A restored "Parting Glances" to be feted at Outfest 2007...
I'm counting the days until opening day of Outfest 2007 which kicks off July 12 and runs through July 23. In then coming weeks, I'll be highlighting some of the festival's movies which, between advance screeners and running around to screenings, I hope to see virtually all of. Thank God "American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars" are over with for the season! There is free time again to do these things.
Anyway, Outfest is going to present the world premiere on July 16 of the fully-restored "Parting Glances," a landmark 1986 gay film starring Steve Buscemi that depicts the lives of gay men in New York at the beginning of the AIDS pandemic.
Many of the older gay-themed films are in a state of deterioration which is why Outfest partnered in 2005 with the UCLA Film & Television Archive to create the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. "Parting Glances"
is the project's first completed film restoration.
"Bill Sherwood's Parting Glances is one of my favorite films I've acted in and I am very proud of its place in film history," Buscemi said in a statement. "After seeing a severely distressed print of it a few years ago, I am relieved and extremely grateful to the Outfest Legacy Project for restoring this landmark film and for their extraordinary commitment to film preservation in the LGBT community."
Members of the cast and crew, including Steve Buscemi, Kathy Kinney and Richard Ganoung and film preservationist Nancy Mysel will participate in a panel on the making and restoration of the film.
"The preservation of Parting Glances is an important first step in ensuring the survival of important and endangered LGBT works," said Stephen Gutwillig, Outfest Executive Director. "Unfortunately many other films are in imminent danger of fading away-their original exhibition prints in tatters, their negatives in woeful storage conditions, or even lost," he continued. "The Outfest Legacy Project is working to raise funds to rescue these films, strike new prints for widespread public exhibition, and expand access to researchers and the public."
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