Edmund White

Edmund White

Born: January 13, 1940
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. His books include The Joy of Gay Sex, written with Charles Silverstein (1977); his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997); and his biography of Jean Genet. [Source: Wikipedia]

Movies for Edmund White...

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Title: Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2023
Type: Movie
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
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The Spark: The Origins of Pride
Title: The Spark: The Origins of Pride
Character: Self
Released: July 24, 2019
Type: Movie
A story of the LGBT struggle from the 1960s to the present, after the Stonewall riot sparked the militant action in New York that was to spread around the world. From San Francisco to Paris via Amsterdam, between the first Gay Pride, the election of Harvey Milk, the French "decriminalization", the AIDS epidemic and the first homosexual marriages, these few decades of struggle are embodied through numerous testimonies of actors and actresses of this revolution rainbow.
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Title: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Character: Himself
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.
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Title: Babel
Released: March 16, 2014
Type: TV
Literature talkshow with Jessika Gedin.
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Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
Title: Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
Character: Self
Released: April 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The American composer and author Paul Bowles was a man with a great deal of charisma and influence. When he moved to Tangier, Morocco, in 1949, half the world followed him to the enigmatic city. His marriage with author Jane Bowles was a loving relationship of opposites, even though both were homosexual. Based on exclusive interviews with Bowles shortly before his death interwoven with anecdotes recounted by his friends and co-workers, the film portrays a daring and visionary life as well as a relationship shaped by an interdependency that encompassed much more than sexuality.
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Sex Positive
Title: Sex Positive
Character: Himself
Released: June 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Mr. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic demanding a solution to the problem before the outside world would take heed. Now destitute and alone, Mr. Berkowitz tells his story to a world who never wanted to listen.