Monday, September 18, 2017

It Will Be Dec. 5 For Wolfe's DVD Debut Of Documentary Filmmaker Jennifer Kroot’s The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Famed Tales of the City author, Armistead Maupin, is the subject of documentary filmmaker Jennifer Kroot’s The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, which will be making it’s DVD debut courtesy of Wolfe on Dec. 5.

Maupin led the life of a would-be southern gentleman, educated, privileged, a Vietnam War vet … and then he moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s as an AP reporter and there he found his “muse.”   The nine Tales of the City novels followed (and an Emmy-nominated mini-series) and Maupin found himself as an unlikely voice of gay rights.

Kroot, who has scored numerous film festival awards (FilmOut San Diego, Nashville Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, etc.) for her insights into Maupin’s life, uses a blend of humor and in-your-face storytelling to flush out the life and times of Armistead Maupin.   Think about it … Vietnam, Haight-Ashbury, the arrival of the mystery HIV virus and more, and Maupin was a witness to it all.  A front row seat and the ability to write about it in the most intimate of ways.
DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin is a great companion piece to the Tales of the City mini series starring Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney and Ian Mckellen (among others), who all appear in Kroot’s documentary.   Bonus features include deleted scenes.




DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


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