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Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.

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.

Withnail & I
Brain Dead Studios
Depending who you ask, this British cult black comedy is either homophobic, due to its treatment of Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Morty, or a queer-coded romance, with something special lurking underneath the main characters' close-but-complicated friendship.
Two out-of-work actors – the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail – spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday “by mistake” at the country house of Withnail’s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Some Like It Hot
Academy Museum
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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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.