The Backlight was launched to promote the Bijou Film Center in Richmond, Virginia, and to stimulate interest in good movies, in general. Shortly after the Biograph 45 party my affiliation with The Bijou ended and the regular posts here stopped. See the most recent post for more info. Now this blog's archive serves as a record of The Bijou's dreams and happenings, August 1, 2013 - February 11, 2017. Since then I've been out of the loop. -- F.T. Rea, editor.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Press release for 'Author: The JT LeRoy Story'
Date:
Oct. 11, 2016
On
Fri., Oct. 21, and Sat., Oct. 22, in its screening room at 304 E.
Broad St., the Bijou Film Center will present “Author: The JT LeRoy
Story” – a new documentary about a writer who splits herself into
various characters in order to create and promote her work. Then the
cat gets out of the bag.
Admission:
$9. No advance tickets.
Friday
show times: 7 p.m. and 9:20 p.m.
Saturday
show times: 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:20 p.m.
“Author:
The JT LeRoy Story”
(2016): Color. 110 minutes. Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig. Cast: Laura
Albert, Bruce Benderson, Dennis Cooper.
Note: Truth or fiction? Documentary or confessional memoir?
The background behind popular books, thought at one time to have been
written by JT LeRoy, is indeed stranger than fiction. This
documentary willingly blurs lines between real and imaginary, as it
shines a spotlight on the cult of celebrity that facilitated the
selling of JT LeRoy's work. What is revealed is both remarkable and
confounding. The “author,” Laura Albert, who looks directly into
the camera as she speaks for much of the film, recounts a story
that's part “The Three Faces of Eve” (1957), or perhaps “Sybil”
(1976), and part “The Hoax” (2006).
More background from the distributor, Magnolia Pictures is
here.
The trailer is
here.
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