Elsinore

Founded in 1977, Frameline is a San Francisco-based nonprofit media arts organization dedicated to the development, exhibition, distribution, and preservation of LGBTQ+ cinema and independent queer media. Frameline Fall Showcase presents Elsinore By 1989 acclaimed Scottish actor Ian Charleson (a sensational Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers ), who had career-defining roles in Oscar-winning pictures Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982), yearns for his next great role. For Charleson, a gay man with AIDS, navigating Hollywood and keeping his personal life private is a minefield, and he’s drawn to the idea of revisiting his stage-actor roots. When Daniel Day Lewis abandons Richard Eyre’s ( Johnny Flynn, Ripley ) production of Hamlet at the National Theatre mid-performance, Charleson is poised to take over the play’s title role.

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