Week of Jun 9
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The new Black Cat Cinema Series kicks off this week with a special screening of I Am Divine at LOOK Cinemas in Glendale. This hilarious and moving documentary tells the story of infamous drag queen Divine, star of many John Waters films. Director Jeffrey Schwarz will join in-person for a Q&A, and don't forget to hang out with other Queer film fans at the lounge.
And stay tuned for a date and ticket announcement for the next film in the Black Cat series, Ofir Raul Graizer's The Cakemaker.
I Am Divine
Jun 09, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Jeffrey Schwaz in person
Hitchcock at the Egyptian
The Egyptian brings an Alfred Hitchcock retrospective to span the summer! Hitchcock never made a film that was explicitly Queer, but his love of psychosexual tension certainly treaded near Queer themes and Queer-coded characters like cross-dressing Norman Bates, lovers Leopold & Loeb, and the sinister Mrs Danvers.
He collaborated with gay screenwriter Arthur Laurents (Rope), queer stars Farley Granger (Rope, Strangers on a Train) and Anthony Perkins (Psycho)--so there's a small feast for Queer cinephiles in this series.
Hitch! The Original Cinema Influencer at the Egyptian
This Week
New Filmmakers LA: June LGBTQ+ In-Focus
New Filmmakers Los Angeles spotlights Queer filmmakers and Queer films in their June edition, June 14 at the South Park Center.
Tickets from New Filmmakers LA
Silence is a Falling Body
Jun 11, 7:30 PM @ Philosophical Research Society
Cine Apartamento, El Cine, and 7th House are proud to co-present a special LA screening of Agustina Comedi’s 2017 documentary, offering a fascinating exploration of her father’s hidden sexuality, activism, and grief in 1980s Argentina.
High Art
Jun 09, 7:30 PM & Jun 10, 7:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Happy Together
Jun 09, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
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.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Jun 12, 7:00 PM @ Desert 5 Spot
The Australian drag road trip classic (starring three actors who have all since played comic movie supervillains).
Bad Education
Jun 12, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Bottoms
Jun 12, 8:35 PM @ Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
PJ and Josie start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But the pair find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.
Tickets from Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
Showgirls
Jun 13, 9:00 PM @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Jun 14, 11:00 PM @ Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
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.
Tickets from Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
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.
Cobra Woman
Jun 14, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Author Alonso Duralde in person
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
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.
The Birdcage
Jun 15, 11:50 AM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents.
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.
Pink Narcissus
Jun 15, 8:15 PM; Jun 16, 7:00 PM & Jun 18, 8:15 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
This lush erotic epic, framed as the fantasies of a bored rentboy, was filmed over the course of six years on elaborate sets built inside the Manhattan apartment of director James Bidgood. No advance sales, tickets are free and open to the public.
In Cinemas
The Queen of My Dreams (Opens Jun 20)
This feature from from Queer actor, writer and director Fawz Mirza follows the entwined stories of a queer Pakistani-Canadian girl in 1999 and her mother in 1969, interwoven with their shared love of Bollywood movies.
