Week of Jul 28
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Chinese director Geng Jun comes to LA for two screenings of his new film Bel Ami. While Geng is an acclaimed filmmaker, who won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for his film Free and Easy, his new film's focus on Queer lives in a small Chinese city means this film may never screen in his home country. Come support this rare movie!
Bel Ami
Jul 27, 7:00 PM @ Culver Theater
Jul 28, 7:30 PM @ Lumiere Music Hall
Director Geng Jun in person
This absurd comedy from Sundance alum Jun Geng follows a motley cast of Queer men and women living in a frozen city in the north of China.
Tickets from Culver Theater
Tickets from Lumiere Cinema
Also This Week
Chasing Chasing Amy
Aug 02, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Director Sav Rodgers in person
Chasing Chasing Amy explores the transformational impact of a ‘90s rom-com on a 12 year old kid from Kansas, coming of age and contending with queer identity. For young Sav Rodgers, the Kevin Smith cult classic, Chasing Amy, became a life raft. As Rodgers examines the film and its making as a cornerstone of LGBTQ+ cinema, he finds himself at a complicated crossroads.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Madame Wang's
Jul 29, 8:00 PM @ MutMuz Gallery
A KGB agent comes to California to meet Jane Fonda and prepare for a Russian takeover of the US. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant owned by an elderly transexual, Madame Wang.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment
Paris is Burning
Jul 30, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30 pm
This iconic documentary, filmed over seven years at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in New York City's ballroom scene, captures the end of a "Golden Age" drag scene--and introduced a whole lot of Queer vocabulary to mainstream audiences.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Aug 01, 7:00 PM @ Philosophical Research Society
Artist & Kenneth Anger Estate representative Brian Butler in person
Experimental filmmaker, occultist, and gay pioneer Kenneth Anger conceived this film experience in the 1950s, and reworked it many times in the years following until his death.
Marble Ass (1995)
Aug 01, 8:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
A transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war-torn country.
Next Week
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now Streaming
A Nice Indian Boy
When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.
