Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school&#8217;s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was &#8212; and falls for him.

Clueless

Brain Dead Studios

Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the concern of her fiancé, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life.

Birth

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Melancholia

Egyptian Theatre

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

When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

BEN-HUR (2026 Re-release)(1959)(G)(Wed 4/1) 7pm (Thu 4/2) 7pm

Gardena Cinema

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

RUSHMORE

Los Feliz Theatre

The Exile / The Prisoner of Zenda

New Beverly Cinema

Foxy Morons unite to celebrate Misc. Pippa Venus Garner’s holiest of holidays, April Fool’s Day.

This April 1st, 2026, the newly-launched Pippa Garner Foundation will screen rare television appearances by the late artist, including her prankishly sincere guest spot on the reality TV show *Monster Garage*(2005) and hidden gems from her personal archive.

New Pippa merch will also be available for purchase in-store: A limited edition replica of the “Foxy Moron” t-shirt she wore on *Monster Garage,* and the “unauthorized collaboration” bumper sticker care of artist Megan Plunkett and the Estate of Pippa Garner.

Proceeds from ticket and merch sales go to the Pippa Garner Foundation, preserving and expanding upon the legacy of art history’s finest fool, the conceptual artist, cat lover, late life lesbian (L³), gym body, Gemini, anti-war, inventor Pippa Garner.

This screening and afterparty is hosted by Ron Athey, Fiona Alison Duncan, Hayden Dunham, Nichole Elise Fitch, Matt Hilvers, Megan Plunkett, Christopher Schwartz, and P. Staff.

*For those unable to attend the screening, please join us at 9pm for the afterparty downstairs with music by Matt Hilvers of SHIRTLIFTERS. The afterparty is not ticketed and free. NO RSVP necessary.*

Pippa Plays the Fool

Now Instant Image Hall

A fascinating, cross-country exploration of the array of paths that fragments of the Berlin Wall have taken across the USA.

Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez's THE AMERICAN SECTOR (2020)

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Jymn Magon, Chris Matheson, Brian Pimental

**Producer**: Dan Rounds

Head out on a road trip of goofing proportions in this very 90s animated dad joke! An endearing modern-day story about how the lovable Goof bonds with his teenage son Max on a hilarious cross-country road trip. En route to the ol&#8217; fishing hole, they find themselves up to their floppy ears in misadventure! A movie for the goofball in all of us!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative presented by Vidiots Foundation.

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

A Goofy Movie

**Screenwriters**: Ugo Bienvenu,  Félix de Givry

**Producers**: Félix de Givry,  Sophie Mas,  Natalie Portman,  Ugo Bienvenu

A magical and beautifully animated journey through time, *Arco* is a dazzling adventure about a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a charming and touching friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to get Arco home, while the two children may also be the only ones who can save our planet.  A wondrous odyssey filled with hope and optimism for our future, *Arco* is an enchanting fable from breakout filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu, produced by Remembers’ Bienvenu and Felix de Givry, and mountainA’s Natalie Portman and Sophie Mas. The film debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and won The Cristal Award for Best Feature Film at the 2025 Annecy Awards.

Arco (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriter:** Ingmar Bergman

**Producer:** Allan Ekelund

Ingmar Bergman&#8217;s iconic and sublime parable of humanity&#8217;s search to cheat the inevitability of death. When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. Stunning, philosophical, and groundbreaking, this existential essential requires big-screen viewing!

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

The Seventh Seal

**Screenwriter**: Harry Lighton

**Producers**: Lee Groombridge,  Ed Guiney,  Andrew Lowe,  Emma Norton

Come for Alexander Skarsgård as a leather daddy, stay for the romance, laughter, and humanism of Harry Lighton&#8217;s sweet and kinky dom com! Colin, a timid man is swept off his feet when Ray, an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. It&#8217;s got all the biker orgies and back alley b.j.s you would hope for, but it&#8217;s also truly a wonderfully universal triumph of warmth and humor for anyone &#8211; not just those in the kink community.

Pillion

**Screenwriter**: Paul Attanasio from the memoirs of Dick Goodwin

**Producers**: Robert Redford,  Michael Jacobs,  Julian Krainin,  Michael Nozik

Go behind the scandal that rocked television and the world with Robert Redford&#8217;s true-life story of the scam of the mid-century! John Turturro is magnificent as Queens-born Herbie Stempel becomes an unlikely hero after winning on America&#8217;s beloved game show, &#8220;Twenty One.&#8221; When the network decides to bring in a more telegenic contestant, the WASP-ish Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), Stempel decides to take the show down with him, announcing that the game is rigged. Now the show has got to answer for its misdeeds and a congressional investigator is brought it to discover the truth behind America&#8217;s favorite game. Engrossing from start to finish, with incredible performances from Turturro and Fienes, this Oscar-nominated winner is the real deal &#8211; no lie!

**Remembering Robert Redford**

Robert Redford&#8217;s legacy is not only in the films he made, but in the way he lived &#8211; committed to the power of human and earthly connection, to truth, storytelling, and showing us that championing artists and sharing stories is pivotal to a healthy, open society.  Off screen, he championed the environment, independent voices, and the radical idea that stories can change the world. All who love and make movies are forever indebted to Redford and the path he forged. We&#8217;ll remain ever mindful of his constant message that storytelling is activism and that movies are a powerful force for hope.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Robert Redford? We’ve got tons, including these gems!

*The Electric Horseman, Downhill Racer, A Bridge Too Far*

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

Quiz Show

Vidiots

Project Hail Mary 70mm

Angels' Alley/Smuggler's Cove

Vista Theatre

Like a pod of dolphins leaping harmoniously through the waves, the SoCal tour of ***JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE*** arrives April 2–5 through a collaboration between **Oscilloscope**, **Brain Dead Studios**, **7th House**, **Philosophical Research Society, **and **Ojai Playhouse****.**

Directed by **Michael Almereyda** and **Courtney Stephens**, this new documentary explores the life and work of the daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly, a scientist who dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. Lilly’s motto, “My body is my laboratory,” guided his pioneering and controversial research into the intelligence and language of dolphins and whales, as well as his explorations of psychedelics and sensory deprivation.

Alongside the documentary, 7th House and Brain Dead present two films shaped by his work: Mike Nichols’s DAY OF THE DOLPHIN (Saturday, 4/4 at Brain Dead Studios) and Ken Russell’s ALTERED STATES (Sunday, 4/5 at The Philosophical Research Society). Together, these films chart the strange and fascinating cultural wake of Lilly’s quest to understand the mind, the ocean, and the hidden systems that might connect them both.

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

Thursday, April 2nd starting at 7PM, come out to Film & Fabric: Volume 8, the latest installment of the Short Film Screening Series hosted by Julian Vargas, now held at Coaxial Arts. This month we've got a thrilling/experimental/absurd lineup of films made by some of the most compelling Filmmakers in town. Our lineup features Films by: Guadalupe Arellanes, Jack Schurman, Finn Disharoon, Ian Riedel & Eamonn Wilcox, Sam Mandich, Julian Vargas, and a very special MYSTERY FILMMAKER.

Film&Fabric: Come for the movies, stay for the interstitial clips, leave with new friends.

@filmandfabric @jjjjjuliann

Sam Mandich (@sammymandich)
Guadalupe Arellanes (@gwadalinaaa)
Jack Schurman (@jackschurman)
Ian Riedel (@ianriedel_)
Eamonn Wilcox (@_unknownballers)
Finn Disharoon (@finn_dish)
Ryan Luis Fuller (@gh0sttaste)

Film & Fabric: Volume 8

Coaxial

Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) are a young couple living in a New York apartment building who are delighted by the news that Rosemary is pregnant. But strange physical changes, bizarre cravings, and the increasingly suspicious behavior of her husband and neighbors cannot begin to prepare her for the horrific truth about her baby. 

Rosemary's Baby

The highly anticipated drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer reunites director Yorgos Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy. 


The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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 (4/2)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Rohmer, best known as the doyen of French naturalism, veered about as far as you could get from his signature style with this adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century Arthurian romance *Perceval, the Story of the Grail*, in which Fabrice Luchini’s Perceval crosses a deliberately artificial landscape of cardboard castles and fiberglass rivers, all built in the Epinay Studios near Paris, in search of the Cup of Christ, his journey periodically described by a singing chorus.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Les Films du Losange

COUNTRY: France/Italy/West Germany

PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and French with English subtitles.*

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She takes the chamber play to its ultimate form: it is almost entirely chamber. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possible in this place and whether filming is a realistic option. Akerman does not film here with any intentions defined in advance. She wants to be as open and blank as possible to ensure that things take their own course.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Icarus Films

COUNTRY: Belgium/France

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DOWN THERE

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.




Big Glow: 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.

This month will be showcasing Cogito, Amanda on the Moon, and Eva Luna Smith. 

8pm




North Star Sessions

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Katie Silberman,  Emily Halpern,  Sarah Haskins,  Susanna Fogel

**Producers**: Megan Ellison,  Jessica Elbaum,  Katie Silberman,  Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld

Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high school peers. But on the eve of graduation, the best friends suddenly realize that they may have missed out on the special moments of their teenage years. Determined to make up for lost time, the girls decide to cram four years of not-to-be missed fun into one night &#8212; a chaotic adventure that no amount of book smarts could prepare them for.

Booksmart

**Screenwriters**: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers

**Producers**: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Maurice Sendak, John B. Carls, Vincent Landay

Let your imagination run away with this innovative and breathtaking adaptation of the beloved Maurice Sendak book from the visionary mind of Spike Jonze. Max is a chaotic little boy in a wold suit, a 9-year-old destructive force acting out for his loneliness and familial strife. After an argument, he boards a boat and sails to an island of enormous talking beasts. Convincing them he has magical powers, Max becomes their king and they set out together to play rumpus, build forts, and discover secret hideaways. It&#8217;s a beautiful and artistic rendition of the power of the childhood imagination.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for deep cut Spike Jonze? We&#8217;ve got that AND all the hits!

*Yeah Right!, Tell Them Anything You Want, Work of Director Spike Jonze*

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

Where the Wild Things Are

**Producers**: Mel Stuart, Larry Shaw

Remembering the life and legacy of **Reverend Jesse Jackson**.

One of the most electrifying music documentaries ever, the eternally funky *Wattstax* is part concert-film and part powerful document of the historic Watts neighborhood of 50 years ago. Known as &#8220;The Black Woodstock&#8221; Wattstax was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to commemorate the seven-year anniversary of the Watts riots. Organized by legendary Stax Records, this monumental concert includes performances from soul superstars Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Carla and Rufus Thomas, The Bar-Kays and more, with speeches from Jesse Jackson and Melvin Van Peebles, and a comedy set from Richard Pryor. So join us as we get funk-adelic and blast this groovy classic on our killer speakers!

Come early for a Vinyl DJ Set from our bestie **DJ Jéli**!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Soul and Funk performances to take home? Our physical media collection will keep you funky for years to come!

*Don&#8217;t Forget the Motor City, Back to Stax, Marvin Gaye: The Real Thing*

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

Wattstax

The Golden Eye/The Feathered Serpent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LA Festival of Movies: Isaiah’s Phone

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

West Coast Premiere. Co-presented by El Cine.

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

LA Festival of Movies: Selegna sol

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

World Premiere!

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

LA Festival of Movies: Drinking and Driving

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LA Festival of Movies: PRESIDIUM OVERACTIVE (shorts program)

2220 Arts + Archives

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

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

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

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

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released March 7, 1973

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE LONG GOODBYE

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

4:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

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

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released June 27, 1957

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

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

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

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

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

7:15pm |** KING CREOLE**

9:11pm | Intermission

9:21pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

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

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

Originally released July 2, 1958

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

Originally released February 9, 1950

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

KING CREOLE / YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

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

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

RICHARD FLEISCHER DOUBLE FEATUR

Fine Arts Theatre

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

*Series programmed by Associate Professor Josslyn Luckett, NYU Cinema Studies, and Public Programmer Beandrea July. Notes written by Beandrea July.**
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***Special thanks to our community partners**: [Platform UCLA](https://www.instagram.com/platformucla/), [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Asian American Studies Department](https://asianam.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Department of History](https://history.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Japanese Student Association](https://www.instagram.com/ucla.jsa/), [UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television](https://www.tft.ucla.edu/)*

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

Director: Robert A. Nakamura.

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

Director/Editor: Tadashi Nakamura.

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

Director: Robert Nakamura.

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

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

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

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

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

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

SUDDEN RAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

BEETLEJUICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

JAWBREAKER

Cartoon Club

Animal Crackers

Heart to Heart

Tenebrae

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Tôru Hara

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

My Neighbor Totoro (English Dubbed)

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

**Producers**: David Hinojosa,  Charli xcx

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

The Moment

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

**Producer**: Ernst Lubitsch

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Ninotchka

**Screenwriters**: Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

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

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

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

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

“An illuminating work of cultural archaeology”

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

—THE FILM STAGE

**Screenwriters**: Avery Corman,  Robert Benton

**Producer**: Stanley R. Jaffe

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Kramer vs. Kramer

**Writer/Producer**: John Waters

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

Female Trouble

Pinocchio

The Drama

Penrod and Sam/The Panther's Claw

Car Wash

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

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

LA Festival of Movies: Chronovisor

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

Six animated shorts. Many US premieres!

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

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

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

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

—Sean Buckelew, guest curator

LA Festival of Movies: Animation Today (shorts program)

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

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

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

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

*Prior Screenings: 2026 MoMA To Save and Project*

LA Festival of Movies: Macho Dancer

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

11:00am | Doors open & Live piano performance

12:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

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

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released December 15, 1955

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Reel Media International

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

### ABOUT THE EVENT:

3:00pm | Doors open & Live piano performance

4:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

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

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released October 12, 1959

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

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

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

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

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

7:15pm | **KANSAS CITY**

9:11pm | Intermission

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

9:31pm | **PETE KELLY’S BLUES**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

Originally released August 16, 1996

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

Originally released July 31, 1955

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

KANSAS CITY / PETE KELLY'S BLUES

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

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

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

*Recommended for ages 6+*

Singin’ in the Rain

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+ 

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

Family Flicks: Singin' in the Rain

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

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

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

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

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

Little Annie Rooney  / Sparrows

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

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

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

**Producer:** Graham Walters

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

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

Finding Nemo

**Screenwriter**: Anouk Moyaux

**Producer**: Helen Olive

Co-Presented by El Cine

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

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

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

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

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

LAFM – Selegna sol

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

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

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

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

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

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

LAFM – isaiah’s phone

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

**Producer**: Ernest Lehman

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

**Screenwriter**: Sophy Romvari

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LAFM Closing Night – Blue Heron

\#### Save the date for April 13!  
  
College Night returns to the Getty Center. Join us for our annual after-hours celebration exclusively for college students—featuring art, food, music, behind-the-scenes experiences, artmaking, and more. All for free! #### ART EXHIBITIONS - \*Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages\*  
\- \*How to Be a Guerrilla Girl\*  
\- \*Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985\*  
\- \*Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing\*  
\#### MUSIC and LIVE ART - DJ Hourglass spotlights the sounds of the African diaspora, uplifting queer Black voices - Performance artist, poet, and educator Gabrielle Civil presents "Black Weirdo School (Visiting Lectures)" at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30pm - Graffiti artist Prime demonstrates the pioneering "LA Style"—a mix of bold, geometric block letters with calligraphic and monochromatic influences #### SCREENINGS - Watch short film and video works from Getty Research Institute archives #### ACTIVITIES - Customize a reusable tote bag with a silk screen designed by Nova Community Arts or DIY at Creation Stations - Make art with the Paranormal LA course from Otis College of Art and Design - Take a self-guided scent tour created by the Institute for Art and Olfaction - Send yourself or someone someone special a postcard from a collage postcard-making station. Stamps provided. - Personalize and upcycle materials with Collage Garage - Join drawing demonstrations and live figure drawing led by artist Peter Zokosky - Grab your friends and pose inside photo booths and play games on the Garden Terrace #### TOURS - Join a variety of tours to explore galleries, exhibitions, and behind-the-scenes areas. - Tours depart from the Museum Entrance Hall from 6:30–8:00 p.m. #### FOOD - Enjoy a free meal provided until 8:30 p.m. or while supplies last. - Additional snacks or beverages can be purchased at the Coffee Kiosk and Trellis Bar. #### SHOP - The Getty Museum Store will be open with a 20% discount for attendees #### SUSTAINIBILITY - Bring a refillable water bottle and get a sticker designed by LA graffiti legend Prime - Carpooling, rideshares, and public transit encouraged

College Night 2026

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Directed by 9th-degree black belt/philosopher/author/inspirational speaker Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, the one-of-a-kind MIAMI CONNECTION is one of the most entertaining martial arts films made in America that you will ever see. The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice in the streets of Orlando. It’ll take every ounce of their blood and courage, but Dragon Sound can’t stop until they’ve completely destroyed the dealers, the drunk bikers, the kill-crazy ninjas, the middle-aged thugs, the “stupid cocaine” . . . and the entire MIAMI CONNECTION.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: USA

Print courtesy of AGFA ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents MIAMI CONNECTION

The Canadian

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Stacey Steers: Alchemical Collages*. Stacey Steers in person!

Full film lineup and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

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Weaving together archetype, allegory, and wonder, Stacey Steers’ films create a mythos all their own. Her heroines, lifted from early 20th-century silent films, ebb toward eternity, inky waves alight in their swell. Their collaged effigies move through narratives of personal recollection, environmental anxiety, and science fiction convention. Ruminative and unfixed, Steers’ worlds are steeped in implication, yet unclaimed by certainty. The material becomes mercurial as exploratory dreamscapes reimagine these appropriated images, loosening them from their original contexts and allowing new meanings to surface. Working through an intuitive, labor-intensive process, Steers prints, hand-processes, and photographs each frame on 35mm film, imbuing the work with a tactile, almost alchemical presence that bridges cinema’s past with an unsettled, speculative present. – Sam Gurry

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**Stacey Steers** is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her recent work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives.

Steers’ films have screened widely at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Directors New Films (New York), IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno IFF, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). Recently she has expanded her work to include collaborative installations that join invented, three-dimensional production elements with film loops, creating a new context for experiencing her films. Stacey Steers is a recipient of major grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital and the American Film Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She lives and works in Boulder, CO.

LA Filmforum: Stacey Steers – Alchemical Collages

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family. With his rise through the organisation, however, comes the dangers of violence, double-crosses, drug addiction and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

GoodFellas

Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is both ruthless and mysterious, has ties to one of the most dangerous crime families in London. He crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), a midwife who has come across potentially damaging evidence against the family, which forces him to set in motion a plan of deceit, death and retribution.

Eastern Promises

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

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

Cooper gets ready to leave Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

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

Andrew Packard resurfaces.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

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

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

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

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

The Crime of the Century / Her Bodyguard

We&#8217;re cranking up the Elmo 16CL projector for another round of obscure 16mm rarities, this time all from the late 1940s through the early 1960s with a slate of social engineering films designed to create model citizens and healthy adults. From strangers with candy to high school dropouts, to puberty&#8217;s pitfalls and civic responsibility, these largely forgotten gems are laughably out-of-date and teeming with an antiquated morality you can only find in yesteryear. Films include ***The Dangerous Stranger*** (1949) the stranger danger film that started it all from the king of the scare film Sid Davis, ***The Dropout** *(1962) for the ne&#8217;er-do-wells, ***Molly Grows Up*** (1953) menstrutainment at its finest, ***The Meaning of Adolescence*** (1953) to guide you through those awkward years, ***Responsibility*** (1953) from Herk Harvey &#8211; the director of *Carnival of Souls*, and the incredibly rare NFBC global responsibility primer ***Our Town is the World***  (1950s, Canada), plus more celluloid rarities and a surprise pre-show for the early birds! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm: Mid-Century Social Guidance Classics

**Screenwriters**: George LaVoo,  Josefina Lopez

**Producers**: Effie Brown, George LaVoo

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome director **Patricia Cardoso** for a special screening of her essential East LA coming-of-age triumph*** Real Women Have Curves***.

A humorous and warmhearted look at a Chicano teenage girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations, class constrictions, family duty, and her own personal aspirations. In Boyle Heights, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory. Winner of several Sundance Prizes, The Humanitas Award, and Independent Spirit Awards, this slice of relatable life is an influential and powerful classic of Latina and independent cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more local coming-of-age films? We’ve got these gems from our own backyard!

*The Slums of Beverly Hills, Boyz in the Hood, Mi Vida Loca*

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

Real Women Have Curves

Mr. Muggs Steps Out/Follow the Leader

**Screenwriter**: Elena Oxman

**Producer**: Marc Smolowitz,  Elena Oxman,  Asia Kate Dillon,  Allison Estrin, Henry Russell Bergstein

Featuring a conversation with writer/director **Elena Oxman** after the Wednesday screening.

Join us in the microcinema for Elena Oxman&#8217;s festival darling, the beautifully touching triumph *Outerlands* starring Asia Kate Dillon in a stirring performance. Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from. With beautiful cinematography and an exploration of a San Francisco seldom celebrated, this little charmer is a warm and wonderful treat.

Outerlands

**Screenwriter**: Gaspar Noé

**Producers**: Olivier Delbosc,  Vincent Maraval,  Marc Missonnier,  Pierre Buffin

Co-presented by Community Programming Partners **Synth History**

Nobody does a mind-f*&k like Gaspar Noé, and *Enter the Void* may be his most hallucinatory work in an ouvre of envelope-pushing and eye-popping spectacles. This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past &#8212; where he sees his parents before their deaths &#8212; to the present &#8212; where he witnesses his own autopsy &#8212; and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave. Give yourself over to this experiential head-trip and leave the real world behind!

**About the score/soundtrack**:

*Enter the Void* is the 14th installment of Vidiots’ & Synth History’s *Iconic Scores* screening series, which highlights pioneering scores and soundtracks in electronic music!

The soundtrack for *Enter the Void *blends musique concrète, experimental, and electroacoustic styles. Noé would collaborate again with Thomas Bangalter (of legendary electronic duo Daft Punk), who also scored *Irréversible*. Bangalter was originally approached to create an original score for the film, however due to his involvement scoring *Tron: Legacy*, he&#8217;d take on the role of sound effects director instead, providing a library of ambient sounds and experimental samples which Noé then compiled.

One source of inspiration was &#8220;Revolution 9” by The Beatles, a collage of sounds that Noé described in The Quietus as a work &#8220;where you catch the beginning of a note, or of a melody and then it&#8217;s already somewhere else.&#8221; The film includes a recording from electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) of Bach&#8217;s &#8220;Air on the G String”, *ANS *by Coil which utilizes the rare, photoelectric ANS synthesizer (if you came to our screening of *Solaris* you might remember that composer Eduard Artemyev also used this!), Throbbing Gristle’s &#8220;Hamburger Lady,” LFO’s “Freak”, nearly every part of electroacoustic musician Jean-Claude Éloy&#8217;s compositions *Shânti* and *Gaku-no-Michi, *Toshiya Tsunoda&#8217;s &#8220;Music for Baby&#8221;, Alvin Lucier&#8217;s &#8220;Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers&#8221;, works by Denis Smalley, Lullatone, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Thomas Bangalter‘s own track &#8220;Désaccords,” originally composed for *Irréversible*.

A fitting collage of sounds for a visually stunning film that you definitely don’t want to miss on the big screen! We guarantee you&#8217;ll remember it forever.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more mind-melting cinema? You&#8217;ve come to the right place!

*Liquid Sky, Holy Motors, Telephone Book*

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

Enter the Void

Blues Busters/Feudin Fools

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary *Symbiopsychotaxiplasm*, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture.

NATIONTIME is the long-lost film that William Greaves made about the National Black Political Convention of 1972, when 10,000 black politicians, activists and artists went to Gary, Indiana, to forge a national unity platform in advance of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions. The delegates included a wide array of political thinkers — Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, Pan-Africanist Amiri Baraka, PUSH founder Jesse Jackson, elected officials Ron Dellums, Charles Diggs, Walter Fauntroy, Richard Hatcher, Carl McCall, plus key women in the fight for racial equality -- Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Fannie Lou Hamer and Queen Mother Moore (who was arguing for reparations). Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree lent their star quality and entertained the crowds. Sidney Poitier & Harry Belafonte narrate the film.

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One of the most powerful films Greaves ever made, this is the director’s original 80-minute version that was never released. Found in a Pittsburgh warehouse in 2018, the 48-year-old negative was painstakingly restored by IndieCollect under the supervision of Louise Greaves, the director’s widow and filmmaking partner. (Kino Lorber)

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**dir. William Greaves, 1972***United States, digital projection*80 min‍

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## WEDNESDAY, 4/157:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

$10 general admission, $9 for members.

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

NATIONTIME (1972)

WHAMMY!

Lightstruck is elated to present two full evenings of rarely screened animated shorts from one of the most significant centers of experimental animation production and creativity in the history of the medium: Poland. Spanning the early 1960s to the late 1980s, these two programs (March 26 and April 16) will showcase an incredibly eclectic selection focusing on little-known masterworks and deep-cut revelations, all screening in recent restorations.

Poland has an extraordinary animation history marked by radical experimentation in technique and texture, investigating dark and complex themes inspired by social critique and surrealist visions alike. Spanning stop motion, cutout, cel, paint on glass, and hand-drawn approaches, these programs extend to include exceptional techniques such as Zbig Rybczyński’s hyper-complex optical printing, Piotr Dumała’s exquisite renderings on plaster slabs, and Julian Antonisz’s unhinged cameraless animation produced on ingenious, visionary devices of his own making. A morbid and uneasy humor often punctuates these works, which pulse with rich, emotional, and dramatic narratives and themes matched only by the exceptional imagination and talents of their authors.

We selected the films for these programs with an emphasis on shorts not generally available on home media, and spanning a particularly diverse array of styles, aesthetics, techniques, and sensibilities. Widely celebrated artists like Rybczyński, Antonisz, Ryszard Czekała, and Jerzy Kucia will be represented by lesser known (but magnificent) offerings, while deeply memorable obscurities from Jacek Kasprzycki, Zofia Oraczewska, Ryszard Antoniszczak, and Ewa Bibańska will further illuminate Poland’s incredible spectrum of animation genius.

Programs by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. Films courtesy of Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (+ thanks to Stanisław Bardadin) and Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (+ thanks to Adrian Smykowski and Julia Bachman).

Polish Animation #2: Chance & Transition (1975-89)

Monthly short film festival. Watch and vote. Audience award to the best short film each month. Annual championship in DECEMBER.

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 4/16) 7:30pm

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/16)

The Mystery of the 13th Guest / The Living Ghost / The Face of Marble

Join us for a screening of the exhilarating documentary about the legendary GRAMMY-winning musician - Billy Preston.

BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT Screening

Men of San Quentin/The Miracle Kid

Acropolis Cinema presents *Harvest*, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024.

Part of "Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari," a complete retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 - May 9 at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.

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Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, who deconstructed human behavior within bounded communities in *Attenberg* and *Chevalier*, sets her sights on entirely new environs in *Harvest*, which takes place in a remote village in medieval England.

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, Tsangari’s film stars Caleb Landry Jones as Walter Thirsk, the former childhood friend and manservant of the village’s weak-willed landowner, Master Kent (Harry Melling). Marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders, the town’s denizens fall under new threat after Kent’s iron-fisted city cousin comes into possession of the land, with new plans for agricultural profit. Shot in the sun-dappled Scottish countryside with natural light by cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Tsangari’s most ambitious work to date is both carnal and cerebral, a multifaceted reflection on man’s relationship to the land, rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance. (NYFF)

TRT: 131 min

In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: Harvest (Tsangari, 2024)

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Free screening! General admission, first come first serve.

Predator

Avant-garde cinema represents films that are experimental or innovative, typically rejecting traditional narrative structures while exploring abstract concepts and emphasizing visual and aural elements. Avant-garde animation often utilizes techniques that abstract form, defy continuity and emphasize musicality.

*Programmed by Molly Regan. Notes written by Clare Britton and Molly Regan.*

*Special thanks to our community partner: [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Animation Workshop](https://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/)*

Created during his time at the UCLA Animation Workshop, Robert Abel’s *Freight Yard **Symphony *presents a sensorial impression of a commercial rail yard, in which the destruction of semiotics makes way for a new language of rhythm, where alphabetical and numerical language indicators become purely textural amongst the frenzied jazz score. Using photo collage and paper craft, Abel’s early modernist work showcases the immense talent of this future pioneer of visual effects.

Director: Robert Abel.

In Chel White’s *Choreography for the Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha), *machine and human attempt to understand each other’s dissonant identities through the glass-plate barrier of a photocopy machine. This barrier, reminiscent of zoo or aquarium glass windows, distorts and abstracts to create a half-truth. Chel White straddles the line between sensual and grotesque representations of the human body, juxtaposed with the mundane artifacts that scaffold daily life, such as keys, currency, tools and playing cards.

Director: Chel White.

*Print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.*

Michel Gondry’s *The Science of Sleep *synthesizes live action and animation to emphasize dissatisfaction with reality, and the lure of imagination. Made in the age of CGI pipelines overwhelmingly contributing to special effects in the future film industry, Gondry’s trademark whimsical style prioritizes practical effects, taking a minimal approach to visual effects. Blurring the lines between real life and fantasy, this film invites us to experience the impossible.

Director: Michel Gondry. Screenwriter: Michel Gondry. With: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mioux-Mioux.

*Print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. *

UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! Avant-garde Animation

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (4/17)

Comics O&#x27;Clock is a comics reading featuring live readings by local cartoonists hosted by Mikey Heller. This event will be pay what you want, with donations going to Heavy Manners Library.

Featuring:

Chris Allison ([https://www.instagram.com/toonholechris/](https://www.instagram.com/toonholechris/))

Elizabeth Chee ([https://www.instagram.com/lizcheeart/](https://www.instagram.com/lizcheeart/))

Julia Mata ([https://www.instagram.com/cipota666/](https://www.instagram.com/cipota666/))

Wynton Redmond ([https://www.instagram.com/wyntonred/](https://www.instagram.com/wyntonred/))

Kenzie Bugg ([https://www.instagram.com/pk_kenziebugg/](https://www.instagram.com/pk_kenziebugg/))

Chris Cornwell ([https://www.instagram.com/cornwellcomics/](https://www.instagram.com/cornwellcomics/))

Abby Jo Turner ([https://www.instagram.com/abbyjoturner/](https://www.instagram.com/abbyjoturner/))

Isa Hanssen ([https://www.instagram.com/isawiitch/](https://www.instagram.com/isawiitch/))

Clueless

8:00 PM

Birth

Melancholia

BEN-HUR (2026 Re-release)(1959)(G)(Wed 4/1) 7pm (Thu 4/2) 7pm

7:00 PM

RUSHMORE

10:00 PM

The Exile

The Prisoner of Zenda

7:30 PM

Pippa Plays the Fool

8:00 PM

Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez's THE AMERICAN SECTOR (2020)

7:30 PM

A Goofy Movie

1:00 PM

Arco (English Dubbed)

4:00 PM

The Seventh Seal

4:30 PM

Pillion

7:00 PM

Quiz Show

7:30 PM

Project Hail Mary 70mm

Angels' Alley/Smuggler's Cove

2:00 PM