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ENCORE SCREENING: Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 7:30pm
TUE, Oct 12, 2021, 7:30pm

February 19, 2022 by Susan Taunton

Fanny: The Right to Rock

(Bobbi Jo Hart, 2021)
In Person
Original Fanny drummer Alice de Buhr
The Loft Cinema / FREE

“Revivify Fanny. And my work is done.”

—David Bowie

Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to release an LP with a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970).

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THU, NOV 11, 2021, 7:30pm

February 19, 2022 by Susan Taunton

The Novice

(Lauren Hadaway, 2021, USA, 94 mins, Not Rated)
The Loft / $12 (or $10 for Loft members)
Co-presented with Loft Film Fest.
Still from The Novice (Hadaway, 2021)

“Dark, unnerving and thrilling, The Novice is poised to become a genre-breaking success. A film this raw made with such a steady, assured hand only comes along once in a while. We should take notice.”

—Jourdain Searles, Hollywood Reporter

Winner of the top prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, The Novice is an intense psychological thriller that grips the viewer until its very last frame.

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SUN, NOV 14, 2021, 8pm

February 16, 2022 by Susan Taunton

Cocoon

(Leoni Krippendorf, 2020, Germany, 89 mins., Not Rated)
The Loft / $12 (or $10 for Loft members)
Co-presented with Loft Film Fest.

“Leoni Krippendorff crafts a stunningly alluring narrative of female intimacy … Cocoon is worthy of its golden glow.”

—Emily Maskell, Flipscreen

For 14-year-old Nora, the summer of 2018 is one she’ll never forget. The hottest ever recorded in Berlin’s history, it’s also the summer she breaks her finger, gets her first period in the most embarrassing way possible, colors her hair, and falls in love.

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TUE APR 5, 2022, 7:30pm

November 8, 2021 by Susan Taunton

No Straight Lines: the Rise of Queer Comics

(Vivian Kleiman, 2021)
Loft Cinema, FREE

“…In No Straight Lines, we see just how important art can be in helping queer people understand themselves.”

— Chris McClure, Universal Cinema »see full review of film from its Tribeca premiere

From Tom of Finland to Dykes to Watch Out For, comics and zines have been firmly embedded in queer culture since before Stonewall, through the AIDS epidemic, and continuing through today’s modern obsession with superheroes. But this deeply queer artform finally gets its true moment in the limelight thanks to Peabody Award winner Vivian Kleiman’s extensive documentary that explores over 70 years of history.

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SUN, APR 17, 2022, 5pm

November 7, 2021 by Susan Taunton

PROGNOSIS: Notes on Living

(Debra Chasnoff and Kate Stilley Steiner, 2021)
Followed by Panel Discussion
Producers Nancy Otto (Chasnoff’s wife) and Lidia Szajko
Loft Cinema / FREE

“Clear-eyed and unsentimental, intimate and honest, PROGNOSIS is the unforgettable, present-tense diary of a life fiercely lived, and a love worth fighting for.”

—Peter L. Stein, Senior Programmer, Frameline San Francisco Film Festival

In perhaps her bravest act as a filmmaker, Oscar-winning San Francisco documentarian and LGBTQ+ activist Debra Chasnoff responded to her diagnosis of stage 4 cancer by turning the camera on herself, her wife, and her sons to chronicle the journey that lay ahead…

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TUE APR 26, 2022, 7:30pm

September 16, 2021 by Susan Taunton

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

(Maria Maggenti, 1995)
FROM THE ARCHIVES

“Breaking new ground in queer representation when it was released in 1995, this tender and charming tale of first love captures the muddled emotions of adolescent romance with warmth humor and refreshing authenticity.”

—The Criterion Channel

Touching and poignant, this acclaimed coming-of-age comedy tells the story of two teenagers whose unexpected friendship grows into the joyful wildness of first love. Randy (Laurel Holloman), a rebellious working class tomboy, meets the beautiful, popular, well-to-do Evie (Nicole Ari Parker) when she brings her Range Rover into the repair shop where Randy works after school.

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