Week of Mar 31
Gay rom-com A Nice Indian Boy, starring Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni, finally releases in theaters Friday--but be sure to catch the sneak preview with director Roshan Sethi on Monday night!
A 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 ↗
Tune In
LA Queer filmmakers Daniel Cameron Talbott and Sav Rodgers join Sebastian director Mikko Mäkelä for the No Film School Podcast episode "Blueprints for Making Films Outside of the System." Check it out to hear about how these Queer filmmakers are getting their movies made!
Also This Week
Pet Shop Days
Apr 01, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Director Olmo Schnabel in person
Apr 3, 10:00 PM; Apr 6, 4:00 PM; Apr 8, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
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 ↗
FREE: Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos
Apr 04, 6:30 PM @ Charles R Drew University of Medicine
Filmmaker Gregorio Davila and GLLU members in person
Winner of a 2024 Los Angeles Press Club Award, UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos is a feature-length documentary, directed by Gregorio Davila, that tells the story of the country's first Queer Latine organization, formed in Los Angeles in 1981 to highlight Queer Latine issues.
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 ↗
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 your ticket order.
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 ↗
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.
L Word MAXed OUT
Apr 03, 9:00 PM @ Hi Tops Los Feliz
Not Streaming Anywhere!
World premiere of the revolutionary fan-edit of the iconic series 'The L Word', featuring ONLY the scenes of trans-masc character Max Sweeney. Followed by a night of music spun by transmasc DJs from 10:30-1:30pm.
Tickets from Trans Dudes of LA ↗
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--the first of which was 1995's iconic film Safe.
EZTV Avant Video
Mar 31, 7:30 PM @ 2220 Arts + Archives
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.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment ↗
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!
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Apr 02, 4:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Gay director F.W. Murnau, who directed Nosferatu at home in Germany, fled to Hollywood in 1926, where he filmed this now-classic silent film, which cleaned up at the first ever Oscars.
La Belle et la Bête
Apr 02, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
As in Orpheus, bisexual writer/filmmaker/surrealist Jean Cocteau casts his lover, French screen superstar Jean Marais, in a magical film full of pioneering special effects.
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.
Memoria
Apr 06, 7:00 PM @ Art Theater Long Beach
This dreamlike film is the long-awaited collaboration between Tilda Swinton and gay Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 18 years after Swinton first wrote to him to express her love for his film Tropical Malady.
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach ↗
Next Week
High Art
Apr 08, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Apr 09, 7:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Writer/Director Lisa Cholodenko in person
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
The Day of the Locust
Apr 09, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Gay director John Schlesinger directs this adaptation of the classic novel of Hollywood depravity, adding moments of gay panic and grotesquerie to elevate the film's social horror--like Jackie Earl Haley as a child actor dressed up in Shirley Temple drag by his fame-obsessed stage mother.
Use code QueerFilmLA2025 for $2 your ticket order.
Mulholland Drive
Apr 09, 8:00 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
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.
