CELEBRATE PRIDE WITH TRAILBLAZERS OF QUEER CINEMA
We’ve rounded up some of the ongoing special events happening at indue cinemas for Pride Month with films and film makers that have delivered some of the most innovative pieces of cinema for over five decades.
HAPPY TOGETHER (1997 / 35mm Print) at The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles.
One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up, and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong – when the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future – Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s by turns devastating and deliriously romantic. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes. (Janus Films)
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BE GAY, DO CRIME season at Nitehawk Cinema, New York City
Inspired by Shayna Maci Warner’s “Pride is a Riot” list and film essay published by Letterboxd News, this riveting film series focuses on Queer folks who commit crimes as an act of resistance – and sometimes just for fun! Featuring films from The Wachowski Sisters, John Waters, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant and Lizzie Borden, among others, this inclusive slate of Queer classics and newer discoveries has something gay and fun for everyone! Shayna Maci Warner is a film programmer and writer whose gratuitously queer work appears in Paste Magazine, The Film Stage and Autostraddle, among others. Films include BOUND (1996), TANGERINE (2015), D.E.B.S (2004 / 35mm Print), NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST 2 (1985 / 35mm Print) and more!
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PRIDE MONTH AT THE FRIDA
Celebrate Pride Month 2022 at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana with five movies exploring LGBTQ identity and themes! From biting horror-comedies to heartfelt romantic dramas, there’s something for everyone this June, dovetailing nicely with the values of inclusion and diversity that this month commemorates. This is also reflected in the variety of acting talent the series draws together, from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Transformers‘ Megan Fox to frequent Wong Kar-wai collaborator Tony Leung and Hugo “Mister Anderson” Weaving. It’s our way of observing this special month (as well as honoring the tremendous strides the LGBTQ community has made), andwe hope that you’ll join us in the spirit of celebration for it! Movies include MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004) HAPPY TOGETHER (1997) JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) and BOUND (1996)
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PINK FLAMINGOS 50TH ANNIVERSARY at IFC Center, New York City.
Q&A with director John Waters Sun Jun 12 at 4pm show, and extended intro by Waters at 5:15 show, plus, starting at 6pm, Waters signing copies of his new novel Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance and the upcoming Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Pink Flamingos – both available at our concessions stand!
New 50th Anniversary 4K restoration! John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation PINK FLAMINGOS, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.
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Sat 6/4th & / Sun 6/5th 4pm: As tribute to the passing of the great Ray Liotta, Martin Scorsese’s immortal mob epic GOODFELLAS (1990) screens with a New 4K Restoration at The Texas Theatre, Dallas. More info HERE.
Sat 6/4th 9pm: A former Secret Service agent (Kevin Costner) takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer (Whitney Houston) in THE BODYGUARD (1992) at Syndicated Sidewalk Cinema, New York City. More info HERE.
Sun 6/5th 2pm: Elvis Presley does what he does best, integrating his singing prowess into his characters day to day happenings. Catch a Double Feature of The King in G.I BLUES (1960) + GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! (1962) at The Astor Theatre, Melbourne. More info HERE.
Sat 6/4th 11am: Three drag queens (Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Lequizamo) set off on a madcap road trip across America to make it to Los Angeles in time for a National competition. TOO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995) at Alamo Drafthouse, Slaughter Lane, Austin. More info HERE.
Sun 6/5th 4:30pm: The consummate Michael Mann film, and among the greatest works of 90s Hollywood, with Pacino and De Niro in a cat-and-mouse game through several high-stakes heists in seedy Los Angeles. HEAT (1996) screens in 35mm at The Museum of The Moving Image, New York City. More info HERE.
Sun 6/5th 3pm: Omar, a young Pakistani, is given a run-down laundromat and hopes to turn it into a successful business. Set upon by racist punks, he defuses the situation when he realizes their leader is his former lover, Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Resuming their relationship, they rehabilitate the laundromat together, but various social forces threaten to compromise their success. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) screens in 35mm at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. More info HERE.
Sun 6/5th: A story spanning 18 years, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE (1995), BEFORE SUNSET (2004) & BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2013) traces a chance meeting between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy, and the relationship that follows. All screen in 35mm at Braindead Studios, Los Angeles. More info HERE.