Week of Apr 21
The TCM Classic Film Festival takes over the TCL Theater in Hollywood with a weekend of classic Hollywood films. There's an abundance of Queer picks, including gay playwrights Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer and Terrence McNally's The Ritz; Golden Age Sapphic icons Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich; Rocky Horror; The Birdcage; and more!
Queer films at TCM Classic Film Festival ↗
Also This Week
Rotting in the Sun
Apr 25, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker Sebastián Silva in person
Folks were buzzing at Sundance about the copious male nudity, the drugs, the orgies--but beneath the "director and star play themselves" hedonism is a class struggle, a taut thriller, and a Hollywood satire all in one.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
SOLD OUT: Bound
Apr 26, 7:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Co-director Lilly Wachowski in person
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.
Egghead & Twinkie
Apr 24, 7:00 PM @ Laemmle Glendale
Director Sarah Kambe Holland and Lead Cast in person
After awkwardly coming out to her conservative parents, an Asian-American teenage girl takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush with the help of her nerdy best friend. Bursting with colorful animation and kinetic comic book flourishes, EGGHEAD & TWINKIE is a heartwarmingly sincere directorial debut about embracing your identity and the ups and downs of best friendship.
Tickets from Laemmle Theatres ↗
Homoti
Apr 21, 8:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
A cheap-looking 1980s Turkish E.T. knockoff where the alien is gay and fleeing an oppressive government.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment ↗
Rocco and His Brothers
Apr 25, 26 & 27, 6:30 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
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.
Tickets from The New Beverly ↗
Neptune Frost
Apr 26, 2:00 PM @ Academy Museum
This science fiction fantasia follows the romance between a miner and an intersex runaway at a hacker's commune, in a future world brutally exploited for precious metals. Filmed by a cast and crew of Burundi refugees, it was a nominee for the Queer Palm in 2021.
Play It As It Lays
Apr 23, 10:00 PM; Apr 28, 4:00 PM & May 1, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Anthony Perkins co-stars as a depressed gay best friend in this Joan Didion adaptation. Perkins led a fascinating life before his death from AIDS--from Tab Hunter boyfriend, to playing Norman Bates in Pyscho, to Sondheim muse--and this film is one of few gay roles he played.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Next Week
Lavender Men
May 02, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Lovell Holder in person
Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head — only to learn that she can’t hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else’s past.
FREE: Parting Glances
Apr 28, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
Double feature with Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
The only feature film completed by director Bill Sherwood before his death at age 37, Parting Glances featured the screen debut of Steve Buscemi as the main character's bitter ex, who he cares for as he is sick with AIDS.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Female Perversions
May 02, 10:00 PM @ Art Theater Long Beach
New 4k Restoration. Now considered a feminist classic, Tilda Swinton stars in this film as a bisexual attorney whose life and romances begin to unravel in the run-up to a professional opportunity.
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach ↗
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men
A storm of controversy ignited in France last year when the Musee D'Orsay put up this exhibition of French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte's paintings of men. The curators suggest that Caillebotte may have been gay--not based on any biographical detail, but his unconventional focus on men's work and men's bodies at a time when most of his peers painted women.
You can judge for yourself, as this controversial exhibit is now on display at the Getty Museum, through May 25.
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men at the Getty ↗
In Theaters
On Swift Horses - Opens Apr 25
Out director Daniel Minahan, who produced and directed Fellow Travelers, returns to the queer 1950s in this adaptation of the 2019 novel, starring Jacob Elordi.
Also In Theaters
It's a super Queer spring in LA cinemas: the Wedding Banquet remake from Spa Night and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn opened Friday, Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff rom-com A Nice Indian Boy expands its release to more screens across town, and Misericordia, the latest triller from Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) enjoys a special limited engagement at American Cinematheque.
Bring your friends and check out these great Queer films!
