Week of Mar 24
Iconic lesbian erotic thriller Bound has two upcoming can't-miss screenings: with star Jennifer Tilly at the Egyptian on Mar 30, and with co-director Lilly Wachowski at Vidiots on April 26.
This week, Braindead Studios kicks off their celebration of West Hollywood institution EZTV, and the UCLA Film & TV Archive concludes their Disclosure series with Yentl.
Video Capital of the World
Founded by frustrated aspiring filmmaker John Dorr in 1979, EZTV was created as an independent art space and production studio dedicated to video and, eventually, digital and performance art. From feature-length narrative dramas to horror, comedy, erotica, documentaries, and more, EZTV provided the space and equipment for independent videomakers of all stripes and backgrounds to realize their visions. Video Capital of the World is a weeklong screening and performance series honoring the diverse range of artists and communities that have found a home at EZTV over the first 45 years of its existence and the global influence that it has had on the development of video, digital, and performance art. Featuring nine wide-ranging programs across six different venues and online, the series is a first-of-its-kind expansive tribute to a still under-understood LA institution.
Blonde Death
Mar 25, 7:30 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
When James Dillinger’s shot-on-video masterpiece Blonde Death premiered at West Hollywood’s EZTV Video Gallery on October 6, 1983, it instantly became the closest thing that the space had to a “hit”, playing as a late-night movie for months.
The EZTV Comedy Spectacular
featuring the Subversive Comedies of Sebastian
Mar 26, 8:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
A selection of comedy shorts from the EZTV archive, including four super rarities from gay director Sebastian, known for The Cockettes' Tricia's Wedding, made from 1979-1987.
SudZall Does It All!
Mar 28, 8:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
Shakespearian actress Cordelia Coventry is about to give up on her career when she is chosen by director Bruce Rapport to become the star of a national ad campaign for Sudzall washing powder.
EZTV Lesbian Erotic Video
Mar 28, 10:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
A copy of the original 1985 EZTV program including Fatale Video's first two erotic lesbian shorts--Private Pleasures and Shadows--which had caused a riot at that year's San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Video Festival.
A night at EZTV
Mar 29, 7:30 PM @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
EZTV Founding Member and Director Michael J. Masucci in person
Home to some of LA’s most adventurous programming, a typical night at EZTV's video microcinema might include a mix of video art, low-budget horror, political documentaries, queer video, and performance art of every kind.
EZTV Avant Video
Mar 31, 7:30 PM @ 2220 Arts + Archives
For this program, we’ll present three mid-length works that were originally packaged together in August 1985 as Avant Video: New Works by Video Innovators, along with a handful of shorter pieces spanning the breadth of EZTV’s history.
Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV Series Info ↗
Also This Week
Bound
Mar 30, 4:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Star Jennifer Tilly in person
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
FREE: Yentl
Mar 30, 7:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
Disclosure director Sam Feder and producer Amy Scholder in person
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Adam's Rib
Mar 25, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
This classic comedy from gay director George Cukor feature's one of cinema's first "gay best friends" -- a subtle but not unflattering secondary character, despite the film being made under the Hays code.
Silence of the Lambs
Mar 28, 10:00 PM @ Art Theater Long Beach
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism.
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach ↗
Mulholland Drive
Mar 28, 10:30 PM @ Landmark Nuart
In David Lynch's maniacal, notorious thriller, amnesia-suffering Rita, who barely escapes murder on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres ↗
FREE: Will & Harper
Mar 29, 7:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Director Josh Greenbaum and Editor Monique Zavistovski in person
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.
Just Added
Pet Shop Days
Apr 01, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Director Olmo Schnabel in person
Martin Scorsese executive produces this pulpy queer romance turned crime thriller, about a wealthy Mexican expat dragged into New York underworld by a new flame.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Where In The Hell
Apr 19, 8:15 PM @ South Park Center
Director Laramie Dennis with cast & crew in person
When her girlfriend disappears mid-road trip, sardonic prop master Kasey is left stranded in a California backwater. Panicked, she hitches a ride with cash-strapped actor Alan on his trek to an audition in Canada. Together, the unlikely duo dodges Reno psychics, stale corn nuts, and border security on a quest to find a missing soulmate and maybe validation.
Tickets from New Filmmakers LA ↗
Next Week
Nice Indian Boy
Mar 31, 7:00 PM @ Laemmle Royal
Director Roshan Sethi and actor Karan Soni in person
When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.
Tickets from Laemmle Theatres ↗
Play It As It Lays
Apr 06, 7:30 PM @ Aero Theater
LA Premiere of New 4K Restoration, introduced by Ed Wood co-writer Larry Karaszewski
Anthony Perkins co-stars as a depressed gay best friend in this Joan Didion adaptation. Perkins led a fascinating life before his death from AIDS--from Tab Hunter boyfriend, to playing Norman Bates in Pyscho, to Sondheim muse--and this film is one of few gay roles he played.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Capote
Apr 06, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Philip Seymour Hoffman won a Best Actor Oscar for his transformation into iconic gay novelist Truman Capote.
Use code QueerFilmLA2025 for $2 off your tickets.
Safe
Mar 31, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
New Queer Cinema auteur Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven) has enjoyed a rich collaboration with actress Julianne Moore over the years, having worked together on five feature films. New Queer Cinema's 1995 classic Safe screens at Vidiots.
FREE: Vegas in Space
Apr 01, 3:00 PM @ University of Southern California
This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!
My Beautiful Laundrette
Apr 03, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
A very sexy young Daniel Day Lewis co-stars in this landmark British exploration of race, class and sexuality, about a Pakistani-British man and his English lover trying to manage a rundown laundromat.
The Warriors
Apr 04, 9:45 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Walter Hill cut the all-gay gang from the script of his much-imitated New York gang flick, but the homophobic tensions between the young men were still enough to get the film mentioned in The Celluloid Closet.
FREE: The Fits
Apr 06, 7:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in, she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
In Theaters
Misericordia - Now Playing
In the latest queer thriller from Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie, there are no sex scenes--but a web of unfulfilled erotic connections propel the film's small town missing person mystery. Named best film of 2024 by Cahiers du Cinema.
Movie Showtimes from Fandango ↗
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence - Opens April 4
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence chronicles the singer’s epic life journey beginning with her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey; her youthful struggle with notoriety following her hit “Society’s Child" (about an interracial love); her ascent to fame with the single “At Seventeen" (about body shaming); and her release of the disruptive album Breaking Silence which she leveraged to come out publicly about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder.
