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James Franco's Violent, Gay Fantasia of a Short Film
Gawker: defamer —
We don't know if James Franco is gay or not, but he certainly doesn't seem to care what the hell any of us think either way, so bless him for that. The latest tittering tidbit? An erotically-charged short film.
Yeah, Movieline has seen the Franco-directed picture, an adaptation of Anthony Hecht's rull, rull gay poem The Feast of Stephen. And what did STV find upon viewing it? Franco either nailed the work's frank-yet-lyrical paeans to the male form, or he just really likes filming naked boys swinging:
...the silent, ...
James Franco's Violent, Gay Fantasia of a Short Film [Hard Topics]
Gawker —
We don't know if James Franco is gay or not, but he certainly doesn't seem to care what the hell any of us think either way, so bless him for that. The latest tittering tidbit? An erotically-charged short film. Yeah, Movieline has seen the Franco-directed picture, an adaptation of Anthony Hecht's rull, rull gay poem The Feast of Stephen. And what did STV find upon viewing it? Franco either nailed the work's frank-yet-lyrical paeans to the male form, or he just really likes filming naked boys swinging: ...the silent, ...
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Oh No They Didn't! —
... The “feast” of the title is Stephen’s big gay rite of passage, however demeaning and/or gang-rapey it might be; the literally shit-eating grin he shares with the audience at the end suggests that even the most horrendous intimacy is better than none at all. As student films go, it’s a tight, competent, attractive exercise. As James Franco projects go, it cements the young hyphenate’s place in the canon of the gayest stories ever told. Howl won’t stand a chance. source: http://www.movieline.com/2009/06/so-just-how-gay-is-james-francos-student-film.php ... ...
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FilmDrunk.com —
... This is a really scholarly and erudite review of James Franco’s poetry-influenced student film, and what I took away from it was that it shows a dude getting poop smeared on his face. |Movieline| ...
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AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters —
... James Franco's "Gay-Seeming As I Wanna Be" whistle-stop tour makes its next stop: His homoerotic, penis-filled short film based on the poem "The Feast of Stephen" screens at CineVegas (and reportedly puts the gay stuff in Milk to shame). ...
