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Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
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.
Talk to Her
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
This madcap drama, with a whirling story of multiple women, their lovers, and some gazpacho laced with sleeping pills, is one of the greats from out Spanish director Pedro Almod�var. It's not one of his Queer films, but this is the film that put him on the map internationally.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
All About My Mother
Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
This compassionate, sprawling melodrama follows Manuela after the death of her 17 year-old son Esteban. She sets out in search of Esteban's father, now a trans woman named Lola, who is sick with AIDS. It's the kind of film only Almodóvar can make, lurid and lovely and memorable.
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
The Return of the Living Dead
Vidiots Eagle Theater
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
The Skin I Live IN
Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds
Hammer Museum
An evening of short films and a pre-screening talk by Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds.
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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.
