The Celluloid Sorceress returns to the Cinema Museum with another rare screening of a cult classic from Joel Schumacher, director of THE LOST BOYS. Exclusive discounts for all Radiant Circus subscribers.
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HARD PAINT
The VITO Project is proud to present HARD PAINT aka Tinta Bruta (2018), a Brazilian film recently shown at the Berlinale Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for best LGBTQ feature, and BFI Flare.
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WE’LL NEVER BE SILENT AGAIN + PANEL
To celebrate the release of 120 BPM, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest and Curzon DocDays have teamed up to present a short film programme that “honours the real-life activists who work to demolish prejudice, fight AIDS and give us the valuable freedoms that queers have today”.
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FRINGE! FLINGS: MR GAY SYRIA
Husein is a Syrian refugee in Istanbul anxiously awaiting placement in Europe with his wife and young daughter… and trying to balance home life with a secret gay existence in Istanbul’s underground queer Muslim scene.
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SCREEN QUEST: MY OWN PRIVATE HELL at BFI Flare
RADIANT CIRCUS went to see MY OWN PRIVATE HELL at BFI Flare 2018. Introduced by co-director/screenwriter Guto Parente & Flare programmer Jay Bernard, the film was followed by an audience Q&A (24 MAR 2018, BFI Southbank). Here’s our writeup.
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CONTRACORRIENTE
ReShape and the Cinema Museum present the third season of the VITO Project, a series of free monthly screenings bringing generations of LGBTs together to provide an alternative space to mix, watch films and share ideas.
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120 BPM + INTRO
The lives of AIDS activists in early 90s Paris are reimagined in bold and vivid detail in 120 BPM, a stunning and heart-wrenching drama from the writer of Palme d’Or winner THE CLASS, Robin Campillo.
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SIDESHOW PROJECT: ‘Token Homo’: The Complete Psychotronic Cinema Of David DeCoteau
RADIANT CIRCUS is launching a new sideshow project inspired by Kim Newman’s ‘Video Dungeon’. Over the next 12 months, we will try to see & blog about every film made by prolific North American director David DeCoteau. That’s c.135 features (& counting…). Here’s our plan of attack.
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THE LIVING END + DISCUSSION
THE LIVING END + DISCUSSION screens at The Cinema Museum (19:00): The Vito Project presents the 1992 film by underground filmmaker Gregg Araki.
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SCREEN GUIDE: BFI Flare 2018
BFI Flare – one of London’s LGBTQ+ film festivals – heads back to BFI Southbank for its 32nd edition (21 MAR to 01 APR 2018). Here’s our handy SCREEN GUIDE.
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