Week of Nov 25
Give thanks for Queer film and join us for our monthly meetup! We'll be watching thriller The Handmaiden, meeting at the Vidiots lobby bar starting at 6pm, and the movie starts at 7:30. See you there!
The Handmaiden
Nov 25, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
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.
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Don't Miss!
By Hook or By Crook Restoration Premiere
Dec 5, 7:30 pm @ Academy Museum
On-stage conversation with filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House, moderated by musician Kathleen Hanna.
This ahead-of-its-time low-fi "butch and trans buddy film" about transmasc friendship and petty crimes, which won numerous jury and audience awards during it's long festival run, finally gets its due with a brand new restoration.
Use code QueerCinema for $2 off your ticket!
Spotlight on Gregg Araki
The Living End
Nov 27, 8:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
An iconic New Queer Cinema milestone and a angry punk statement from the heart of the AIDS crisis, The Living End should need no introduction.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios >
Splendor
Nov 30, 9:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki went from the fury of The Living End, to the cool nihilism of the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, to this surprisingly sweet and upbeat romantic comedy about a young actress and her two boyfriends. Not streaming anywhere!
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios >
Todd Haynes
Far From Heaven
Nov 27, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Queer auteur Todd Haynes makes his own version of a 1950s Douglas Sirk melodrama. Julianne Moore plays a Connecticut housewife whose life begins to unravel as she discovers her closeted gay husband's affairs, and whose friendship with her Black gardener stirs dangerous gossip.
Velvet Goldmine
Nov 30, 6:15 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Young Ewan MacGregor, Christian Bale and Jonathan Rhys Meyers star in New Queer Cinema auteur Todd Haynes' loosely-fictionalized bisexual 1970s glam-rock faux biopic based on the lives and loves of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed. Say that three times fast.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios >
Also This Week
My Own Private Idaho
Nov 25, 1:00 pm & 7:30 pm @ Egyptian Theatre
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
The Wizard of Oz
Nov 29, 12:15 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
What movie better deserves the "Not Queer But Queer" label? Historians may debate exactly why Judy Garland was such an icon to the gay community, but for years being a "friend of Dorothy" was code for how closeted queers could find each other. See her in this iconic role.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nov 29, 9:45 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Nov 30, 11:45 pm @ Art Theater Long Beach with live shadow cast A Bit o'f Mustard
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named ‘Rocky’.
Tickets from Vidiots >
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach >
The Maltese Falcon
Nov 30, 4:15 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Peter Lorre's villain is explicitly gay in the novel, but to pass the censors in the iconic 1941 adaptation, the character's queerness manifests in subtler ways--like gardenia cologne and suggestively stroking a cane, though audiences at the time would likely catch the hint.
Naked Lunch
Nov 30, 11:55 pm @ New Beverly Cinema
Luca Guadagnino's upcoming Queer is adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by outlaw beat writer William S Burroughs, as is Naked Lunch, which Cronenberg describes as the story of a closeted man trying to cure himself of his homosexuality.
Tickets from The New Beverly >
Just Added
Rope
Dec 7, 4:15 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Film writer Alonso Duralde in person for book signing of Hollywood Pride
Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.
Happiest Season
Dec 18, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Writer/director Clea DuVall in person
A young woman’s plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family’s annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn’t yet come out to her conservative parents.
Saint Joan
Dec 22, 2:30 pm @ Academy Museum
Was Joan of Arc the original gender outlaw? The 15th century teenager was burned at the stake for the heresy of wearing men's clothing (and for helping to lead the French army).
In Theaters
Queer (Opens Nov 27)
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.