Pick of the Day: 25 March.

Pick of BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 25 March. Domestic Revolutions, a series of shorts. Hit So Hard, a documentary about Hole’s drummer Patty Schemel.

Pick of the Day: 24 March.

Pick of BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 24 March. Love Free or Die, a documentary about Bishop Gene Robinson. Vito, a documentary about activist and film historian Vito Russo.

LLGFF 2012.

The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 23 March 23 – April 1, 2012, is one of the most important events in the LGBT arts and culture calendar.

“As part of the LLGFF, the BFI is screening four key films from The Celluloid Closet: Queen Christina (1933), Morocco (1930), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), and Spartacus (1960). This is a great chance to see these classic films as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen.”

Weekend

Polari talks to director Andrew Haigh, and actor Chris New, about Weekend.

“Because the story is about two people who are becoming very intimate with each other, it was important you feel the same way with them. So I always thought about it as almost like a foursome. It was me, Urszula who shot the film, and the two actors. We were having a relationship together.”

Brian Robinson joined the Belfast Gay Liberation Society in 1975 and been a gay activist ever since.

The Senior Programmer at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and founder member of The House of Homosexual Culture, writes about how film can reveal a hidden gay past.

I think we need to reinvent the urgency and excitement of Gay Liberation to ensure that succeeding generations are exposed to their own heritage. Our national cultural institutions have paid no more than lip service to queer cultural achievement.