QUEER CINEMA: LOST & FOUND SERIES
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY
THE DEVIL QUEEN (A RAINHA DIABA | Brazil | 1974 | 1 hr 51 mins | In Portuguese w/ English subtitles
Directors: Antonio Carlos da Fontoura | Cast: Milton Goncalves, Odete Lara, Stepan Nercessian
AFS Cinema | 6259 Middle Fiskville Road | Austin, TX 78752 (THE LINC Shopping Center)
Saturday, June 17, 7:00 p.m. Screening | Tuesday, June 20, 8:00 p.m. Screening
The Black femme Devil Queen rules over Rio de Janeiro’s criminal underworld with an iron fist — no, a straight razor, which she uses both for shaving her legs and slitting throats — in this underseen classic of Brazilian genre cinema. Newly restored in 4K as part of Cinelimite’s Brazilian Film Digitization Initiative, THE DEVIL QUEEN is an outrageous, sleazy, and shockingly mean queer crime epic that epitomizes the saying “be gay, do crime.” Paired with gay porn pioneer Wakefield Poole’s short portrait of the 1974 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Queer Cinema: Lost & Found programmer Elizabeth Purchell will join us for a discussion at the screening on Saturday, June 17.
QUEER CINEMA: LOST & FOUND
From Austin Film Society
Archivist and historian Elizabeth Purchell (of Ask Any Buddy) explores the history of queer cinema and its many groundbreaking pioneers in this refreshing behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of queer representation on screen.
Join us for a discussion following the first screening of each film in this can’t-miss series.
THANKS TO THE PRESENTING PARTNER:
