Week of Mar 3
March comes in like a lion with a storm of Queer film screenings, now that Awards season is wrapping up and LA's cinemas return to repertory and festival screenings. We've added a lot of events in the last few days, so check out the full calendar for all the amazing options!
A Century of Romance
The Egyptian Theater launches a new series A Century of Romance: Star-Crossed, On the Run, and Happily Ever After this week--and it includes a number of great Queer love stories, and classic Hollywood romances from Queer directors:
A Century of Romance series info ↗
But I'm a Cheerleader
Mar 04, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
4K restoration! For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit signle-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell in this now-classic queer comedy.
Maurice
Mar 05, 1:00 PM & 7:15 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Gay director James Ivory won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1987 for this adaptation of gay author E. M. Forster's posthumously-published novel of the same name, about gay love and social class in Edwardian England (with a happy ending!)
The Handmaiden
Mar 06, 4:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook adapted the Victorian lesbian con artist psychological thriller Fingersmith into 2016's critically acclaimed The Handmaiden, moving the setting to Japanese-occupied Korea as our main characters set out to seduce and rob a Japanese heiress.
Bringing Up Baby
Mar 03, 1:00 PM & 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Likely bisexual Cary Grant and sapphic icon Katharine Hepburn star in this perfect screwball comedy that still feels fresh today--and is a footnote in many queer film histories as the first Hollywood film to use the word "gay" to mean homosexual.
Disclosure Series
FREE: The Queen
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.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive ↗
Also playing:
Mar 05, 7:30 PM @ Philosophical Research Society
Panel discussion with Zachary Drucker, Syd Xtravaganza, and Marlow La Fantastique
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 ↗
Series continues next week with free screenings of Gun Hill Road and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Upcoming Festival Screenings
And the Breadwinner Is...
Mar 05, 8:00 PM @ TCL Chinese Theaters
A huge hit in the Philippines, this grounded comedy stars non-binary superstar Vice Ganda as a queer worker returning home from overseas to the family she has been supporting for years.
Tickets from Manila International Film Festival ↗
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.
Tickets from Irish Film Festival Los Angeles ↗
45 Years of EZTV in LA
Founded in 1983 by gay filmmaker John Dorr, who shot three feature films on home video equipment, EZTV was a groundbreaking microcinema in West Hollywood, a home for the video art explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
Hollywood Entertainment and programmer Elizabeth Purchell celebrate the legacy of EZTV with a week of original programs from the space's heyday, a wild mix of screenings ranging from video art to lesbian erotica to gay soap opera parodies, running March 24-31 at venues across LA. Don't miss this slice of Los Angeles history come to life!
Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in LA Series Info ↗
Also This Week
SOLD OUT: 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.
Dog Day Afternoon
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 The New Beverly ↗
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 ↗
Female Trouble
Mar 08 & 09, multiple showings @ Gardena Cinema
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.
Mishima
Mar 08, 7:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
40th Anniversary screening
Yukio Mishima's estate didn't let Paul Schrader do more than hint at the homosexuality of the controversial Japanese writer turned right-winger, but Mishima's writings were deeply interwoven with gay themes and characters.
Tickets from American Cinematheque ↗
Midnight Cowboy
Mar 08 & 09, 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 ↗
Next Week
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!
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!
Tickets from Whammy Analog Media ↗
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 ↗
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.
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.
Just Added
FREE SNEAK PREVIEW: A Nice Indian Boy
Mar 30, 4:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Director Roshan Sethi and star 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.
