Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
'Chris and Don: A Love Story' {4stars} (Washington Post) "Chris & Don: A Love Story" is Tina Mascara and Guido Santi's sensitive and affecting portrait of Don Bachardy and British author Christopher Isherwood's remarkable (for being so unremarkable) union. (Unrated - 90 minutes) S.
The SNG Machine!! (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior.From Isherwood's ... Download This movies In High Quality 300x faster downloads then anywhere else online. Watch new movies in theater in streaming divx format. No virus or spy ware when using the downloding movies software....
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
'Chris & Don' tells story of May-December love affair The complexities that attended writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy's early romance aren't hard to grasp. There was the three-decade age difference, Isherwood being 49 when he met the 18-year-old Bachardy on a Santa Monica, Calif., beach in 1953. Check the imbalance in their accomplishments: Isherwood's authorial celebrity having...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Film tells story of May-December love affair (A) The complexities that attended writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy's early romance aren't hard to grasp. There was the three-decade age difference, Isherwood being 49 when he met the 18-year-old Bachardy on a Santa Monica, Calif., beach in 1953. Check the imbalance in their accomplishments: Isherwood's authorial celebrity having been...
The Bayesian Heresy (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Chris & Don. A love story NYT Review ; The three-and-a-half-decade relationship of the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American portrait artist Don Bachardy is one of the ultimate true stories of a proto-gay-marriage succeeding in a forbidding climate.... Early in their relationship the two developed a special coded language to discuss themselves through notes and cartoon drawings in which...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
The long relationship of writer Christopher Isherwood (whose works inspired "Cabaret") and artist Don Bachardy is chronicled in "Chris & Don: A Love Story," directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Distinguished English author Christopher Isherwood , best known for his book Berlin Stories , basis of the musical Cabaret , met teenaged Don Bachardy on a Malibu beach in 1953. Despite a thirty-year age difference (Isherwood was already in his his late forties) the two fell in love and carried on a relationship for over thirty years, ending when Isherwood died of cancer in 1986. That they lived openly...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
On Valentine's Day in 1953, a Los Angeles teenager named Don Bachardy met the 48-year-old British author Christopher Isherwood on a Malibu beach. On the surface, Bachardy, a movie fan who specialized in having his picture taken with stars giving him an autograph, had little in common with the pat...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Chris & Don: A Love Story, a double portrait of the late writer Christopher Isherwood and his life partner, painter Don Bachardy, vibrates with life and love.
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Fairly across the board (other than for the occasional sour grape), Tina Mascara and Guido Santi's affectionate documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story has been favorably received by critics and public alike. Following my first write-up on the film during Frameline 32 , Dave Hudson at The Greencine Daily has—of course—compiled an aggregate of the film's critical response, which continues through its...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
British writer Christopher Isherwood and American artist Don Bachardy, had a long term relationship despite their 30 year age difference. A new film explores their story
Cinema de Merde (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Documentary about the relationship between Christopher Isherwood and his lover Don Bachardy.
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
PHOTO: "Chris & Don: A Love Story" A documentary by Asphalt Stars Productions on the life of artist Don Bachardy and his life partner Christopher Isherwood as reviewed in "Love That Dares to Speak Its Name," Newsweek, June 23, 2008, p. 58 . The headline is a clear play on an old Oscar Wilde saying. (See "Chris & Don: A Love Story" imbd.com accessed July 1, 2008 , Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
The three-decade-long between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait painter Don Bachardy turns out to be a love story for the ages.
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
On Friday Michael and I saw "Chris and Don: A Love Story," the critically acclaimed documentary about the longtime relationship between the writer Christopher Isherwood and his 30-years-younger lover, Don Bachardy. The film has been the toast of numerous film festivals, most recently here in New York at NewFest, so even though I went into it knowing very little about the principals beyond "Berlin Stories,"...
