Week of May 12
FREE: Dzi Croquettes
We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thing
May 18, 7:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
LA Latino International Film Festival
The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival returns for its 24th year, May 28 - June 1. Queer picks include
- ASCO: Without Permission, about the 1970s Chicano art/activist group in Los Angeles, fresh from its SXSW premiere;
- Trans Los Angeles, a four-part anthology film featuring four trans characters all in different parts of LA;
- Rains Over Babel, a magical-realist film about the living and the dead crossing paths in a drag bar one night;
and even more. Check out our Queer picks and the full program:
LA Latino International Film Festival ↗
Academy Museum Summer Programs
The Academy Museum has announced their summer program, running from June through August, and there's no shortage of Queer films to put on your calendar. Highlights include:
- Queer Period: Desire Through the Ages series, featuring Queer stories set in the 1550s through the 1950s;
- Summer of Camp series, focused on films that embody the "so bad it's good" aesthetic of camp;
- Moonlight, Saved!, Love Simon, and more.
Check out the Academy Museum's full summer calendar for these and more films hosted at the museum.
All Academy Museum Film Programs ↗
Also This Week
Orlando
Double Feature with Female Perversions
May 13 & 14, 7:30 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
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.
Tickets from The New Beverly ↗
Dog Day Afternoon
May 17, 11:30 AM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
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 Alamo Drafthouse ↗
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
May 18, 4:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
An amazing example of how the studios self-censored under the Hays code, Tennessee Williams' play about a closeted football star was adapted into a movie that talks in circles, but still won Oscars. Williams told fans "This movie will set the industry back 50 years. Go home!"
