Queer Cinema Club
Queer Cinema Club is more than a film series: it’s a mission to bring Toronto’s LGBTQ folks together in celebration of some of the best queer cinema ever made. Every month at Paradise, curator and host Peter Knegt offers queers (and anyone who loves them) a queer film classic (or future classic), special guests and performers, and some good old fashioned drinks and conversation in the Paradise’s lobby bar. Each film is paired with a different local queer artist, who designs an original poster for the screening.
In addition to running Queer Cinema Club, Peter Knegt makes (mostly queer) content for the CBC, including hosting the Canadian Screen Award-winning talk series Here & Queer. He got his start as a writer and editor for the film magazine Indiewire, and has also made half a dozen short films and written the book About Canada: Queer Rights.
Born in Flames
- Wed, Apr 23
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Lizzie Borden Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1983
Starring: Adele Bertei, Becky Johnston, Florynce Kennedy, Honey, Jean Satterfield
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a...
I Am Love
- Wed, May 7
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Luca Guadagnino Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 2010 Language: Italian
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Flavio Parenti, Pippo Delbono, Tilda Swinton
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial...
Savage Grace
- Wed, May 14
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Tom Kalin Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2007
Starring: Anne Reid, Eddie Redmayne, Elena Anaya, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane
Truth is more shocking than fiction.
Querelle
- Tue, Jun 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 108 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1982
Starring: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Hanno Pöschl, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet
It will take you into a surreal world of passion and sexuality, further than most would dare to go.
Fox and His Friends
- Wed, Jun 11
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1975 Language: German
Starring: Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Karlheinz Böhm, Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Survival of the fittest.