Speed Cinema Screenings: Totally F***ed Up 10/13/23 6PM

“This is a film where a bootleg Nine Inch Nails video is reason enough to betray another person’s affections.”—Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine

The first film in Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy centers on six queer, alienated teenagers living in LA who form a makeshift family as they deal with the complications of love, money (or lack thereof), the AIDS crisis, and a homophobic society.

Made as a gay response to the John Hughes–style teen movie, this landmark of the New Queer Cinema radiates the raw energy, underground cool, and nihilistic abandon that would become Araki’s signature. 1993, U.S., 4K DCP, 78 minutes. Rated R.