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REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Caitlyn Jenner is big news even today. Imagine, then, the impact of Toshio Matsumoto’s daring 1969 debut, Funeral Parade of Roses. The film, which alternates between documentary-style interviews with self-described “queens” and an avant-garde interpretation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, is unprecedented in its portrayal of transgender women in 1960s Tokyo underground and offers a fascinating look into a bubbling subculture. The film, which is often cited as a major influence on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, will be screened at REDCAT as part of Outfest, Los Angeles’ LGBT Film Festival.
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