Week of Nov 10
Come out for Outfest NEXT this weekend, then come back to LOOK Glendale on Monday for a special presentation of Rashaad Newsome's Assembly, co-presented by Outfest and the Black Cat Cinema Series.
Assembly
Nov 10, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome embarks on a journey with a global cast of artists, vogue dancers, and ground-breaking AI to transform a historic military facility in NYC into an Afro-futurist utopia. This once-in-a-lifetime performance captured on screen investigates and re-imagines LGBTQ and Black cultural expression through fresh, decolonized minds.
Also This Week
Such Feeling
Nov 13, 9:00 PM @ The Stray Theater
US Premiere
Aaa, Billy, Dawid, Filipka, and Olo perform, support each other, and protest, facing a hostile environment for queer people in Poland. In his first feature-length film, artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins accompanied this group of friends for a few years.
Tickets from Polish Film Festival North America
The Christmas Writer
Nov 11, 7:00 PM @ Laemmle NoHo 7
Writer/director Christin Baker with actors Kendahl Landreth, Jordan Myrick and Stacey Lee in person
Noel Robbins, a bestselling author of Christmas romances, faces writer’s block after her mother’s death and considers giving up holiday stories. Hoping to find inspiration, she returns to her hometown of Pinewood, where she reconnects with loved ones and meets Callie, a warmhearted bookstore owner and single mom. As Noel helps judge a Christmas story contest and embraces the town’s festive spirit, she rediscovers her passion for the season—and a new love along the way.
2025 HUMP! Film Festival
Nov 13, 6:30 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
After two decades of bringing independent, genre-bending, jaw-dropping adult short films to the masses, these days the HUMP! Jury receives way too many incredible, festival-worthy submissions each year to narrow them all down into one feature-length presentation. That means we ge
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
SOLD OUT: Blue Moon
Nov 14, 7:30 PM @ Aero Theater
Star Ethan Hawke in person
Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott star in this biopic of bisexual Broadway composer Lorenz Hart in the latest from Richard Linklater, which opened NEWFEST, New York's LGBT Film festival.
Now showing in theaters.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Just Added
The Academy Museum just announced their winter film program. Queer highlights include:
- The US restoration premiere of Pedro Almódovar's Matador, starring young Antonio Banderas as an apprentice bullfighter trying to prove his manhood at all costs;
- A special screening of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home with star and gay activist George Takei in person;
- Screenings of Mulholland Drive, The Wizard of Oz, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and more!
Community Notes
- Transmasc short documentary AKOB is looking for an experienced producer in the NY/Connecticut area. Paid opportunity, 10min short with series potential. Email akobfilm@gmail.com with any leads.
Next Week
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Nov 22, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Filmmakers Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, and Irwin Rapport, Chair, Board of Directors, The Foundation for the AIDS Monument in person
On the eve of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
In The Room: Chantal Akerman Short Films
Nov 23, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Three short films by Chantal Akerman: La Paresse, 1986; La Chambre 1972; Le 15/8, 1973.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Born in Flames
Nov 23, 7:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
Double Feature with Stranger Inside
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power… The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling and still-relevant classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women (across all lines of race, class and sexual preference) emerges to blow the System apart.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive
Coming to Theaters
Pillion (Opens Nov 28)
The trailer for this Starsgaard-starring gay dom/sub comedy/romance has been getting the Internet all hot and bothered. In theaters Thanksgiving.
