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Screenings & Events
Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
Night of the Hunter
Hammer Museum
It's not just the camp value of Lillian Gish with a shotgun--this film is the only directorial effort from closeted actor Charles Laughton, and through that lens you can't help but see more in its serial-killing preacher targeting women whose sexual freedom he resents.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Farewell My Concubine
Laemmle Royal
This Chinese 1992 Palm D'Or winner (the Queer Palm didn't exist until 2010) was banned in its home country shortly after release, in part for the film's unrequited gay love story. Stars out bi Cantopop star Leslie Cheung, who also starred in Wong Kar Wei's Happy Together.
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled “Farewell My Concubine” that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo’s explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
Rocco and His Brothers
Academy Museum
One of the pioneers of Italian neorealism, director Luchino Visconti was openly gay later in life. In this sweeping epic of a migrant Italian family, his camera swoons over the gorgeous young Alain Delon, in the title role of heartbroken boxer Rocco.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Midnight Cowboy
Academy Museum
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
The Warriors
Academy Museum
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.
Theatrical runs
Now In Theaters
Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...
Pillion
A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.
