HITCH! The Original Cinema Influencer
Ongoing Series
The Egyptian brings an Alfred Hitchcock retrospective to span the summer! Hitchcock never made a film that was explicitly Queer, but his love of psychosexual tension certainly treaded near Queer themes and Queer-coded characters like cross-dressing Norman Bates, lovers Leopold & Loeb, and the sinister Mrs Danvers.
He collaborated with gay screenwriter Arthur Laurents (Rope), queer stars Farley Granger (Rope, Strangers on a Train) and Anthony Perkins (Psycho)--so there's a small feast for Queer cinephiles in this series.
HITCH! The Original Cinema Influencer
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
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Rope
Egyptian Theatre
Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Strangers on a Train
Egyptian Theatre
Based on the novel by lesbian Patricia Highsmith, starring bi actor Farley Granger (who came out in his 2007 memoir), this Hitchcock thriller is hardly subtle--with its queer-coded villain serving as a doppleganger for everything our meek protagonist wishes he could be.
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.
HITCH! The Original Cinema Influencer
PAST SCREENINGS
Rebecca
Egyptian Theatre
In Alfred Hitchcock's first American film, the villainous housekeeper Mrs. Danvers is coded as a lesbian--whose unhealthy obsession with the gentleman's dead first wife motivates her to try to destroy his new bride.
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Rope
Egyptian Theatre
Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
