Week of Jun 2
The Queer Film LA team will be at West Hollywood Pride, today and tomorrow, and Los Angeles Pride next Saturday, June 8. We'll be giving away these amazing glitter stickers, and raffling off donations from our partners, including exhibition catalogs from the Academy Museum, annual memberships at Vidiots, event passes at the Philosophical Research Society, and more.
Come say hi and meet the team!
New Filmmakers LA
New Filmmakers Los Angeles spotlights Queer filmmakers and Queer films in their June edition, June 14 at the South Park Center. Join for three short film programs all featuring Queer films from emerging filmmakers, and check out their online panels and other programming!
This Week
Cruising (1980)
Jun 06 & 07, 11:59 PM @ Vista Theater Hollywood
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city’s underground gay bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
FREE: In the Best Interests of the Children (1977)
Jun 06, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
Filmmakers Frances Reid and S. Topiary Landberg in person
Gay mothers argue for the right to custody of their children.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Funeral Parade of Roses
Jun 07, 9:45 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
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.
The Leather Boys
Jun 07, 10:00 PM & Jun 08, 6:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to drift apart. Dot seems content to pursue her own interests, until Reggie meets Pete, a fellow cyclist, and begins to explore his own identity.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jun 07, 11:59 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
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’.
Tickets from The New Beverly ↗
An Evening with Melanie Lynskey and Clea DuVall
Jun 08, 7:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Melanie Lynskey and Clea DuVall in person
A special conversation and very-rarely-screened top-secret screening of one of Melanie’s earliest and most defining films, a dark, imaginative, and groundbreaking coming-of-age story. You won’t find this masterpiece streaming anywhere, and certainly not with the star of the film.
Victor/Victoria
Jun 07, 3:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Author Alonso Duralde in person
Julie Andrews stars in this musical remake of the 1933 German film about a woman singer who takes a job as a female impersonator.
SOLD OUT: Beau Travail
Jun 07, 4:15 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Filmmaker Claire Denis in person
It's not gay but... those handsome soldiers, the beautiful cinematography, the bodies in the sun, woof. This tale of obsession and jealousy between an older sergeant and a young recruit from French master Claire Denis is a smoldering and sensual examination of men's worlds.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
FREE: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Jun 07, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
30th anniversary screening!
Touching and poignant, the acclaimed coming-of-age comedy The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love tells the story of two teenagers whose unexpected friendship grows into the joyful wildness of first love.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Paris is Burning
Jun 07, 8:00 PM & Jun 08, 2:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
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.
Withnail and I
Jun 04, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration
Depending who you ask, this British cult black comedy is either homophobic, due to its treatment of Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Morty, or a queer-coded romance, with something special lurking underneath the main characters' close-but-complicated friendship.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Manila in the Claws of Light
Jun 06, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Jun 06, 10:00 PM & Jun 07, 2:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who’s hell-bent on keeping him with her…at all costs.
Next Week
I Am Divine
Jun 09, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Jeffrey Schwaz in person
The Black Cat Cinema Series kicks off with this documentary about Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen.
Showgirls
Jun 13, 9:00 PM @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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.
Shortbus
Jun 13, 10:00 PM & Jun 14, 2:00 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.
Mala Noche
Jun 14, 7:00 PM & Jun 15, 2:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
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.
FREE: Opponent
Jun 15, 3:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema
This Teddy Award-nominated thriller is about Iman, a Iranian refugee and his family living in Sweden. Iman returns to his hobby of wrestling, despite the fact that he may be inviting the same kind of trouble that made the family flee their home country.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Orlando
Jun 15, 6:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Adapted from Virginia Woolfe's novel, this film follows Tilda Swinton as Orlando, an young nobleman who lives for centuries, and awakes one day to find himself transformed into a woman. Watch it, then check out last year's Teddy documentary winner Orlando: My Political Biography.
In Cinemas
Block Pass (La Pampa) - Opens Jun 11
This French coming of age tale is about the friendship between two youths in a small town, who pass their time in the macho subculture of the local motocross, when one confides in the other that he is gay.
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