Marathon Man in 4K

Dodes’ka-den in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From visionary director Harmony Korine comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as “spring break”—the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents SPRING BREAKERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski doesn’t want any drama in his life…heck, he can’t even be bothered with a job. But when his rug is destroyed in a twisted case of mistaken identity, he embarks on a quest for restitution with his bowling buddies. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Los Feliz Theatre

The Ape Man / Voodoo Man / Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla

New Beverly Cinema

**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

**Screenwriter**: Wong Kar-wai

**Producer**: Chan Ye Cheng

*Chungking Express* is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.

Chungking Express

Vidiots

Normal

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**SILENT FRIEND, 2025, Dir. Ildikó Enyedi, 147 Mins, 1-2 Special, Germany/France/Hungary**

*In German, English and Cantonese with English subtitles.*

At the heart of an old German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass, the distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches. In 2020, a visiting neuroscientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botanical consciousness. In 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by studying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Three lonely souls, three outsiders. Over time, each is transformed by the quiet, enduring and mysterious power of nature. From Ildikó Enyedi, the director of Academy Award-nominated ON BODY AND SOUL, comes SILENT FRIEND, an epic, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux and Venice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler, Enyedi crafts a funny, tender meditation on the essential question of what it means to be human

FORMAT: DCP

**MY TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1989, Dir. Ildikó Enyedi, 104 Mins, Kino Lorber, Hungary**

*In Hungarian with English subtitles.*

Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness,’ reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. Tarkovsky’s fabulous actor, Oleg Yankovsky, performs an unforgettable double with the young Polish actress Dorotha Segda.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi. Moderated by Gillian Jacobs. Advance Screening ‘Ildikó Enyedi: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

SILENT FRIEND / MY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Aero Theatre

hey, nothing - Live at Brain Dead Studios: An Intimate Acoustic Performance + Documentary Screening

From Tyler & Harlow: Sweat, blood, & beers. Last Spring we played a bunch of shows all around North America. During that time, a camera man by the name of Jake video recorded our mornings, afternoons, evenings, & late nights. After a year in the cutting room, thoroughly deleting countless hours of incriminating footage, we are finally ready to share with you our journey.

hey, nothing - Live at Brain Dead Studios: An Intimate Acoustic Performance + Documentary Screening

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 12, “The Black Widow****,” Dir. Caleb Deschanel, 46 Mins**

Audrey has photos that may save Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 13, “Checkmate****,” Dir. ****Todd Holland****, 46 Mins**

Andy and Dick search Little Nicky’s files.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 14, “Double Play****,” Dir. ****Uli Edel****, 46 Mins**

The rivalry between Cooper and Earle is revealed.

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.

“The Black Widow,” “Checkmate” and “Double Play” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 12, 13 & 14

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

This raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmüller (SWEPT AWAY) centers on sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia’s candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife, and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences. A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Italy

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

**Picks from the Video Store******

Take home more Catherine Deneuve tonight on Blu-Ray and DVD!

*La Chamade, Donkey Skin, Un Flic***

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

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Up In Smoke/In The Money

Join us for a screening of *Of Color and Ink*, a documentary about the remarkable journey of artist Chang Dai-chien (1899–1983), China’s foremost painter of the 20th century. Director Weimin Zhang documents her 12-year journey to unravel the mysteries and controversies surrounding Chang’s decades of exile in South America, Europe, and the United States. In the 1940s, Chang spent a formative period in Dunhuang, studying and copying the ancient Mogao Cave murals— [the subject of a 2016 Getty Research Institute exhibition][1]—which inspired renewed public interest in the murals and refined Chang’s techniques. *Of Color and Ink* offers an illuminating, revelatory, and entertaining exploration of one of the most influential giants of 20th-century art.

The film will be followed by a conversation with director and producer Weimin Zhang, writer Carl Nagin, director of the Chang Dai-chien Research Center Yudan Zhang, and USC professor Meiling Cheng.

After the screening, join us for a reception sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council.

DIRECTED, PRODUCED and EDITED BY: Weimin Zhang. 102 minutes, 2024. Chinese with English subtitles.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][2] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.

誠邀您參加紀錄片《萬里千尋》（Of Color and Ink）的放映及研討會。本片講述了從東方走向西方的藝術家張大千（1899–1983）的非凡人生歷程。作為20世紀中國最重要的畫家之一，張大千曾被譽為「五百年來第一人」 以及「東方的畢加索」。

導演張偉民歷時十二年，影片深入挖掘大量珍貴的歷史活動影像與文獻資料，真實呈現張大千鮮為人知的海外藝術生涯， 極具文獻價值。20世紀40年代，張大千曾在敦煌度過一段重要時期，潛心研究並臨摹莫高窟壁畫——這一主題亦成為2016年蓋蒂研究所展覽的焦點——不僅重新激發了世人對敦煌壁畫的關注，也進一步錘鍊並昇華了他的藝術技法。

透過創新的影像語言與視覺風格，《萬里千尋》通過對歷史影像的深入挖掘與分析，以及大量實地調研與紀錄拍攝，生動刻畫了一位東方藝術家對中國傳統文化理念的堅守與傳播，使當代觀眾得以感受這位具有全球影響力的藝術家的心路歷程。

放映結束後，將舉行映後對談。出席嘉賓包括導演兼製片人張偉民、作家 Carl Nagin、四川博物院張大千研究中心主任張玉丹，以及主持人——南加州大學戲劇批評研究教授鄭美玲。

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/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/cave_temples_dunhuang/index.html
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *Of Color and Ink*

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Epic yet intimate, sweeping yet personal, THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS stands as one of the greatest achievements in the history of television as well as legendary director Maurice Pialat’s magnum opus. Commissioned for French TV in 1971, Pialat and screenwriter René Wheeler crafted a seven-episode, nearly 400-minute miniseries about the impact of World War I on a simple French family living in the countryside. Applying a naturalistic focus to their subject, Pialat and Wheeler capture both the historical scope of the conflict and the subtle ways that a small town’s quotidian routines and rituals—church, school, tavern—are indelibly touched by it. At the center of the richly detailed narrative are the Picards, headed by Albert (Pierre Doris), a game warden for the wooded estate of a local marquis (Fernand Gravey). He and his gentle wife, Jeanne (a heartbreaking Jacqueline Dufranne), raise two teenagers—Marcel (Henri Puff), at risk of being drafted; and Marguerite (Agathe Natanson), contemplating marriage—but also shelter three abandoned boys for the duration. Most rambunctious and soulful among them is Hervé (Hervé Lévy), whose journey from boyhood to adolescence, all while becoming a surrogate child to the Picards and hoping for a reunion with his soldier father (Paul Crauchet), lends a beating heart to THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS—a panoramic tale that explores the longing, loyalty and resilience that sustain humanity amid times of earth-shattering loss.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 1 & 2

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 15, “Slaves and Masters,” Dir. Diane Keaton, 46 Mins**

Earle sends a “message” to Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 16, “The Condemned Woman,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Albert reveals that it was Josie who shot Cooper.

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.

“Slaves and Masters” and “The Condemned Woman” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 15 and 16

Join us to celebrate the opening of a new art exhibition featuring the experimental and esoteric work of Harry Smith!

Brain Drawings: The Art of Harry Smith - Exhibition Opening Reception

Philosophical Research Society

Every 1st Thursday of the month we’ll be hosting a music open mic night for kids and teens.


Our intention is to create a supportive and joyful space where young people can come together, share their love of music, practice performing regularly, make mistakes, try again & grow!

All performers must be under 18 & guardians must be present.

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.




Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

North Star Sessions is a free showcase that strives to be a safe and inclusive place for artists and music lovers in the LA music scene. We will highlight the work of 3 musicians, and have an open mic draw between sets.

8pm

North Star Sessions

Scribble

**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

**Screenwriter**: David Cronenberg

**Producers**: David Cronenberg, András Hámori, Robert Lantos

One of David Cronenberg’s most prophetic and thrilling achievements!   Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Defoe, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm and Christopher Eccleston all collide in this epic take on the gaming era – one as important to Y2K as *Videodrome* is to the ‘80s.   The film’s many layers of sci-fi excellence feel ripped from the pages of Phillip K. Dick and William Burroughs.

In the terrifying near-future, game designer Allegra Geller (Leigh) and her mousy publicist (Law) disappear down the VR rabbit hole to fend off deadly assassins and repair her controversial game “eXistenZ” from the inside.  Cronenberg brilliantly gives this world the feel of video game cutscenes with a psychosexual edge: electronic umbilical cords, *Total Recall-*style reality shattering and other kinks.

*New 4K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Cronenberg is one of the all-time masters of horror, take home more morbid masterpieces tonight!

*Dead Ringers, Crash, Videodrome*

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

eXistenZ

RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate

Red Beard (Akahige) in 35mm

Once Upon a Time in China with Jet Li

Commune with the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees, in a living work of art created by Robert Irwin.  Experience the wonder of the spring garden through the eyes of an artist in this 45-minute tour led by Getty Horticulturist Jackie Flor. 

National Public Gardens Day

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Polish with English subtitles.*

A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany (Charli XCX) and her soon-to-be fiancé, Rob (Will Madden) in Warsaw, Poland. Bethany takes the explosive event as a sign to ditch her baggage, reunite with childhood friend Nel (Lena Góra) and traipse across lofts, clubs and back alleys, all the while becoming entangled in an emotional web that challenges her sense of self.

From American maverick Pete Ohs, who wrote, directed, edited, photographed and produced this dizzyingly charming European postcard, comes ERUPCJA, a delightful anti-romantic comedy about the pains and pleasures of being in love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: USA/Poland

ERUPCJA

### **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 9-12

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 3, 4 & 5

Michele O&#8217;Marah and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer join Now Instant for a special presentation of O&#8217;Marah&#8217;s 2012 *Blow Me!*, followed by a conversation between the two.

Blow Me!

Now Instant Image Hall

**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)

Mezzanine presents VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi), a film by Agnes Varda. 1985, France, 105m, DCP.

Followed by a conversation with writer Megan O’Grady and Carolina A. Miranda.

On occasion of the release of her new book, *How It Feels to Be Alive*, we are thrilled to have celebrated art critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in person to present Agnès Varda’s masterpiece, starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a young female hitchhiker wandering aimlessly through the unearthly winter landscape of southern France.

Special thanks to Thora Siemsen and Brian Belovarac (Janus Films).

**Megan O’Grady** is a critic and essayist whose writing draws from history, memoir, and the lyric essay. Her magazine and newspaper journalism on contemporary art and literature are often extensions of larger inquiries into representation and identity, explored through immersive reading and looking. The personal and social contexts of art and the way in which it negotiates cultural conversations over time are ongoing preoccupations. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, where she created the Culture Therapist column, her work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Vogue, where she was once a contributing editor. Her book, How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) considers the influence of books and art on our attention and imagination, their rippling impact on our self-conception and the way we move in the world.

**Carolina A. Miranda** is a writer in Los Angeles who covers the intersection of design and visual culture with politics and society. Until 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she reported on subjects such as museums and race, architecture and the pandemic, and the ways in which communities are rethinking the nature of monuments. She has produced stories for the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, Artnews, Alta Journal and Fresh Air, and is a regular contributor for public radio station KCRW. She was a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism and a recipient of the 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She is currently at work on a book about culture and authoritarianism in Chile.

Mezzanine: Agnès Varda's VAGABOND w/ Megan O'Grady

2220 Arts + Archives

Ponyo

Grand Guignol Silent Shorts

Bearing Witness: 10 Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn’t over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Cassandra Moore, Vice President of Mastering and Archive at NBCUniversal World Premiere of New 4K Restoration

THE LOVE TRAP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jack Nicholson is at his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy about three sailors on the loose. Two hard-boiled career petty officers, Buddusky (Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young), are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows (Randy Quaid), from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offense. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking to Meadows and are determined to show him a good time on their journey north. Their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blind drunk in their hotel room. In New York, they tangle with some Marines, and in Boston, Buddusky takes Meadows to a brothel for his first sexual experience. Finally, after reluctantly turning in Meadows, Buddusky and Mulhall realize they are as much prisoners of their own world as Meadows now is of his.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Repertory

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by screenwriter Samy Burch ‘INT. MOVIE THEATRE’

Samy Burch Presents THE LAST DETAIL

*Screening as part of the Programmers’ Jam: an annual gathering of repertory exhibitors and distributors!*

One of the beating hearts of classic film noir-dom.  This searing 1940s tale from iconic crime author Cornell Woolrich (“The Bride Wore Black”) takes every opportunity to go moodily dark and arthouse.  Director Robert Siodmak sets PHANTOM LADY in an alternate-reality NYC, with expressionistic camerawork and an artificial setting that influenced the likes of DARK CITY and EYES WIDE SHUT.

Phantom Lady

*Screening as part of the Programmers’ Jam: an annual gathering of repertory exhibitors and distributors!*

Freedom is never free, no matter how stunning the scenery.  In this meditative feminist highway tale by unsung Swiss auteur Alain Tanner, an intense friendship quickly forms between two young vagabonds: Jeanne from the big city and Marie from the countryside.  Their impulsive hitch-hiking day trip morphs into an endless cyclical wandering from village to village, from roadway to mountain trail as the pair evade predatory men, the despair of hunger and the long banal arm of the law.  This is THELMA & LOUISE for the Alps, with fantastic long takes and two perfect performances from Clémentine Amouroux and Catherine Rétoré.

Messidor

Join us for a special Earth Day celebration featuring ecological artist and herbalist Paige Emery, which will include a talk and brunch inspired by historical cookbooks from the Getty Library collection.

While visitors enjoy select recipes, Paige will be joined in conversation with Melissa Goldstein—founder and editor of *Mother Tongue* magazine—to explore rituals of remembering the earth. Together, they will reflect on how art, healing practices, and ecological thought can reconnect us to ancestral memory and inspire more just and embodied futures. 

Following the talk, Emery will perform a sound piece in the Getty Central Garden, weaving together the healing arts and critical ecology, ecopoetics and socio-environmental practice, inviting us to imagine deeper relationships with the natural world.

This event is part of the Getty Research Institute’s [*Tastemakers*][1] series, featuring communal gatherings inspired by cookbooks from the Getty Library. 

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][2] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/tastemakers/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Tastemakers: Earth Mother with Paige Emery

Intro to Leatherworking

While making a small accessories pouch, learn the basics of working with leather. This will cover different types of leather, terms and tools for working with chrome tanned pieces. This is a hands class on with sharp tools and Sharpies and is intended for beginners 14 years and older. Leave the class with a new appreciation for leather and take home a small finished pouch and a pattern to make more if you fall in love with the craft!

For more work by C&J Goods visit...

[http://www.candjgoods.com](http://www.candjgoods.com/)

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (5/9)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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’

REPAST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Epic yet intimate, sweeping yet personal, THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS stands as one of the greatest achievements in the history of television as well as legendary director Maurice Pialat’s magnum opus. Commissioned for French TV in 1971, Pialat and screenwriter René Wheeler crafted a seven-episode, nearly 400-minute miniseries about the impact of World War I on a simple French family living in the countryside. Applying a naturalistic focus to their subject, Pialat and Wheeler capture both the historical scope of the conflict and the subtle ways that a small town’s quotidian routines and rituals—church, school, tavern—are indelibly touched by it. At the center of the richly detailed narrative are the Picards, headed by Albert (Pierre Doris), a game warden for the wooded estate of a local marquis (Fernand Gravey). He and his gentle wife, Jeanne (a heartbreaking Jacqueline Dufranne), raise two teenagers—Marcel (Henri Puff), at risk of being drafted; and Marguerite (Agathe Natanson), contemplating marriage—but also shelter three abandoned boys for the duration. Most rambunctious and soulful among them is Hervé (Hervé Lévy), whose journey from boyhood to adolescence, all while becoming a surrogate child to the Picards and hoping for a reunion with his soldier father (Paul Crauchet), lends a beating heart to THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS—a panoramic tale that explores the longing, loyalty and resilience that sustain humanity amid times of earth-shattering loss.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 6 & 7

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Bridges was nominated for an Oscar for his role in this action-filled crime caper in which he plays Lightfoot, the naïve sidekick to the veteran bank robber Thunderbolt. The two revisit an old crime site after losing the loot the first time and decide to retrieve the stash. But some of the original robbers have different plans and it soon becomes every man for himself…

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

*Between a script and a film, there is a whole territory to cross.*

*LES ANNÉES 80 is the time spent in this territory.*

*A love battle with reality and its elements: actors, singers and dancers bound and constrained by a story in a set under a light crossed by music.*

*How, between the script (which is always unrepresentable) and its future performance, the different elements of reality gradually come together to make a film. How to turn reality into fiction.*

*We shot 40 hours of ¾-inch video with 4 different cameras. We edited this into a one-hour film in which only the actors who would be taking part in GOLDEN EIGHTIES appeared.*

*We then transferred this cut to 1-inch film which we transferred to a 16mm negative from which we printed a 35mm positive (without using an internegative).*

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Chantal Akerman Foundation

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Photo courtesy of Collections CINEMATEK © Chantal Akerman Foundation ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

LES ANNÉES 80

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

Human Highway

Jaromil Jireš’s mesmerizingly dreamlike Czech New Wave fantasy—a lush, surreal tale of transformation, enchantment, & dark fairytale wonder

Jaromil Jireš’s VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970)

Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is an installation that responds in real time to Earth’s internal rumblings – an artificial ecosystem with pre-digital sensibility. In *RedSkyFalls*, the mountainous landscape of a computer desktop serves as a habitat for aquatic plants and small luminous organisms with an animal intuition, the *Réplicas*, nestled inside the grooves of aluminium plates. Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is on view at the Portugal Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from **May 9 to November 22**, and is curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau.

Built from a calibrated mix of animal parts drawn from a dark cauldron, each *Réplica* borrows its vital pulse from the beat of a heart in a fly’s leg, the wave of a fish larva’s tail, and the quiver of a rat’s whisker. This patchwork of movement engraves onto the metal plate a linear fossil, a path where light generates a figure that continuously fulfills its hollow-graphic fate.

From **May 9-July 5,** REDCAT hosts a reproduction of one of the *Réplicas* of *RedSkyFalls*. In Los Angeles, as in Venice, the piece reacts to live seismic activity worldwide. Other *Réplicas* will be installed in San Francisco, California (CCA Wattis Institute); Lima, Peru (Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI); and Lisbon, Portugal (Galeria Zé dos Bois). The piece is installed in highly seismic geographies, where it responds to tectonic events with higher synchronicity, building an extended relational infrastructure. 

[More about *RedSkyFalls*](http://www.redskyfalls.com) by Alexandre Estrela at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

RedSkyFalls (Réplica): 61st La Biennale di Venezia – Portuguese Pavilion

REDCAT

**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**: Jules Feiffer, E.C. Segar

**Producer**: Robert Evans

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome stars and comedic legends **Paul Dooley **and** Donovan Scott** for a post screening conversation! 

Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall exude overpowering charm in Robert Altman&#8217;s endearing tribute to the original Fleischer Brothers spinach-scarfing sailor man. Popeye goes searching for his father but washes ashore after a storm and winds up meeting his beloved Olive Oyl. But Olive&#8217;s fiancé, Bluto isn&#8217;t going to step aside without a fight. A delightful and quirky manic musical fantasy world from one of the great masters of American cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Robert Altman was one of the best directors to ever live! Take home some of his many masterpieces tonight!

*3 Women, California Split, Nashville* (and dozens more!)

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

Popeye

**Screenwriter**: Hiroshi Takahashi

**Producer**: Nobuhiro Iizuka

Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry outcarry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, *Serpent’s Path* is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart.

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

Serpent’s Path

Terms of Endearment in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Three strong women — Roberta Martin (Rosie O’Donnell), Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore) and Tina “Teeny” Tercell (Melanie Griffith) — return home to reunite with their childhood friend Chrissy DeWitt Williams (Rita Wilson) and see her through the end of her first pregnancy. The four lifelong friends share their memories of the unforgettable summer of 1970, the summer their innocent younger selves (Christina Ricci, Gaby Hoffmann, Thora Birch, Ashleigh Aston Moore) grew up.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

NOW AND THEN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**FLOWING, 1956, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 116 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Three super-stars lead a great cast: head-of-the-geisha-house Isuzu Yamada looks on the bright side, while daughter Hideko Takamine works that sewing machine. But quietly observing maid Kinuyo Tanaka is the only one who actually realizes the inevitable end of their world in a harsh post-war Tokyo.

FORMAT: 35mm

**MOTHER, 1952, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 98 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*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

Mother’s Day Screening 35mm prints 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’

FLOWING / MOTHER

Screening of Fuck My Son! with special Mother&#8217;s Day Q+A

Synopsis: An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan&#8217;s joyfully disgusting comic book.

Current Q&A confirmed:

Todd Rohal (Writer/Director)

Johnny Ryan (Comic Book Writer)

Tipper Newton (Actress)

Robert Longstreet (Actor)

Steve Little (Actor)

Johnny Ryan&#8217;s Biological Mother

Tipper Newton&#8217;s Biological Mother

Fuck My Son!

Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present the LA premiere of Doris Wishman’s final movie: *Dildo Heaven*, unreleased and unseen since its festival debut in 2002. This special Mother’s Day tribute will feature a conversation with filmmakers and former Wishman crew members Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon and Elizabeth Pauker, director of the forthcoming documentary *AKA Doris Wishman*. The feature will be preceded by Ascher’s 2020 short film *Doris Wishman Directs A Music Video*.

Roommates Lisa, Beth, and Tess are three young women who each share the same goal of hooking up with their respective male bosses. While their attempts at seduction get off to a rough start, their peeping tom neighbor Billy spends his days spying through keyholes and trying to get a piece of the action. Will these roommates finally make it with their managers? And what about Billy?

Octogenarian filmmaker and “Queen of Sexploitation” Doris Wishman was working at a sex shop in Miami in the early 90s when she met experimental musician Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A.), spurring a full-blown career revival that saw her honored at film festivals around the world and featured on HBO’s *Real Sex* and *Late Night with Conan O’Brien*. Intended to be her comeback movie, Dildo Heaven premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival just months before her passing in 2002 and then was never officially widely released until now. A charming shot-on-video sex comedy that defies all description–and surely the only movie by a senior citizen to feature an original rap theme song–*Dildo Heaven* (also known as *Desperate Desires*) is a fitting swan song for one of the most beloved cult filmmakers of all time.

Dildo Heaven

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this four-time Oscar nominated film (including Best Picture), Jason Robards stars as a nonconformist who is forced to find a conventional job.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Chandler Levack ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Chandler Levack Presents A THOUSAND CLOWNS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The American Cinematheque is pleased to present a selection of short films this Mother’s Day. Join us for an afternoon of themes surrounding motherhood, love and close relationships. The program will be followed by a Q&A with local filmmakers.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Cow Heavy and Floral,” 2024, Dir. Richa Rudola, 15 Mins, USA**

A split-screen film about a postpartum writer struggling to make a deadline as she experiences an identity crisis between her various personas.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Before You,” 2025, Lauren Melinda, 15 Mins, USA**

On the way to an abortion clinic with her husband, a woman finds herself pulled into the memories of everything that led them there, and everything that came after.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Potato Potato,” 2025, Dir. Josh Locy, 14 Mins, USA**

When Cynthia writes a letter to her unborn baby about her hopes for the future, the baby writes back.

FORMAT: DCP

**“In the Name of the Child,” 2025, Dir. Dejan Mrkic**

A distraught mother visits a local store hoping to mend a significant hole in her life.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmakers Mother’s Day Screening

On Motherhood: A Short Film Program

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s indie music scene in 2011. Based in part on Chandler Levack’s own young adulthood prior to becoming a professional music critic and filmmaker, the film stars Barbie Ferreira as Grace Pine, a young woman who moves to Montreal, Quebec, with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill but instead becomes romantically involved with Archi (Devon Bostick) and Chevy (Stanley Simons), two members of the aspiring indie rock band Bone Patrol, and takes a job as the band’s publicist.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sumerian Pictures

COUNTRY: Canada

MILE END KICKS

The seriously spaced-out masterwork that's a psychedelic see-it-to-believe it experience! Plus a primo selection of sci-fi animated shorts!

Helmut Herbst's THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS + Spaced-Out Shorts!

**Screenwriter**: Ernest Lehman

**Producer**: Robert Wise

The hills are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews in this much-beloved musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein and versatile film director Robert Wise. In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home. The winner of 5 Academy Awards, this celebrated musical is ready to warm your heart all over again. So dress your family in matching lederhosen and get ready to get swept away in the magic, music, and warmth of *The Sound of Music*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Robert Wise classics from his director&#8217;s section tonight!

*I Want to Live!, The Andromeda Strain, West Wide Story*

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

The Sound of Music Sing Along

**Screenwriter**: Catherine Johnson

**Producers**: Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman

Calling all Dancing Queens! Spend your Mother&#8217;s Day with Vidiots and the mother of all jukebox musicals! You&#8217;ll want to Gimme gimme gimme this joyous musical jam-packed with the rousing tunes of everyone&#8217;s favorite Swedish quartet &#8211; ABBA. National treasure Meryl Streep plays an independent, single mother an hotelier on a luscious and scenic Greek island. As her daughter (Amanda Seyfried) prepares for her wedding day, she sets about to find her biological father by reaching out to three of her mother&#8217;s former lovers. So get ready for an entertaining musical vacation you&#8217;ll want to sing along to from start to triumphant finish!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Mother&#8217;s Day recommendations? Take home these entertaining heart-warmers to share with your family!

*Steel Magnolias, Akeelah and the Bee, Mermaids*

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

Mamma Mia! on 35mm

The Wages of Fear in 4K

Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku) in 35mm

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

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

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

### **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

**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 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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**dirs. Tulsi & Shyam Ramsay, 1988***India, digital projection*135 min

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## WEDNESDAY, 5/137:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

$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

**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

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 (5/15)

### **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

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

**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.

Monday, 4/27

Academy Museum

Marathon Man in 4K

2:30 PM

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Dodes’ka-den in 35mm

7:30 PM

⭐

Los Feliz Theatre

Cinematic Void Presents SPRING BREAKERS

7:00 PM

⭐

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

10:00 PM

⭐

New Beverly Cinema

The Ape Man

Voodoo Man

Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla

7:30 PM

⭐

Vidiots

Alpha

7:00 PM

⭐

Chungking Express

7:30 PM

⭐

Vista Theatre

Normal

4:00 PM, 7:15 PM

⭐

Monday, 4/27