Week of Aug 26
Tickets are still available for Tuesday's screening of My Beautiful Laundrette at Vidiots in Eagle Rock, which will also be our first Queer Film LA meet-up! Meet and make connections with other Queer cinephiles, starting at 6pm at the lobby bar. Stay tuned for future meet-ups to come.
My Beautiful Laundrette at Vidiots >
Hola Mexico Film Festival
LA's annual celebration of Mexican cinema returns Sept 20-27 for its 16th year, bringing some Queer Mexican films to town. Check out TransMéxico, a documentary portrait of three transwomen in Mexico, Todo el Silencio, a drama about a lesbian couple dealing with with hearing loss, and Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui, a family drama from Outfest alum Rodrigo Álvarez Flores.
Hola Mexico Film Festival Program >
Hasta La Raíz | K'a Pa Ruxe'el | Até A Raiz | Nan Rasin Lan: To the Root
September also brings a new film series called Hasta La Raíz | K'a Pa Ruxe'el | Até A Raiz | Nan Rasin Lan: To the Root from the Academy Museum, focused on youth and adolescent stories from Latin America and the Latine/x diaspora. Queer picks include Brazilian charmer The Way He Looks, Chicana lesbian flick Mosquita y Mari, and Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) from Venezuela.
Program info from Academy Museum >
This Week
Crossing
Aug 28, 7:00 pm @ University of Southern California
Advance screening of 2024 Teddy Jury Award winner, about a retired teacher in Georgia searching for her long lost transgender niece.
Free and open to the public, RSVPs required.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Aug 28, 7:30 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
The Australian drag road trip classic turns 30!
In The Summers
Aug 29, 7:30 pm @ Landmark Sunset
Writer/director Alessandra Lacorazza in person
Free Screening for Film Independent Members-Only. 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.
Tickets from Film Independent >
Mulholland Drive
Aug 31, 7:00 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
In David Lynch’s maniacal, notorious thriller, amnesia-suffering Rita, who barely escapes murder on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Next Week
All Shall Be Well
Hong Kong On Screen Film Festival
Sep 7, 7:00 pm @ Starlight Whittier Village Cinemas
Hong Kong On Screen Film Festival presents 2024 Narrative Teddy award winner All Shall Be Well, a story about a lesbian widow navigating friendship, family, and inheritance without the legal protections of marriage, after her longtime partner unexpectedly dies.
Tickets from Hong Kong On Screen Film Festival >
QFilms Long Beach
Long Beach's annual Queer film festival runs September 5-8. Opening Night is a special screening of Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken in the theater room on the Queen Mary. Features, shorts, filmmaker talkbacks and community events fill out the event hosted by The LGBT Center of Long Beach.
QFilms Long Beach Full Program >
Just Added
Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
Sept 24 & 15, 7pm @ Vidiots
Gregg Araki and star James Duval in person
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. Vidiots hosts Araki and Duval for a two-night screening of these three films.
This program sold out fast; limited walk-ups will be available, first-come first-served, starting 45 min before the show.
Frankenstein // Bride of Frankenstein
Oct 5 & 12, 11am @ Academy Museum
These two horror classics from James Whale, who lived as an openly gay man in the 1920s and 30s, while enjoying a wildly successful career in theater and as a pioneering horror director.
You can see a fictionalized version of Whale's last days in 1998's Ian McKellan/Brendan Frasier two-hander Gods and Monsters.
Undertow (Contracorriente)
Oct 10, 7pm @ Vidiots
Director Javier Fuentes León in person
This romantic, soulful ghost story set in a Peruvian seaside village won the Sundance Audience Award in 2010 before a wildly successful festival run. Director Javier Fuentes-León joins in person for a special 15th anniversary screening in honor of National Coming Out Day.