The Living End
New Directors/New Films 2021
April 28 - May 8, 2021
A landmark work of the New Queer Cinema of the early 1990s and a lovers-on-the-run fever dream quite unlike any other, Gregg Araki’s third feature marked a visionary reinvention of the road movie, suffused with the ambient irony, despair, and anger in the wake of the AIDS crisis.
The Living End is now playing virtually through 4/21.
Access the ND/NF at 50: Retrospective virtually nationwide!
- FLC Virtual Cinema: Free to the general public on April 16 at noon, with early access for FLC members starting April 13 at noon.
- MoMA Virtual Cinema: Free exclusively for MoMA members starting April 16th.
A landmark work of the New Queer Cinema of the early 1990s, Gregg Araki’s third feature marked a visionary reinvention of the road movie, suffused with the ambient irony, despair, and anger in the wake of the AIDS crisis. Destiny leads hustler Luke (Mike Dytri) to meet film critic Jon (Craig Gilmore), who, like Luke, is HIV-positive. When Luke kills a homophobic cop, the stage is sety for an expressly nihilistic road trip–cum–crime spree that transmutes the hopelessness of the LGBTQ+ community—after years of dealing with ubiquitous bigotry, persecution, and the pathogenic horror of the AIDS epidemic—nto a lovers-on-the-run fever dream quite unlike any other.
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