Week of Oct 27
.jpg)
Outfest returns, and so does their longstanding collaboration with the UCLA Film and TV Archive, the Legacy Project Screening Series. Before Anthony Mackie was Captain America, he starred in the 2004 feature debut from Rodney Evans. Don't miss this free screening, and then check out the newest from Outfest next weekend.
FREE: Brother to Brother
Nov 01, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
With Rodney Evans' 2022 short film "Portal"
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive
BRAVO Film Festival
Woops! With so many film festivals going on this fall, we missed one. The Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival has relaunched as the BRAVO Film Festival this year, and unfortunately they just wrapped. Check out some of their picks here to add to your watchlist for when they are streaming!
This year's selections included coming of age stunner The Nature of Invisible Things that wowed audiences at Berlin and Frameline; cost of fame drama Papagaios, and erotic thriller Night Stage from the directing duo behind 2018 Teddy winner Hard Paint (now streaming free on Kanopy).
Bravo Film Festival on Instagram
Halloween Picks
Hellbent
Oct 29, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Paul Etheredge in person
A night filled with beautiful people, music and dancing at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival turns deadly for four gay friends. When two men are found dead, the friends find that they are the killer’s next target.
SOLD OUT: Deep Red
Oct 30, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Director Dario Argento in person
One of Dario Argento's most famous Italian horror films, many of which play with gender, sexuality, and social critique, Deep Red has a gay supporting character who is wrongly assumed to be guilty because of his sexuality.
Tinsman Road
Nov 01, 9:20 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Robbie Banfitch in person
In the backwoods of New Jersey a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.
Flesh for Frankenstein 3D
Oct 28, 8:00 PM @ MutMuz Gallery
Paul Morrissey wasn't queer, but he was a frequent collaborator of Andy Warhol's, and his underground films featured trans breakouts like Holly Woodlawn, bisexual leading man Joe Dallesandro, and prolific gay actor Udo Kier. Don't miss this X-rated sexploitation horror tribute.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment
Bride of Frankenstein
Oct 29, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
A camp sequel to gay director James Whale's monster flick Frankenstein, with one of the most enduring and iconic female monsters ever seen on screen.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Cat People
Oct 30, 7:30 PM @ Aero Theater
An early horror classic, this tale of monstrously-repressed female desire has attracted a growing scholarly attention as Queer-coded. The film's central conceit, of a woman who cannot consummate her marriage for fear of an ancient monster emerging, can carry many Queer readings.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Hellraiser
Oct 30, 9:45 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
The first film in gay writer/director Clive Barker's pain-and-pleasure demon horror franchise, which only got queerer in the 2022 reboot.
The Haunting
Oct 31, 1:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
The Haunting was remarkable for 1963 for having a main character who was a lesbian, without being punished for it. The 2018 Netflix miniseries adaptation makes Theo even more explicitly gay (and badass).
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Psycho
Oct 31, 7:30 PM @ Aero Theater
It's probably the OG problematic gender-crossed serial killer movie, but there's more Queer connections to Psycho. Anthony Perkins was boyfriend to Tab Hunter before his star turn in Psycho, and died of AIDS in 1992. The film was also remade in 1998 by gay director Gus Van Sant.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
American French Film Festival
he American French Film Festival returns this week. Use promo code CINEMA for 20% off your tickets!
Love Me Tender
Oct 29, 8:50 PM @ DGA Theater
Writer/director Anna Cazenave Cambet in person
At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices.
Tickets from The American French Film Festival
FREE: Scrub and Rub
Oct 30, 11:00 AM @ DGA Theater
Exploited, mistreated and scammed by their shady employers, a feisty group of chambermaids at a Lille hotel decide to go on strike. Based on a true story and armed with a terrific cast, the four-part miniseries SCRUB AND RUB deftly blends social realism and comic moments.
Tickets from The American French Film Festival
The Little Sister
Nov 01, 8:05 PM @ DGA Theater
Star Nadia Melliti in person
Queer Palm winner!
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?
Tickets from The American French Film Festival
The Seduction
Nov 02, 8:10 PM @ DGA Theater
Composer Delphine Malaussena in person
To be the hero of your own story, you sometimes have to be the villain in others’. Marquise de Merteuil, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris’ leading courtesan. Freely adapted from the novel “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
Tickets from The American French Film Festival
Also This Week
FREE: Plainclothes
Oct 27, 7:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Writer/Director Carmen Emmi in person
In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he’s surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.
FREE: Lesbian Space Princess
Oct 29, 3:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Introverted lesbian space princess Saira embarks on a mission to rescue her ex from evil incel aliens, enlisting the help of an enby popstar and a cantankerous boomer spaceship.
Little Trouble Girls
Oct 29, 7:00 PM @ AMC Rolling Hills
Introverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria, a popular and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls.
Tickets from South Bay Film Society
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Nov 02, 1:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Paris is Burning
Nov 02, 4:00 PM @ Array Creative Campus
This iconic documentary, filmed over seven years at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in New York City's ballroom scene, captures the end of a "Golden Age" drag scene--and introduced a whole lot of Queer vocabulary to mainstream audiences.
Outfest NEXT
All That We Love
Nov 06, 6:00 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
Filmmakers in Attendance
Following the death of her family dog, Emma finds herself at a crossroads where grief and release play together: a midlife awakening is now in full throttle, and those closest to Emma feel the impact, including her best friend Stan and her rambunctious daughter Maggie. To make matters more complicated and ripe for comedic mishaps, Emma’s estranged ex-husband Andy returns to the city from Singapore down on his professional luck and aiming to rekindle things with his lost love.
Dust Bunny
Nov 06, 8:30 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
Filmmakers in Attendance
An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.
The Broken Hearts Club
25th Anniversary Screening
Nov 07, 6:00 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life’s disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.
Rock Out
Nov 07, 8:30 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
In electric, personal, and historical ways, this riveting documentary explores whether there is, or ever was, a home for Queer in the hyper-masculine, black painted worlds of heavy metal, punk and rock & roll.
At the Place of Ghosts
Sk+te'kmujue'katik
Nov 08, 11:00 AM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Haunted by the past, siblings Mise’l and Antle are destined to reunite and join forces against a dark spirit that emerges from their shared childhood. Once inseparable, their fractured relationship set by years of silence and a violent episode rooted in homophobia, is tested as they must return to Sk+te’kmujue’kati (the Place of Ghosts) a forest steeped in ancestral memory where time bends.
Looking Back, Facing Forward
Outfest Short Selects
Nov 08, 11:30 AM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
As Outfest returns from a long hiatus, we want to honor our community of filmmakers by showcasing a selection of the films that have uplifted Outfest and its audiences over the course of its long history in the Los Angeles LGBTQIA+ community.
Niñxs
Nov 08, 1:00 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztlán. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla’s body and mind are undergoing a revolution.
Drive Back Home
Nov 08, 1:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together - discovering each other and themselves along the way.
Love Letters
Des preuves d'amour
Nov 08, 3:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
Pride Is a (Laugh) Riot
Short Film Program
Nov 08, 3:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
There’s a lot you could say about our community: some of it’s good, some of it’s even better. But one thing no one has ever said is, “queer people are not funny.” (Well, no one worth listening to, anyway.) These shorts showcase the queer experience in all its joyful hilarity.
I Want You So Bad
Short Film Program
Nov 08, 5:45 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
We talk a lot in our community about the beauty of queer love—but in this shorts program we want to focus on that other, particular queer phenomenon: the sensuous ache for someone—or something—and the confusing mix of feelings that come when we get what we want.
We Are Pat
Nov 08, 6:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a child, filmmaker Ro Haber became obsessed with Pat—a character whose popularity stemmed from making others uncomfortable by defying gender norms.
CAMP
Nov 08, 8:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
A story of impossible redemption, feminine power, and duels that repeat themselves like cursed cycles.
Perro Perro
Nov 08, 9:00 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Some men are literal dogs! And Juan happens to find one in the wilderness while on vacation. He takes him in, bathes him, feeds him, and shows him much-needed affection. However, his girlfriend warns against becoming too attached…
Communing with the Past
Short Film Program
Nov 09, 12:00 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
There are few things that will make a queer person feel less alone than surrounding yourself with queer (or even straight) people of other generations—it can and must be a source of solidarity and strength to learn how to move through an often brutal world, or even how to party.
Drunken Noodles
Nov 09, 12:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York to spend the summer in an apartment. He interns at a gallery that exhibits the work of an older, unconventional artist he once crossed paths with. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters, both artistic and erotic, open gaps in his everyday reality.
Dreams in Nightmares
Nov 09, 2:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
After an abrupt layoff, Z embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures.
State of Firsts
Nov 09, 2:45 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
A documentary that follows Sarah McBride’s groundbreaking first year in Congress as the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. legislature, State of Firsts captures her battle against relentless political attacks. As MAGA Republicans ban her from restrooms and publicly misgender her, McBride confronts threats and discrimination with resilience.
Christy
Nov 09, 5:15 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it—confronting family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.
The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Short Film Program
Nov 09, 5:45 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance in person
If there’s one thing queer people understand, it’s how to play with form to make an object more interesting. From surreal horror to dystopian animation to blaxploitation, these filmmakers reinterpret the genres they’re working in to create work that is altogether captivating...
Lakeview
Nov 09, 8:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
A queer ensemble comedy set over a weekend at the lake house of a group of lifelong friends
Touch Me
Nov 09, 8:45 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Also Next Week
The Stranger
Nov 03, 12:50 PM @ DGA Theater
Out French provocatuer Francois Ozon adapts the classic existentialist novel by Albert Camus.
Tickets from The American French Film Fetival
Je Tu Il Elle
Nov 04, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
50th Anniversary screening, with Ackerman's early short films.
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will
Nov 07, 7:00 PM @ Milagro Cinemas
A documentary series with unprecedented access to Juan Gabriel’s personal archives, including videos he filmed himself. Across four episodes, this investigation offers an intimate and revealing story about Alberto Aguilera Valadez, the man behind the iconic Mexican music idol.
Tickets from GuadaLAjara Film Festival
We Forgot to Break Up
Nov 07, 8:00 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Person in person
A trans musician is caught in a love triangle with his bandmates as they rise to fame, in this love letter to Toronto’s 2000s music scene.
