Week of Apr 22
Celebrate lesbian auteur Patricia Rozema with the Academy Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive! Rozema broke out of the Toronto New Wave and went on to direct eight feature films, including HBO's Grey Gardens, and now teaches filmmaking at UCLA.
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
April 26 @ 7:30pm, Adacemy Museum
Patricia Rozema in person
The first film from Patricia Rozema follows a young woman named Polly whose new job at an art gallery awakens both her sexual identity and her overlooked artistic gifts.
Mansfield Park (1999)
April 27 @ 7:30pm, Academy Museum
Patricia Rozema in person
One of the best (and probably the queerest) Jane Austen adaptation to come out of the 1990s Austen-mania.
When Night is Falling (1995)
May 7 @ 7:30pm, Laemmle Royal
Patricia Rozema in person
This steamy lesbian classic about a college professor's sexual awakening at the hands of a circus performer is one of Patricia Rozema's most beloved Queer films. Join for a special screening followed by a Q&A with the director.
New to Streaming
Strange Way of Life
Out director Pedro Almodóvar was passed over to direct Brokeback Mountain, allegedly over a pitch that was "too gay." Twenty years later, he gets to tell his own gay cowboy story in this short film starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal.
In Cinemas
Egoist (2023) - Opens April 26
This sad and steamy Japanese gay romance, based on author Makoto Takayama's autobigraphical novel, finally makes its arrival in theaters after a successful festival run.
Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)
Director Goran Stolevski is on a hot streak. Of An Age was warmly received in theaters in 2022. Then he went on to win the Queer Lion at Venice in 2023 with this new heartwarming comedy about a blended queer family, set in his homeland of North Macedonia.