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Sarasota News Leader August 23, 2013 Page 79 a language level. I really think that we need Vidal: United States of Amnesia, meanwhile, to make a bigger effort in accepting people's offers an intimate portrait of the acerbic audifferences." thor in his final years. What began in 2011 as a small, one-day affair with just three films has blossomed into a full weekend event, starting with Friday's Opening Night Film G.B.F., running through Saturday's Centerpiece film Interior. Leather Bar and concluding with the Closing Night Film, Hot Guys with Guns. Burns Court Cinemas will host all the screenings. Perhaps most intriguing is Interior. Leather Bar, an experimental film co-directed by James Franco that takes as its subject an attempt to recreate the 40 minutes of material excised from William Friedkin's 1980 film Cruising. Friedkin has said the missing footage included graphic homosexual material that had to be cut to secure an R rating. Altogether, nine films will be shown, and the movies cover a wide stylistic ground. G.B.F., for example, is a "fun, silly" (Diouri's phrase) variation on the classic teen comedy, while Valentine Road probes the dark story of a 15-year-old California boy's murder. Gore "It's really more of a thought-provoking film and pushing the boundaries and seeing where our comfort zones are," Diouri says of Interior. The film inspired both excitement as well as negative reviews when it played at Sundance last winter.