The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 164 N. State St., is showing several LGBTQ+ films of interest in December. They include:
—Fleabag (Dec. 12, 15, 22): Starring Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, this award-winning one-woman show that inspired the hit TV series looks at an oversexed, emotionally unfiltered, and self-obsessed woman living her sort of life.
—Judy Garland classics: They include The Wizard of Oz (Dec. 14, 17) and The Pirate (Dec. 14, 19).
—Present Laughter (Dec. 21, 29): Starring out actor Andrew Scott (Fleabag; Sherlock), a popular actor’s life spirals out of control as his many and various relationships compete for his attention in this reworking of Noel Coward’s provocative comedy.
—Temblores (Dec. 27-Jan. 2): The Guatemalan drama centers on the revelation that the patriarch of a conservative family has a secret male lover.
—Pedro Almodovar features (Dec. 27-Jan. 2): In Pain & Glory, an aging director (Antonio Banderas) looks back on his life, career, and doomed romances on the eve of a retrospective of his films in Almodovar’s semi-autobiographical opus. In the classic Law of Desire (which also co-stars Banderas), one of the bedmates of a successful director of gay porn will go to any length to possess him, including murder.
See http://SiskelFilmCenter.org.