Week of Dec 23 & 30
It's a year-end double edition of our newsletter to wrap up 2024--and yes, there's plenty of Queer movies screening in LA these next two weeks!
From all of us at Queer Film LA, have a wonderful holiday and happy New Year. We'll see you at the movies in 2025!
Extremely Unique Dynamic
Jan 3, 4 & 5, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Jan 7 8 & 9, 7pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Directors Harrison Xu & Ivan Leung, with special guests each night
Don't miss the LA premiere week for Extremely Unique Dynamic. Filmmakers/stars Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung throw a week-long party with special guests, Q&As, and giveaways each night at the Vidiots microcinema.
The film is a wacky stoner buddy comedy about two best friends who decide to spend their last weekend together in LA making a movie (with a movie in a movie in a movie).
The Extremely Unique Dynamic team is giving away three pairs of tickets to Queer film LA subscribers to those who submit their info at this link by Jan 2.
Week of Dec 23
Tokyo Godfathers
Dec 24, 7:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
American Cinematheque wraps up their Queer Christmas series with Tokyo Godfathers, an animated movie from Satoshi Kon that follows three homeless people, including trans woman Hana, who find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve in Tokyo.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Bound
Dec 28, 9:45 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Vidiots' Holiday Hornyfest nears its climax with this steamy 1990s lesbian noir thriller from the Wachowski sisters.
Born in Flames
Dec 29, 6:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios >
The Maltese Falcon
Dec 26, 7:30 pm @ Aero Theater
Peter Lorre's villain is explicitly gay in the novel, but to pass the censors in the iconic 1941 adaptation, the character's queerness manifests in subtler ways--like gardenia cologne and suggestively stroking a cane, though audiences at the time would likely catch the hint.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Flesh for Frankenstein in 3D
Dec 28, 7:30 pm @ Academy Museum
Paul Morrissey wasn't queer, but he was a frequent collaborator of Andy Warhol's, and his underground films featured trans breakouts like Holly Woodlawn, bisexual leading man Joe Dallesandro, and prolific gay actor Udo Kier. Don't miss this X-rated sexploitation horror tribute.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Dec 28, 4:00 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
Jan 12, 7:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
NEW RESTORATION! Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Tickets from Vidiots >
Week of Dec 30
Cunningham
Dec 30, 2:00 pm @ Academy Museum
This remarkable 3D documentary showcases the life work of gay choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was a trailblazer in modern and avant-garde dance, and frequently collaborated with his life partner, the composer John Cage.
Use code QueerCinema for $2 off your ticket.
Velvet Goldmine
Dec 30, 7:00 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
Young Ewan MacGregor, Christian Bale and Jonathan Rhys Meyers star in New Queer Cinema auteur Todd Haynes' loosely-fictionalized bisexual 1970s glam-rock faux biopic based on the lives and loves of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed. Say that three times fast.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Jan 3, 8:00 pm @ Academy Museum
An amazing example of how the studios self-censored under the Hays code, Tennessee Williams' play about a closeted football star was adapted into a movie that talks in circles, but still won Oscars. Williams told fans "This movie will set the industry back 50 years. Go home!"
Cabaret
Jan 5, 3:45 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Bob Fosse's film adaptation of the Broadway show, which won 8 Academy Awards, screens as part of the Academy Musuem's celebration of Technicolor. Showtunes, Liza Minelli, the rise of the Nazis, and forward (for 70's Hollywood) depiction of bisexuality make Cabaret a classic.
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A Room with a View
Jan 26, 4:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
A landmark (but not gay) film from gay power-couple James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, based on the classic novel by gay author E. M. Forster, this lush period piece stars young Helena Bonham Carter as a young woman torn between two suitors in 1900s Italy and England.
Y Tu Mamá También
Jan 22, 7:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
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