Staff Picks: Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2001) at Moxie Cinema
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A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll. [Criterion] The Staff Picks series returns with HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001), screening at The Moxie Wednesday, June 24 @ 7pm - tickets on sale now! This film was picked by Moxie staffer, Ezra Farrar.
What do you love about this film, and why do you want to share it with others?
"I love how Hedwig and The Angry Inch is queerly tantalizing and unapologetically morose. I find this movie to be So glam and So punk, and soundtrack of Hedwig’s journey resonated with me while in the depths of discovering my gender identity and self-confidence."
Read Ezra's full Q & A here:
https://moxiecinema.com/news-events/events/staff-picks-2026
With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. [Criterion]
Staff Picks 2026 @ Moxie Cinema
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Members.
What do you love about this film, and why do you want to share it with others?
"I love how Hedwig and The Angry Inch is queerly tantalizing and unapologetically morose. I find this movie to be So glam and So punk, and soundtrack of Hedwig’s journey resonated with me while in the depths of discovering my gender identity and self-confidence."
Read Ezra's full Q & A here:
https://moxiecinema.com/news-events/events/staff-picks-2026
With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. [Criterion]
Staff Picks 2026 @ Moxie Cinema
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Members.
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