Esteros (Estuaries) Matias and Jeronimo have known each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening. Matias’s father breaks up their relationship by accepting a job very far away. The family’s contempt against homosexuality brings Matias to deny his friend and himself. More than ten […]
If you have been introduced to John Waters, Baltimore’s bard of bad taste, via the movie/musical/movie musical of Hairspray, hold onto your pearls and prepare to be shocked (and delighted)! Waters’ second film, never released in theaters, can now be experienced in a perfect new 4K restoration on the giant screen. Divine, though unknown, is already a black lipstick-wearing diva […]
SAVE THE DATE! The 30th annual Connecticut LGBT Film Festival is coming June 2 – 10, 2017. IT’S BIG. IT’S HAPPENING. Click here to check out the 2017 Festival!
(85 min, US, 2016) Director: Ira Sachs. Screenplay by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barber, Alfred Molina. In New York City, real estate is drama of the highest order. Out director Ira Sachs’ previous movie, Love Is Strange, starred John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a newly married couple who […]
In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to “Look at the pictures,” while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism — and ignited a culture war that rages to this day. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures does just that, taking an […]
This powerful documentary reveals the details of the little-known crime known as the largest gay mass murder, before this year’s tragedy in Orlando. On June 24, 1973, a gay bar in New Orleans’s French Quarter called the Up Stairs Lounge was deliberately set on fire: 32 people were killed, and no one was ever brought to justice. In fact, what […]
SAVE THE DATE! This November we’ll be bringing you the best in LGBT film in partnership with the EROS student group at Trinity College. More info about EROS here.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is the new film by Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,) and the subject is a direct hit on the controversial director’s sweet spot. Russian cultural icon Sergei Eisenstein is revered for his innovative, political silent films like Potemkin and October: Ten Days That Shook the World – but not so much […]
Co sponsored by Out Film CT and The Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective. PARIS 05:59: Théo & Hugo (THEO AND HUGO DANS LE MÊME BATEAU) This month’s First Thursday film comes from the City of Light, where a couple falls in love at first sight at a club, then spend the night in Paris – riding bikes on cobblestone […]
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story Thursday, April 14 7:30pm Chuck Holmes might have been the most influential gay filmmaker in our history, his work viewed by millions of gay men at a time when most representation of gay life was either homophobic or relegated the art house. He dined with Gorbachev and Gore, threw parties at Calvin Klein’s and […]
