Week of Feb 26
Queen Tilda: Problemista and Alamo Throwbacks
Superstar actress Tilda Swinton has done a little bit of everything since her debut role in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio in 1986--including a lot of Queer films. To celebrate the release of A24's Problemista from queer writer/director Julio Torres, Alamo Drafthouse is showing a ton of Tilda films. Here are our picks:
Problemista
Feb 26 - Livestream Q&A at the Alamo
Opens in Limited Release Feb 29.
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.
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Orlando
March 9 - 2:40pm @ Alamo Drafthouse
Adapted from Virginia Woolfe's novel, this film follows Tilda Swinton as Orlando, an young nobleman who lives for centuries, and awakes one day to find himself transformed into a woman. Watch it, then check out last year's Teddy documentary winner Orlando: My Political Biography -- now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
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Stream Orlando: My Political Biography on Criterion Channel >
Suspiria
March 19 - 6:30pm @ Alamo Drafthouse
Out director Luca Guadagnino followed Call Me By Your Name with this creepy remake of the 1977 horror classic. Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson star in this tale of Cold War witchcraft, dance, and the dark corners of the human heart -- which competed for the Queer Lion at Venice.
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If you still need more Tilda in Queer films, you can stream Derek Jarman's iconic New Queer Cinema masterworks Edward II and Caravaggio for free on Kanopy with your LAPL library card.
This week:
SOLD OUT Sneak Preview: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Feb 3, 7pm - Egyptian Theater
Special Q&A with stars Kristin Stewart and Katy O'Brian, and director Rose Glass
AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE MEMBERS ONLY: Hot from Sundance and Berlinale, join actors Kristin Stewart and Katy O'Brian and writer/director Rose Glass for a special Q&A about this one-of-a-kind lesbian bodybuilder crime thriller love story.
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Mar 2, 7pm - Eagle Theater
Special Q&A with director Jamie Babbit
RUN don't walk to this special screening. Icon Jamie Babbit presents her hilarious 1999 lesbian rom-com satire But I'm a Cheerleader. For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Babbit signle-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell.
If you can't make it to this show but are free later that same night, by some strange coincidence it is also the midnight movie at the New Beverly (but no Jamie Babbit Q&A).
Before I Change My Mind (2022)
Mar 1, 7pm - Eagle Theater
Special Q&A with writer/director Trevor Anderson
This 80s-set Canadian coming of age story about a non-binary tween won hearts at Locarno and the Iris Prize. See it at the Ealge theater in a special screening with Writer/Director Trevor Anderson in person!
Returning to Cinemas: She is Conann (2022)
March 1, 3 & 5, 10pm - Los Feliz 3
Actress Jena Malone introduces the film on March 1.
Just like the film's titular gender-bent barbarian, She is Conann fights on. From the Director's Fortnight at Cannes to Fantastic Fest, this queer feminist take on the legend of Conan comes back to LA screens for a limited engagement thanks to American Cinematheque.
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In Cinemas March 8:
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Fresh from its premiere at Sundance, this bloody lesbian bodybuilding revenge thriller romance (say that three times fast) stars Kristin Stewart as Lou, a lonely gym manager. Her attraction to bodybuilder Jackie pulls her into her family's criminal schemes with violent results.
Glitter and Doom (2024)
It's a boy-meets-boy musical extravaganza, and all the songs are by lesbian folk icons The Indigo Girls. It's a bold pairing, if not an obvious one. Does it work? Buy a ticket and judge for yourself!