Week of Aug 4
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Pride season may have passed but this week brings a number of landmark Queer films with filmmakers this week -- including Jenni Olson, Nisha Ganatra, and more!
The Royal Road
Aug 04, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Jenni Olson in person
A poetic essay on California's landscapes, cinematic reinvention, and butch identity, blending personal insights with historical reflection.
S/He is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary
Aug 09, 7:00 PM @ Philosophical Research Society
Director David Charles Rodrigues in person
Very few artists lived their art, Genesis died three times for it. Pioneering electronic musician/avant garde artist/spiritual explorer/gender revolutionary/cult leader? Genesis P. Orridge has been featured in numerous films and videos, but never the full story…never this intimate... until now.
Chutney Popcorn
Aug 10, 6:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Filmmaker Nisha Ganatra in person
Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister’s baby, hoping to improve her relationship with their mother, who disapproves of Reena’s sexual orientation. Reena has second thoughts when her girlfriend Lisa feels left out.
Walker Marathon
Aug 10, 11:00 AM @ Aero Theater
Director Tsai Ming-Liang in person
Out Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang presents a special marathon screening of all ten films in his "Walker" series, a series that blends experimental film with spiritual practice.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Taxi Zum Klo
Aug 05, 7:00 PM; Aug 10 @ 4:00 PM & 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). On its release in 1980 the film was siezed by US Customs and deemed "pornographic." With its frank depiction of sexuality, the film is a loving document of pre-AIDS gay culture in West Berlin in the early 1980s and a touching comedy about the human desire for and struggle to achieve intimacy. "
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Psycho
Aug 06, 1:00 PM @ 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.
Pink Flamingos
Aug 06, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Join John Waters for a special screening of his trash masterpiece Pink Flamingos on the big beautiful screen in the David Geffen Theater. Make a day of it and check out the Academy Museum's John Waters Pope of Trash exhibit beforehand to see Waters' whole career in retrospective.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Rebel Without A Cause
Aug 08, 9:15 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
"It is of course vita that there be no inference of a questionable or homosexual relationship between Plato and Jim" wrote the MPPC censors, scolding this film from bisexual director Nicholas Ray with bi star James Dean and the "first gay teen on screen" played by out Sal Mineo.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Next Week
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
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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
In Cinemas Soon
This week dropped new trailers and release dates for two of this fall's most anticipated Queer films:
- Sundance hit Twinless, starring Dylan O'Brien and writer director James Sweeney will open in theaters September 5.
- The History of Sound, starring Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal, opens September 12.
Stay tuned for theaters, showtimes, and hopefully a few events with the cast and crew of these buzzy Queer films.
