Review by Barbara Snitzer
This movie is an excellent, engrossing, and necessary document to an important period of history.
Living in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was familiar with Act-up. At least I thought I was.
Act-up is the acronym for the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, an organization founded by gay activists to pressure the powers that be to help them fight the deadly disease ravaging their community. Their accomplishments have benefited every citizen of the United States, gay and straight, and they deserve our recognition and gratitude.
After watching this movie, I felt old and sad. Old because I remember how frightening AIDS was. I remember learning of the deaths of artists I had just discovered, like the fashion designer Patrick Kelly and disco diva Sylvester. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Freddie Mercury had died. Having dated some “confused” guys,...
This movie is an excellent, engrossing, and necessary document to an important period of history.
Living in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was familiar with Act-up. At least I thought I was.
Act-up is the acronym for the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, an organization founded by gay activists to pressure the powers that be to help them fight the deadly disease ravaging their community. Their accomplishments have benefited every citizen of the United States, gay and straight, and they deserve our recognition and gratitude.
After watching this movie, I felt old and sad. Old because I remember how frightening AIDS was. I remember learning of the deaths of artists I had just discovered, like the fashion designer Patrick Kelly and disco diva Sylvester. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Freddie Mercury had died. Having dated some “confused” guys,...
- 10/19/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Before I get into discussing How to Survive a Plague, I just want to say that every gay man needs to see this film. Full stop. There's a reason why it's on our list of the 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries. It's a fundamental part of our community's history and an essential chronicle of a transformative social movement that simply cannot go unseen. See it.
In the late 1980s a group of angry, frustrated, and exhausted people in New York City gathered to discuss what to do about the worsening AIDS problem. Many of them had contracted HIV themselves and refused to accept the death sentence it equaled. They were frustrated that six years into the epidemic, which had thus far claimed 20,000 reported lives, the White House had yet to even directly acknowledge the crisis. The coming together of the group - mostly gay people and their allies, who were tired of...
In the late 1980s a group of angry, frustrated, and exhausted people in New York City gathered to discuss what to do about the worsening AIDS problem. Many of them had contracted HIV themselves and refused to accept the death sentence it equaled. They were frustrated that six years into the epidemic, which had thus far claimed 20,000 reported lives, the White House had yet to even directly acknowledge the crisis. The coming together of the group - mostly gay people and their allies, who were tired of...
- 9/17/2012
- by brian
- The Backlot
Title: How To Survive A Plague Sundance Selects Director: David France Screenwriter: David France, T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk Cast: Peter Staley, Garance Franke-Riuta, Mark Harrington, Spencer Cox, Larry Kramer, Bill Bahlman, David Barr, Gregg Bordowitz, Gregg Gonsalves, Derek Link, Iris Long Screened at: Broadway, NYC, 8/13/12 Opens: September 21, 2012 How effective are demonstrations? If their major aim is to allow protesters to let off steam, they are undoubtedly potent. If their aim is to achieve the demands of the protesters, that’s a mixed bag. The Vietnam demonstrations aimed to end the war quickly. They did not. At best, they may have succeeded in forcing President Johnson to [ Read More ]...
- 8/14/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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