Join us for a screening of director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses, followed by a Q&A with Kyle Turner, author of The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies that Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories.

Long unavailable in the US, Funeral Parade of Roses is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art, and black mascara. Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.

Brokeback Mountain may have changed LGBTQIA+ cinema’s place in the mainstream in 2005, but Ang Lee has long been fascinated with the codes of masculinity, tradition, family, and queerness. For his 1993 romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet, part of his “Father Knows Best” Trilogy, Lee looked back to the ingredients of classic screwballs and farces for the modern New York tale of a gay interracial relationship that’s foisted back into the closet when the family of the Taiwanese half comes to visit. Co-written with longtime collaborator James Schamus and Neil Peng, and starring Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein (director of Teeth), and Lee mainstay Lung Sihung, The Wedding Banquet is a bracingly funny and tender look at the imperfect path to love and happiness in the new world.

Join us for a drag celebration of Kyle Turner's new book, THE QUEER FILM GUIDE. Brooklyn's finest drag cinephiles will gather to give performances inspired by the dynamic films featured in Turner's vivid new survey of queer cinema. Tied to each performance will be live readings from the book to create a thrilling fantasia of drag, film, and criticism.

Following the show, there will be a book signing with author Kyle Turner and beats from DJ Malice throughout the night.