Week of Sep 23
The Academy Museum kicks off their Latine coming-of-age series this week, anchored by a special screening of Chicana drama Mosquita y Mari. Director Aurora Guerrero and stars Fenessa Pineda and Venecia Troncoso will be in attendance Friday, Sep 27.
Also screening are Brazilian first-love charmer The Way He Looks and Venezuelan childhood drama Pelo Malo.
Hasta La Raíz full program at the Academy Museum >
The week is full of more Spanish language Queer cinema, as Hola Mexico Film Festival continues with family drama Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui and documentary TransMéxico. Brain Dead Studios wraps up their Almodóvar retrospective with The Skin I Live In and Pain & Glory, while Vidiots screens Almodóvar classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Beyond Fest & Ed Wood Retrospective
American Cinematheque presents its annual genre film festival Beyond Fest this week. Queer picks include "who knows how it became a Queer icon" The Babadook with director Jennifer Kent, and a special 30th anniversary screening of Tim Burton's Ed Wood with Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
The AC continues their celebration of lifelong crossdresser and B-movie pioneer Ed Wood with a special series kicking off on his 100th birthday. The series includes Wood's debut Glen or Glenda and late career Take it Out in Trade, both of which star Wood as a trans* character.
Ed Wood Retrospective from American Cinematheque >
Also This Week
Bradford Nordeen: We All Feel Better in the Dark
Sep 23, 8:00 pm @ 2220 Arts + Archives
Author Bradford Nordeen in person
Monday night gets steamy as we present We All Feel Better in the Dark: the bathhouse as queer utopia, a visual lecture by Dirty Looks’ Bradford Nordeen.
The Way He Looks
Sep 23, 7:30 pm @ Academy Museum
This super-sweet Brazilian coming of age film, about a blind boy experiencing first love with a classmate, has a bopping soundtrack, and won the 2014 Teddy award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
TransMéxico
Sep 26, 5:00 pm @ Regal LA Live 13
Hola Mexico Film Festival
In Mexico, which has one of the highest murder rates of transwomen in the world, the prosecution of these crimes is regrettably uncommon. But despite these challenges, many transwomen live empowered lives; they live in truth and have found respect, acceptance, love, and fulfilling careers. Based on true stories –written and recounted by the protagonists themselves – “TransMexico” is built around the incredible lives of three such transwomen.
Tickets from Hola Mexico Film Festival >
Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui
Hola Mexico Film Festival
Sep 24, 5:00 pm @ Regal LA Live 13
Outfest alum Rodrigo Álvarez Flores, whose short "The Other Side" won Special Mention, makes his feature film debut with this story of a Mexican family torn apart when their father leaves the country, and three siblings who must grow up and find their way without him.
Tickets from Hola Mexico Film Festival >
SOLD OUT: Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
The Doom Generation
Sep 24, 7:30 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Gregg Araki and actor James Duval in person
Nowhere/Totally F***ed Up
Sep 25, 7:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Gregg Araki and actors James Duval and Nathan Bexton in person
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Psycho
Sep 27 & 28, 11:59 pm @ Vista Theater Hollywood
It's probably the OG problematic gender-crossed serial killer movie, but there's more Queer connections to Psycho. Anthony Perkins was boyfriend to Tab Hunter before his star turn in Psycho, and died of AIDS in 1992. The film was also remade in 1998 by gay director Gus Van Sant.
Don't Forget
Undertow (Contracorriente)
Oct 10, 7:00 pm @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Writer/director Javier Fuentes-León in Person
Queer Film LA Meetup at 6
This romantic, soulful ghost story set in a Peruvian seaside village won the Sundance Audience Award in 2010 before a wildly successful festival run. Director Javier Fuentes-León joins in person for a special 15th anniversary screening in honor of National Coming Out Day.
Just Added
Fresh Kill
Oct 13, 8:00 pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Director Shu Lea Cheang in person
Mezzanine + Dirty Looks presents the Los Angeles premiere of a brand-new 35mm print for the 30th anniversary of Shu Lea Cheang’s one-of-a-kind queer cyberpunk eco-thriller, featuring an in-person Q&A with the director herself.