Week of Jun 30 & Jul 7
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Pride month wraps up and the dog days of summer are here. The calendar lightens up as we head into the holiday, but don't miss the next great screening from the Black Cat Cinema Series, as well as a few great picks with filmmakers across LA:
The Cakemaker
Jul 09, 7:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Ofir Raul Grazier in person
Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent business visits in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death.
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Strangers on a Train
Jun 30, 1:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Based on the novel by lesbian Patricia Highsmith, starring bi actor Farley Granger (who came out in his 2007 memoir), this Hitchcock thriller is hardly subtle--with its queer-coded villain serving as a doppleganger for everything our meek protagonist wishes he could be.
Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps
Jun 30, 7:30 PM @ Art Theater Long Beach
Director Louise Weard in person
Part i of Castration Movie follows a trans woman named Michaela "Traps" Sinclair, a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends. As the weight of the world piles up on her she decides to pursue her dream of settling down and having a child until her fantasy shatters around her.
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach
Desert Hearts
Jun 30, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against the breathtaking desert landscape.
Dog Day Afternoon
Jul 02, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
A true Story! Young Al Pacino plays John Wojtowicz, who tries to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. The real Wojtowicz was an active gay liberationist, and tells his own story in the 2013 documentary "The Dog."
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Rebels of the Neon God
Jul 03, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
This breakout film from out Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang follows three disaffected teenagers, one of whom is heavily implied to be queer.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Jean Cocteau Birthday Celebration Fundraiser!
Jul 05, 6:00 PM @ Philosophical Research Society
ft. Testament of Orpheus
Celebrate the birthday of biisexual writer/filmmaker/surrealist and movie special effects pioneer Jean Cocteau, who frequently casts his lover, French screen superstar Jean Marais, in his magical films.
Next Week
Vegas in Space
Jul 11, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Filmmaker Phillip R. Ford in person
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!
Saved!
Jul 10, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Director Brian Dannelly in person
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.
My Own Private Idaho
Jul 11, 7:15 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
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.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
The Children's Hour
Jul 13, 1:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
