Miguel/Michelle

This was an interesting 1998 film I stumbled across on YouTube by Gil Portes about a Filipino boy who leaves home after high school graduation to study in the United States.   After seven years she comes back after seven years as a transpinay and declares she is going to stay until her family accepts her..

Of course there is drama.  Mom is embarrassed, dad is angry and michelle's best friend Julio, who he knows is gay, suddenly decides he is going to get married.

Check out the uploaded snippets of the film.

Glad I Wasn't Watching The Oscars Last Night

The 83rd Oscar ceremony was televised last night.   I kept myself busy with other productive uses of my time besides watching that melanin free awards telecast.

After talking to Renee of Womanist Musings last night, glad I did. 

Seriously, a tribute to Gone With The Wind on a night in which African Americans were already pissed about having no Black actors, actresses or even behind the camera personnel nominated for Oscars?

Then you add insult to injury with a half azzed tribute to Lena Horne, one of our beloved performers and civil rights icons?
 

No wonder there's such crappy movie selections at the local multiplex these days.

And I'd love to see a Black themed movie that didn't involve 21st century coonery on the screen.   Spike?  John Singleton?  Hudlin brothers?  Robert Townsend? 

Just hope Oscars 2012 is kinder to actors of color in Hollywood.     But then again I won't be holding my breath on that one.
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'The Danish Girl' Movie Finally Begins Filming In July

It was back in 2009 when I wrote the post that announced that Nicole Kidman was going to play transwoman Lili Elbe in the Danish Girl.   

The movie is based on the David Ebershoff novel and at one point had both Gwyneth Paltrow and Charlize Theron slated to play Elbe's wife Gerda Wegener.

The $15 million movie will finally begin shooting in Germany in July with some exterior scenes being shot in Copenhagen.  

Rachel Weisz will now step in to play Gerda and Lasse Hallstrom will direct it.

Should be interesting to see this movie when it's finally done and how Nicole Kidman handles this role as one of our pioneering transwomen.