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Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Egyptian Theatre
If you love Queer cinema, you probably watched this movie a lot in high school. Rocky Horror needs no intro--but when do you get a chance to see it on the big screen ? No word on whether this screening will be encouraging callbacks or auctioning virgins before the show.
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named ‘Rocky’.
The Haunting
Aero Theater
The Haunting was remarkable for 1963 for having a main character who was a lesbian, without being punished for it. The 2018 Netflix miniseries adaptation makes Theo even more explicitly gay (and badass).
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Bride of Frankenstein
Vidiots Eagle Theater
A camp sequel to gay director James Whale's monster flick Frankenstein, with one of the most enduring and iconic female monsters ever seen on screen -- starring Elsa Lanchester, who was married to closeted actor and Night of the Hunter director Charles Laughton.
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Psycho
Egyptian Theatre
It's probably the OG problematic gender-crossed serial killer movie, but there's more Queer connections to Psycho. Anthony Perkins was boyfriend to Tab Hunter before his star turn in Psycho, and died of AIDS in 1992. The film was also remade in 1998 by gay director Gus Van Sant.
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
The Night of the Hunter
Brain Dead Studios
It's not just the camp value of Lillian Gish with a shotgun--this film is the only directorial effort from closeted actor Charles Laughton, and through that lens you can't help but see more in its serial-killing preacher targeting women whose sexual freedom he resents.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
The Wild Party
Los Feliz 3
Dorothy Arzner was a successful Hollywood director when there were few women, and even fewer out lesbians, at the top of the profession. This new restoration of the pre-code gem was an early talkie, and the earliest surviving film by Arzner.
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor’s respect.
La Bola Negra
Hammer Museum
Directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi
Tickets on sale Monday, November 2 at 11 a.m.
A new queer epic that feels like classic cinema. This romantic melodrama braids the stories of three gay men from different eras of Spainish history into a sweeping narrative about love, war, fascism, and inheritance. Directed by “Los Javis”, longtime partners Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi who broke up during the film's production.
A new queer epic that feels like classic cinema. This romantic melodrama braids the stories of three gay men from different eras of Spainish history into a sweeping narrative about love, war, fascism, and inheritance. Directed by “Los Javis”, longtime partners Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi who broke up during the film's production.
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La Bola Negra
A new queer epic that feels like classic cinema. This romantic melodrama braids the stories of three gay men from different eras of Spainish history into a sweeping narrative about love, war, fascism, and inheritance. Directed by “Los Javis”, longtime partners Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi who broke up during the film's production.
