WHAT: Chillfest, the mostly gay and lesbian film series of Jersey City presents
"Christopher and His Kind," directed by Geoffrey Sax
WHEN: Sunday, May 20th, 2012
Screening begins at 4:15PM; Doors open at 4:00PM for food, drinks, and socializing
TIX: $10 at the door and $7 advance at "www.chillfest.org"
WHERE: LITM, 140 Newark Avenue, Jersey City
(near Newark Avenue and Grove Street, 1/2 block from Grove Street PATH station)
WEBSITE: www.chillfest.org
About "Christopher and His Kind" at Chillfest –
Handsome Matt Smith (the U.K.'s latest Dr. Who) plays the young author Christopher Isherwood ("The Berlin Stories") in this BBC-produced biopic which beautifully captures his relationships with his friend and occasional lover, the poet W.H. Auden, flatmate Jean Ross (Isherwood's real life friend and the basis for his character Sally Bowles immortalized in the film "Cabaret") and the Jewish, upper class Wilfrid Landauer (Iddo Goldberg, "Secret Diary Of A Call Girl"). To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating. But Christopher soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery as he forges an identity and place for himself amidst the chaos and decadence of 1930s Berlin.
Chillfest presents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender-themed films to Jersey City and the region, and is a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) organization.
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