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Screenings & Events
Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
Oct
6
October
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October
6
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6:15 pm
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Brain Dead Studios
A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Oct
6
October
6
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October
6
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5:00 pm
LESBO
Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2024
Directors Julia M. Applegate & LuSter P. Singleton
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Community building event that features a rough-cut screening of the documentary Free Beer Tomorrow, which tells the story of Ohio's longest running, lesbian owned and operated bar. Followed by a game of LESBO (BINGO).
Oct
5
October
5
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October
5
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2:00 pm
Bridges Across Homelands
Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2024
Director Jen Cheng
Los Angeles LGBT Center
“Bridges Across Homelands” is an event to get inspired by pioneering BIPOC feminists in arts and culture. Spanning across geographies and identities, attendees will learn what it takes to be a culture leader and valuable lessons about sustaining a career in the arts.
Oct
5
October
5
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October
5
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11:00 am
Frankenstein
Family Matinees
Academy Museum
The first, and perhaps the most significant, horror film from gay director James Whale in 4K!
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his creation’s violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Oct
4
October
4
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October
4
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4:30 pm
The Doom Generation
Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
Oct
3
October
3
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October
3
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7:00 pm
Studio One Forever
Director Marc Saltarelli and narrator Bruch Vilanch
Laemmle NoHo 7
A documentary film about Studio One which, from 1974 to 1994, was the center of queer nightlife in West Hollywood as well as the staging ground for the rise of the LGBTQ rights movement and fight against the AIDS crisis.
Oct
2
October
2
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October
2
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8:00 pm
Lady Like
Q&A w/ Lady Camden and Luke Willis
Lady Camden and director Luke Willis
Vault at Beverly Center
Lady Camden joins IN PERSON for a one night only screening of her new feature documentary, Lady Like! Come see the film followed by a live Q&A with Lady Camden and director Luke Willis. VIP upgrades available for a chance to mingle with Lady Camden before the screening
In this rags to riches origin story, Lady Camden struggles to manage the demands of her freshly minted international fame, while Rex is forced to come to terms with the troubling childhood he left behind in Camden which drove him to so desperately seek joy, fantasy and escape through the performing arts.
Oct
2
October
2
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October
2
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7:00 pm
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Director Shaun Peterson
Laemmle Glendale
Lover Of Men examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.
Oct
1
October
1
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October
1
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7:30 pm
The Babadook
10th Anniversary
Director Jennifer Kent
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Vidiots is thrilled and terrified to welcome filmmaker Jennifer Kent for a special 10th Anniversary screening of the chilling modern horror masterpiece The Babadook.
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Sep
30
September
30
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September
30
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7:15 pm
Sleepaway Camp
w/ Introduction
Book Authors
Alamo Drafthouse
Equally as memorable as it is problematic, Sleepaway Camp is an iconic 80s slasher with a complicated place in queer horror representation and history. The screening will be introduced by BJ & Harmony Colangelo, authors of the critical text SLEEPAWAY CAMP from DieDieBooks.
After a terrible boating accident, Angela Baker is sent to Camp Arawak, where a series of bizarre and violent “accidents” begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Sep
29
September
29
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September
29
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5:00 pm
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Brain Dead Studios
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Sep
28
September
28
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September
28
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11:59 pm
Bride of Chucky
Midnight Screening
New Beverly Cinema
Chucky is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany, rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound.
Sep
28
September
28
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September
28
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11:59 pm
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Live Shadow Cast
Bit of Mustard
Art Theater Long Beach
Rocky’s back, baby! Join The Art Theatre for a special performance of the cult classic ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Dressing up is encouraged! Bring your own props *NO RICE* Limited props will be handed out. Shadow cast performance by Bit of Mustard.
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named ‘Rocky’.
Sep
28
September
28
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September
28
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9:30 pm
Pain & Glory
Spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar
Brain Dead Studios
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Sep
28
September
28
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September
28
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7:30 pm
Bad Hair (Pelo Malo)
Academy Museum
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Sep
28
September
28
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September
28
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2:00 pm
Ed Wood
Beyond Fest
Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Egyptian Theatre
Tim Burton's biopic of legendary "worst director of all time" 1950s B-movie king (and lifelong crossdresser) Ed Wood turns 30! Make it a double feature and stream "Glen or Glenda," Wood's 1953 problematic AF first movie about gender-crossing characters.
The mostly true story of the legendary “worst director of all time”, who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Sep
27
September
27
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September
27
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28
11:59 pm
Psycho
Vista Theater Hollywood
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.
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Sep
27
September
27
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September
27
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10:00 pm
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Live Shadowcast
Sins O The Flesh
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Come join Sins O The Flesh for a wild night of Rocky Horror Picture Show at Look Cinemas Glendale. Prop kits will be available to purchase for $5.
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named ‘Rocky’.
Sep
27
September
27
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September
27
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9:30 pm
The Skin I Live In
Spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar
Brain Dead Studios
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Sep
27
September
27
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September
27
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7:30 pm
Mosquita y Mari
Writer-director Aurora Guerrero and actors Fenessa Pineda and Venecia Troncoso
Academy Museum
After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers find a bond that confuses them at times.
Sep
27
September
27
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September
27
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12:30 pm
Extremely Unique Dynamic
Catalina Film Festival
ACC Theater Avalon
Ryan and Daniel, two childhood best friends and aspiring actors, spend one final weekend together before Ryan has to move to Canada with his fiancé. Wanting to create one lasting memory, they decide to make a movie… about two guys making a movie.. about two guys making a movie. Along the way, they unpack their decades-long friendship and prepare for the next chapters of their respective lives.
Sep
26
September
26
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September
26
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7:00 pm
The Babadook & The Nightingale
Beyond Fest
Jennifer Kent
Aero Theater
When asked about the Babadook's gay icon status, director Jennifer Kent said, “I think it’s crazy and just kept him alive. I thought, ‘Ah, you bastard.’ He doesn’t want to die, so he’s finding ways to become relevant"— essentially making him the Australian Dorian Gray.
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Sep
26
September
26
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September
26
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6:00 pm
Queer Sports & Joyous Expression
Director Barbara Bingley-Verseman, Muralist KATBING, & more Queer athletes
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Join the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Outfest for a premiere screening of Le Mural followed by a panel conversation celebrating the many colors of queer identity, sports, and cultural expression.
Sep
26
September
26
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September
26
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5:00 pm
TransMéxico
Hola Mexico Film Festival
Director Claudia Sanchez and subjects Lady Tacos de Canasta & Kenya Cuevas
Regal LA Live 13
Transwomen face more difficulties in Latin America than in any other part of the world. In most of these countries, unchecked transphobia severely limits trans people’s access to education, employment, housing, and medical services. In Mexico, which has one of the highest murder rates of transwomen in the world, the prosecution of these crimes is regrettably uncommon. But despite these challenges, many transwomen live empowered lives; they live in truth and have found respect, acceptance, love, and fulfilling careers. Based on true stories –written and recounted by the protagonists themselves – “TransMexico” is built around the incredible lives of three such transwomen.
Sep
25
September
25
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September
25
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7:00 pm
Nowhere / Totally F***ed Up
Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
Gregg Araki and actors James Duval and Nathan Bexton
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Described as “90210 on acid”, the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
Sep
24
September
24
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September
24
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7:30 pm
The Doom Generation
Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
Gregg Araki and actor James Duval
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
Sep
24
September
24
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September
24
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5:00 pm
Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui
Hola Mexico Film Festival
Director Rodrigo Alvarez Flores, star Giancarlo Ruiz & more
Regal LA Live 13
Outfest alum Rodrigo Álvarez Flores, whose short "The Other Side" won Special Mention, makes his feature film debut with this story of a Mexican family torn apart when their father leaves the country, and three siblings who must grow up and find their way without him.
Renato, Abel, and Gabriela are a family divided by emotional borders; for them, the desire to be happy and break free from their current situation seems unattainable. The decisions they make independently will have an impact on each other's lives, demonstrating how fragile and delicate the way they are connected is.
Sep
23
September
23
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September
23
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8:00 pm
Bradford Nordeen: We All Feel Better in the Dark
Author Bradford Nordeen
2220 Arts + Archives
Monday night gets steamy as we present We All Feel Better in the Dark: the bathhouse as queer utopia, a visual lecture by Dirty Looks’ Bradford Nordeen.
Sep
23
September
23
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September
23
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7:30 pm
The Way He Looks
Academy Museum
This super-sweet Brazilian coming of age film, about a blind boy experiencing first love with a classmate, has a bopping soundtrack, and won the 2014 Teddy award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
Sep
23
September
23
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September
23
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7:30 pm
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Vidiots Eagle Theater
This madcap drama, with a whirling story of multiple women, their lovers, and some gazpacho laced with sleeping pills, is one of the greats from out Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. It's not one of his Queer films, but this is the film that put him on the map internationally.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Sep
22
September
22
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September
22
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1:00 pm
The Wizard of Oz
Egyptian Theatre
What movie better deserves the "Not Queer But Queer" label? Historians may debate exactly why Judy Garland was such an icon to the gay community, but for years being a "friend of Dorothy" was code for how closeted queers could find each other. See her in this iconic role.
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Sep
21
September
21
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September
21
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10:30 pm
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Landmark Westwood
This smoldering erotic drama from French auteur Céline Sciamma follows the desire that develops between a wealthy young woman and the painter who is charged to accompany her and paint her wedding portrait.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Sep
21
September
21
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September
21
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5:00 pm
Unseen
Director Set Hernandez
Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural
This documentary about a disabled and undocumented aspiring social worker won the Truer Than Fiction Independent Sprit Emerging Filmmaker award for queer director Set Hernandez. Free screening at Tia Chucha's in Sylmar with a Q&A with the director.
An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his family. But when attaining his dreams leads to new and unexpected challenges, what will Pedro do?
Sep
21
September
21
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September
21
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12:30 pm
Todo El Silencio
Hola Mexico Film Festival
Regal LA Live 13
Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the afternoons, maintaining a stable and passionate relationship with her girlfriend Lola. Although her life is very much connected to the routine of a deaf person, her world begins to crumble when she discovers that she is losing her hearing.
Sep
21
September
21
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11:00 am
Sisi & I
Art Theater Long Beach
After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.
Sep
20
September
20
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September
20
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7:15 pm
Volver
Spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar
Brain Dead Studios
While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter’s murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.
Sep
20
September
20
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September
20
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7:00 pm
In The Summers
Actor Sasha Calle
Laemmle Royal
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, In The Summers is a coming of age story about two siblings told through the summers they spend in New Mexico with their father.
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Sep
18
September
18
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September
18
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8:00 pm
Bad Education
Spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar
Brain Dead Studios
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Sep
18
September
18
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September
18
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7:30 pm
Happy Together
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted, the brokenhearted romance at the center of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, will leave you in tears over and over again.
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.