Larry Kramer

The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay rights, addiction and recovery, finding true love, and the relentless pursuit of inspiration.

디즈니 명작들의 숨은 공신, 위대한 작사가, '하워드 애쉬먼'에 대한 숨겨진 이야기를 다룬 영화

From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potentially risky behaviors. Co-founder of both organization Gay Men's Health Crisis and the direct action protest group ACT UP, Kramer was vilified by some who saw his criticism to be an expression of self-hatred, while lionized by others who credit him with waking up the gay community — and, eventually, the government and medical establishment — to the devastation of the disease.

1980년대 초, 뉴욕에서 일어난 에이즈 창궐을 배경으로, 한 게이 인권 활동가가 헌신적인 의사와 함께 더 많은 사람들이 전염되어 사망하기 전에 에이즈에 대한 진실을 밝히고자 한다.

Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.

Through the voices of Americans from all walks of life, The Out List explores the identities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in America. In this series of intimate interviews, a diverse group of LGBTQ personalities bring color and depth to their experiences of gender and sexuality. With wit and wisdom, this set of trailblazing individuals weaves universal themes of love, loss, trial, and triumph into the determined struggle for full equality.

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.

The story of the AIDS epidemic from its early, ominous beginnings and the wave of death that followed, through the formation of ACT UP and the arrival of life-prolonging medicines. This program is comprised of interview outtakes from the documentary motion picture VITO, about gay activist and film historian Vito Russo.

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.

The Emmy Award-nominated 30 Years from Here examines the AIDS pandemic over the past 30 years. Activists and medical experts that share stories include Terrence McNally, Larry Kramer, Marjorie Hill, Frank Spinelli, Jerry Mitchell, and Larry Flick.

In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He went on to write "The Celluloid Closet", the first book to critique Hollywood's portrayals of gays on screen. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Vito became a passionate advocate for justice via the newly formed ACT UP, before his death in 1990.

Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, "The Boys in the Band" changed everything. "Making the Boys" explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Featuring anecdotes from the surviving cast and filmmakers, as well as perspectives by legendary figures from stage and screen, it traces the behind-the-scenes drama and lasting legacy of this cultural milestone.

Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Mr. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic demanding a solution to the problem before the outside world would take heed. Now destitute and alone, Mr. Berkowitz tells his story to a world who never wanted to listen.

An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.

Inspired by a collection of personal notebooks, this feature-length director’s cut of the short film by the same name is an experimental documentary on art, AIDS and activism. Following James Wentzy from South Dakota to New York City, the film traces his days from struggling and surviving as an artist to later becoming an AIDS video activist. In showcasing a unique individual through his involvement with the fight against AIDS and his tireless frontline reportage of the crisis, The Books of James is an intimate portrait of a neglected everyman/hero and unearths a time now forgotten.

A chronicle of gay culture in New York during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era. Thirteen men and one woman look back at gay life and sex in Manhattan and Fire Island - from Stonewall (June, 1969) to the first reporting on AIDS (June, 1981). They describe the rapid move from repression to celebration, from the removal of shame to joy, the on-going search for "someone," the freedom before AIDS, the friendships, and brotherhood.

10 years after the release of "Philadelphia," director Jonathan Demme, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and others discuss about the making of that film and it's important legacy through the years of being the first mainstream Hollywood film about dealing with the topic of Aids, revealing its impact on culture and society. Cast and crew talk about the inception of the project, the making of it and curious stories about one of the greatest hits of 1993.

This sequel to "Before Stonewall" documents the history of gay and lesbian life from the riots at Stonewall in 1969 to the present. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, the film explains the work, struggles, victories, and defeats the gay community has weathered to become a vibrant and integral part of North American society.

In New York City, a distraught activist confronts the mayor with a story of a friend who languished on a cot in an emergency room hallway for nine days, only to die 48 hours after leaving the hospital. In 1988, thousands of activists hold the Food and Drug Administration under siege, demanding speedier drug approval. In 1990 AIDS activists converge on the National Institute of Health, calling for a more equitable clinical trial system and expanded research into new drugs and treatment. Voices From the Front, the first feature-length documentary on AIDS activism in America, makes clear the emotional and political effects of community activism using the voices of those directly engaged. It is a powerful distillation of pictures and words from events organized to change public consciousness, expose the failure of the health care systems, and challenge government inaction and neglect concerning AIDS.

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

전쟁에 휩싸인 세상을 등지고 히말라야 깊은 산속에 자리 잡은 유토피아 '샹그라아'에 대한 이야기

1920년대의 잉글랜드. 자유로운 영혼의 소유자인 예술가 구드런(글렌다 잭슨)과 학교 선생인 우술라(제니 린든)은 자매 지간이다. 서로 무척 통하는 구석이 많은 이 자매는 형제 지간인 두 남자, 제랄드(올리버 리드)와 루퍼트(알란 베이츠)랑 오랜 세월 동안 알고 지내다가 근래에 들어서 루퍼트는 우술라와, 제랄드는 구드런과 각자 짝을 이루어 연인 사이로 발전했다. 처음엔 그저 사랑의 감정에 푹빠져 행복하기만 했던 네 사람은 피크닉을 갔다가 실수로 호수에 빠져 죽을 고비를 넘기는 바람에 다투기도 하고, 제랄드와 루퍼트는 누드 레슬링 대회에 참가해서 자매들로 부터 비난도 받는다. 또한 두 커플은 현저하게 다른 방향으로 관계의 발전을 가져 오는데 루퍼트와 우술라는 서로에 대해 점점 많이 알아 가면서 사랑이 더욱 깊어지고 누구보다도 친밀한 관계로 이어지지만, 내성적인 제랄드는 적극적이고 도전적인 구드런과 왠지 모를 거리감이 생기고 만다. 그러나 두 연인들은 곧 모두 결혼하게 된다. 스위스로 함께 신혼 여행을 떠난 두 커플. 그곳에서 구드런은 제랄드와 교감하지 못함에 대한 반작용으로 조각가인 로에르크(블라덱 세이발)와 불륜에 빠지고, 이 사실을 알게 된 제랄드는 눈으로 뒤덮인 숲을 헤매다가 숨지고 만다. 제랄드의 죽음으로 충격을 받은 루퍼트는 행복해야 할 신혼 여행이 불륜과 비극적인 죽음으로 얼룩져 버리자 여성과 남성이 완전한 관계를 맺을수 있을지 의심스럽다고 외치며 절규한다.

1920년대의 잉글랜드. 자유로운 영혼의 소유자인 예술가 구드런(글렌다 잭슨)과 학교 선생인 우술라(제니 린든)은 자매 지간이다. 서로 무척 통하는 구석이 많은 이 자매는 형제 지간인 두 남자, 제랄드(올리버 리드)와 루퍼트(알란 베이츠)랑 오랜 세월 동안 알고 지내다가 근래에 들어서 루퍼트는 우술라와, 제랄드는 구드런과 각자 짝을 이루어 연인 사이로 발전했다. 처음엔 그저 사랑의 감정에 푹빠져 행복하기만 했던 네 사람은 피크닉을 갔다가 실수로 호수에 빠져 죽을 고비를 넘기는 바람에 다투기도 하고, 제랄드와 루퍼트는 누드 레슬링 대회에 참가해서 자매들로 부터 비난도 받는다. 또한 두 커플은 현저하게 다른 방향으로 관계의 발전을 가져 오는데 루퍼트와 우술라는 서로에 대해 점점 많이 알아 가면서 사랑이 더욱 깊어지고 누구보다도 친밀한 관계로 이어지지만, 내성적인 제랄드는 적극적이고 도전적인 구드런과 왠지 모를 거리감이 생기고 만다. 그러나 두 연인들은 곧 모두 결혼하게 된다. 스위스로 함께 신혼 여행을 떠난 두 커플. 그곳에서 구드런은 제랄드와 교감하지 못함에 대한 반작용으로 조각가인 로에르크(블라덱 세이발)와 불륜에 빠지고, 이 사실을 알게 된 제랄드는 눈으로 뒤덮인 숲을 헤매다가 숨지고 만다. 제랄드의 죽음으로 충격을 받은 루퍼트는 행복해야 할 신혼 여행이 불륜과 비극적인 죽음으로 얼룩져 버리자 여성과 남성이 완전한 관계를 맺을수 있을지 의심스럽다고 외치며 절규한다.

Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.

Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.

A dazzlingly mod yet oddly old-fashioned romantic view of heterosexual couples in the swinging youth scene of 1960s London.