Week of Jul 21
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Gay filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Spa Night, Fire Island) joins a special screening of his latest film The Wedding Banquet, a remake of Ang Lee's 1993 breakout comedy of the same name.
The Wedding Banquet
Jul 25, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Director Andrew Ahn in person
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Just Added
Taxi Zum Klo (1980)
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
This Week
He Never Dies: The Films of Kalil Haddad
Jul 27, 7:30 PM @ 2220 Arts + Archives
Filmmaker Kalil Haddad in person
Queer Palestinian-Canadian filmmaker Kalil Hadid presents the LA Premiere of his short film series "He Never Dies," seven short films that blend archival, experimental, and erotic film.
The Little Mermaid
Jul 24, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Director Ron Clements and John Musker in person
This Disney classic, about a mermaid who dreams of being human, was co-written by out lyricist Howard Ashman. Ashman was openly gay during his career in the Disney Renaissance, and died of complications of AIDS while Beauty and the Beast was still in production.
But I'm a Cheerleader
Jul 21, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit single-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell in this now-classic queer comedy.
Hellraiser
Jul 23, 7:30 PM @ Culver Theater
The first film in gay writer/director Clive Barker's pain-and-pleasure demon horror franchise, which only got queerer in the 2022 reboot.
Tomboy
Jul 24, 7:00 PM @ Laemmle Glendale
The winner of the Teddy Award at the 2011 Berlinale, this French coming-of-age film from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) follows a 10 year-old who leads a new life as a boy after moving to a new neighborhood.
Tangerine
Jul 24, 7:00 PM @ Laemmle NoHo 7
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.
Shortbus
Jul 25, 10:00 PM & Jul 27 @ 3:00 pm @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell wrote and directed this sexually explicit ensemble comedy about the intersecting (sex) lives of couples gay straight and in-between, leading up to a gathering at the weekly Shortbus art/sex salon and orgy.
Vegas in Space
Jul 25, 10:00 PM & Jul 26 @ 10:15 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!
FREE: Tongues Untied
Jul 27, 4:00 PM @ Getty Museum
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act.
The Watermelon Woman
Jul 27, 6:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period.
Next 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 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
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.
