Week of Nov 17 & 24
Next weekend hosts two must-see Queer films -- pioneering 1983 Black Queer science fiction Born in Flames screens at the Hammer Museum on Sunday with director Lizzie Borden and star Adele Bertei. And the night before, directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein join for a very special screening of Oscar-winning doc Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt at the Academy Museum. Don't miss these special events!
FREE: Born in Flames // Stranger Inside
Nov 23, 7:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
Director Lizzie Borden and actor Adele Bertei in person
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.
Double feature with Cheryl Dunye's prison drama Stranger Inside.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive
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.
Also This Week
FREE: Hedda
Double Feature with Little Woods
Nov 19, 8:00 PM @ Aero Theater
Filmmaker Nia DaCosta and actor Tessa Thompson in person
Nia DaCosta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play -- which scandalized the 19th century world with its depiction of a woman's conflict between passion and material stability -- casting bi actress Tessa Thompson, placing it in the 1950s, and making the central love triangle Queer.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
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
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Nov 25, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Polyester
Nov 26, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart – until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
Fairyland
Nov 28, 29 & 30, 4:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s with her gay dad, activist and author Steve Abbott.
Ludwig
Nov 29, 2:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nov 30, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
The frantic runaway train vibe of Everything Everywhere All At Once drops in and out of too many genres and ideas to be just one thing--but story of a mother reconnecting with her queer daughter is the warm heart at the center of all the madcap universe-hopping hijinks.
In Theaters & Streaming
Hedda
Nia DaCosta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play -- which scandalized the 19th century world with its depiction of a woman's conflict between passion and material stability -- casting bi actress Tessa Thompson, placing it in the 1950s, and making the central love triangle Queer.
Come See Me in the Good Light
Sundance Festival Favorite awared winner -- In an intimate and joyful story of love in the face of loss, celebrated poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley find strength—and unexpected hilarity—in what might be their final year together.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
While completely incidental to the plot in the first two movies, Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig have both confirmed that Craig's sleuth Benoit Blanc is gay. No word yet on whether the third film gets any Queerer than the first two.
Showtimes from Fandango
On Netflix Nov 26
