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.
The Babadook
- Thu, Oct 24
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: Jennifer Kent Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 2014
Starring: Barbara West, Daniel Henshall, Essie Davis, Hayley McElhinney, Noah Wiseman
If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of the Babadook.
Suspiria
- Wed, Oct 30
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: 152 min. Release Year: 2018
Starring: Angela Winkler, Dakota Johnson, Ingrid Caven, Mia Goth, Tilda Swinton
Give your soul to the dance.
Tangerine
- Wed, Nov 13
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: Sean Baker Run Time: 87 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2015
Starring: Alla Tumanian, Karren Karagulian, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mickey O'Hagan, Mya Taylor
It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend...
Shortbus
- Mon, Nov 25
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: John Cameron Mitchell Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2006
Starring: Adam Hardman, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson, Raphael Barker, Sook-Yin Lee
Open your mind. And everything else.
The Hours
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: Stephen Daldry Run Time: 114 min. Release Year: 2002
Starring: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Miranda Richardson, Nicole Kidman, Stephen Dillane
The time to hide is over. The time to regret is gone. The time to live is now.