Week of Dec 8
If you missed it at AFIFest, this week is your chance to see TIFF darling (and now Chile's official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film) The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo for free thanks to American Cinematheque, with director Diego Céspedes joining for a Q&A.
FREE: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
Thu, Dec 11, 7:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker Diego Céspedes in person
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
L.A.: A Queer History
Sun, Dec 14, 7:00 pm @ Philosophical Research Society
Filmmaker Gregorio Davila in person
Most consider the NY Stonewall Riots of 1969 to be the birth of the Gay civil rights movement. But there have been activists, artists and innovators in L.A. since the turn of the 20th century. L.A. A Queer History is an educational, exciting and emotional epic saga spanning nearly a century featuring artists, scholars and first hand accounts from LGBTQ elders who lived it.
Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt
Mon, Dec 8, 8:00 pm @ 2220 Arts + Archives
Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment
My Own Private Idaho
Tue, Dec 9, 7:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
Sat, Dec 13, 6:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
The Color of Pomegranates
Wed, Dec 10, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Bisexual Soviet film director Sergei Parajanov was jailed for his art, his sexuality, and his support of nationalist movements within the USSR. None of his films are explicitly Queer by modern standards, but they play with gender, kitsch, and folklore in beautiful ways.
Showgirls
Fri, Dec 12, 2:00 pm @ New Beverly Cinema
A clumsy depiction of female bisexuality would normally not be enough to make Showgirls count as queer--but the film's cult classic status is sustained in large part by loyal Queer fans. Watch it, then go see documentary "You Don't Nomi" by Jeffrey McHale.
Carol
Fri, Dec 12, 7:20 pm @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Tangerine
Dec 12, 7:30 pm & Dec 13, 2:00 pm @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
A new queer Christmas classic, Tangerine follows trans workers Sin-Dee and Alexandra on a holiday odyssey across Los Angeles. Shot on a micro budget on three iPhones, Tangerine is a triumph of scrappy indie can-do--that led to Gotham and Spirit awards for co-star Mya Taylor.
Tokyo Godfathers
Sat, Dec 13, 3:45 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
In New York Short Films / Hotel Monterey
Sat, Dec 13, 4:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
Three films by Chantal Akerman: Hanging out in Yonkers, 1972; Untitled Film, 1970; Hotel Monterey, 1972.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Disobedience
Sun, Dec 14, 7:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
A photographer (Rachel Weisz) returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend (Rachel McAdams). Passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Just Added
Fucktoys
Wed, Dec 17, 7:00 pm & 10:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker and actor Annapurna Sriram in person
Join AP on a bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA. In this raucous odyssey, a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f-cking her sh-t up.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Next Week Highlights
Happy Holidays from George Kuchar
Thu, Dec 18, 8:00 pm @ 2220 Arts + Archives
A program of four short films from gay underground filmmaker George Kuchar, including Xmas 1986 in which Kuchar visits his dying friend and Thundercrack! collaborator Curt McDowell.
Pedro Almodóvar's Matador
Dec 20, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
US Restoration Premiere
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn’t commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Mala Noche
Sat, Dec 20, 9:30 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus Van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Badnam Basti
Sun, Dec 21, 6:30 pm @ Academy Museum
Perhaps the first Queer film from India, this story of a young man in a bisexual love triangle was heavily censored on release and believed lost until a print was found in 2019.
In Cinemas
The Chronology of Water (Opened Dec 5)
Kristin Stewart's directoral debut! Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman struggles to find her path. She manages to escape her family and enters university, where she finds refuge in literature. Gradually, words offer her an unexpected freedom…
