Guillermo del Toro, Heidi Fleiss at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2008

Los Angeles Film Festival 2008: Thursday, June 26

Seth Packard's HottieBoombaLottie (The Regent, 2 pm) revolves around a young man (Packard) obsessed with dating the girl of his dreams.

A Conversation with Guillermo del Toro (Majestic Crest, 7 pm)

Spencer Parsons' I'll Come Running (The Landmark 3, 7:15 pm), co-written by Parson and Line Langebek, focuses on a Danish tourist and a waitress in Austin, Texas, whose passionate one-night stand has life-altering consequences. In the cast: Melonie Diaz, Jon Lange, Christian Tafdrup, Birgitte Raaberg.

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal (Majestic Crest Theatre, 9:30 pm) follows former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss as she tries to open a new business, a "Stud Ranch" — male sex workers for a female clientele — in prostitution-friendly Nye County, Nevada. (Cowboy hats off to Ms. Fleiss' entrepreneurial spirit.)

In Olaf De Fleur Johannesson's documentary/fantasy The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (Mann Festival, 9:45 pm), a Filipina transsexual dreams of love and Paris. Queen Raquela won this year's Teddy Award for Best Gay & Lesbian Feature at the Berlin Film Festival.

In Alexey Balabanov's Cargo 200 (AMC Avco Center, 10 pm), Hollywood horror-movie cliches — young couple seek refuge in an isolated house inhabited by freaks — are mixed with social commentary about the moribund Soviet Union of the mid-1980s.