LA Festival of Movies presents *Shades of Silk (Ombres de soie)*, by director Mary Stephen. 62 minutes, France/Canada, 1978. West Coast Premiere of the new 4K restoration.

Preceded by *Dreams of Passion* by Aarin Burch. 4 min. USA, 1989/2026.

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*Ombres de soie (Shades of Silk)* is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.

*Dreams of Passion* is a sensual exploration of the essence of self and of the intimacy of desire between two Black women as communicated through movement, dance, and imagination.

LA Festival of Movies: Shades of Silk (Ombres de soie)

LA Festival of Movies presents *Isaiah’s Phone*, by director Frédéric Da. 70 minutes, USA, 2025.

Los Angeles Premiere. Q&A with director Frédéric Da, moderated by filmmaker Tyler Taormina.

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*A socially awkward high school student films himself as he blunders through attempts to make friends, spiraling into a dark place where his only close relationship is with his phone.*

An utterly contemporary L.A. high school movie, Frédéric Da's defiantly handcrafted sophomore feature—shot entirely on an iPhone—is a disarmingly authentic, slippery and devastating portrait of teenage angst. Made with an impressive array of nonprofessional actors and shot on location at a campus in Los Angeles, the film follows Isaiah (Isaiah Brody) who films himself on an iPhone as he experiences the daily indignities of being in high school. With the feel of a raw found-footage documentary, the rigor of its conceptual gambit makes it a mesmerizing experience, and a marvel of resourceful filmmaking. -MG

*Please note: this film contains disturbing images of teen violence. Viewer discretion is advised.*

LA Festival of Movies: Isaiah’s Phone

LA Festival of Movies presents *Selegna sol*, by director Anouk Moyaux. 50 minutes, France, 2025.

West Coast Premiere. Co-presented by El Cine.

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After several years' absence, Gibran, a 37-year-old Mexican-American, returns to Los Angeles with the goal of saving up to purchase land in Tecate, the village where he was born in Mexico. As he organizes his departure, he rediscovers the emotional and historical ties that bind him to the United States.

LA Festival of Movies: Selegna sol

LA Festival of Movies presents *Drinking and Driving*, by directors Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank. 106 minutes, Canada, 2026.

World Premiere!

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Early twenties Iris (Jillian Frank) and Palmer (Avalon Fast) never left their hometown. They work at the same restaurant, share the same bed, and both have a habit of drinking and driving. They run into Levi (Ethan Hawksworth), a guy they used to know. They spend time with him and his cousin, Phoenix (Henri Gillespi), in cars, backyards, and other people's bedrooms. When Levi shares a dream he had with Iris things change between the four of them. The reality of the summer becomes faded, the parties die. The four end in a field of unified confusion.

LA Festival of Movies: Drinking and Driving

For LAFM's first-ever L.A.-based filmmaker narrative shorts program, we’ve invited the fearless local screening series Presidium Overactive to present a series of adventurous premieres: films that take a variety of cockeyed perspectives on shattered dreams, seductive cults, and the nagging sensation of self-doubt.

Six short films, all Los Angeles, West Coast or World premieres.

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*Code Rouge* (dir. Alex Pabaricus, China/France/USA | 26m)

A Chinese bodybuilder's spiritual crisis takes a surreal turn when his imaginary best friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger, takes him on a journey toward self-acceptance. West Coast premiere.

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*Going Sane* (dir. Joey Izzo, USA | 15m)

A 1970s Los Angeles therapy collective rises with utopian promise before devolving into a business-minded cult built on control and abuse. Los Angeles premiere.

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*Hollis* (dir. Conor Scheinberg, USA | 12m)

After leaving New York City behind, Hollis checks into a quiet roadside motel where she meets Adam, a young male escort she's hired. As the night unfolds, Hollis guides Adam through an unsettling, intimate experiment that blurs emotional and psychological boundaries. But just as she returns to her routine, a sudden, senseless act of violence shatters the illusion of control she tried to reclaim. World premiere.

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*Potato Potato* (dir. Josh Locy, USA | 14m)

When Cynthia writes a letter to the baby growing inside her about her hopes for their future, the baby writes back.. Los Angeles premiere.

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*Shadow Daddy* (dir. Andrew Theodore Balasia, USA | 8m)

When a mysterious dream sparks an unexpected conversation, a boyfriend and girlfriend spiral into revealing the insecurities lurking beneath their relationship. World premiere.

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*A Stable Marriage* (dir. Josephine Decker, USA | 8m)

A woman's sexual fantasy is fulfilled -- with surprising ramifications. Comment end. West Coast premiere.

LA Festival of Movies: PRESIDIUM OVERACTIVE (shorts program)

2220 Arts + Archives

Spirited Away

The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku) in 35mm

Zodiac with David Fincher and Bong Joon Ho

Academy Museum

Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Legend

Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he&#8217;s tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won&#8217;t be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

The Lord of the Rings

After the death of his mother, the evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers some long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother&#8217;s throne, assembles an army and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Blackwolf&#8217;s gentle twin brother, the bearded and sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf&#8217;s plans for world domination &#8212; even if it means destroying his own flesh and blood.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

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Wizards

A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

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Dragonslayer

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Heavy Metal

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

11:00am | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson

12:00pm | Introduction by actor Elliott Gould and Eddie Muller

12:10pm | **THE LONG GOODBYE**

2:02pm | Q&A with actor Elliott Gould. Moderated by Eddie Muller.

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released March 7, 1973

Philip Marlowe wakes up from a twenty-year nap to find that Los Angeles has only gotten screwier in his absence. The private detective gets a postmodern update with THE LONG GOODBYE, a rambling adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel. There are some crucial changes made by screenwriter Leigh Brackett, but to get hung up on the machinations of the plot is to miss the point entirely. Sure, Marlowe wants to solve the case, but there are stretches where he seems more interested in cat-food brands or making sure the goons tailing him don’t get lost. The film is so committed to its irreverent worldview that you become invested in these tangents, too. Elliott Gould redefines “cool” as Marlowe, and director Robert Altman has so much fun playing with noir clichés that he works in over a dozen versions of the hardboiled theme song.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor Elliott Gould. Moderated by Eddie Muller. Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

THE LONG GOODBYE

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

3:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson

4:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

4:10pm | **SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released June 27, 1957

A box-office disaster upon original release, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is now considered one of best films of the 1950s—as well as the definitive cinematic statement on the dangers of media corruption. Burt Lancaster seethes through a thinly-veiled portrait of powerful New York gossip columnist Walter Winchell as J.J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis gives perhaps his finest performance as the two-faced, sycophantic press agent Sidney Falco. Some of the most dyspeptic dialogue in screen history is spewed courtesy of writers Lehman and Odets, all complemented by James Wong Howe’s *cinéma vérité* camerawork and a brassy, propulsive score by Elmer Bernstein. Keep your eyes and ears open as put-upon jazz cat Martin Milner sits in with the legendary Chico Hamilton Quintet (Paul Horn, flute; Fred Katz, cello; John Pisano, guitar; Carson Smith, bass; Chico Hamilton, drums). Co-starring Susan Harrison, Emile Meyer, and Barbara Nichols (“What am I, a bowl of fruit? A tangerine that peels in a minute?”) J. J. Hunsecker said it best, “I love this dirty town!”

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson Introduction by Alan K. Rode ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

7:15pm |** KING CREOLE**

9:11pm | Intermission

9:21pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

9:31pm |** YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**KING CREOLE, 1958, Dir. Michael Curtiz, 116 Mins, Paramount Pictures, USA**

Originally released July 2, 1958

Elvis Presley is the headstrong teen who can sing. Walter Matthau is the crime boss who wants to own him. The dance between these two makes up the central conflict of KING CREOLE, Elvis’ last film before he joined the U.S. Army. Elvis gets plenty of opportunities to show his moves onscreen, but the real delight here comes from watching a seemingly generic Presley vehicle take all the wrong turns and wind up stranded in NOIR CITY. Management troubles would become all too real for Elvis by the 1960s, but even without this real-life parallel, the rock-and-roll star delivers the acting performance of his career. Featuring stylish direction by Michael Curtiz and a spirited turn by Carolyn Jones as the woman caught between the warring show-biz factions.

FORMAT: DCP

**YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, 1950, Dir. Michael Curtiz, 112 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Originally released February 9, 1950

Dorothy Baker’s novel, inspired by the life of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, gets a full-blown Hollywood treatment veering far from the truth while telling an engrossing musical tale. Star-crossed jazzman Rick Martin (Kirk Douglas) lives for his music, but his arrogance (and alcohol) threaten to ruin him. Doris Day is the loyal singer whose love is unrequited, and Lauren Bacall is the woman he craves but can’t comprehend. (For 1950s Hollywood, Bacall’s character is as “out” as a lesbian could be.) Carl Foreman’s script takes a few daring turns for a musical drama of the era, bolstered by Michael Curtiz’ dazzling direction, stunning camerawork by Ted McCord, and especially Rick’s horn solos provided by musical advisor Harry James. Adding depth and soul are the fantastic supporting performances by Hoagy Carmichael (an actual compadre of Beiderbecke) and Juano Hernandez as Rick’s mentor.

FORMAT: DCP

Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol and the Nick Rossi Trio Introductions by Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

KING CREOLE / YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

Egyptian Theatre

Movie theater chain established in 1938 showcasing the latest independent, foreign & art films.

G/Approved 
 
RICAHRD FLEISCHER DOUBLE FEATURE  5 hr. 13 min.
 
Richard Fleischer was a versatile American film director known for helming nearly 50 films across many genres, including the sci-fi classics, the film noir and epics. The son of animation pioneer Max Fleischer, he began his career at RKO in the 1940s, and his work spanned from low-budget thrillers to big-budget spectacles, making him a popular and prolific director throughout Hollywood's Golden Age and the New Wave era. Today’s event will be 20,000 LEGUES UNDER RTHE SEA and COMPULSION. In person is Ricahrd’s granddaughter Claire and a Q&A moderated by Tim Williams of TV Guide.
 
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER HE SEA, The oceans during the late 1800s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler, Ned Land, join a US expedition which attempts to unravel the mystery.
 
COMPULSION, In 1924 Chicago, Artie Strauss and Judd Steiner are friends and fellow law students who both come from wealthy backgrounds. They have few true friends as they believe all their contemporaries are intellectually inferior. Within their relationship, Artie is the dominant and Judd the submissive who says he will do whatever Artie tells him. Although Judd acts intellectually arrogant to others, he also shows signs of weakness and reticence most evident to Artie. Part of their goal in life is to experience how it feels to do everything. As such, they plot to commit what they consider the perfect crime - a kidnapping and murder - not only so that they can experience the sense of killing for killing's sake, but also taunt the law with the knowledge of it and their superiority after the fact. They believe their crime is above the law. Their murder of young Paulie Kessler is not so perfect, with evidence at the scene uncovered by one of their law school colleagues, Sid Brooks, who also works for the Globe newspaper. As Artie and Judd try to manipulate their way out of how the evidence may implicate them, their manipulation ultimately backfires and they are charged with the murder. The most famed trial lawyer in town, Jonathan Wilk, is hired to defend the pair despite his atheism being against the families' sensibilities. Jonathan, renowned for his ability to manipulate juries, has to decide how best to defend his clients in the overwhelming face of evidence against them. The testimony of Ruth Evans, Sid's girlfriend, may have some impact on the trial's outcome.

RICHARD FLEISCHER DOUBLE FEATUR

Fine Arts Theatre

Gardena Cinema is the oldest and only vintage single-screen stand-alone movie cinema in Southwest Los Angeles.

A world-renowned K-Pop girl group balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.

K-POP DEMON HUNTERS Sing Along (2025)(PG) Sat 4/11@12:00pm

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.

BREAKIN' (1984)(PG) Thu 4/9: 7:30 pm & Sat 4/11: 7:30 pm

Gardena Cinema

This program is a continuation of *Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Student Activism at UCLA**,* which celebrates the radical filmmaking legacy of UCLA’s affirmative action initiative, the Ethno-Communications Program (1969–1973). This iteration honors Ethno-Communications alumnus Robert A. Nakamura (1936–2025), who taught film at UCLA for over 30 years and was widely known as the “godfather of Asian American media.” A co-founder of the pioneering media organization Visual Communications, Nakamura co-directed a milestone feature-length film made by and about Asian Pacific Americans, *Hito Hata: Raise the Banner* (1980). Shaped by his internment at age six in the prison camp Manzanar during World War II, he transformed personal history into landmark films that helped change how Asian Americans are seen on-screen. 

*Series programmed by Associate Professor Josslyn Luckett, NYU Cinema Studies, and Public Programmer Beandrea July. Notes written by Beandrea July.**
*

***Special thanks to our community partners**: [Platform UCLA](https://www.instagram.com/platformucla/), [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Asian American Studies Department](https://asianam.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Department of History](https://history.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Japanese Student Association](https://www.instagram.com/ucla.jsa/), [UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television](https://www.tft.ucla.edu/)*

Shot with a three-person crew of fellow UCLA Ethno-Communications student filmmakers, including Betty Chen, *Manzanar* is a lyrical, intimate documentary in which Robert A. Nakamura, a Nisei, reflects on his internment at age six and its enduring impact. Returning to the desolate site of Manzanar — one of 10 camps where Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned during World War II — Nakamura grapples with fragmented recollections of family, community and loss. As the film meditates on the lasting psychological impacts of internment, it also explores what it takes to face the unhealed wounds of the past and reclaim one’s identity.

Director: Robert A. Nakamura.

This short traces how the former Manzanar WWII concentration camp has been reclaimed by subsequent generations of Japanese Americans as a site of remembrance, resistance and intergenerational solidarity. Blending never-before-seen archival footage with a contemporary sensibility, the film follows the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage as it takes on renewed meaning in a post-9/11 world. Though produced by his parents, Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura, director Tadashi Nakamura steps confidently out of their shadow through a hip-hop–inflected score and music by Yellow Pearl, whose fusion of folk, blues, soul and jazz energized a new generation of Asian American youth.

Director/Editor: Tadashi Nakamura.

A landmark documentary of Japanese American community memory and resilience, Robert A. Nakamura’s Ethno-Communications M.F.A. thesis film (UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television ’75) recounts the stories of three intertwined Issei lives — a fisherman, a gardener and a pioneering farm family. Weaving personal memory and collective history, Nakamura includes his own father, a gardener, who recalls bicycling to work with a lawnmower tied to his back. The short is also a foundational work of Visual Communications, the trailblazing Asian American media collective Nakamura co-founded in 1970 with Duane Kubo, Alan Ohashi and Eddie Wong.

Director: Robert Nakamura.

“How do you repay someone who has given you everything? This film became my answer.”—Tadashi Nakamura

Inspired by *Wataridori: Birds of Passage*, Tadashi Nakamura documents his father’s life and legacy in a profound act of love. As Parkinson’s disease shapes the elder Nakamura’s titular third act, the film confronts the psychic costs of Japanese internment and assimilation, and the ways imagemaking and familial togetherness became forms of resistance. Shot over seven years, the documentary premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Tadashi Nakamura. With: Robert Nakamura, Karen L. Ishizuka.

Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Celebrating the Legacy of Robert A. Nakamura

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Sundays for Ryotaro and Fumiko have become routine: he reads the paper, she knits; he complains that his stomach hurts, she readies his medicine; she suggests things to do, he decides to stay home; he yawns, she yawns. They have no children and live in a suburb outside of Tokyo, surrounded by gossipy neighbors. One particular afternoon, the community gains two new residents, Nenkichi and his nonconformist wife Hinako. As the two couples come to know each other, upcoming layoffs in Ryotaro’s company trigger what could very well be the end of his marriage to Fumiko. He wishes to return to the country. She wishes to stay near Tokyo and find employment of her own. He opposes the idea of his wife working. Despite being married for some time, they still do not understand each other. Pretty soon, it becomes clear the possibility of separation is looming over them…

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

SUDDEN RAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

BEETLEJUICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

First, I guess you need to know something about them—the beautiful ones. The flawless four. Everyone wanted to be them. You know ’em. They went to your school, too. First, there’s Courtney “Satan-in-heels” Shayne (Rose McGowan) and her pawn, the dense but dangerous Marcie Fox (Julie Benz), a legend in her own little mind. Then there’s angelic Julie Freedman (Rebecca Gayheart), doomed to be popular because of her pretty face, and lastly, the teen dream herself, Elizabeth Purr. When an ordinary kidnapping prank leaves the future prom queen dead (accidentally gagged with a jaw-breaker), a deadly sweet prank leads to cover-up makeover in this edgy and unpredictable comedy. But there will be no mercy as prom night arrives, bringing this spirited tale to its cruel tiara-dropping conclusion.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

JAWBREAKER

Los Feliz Theatre

Cartoon Club

Animal Crackers

Heart to Heart

Tenebrae

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Tôru Hara

Join us on the Catbus for one of cinema&#8217;s most magical and beloved experiences that no one of any age can deny. While certainly not the first film to come out of Studio Ghibli, *My Neighbor Totoro* is often considered to be the studio and director Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated masterpiece. A touching story about two sisters who befriend the wood spirits in rural Japan, *My Neighbor Totoro* is an endearing fable centered on childhood wonder, family, imagination, and the importance of taking care of nature. It’s almost as if the film was made specifically to overwhelm the viewer with good vibes, and it’s hard not to fall in love with this lush, magical world of trolls wearing leaf hats and a bus that’s also a cat. There’s a reason Totoro has become the mascot of Studio Ghibli, and one of the cuddliest-looking creatures in animation history. 

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home tons of treasures from Studio Ghibli on DVD and Blu-Ray tonight!

*When Marnie Was There, Panda! Go Panda!, Lupin III*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, Descriptive Audio, please see the box office for devices.

My Neighbor Totoro (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriters**: Aidan Zamiri, Bertie Brandes from an original idea by Charli xcx

**Producers**: David Hinojosa,  Charli xcx

The microcinema is getting pumped for a Brat Spring with Charli xcx&#8217;s self-parodying mockumentary *The Moment*. A rising pop sensation navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.

The Moment

**Screenwriters**: Charles Brackett,  Billy Wilder,  Walter Reisch

**Producer**: Ernst Lubitsch

These comrades are ready to pawn the crown jewels and steal your heart in Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s universally beloved comedy, featuring the legendary Greta Garbo&#8217;s only comedic role! The great Garbo plays a no-nonsense diplomat of the Soviet Union who arrives in Paris to ensure the sale of jewels seized during the Russian Revolution. Meanwhile, carefree bachelor Count Leon d&#8217;Algout (Melvyn Douglas) attempts to intercept the valuables on behalf of their former owner, the Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire). Despite their conflicting allegiances, the icy Ninotchka soon warms to Leon&#8217;s charms, reluctantly going against her better judgment. When diplomatic forces threaten to tear them apart, will the find a place in the world where their love can grow? An international charmer with the masterful hand of Ernst Lubitsch and the magnificent charisma of one of the greatest actresses of all time, it&#8217;s time to fall in love with this classic all over again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Garbo in your life? Take home these treasures on physical media tonight!

*Grand Hotel, The Saga of Gosta Berling, Mata Hari*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Ninotchka

**Screenwriters**: Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

**Producers**: Taylor Hess,  Jesse Miller,  Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

Filmmaker **Courtney Stephens** in person Saturday &#8211; with a Q+A after the 4:30pm show and an introduction before the 7:30pm show!

The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russell’s *Altered States* and Mike Nichols’s *The Day of the Dolphin*. 

Directors Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.

“An illuminating work of cultural archaeology”

&#8220;*Earth Coincidence* paints Lilly as a 20th-century polymath, a one-of-a-kind maverick&#8220;

—THE FILM STAGE

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

**Screenwriters**: Avery Corman,  Robert Benton

**Producer**: Stanley R. Jaffe

This sensitive, heartrending drama is both one of the most popular films of the 1970s and arguably the definitive Hollywood movie about an era of skyrocketing divorce. Dustin Hoffman plays Ted Kramer, a workaholic ad man who’s shell-shocked when he comes home one day to find his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) about to leave him and their seven-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) in order to find herself. Ted slowly learns how to take care of household tasks and emotionally care for his son, but his world is turned upside down again when Joanna returns to claim custody of Billy, triggering a bitter court battle. Winner of five Oscars — including Best Picture, Best Actor for Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actress for Streep (the first wins for both performers) — *Kramer vs. Kramer* remains a deeply moving, achingly human look at divorce and its messy aftermath.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more movies about life after divorce? You won&#8217;t want to break up with these classics!

*War of the Roses, Irreconcilable Differences, An Unmarried Woman*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Kramer vs. Kramer

**Writer/Producer**: John Waters

Feeling down about the possibility that Santa won’t bring you Cha-Cha heels for Christmas this year? Never fear, delinquent Dawn Davenport (Divine) is here to live out the bizarre and beautiful life of crime you can only fantasize about. *Female Trouble* is yet another John Waters classic, a grotesque examination of the female condition and cycles of violence presented through the flashy and trashy lens of the Pope of Filth. There’s a reason Waters himself considers this his favorite of his early work, and why Mink Stole has named Taffy Davenport as her favorite role in Dreamland. *&#8220;Hey, spare me your morals!&#8221;* and give yourself over to violence and perversion.

Female Trouble

Vidiots

Pinocchio

The Drama

Penrod and Sam/The Panther's Claw

Car Wash

Vista Theatre

LA Festival of Movies presents *Chronovisor*, by directors Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes, USA, 2026. West Coast Premiere.

The life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

LA Festival of Movies: Chronovisor

LA Festival of Movies presents *Animation Today*, presented by Cartuna, with an introduction by guest curator Sean Buckelew.

Six animated shorts. Many US premieres!

Full lineup at: https://lafestivalofmovies.org/animation-today

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Animation is a special medium within the spectrum of filmmaking, an artistic avenue where truly anything is possible. It can be made collaboratively with big teams, and can adhere to traditional narrative filmmaking principles, or it can be made by a single person and truly eschew any rules. It can make manifest the imaginary while also showing its own handmade analogue craft in every frame.

The independently produced animated short is a special format within the medium. The films in this program exist outside of the boundaries of the commercial industry, and genuinely function as art for art’s sake. They come from a diverse range of artists from all over the world (including the United States, where, without much support for the arts, it is incredibly difficult to create animated shorts), featuring a wide variety of techniques, from tactile stop motion made by veterans of the craft to cutting-edge 3D by young mavericks that are giving the big studios a run for their money. And beyond the medium, they are just unique, compelling films made by radical filmmakers.

I'm incredibly excited to present these films to an LA audience. In a time when organic creative processes feel constantly challenged, it’s inspiring to remember what’s still possible.

—Sean Buckelew, guest curator

LA Festival of Movies: Animation Today (shorts program)

LA Festival of Movies presents the newly restored *Macho Dancer*, co-presented by A Bunch of Savages. Directed by Lino Brocka. 133 min, Philippines, 1988.

West Coast Premiere of the new 4K restoration. In Tagalog with English subtitles.

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Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol (Allan Paule) leaves the provinces to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Metro Manila.

Long out-of-print and beautifully restored, the late Filipino master Lino Brocka delivers one of his most enthralling films with this queer coming-of-age story set in Manila's bustling gay clubs, which demonstrates Brocka's flair for socially conscious melodrama with pulp provocation. The film follows ingenuous teenage sex worker Pol (Allan Paule) as he leaves his small town to go to the city, where he gets hired as an erotic dancer—meeting new friends, lovers, and potential enemies. Featuring extended, seductive dance sequences that pulse with sweat and longing, the film is at once salacious and wonderfully sincere, ever sensitive to the fragile dreams of youth. With his sharp eye for class-based exploitation, Brocka doesn't shy away from tragedy in this bold, highly entertaining depiction of the realities of sex work. -BR

*Prior Screenings: 2026 MoMA To Save and Project*

LA Festival of Movies: Macho Dancer

Alfie in 35mm

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o o wo fumu otokotachi) in 35mm

The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru ketto) in 35mm

Mickey 17 with Bong Joon Ho

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

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A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Krull

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

11:00am | Doors open & Live piano performance

12:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

12:10pm | **THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released December 15, 1955

Frank Sinatra is Frankie Machine, a hustler and recovering drug addict. Frankie decides to go straight and pursue his dream of becoming a musician, but the more time he spends on the outside the harder it becomes to resist the temptation of the needle. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is the darkest noir gets, bolstered by Otto Preminger’s unflinching direction and Sam Leavitt’s cinematography, which renders every moment of Frankie’s sobriety a claustrophobic nightmare. The real highlight of the film, however, is Sinatra’s Oscar-nominated performance. He’s remarkable as the weak-willed drummer, utilizing his slight physique and baby-blue eyes to haunting effect. Featuring Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak as the devil and angel, respectively, on Frankie’s shoulders.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Reel Media International

COUNTRY: USA

Live piano performance Introduction by Eddie Muller Print from the collection of the Library of Congress ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

### ABOUT THE EVENT:

3:00pm | Doors open & Live piano performance

4:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

4:10pm | **ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released October 12, 1959

Disgraced ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) masterminds a piece-of-cake bank robbery in upstate New York, but to pull it off he requires the cooperation of two dangerously mismatched cohorts: hot-headed redneck war veteran Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) and gambling addict jazzman Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte); their racist antagonism threatens to thwart a seemingly fool-proof plan. Silent producer Belafonte hired blacklisted screenwriter Abraham Polonsky to adapt William P. McGivern’s novel, specifically to subvert the sanctimony of THE DEFIANT ONES (1958), a “feel good” movie about racism. Robert Wise’s direction is as fresh and expressive as anything being done by the French New Wave of the period, and the score by John Lewis’ Modern Jazz Quartet is innovative and exhilarating. With vivid supporting performances by Shelley Winters, Kim Hamilton and Gloria Grahame. An all-time classic heist thriller—and much more.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Live piano performance Introduction by Alan K. Rode ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Swing Four

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller, Elizabeth Bougerol and Nick Rossi

7:15pm | **KANSAS CITY**

9:11pm | Intermission

9:21pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode, Elizabeth Bougerol and Nick Rossi

9:31pm | **PETE KELLY’S BLUES**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**KANSAS CITY, 1996, Dir. Robert Altman, 116 Mins, AGFA, USA**

Originally released August 16, 1996

Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Jean Harlow obsessed housewife trying to free her loser husband from the clutches of a local gangster. She kidnaps the wife of a politician as leverage, but things get complicated when the two women develop a friendship and discover just how crooked their city has become. All this on the day before the 1934 Democratic primary election, no less. Shot with painstaking attention to period detail, director Robert Altman enlists real musicians to play venerated jazz figures like Ben Webster, Lester Young and Mary Lou Williams. Their performances, captured by Altman in a concert-documentary style, give the film an intoxicating sense of excitement despite its bleak conclusion. Featuring a sensational late-period turn by Harry Belafonte as the incredibly named “Seldom Seen.”

FORMAT: DCP

**PETE KELLY’S BLUES****, 1955, Dir. Jack Webb, 95 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Originally released July 31, 1955

The lone Technicolor offering of the festival has Jack Webb as a Prohibition-era bandleader who refuses to bend the knee to a local bootlegger. The actor maintains the same ironclad will that made him a star on DRAGNET, but PETE KELLY’S BLUES, which he also directed, ventures further into the darkness than the procedural franchise ever could. The gangland violence and speakeasy musical numbers are skillfully recreated, especially when they collide in the astonishing final act. Webb also assembles a Murderers’ Row of supporting talent from noir stalwarts Edmond O’Brien and Lee Marvin to vocal powerhouses Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald. Lee, in only her third onscreen appearance, scored a 1956 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as a boozy torch singer.

FORMAT: DCP

Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol and the Nick Rossi Swing Four Introductions by Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode, Elizabeth Bougerol and Nick Rossi ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

KANSAS CITY / PETE KELLY'S BLUES

The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each *Family Flicks* program.

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time. Propelled by a crackling script and exuberant song-and-dance routines, Kelly plays a silent movie star trying to make the leap to talkies, while Reynolds’ struggling chorus girl finds her entry into Hollywood no less complicated. With Donald O’Connor delivering the delirious gags, this timeless classic will leave you with a glorious feeling.

Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Screenwriter: Betty Comden, Adolph Green. With: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds.

*Recommended for ages 6+*

Singin’ in the Rain

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+ 

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time. Propelled by a crackling script and exuberantly delightful song-and-dance routines, Kelly is a silent movie star making a trying transition to the talkies, and Reynolds is the chorus girl who complicates the affair. (1952, Dirs. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 35mm, color, 103 min.)

Family Flicks: Singin' in the Rain

Considered the first Chicano feature, Efraín Gutiérrez’s landmark independent film *Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! *(*¡Por favor, no me entierren vivo!*) was believed lost for years until UCLA Distinguished Professor Chon Noriega tracked down the director and relocated elements to the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where collaborative restoration efforts brought the film back to life.

Incorporating Chicano forms of popular theater and music, the bilingual film offers a rhythmic, in-depth look at 1970s-era South Texas Chicano culture, as its central character questions his place in a society that undervalues Latinos, so many of whom had been killed in the Vietnam War. A historic, influential hit in regional theaters, the film’s tremendous impact on Chicano cinema was further cemented in 2014, when it was named to the National Film Registry for its historic, cultural, and artistic significance. Today, in a moment when visibility itself can feel precarious, the film’s call to live boldly in defiance of erasure resonates as powerfully as it did 50 years ago.

***Special thanks to our community partner: [Chicano Hollywood](https://chicanohollywood.com/)***

Director: Efraín Gutiérrez. Screenwriter: Sabino Garza. With: Efraín Gutiérrez, Josefina Paz, David Moss.

50th Anniversary Screening: Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive!

Little Annie Rooney  / Sparrows

LA Loft Movie Club returns to PRS for their 1st 2026 screening— a festival of imaginative, rapidly produced one minute films!

LA LOFT MOVIE CLUB: "Quick & Dirtily" — A One Minute Movie Festival!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Anouk Moyaux

**Producer**: Helen Olive

Co-Presented by El Cine

*After several years&#8217; absence, Gibran, a 37-year-old Mexican-American, returns to Los Angeles with the goal of saving up to purchase land in Tecate, the village where he was born in Mexico. As he organizes his departure, he rediscovers the emotional and historical ties that bind him to the United States.*

Among the most beautiful recent films about Los Angeles, French director Anouk Moyaux deftly blends documentary and naturalism to paint a lilting, utopian city-symphony, a slacker portrait of urban sprawl as seen through the eyes of its Mexican residents. With plans to move back to his hometown of Tecate, Gibran spends his long goodbye hanging out with friends, earning extra cash and idling away in the city’s hills and valleys for the last time. With luminous 16mm photography of East L.A., Moyaux’s film is a vibrant outsider’s-view of the immigrant experience told without sentimentality or didacticism, and the rare L.A. movie to let the city speak for itself. -MG

**[Los Angeles Festival of Movies](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/)**

Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) presented by [Kino Film Collection](https://kinofilmcollection.com/) and [Mezzanine](https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, showcasing new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience.

Now in its third year, the festival redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night, across four east side LA venues.

LAFM – Selegna sol

**Screenwriters:** Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds

**Producer:** Graham Walters

*Just keep swimming! *Whether you’re a fully grown fish or a little guppy, you’ll want to paddle on over to Vidiots for a screening of this hugely beloved Pixar classic that mixes big laughs, adventure, and heart. You probably know the plot, but just in case: neurotic clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) sets off on a wild journey across the ocean when his son Nemo is captured by divers, in the process encountering pacifist sharks, surfer-dude turtles, and a forgetful blue tang named Dory (a pitch-perfect Ellen DeGeneres) who becomes his loyal traveling companion. Meanwhile, Nemo ends up in a fish tank at a dentist’s office, full of other creatures planning their own jail break. It’s Pixar at their very best, serving up the sort of perfect popcorn entertainment that will mesmerize viewers of all ages.

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Finding Nemo

*A socially awkward high school student films himself as he blunders through attempts to make friends, spiraling into a dark place where his only close relationship is with his phone.*

An utterly contemporary L.A. high school movie, Frédéric Da&#8217;s defiantly handcrafted sophomore feature—shot entirely on an iPhone—is a disarmingly authentic, slippery and devastating portrait of teenage angst. Made with an impressive array of nonprofessional actors and shot on location at a campus in Los Angeles, the film follows Isaiah (Isaiah Brody) who films himself on an iPhone as he experiences the daily indignities of being in high school. With the feel of a raw found-footage documentary, the rigor of its conceptual gambit makes it a mesmerizing experience, and a marvel of resourceful filmmaking. -MG

*Please note: this film contains disturbing images of teen violence. Viewer discretion is advised.*

[**Los Angeles Festival of Movies******](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/)

Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) presented by [Kino Film Collection](https://kinofilmcollection.com/) and [Mezzanine](https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, showcasing new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience.

Now in its third year, the festival redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night, across four east side LA venues.

LAFM – isaiah’s phone

**Screenwriter**: Ernest Lehman from the play by Edward Albee

**Producer**: Ernest Lehman

You&#8217;re invited to the messiest dinner party in theatre and film &#8211; Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in Mike Nichols&#8217; explosive directorial debut adaptation of Edward Albee&#8217;s Tony-winning absurdist masterpiece. A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university&#8217;s faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the acerbic middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards and winner of 5 (Liz Taylor&#8217;s second win), this is precisely what they mean when they say a &#8220;tour de force&#8221;!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love the theatre of the absurd? Want to watch more adaptations? Take home these absurdist gems tonight!

*Rhinoceros, Beyond Therapy, Beckett on Film, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

**Screenwriter**: Sophy Romvari

**Producers**: Ryan Bobkin, Sara Wylie, Sophy Romvari, Gábor Osváth

US Premiere &#8211; Q+A with writer/director **Sophy Romvari**

*In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family&#8217;s oldest child.*

Sophy Romvari&#8217;s deeply intimate portrait of a family coping with a challenging situation evokes the specific curiosity and disorientation of being a kid with sophistication, soul, and playfulness. It&#8217;s transportative. Eylul Guven, the young actress at the center of this story, gives a performance so honest and relatable it could be mistaken for documentary—which is key to the film&#8217;s unexpected elliptical structure. Just when the film proves itself to be an impressive but straightforward coming-of-age tale, it suddenly transforms, exploding and expanding the personal into something unexpected, ambitious, and intellectual. -SW

[**Los Angeles Festival of Movies******](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/)

Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) presented by [Kino Film Collection](https://kinofilmcollection.com/) and [Mezzanine](https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, showcasing new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience.

Now in its third year, the festival redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night, across four east side LA venues.

LAFM Closing Night – Blue Heron

A corporate troubleshooter survives a plane crash to spend five years seeking out an existence on a deserted island before returning to civilization with an altered view of his old life and values.

Cast Away

Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man (Redford) wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his mariner's intuition and a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.

All Is Lost

On a harrowing weekend canoe trip, four city men pit their nerve and muscle against the churning white waters of a wild Georgia river, and the three who are "delivered" from the heart-pounding experience come to realize that "nobody ever beats a river." Based on the novel by James Dickey.

Deliverance

Additional Language: Pawnee

Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Oscar®-winning performance in Academy Award® winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s cinematic masterpiece. Inspired by true events and winner of three Oscars®, THE REVENANT follows the story of legendary explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) on his quest for survival and justice. After a brutal bear attack, Glass is left for dead by a treacherous member of his hunting team (Tom Hardy). Against extraordinary odds and enduring unimaginable grief, Glass battles a relentless winter in uncharted terrain. This epic adventure captures the extraordinary power of the human spirit in an immersive and visceral experience unlike anything before.

The Revenant

5 Card Stud / Rough Night in Jericho

**Screenwriter**: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie

**Producers**: Grace Glowicki,  Ben Petrie,  Yona Strauss

Presented in **Stink-O-Vision** on Sunday April 19th and Monday 4/20!

Join us in the microcinema for the funniest, stinkiest horror comedy of the year &#8211; Grace Glowicki&#8217;s supremely absurd, magnificently DIY, and laugh-so-hard-it-hurts *Dead Lover*. A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. A painfully funny and odiferous low-budget masterpiece of gonzo proportions, this inventive gut-buster is one of the funniest, weirdest films you&#8217;ve ever seen AND smelled!

Dead Lover

**Screenwriters**: Dario Argento, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci

**Producer**: Bino Cicogna

We&#8217;re heading to the Wild West for one of the best Spaghetti Westerns of all time from the great Sergio Leone with a script co-written by Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, a score by Ennio Morricone, and an all-star cast including Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale! There&#8217;s a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land&#8217;s owner, McBain (Frank Wolff), but Frank kills him instead and pins it on a known bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a mysterious gunslinger with a score to settle (Charles Bronson) and McBain&#8217;s new wife, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), arrive in town.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a Spaghetti Western section with so many rough and tumble bangers! Check it out tonight!

*Adios, Sabata, Four of the Apocalypse, The Great Silence*, ALL the *Djangos*!

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Once Upon a Time in the West

Normal

Bowery Champs/Gas House Kids Go West

The Servant in 4K

The Warriors

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won&#8217;t give up without a fight.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

In 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, a wagon train of three families hires mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert. Over the coming days, lost in the heat, the settlers face hunger, thirst and a lack of faith in each person’s instincts for survival.

Meek's Cutoff

This unique series is hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm and film at 8pm.

Tonight's show: LADY FROM SHANGHAI Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Elsa, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Elsa. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends Michael in court

LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Join us in the library at the Philosophical Research Society for an acoustic Earth Day Concert with Allie Crow Buckley!

Allie Crow Buckley Acoustic Earth Day Concert

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary and luminous filmmaker **Lucrecia Martel** for a very special evening featuring her newest documentary film ***Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)*** followed by a conversation about the film.

Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (ZAMA, THE HEADLESS WOMAN) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of three men, the lives of activist Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with **Lucrecia Martel **and Director of Photography **Ernesto de Carvalho**. Join us after at 9:30pm for a screening of her mesmerizing mystery [*The Headless Woman*](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/the-headless-woman/) preceded by an introduction by Martel.

An Evening with Lucrecia Martel: Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)

**Screenwriter**: Lucrecia Martel

**Producers**: Agustín Almodóvar,  Pedro Almodóvar,  Tilde Corsi,  Verónica Cura

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary and luminous filmmaker **Lucrecia Martel** for a very special evening featuring the new 4K Restoration of her mesmerizing mystery *The Headless Woman*.

A bourgeois middle-aged dentist named Veronica (MARIA ONETTO) drives alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something.  Immediately she becomes disoriented, unmoored from her identity and reality, like a sleepwalker who’s actually awake.  As the week go on, she becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone: a young boy whose body is found in a roadside canal.  Veronica tries to piece together what happened while her husband systematically erases her tracks.  A chilling parable about a woman in shock, Lucrecia Martel’s third feature explores the intricacies of class and the role of women in a male-dominated society.

This screening will be preceded by an introduction by **Lucrecia Martel**. Join us at 6:30pm for a screening of her newest film *[Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/our-land-nuestra-tierra/)* which will be followed by a conversation with Martel.

**About the Restoration:******

Restoration carried out from the 4K scan of the original 35 mm camera negative, a first-generation internegative, and the original digital sound mix. Reference elements included a duplicate negative and a vintage 35 mm release print. The process included digital cleaning to remove the imperfections of time and color correction to restore the original brightness, contrast, and chromatic values. Effects created in the digital intermediate were preserved.

Restoration produced by Rei Pictures, with the support of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Additional support and organization by Strand Releasing USA. Carried out at Cubic Restoration in Buenos Aires. Color grading was led by Gustavo Biazzi, under the consultation of cinematographer Bárbara Álvarez; digital image restoration by Margarita Moscoso; sound work by Federico Esquerro; and mastering by Julián Giulianelli. The project was coordinated by Fernando Madedo, and the entire process was supervised by director Lucrecia Martel.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions, Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

An Evening with Lucrecia Martel: The Headless Woman

Hold That Line/Mr. Hex

The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi toride no san-akunin) in 35mm

Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging one-hour program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio. Selections include Dylan’s first film soundtrack for 1961’s “Autopsy on Operation Abolition;” a devastating solo rendition of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” from the 1963 TV special “Folk Songs and More Folk Songs;” a rollicking 1976 take on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” with Joan Baez; a gospel-infused “Blowin’ in the Wind;” an apocalyptically rocking “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” with Dylan backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; loving tributes to Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many

more treasures.



Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening

discussion.



The Bob Dylan Center opened in Tulsa, OK in May 2022 as the permanent home of the Bob Dylan Archive. The mission of the Center is to inspire and celebrate fearless creativity by exploring the music and artistry of the Nobel Prize–winning singer-songwriter as a catalyst for personal expression and cultural change.

Films from the Bob Dylan Center

Training Day / Narc

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Now Instant Image Hall

A mask-required completely free community event!

Bring up to 20 clothing items to swap and stick around for karaoke. Bringing items is not required for entry!

5:30-11pm

Covid Safe Swap

Scribble

Spook Busters/Ghost Chasers

Yojimbo (Yojinbo) in 35mm

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Phase IV

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico&#8217;s military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as &#8220;the Bugs.&#8221;

Starship Troopers

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 10, “****Dispute Between Brothers,” Dir. Tina Rathborne, 47 Mins**

Cooper gets ready to leave Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 11, “****Masked Ball****,” Dir. Duwayne Dunham, 47 Mins**

Andrew Packard resurfaces.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Dispute Between Brothers” and “Masked Ball” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

Reservoir Dogs

**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau

**Producers**: Éric Altmayer,  Nicolas Altmayer

Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau&#8217;s brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director&#8217;s most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst. Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. As a mysterious virus spreads to pandemic proportions (with mind-blowing special effects), and a mysterious junky uncle comes to stay with them, Alpha must learn to navigate the nightmares of school, home, and health as her family&#8217;s ghosts haunt her present and future. Ducournau continues to prove herself to be one of world cinema&#8217;s most exciting voices &#8211; effortlessly elevating genre filmmaking to a transcendent experience &#8211; a slow burn through a dark dreamscape of plagues, puberty, and addiction.

Alpha

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

The Dude abides in the Coen Brothers&#8217; quintessential Los Angeles stoner noir. Mistaken identity and a urine-covered rug drags aging hippie slacker The Dude (Jeff Bridges) into a surreal and menacing world of shady philanthropists, German nihilists, porn producers, bowling competitions, and a kidnapping plot that never was. Paying homage to Hollywood legends like Busby Berkeley and Robert Altman, the Coens bring us their best in a nod to the Los Angeles they love and a comedy nobody can deny.

**Picks from the Video Store**

The Coens have their own directors&#8217; shelf of masterpieces for you to take home, including these absolute bangers:

*The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Burn Before Reading*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Big Lebowski

**Screenwriters**: Stephen Chow,  Kan-Cheung Tsang,  Lee Lik-Chi,  Min Hun Fung

**Producer**: Kwok-fai Yeung

All his life, an ordinary young man (Stephen Chow) has been treated like dirt. Still, he&#8217;s never given up believing that all the world&#8217;s problems could be solved with a little kung fu. So he&#8217;s teaming up with a band of misfits &#8211; six friends who were kung fu masters in their youth &#8211; to form a soccer team that only he believes has a chance to win a $1 million grand prize. Together, they&#8217;re going to apply their hidden talents to a whole new game &#8212; and soccer will never be the same.

Shaolin Soccer

**Screenwriter**: Jon Moritsugu

**Producers**: Jacques Paisner

Are you ready to get skullf*&ed Vidiots?!? Lose your mind over the newest film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema &#8211; Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis. Is it a movie? Is it a hallucination? You decide as satire and deconstruction collide in the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos. *Fuck Art* with us in the microcinema as we delve into Shitsville USA and a contest between the world&#8217;s greatest art stars that includes video store drug trips, poisonous art displays, and artistic malaise to the hilt. As unhinged and insane as anything you&#8217;ve seen in the last decade, this one-of-a-kind specimen of strange is a cinematic acid trip to the max!

Numbskull Revolution

Torchy Gets Her Man/Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Batman Begins

The Wind Rises

A Man for All Seasons in 4K

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) in 35mm

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Doug is an awkward Florida drug addict. Divorced and alone, he shares custody of his young daughter with his ex. Doug&#8217;s reeling from losing his job at a local strip club, where he takes care of the fish in the aquarium. Things are beyond bleak &#8211; so Doug zips his boat out into the Gulf to end the pain of his reality. But at his lowest point, he discovers an injured Mermaid creature clinging to life. For Doug, it&#8217;s a sign from the Universe &#8211; so he brings her home, gives her shelter in his tub and begins to nurse her back to health. He even names her Destiny. As their rapport blossoms, word of his secret gets out and he is forced to protect his new friend by any means necessary.

Stick around after for a Q&A with director Tyler Cornack!

Mermaid

Tuesday–Friday, Sunday 10am–6:30pmSaturday 10am–9pmMonday Closed

Sounds of LA: Woven Verses: Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat in Concert

Getty Center

The only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy, this film, set in 1930s Harlem, imagines a world of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops.

Robert Townsend pens a soulful love letter to Black popular music in this film loosely inspired by Motown-era vocal groups. Following a fictional quintet from 1960s chart success through industry exploitation, infighting and addiction, the film delivers a clear-eyed critique of a business that profits from Black genius while denying Black ownership. Featuring a pop-history–rich script by Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans and a pitch-perfect ensemble performance, this story bridges generations of Black artistry and cinema as it beautifully reveals the spiritual power of brotherhood and Black music.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: Robert Townsend. Screenwriters: Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans. With: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, John Canada Terrell, Harold Nicholas, Diahann Carroll.

Harmony and Hustle: The Five Heartbeats

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

The Ogatas are an upper-class postwar Japanese family in which everyone has become trapped in a passionless marriage. The parents, Shingo and Yasuko, coexist without even pretending to love one another. Their daughter, Fusako, was married off against her will, and has since become estranged from her husband. Meanwhile, the marriage between the son, Shuichi, and his wife, Kikuko, begins to disintegrate. Instead of returning home, Shuichi opts to spend most of his evenings downing alcohol and, it is soon confirmed, seeing another woman. Shingo sets out in an effort to mend his son’s marriage, in an effort to save the happiness of his rueful daughter-in-law.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Shadow of the Vampire

Join us for the closing reception of In Every Flower The Face Of God, an exhibition of new mixed media work by Brian Merriam

In Every Flower the Face of God - Closing Reception & Zine Release

For the first time since its creation in 1979, *For Whose Entertainment *by renowned filmmaker, artist, and educator Ben Caldwell has its first public screening.

The film is a critique of Black comedians and their work, in which Caldwell asks who Black comedians are trying to appeal to and entertain most: Black audiences or white audiences? Through the use of appropriated footage and collage, the filmmaker deconstructs Blackness in entertainment in the 1960s and 1970s. *For Whose Entertainment* brings together important figures in Black film and scholarship, including documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne and cinema scholar Teshome Gabriel, to discuss issues around Black representation in film and television. Caldwell’s film oeuvre and life’s work is built around psychic healing for Black people, a self-mandate formed after serving as a soldier in the Vietnam War.

There will be a post-screening conversation with Ben Caldwell, film programmer Jheanelle Brown, and scholar and multimedia/film producer Robeson Taj Frazier.

LA Festival of Movies: Shades of Silk (Ombres de soie)

12:30 PM

LA Festival of Movies: Isaiah’s Phone

2:30 PM

LA Festival of Movies: Selegna sol

4:15 PM

LA Festival of Movies: Drinking and Driving

6:00 PM

LA Festival of Movies: PRESIDIUM OVERACTIVE (shorts program)

8:45 PM

Spirited Away

11:00 AM

The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku) in 35mm

2:30 PM

Zodiac with David Fincher and Bong Joon Ho

7:30 PM

Legend

12:30 PM

The Lord of the Rings

3:00 PM

Wizards

6:00 PM

Dragonslayer

8:15 PM

Heavy Metal

11:00 PM

THE LONG GOODBYE

12:00 PM

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

4:00 PM

KING CREOLE,

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN,

7:00 PM

RICHARD FLEISCHER DOUBLE FEATUR

1:30 PM

K-POP DEMON HUNTERS Sing Along (2025)(PG) Sat 4/11@12:00pm

12:00 PM

BREAKIN' (1984)(PG) Thu 4/9: 7:30 pm & Sat 4/11: 7:30 pm

7:30 PM

Manzanar

Pilgrimage

Wataridori: Birds of Passage

Third Act

7:30 PM

SUDDEN RAIN

1:00 PM

BEETLEJUICE

4:00 PM

JAWBREAKER

10:00 PM

Cartoon Club

10:00 AM

Animal Crackers

2:00 PM

Heart to Heart

7:30 PM

Tenebrae

11:59 PM

My Neighbor Totoro (English Dubbed)

1:15 PM

The Moment

Ninotchka

4:00 PM

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Kramer vs. Kramer

7:00 PM

Female Trouble

9:45 PM

Pinocchio

10:00 AM

The Drama

Penrod and Sam/The Panther's Claw

7:30 PM

Car Wash

11:59 PM