The Grand Cinema Presents The 5th Annual Pride Films Series
As a proud to producing partner of the Tacoma Pride Festival, The Grand Cinema is once again the exclusive host of the city’s annual Pride Film Series screening on July 14th and 15th. Now in its 5th consecutive year, this year’s Pride Film Series offers screenings of two unique films featuring distinct historic and modern narratives of the LBGTQ community. Each screening will be paired with a brief, in theater discussion hosted by the Pierce County Aids Foundation, and ambassadors from the Tacoma Pride Festival will also be present at each film event.
Running as many years as the festival itself, the Pride Film Series adds a unique component of film art to the city’s celebration of diversity, pride, and inclusion of the LGBTQ community. The Grand is pleased to supplement the festival schedule with entertaining and thought-provoking movies for festival goers to enjoy and engage with. This year’s films series will include Tangerine, a breakout-hit comedy from this year’s Sundance Film Festival and The Circle, a biopic based on the true story of two young men involved in a secret organization that created a censored and controversial gay publication (Der Kreis) in Switzerland following World War II.
A film unlike anything in The Grand’s archives, Tangerine has made a recent appearance on the cover of Movie Maker magazine and has the film world buzzing for several reasons. Shot mainly on an iPhone 5S, this film has earned much attention for its style, outrageous humor, and colorfully raw depiction of life on the streets of Los Angeles for two transgender women. Produced by Magnolia Pictures, Tangerine has been playfully deemed something that “main studios wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot selfie stick.” Playing only on Wednesday, July 15th at 1:45 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (rated R).
A film fitting with The Grand’s Tuesday Film Series, The Circle portrays a look back in time at the increasing repression against same-sex romantic partners in Zurich through the lenses of a cabaret singer and a young, shy bourgeois school teacher who fall in love and fight to change the tide of oppression on the gay community during the mid-1950s. Playing only on Tuesday, July 14th at 1:45 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (film not rated).
Ticket prices are $8 for matinees and $10 for general admission (discounts for seniors, students and military), and the theater offers an air-conditioned break from this summer’s heat wave.
Tickets are on sale now at The Grand’s Box Office (606 S Fawcett Ave, Tacoma 98402), or online
at www.GrandCinema.com, or by calling (253) 593-4474.