Landmark Theatres begins its third annual Pride Series on May 30 with the classic “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” at the Midtown Art Cinema in Atlanta.
The series of films will be screened in partnership with Out on Film, which will be hosting talkbacks after select screenings. Tickets are available at outonfilm.org.
Here’s the lineup:
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
June 2 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Two drag queens, Mitzi and Felicia, and their trans friend, Bernadette, sign up for a gig at a drag show in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard a lavender bus named Priscilla, but when they arrive, they find more than just a cabaret job lying in wait.
But I’m A Cheerleader
June 6 at 1 p.m. and June 9 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Confident and opinionated, 17-year-old Megan is far too strong-willed for her unsupportive parents, who begin to worry she is a lesbian. Their solution is to send Megan to ‘True Directions,’ a “rehabilitation camp” run by homophobic counselor Mary Brown. Soon Megan meets the equally defiant Graham, and the two form a fast friendship.
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
June 13 at 1 p.m. and June 16 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in Communist East Berlin, dreams of finding his other half and becoming a big American rock star. When a handsome American GI promises love and liberation, it seems like a dream come true. But there’s a catch: to marry and emigrate, Hansel must “leave a little something behind.” Hedwig survives a botched sex change operation and forms a rock band.
Brokeback Mountain
June 20 at 1 p.m. and June 23 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Set against the sweeping landscapes of Wyoming and Texas, this epic love story tells of two cowboys who meet in the summer of 1963 while driving cattle on a mountain range.
Moonlight
June 27 at 1 p.m. and June 30 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, MOONLIGHT is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths.
