Nice article in the New York Times about filmmaker Ira Sachs, whose latest -- "Keep the Lights On" -- is loosely based on his tumultuous relationship with Bill Clegg, the golden boy literary agent whose descent into crack addiction was chronicled in the memoirs "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man" and "Ninety Days."
Sachs, you may recall, made a bit of a splash in the film world with "Forty Shades of Blue" back in 2005. Putting the rather charitable casting of the Danish hunk Thure Lindhardt as the filmmaker aside -- I'm guessing Ryan Gosling wasn't available -- the trailer looks promising. That Sachs and cowriter Mauricio Zacharias cite such films as "Annie Hall," "The Kids Are All Right" and "Weekend" as influences, and others mention the seminal "Parting Glances" -- three of which chronicle LGBT people whose lives are not spent in gay ghettos -- only sharpens my interest. "Keep the Lights On" opens Sept. 7. For more details, go HERE.
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