resistance? Does love of country trump romantic love? Complicating matters is Javier, Lucha's brother and former victim of torture. Though fictional, this 15-minute movie draws on aspects of true stories of Salvadorian Civil War survivors currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Short Site
Another work by Maria Breaux - "Equality prop 8" ad for Project Pushback
She also has another short called I'd Rather Be...Gone
Synopsis
Maria Breaux wrote, produced, directed, and stars in this serio-comic look at three friends who decide they need to change their lives for better or worse -- and the latter is just how things seem to be working out. Michelle (Maria Breaux) is a computer programmer trying to put her life back together after her girlfriend decides to break things off. Deciding she needs some time to herself, Michelle takes a month-long leave of absence from work and decides to stay in and figure out her next move. However, Michelle isn't alone with her thoughts for long -- her friend Rocky (Csilla Horvath), a cheerful but emotionally unstable drug addict, appears at Michelle's doorstep with nowhere to go, and Michelle is forced to take her in. Not long afterwards, April (Amy Kelly), a teacher who lacks the courage to go public with her sexual orientation, also reveals she's out of her relationship and without a place to stay, so Michelle has two house guests intruding upon her much-needed privacy in her one-bedroom apartment. The crowded conditions begin to fray everyone's nerves, and Michelle decides a road trip might be just the thing to take their minds off their problems...a notion that hardly proves to be the case. I'd Rather Be...Gone was screened at the 2001 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
About the filmmaker
Labeled "promising talent" by Variety Magazine, Maria Breaux received her BA from Stanford University and an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University, where she wrote numerous plays before venturing into filmmaking. Her first film, I'd Rather Be...Gone, premiered at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival to a sold-out audience. Her award-winning, infamous short Raised by Drag Queens has screened internationally, receiving audience and critical acclaim. ("John Waters wonders why he didn't think of it first." - Out Front Colorado) Maria has had solo performances, staged readings, and plays at many Bay Area venues, and has had the pleasure of working with a diverse range of writers and artists, from award-winning playwrights such as Adrienne Kennedy and Anne Galjour, to musicians such as Simon Raymonde, former bassist of Cocteau Twins. She was co-founder of the sketch comedy group "Baby Snatching Dingoes" and is a two-time winner of the Highsmith Playwriting Award. She owns and operates MBreauxsia Films, and has written and/or directed comedies and dramas with subject matter ranging from 1980s mods to blowup dolls.
Meet the filmmaker
