Week of Feb 9
Rare screening alert! Patrick Ian Polk is probably best known for Noah's Arc, the groundbreaking two-season 2005 LOGO Tv show that was followed by a 2008 feature Jumping the Broom, and then resurrected for 2020's The 'Rona Chronicles and 2025's Noah's Arc: The Movie. Before following Noah and friends for twenty years, Polk burst onto the scene in 2000 with Punks, which premiered at Sundance that year.
The film was never released on home video or streaming due to music rights issues, and chances to see it are few and far between -- so don't miss this special screening:
Punks
Thu, Feb 12, 8:00 pm @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
The life and times of a group of twentysomething black gay men living in West Hollywood.
Also This Week
The Wizard of Oz
Feb 09, 11 & 12, 2:30 PM @ Academy Museum
What movie better deserves the "Not Queer But Queer" label? Historians may debate exactly why Judy Garland was such an icon to the gay community, but for years being a "friend of Dorothy" was code for how closeted queers could find each other. See her in this iconic role.
Call Me By Your Name
SOLD OUT: Feb 13, 7:30 PM @ The Los Angeles Theatre
Star Timothée Chalamet in person
Sat, Feb 14, 8:30 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
All That Heaven Allows
Feb 14, 10:00 am & Feb 15, 10:00 am @ Vista Theater Hollywood
The 1950s domestic melodramas of Douglas Sirk have gone on to inspire generations of Queer filmmakers: Todd Haynes, John Waters, Almodóvar, Fassbinder and more have all cited his influence on their work.
SOLD OUT: Querelle
Sat, Feb 14, 6:30 pm @ Los Feliz 3
Actor Franco Nero in person
The final film made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this adaptation of the Jean Genet novel follows a sailor on leave in France as he simultaneously tries to cover up his involvement in a murder and embarks on a sexual odyssey of self-discovery.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Funeral Parade of Roses
Sun, Feb 15, 8:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Is there a film more ahead of its time? This funny but melancholy arthouse classic, set in a drag bar/brothel in the underground of 1960s Tokyo, is a film that still feels wildly fresh and boundary-pushing even 55 years later.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Next Week
Something Must Break
Feb 18, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Ester Martin Bergsmark in person
Co-curated by Zackary Drucker -- A gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.
The Craft
Feb 18, 7:30 PM @ Culver Theater
What is about 1990s horror overflowing with Queer subtext? The vampire movies get all the attention, but don't sleep on the lesbian undertones of the decade's various teen coven stories--none more enjoyable than the classic The Craft.
Arabian Nights
Feb 19, 7:30 pm & Feb 20, 7:30 pm @ New Beverly Cinema
The final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
The Bride of Frankenstein
Feb 20, 11:59 pm & Feb 21, 11:59 pm @ Vista Theater Hollywood
A camp sequel to gay director James Whale's monster flick Frankenstein, with one of the most enduring and iconic female monsters ever seen on screen -- starring Elsa Lanchester, who was married to closeted actor and Night of the Hunter director Charles Laughton.
Come See Me in the Good Light
Feb 21, 3:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
In an intimate and joyful story of love in the face of loss, celebrated poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley find strength—and unexpected hilarity—in what might be their final year together.
I Am Not Your Negro
Sun, Feb 22, 7:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript "Remember this House," this Oscar-nominated documentary is narrated by Samuel L Jackson as Baldwin shares his recollections of assassinated civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Giant
Feb 17, 2:00 PM @ Vista Theater Hollywood
The last film James Dean made before his untimely death, this lavish Technicolor epic is packed with queer icons. Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and Sal Mineo co-star in this frontier saga following a generation of cattle ranchers and oilmen in Texas.
