Week of Mar 9
This week at USC, meet the filmmakers behind festival hit Row of Life, the story of out athlete Angela Madsen as she attempts a solo row from Los Angeles to Hawaii.
FREE: Row of Life
Mar 10, 7:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Director Soraya Simi and Editor Joseph DeRose in person
In 2020, Paralympic medalist and 16x Guinness World Record holder Angela Madsen attempted her final solo Ocean row - 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Hawaii. The film is a poetic story of bravery, resilience, and love between Angela and her wife Deb - separated by a vast ocean - supporting each other's dreams despite what became the ultimate cost.
Eros Month at New Beverly
The New Beverly pays tributes to the theater's history as a pornographic theater, The Eros, in the 1970s with a month of themed programming -- including Queer fave Showgirls, Anaïas Nin biopic Henry & June, and gay porn (18+ only) classics Forbidden Letters, The Night Before, and Nights in Black Leather.
This Week
Showgirls
Mar 10, 7:30 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
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.
The Wild Boys
Mar 10, 7:30 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Brief Encounter
Mar 10, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Often considered one of the best British films of all time, this tender tale of a forbidden affair between married partners is based on a play by gay writer Noel Coward, and director David Lean, who was no stranger to putting gay subtext in his films (hello, Lawrence of Arabia).
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Pickpocket
Mar 15, 12:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Bresson's tense thriller is never overtly gay, and in many ways is a moral parable. But the sensuous connections of pickpocketing, the psychosexual thrill, and the strange meetings of thieves (like in men's bathrooms) leaves a distinctly Queer impression on this nimble art.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
18+ ONLY: Forbidden Letters
Mar 15, 6:30 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
Unable to clear his head through casual sex, Larry reads through his letters to Richard, his older lover set to be released from prison.
18+ ONLY: The Night Before
Mar 15, 8:15 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
Hank is a slacker with no real ambition in life other than to meet all the interesting people in New York City. And that he does — or does he? — when he runs into Paul one day in Central Park.
Next Week
Jennifer's Body
Mar 18, 10:30 PM @ Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
Panned on release, queer film fans have since reclaimed this Diablo Cody-written horror film about a (literally) man-eating undead cheerleader and the... um... complicated relationship she has with her best female friend.
Tickets from Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
A Useful Ghost
Mar 20, 3:45 PM & 7:15 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.
Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps
Mar 21, 5:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
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.
18+ ONLY: Nights in Black Leather
Mar 21, 11:59 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
Peter Berlin writes about the – mostly sexual – experiences he had on a trip to San Francisco.
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
Mar 22, 4:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
In New York, Circle tries to leave a trans separatist cult.
