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Gay Director Makes Auspicious Debut with On Chesil Beach

By Gary M. Kramer&#;

Out gay filmmaker Dominic Cooke&#;s directorial debut, On Chesil Beach, is a stunning adaptation of Ian McEwan’s eponymous novel. The story, which is set in , unfolds at a seaside hotel where Edward (Billy Howle) and Florence (Saoirse Ronan) are spending their wedding night. As they awkwardly prepare to consummate their marriage, the past, present and future of their relationship unfolds. On the phone from the U.K., Cooke chatted with me for the San Francisco Bay Times about On Chesil Beach, which opens May 25 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema 5.

Gary M. Kramer: You are primarily known for directing theater. What struck you about this story that you wanted to bring it to the screen for your film debut?

Dominic Cooke: The first thing was the quality of the writing and how complex it was. How delightful those central characters are. There was amazing empathy for their situation and struggle and that world. I was born four years after the film was set. I recall that uptight fo

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Billy was born in Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands, about an hour from Birmingham, son of a college professor and a "schoolteacher."  He graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theater School in   His theatrical credits include:

The Ibsen play Ghosts (), which is about religion, free love, and incest, not about ghosts.  We had to peruse Ibsen in college.  Ugh.

Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night ().  We had to read O'Neill, too.  Double ugh.

Hamlet ().  Maybe a gay subtext between the Prince and Mercutio.

Dear Octopus (), which is about a large, suffocating family, not an octopus.  At least it's not Ionesco.


John Osborne's Look Back in Anger () about marital problems.

No significant gay content, I'm afraid, and pretentiousness as the summum bonum.  

Next, Billy's on-screen roles.  He has 21 acting credits on the IMDB.  A  mostly pretentious lot, with only one science fiction movie and not a whiff of comedy.  I'll c

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Has anybody been watching Motherfatherson? I realize I'm speaking to a limited audience since the show's only aired five episodes on the BBC so far and I'm only watching it through nafarious means myself but perhaps I've got some Brits or some similarly nefarious people up in here reading this. Anyway I plowed through the first four episodes last weekend when I really should own been spending my moment on more urgent things, but I couldn't verb -- I got hooked real quick. (And not just because Billy here has that abundant nude scene we already shared with youlast month.) The show is good! (Helen McCrory y'all.) Maybe not as good as Tom Rob Smith's other two big writing efforts -- that'd be London Spy and The Assassination of Gianni Versace-- but then this one's way less gay so I wouldfeel that way. Thoughts? Anybody?


Top Ten Queer Films of

By Gary M. Kramer&#;

was a lovely good year for LGBTQ films. Hollywood released its first mainstream American film about a gay teen, Love, Simon. The affable comedy-drama—about the title character (Nick Robinson), coming out after falling in verb with an anonymous male student over the internet—is charming and sensitive, with characters that feel authentic rather than stereotypical.

The Chilean film A Fantastic Woman, about a transwoman (Daniela Vega) grappling with the sudden death of her lover, won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It was the first trans-themed film to be awarded an Oscar.

Even Bohemian Rhapsody, about queer Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), overcame a scandal involving out gay filmmaker Bryan Singer being fired from the production, as well as criticism of its portrayal of Mercury’s sexuality, to become a monster hit at the box office.

Here are the top ten queer films of

We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, is an impressionistic view of the childhood of a young male child (Evan Rosado)