Out Film CT is thrilled to partner with our friends at REAL ART WAYS to present the spectacular new film BPM (beats per minute) which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and will represent France’s foreign language film submission to the Academy Awards this year. Synopsis: In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists […]
Out Film CT is collaborating with the Wadsworth Atheneum to bring you the film Tipping the Velvet, the erotic lesbian romp through the 1890s Victorian England underworld, with prostitution, cross-dressing, music halls, and rich society women who keep love slaves. Find yourself cheering for our heroine Nan as she stumbles on the way from village oyster girl to London’s unsavory […]
For November, we bring you a polyamorous tale for the ages… In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940s. While Marston’s feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her ‘sexual […]
The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski’s stirring biopic follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish […]
Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. But when a handsome Romanian migrant worker (Alec Secareanu) arrives to take up temporary work on the family farm, Johnny suddenly finds himself having […]
For October we’re celebrating the first widely-released film to feature a positive lesbian relationship on screen: no one is self-destructive, drinks to excess, or morosely pines for straight girls! Directed by Donna Deitch (who is planning a sequel), this breakthrough movie is set in 1959, as a Columbia University literature professor (Helen Shayer) arrives in Reno to divorce her husband. […]
Out Film CT is collaborating with the Wadsworth Atheneum to bring you the film Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia). An avant-garde composer (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of personal and artistic stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to […]
Heartland tells the story of Lauren, an artist living in suburban Oklahoma, who has moved back home with her mom, Crystal, following the sudden death of her girlfriend. The relentlessly chipper Crystal assumes her daughter is headed back to the straight and narrow, but Lauren is only paying lip service to her mother’s plans to stave off the pain of […]
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own? A comedy/drama with James Roday, Danny […]
For March’s 2nd Thursdays we present a special night for fans of the German New Wave: the 4K restoration of Fox and His Friends. Brilliant, provocative and prolific, director Rainer W. Fassbinder made 33 films before his death at 36. Fox and His Friends (along with Ali: Fears Eats the Soul and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) is […]
