Marathon Man in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

MODERN WHORE is a hybrid documentary that reimagines popular depictions of sex work through the lived experiences of writer, performer and sex worker Andrea Werhun. Based on her book *Modern Whore: A Memoir*, Andrea grapples with social stigma and reclaims her narrative in a series of funny, heartbreaking, and surprising stories.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Quiver Distribution

COUNTRY: Canada

Pre-recorded introduction by executive producer Sean Baker. Q&A with filmmaker Nicole Bazuin (in-person) and subject, screenwriter and producer Andrea Werhun (virtual). Moderated by Casey Calvert. L.A. Premiere

MODERN WHORE

Aero Theatre

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!

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Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (5/1)

Heavy Manners Library

Celebrate May Day & HR's 16th Birthday

With
Ajani Brannum
Cassia Streb & Jennifer Bewerse
Huntrezz
Jay Carlon
Maria Maea
Olivia Mole
Tzotzona

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HRLA BirthDay / MayDay Extravaganza

Human Resources

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Amid civil war in 1930s China, passengers board an express train from Peking to Shanghai. During the trip, British captain Dr. Donald Harvey unexpectedly reunites with his former lover, Madeline, now the infamous adventuress Shanghai Lily. When rebels seize the train and take hostages, Lily risks everything to save the man she loves. Starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook and Anna May Wong,.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $7.20 at the box office ‘Film by the Foot’

SHANGHAI EXPRESS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*“THE JOURNEY was born directly out of a collapsed project in 1982, when I tried to organize another antinuclear war film, to be funded by Central TV in England, and working with a number of peace groups across the UK. I felt that THE WAR GAME was out-of-date, and I was concerned about the escalating nuclear arms race, that was allied to the US foreign policy of a nuclear war that would be limited to Europe. My idea was to create a series of scenes, again depicting the consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain, on a larger scale than THE WAR GAME, that would allow citizens across Britain to express their concerns via their involvement in the production of this project. However, Central TV withdrew its funding, on the grounds that the budget was becoming too large, and the project collapsed. After rethinking the scale of the project into a more global film dealing with the general silence on the burgeoning nuclear arms race, I appealed for funding to a number of international TV channels. Without exception, every TV channel that I contacted refused, even though I was only requesting support for filming an ultra low-cost segment in each country, where I would ask local people what they knew and felt about the world arms race. *

*“During the time while I had no funding from the professional sector, I happened to be showing THE WAR GAME to the world’s oldest peace movement association, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (SPAS), in Stockholm. In May 1983, during its 100th anniversary congress, SPAS unanimously decided to support fund-raising for a new film about the nuclear threat. Based in Stockholm, and with initial funding from SPAS, I immediately began to involve the network of friends and acquaintances that I had acquired over many years of travelling and lecturing, to build an international fund-raising drive for the new film, and to start research in those parts of the world where I would organize local productions groups for the actual filming.*

*“The film’s core concept started to emerge: I would visit families or groups of people in various countries, and interview them to find out what they knew about the state and consequences of the world arms race, and the effects of nuclear weapons. The interviews would also focus on the role that mass media and educational systems played in shaping a world view, and on the knowledge that these people had – or did not have – vis-à-vis these subjects.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: New Zealand/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/Italy/Japan/Sweden/UK/Germany

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE JOURNEY Parts 5-8

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**HARLAN COUNTY, USA, 1976, Dir. Barbara Kopple, 103 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning HARLAN COUNTY, USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

FORMAT: DCP

**AMERICAN DREAM, 1990, Dir. Barbara Kopple, 98 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Barbara Kopple’s AMERICAN DREAM unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult. Fed up with dangerous plant conditions and drastic wage cuts, Austin’s Local P-9 went against the advice of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and, with the help of labor activist Ray Rogers’s campaign to damage the meatpacking giant’s public reputation, conducted a nearly yearlong walkout. But as the strike dragged on, some workers found themselves desperate to make ends meet and ready to cross the picket line, dividing a community already betrayed by a once progressive company and roiled by blockades, riots and the intervention of the National Guard. Following up her landmark documentary HARLAN COUNTY, USA with another engrossing report from the trenches of working-class America, Kopple poignantly captures the human and political costs of one of the most significant setbacks to organized labor amid the unchecked corporatism of the Reaganomics era.

FORMAT: DCP

May Day Screening 50th Anniversary of HARLAN COUNTY, USA

HARLAN COUNTY, USA / AMERICAN DREAM

Los Feliz Theatre

Unstoppable / The Taking of Pelham 123

Django Unchained

New Beverly Cinema

Parajanov’s iconic masterwork—an intimate, near-wordless portrait of Armenian cultural memory, rendered in pure visual poetry.

Sergei Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)

Philosophical Research Society

**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

**Screenwriter**: François Ozon from the novel by Albert Camus

**Producer**: François Ozon

Nihilism has never looked so good as in François Ozon&#8217;s stunning and sensual adaptation of Albert Camus&#8217;s existential classic. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny from all corners for his failure to perform his grief. This reputation for otherworldly detachment follows Meursault back toAlgiers, where his tentative romance with Marie (Rebecca Marder) and his indifference to professional advancement frustrate those around him. As Meursault gets swept up in a cycle of escalating reprisals among his neighbors, tensions come to a head when he murders an Arab man on the beach. A Frenchman may offer many defenses for shooting an Arab in Algeria, but Meursault’s refusal of excuse or remorse shakes colonial society to its core. Photographed in sterling, sensuous black-and-white, François Ozon’s new take on Albert Camus’s classic novel of existentialist ennui is a landmark of adaptation, simultaneously faithful to the text and dedicated to discovering fresh perspectives in the margins.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

The Stranger

**Screenwriters**: Walter Hill, David Shaber, Sol Yurick

**Producer**: Lawrence Gordon

*Warriors, come out to Plaaaaaay!* Run for your life with the Warriors, a Coney Island gang falsely accused of the assassination of Cyrus &#8211; a gang leader with a plan to unify all the New York City gangs into an unstoppable force.  With the local radio station blasting their information along with the funkiest of tunes, every hyper-stylized gang in town is out the get the Warriors, including the Baseball Furies, the Orphans, and the Lizzies. Can they make it back to Coney Island safe? Can they clear their name and nail the real assassins? Will Michael Beck from *Xanadu* fall in love along the way? You&#8217;ll just have to throw on your leather vest and ride the subway down to Vidiots with your gang to find out in Walter Hill&#8217;s ultimate cult classic!

**Picks From the Video Store**

Bring home more Walter Hill bangers tonight!

*The Driver, Southern Comfort, Streets of Fire*

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

The Warriors

**Screenwriters**: Rachel Wolther,  Alex Huston Fischer

**Producers**: Matt Day,  Anu Valia,  Jason Klorfein

Join us for a night of cinema, comedy, and dance when we bring you the absurd short film ***Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone** *preceded by live comedy sets from **Carmen Christopher**,** Aparna Nancherla**, and** Kyle Mooney** and followed by a conversation with the **filmmakers** and **Cocoon Central Dance Team** moderated by **The Daniels**!

This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team &#8211; Sunita Mani (*GLOW*, *MR. Robot*), Tallie Medel (*Everything Everywhere All At Once*), and Eleanore Pienta (*A Different Man*) &#8211; is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs lounge about, fight beachballs, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe.

Produced by the Academy Award-winning Daniels (*Everything Everywhere All At Once*). Featuring Kate Berlant (*Would It Kill You To Laugh?*), Joe Pera (*Joe Pera Talks With You*), Keith Poulson (*I Blame Society*), and Reggie Watts (*Comedy Bang Bang*). Written and Directed by Rachel Wolther (*The French Italian*), and Alex H Fischer (*Save Yourselves!*) .

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

Snowy Bing Bongs – Comedy, Dance, Cinema Spectacular!

**Screenwriter**: Taratoa Stappard

**Producers**: Sharlene George,  RickyLee Waipuka-Russell,  Rouzie Hassanova,  Paraone Gloyne

Join us in the microcinema for Taratoa Stappard&#8217;s stunning anti-colonial Māori gothic story of retribution, *Mārama*. 1859, North Yorkshire. When young Māori woman Mary arrives from New Zealand, she’ strapped as governess to a wealthy whaler’s granddaughter. Living among her ancestors’ stolen artefacts, she uncovers Sir Cole’s horrific crimes. Embracing her Matakite powers, Mary becomes Mārama and must save Anne and avenge her family by destroying him. With gorgeous set and costume design and a ferocious performance by Ariaana Osborne, *Mārama *is a breathtaking gothic feast as well as an important statement in feminism and decolonization.

Mārama

Vidiots

RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate

From Dusk Till Dawn

The Beyond

Vista Theatre

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in 35mm

High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

Hallie Parker, a hip Californian, and Annie James, a proper London miss (both played by Lindsay Lohan) are identical twins who don’t even know each other exists—until they accidentally meet at summer camp. Now they’re up to their freckles in schemes and dreams to switch places, get their parents (Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) back together and have the family they’ve always wanted.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE PARENT TRAP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA/UK

THE PRESTIGE

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

Heat

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary &#8220;Battle Royale&#8221; act.

Battle Royale

Brain Dead Studios

Calling all K–12 educators! Please join us for a relaxing day of wellness activities at the scenic Getty Center. Activities include a healing sound bath, artmaking, DIY air plant terrariums, botanical bath salts, yoga, gallery talks, improv comedy, guided breathwork, and free time to wander the garden and galleries.

Wellness Day for Educators

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Entrenched in the devastating reality of postwar Japan, Naruse’s masterpiece adapts Fumiko Hayashi’s final completed novel to trace the lives of two repatriated lovers reunited in the ruins of a defeated nation. The wartime affair of Tomioka, a married Forestry Ministry officer (Masayuki Mori) and typist Yukiko (Hideko Takamine) continues in the postwar rubble, but their bleak existence pales against the faraway romance that took place in French Indochina. Reluctant to leave his wife, the lecherous Tomioka comes and goes at his leisure to visit Yukiko, who clings to him desperately, propping up the vestiges of their long-lost passion over the course of years. Takamine’s heartbreaking performance is perhaps her finest hour, a role of sheer emotional magnitude that bears an agonizing love, drawn from the fading memory of what once was.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

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’

FLOATING CLOUDS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Spanish with English subtitles.*

In a tight knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg “nutcracker” cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it’s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Oscilloscope Laboratories

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Joel Alfonso Vargas. Moderated by founding partner and head of incubator Abiram “Abi” Brizuela. L.A. Premiere

MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Their message is brutally clear: Destroy the old and make way for the new. This is the punk’s violent revolution; Their lawless world. This is THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: a riveting, unflinching account of the punk rock phenomenon and its alienated, reactionary subculture. This fierce, bleak portrait documents L.A.’s infamous punk bands as they perform on stage and discuss their lives, music and philosophy off stage.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Avatar Films

COUNTRY: USA

THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman,” 1971, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 32 Mins, Janus Films, Belgium**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Chantal Akerman somewhat disowned this unfinished film, in which the beautiful, lithe Claire Wauthion plays the mother of a sweet young girl, Daphné, with whom she reads Babar, prepares lunch and tries on dresses. Privately, with Akerman as a kind of mute but receptive presence, Wauthion confides her own sense of jealousy and disappointment toward her husband (“He really is such a baby”) and casts a critical eye on her body, citing a litany of physical shortcomings in a nearly five-minute single take that Akerman would repurpose for her 2007 video installation “In the Mirror.”

FORMAT: DCP

**LETTERS HOME, 1986, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 104 Mins, Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

In the brilliantly staged, heartbreaking Letters Home, based on a performance of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play at the Théâtre Moderne in Paris on November 27, 1984, the great Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie enact letters the poet Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother Aurelia from her teenage years until the week before her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. 

FORMAT: DCP

40th Anniversary of LETTERS HOME ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

"The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman" / LETTERS HOME

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Savage Streets

**Screenwriters**: Dr. Seuss, Allan Scott

**Producer**: Stanley Kramer

Vidiots is Seussing out with one of the wildest and weirdest children&#8217;s movies of all time *The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T*! Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart&#8217;s existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker&#8217;s sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream where the evil Dr. T threatens hundreds of boys with an eternity of piano lessons &#8211; on one giant piano! More hallucinatory than most children&#8217;s movies will allow, this one-of-a-kind Seussical is totally bonkers entertainment for your film nerd partner AND your five-year-old!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more imaginative films for the kiddos?

*The Phantom Tollbooth, The Boy with Green Hair, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland*

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

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

**Screenwriter**: Satyajit Ray from the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay

**Producer**: Asim Dutta, Nepal Dutta

With a special video introduction from Wes Anderson!

Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, *Days and Nights in the Forest* is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale. Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends—Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh)—drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism. Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), *Days and Nights in the Forest*touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak.

*Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.*

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

Days and Nights in the Forest

**Screenwriter**: Helen Childress

**Producers**: Danny DeVito,  Michael Shamberg

Dust off your flannels and Doc Martens and join us for the ultimate Gen X hang! Part post-collegiate ensemble dramedy, part love triangle romance, and all the epitome of mid-90s fashion and vibes, Ben Stiller&#8217;s *Reality Bites* is one of the defining films of a generation. Winona Ryder is a documentary filmmaker navigating jobs, life, and relationships alongside her best friends &#8211; played brilliantly by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. When she starts dating a yuppie who offers her a shot at broadcast television (AKA early reality TV), will she sell out or go for the disaffected hottie that&#8217;s been there the whole time? Somebody call the cinema police, because Janeane Garofolo truly *steals* the whole show as one of the coolest women characters in film of the decade!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Pocket more Winona Ryder on DVD and Blu-Ray tonight!

*Lucas, Heathers, Night on Earth*

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

Reality Bites

**Screenwriter**: Elliot Tuttle

**Producers**: Bijan Kazerooni, Will Youmans, Waylon Sall, Adam Kersh

Vidiots is so excited and proud to finally be able to share our friend and burgeoning new directing talent **Elliot Tuttle&#8217;s** provocative new film ***Blue Film*** on our big screen with you! This incendiary and singular vision has been buzzing around the festivals (that would dare to have it) and is finally receiving its theatrical release with its Los Angeles premiere at Vidiots!

When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man (Reed Birney) with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually reveal their true desires in a seductive thriller being called &#8220;*one of the most daring American films of recent vintage*.”

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

Blue Film

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Wages of Fear in 4K

Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku) in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Episode 201, Dir. Jake Schreier, 42 Mins**

Country-club employees Ashley and Austin witness a vicious fight between their boss and his wife — and decide to leverage it to get ahead.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 202, Dir. Lee Sung Jin, 48 Mins**

While Josh tries to play off Ashley’s ascendance at the club, Lindsay seeks petty revenge. The Chairwoman proposes changes at the gym.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**BEEF, 2026, Netflix, USA**

BEEF returns with a new cast and a new “beef,” as a Gen-Z couple witnesses an alarming fight between their Millennial boss and his wife. Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Charles Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their General Manager, Joshua Martín (Oscar Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan). Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang-ho).

Q&A with creator, writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Lee Sung Jin. Moderated by Inkoo Kang. Popcorn and soda courtesy of Netflix

BEEF

Advance Screening, Q&A, and Live Performance

Join Rostam for the Los Angeles premiere of American Stories: A Concert Film, featuring 8 songs from both the new album and Rostam’s catalog, in anticipation of his upcoming album American Stories (out May 15). The 34-minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with Rostam and director Antony Muse and an intimate live performance from Rostam.

American Stories: A Concert Film

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The original Ghostface Killer is on the loose!  A vicious villain with an unstoppable five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals. Meanwhile, a young student tries to learn kung fu and is taken under the wing of an old chess master. The basics of chess prove to be the same as the basics of fighting, and eventually the heroes will have to fight Ghostface Killer, who verbally insults his opponents as he annihilates them.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Hong Kong

Co-presented by 36 Cinema ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING

All the Way Boys / Convoy Buddies

This program presents a glimpse into the wild and varied work of the graduating class of CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program, featuring the incredible range of experimentation that characterizes the literary accomplishment of students in the program. Come celebrate the grit and imagination of the class of 2026!

Unknown Event

REDCAT

**Screenwriter**: Joel Alfonso Vargas

**Producer**: Paolo Maria Pedullà

In a tight-knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg &#8220;nutcracker&#8221; cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature, teaming up with discovery talent Collado and Checo, to deliver a raw and deeply authentic look at life in The Bronx. With humor and grit, Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn.

Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Watching the Way You Move: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson*. West Coast premieres! (+ a world premiere!). Kevin Jerome Everson in person!

Full film lineup and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/spring-2026/watching-the-way-you-move-an-evening-with-kevin-jerome-everson/

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Filmforum welcomes back Kevin Jerome Everson with a compelling array of recent work (2023-2026) (+ a short from 2016), ranging from observations of state bird-watchers to a powerful examination of the now shuttered Ohio State Reformatory in his hometown of Mansfield Ohio, to a short tribute to Gail Fisher, the first Black woman to win an Emmy.

It’s difficult to encapsulate the range of Everson’s prolific and varied films. He creates a wide array of distilled interpretations of aspects of Black life in the USA, in part producing an archive of lived experiences that have been erased in dominant culture. An artist, not a documentarian, he erases the line between staging and verité, and, through his films, insists on and deliberately enacts the presence and importance of family, labor, athletics, art-making, politics, and community. He listens to the echoes of people in empty spaces, re-valorizes almost-forgotten historical figures, and arranges performances for the camera of actions that are regularly carried out without being recorded or appreciated. Every time we host Everson, we share in the beauty and energy of the ever-growing project of his film artistry. Please join us for some of his latest work. – Adam Hyman

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**Kevin Jerome Everson** (b. 1965 Mansfield, OH, lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art, Director of Studio Arts, University of Virginia. Everson's art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography and film, including 13 features and over 300 solo & collaborative shorts. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize, Heinz Award, Alpert Award, and Rome Prize, & grants and commissions from Ford Foundation/Just Films, Knight Foundation, The Brick & Creative Capital among others. He is currently in post production on his first fiction feature Lowndes County.

Special Thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, Kate Lain, the Academy Museum.

Films appear courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures.

LA Filmforum: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson

2220 Arts + Archives

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 17, “Wounds and Scars,” Dir. James Foley, 46 Mins**

Norma’s sister, Annie, arrives in Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 18, “On the Wings of Love,” Dir. Duwayne Dunham, 46 Mins**

Cooper is reinstated at the FBI.

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.

“Wounds and Scars” and “On the Wings of Love” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 17 and 18

The Groundstar Conspiracy / P.J.

**Producers**: Diane Ademu-John,  Carl Deal,  Tia Lessin,  Karen Ranucci,  Caren Spruch, Tony Tabatznik

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the *Democracy Now!* newsroom. In *Steal This Story, Please!*, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. *Steal This Story, Please!* is a gripping account of the trailblazing journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show *Democracy Now!*, Goodman amplifies stories and voices too often silenced by commercial media.

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (*Trouble the Water, Citizen Koch, The Janes*) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a media landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press and on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, *Steal This Story, Please!* is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press stops challenging power?

Steal This Story, Please!

**Screenwriters**: James Foley, Robert Redlin from the novel by Jim Thompson

**Producers**: Ric Kidney,  Robert Redlin

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome **Jason Patric** for a special 35mm screening of his sizzling hot neo-noir ***After Dark, My Sweet*** to celebrate the life and legacy of filmmaker **James Foley**, featuring a special video introduction from Vidiots Founding Member **Alex Winter** and a post-screening conversation with Patric moderated by writer/film critic **Travis Woods**!

Sex, crime, and mental illness collide in this steamy and nuanced neo-noir adapted from Jim Thompson&#8217;s scorching novel. Kid Collie (Jason Patric) is an ex-boxer on the run from a mental hospital when he runs into the seductive widow Fay (Rachel Ward) who takes him on to work at her estate and into her bed. When they are joined by the dangerous Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern), they concoct a kidnap and ransom plan that drags them all into misery and murder. Watch out and don&#8217;t get burned in this fiery car wreck of a romance as it singes the big screen from Jason Patric&#8217;s personal 35mm print!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to take home Jason Patric tonight? Don&#8217;t we all!?! Try out these treasures on glorious physical media!

*Keyhole, The Lost Boys, Narc, Your Friends and Neighbors*

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

After Dark, My Sweet on 35mm

An Evening of Short Films from Asian American Filmmakers

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 87 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

An expanded version of episode VI in Kieślowski’s legendary DEKALOG, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman in an adjacent housing project.

FORMAT: DCP

**A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 85 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

A shocking, powerful film expanded from episode V of Kieślowski’s legendary DEKALOG, A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘Krzysztof Kieślowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE / A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

Antenna Releasing and Pure Cinema Podcast present “Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Wednesdays” at Braindead Studios, a collaboration between the newest indie distributor on the block and the official podcast of Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema &#8211; invading the coolest spot to see underground movies on the West Side. First up: Bruce Toscano’s 1984 underground classic, The Jar.

Join Pure Cinema hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur as they present this newly restored oddity from the fine folks at Terror Vision. Synopsis: A motorist who comes upon an auto accident finds a bottle at the scene. The bottle contains a demon who proceeds to possess him. That’s all you need to know, and the less you know the better!

The Jar (aka Charon) was released by Magnum Entertainment in 1984 and was omnipresent in video rental stores. While the film was shot in scope, the distributor released it in a butchered cropped presentation cutting out about half of the intended frame in a murky VHS transfer. Terror Vision has restored Charon/The Jar using a partial camera negative along with a print to finally offer director Bruce Toscano’s unique vision in all its beautiful, color drenched glory. Accompanied by a stunning synth score.

The Jar

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In Miami, siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang’s art forgery ring flourishes when they encounter a disgraced millionaire in need of their expertise. Meanwhile, FBI Art Crimes agent Emily Lee moves to Miami to investigate a series of mysterious paintings.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia Distribution

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Jing Ai Ng and actors Andie Ju and Brandon Soo Hoo Co-presented by CAPE ‘Women Wednesday’

FORGE

**Screenwriter**: Shatara Michelle Ford

**Producers**: Pin-Chun Liu,  Shatara Michelle Ford,  Naima Abed,  Adam Wyatt Tate,  Josh Peters, Robina Riccitiello,  Ben Stillman,  Ana Leocha,  Tyler Bagley,  Chris Quintos Cathcart

Featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmaker **Shatara Michelle Ford **and star** Sasha Compère**!

Three black queer femmes in their mid 30s take a road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. With their sophomore feature, Shatara Michelle Ford (*Test Pattern*) puts their singular stamp on the American road movie. After an unceremonious layoff, Z (Denée Benton, *The Gilded Age*) embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend that has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures. Tender and expansive, Ford has created an ode to chosen family and the radical act of claiming space to dream —and exist— beyond the systems of an increasingly fraught country.

*Part of The Future of Film is Female&#8217;s [THREE FILMS, FIVE CITIES](https://www.futureoffilmisfemale.com/three-films-five-cities) project.*

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

Dreams in Nightmares

VEERANA follows Jasmin, a bloodsucking seductress who leads men to their doom after being possessed by the spirit of a witch. Unless Jasmin's family can find a way to break the curse, she'll be used in a Satanic ritual to raise the real witch from her tomb. A kaleidoscopic dream zone full of Bava-esque lightning, gloopy monsters, and a killer synth score, this is the most extravagant production from the Ramsay family—India's most popular and successful horror filmmakers.

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$8 general admission, $7 for members.

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

VEERANA (1988)

WHAMMY!

Altered Innocence + Dirty Looks present *Something Must Break.*

Ester Martin Bergsmark, *Something Must Break* (*Nånting måste gå sönder*), Swedish (with English subtitles), 85min., 2014

Author Eli Levén in person.

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Dirty Looks presents the long-overdue U.S. release of Swedish trans-punk modern classic, *Something Must Break* (*Nånting måste gå sönder*), 2014, distributed by Altered Innocence. A fraught romance traces the transition of androgynous teen Sebastian (Saga Becker) and her crust punk boyfriend Andreas (Iggy Malmborg). Shot in gritty relief against the industrial edges of Stockholm. Andreas grows volatile, as this love stresses his het identity and Sebastian slips deeper into gender play. Written by Eli Levén and directed by Ester Martin Bergsmark (*She Male Snails*), this Golden Tiger-winning film is a bold work of contemporary Scandinavian queer cinema and based off the 2010 novel, *You Are the Roots That Sleep at My Feet and Keep the Earth in Place*.

Dirty Looks: Something Must Break

Night and the City in 35mm nitrate

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Launched in 1974 in Los Angeles, Z Channel was one of the United States’ first pay cable stations. Z Channel’s prominence was solidified in 1980 when maverick programmer Jerry Harvey took over as head of programming. Z’s uniqueness was attributed to Harvey and his staff’s determination, diverse taste and encyclopedic knowledge of cinema. Harvey’s programming showcased a combination of classic, international, independent and Hollywood films. Z was the network first to develop programming innovations such as ‘director’s cuts’ and uniquely themed on-air festivals, while also airing many rare and never before seen exclusives and critically acclaimed films not in the mainstream.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Soraya Releases LLC

COUNTRY: USA

Panel with filmmakers Xan Cassavetes, Stuart Cooper and Vera Anderson, producers Rick Ross and Marshall Persinger and Z programmer Tim Ryerson ‘Watch Local: Z Channel’

Z CHANNEL: A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (5/14)

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Sergei Eisenstein travelled to Mexico December 1930 to experience firsthand its “geographical, ethnological, cultural and historical diversity” and to make a feature film. After shooting tons of beautiful 35mm footage, drawing hundreds of sketches and writing volumes of critical texts, he departed April 1932 without a completed project. This digital edition explores his unfinished cinema work available in partially edited fragments realized by others. The content and quality of the different releases vary greatly due to many factors none of which reflect poorly on Eisenstein. Viewed together with newly created interviews and reflections, the short and long films form a magnificent magical testament dedicated to the spirit of unbound creativity.

*Film notes by Ian Christie and Bruce Posner*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Time in the Sun,” 1940, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov and Eduard Tissé, 61 Mins, Kino Lorber**

After Sol Lesser’s early compilations carved from the Mexican footage, “Time in the Sun” was a first attempt to do justice to what its director, Marie Seton, believed was Eisenstein’s vision. Having spent time with him in Yalta in 1934 and heard his rapturously account of the group’s experiences in Mexico, she resolved in 1938 “to reconstruct the dream in order that it might not be entirely lost.” Seton and her collaborators effectively molded the material into a conventional ethnographic documentary that foregrounded the exotic customs and costumes which Eisenstein had Tissé and Alexandrov film copiously. “Time in the Sun” largely follows the sequence of “novellas” or episodes set in different regions and eras that he had sketched for the benefit of his sponsors and the Mexican Government. Seton’s commentary also draws heavily on one of his key inspirations, Anita Brenner’s “Idols Behind Altars,” emphasizing the “Indian spirit” that had survived Spanish invasion and dictatorship. But with its conventional music, and tentative dramatization in the marriage sequence set in Tehuantepec and the climactic revenge drama at Tetlapayac Hacienda, it hardly seems to fulfill Eisenstein’s aspirations. We know he was bitterly disappointed when he finally saw it in 1946, but we are no closer to knowing what he might have created from this spectacular material. Based on Anita Brenner’s “Idols Behind Altars” (1929), Franz Blom’s “The Conquest of Yucatan” (1936), and writings researched by Samuel A. Datlowe and Marie Seton.

FORMAT: DCP

**Mexican Symphony: “Zapotec Village” / “Idol Of Hope” / “The Conquering Cross,” 1941, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 45 Mins, Kino Lorber**

Three rare travelogues “Zapotec Village,” “The Conquering Cross” and “Idol of Hope” are presented in the projection order indicated by Bell & Howell Filmosound Library in 1941. Missing are “Mexican Marches,” “Spaniard and Indian” and “Land and Freedom.” The entire series of six short, one-reel and two-reel, nonfiction ethnographic films were edited with footage recycled from the earlier THUNDER OVER MEXICO, EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO, “Death Day” and “Time in the Sun.” The travelogues were shaped into dapper and informative educational compilations, heavy on voice-over narration, that report on Mexican Indian life, cultural and historic backgrounds, and exotic scenic locations. Equally apparent throughout, and incorporated to great effect, appears much footage shot by Eisenstein but not previously seen or currently possible to view elsewhere. The hybrids could be projected, grouped together one-after-the-other, to form a composite feature-length documentary “Mexican Symphony.” The newly minted Eisenstein films play benignly symphonic in form and presentation.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The Disaster in Oaxaca,” 1931, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 16 Mins, Kino Lorber**

A month after Eisenstein’s group had entered Mexico in December 1930, the southern province of Oaxaca was devastated by a magnitude 8 earthquake which destroyed its capital. The Russians hired a plane to fly to Oaxaca, to film the damage and its aftermath, apparently hoping to capture material ahead of newsreel companies. The footage of shattered buildings, displaced inhabitants and the funeral of a child eloquently documented the scale of the disaster that killed over one hundred people. Quickly edited by Eisenstein, it was shown in Mexican theaters, and a copy was sent to the USSR, no doubt to prove that the Russians were gainfully employed after their fruitless year in Hollywood. Tissé’s filming may be largely functional, but Eisenstein’s montage pointedly contrasts the ruined houses of the rich with those of the poor, and includes several sequences that anticipate the religious themes which would preoccupy him during his time in Mexico: notably life-size religious statues being rescued from a ruined church, as if emphasizing their powerlessness, and a silhouetted angel sculpture hanging over a jagged void captioned “the angel of death.”

FORMAT: DCP

Advance Screening of New Restorations Films courtesy of British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive and Gosfilmofond of Russia Photo courtesy of Kino Classics, Gosfilmofond, Filmmakers Showcase Restorations by Bruce Posner ‘Sergei Eisenstein Restorations’

¡SERGEI EISENSTEIN MÉXICO! Exotic Travelogues

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 17 & 18

A Woman of Affairs / The Single Standard

**Screenwriter**: Ed Solomon

**Producers**: Iain Canning,  Jim Parks

Join us in the microcinema for Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s latest triumph, a brilliant artistic character study with phenomenal performances from Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel. A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

The Christophers

**Screenwriters**: Guillermo Ríos,  Leticia Lopez Margalli,  Eugenio Derbez

**Producers**: Eugenio Derbez,  Lorenzo O&#8217;Brien

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome Writer/Producer/Director and Star **Eugenio Derbez** for a special screening of his hilariously sweet comedy ***Instructions Not Included**!*

A hilarious and heartfelt mix of wacky comedy and tearjerker drama, *Instructions Not Included* has more than earned its success as Mexico’s biggest hit movie and the highest-grossing Spanish-language film at the U.S. box office. Talented multi-hyphenate Eugenio Derbez directs, produces, co-writes, and stars as Valentin, the biggest womanizer in Acapulco, whose life changes forever when a former lover drops off a baby at his doorstep. Soon, Valentin is working in Hollywood as a stuntman while doing his best to raise his precocious daughter, but challenges loom in the form of a custody battle with his ex and a mysterious medical ailment. You’ll laugh and cry along with Derbez as his character slowly but surely learns how to become a better man!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Eugenio Derbez tonight on glorious physical media!

*How to Be a Latin Lover, CODA, Overboard*

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

Instructions Not Included

I Know Where I’m Going!

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

American Psycho

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (5/15)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Pay Day,” 1922, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 22 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Charlie is a bricklayer who sets off to celebrate payday with his pals. But his wife is waiting with the rolling pin.

FORMAT: 35mm

**“Shoulder Arms,” 1918, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 38 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Enlisted during the First World War, Charlie discovers the hard life of the trenches and the dangers of combat.

FORMAT: 35mm

Get your ticket for just $5.40 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

"Pay Day" / "Shoulder Arms"

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on a children’s essay adapted by famed Japanese screenwriter Yoko Mizuki in her first work for Naruse, Mother stars the legendary actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka as a beleaguered working class matron, whose self-sacrificing efforts to maintain her family during Tokyo’s postwar reconstruction make her a paragon of maternal virtue in the eyes of her teenage daughter Toshiko (Kyoko Kagawa). Toshiko idealizes her mother and the value system she embodies, a naive perspective that pleasantly lifts what in fact unfurls as a bitterly sad, episodic tale of slow-burn economic emmiseration. Anticipating the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien in its ironically sentimental vision of Confucian dissolution, Naruse’s film is a melodramatic tearjerker for the ages.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

MOTHER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

One evening Nelly meets Loulou, a down-and-out young man. After her husband kicks her out, she goes off to live with Loulou. She is soon with child, but Loulou doesn’t change his wayward life, spending time with his pals and pulling off small-time robberies. Deeply hurt by his attitude, Nelly decides not to keep the baby. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cohen Media Group

COUNTRY: France

‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

LOULOU

The electrifying Cuban/Soviet masterpiece—a monumental socio-political work and one of cinema's most visually revolutionary films

SOY CUBA  ("I AM CUBA," 1964)  co-presented by EL CINE UNDERGROUND PODCAST

This is an Elliott Smith tribute night produced by North Star Sessions featuring over 20 local songwriters.

$15

Advance tickets available  here !

Ballads of Big Nothing

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: James Dearden,  Nicholas Meyer

**Producers**: Stanley R. Jaffe,  Sherry Lansing

A blockbuster of lust and obsession that set the world on fire, Adrian Lyne&#8217;s *Fatal Attraction* is the ultimate scorned female revenge tale, or every unfaithful man&#8217;s worst nightmare; depending on how you look at this killer erotic thriller. When New York lawyer Dan Gallagher uses his wife&#8217;s absence to hook up with a scorching book publisher, he could never imagine the spiral of madness he would create. Now, his fling actually expects things from him, and trying to keep his family together, he leaves her to unravel, demanding to be seen as a human being and not an expendable fling. But when her justifiable frustration ratchets up to violence, now even Dan&#8217;s wife, child, and bunny rabbit are in danger. With an ending essentially rewritten by a focus group, this complicated thriller is still one hell of a watch!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Did you know we have a section for Erotic Thrillers? Take home more sizzling smoke-shows tonight!

*Poison Ivy, Single White Female, Disclosure*

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

Fatal Attraction

**Screenwriter**: Graham Yost

**Producers**: Mark Gordon,  Bill Badalato,  Terence Chang

John Woo&#8217;s underrated American follow-up to *Hard Target* is a thermonuclear blast! In Woo and John Travolta&#8217;s first collaboration, they plant the seeds for *Face/Off* as Travolta deploys his first scenery-chewing, gonzo villain, playing an eccentric US Air Force Major who steals a nuclear weapon. The only thing he didn&#8217;t count on was Christian Slater, the one Captain who knows how to stop him. Co-starring Samantha Mathis and a murderers&#8217; row of character actors, including Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Bob Gunton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Kurtwood Smith, *Broken Arrow* is an outlandishly action-packed thrill ride, filled with the double-gunning fun Woo&#8217;s fans crave.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got all the 1980s Christian Slater classics you crave!

*The Legend of Billie Jean, Pump Up the Volume, The Wizard, Heathers*

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

Broken Arrow

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Howl’s Moving Castle

Robin and Marian in 4K

Odd Man Out

“After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” asked artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles in 1977. With that provocation, she shattered the divide between art and everyday labor, becoming the first artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation. Her collaborations with municipal workers injected art directly into the city’s bloodstream and redefined what creative practice could be. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, Ukuleles pioneered the radical idea that routine maintenance—from changing diapers to picking up city trash to caring for the earth—could be acts of performance art.

Join us for a screening of *MAINTENANCE ARTIST*, the first feature documentary to explore this revolutionary public artist’s career. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, the film traces a half-century of social and artistic upheaval through the lens of essential labor and public art. *MAINTENANCE ARTIST* celebrates Ukeles’s call for a “Maintenance Revolution,” honoring the workers who keep our world running and the artist who insisted that their labor deserves to be seen.

The screening will be introduced by multimedia artist Debra Scacco, the first civic-appointed artist in residence in the City of Santa Monica’s Water and Waste divisions (2023–25). 

DIRECTED BY: Toby Perl Freilich; PRODUCED BY: Toby Perl Freilich & Judith Mizrachy; EDITED BY: Anne Alvergue. 95 minutes, 2025.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][1] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories. The event is inspired by the Getty Research Institute’s collections of [feminist performance artists’ archives][2].

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][3] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][4] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/projects/study_of_performance_woman_artists_archives/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *MAINTENANCE ARTIST*

Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.

Presented in conjunction with [*Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/realms-dharma-buddhist-art-across-asia), Tenzin Phuntsog’s *Next Life* tells the story of a a Tibetan family in exile searches for moments of temporary happiness after their father is given an irrevocable diagnosis from a Tibetan doctor’s pulse reading. Through tender acts of care, quiet moments of intimacy, and memories of Tibet, the question of homeland surfaces: a place they cannot return to. *Next Life* moves through these moments gently, centering the Tibetan concept of Tse Chema—reincarnation—as a way of holding the cycle of life: birth, death, and rebirth and their karmic traces.

The program will begin with Phuntsog's new short work *Auras. *After *Next Life*, hear from Phuntsog in conversation with special guests and celebrate Tibetan Buddhist culture with offerings of Tibetan ceremonial practices from local Tibetan cultural practitioners.

***Next Life***
2026, 73 minutes
United States, Mexico
Tibetan, English, Mandarin
Shot on 35mm, DCP Projection

***Auras***
2026, 7 minutes
Tibet, India, United States, Mexico
Shot on 35mm, DCP Projection

**Tenzin Phuntsog** is a San Francisco–based artist and filmmaker. His work has been recently featured at the Berlinale Forum Expanded, IFFR Rotterdam, Edith Russ Haus, Redcat Los Angeles, EMAF, Seoul Media City Biennale, Experimenta, and the Tang Museum.

Tenzin Phuntsog’s Next Life

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Facing pressures to marry and having witnessed her two sisters’ own marital struggles, sightseeing bus guide Kiyoko (Hideko Takamine) strives for her own solitary independence, resisting suitors and openly expressing a disdain for men. Through a family of four siblings, each from different fathers, Naruse explores the suffocating family life of Kiyoko’s *shitamachi* household and its surroundings. LIGHTNING is a buildup of vignettes, events and occurrences, as Kiyo experiences the world around her—misfortune, family tragedy, interpersonal quarrels and the vulgarities of men—trying to make sense of a modern existence where the promise of happiness still comes second for women.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Kadokawa

COUNTRY: Japan

LIGHTNING

THE JOURNEY Parts 13-16

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage with a fictional narrative, this immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity. OVERLORD, directed by Stuart Cooper and impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick’s longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on human smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.

FORMAT: Digital

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: UK

Q&A with filmmaker Stuart Cooper. Moderated by Rick Ross. ‘Watch Local: Z Channel’

OVERLORD

Frankenstein

Man on Fire

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

**Screenwriters**: Jerry Juhl, Kirk R. Thatcher, James V. Hart

**Producer**: Brian Henson

Join Captain Kermit on the poop deck as he and his seafaring puppet friends head out on the high seas to find a lost treasure of gold. Your friends the Muppets set sail for adventure with everyone&#8217;s favorite pirate &#8211; Tim Curry as Long John Silver &#8211; in this muppetty adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Jim Henson magic? We’ve got a section jam packed with every *Fraggle*, every *Muppet*, tons of *Sesame Street* and these deep cuts:

*The Storyteller, Mirrormask, Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas*

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

Muppet Treasure Island

**Producers**: George Zaloom,  Les Mayfield

The New 4K Restoration co-presented by **Women in Film **and **Lionsgate**!

One of the greatest documentaries about the passion, dedication, and insanity that goes into filmmaking, Eleanor Coppola&#8217;s *Hearts of Darkness* gives an intimate glimpse behind one camera and in front of another! In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, *Apocalypse Now*, his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details the difficulties of the large production &#8212; from weather-related delays in the Philippines to star Martin Sheen&#8217;s heart attack while filming &#8212; and it provides unprecedented behind-the-scenes clips of one of Hollywood&#8217;s most-acclaimed films.

**About the Restoration**:

“*In 1976, Eleanor Coppola shot behind-the-scenes footage of *Apocalypse Now* on 16mm. For the first time, we decided to return to all original sources and scan elements in 4K for this new release. What everyone has seen over the last 30 years has been three to four generations removed from the source elements. Additionally, we utilized the 2019 4K restoration of *Apocalypse Now* for this release, incorporating those elements into the documentary. For any clips pulled from *Apocalypse Now* and used in the documentary, we maintained the original aspect ratio of 2.40 instead of letterboxing it in a 4&#215;3 frame. Lastly, we remastered the soundtrack and created a new 5.1 mix. The film was restored at American Zoetrope and graded at Roundabout Entertainment in Burbank, California. The director, Fax Bahr, approved the grade.”*

– James T. Mockoski, Film Archivist/Restoration Supervisor for American Zoetrope

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more cinema docs? We&#8217;ve got a whole section including these gems:

*My Best Fiend, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, From the Journals of Jean Seberg*

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

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

Join us in the microcinema for a special screening and discussion with director **Athina Rachel Tsangari** of her limited series ***Trigonometry***.

In crowded, expensive London, a cash-strapped couple open their small flat to a third person. Gemma is a chef who runs a café; her boyfriend Kieran is a paramedic – and Ray, who moves in with the young couple, is at a loss. Until recently, she was a world-class synchronised swimmer, but now she’s looking for a new direction, job and place in life. She discovers two people who love each other very much, but who don’t really know where they are going – in terms of the café, sex, or their lives. What commences is a modern-day love story that will change all of their lives forever.

Written and created by Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods, *Trigonometry* is the first series project by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg, Chevalier). The Greek director and actress has directed five of the eight episodes, all of which will be screened at today&#8217;s event. While the rest of the world talks about identity politics, Trigonometry turns this into an intense, compelling, funny and intelligent drama about relationships and family. Can the three characters find a new way to love? And will the world let them?

5 Episodes, 235 minutes with 15 minute intermission and a conversation with director **Athina Rachel Tsangari**.

Part of &#8220;Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari,&#8221; a retrospective of the Greek director&#8217;s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3

Trigonometry

Having a Wild Weekend

Secrets & Lies

Black Sunday in 35mm

Pool of London

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

A couple at the table by the window look happier than anybody else in the restaurant. Hiroshi Eda, who works at a governmental office, has got a promotion and his wife, Yumiko, has been pregnant. Their happiness seems to last forever, but actually it ends that afternoon with a traffic accident that kills the husband. Shiro Mishima, the young man who has caused the accident, is a promising salaried-man of the Pacific Trading Company. He happens to meet Yumiko in the restaurant where she has last seen her husband alive. Shiro promises to give her fifteen thousand yen every month for compensation.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

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 ‘Transcendental Appointments’ and ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

SCATTERED CLOUDS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

*“Between 2016-17, composer Michael Nyman and I collaborated on a massive multi-screen installation for The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The idea was to produce a mash-up of the raw unedited Mexican footage with Michael’s music. The experimental digital restoration of the combined sounds and images would extend alongside José Clemente Orozco’s *The Epic of American Civilization* (1932-34), a large, multi-panel horizontal mural at Dartmouth College, and also inhabit a rather small area by Hermitage standards, the Jordan “Kerensky” Staircase Eisenstein had filmed for October (1928). The weight of the enterprise was its undoing. The one “object” realized was the 2-screen IDOLS BEHIND ALTARS composed of footage used by Jay Leyda for his marvelous EISENSTEIN’S MEXICAN FILM, EPISODES FOR STUDY (1955-57). The music and films evoked a new language of non-editing, that is each spoke back and forth to one another revitalizing the enchantments captured by Eisenstein. The overall effect conveys the vivid curiosity and sense of wonder witnessed by the filmmakers as they sculpted moving images into a portrait of Mexico between 1930 and 1932. The new music composed and performed in 2026 by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky is just that, a joyous new reunion invigorating the authentic sights and sounds witnessed by Eisenstein.” — Bruce Posner*

*“If 500 years from now the name ‘Bruce Posner’ is forgotten, future historians you will name you the Master of Moving Diptychs. Eisenstein spoke of ‘vertical montage.’ When he sees your brand-new Idols Behind Altars, he will theorize ‘lateral montage.’ The panel pairs talk to each other with precision — now conjuring phantom eyeline matches, now forming geometrical shapes. The whole is very convincing, and I am sure Eisen+Tissé would not be against experimenting with parallel paneling, reminds me of Eisen’s ‘dynamic square’ theory.” — Yuri Tsivian*

*“It’s all about perspective. What is film but a collision of angles? What is a film soundtrack but an invisible mirror to the cinematic imaginary? When I approached Eisenstein’s fractured Mexican masterpiece, I found myself drawn back to my conviction that cinema is not merely a medium of observation, but a revolutionary engine of thought. In the digital age, our relationship to the image is more ‘dialectical’ than ever. It’s all a mix. We live in a world of constant juxtaposition, a perpetual ‘overtonal montage’ of data and desire. My score is a reflection of that friction. The rest, as we say in DJ culture, is ‘a remix.'” — Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky*

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

Advance Screening of New Restorations Films courtesy of British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Det Danske Filminstitut, Filmmakers Showcase, Gosfilmofond of Russia, Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington and Turner Classic Movies Photo courtesy of Kino Classics, Gosfilmofond and Filmmakers Showcase Restorations by Bruce Posner ‘Sergei Eisenstein Restorations’

¡SERGEI EISENSTEIN MÉXICO! IDOLS BEHIND ALTARS

Picasso forger, fake author and magic tricks in a wild ride of a &#8220;factual&#8221; tale from Orson Welles. I&#8217;ll take the steak au poivre too!

F for Fake

The U.N.G.C.C. (United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center) recovers the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah and construct Mechagodzilla as a countermeasure against Godzilla. Meanwhile, a giant egg is discovered along with a new monster called Rodan. The egg is soon found to be none other than an infant Godzillasaurus.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

LPS is a local poetry society dedicated to keeping poetry vibrant and accessible. Each 75-minute event features up to 21 randomly drawn readers sharing one poem each, creating a lively, democratic celebration of language and community. Join us & share a poem!

One poem per person (yours or one of your favorites!).

In-person signups open 1/2 hour prior to the event (limited to 21).

No sign-ups after the event begins.

Spirits of a future world unite!

LPS @ HML Poetry Open Mic (5/17)

As we count down to the upcoming World Cup, this outdoor screening invites audiences to revisit iconic moments from soccer history. Bring friends, family, and a picnic and experience the beautiful game on the big screen in a communal, joyful setting. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition [*Fútbol Is Life*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/futbol-life-animated-sportraits-lyndon-j-barrois-sr), this series highlights how transcendent moments on the pitch become lasting cultural memories that connect people across generations and borders.  

**Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" Match (1986 World Cup)**
Match: Argentina vs. England (Quarter-final)
Date: June 22, 1986

“A little with the head of Maradona, and a little with the hand of God.”

Diego Maradona’s enigmatic explanation about his infamous opener in Argentina’s 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico™ quarter-final clash with England holds a place in football history alongside the goal itself and his mesmeric second, which followed just four minutes later. The meeting at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca on June 22, 1986, will forever be remembered for Maradona’s moment of gamesmanship and then the flash of pure genius which provided a snapshot into the career and life of one of the greatest players of all time in under 300 seconds.

Marathon Man in 4K

2:30 PM

MODERN WHORE

7:00 PM

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (5/1)

1:00 PM

HRLA BirthDay / MayDay Extravaganza

7:00 PM

SHANGHAI EXPRESS

1:00 PM

THE JOURNEY Parts 5-8

3:30 PM

HARLAN COUNTY, USA,

AMERICAN DREAM,

7:00 PM

Unstoppable

The Taking of Pelham 123

6:00 PM

Django Unchained

11:59 PM

Sergei Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)

7:30 PM

The Big Lebowski

4:00 PM

The Stranger

The Warriors

7:00 PM

Snowy Bing Bongs – Comedy, Dance, Cinema Spectacular!

9:45 PM

Mārama

10:15 PM

RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate

From Dusk Till Dawn

8:00 PM

The Beyond

11:59 PM