Edge Magazine: ‘Judas Kiss’ Among Fall’s ‘Great Gay Indies’

IN A COVER story for its new digital magazine, Edge named Judas Kiss among the “12 Great Gay Indies That Will (Hopefully) Make it to a Theater Near You.”

The article by Bob Nesti notes:

Come fall and the mood changes in movie theaters. Summer fluff is replaced with more serious fare. … Yet for many LGBT films just getting out in that marketplace is the battle. Though many titles turn up at the LGBT film festivals right through the end of the year, many — most, actually — languish in release limbo with but a handful making it out to a theater or streaming device near you.

Nesti highlights a dozen worthy LGBT-themed efforts. Judas Kiss is No. 8. In the film’s profile, “It’s a Wondeful Life?”, Nesti quotes the review penned by the Edge Network’s Christian Cintron at this summer’s film festivals:

Judas Kiss is a deep, insightful film that explores the shadows we run from as gay men and the toxic and self-destructive decisions we can make that can change our lives.

The film “offers a different take on the cliché time travel idea of ‘If I could only go back,’” Nesti states, and reminds readers the DVD is released in North America on October 25.

THE TOP FILMS named in the article are:

James Franco takes on another gay role in The Broken Tower, a biopic about gay Jazz Age poet Hart Crane.
James Franco’s directorial effort, Sal, a biopic about gay actor Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause).
Gay politics, Iran-style: The Sundance-lauded Circumstance, about two teenage girls in Tehran whose sexual experimentation brings serious consequences.
New friends with benefits: The festival hit, Weekend, directed by Andrew Haigh. Its positive New York Times review and strong theatrical showing in the Big Apple has it destined for a wider release.
Remembrance of things past: The moving AIDS documentary, We Were Here, had festival-goers this summer pulling out their Kleenex. It chronicles the Plague Years in San Francisco that devastated the city’s gay population.
The new normal? German filmmaker Tom Twyker (Run, Lola, Run) has a new film, 3, a bisexual tale of a German couple both involved with the same man.
Over-the-top Almodóvar: Spanish auteur Pedro Aldomóvar premieres his sixth film this fall at the New York Film Festival, The Skin I Live In. It’s about a famous plastic surgeon obsessed with face transplants.
Judas Kiss, a deep, insightful drama with scifi elements.
August, a sexy melodrama about a three-way relationship.
Rent Boys, a haunting documentary about gay hustlers in Berlin.
Rob Williams’ sequel to his holiday comedy, Make the Yuletide Gay 2.
Codependent Lesbian Space Aliens Seek Same, which pretty much describes itself.

OTHER WORTHY films named in the preview include: Mangus, a musical comedy about a disabled man who wants to play Jesus in a pageant; Hollywood to Dollywood, a documentary about twin gay brothers on a pilgrimage to meet their idol, Dolly Parton; Buffering, a British comedy about a gay couple who turn to porn to rescue their finances; Going Down in La-La Land, Casper Andreas’ dark comedy about a young gay actor who turns to porn; the Carol Channing documentary, Larger Than Life, and the mockumentary Varla Jean Merman and the Mushroomheads, starring the eponymous drag legend.

EDGE MAGAZINE The fall film preview is part of a new digital magazine, Edge, published by the Edge Network, the largest network on the Web of local Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) news and entertainment portals in the world, serving half a million readers in 20 metropolitan areas around the United States and beyond. The magazine is available via Edge’s iPad app.

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