Funeral Parade is proud to present Teorema (Theorem), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s bisexual arthouse classic of the Swinging Sixties.

An upper-class Milanese family is turned on its head by arrival of a beautiful, mysterious stranger known only as The Vistor (Terence Stamp). He takes up residence in the family’s vast estate and soon begins seducing them one by one: the tortured patriarch (Massimo Girotti) and his repressed wife (Silvana Mangano); their devoutly religious maid (Laura Betti); and their troubled teenage children (Anne Wiazemsky and Andrés José Cruz Soublette). What profound revelations will these affairs bring about for this typical bourgeoise family? At once sensual, scandalous, and spiritual, Teorema remains one of Pasolini’s essential films.

Funeral Parade is proud to present Seconds, John Frankenheimer’s chilling dissection of identity and selfhood starring gay icon Rock Hudson. 

When a successful yet unfulfilled banking executive (John Randolph) receives a phone call from a long-dead friend, he finds himself drawn into a twilit netherworld where a shadowy company promises him a second chance in life. He agrees to have his death faked and his face surgically altered; his new identity is Antiochus "Tony" Wilson (Rock Hudson), a bohemian artist, and he is relocated to Malibu to live in a community of “reborns”. But as his sense of self begins to fracture, will Tony be able to remember who he really is? A powerful mix of drama, sci-fi, and psychological horror, Seconds’ themes of identity eerily echo Rock Hudson’s own double life as a closeted gay man working in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

For Pride Month, Funeral Parade is proud to present The Angelic Conversation, Derek Jarman’s sensuous cinematic love poem.
 
Made in the tradition of Jean Cocteau and Kenneth Anger, this Super 8mm daydream is by turns erotic, nightmarish, and ethereally beautiful. Made between arthouse classics The Tempest (1979) and Caravaggio (1986), this film grew out of a series of home movie improvisations and experiments which Jarman subsequently woven into a haunting tapestry of images and textures – he would later say that it was his personal favourite of his own film work. Featuring the music of Coil and Shakespearean sonnets read by Judi Dench, The Angelic Conversation remains a powerful and stirring meditation on the nature of desire and romantic love.
 
With an introduction from film curator Sarah Cleary.