Hang Time! A Clip From James Franco's Queer Naked Basketball Short [NSFW]
The festival run for James Franco's student film The Feast of Stephen has stretched from Las Vegas (where Movieline had a look last June) to Berlin, where last week it won a Teddy Award for excellence in queer cinema. And now, finally, a taste of the film has arrived online, confirming for a vast new viewership what we privileged few had known all along: When it comes to depicting the NSFW, slow-motion collision of penises and basketball, Franco is without peer.
Based on Anthony Hecht's poem, the film basically tracks one young man's daydream from a New York basketball court to a sexualized beating in Central Park. Naked hoops and heavy breathing make up much of the rest, of which the recently unveiled clip below is quite the showcase. Its release may or may not have something to do with the news of the Teddy Award; coincidentally, Franco's Howl was nominated for the feature-film Teddy, but lost to the lesbian darling The Kids Are All Right.
So... yeah. Gay.
[via The Lost Boy]
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Comments
And so, the newly enlightened Jake Sully chose to stay with the basketball playing tribes of Pandora.
This clip is causing me to feel differently about myself. Could I . . . could I secretly be. . . a basketball fan?!
Look, I watch hockey and all I can tell you is these guys would get five-for-swordfighting.
AS IF gay men don't love James Franco already...
OMG....I think I am a basketball fan too!
huh? looks like just another piece of pretentious queer cinema crap to me.
James Franco is Hot!!!
I really love films I could not really live without...
I really love films I could not really live without...
I saw this at the Berlin Film Festival. Amazingly shot.
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I have been here before but this is about the best posts yet. keep it up!
May i also ask how come you publish this as yours, i readed it somewhere else