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Bob & Rose

This is a British TV series about a gay man who falls in love with a straight woman. It deals with the fluidity of sexuality in a touching way. It was written by Russell Davies who also created and wrote the British version of Queer As Folk. True to form, Bob & Rose was just as controversial and should be an exciting addition to this year's film festival.

I have tickets to see 11 films in 10 days:

Group

Straights-ploitation

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

Instructions Enclosed

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place

Looking for Langston

The Man I Love (L'Homme Que J'Aime)

Young Soul Rebels

History of Masturbation

P.S. Your Cat is Dead

Britney Baby -One More Time

Check out the Q Reviews™

You'll have to wait until after the festival (probably early July) to read my reviews of these films. In the meantime, you can check out the Q Reviews™ from last year...

Russell Davies

I'm friends with Russell and I was excited to see that his work was being shown again. I hoped he would attend the film festival this year, so I rang him up and kept getting his answerphone. He finally emailed me to say he's currently working on his on again off again "second comming" project. Here's what he had to say about the film festival and "Bob & Rose":

"We keep filming for another five weeks, so I can't make it to SF. Those nice film festival people tried their damndest to get me there - they even offered a first-class air ticket (it was economy last time!) but I had to turn them down. This shoot is just too complicated and intense to leave, even for a week. Damn it all. i'd love to see Bob & Rose in San Francisco! And never mind that, it would've been lovely to see you again. Bollocks, i've cocked it all up once again. such a shame.

I do hope you get the chance to see B&R, though. It's a lovely, delicate piece of work. Strangely, it won me the award for Comedy Writer of the Year over here... I say 'strangely', cos I don't think it's *that* funny!!! It's more of a drama in my mind. But people see what they want to see, I suppose. Let me know how it goes down. Of course, it drives away that older, more conservative gay audience, cos it's about a gay man falling in love with a woman, so lots of gay men have decried it and walked out... but
fuck it, who needs them?!"