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Poster for Classic Queer Cinema: Salomé and Lot in Sodom

Classic Queer Cinema: Salomé and Lot in Sodom

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Director: Alla Nazimova, Charles Bryant, James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP

Join us for a special Pride Month show as The Flushing Remonstrance perform their original live accompaniment to two of the seminal films of queer cinema.

James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber’s Lot In Sodom (1933) is a sensual depiction of the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanals devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to adoration of the flesh.

Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé (1923) also visits the Bible to depict the story of Salomé (Nazimova), who performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for her lustful stepfather King Herod, demanding John the Baptist’s head on a platter as a reward. Featuring stunning costumes and Aubrey Beardsley–inspired art design, and with a (rumored) exclusively gay and bisexual cast, it’s considered to be one of America’s first art films.

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