Week of Feb 24
Disclosure kicks off the trans cinema series at UCLA Film & TV Archive, marking a month of free screenings, special guests, and trans short films from across cinema history.
Plus: Female Perversions restoration premiere with director Susan Streitfeld in person!
Female Perversions
Mar 01, 6:30 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Director Susan Streitfeld in person
Not Streaming Anywhere! L.A. Premiere of New 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 American Cinematheque ↗
FREE: Disclosure
Mar 01, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
Tre’vell Anderson, Jen Richards, editor Stacy Goldate in person
An investigation of how Hollywood’s fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Dog Day Afternoon
SOLD OUT: Feb 25, 7:30 PM @ Aero Theater
Star Al Pacino in person
Mar 07, 2:00 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
A true Story! Young Al Pacino plays John Wojtowicz, who tries to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. The real Wojtowicz was an active gay liberationist, and tells his own story in the 2013 documentary The Dog.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Tickets from The New Beverly ↗
FREE: 2024 Project Involve Short Films
Feb 25, 7:30 PM @ DGA Theater
Project Involve is Film Independent's artist development program for filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds. Every year a new cohort of fellows come together to develop short films that showcase their talents. Join this free screening to see the shorts produced this year.
Tickets from Film Independent ↗
All About Eve
Mar 02, 11:00 AM @ Egyptian Theatre
70th Anniversary Screening
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Memoria
Feb 26, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
This dreamlike film is the long-awaited collaboration between Tilda Swinton and gay Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 18 years after Swinton first wrote to him to express her love for his film Tropical Malady.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios ↗
Problemista
Feb 28, 7:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
An aspiring toy designer’s work visa runs out, and a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios ↗
The Skin I Live In
Mar 01, 9:45 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mar 02, 1:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
This Hays Code-era adaptation of Oscar Wilde's manages to be about as Queer as the original novel, which already maintained a repressed Victorian sensibility about Wilde's (and his characters') sexuality.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Next Week
The Queen
Mar 05, 7:30 PM @ Philosophical Research Society
FREE: Mar 09, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
Artist and filmmaker Zackary Drucker in person
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
FREE: Drunktown's Finest
Mar 07, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous Nádleehi (trans person)- search for love and acceptance.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Beginners
Mar 08, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Christopher Plummer won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his warm portrayal of a man who comes out at age 75 after his wife dies, shocking his son with his simultaneous announcements that he has cancer and a young lover.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Midnight Cowboy
Mar 8 & 9, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Withnail & I
Mar 04, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Depending who you ask, this British cult black comedy is either homophobic, due to its treatment of Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Morty, or a queer-coded romance, with something special lurking underneath the main characters' close-but-complicated friendship.
In Theaters Soon
Young Hearts - Opens Mar 14
Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.
