You asked for more Almodóvar, so we are following up our sold out April screening of Law of Desire we not one but two special bonus Queer Cinema Clubs thanks to a partnership with us, MUBI, and our very good friends at Paradise Theatre.

First on June 30th, it’s Bad Education. Based on Almodóvar’s Catholic schoolboy memories, the 2004 film is magnificent hybrid of film noir and melodrama that stars Gael García Bernal in a tour de force that should have got him an Oscar nomination. Within three distinct timelines m fact, fiction, gender identity and the boundless qualities of cinema are interwoven to dazzling effect.

Then, on July 6th, it’s All About My Mother. The film that finally got Almodóvar his first Oscar, Mother follows Manuela (Cecilia Roth) as she travels to Barcelona following the tragic death of her teenage son. There, she finds herself reuniting with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriending a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun. Almodóvar dedicated his film "To all actresses who have played actresses. To all women who act. To men who act and become women. To all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother". If ever a film were Mother, it is this.

Get your tickets here and here, and thank you to the extraordinary talents of Paul Twa for this gorgeous two-hander of a poster.