Week of Nov 11
Fresh from winning the documentary audience award at Frameline, The World According to Allee Willis follows the career of queer songwriter Allee Willis. Like many women songwriters, Willis isn't a household name--but she wrote September, Boogie Wonderland, and the Friends theme song. Through interviews with her close associates including Cyndi Lauper, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Lily Tomlin, this documentary explores the life, love, and struggles of a real-life music icon and trailblazer.
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The World According to Allee Willis
Nov 16, 7:20 pm & Nov 17, 1:30 pm @ Laemmle Royal
Nov 19, 7:30 pm @ Laemmle Glendale
Filmmaker Alexis Spraic & producer Prudence Fenton in person
All Showtimes from Laemmle Theatres >
Spotlight on Gregg Araki
Three Bewildered People in the Night
Nov 15, 7:15 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki's first feature film, not streaming anywhere! David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios >
Luca Guadagnino's Queer
SOLD OUT: Queer
Nov 14, 7:00 pm @ Aero Theater
Actor Daniel Craig in person; double feature with Love is the Devil
Daniel Craig joins in person for an advance screening of Queer, Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William S Burroughs semi-autobiographical novel (in theaters Nov 27). Screening followed by a Q&A with Craig, and a double feature of Love is the Devil, Craig's breakout role in the biopic drama of gay painter Francis Bacon.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Challengers
Nov 16, 3:00 pm @ Aero Theater
Director Luca Guadagnino and Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes in person
Don't forget Guadagnino's OTHER feature film release this year. The high-wire love triangle never got quite as bi as it could have--but still features standout performances in a tense, sexually smoldering story of two tennis stars competing for the love (and coaching talents of) Zendaya's Tashi.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Also This Week
Looking Back at Looking
Nov 17, 5:00 pm @ NYA East
It’s been ten years since Looking debuted on HBO, and we’re looking (see what we did there?) to celebrate! Creator Michael Lannan will be joined by cast members Jonathan Groff, Lauren Weedman, Frankie J. Alvarez, and more for a night reminiscing over the much-beloved and gone-too-soon HBO series and film.
Tickets from Vulture Festival >
Go Fish
Nov 14, 7:15 pm @ Alamo Drafthouse
This fresh new restoration of 1994 lesbian classic Go Fish was a collaboration between the Academy, Sundance, Frameline, MGM, and UCLA. It screened at Sundance this year, right where the film premiered 30 years ago.
Tickets from Alamo Drafthouse >
An Unexpected Community
Nov 16, 8:00 pm @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
LA Premiere -- Filmmakers in attendance
AN UNEXPECTED COMMUNITY tells the story of a lesbian community that found each other online and virtually thrived during the pandemic. It features appearances by Lily Tomlin, Meredith Baxter, Paula Poundstone, Kate Clinton, The Indigo Girls, Vickie Shaw, Karen Williams, and more!
Tickets from Los Angeles LGBT Center >
Y Tu Mamá También
Nov 15, 7:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Mutt
Nov 16, 10:30 pm @ Landmark Westwood
A trans man confronts his past after bumping into his ex-boyfriend, sister and dad for the first time since transitioning — all within the span of a day.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres >
Jawbreaker
Nov 17, 5:45 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Jawbreaker is a 1999 cult classic from out director (and LA native) Darren Stein. Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, and Julie Benz star as a trio of popular high schoolers who accidentally murder their best friend on her birthday.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios >
Obsession: A Taste for Fear
Nov 17, 8:00 pm @ Whammy Analog Media
This neon-soaked science fiction 80s Italian giallo exploitation film follows a bisexual fashion photographer whose subjects are being stalked by a vicious serial killer.
Tickets from Whammy Analog Media >
Just Added
Playland
Nov 21, 7:00 pm & Nov 23, 1pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Director Georden West in person
Playland is a boundary-pushing, transdisciplinary, hybrid film centered around the raucous activity of a time-bending night in Boston’s oldest and most notorious gay bar, the Playland Café.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Nov 20, 7:30 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an ‘internationally ignored’ but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a ‘beautiful gender of one’.
Two Films by Jacques Demy
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Dec 7, 12:00 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Dec 13, 7:00 pm @ Laemmle Royal
Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.
The Young Girls of Rochefort from The Egyptian >
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg from Laemmle Theatres >
Queer Film LA Meetup
The Handmaiden
Nov 25, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Queer Film LA Meetup at 6pm in the lobby bar
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.