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Screenings & Events
Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
The Warriors
New Beverly Cinema
Walter Hill cut the all-gay gang from the script of his much-imitated New York gang flick, but the homophobic tensions between the young men were still enough to get the film mentioned in "The Celluloid Closet."
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York’s gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus’ death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors’ trail.
Withnail and I
Los Feliz 3
West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration
Depending who you ask, this British cult black comedy is either homophobic, due to its treatment of Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Morty, or a queer-coded romance, with something special lurking underneath the main characters' close-but-complicated friendship.
Two out-of-work actors – the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail – spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday “by mistake” at the country house of Withnail’s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
Manila in the Claws of Light
Los Feliz 3
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
In the Best Interests of the Children
with Lesbian Custody
Legacy Project Screening Series
Hammer Museum
Filmmakers Frances Reid and S. Topiary Landberg.
Gay mothers argue for the right to custody of their children.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Eastwood Performing Arts Center
An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who’s hell-bent on keeping him with her…at all costs.
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Lumiere Music Hall
Writer Peter Atkins and director Tony Randel
The Hellraiser series, from out writer/director/producer Cliver Barker, are horror films where queer themes run plainly across the surface. While Hellbound is less overtly gay than other entries in the series, Barker's kinky pleasure-demons are unmistakable icons of Queer horror.
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.
Victor/Victoria
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Author Alonso Duralde
Julie Andrews stars in this musical remake of the 1933 German film about a woman singer who takes a job as a female impersonator.
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Beau Travail
Egyptian Theatre
Filmmaker Claire Denis
It's not gay but... those handsome soldiers, the beautiful cinematography, the bodies in the sun, woof. This tale of obsession and jealousy between an older sergeant and a young recruit from French master Claire Denis is a smoldering and sensual examination of men's worlds.
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Hammer Museum
30th anniversary screening!
Touching and poignant, the acclaimed coming-of-age comedy The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love tells the story of two teenagers whose unexpected friendship grows into the joyful wildness of first love. Randy (Laurel Holloman), a rebellious working class tomboy, meets the beautiful, popular, well-to-do Evie (Nicole Ari Parker) when she brings her Range Rover into the repair shop where Randy works after school. Immediately intrigued by each other, the two girls start a romance that delights and disrupts their lives, causing Evie to lose her friends, Randy to lie to her parents, and sending the two of them on the run. Sensitive and romantic, funny and sincere, this daring film was hailed as a crossover success upon its release and is now celebrated as an iconic part of the 1990s queer cinema canon. Beloved by audiences, it was often referred to, with relief, as one of the few lesbian movies with a “happy ending where no one dies.”
Theatrical runs
Now In Theaters
Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...
On Swift Horses
In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.
Perfect Endings
Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.
Block Pass
Willy spends his time with Jojo, his best friend, at La Pampa, the motocross course where Jojo trains for the French championship. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret. It’s time to leave childhood behind.
Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary
Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.
