Week of Jan 26
Black Cat Cinema Series returns this week with their first screening of the year -- including a Q&A with the creative team behind 2013 festival favorite G.B.F.
This Glee-era comedy is a satire of the high school coming out story, in which a newly out teen finds himself caught in the claws of his school's three mean girl queens, all of whom want his friendship to burnish their own social cred. Darren Stein directs this sharp film with an equal mix of teeth, heart, and laughs.
G.B.F.
Wed, Jan 28, 7:30 pm @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Darren Stein, writer George Northy, and producer Stephen Israel in person
The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, while Tanner must decide whether his skyrocketing popularity is more important than the friendships he is leaving behind.
Just Added
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
Call Me by Your Name
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
This Week
My Own Private Idaho
Jan 27, 7:20 pm & Jan 28, 3:30 pm @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
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.
Happy Together
Tue, Jan 27, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted, the brokenhearted romance at the center of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, will leave you in tears over and over again.
A Useful Ghost
Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 6, various times @ Los Feliz 3
After Nat tragically dies from dust pollution, March is consumed by grief. But his daily life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife’s spirit has been reincarnated in a vacuum cleaner. As absurd as it seems, their bond is rekindled, stronger than ever. But it hardly to everyone’s liking. His family, still haunted by the accidental death of a factory worker, reject this supernatural relationship. To prove their love, Nat offers to clean the factory to prove herself a useful ghost, even if that means doing away with some lost souls…
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Some Like It Hot
Sat, Jan 31, 4:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Next Week
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Feb 02, 2:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an ‘internationally ignored’ but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a ‘beautiful gender of one’.
The Wizard of Oz
Feb 09, 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.
In Theaters
Pillion (Opens Feb 5)
The steamy Skarsgaard S&M movie finally gets a US release. A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.
