Week of Aug 11
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The dog days of summer are here, and so is Dog Movie! See what we did there? Check out this microbudget Queer comedy on Friday with filmmaker Henry Hanson in person, with a special Q&A moderated by Vera Drew!
Dog Movie
Aug 15, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker Henry Hanson and host Vera Drew in person
A passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple sends their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog with the same name as the unemployed couch surfer they just can’t seem to confront.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Just Announced
The Academy Museum has announced their fall screening series and there are some amazing Queer events. Check out a special screening of 1989 Oscar Winner Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt with filmmakers Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein (The Celluloid Closet, Paragraph 175).
Also screening are Luchino Visconti's four-hour epic Ludwig, about the mad gay Bavarian king, Karyn Kusama in person for Jennifer's Body, Querelle, and the already sold-out Mysterious Skin restoration premiere and 50th anniversary celebration of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (get there early for a chance at the standby line!).
This Week
Taxi Zum Klo
Aug 12 @ 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
New 4K restoration! Ripploh's brutally honest portrayal of a gay schoolteacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives was startling for its time (Ripploh has admitted that much of the film was autobiographical).
Tickets from American Cinematheque
FREE: Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Double Feature with 3 Women
Aug 16, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
This ensemble film about a group of James Dean groupies reuniting for the 20th anniversary of his death, starring cis actress Karen Black as a trans woman, and co-starring Cher, has recently been reclaimed by Queer film fans.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive
Queer Lens on Los Angeles: Artists’ POV
Aug 17, 1:00 PM @ Getty Museum
Artists Anthony Friedkin, Catherine Opie, and Reynaldo Rivera in person
A panel discussion with three photographers who documented Queer life in Los Angeles from the 1960s through the 1990s.
The Birdcage
Aug 11, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents.
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Aug 12, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
One of the first films to even feature a trans lead actor, Warhol muse Holly Woodlawn stars in this wacko underground musical comedy, which has been lovingly restored by the Academy Film Archive and American Genre Film Archive.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Multiple Maniacs
Aug 13, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover’s affair.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Plan 9 from Outer Space / Ed Wood
Aug 17, 6:00 PM & 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Braindead Studios hosts a double feature spotlighting the "worst director of all time," lifelong cross-dresser Ed Wood Jr. First up is Wood's infamous B movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, followed by Tim Burton's 1994 biopic.
Plan 9 From Outer Space at Brain Dead Studios
Ed Wood at Brain Dead Studios
Next Week
The Conformist
Aug 21, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Bertolucci's towering, relevant masterpiece follows a repressed man who joins the Italian fascist party and agrees to assassinate his mentor, all in the hopes of finding his way to belong in society.
Ema
Aug 18, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Check out Ema, the tense tale of a young bisexual dancer trying to get her son back at all costs as her marriage collapses.
All About Eve
Aug 20, 3:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing.
Polyester
Aug 20, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart – until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Desperate Living
Aug 22, 9:55 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
Moonlight
Aug 23, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Elizabeth Taylor Triple Feature
Aug 24, 2:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Secret Ceremony, Boom!, X Y & Zee
Elizabeth Taylor was a true Hollywood star, an Oscar winning actress, a trailblazing AIDS activist, and a camp film queen. Check out three of her most outrageous roles as part of the Academy Museum's "Summer of Camp" Series.
