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Screenings & Events
Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
Jun
28
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7:00 pm
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Long in the shadow of a similarly long-titled Australian movie about a drag act stuck in a small town in the 90s, this Spielberg-produced comedy was groundbreaking for Hollywood at the time.
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.
Jun
28
June
28
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28
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6:30 pm
Tangerine
with The Florida Project
New Beverly Cinema
A new queer Christmas classic, Tangerine follows trans workers Sin-Dee and Alexandra on a holiday odyssey across Los Angeles. Shot on a micro budget on three iPhones, Tangerine is a triumph of scrappy indie can-do--that led to Gotham and Spirit awards for co-star Mya Taylor.
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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8:00 pm
No Skin Off My Ass
Bruce LaBruce
2220 Arts + Archives
Join Dirty Looks and the original Queer film enfant terrible Bruce LaBruce for a two-night celebration of the restoration of LaBruce's first two transgressive super 8 movies.
A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of “That Cold Day in the Park” then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who’s making a film called “Sisters of the SLA.” He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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7:30 pm
The Living End
Gregg Araki
Academy Museum
An iconic New Queer Cinema milestone and a angry punk statement from the heart of the AIDS crisis, The Living End should need no introduction. Special screening with writer/director Gregg Araki, moderated by Alonso Duralde.
Two HIV-positive young men—a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler—tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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7:30 pm
Outstanding
A Comedy Revolution
Egyptian Theatre
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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7:00 pm
Regarding Us
World Premiere
Cast and Crew in attendance
TCL Chinese Theaters
After losing her teaching career in the Catholic school system, a transgender woman has a profound impact on the lives of two children–one with two fathers in marital strife, and the other a recent transplant from a conservative household. When the children form a unique bond, new questions and old prejudices erupt.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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4:45 pm
Outfest Shorts
TCL Chinese Theaters
A program of five Queer short films screens at Dances With Films, in partnership with Outfest.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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4:00 pm
Pillow Talk
Egyptian Theatre
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen’s succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Jun
27
June
27
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June
27
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2:45 pm
Outfest Doc Shorts
TCL Chinese Theaters
Co-presented by Outfest, this program of two Queer documentary shorts screens as part of Dances With Films.
Jun
26
June
26
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June
26
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9:45 pm
The Old Dark House
Bryan Fuller
Egyptian Theatre
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
Jun
26
June
26
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June
26
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7:00 pm
Bound
Trish Bendix
Egyptian Theatre
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Jun
26
June
26
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June
26
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4:00 pm
Spa Night
Egyptian Theatre
A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.
Jun
25
June
25
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June
25
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7:30 pm
All About Eve
Alonso Duralde
Egyptian Theatre
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Jun
25
June
25
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25
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7:30 pm
Little Joe
A Book About Queers and Cinema Mostly
2220 Arts + Archives
Little Joe was an underground Queer film zine that ran from 2010 to 2021, with a focus on indie, retro, and underground movies. Free reading from this book collecting the best of the magazine's eleven year run.
Jun
25
June
25
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June
25
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4:30 pm
Suddenly, Last Summer
Egyptian Theatre
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Jun
24
June
24
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June
24
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7:30 pm
Swoon
Academy Museum
Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Jun
23
June
23
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June
23
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7:20 pm
Chestnut
Director Jac Cron
Laemmle NoHo 7
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during the summer after college.
Jun
22
June
22
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June
22
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9:00 pm
D.E.B.S.
Angela Robinson, Meegan Good, and Sara Foster
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Angela Robinson's Queer parody of Charlie's Angles (and other teen girl crimefighter shows) only gets better with time. Don't miss this special co-presentation with LA Pride.
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
Jun
22
June
22
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June
22
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7:00 pm
Chestnut
Director Jac Cron
Landmark Westwood
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during the summer after college.
Jun
22
June
22
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June
22
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4:00 pm
Bringing Up Baby
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Likely bisexual Cary Grant and sapphic icon Katharine Hepburn star in this perfect screwball comedy that still feels fresh today--and is a footnote in many queer film histories as the first Hollywood film to use the word "gay" to mean homosexual.
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Jun
21
June
21
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June
21
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10:00 pm
Cabaret
Egyptian Theatre
Bob Fosse's film adaptation of the Broadway show, which won 8 Academy Awards, comes to American Cinematheque's "It's Showtime" movie musical fest. Showtunes, Liza Minelli, the rise of the Nazis, and forward (for 70's Hollywood) depiction of bisexuality make Cabaret a classic.
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Jun
21
June
21
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21
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7:30 pm
Quinceañera
Actors Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia
Academy Museum
This Echo Park-set family drama made by gay couple writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance in 2006.
As Magdalena’s 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she’s pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Jun
21
June
21
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June
21
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12:00 pm
Lights, Camera, Pride with Pickle and Friends
Academy Museum
Join the Academy Museum in a conversation with Pickle, West Hollywood’s Drag Laureate, and Stephanie Samera, Manager, In-Gallery Programs, as they celebrate and discuss gallery influences and film inspirations connected to drag artistry and drag education.
Jun
20
June
20
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June
20
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7:30 pm
The Watermelon Woman
Academy Museum
Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. This was the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian.
Jun
18
June
18
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June
18
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7:15 pm
Cora Bora
Actor Meg Stalter
Alamo Drafthouse
Cora senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial goes home to Portland to win her girlfriend back, she realizes it’s much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Jun
17
June
17
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June
17
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7:30 pm
In Their Room
The Pixelated Diaries of Sadie Benning
Academy Museum
Seven shorts from nonbinary artist and musician Sadie Benning, whose intimate and energetic teenage video diaries, shot on a cheap digital camera, screened in musuems a generation (or two) before YouTube would make vlogging a pastime for thousands of queer teens.
Jun
16
June
16
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June
16
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7:10 pm
Queendom
Director Agniia Galdanova & producer Igor Myakotin
Laemmle Glendale
An awe-inspiring portrait of queer performance artist Gena Marvin, a Russian fashion student whose otherworldy gender-defying costumes take up public space in acts of shockingly brave protest in contemporary Russia. Q&As to follow the 4:10 and 7:10 screenings.
A queer Russian performance artist utilises social media, their identity and a series of remarkable costumes in quiet defiance of prejudice, war and police brutality.
Jun
16
June
16
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June
16
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3:00 pm
The Hours and Times
Academy Museum
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
Jun
15
June
15
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June
15
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7:30 pm
Go Fish
Writer/Director Rose Troche
Academy Museum
This fresh new restoration of 1994 lesbian classic Go Fish was a collaboration between the Academy, Sundance, Frameline, MGM, and UCLA. It screened at Sundance this year, right where the film premiered 30 years ago.
Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?
Jun
15
June
15
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June
15
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2:00 pm
Paris is Burning
Bamby Salcedo
Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural
Join a special Pride celebration from Cinema Conciencia and Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore. Resources and vendors, followed by a conversation with Bamby Salcedo, president and CEO of TransLatin@ coalition before a screening of Paris is Burning.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza — PARIS IS BURNING brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.
Jun
15
June
15
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June
15
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11:50 am
The Birdcage
Alamo Drafthouse
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents.
Jun
14
June
14
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16
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14
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7:30 pm
Cora Bora
Actor Meg Stalter & director Hannah Pearl Utt
Landmark Nuart
Cora senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial goes home to Portland to win her girlfriend back, she realizes it’s much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Jun
13
June
13
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June
13
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7:00 pm
All About Alice
Philosophical Research Society
This feature length drag parody of All About Eve is a production of the Gay Girls Riding Club, a group of queer underground California filmmakers in the 1960s and 70s whose homemade drag films are a rare glimpse into drag culture in a formative era.
An early drag parody of the classic film All About Eve (1950).
Jun
12
June
12
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7:30 pm
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
New Beverly Cinema
Two films from New German Cinema's enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who directed 40 feature films before his death at 37, these two heart-rending romantic dramas showcase Fassbinder's use of Hollywood's melodramatic style to dive deep into social taboos.
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
Jun
10
June
10
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7:30 pm
Imagine Me & You
with Saving Face
New Beverly Cinema
What an amazing double feature of mid-2000s lesbian romantic comedies. There will be plenty of heartaches and tears with these two films, but when else can you watch TWO funny lesbian movies with great performances, big laughs, big feelings, and happy endings??
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
Jun
9
June
9
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June
9
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12:10 pm
But I'm a Cheerleader
Alamo Drafthouse
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
Jun
6
June
6
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June
6
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10:30 pm
Happy Together
Los Feliz 3
It's not a feel good film--which is why it's part of American Cinematheque's 3rd annual "Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair"--but the brokenhearted romance of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, is an absolute masterpiece.
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Jun
5
June
5
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June
5
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7:30 pm
Carol
Academy Museum
Christmas in June! Todd Haynes' aching lesbian period drama Carol follows Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in the repressed world of 1950s high society New York City. Don't miss this chance to catch a 35mm screening of the top film on the BFI "Best Queer Films" poll.
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Jun
5
June
5
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5
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7:00 pm
Queen Tut
Alexandra Billings
Laemmle NoHo 7
Upon the loss of his mother, an Egyptian teenager leaves his home of Cairo to live with his father in Toronto. Parachuted into the underground queer nightlife in Toronto, he confronts his mother’s death, much to his father’s disapproval, by taking up the ways of drag and becoming Queen Tut.