PRIDE MONTH & SCHOOL'S OUT!
The Dreamland presents a selection of films from the queer film canon for LGBTQ Pride month and a series
of films exploring the haze of high school's end and the beginning of summer.
KNIFE + HEART 2018
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne (French pop star Vanessa Paradis) produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down. Shot on 35mm and featuring a killer retro score from M83, Yann Gonzalez’s KNIFE+HEART is an ultra-stylish and blood-soaked ode to ’70s-era De Palma, Argento, and Friedkin.
Sunday, June 5
PRIDE MONTH
Director: Yann Gonzalez
Starring: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury,
Kate Moran.
Runtime: 102 min.
Thursday, June 9
Friday, June 10
Director: Jamie Babbit
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Mink Stole, RuPaul.
Runtime: 85 min.
BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER 2000
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is a teenager passionate about cheerleading. However her conservative parents suspect she is more interested in the other girls on the team, despite the fact she has a boyfriend - albeit one she refuses to be intimate with. Filled with horror at the thought of having a lesbian daughter, her straight-laced parents (Mink Stole and Bud Cort) ship her off to a summer school that aims to turn kids straight. Determined to get back the summer of fun she had planned, she decides to go along with the camp's rules, that is until she meets the beautiful Graham (Clea DuVall) and finds herself questioning her sexuality for the first time.
Sunday, June 12
Thursday, June 16
Friday, June 17
Director: Tashio Matsumoto
Starring: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura.
Runtime: 105 min.
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES 1969
Transgender actor Pîtâ gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet – where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda.
One of Japan’s leading experimental filmmakers, Toshio Matsumoto bends and distorts time, and freely mixes documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons. Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece, and one of the most subversive, intoxicating films of the 60s. (BFI)
Sunday, June 19
Thursday, June 23
Friday, June 24
PARIS IS BURNING 1990
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza—Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community. (Criterion Collection)
Sunday, June 26
Thursday, June 30
Director: Jennie Livingston
Starring: Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, Venus Xtravaganza.
Runtime: 71 min.
Friday, July 1
SCHOOL'S OUT!
LADY BIRD 2017
In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home. (A24)
Saturday, June 4
Sunday, June 5
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Timothee Chalamet.
Runtime: 94 min.
ROCK N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL 1979
Friday, June 10
High school student Riff Randell's attempts to meet the rock group the Ramones are constantly blocked by the school principal Evelyn Togar. Ms. Togar believes that rock and roll music is determental to teenagers, so much so that she conducts lab experiments on rats to prove her theory. Riff keeps trying to outsmart her zealous principal, which eventually leads to the students taking over the school and the Ramones being made honorary students. (TCM)
Saturday, June 11
Director: Allan Arkush
Starring: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten,
Clint Howard, The Ramones.
Runtime: 93 min.
Sunday, June 12
GHOST WORLD 2001
The story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school, take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad Renfro), the girls' friendship is forever changed.
Friday, June 17
Saturday, June 18
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro.
Runtime: 111 min.
Sunday, June 19
DAZED AND CONFUSED 1993
This critically acclaimed cult favorite, written and directed by Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Boyhood), explores the last day of school - and one wild night - in the lives of high school students in 1976. Complete with bongs and bell bottoms, macrame and mood rings, and featuring classic rock music by Aerosmith, Black Sabbath and KISS, this superb ensemble cast of up-and-comers (Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey and Milla Jovovich) delivers an enduring film that Rolling Stone called "spectacularly funny!" 1976 was a time they'd never forget... if only they could remember...
Friday, June 24
Saturday, June 25
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jason London, Milla Jovovich, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey.
Runtime: 102 min.