Week of Jan 8
Featured this week: Goran Stolevski
Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)
Jan 13, 7pm - Los Feliz 3
Director Goran Stolevski in person
Winner of the Queer Lion at Venice last year, Housekeeping for Beginners gets a free preview screening before opening in limited release Jan 26. This is a sneak preview screening, RSVPs are free but do not guarantee a seat -- so be sure to arrive early. The film's official synopsis:
From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together.
RSVP at American Cinematheque >
And check out Stolevski's last film, Serbian romance Of An Age, now streaming on Prime Video:
Of An Age (2022)
In the summer of 1999, a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video >
Also This Week:
2023 Project Involve Short Films
Jan 11, 7pm - 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 My Mother (1999)
Jan 13, 4:20pm - Alamo Drafthouse
This compassionate, sprawling melodrama follows Manuela after the death of her 17 year-old son Esteban. She sets out in search of Esteban's father, now a trans woman named Lola, who is sick with AIDS. It's the kind of film only Almodóvar can make, lurid and lovely and memorable.
In Cinemas:
All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh, the writer/director behind Weekend and HBO's Looking, makes another aching gay romance. Out actor Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) stars as Adam, a writer who visits the ghosts of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) while romancing his neighbor (Paul Mescal).
AOUS expands to more screens this weekend, make sure to check it out!
Other Highlights This Month:
Funny Girl
Jan 21, 6:30pm - The New Beverly
If all the backbiting Broadway gossip about the stage revival has you asking what's so special about Funny Girl, come see Barbra Streisand in her Oscar-winning turn as Fanny Bryce (the namesake of Fanny's restaurant at the Academy Museum) in the 1968 Willam Wyler film.
Tickets from the New Beverly >
Brokeback Mountain
Jan 28, 7:30pm - Academy Museum
The Academy Museum hosts a retrospective screening of 2005 Oscar smash Brokeback Mountain. Brokeback won Oscars for Screenplay, Directing, and Score--in addition to its nominations for Best Picture, Cinematorgraphy, and cast Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michelle Williams.
Tickets from the Academy Museum >