Apologies to Thomas Wolfe, but it appears you can go home again. Oscar winner John Ridley, co-host of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, returns to his native Milwaukee for the latest edition of the pod, recorded live during the 16th Milwaukee Film Festival.
He and co-host Matt Carey, documentary editor at Deadline, speak with two filmmakers bringing new work to the festival: Sav Rodgers, director of Chasing Chasing Amy, and Mary Louise Schumacher, director of Out of the Picture.
Rodgers makes his feature documentary debut with Chasing Chasing Amy, a film that examines how Kevin Smith’s 1997 hit Chasing Amy became a lifeline for Rodgers as a queer, trans kid growing up in conservative Kansas, and how the indie drama impacted the culture at large.
Smith’s film told the story of a straight man (played by Ben Affleck) falling in love with a gay woman (played by Joey Lauren Adams); but 27 years after its debut, many in the LGBTQ+ community see Chasing Amy as problematic for its implicit suggestion that all it takes to “turn a lesbian straight” is for her to “meet the right guy.” Rodgers explains what it was like to interview both Smith and Adams for his documentary and how Smith reacts to the criticism of one of his best-known films.
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