Week of Apr 7
This week brings two chances to see the new restoration of High Art, the iconic 1998 indie lesbian romantic drama that has been hard-to-see for too many years. Director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) joins for Q&As at Vidiots and The Egyptian. Don't miss it!
High Art
Apr 08, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Writer/Director Lisa Cholodenko, Q&A moderated by Desiree Akhavan
Apr 09, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Writer/Director Lisa Cholodenko in person
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
TCM Classic Film Festival
Classical Hollywood is full of Queer films--works by Queer directors, with Queer stars, and with Queer characters, obvious or not--and the annual TCM Classic Film Festival (April 24-27) does not skimp out.
Our picks include The Ritz (1976), about a straight man hiding out from the mob in a gay bathhouse, Marlene Dietrich's infamous gender-bending cabaret act in her breakout Morocco (1930), a pair of mob henchmen who are likely boyfriends in noir The Big Combo (1955), landmark Black gay liberationist Lindy in Car Wash (1976), and many more.
Also This Week
It's Pat
Apr 09, 7:30 PM @ Dynasty Typewriter
Star/co-writer Julia Sweeney and We Are Pat director Rowan Haber in person
Julia Sweeney's "Pat" character--whose indeterminate gender is the setup for endless confusion--gets a feature film. Sweeney then played herself in the Showtime series Work in Progress from Abby McEnany and Lilly Wachowski, confronted by characters who grew up in Pat's cultural shadow.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment ↗
The Day of the Locust
Apr 09, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Gay director John Schlesinger directs this adaptation of the classic novel of Hollywood depravity, adding moments of gay panic and grotesquerie to elevate the film's social horror.
Use code QueerFilmLA2025 for $2 off your ticket.
Mulholland Drive
Apr 09, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
In David Lynch's maniacal, notorious thriller, amnesia-suffering Rita, who barely escapes murder on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios ↗
Call Me By Your Name
Apr 10, 4:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.
Next Week
Where In The Hell
Apr 19, 8:15 PM @ South Park Center
Director Laramie Dennis with cast & crew in person
When her girlfriend disappears mid-road trip, sardonic prop master Kasey is left stranded in a California backwater. Panicked, she hitches a ride with cash-strapped actor Alan on his trek to an audition in Canada. Together, the unlikely duo dodges Reno psychics, stale corn nuts, and border security on a quest to find a missing soulmate and maybe validation.
Tickets from New Filmmakers LA ↗
FREE: The Wedding Banquet
Apr 16, 7:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee’s expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
Farewell My Concubine
Apr 18, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
This Chinese 1992 Palm D'Or winner (the Queer Palm didn't exist until 2010) was banned in its home country shortly after release, in part for the film's unrequited gay love story. Stars out bi Cantopop star Leslie Cheung, who also starred in Wong Kar Wei's gay drama Happy Together.
Use code QueerFilmLA2025 for $2 off your ticket.
Midnight Cowboy
Apr 18, 9:45 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios ↗
Little Shop of Horrors
Apr 20, 4:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
This musical classic, about a carnivorous plant and its meek owner, was co-written by out lyricist Howard Ashman. Ashman was openly gay during his career in the Disney Renaissance, and died of complications of AIDS while Beauty and the Beast was still in production.
Now Streaming
The World According to Allee Willis
Frameline Audience Award winner (and Queer Film LA team favorite) The World According to Allee Willis is now streaming on Hulu! This documentary follows the career of queer songwriter Allee Willis, who isn't a household name but wrote September, Boogie Wonderland, and the Friends theme song---and threw some of the best parties of the 1980s.
The World According to Allee Willis on Hulu ↗
In Theaters
Viet & Nam - opened April 4
This dreamy and erotic drama, about the illicit romance between two coal miners in Northern Vietnam, premiered at Cannes this year. Now banned in its home country, the film explores the scars of war and the pain of leaving home.
