Week of Sep 9
We welcome week two of the stellar series James Baldwin at the Movies and Spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar this week! And a few extra special events are new to our calendar, including Happy Together at Vidiots (Sept 18), the World Premiere of the High Art restoration with Lisa Cholodenko in person (Oct 25), and some Queer Halloween picks are starting to fill pop up in October!
James Baldwin at the Movies
I Am Not Your Negro
Sep 9, 7:30pm @ Academy Museum
If Beale Street Could Talk
Sep 13, 7:30pm @ Academy Museum
James Baldwin Abroad: Three Short Documentaries
Sep 14, 7:30pm @ Academy Museum
The Academy Museum wraps up their five-part James Baldwin retrospective this week with two adaptations of Baldwin's work: nonfiction I Am Not Your Negro, which was nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, and drama If Beale Street Could Talk, which was nominated for Best Score and Best Adapted Screenplay, and for which Regina King won Best Supporting Actress. Finally, a program of three short documentaries closes the program.
Spotlight on Almodovar
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Sep 11, 8pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Sep 13, 9:45pm @ Brain Dead Studios
All About My Mother
Sep 14, 7pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Talk to Her
Sep 11, 8pm @ Brain Dead Studios
Full schedule from Brain Dead Studios >
Also This Week
Tongues Untied
Sep 11, 8:00 pm @ Whammy Analog Media
TAPE Los Angeles presents Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied, an experimental blend of documentary and performance that, in Riggs’ own words, was meant to, “shatter the nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference.”
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Sep 15, 1:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
Introduction by Vera Drew
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
No. 18: Mahagonny
Sep 12, 7:30 pm @ Academy Museum
This non-narrative, four-projector experimental film opus from asexual avant-garde filmmaker, musicologist and mystic Harry Smith, features Smith's friends and contemporaries including Allen Ginsburg, Patti Smith, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Thelma and Louise
Sep 13, 7:00 pm @ Eagle Theater
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Mulholland Drive
Sep 14, 1:00 pm @ Los Feliz 3
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.
Tickets from American Cinematheque >
Just Added
High Art
Restoration World Premiere
Oct 25, 7:30 pm @ Hammer Museum
Director Lisa Cholodenko, cast and crew in Person
A free screening of new restoration of the the not-streaming-anywhere debut feature from Lisa Cholodenko, High Art. Don't miss this one! Admission is free with no advance reservations, line up early because this is sure to sell out! Box office opens at 6:30.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive >
Happy Together
Sep 18, 7:30 pm @ Eagle Theater
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted, the brokenhearted romance at the center of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, will leave you in tears over and over again.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Sep 21, 10:30 pm @ Landmark Westwood
This smoldering erotic drama from French auteur Céline Sciamma follows the desire that develops between a wealthy young woman and the painter who is charged to accompany her and paint her wedding portrait.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres >
Sisi & I
Sep 21, 11:00 am @ Art Theater Long Beach
After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach >
In Theaters
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Opens Sep 6
Lover Of Men examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.
Will and Harper
Opens Sep 13
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.