Week of Mar 10
This week's Queer films, by some coincidence, have a number of options to make you blush in a crowded theater. Friday and Saturday, master provocatuer Bruce La Bruce is in person to present his latest crowd-shocker The Visitor, a take on Pasolini's Teorema that turned heads (and stomachs) at its Berlin premiere.
Saturday night, the UCLA Film & TV archive presents the West Coast Restoration Premiere of the 1972 lavish erotic poem Pink Narcissus, and then Sunday, Whammy wraps up the weekend with 1975's art/horror/porn film Thundercrack! from gay underground filmmakers (and boyfriends) Curt McDowell and George Kuchar.
Anyone who makes it through all three in one weekend gets a special prize.
The Visitor
Mar 14 & 15, 7:30 PM @ Landmark Nuart
LA Premiere: Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce in person
London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper-class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they can redefine themselves in new, radical ways.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres ↗
FREE: Pink Narcissus
Mar 15, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
Not Streaming Anywhere! West Coast Restoration Premiere!
This lush erotic epic, framed as the fantasies of a bored rentboy, was filmed over the course of six years on elaborate sets built inside the Manhattan apartment of director James Bidgood. No advance sales, tickets are free and open to the public.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Thundercrack!
Mar 16, 7:30 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
Not Streaming Anywhere!
The most dialogue you will ever see in porn and the most porn you will ever see in a melodrama, Thundercrack! is a volatile marriage of genres, fluid sexuality and depraved perversion.
Witness if you dare, the world’s only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla. Ecstasy so great that all heaven and hell becomes just one big old Shangri-La! Director Curt McDowell and writer/actor George Kuchar created the exceptionally perverse and utterly brilliant Thundercrack!
Description courtesy Frameline
Tickets from Whammy Analog Media ↗
Also This Week
Four Mothers
Mar 14, 1:00 PM @ Laemmle Royal
Director Darren Thornton in person
A gay novelist is stuck caring for his aging mom--and the moms of all his friends, who have gone to Spain for a Pride party.
FREE: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Mar 16, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
Author Tre’vell Anderson in person
A visiting city reporter’s assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Sylvia Scarlett
Mar 11, 9:50 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
Tickets from The New Beverly ↗
FREE: Gun Hill Road
Mar 14, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Rent
Mar 14, 9:45 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.
Midnight Cowboy
Mar 14, 10:00 PM @ Art Theater Long Beach
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 Art Theater Long Beach ↗
Drive Back Home
Mar 15, 11:00 AM @ Art Theater Long Beach
A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together - discovering each other and themselves along the way.
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach ↗
The Watermelon Woman
Mar 15, 1:50 PM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period.
Tickets from Alamo Drafthouse ↗
News From Home
Mar 16, 4:15 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Out director Chantal Ackerman directs this minimalist meditation on isolation and homesickness, featuring letters written by her own mother when she lives in New York.
