Week of Oct 21
This summer's festival favorite High Tide comes to the Laemmle, opening on Friday. It's the end of summer in Provincetown, and newly-single undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço finds himself looking for new love and a new job in this intimate drama.
"As kindness and cruelty tear Lourenço asunder, Pigossi delivers a stunning performance..." - Variety
Star Marco Pigossi, co-star James Bland, and director Marco Calvani will participate in a series of Q&As over opening weekend.
High Tide
Opens October 25. Special Q&As:
Oct 25 & 26, 7:10 pm @ Laemmle NoHo 7
Oct 27, 4pm @ Laemmle Royal
Actor/producer Marco Pigossi, Director Marco Calvani, and Actor James Bland in person
Tickets from Laemmle Theatres >
AFI Fest
The American Film Institute's annual AFI Fest comes to Hollywood Oct 23-27. This year includes a number of great Queer picks, and AFI has generously offered a 20% discount with code queerfilm2024.
Queer picks include feminist rock documentary Teaches of Peaches, coming of age story Langue Étrangère, gory horror comedy The Balconettes, hybrid documentary REAS, erotic coal miner drama Viet & Nam, and Italian-American family dramedy Christmas Eve in Miller's Point.
High Art Restoration World Premiere
Lisa Cholodenko's 1998 breakout hit High Art premieres its brand new restoration with a free screening at the Hammer Museum. This complex drama about the relationship between a young editor and her neighbor, a once-acclaimed photographer, won the screenwriting award at Sundance.
The filmmakers will be present at this premiere, and this film is not streaming anywhere. As with all Hammer Museum screenings, admission is free with no advance reservations--so line up early because this is sure to fill every seat! The box office opens at 6:30 to begin seating, so arrive early to secure your spot.
High Art
Oct 25, 7:30 pm @ Hammer Museum
Director Lisa Cholodenko, Lisa Cholodenko, editor Amy E. Duddleston, producer Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, producer Susan A. Stover, composer Craig Wedren, photographer Jojo Whilden, moderated by Sundance Institute Director of Programming Kim Yutani
More Info from UCLA Film & TV Archive >
Also This Week
Desire Lines
Oct 24, 7:00 pm @ Laemmle Royal
Director Jules Rosskam in person
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
Tickets from Laemmle Theatres >
Radical Harmonies
Oct 24, 7:00 pm @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
Director Dee Mosbacher in person
RADICAL HARMONIES (2002) is an 88-minute documentary produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Dee Mosbacher that chronicles the history of queer music by (mostly lesbian) women.
The Velvet Vampire
Oct 21, 7:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
So few exploitation films were directed by women, it's a treat to see Roger Corman protégé Stephanie Rothman direct this tale of a couple invited out to a desert estate, unaware that their hostess is a bisexual vampire intent on seducing them both.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Just Added
Eat the Night
Nov 2, 8:00 pm @ Culver Theater
Acropolis Cinema brings the films of Cannes' Directors Fortnight to LA, including this story of video-game obsessed teenagers and queer criminals in love, which was also an official selection for the Queer Palm.
Tickets from Acropolis Cinema >
Querelle
Dec 15, 4:30 pm @ Alamo Drafthouse
The final film made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this adaptation of the Jean Genet novel follows a sailor on leave in France as he simultaneously tries to cover up his involvement in a murder and embarks on a sexual odyssey of self-discovery.
Tickets from Alamo Drafthouse >
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.
Our Next Meetup
Thanks to everyone who came out for our Undertow meetup last week! We're excited to announce our next Queer Film Los Angeles meetup -- at Korean lesbian thriller The Handmaiden on November 25. Join us starting at 6pm at the Vidiots lobby bar for drinks and conversations with fellow Queer film fans!
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.