A new restoration of Toshio Matsumoto’s experimental film “Funeral Parade of Roses” (1969, 107 minutes) is having its local premiere at The Cinefamily at Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave. in Los Angeles.
Long unavailable in the U.S., director Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art, and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic, “A Clockwork Orange.”
An unknown club dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran”) gives an astonishing Edie Sedgwick/Warhol superstar-like performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet – where she’s ignited a violent love triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya, from “Seven Samurai” and “Yojimbo”).
One of Japan’s leading experimental filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time here like Resnais in “Last Year at Marienbad,” freely mixing documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons, into a dizzying whirl of image and sound.
Featuring breathtaking black-and-white cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki that rivals the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, “Funeral Parade” offers a frank, openly erotic, and unapologetic portrait of an underground community of drag queens.
A key work of the Japanese New Wave and of queer cinema, “Funeral Parade” has been beautifully restored in 4k from the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements for re-release by Cinelicious Pics and The Cinefamily.
Showtimes:
Saturday, June 17, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, June 18, at 5 p.m.
Monday, June 19, at 4 and 10 p.m.
Tuesday, June 20, at 10 p.m.
Wednesday, June 21, at 10 p.m.
Thursday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $12 general, free for members. For more information, call (323) 655-2510, email [email protected], or visit www.cinefamily.org/films/funeral-parade/.
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