A Century of Romance
Ongoing Series
The Egyptian Theatre is thrilled to announce A Century of Romance: Star-Crossed, On the Run, and Happily Ever After, a series bringing you films from across one hundred years of cinema history that explore love, romance, heartbreak, and longing in a myriad of genres, tones, and time periods. Whether you’re looking to lose yourself in passionate affairs from bygone eras, delight in the hilarity of classic screwball rom-coms, or be enthralled by volatile relationships that seemed destined for tragedy, A Century of Romance will pull on your heartstrings in more ways than one.
A Century of Romance
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
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Adam's Rib
Egyptian Theatre
This classic comedy from gay director George Cukor feature's one of cinema's first "gay best friends" -- a subtle but not unflattering secondary character, despite the film being made under the Hays code.
A woman’s attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Egyptian Theatre
Gay director F.W. Murnau, who directed Nosferatu at home in Germany, fled to Hollywood in 1926, where he filmed this now-classic silent film, which cleaned up at the first ever Oscars.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
La Belle et la Bête
Egyptian Theatre
As in Orpheus, bisexual writer/filmmaker/surrealist Jean Cocteau casts his lover, French screen superstar Jean Marais, in a magical film full of pioneering special effects.
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn’t return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
My Beautiful Laundrette
Egyptian Theatre
A very sexy young Daniel Day Lewis co-stars in this landmark British exploration of race, class and sexuality, about a Pakistani-British man and his English lover trying to manage a rundown laundromat. Join us early at 6pm for a Queer Film LA Meetup at the Vidiots bar.
A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
High Art
Egyptian Theatre
Writer/Director Lisa Cholodenko
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
A Century of Romance
PAST SCREENINGS
Bringing Up Baby
Egyptian Theatre
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.
But I'm a Cheerleader
Egyptian Theatre
4K restoration!
For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit signle-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell in this now-classic queer comedy.
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.
Maurice
Egyptian Theatre
Gay director James Ivory won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1987 for this adaptation of gay author E. M. Forster's posthumously-published novel of the same name, about gay love and social class in Edwardian England (with a happy ending!)
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
The Handmaiden
Egyptian Theatre
Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook adapted the Victorian lesbian con artist psychological thriller Fingersmith into 2016's critically acclaimed The Handmaiden, moving the setting to Japanese-occupied Korea as our main characters set out to seduce and rob a Japanese heiress.
In 1930s Korea, a swindler and a young woman pose as a Japanese count and a handmaiden to seduce a Japanese heiress and steal her fortune.
