98th Oscars Animated Feature Film Winner

98th Oscars Best Picture Winner

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The cantankerous Rooster Cogburn is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn’s employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

TRUE GRIT

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

When the town of Blaine, Mo., approaches its sesquicentennial, there’s only one way to celebrate: with a musical revue called “Red, White and Blaine.” Hoping the show will be his ticket back to Broadway, impresario Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest) rounds up a cast of enthusiastic but untalented locals (Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara) to perform his masterwork. But, when Corky reveals that theater agent Mort Guffman will attend the opening, things really kick into high gear.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

30th Anniversary ‘Starring Catherine O’Hara’

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN

Aero Theatre

Infinite Space, a documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home&#8217;s telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl&#8217;s murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Body Double

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*With English dub.*

Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for spirits and demons, Chihiro must use all her wits to survive in this strange new place, find a way to free her parents and return to the normal world. Overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, SPIRITED AWAY became a worldwide smash hit, and is one of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

SPIRITED AWAY

*Thank you to our airline sponsor Delta Air Lines*

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES: **

Total runtime: 117 Mins.

**“Proshai, Livushka,” 2001, Dir. Tim Van Patten, HBO Original, USA**

Tony’s concern that his mother will rat him out to the Feds expires when she, literally, does.

Format: DCP

**“Pine Barrens,” 2001, Dir. ****Steve Buscemi, ****HBO Original, USA**

Paulie and Christopher end up on a nightmarish journey when they chase a Russian mobster into the South Jersey woods.

Format: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**THE SOPRANOS, 1999, HBO Original, USA**

Hailed as one of television’s essential dramas, David Chase’s THE SOPRANOS follows James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano: husband, father and mob boss. Revisit the entire series and celebrate 25 years with the family that started it all.

*Watch the complete HBO Original Series on [HBO Max.](https://www.hbomax.com/shows/sopranos/818c3d9d-1831-48a6-9583-0364a7f98453)*

25th Anniversary of Season 3 Panel with creator David Chase, director Steve Buscemi and executive producer Terence Winter. Moderated by Lee Sung Jin. Admission includes access to the anniversary panel following complimentary screenings of episodes “Proshai, Livushka” and “Pine Barrens” Film Club, Friend of the AC, Patron, Silver Screen, Marquee and Movie Palace-level members now have exclusive access to tickets.

THE SOPRANOS Season 3: 25th Anniversary Panel

Egyptian Theatre

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

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour & the sequel.

THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)(R) & SPINAL TAP 2: THE END CONTINUES (2025)(R)

Gardena Cinema

Special thanks to our community partners: *[UCLA AMIA Student Chapter](https://uclaamia.wordpress.com/)*, [UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies](https://elts.ucla.edu/)

For over four decades, from 1944–1991, Albania was ruled by one of the most repressive dictatorships anywhere in the world. For most of that time, the Marxist-Leninist regime was led by Enver Hoxha, who ruthlessly suppressed any opposition and kept his fearful population isolated from the outside world. Throughout that period, Albanians could see images of themselves and their country only as represented in the fiction features and documentaries produced by the state-run New Albania Kinostudio. In 1993, two years after the end of the regime, Albanian American visual artist and photographer Elena Dorfman began regularly visiting her mother’s home country and in 2018 she was granted unprecedented access to the collection of the Albanian National Film Archive. The result of her archival research, Dorfman’s experimental feature documentary, *THE DREAM & THE LIE* brings scenes from the archive’s film holdings together in a widescreen triptych image that can feel both epic and intimate in scale all at once. A captivating exploration of how movies were used by the regime to construct a powerful national mythology that penetrated deep into daily life, *THE DREAM & THE LIE* is also a visually arresting example of how artists can creatively and productively engage with archival material. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to host Elena Dorfman at the Billy Wilder Theater for a screening of *THE DREAM & THE LIE* followed by an in person conversation with the Archive’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence Ariel West about the film and relationship between the artist and the archive.

DCP. Director: Elena Dorfman. 

*Programmed and note written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm.*

THE DREAM & THE LIE

Hammer Museum

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

Drawing from Tavares Strachan’s immersive excursions into hidden histories and speculative futures in the exhibition [*The Day Tomorrow Began*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/tavares-strachan-day-tomorrow-began), mother and daughter design duo Aama Studio welcome us to a film salon where they will weave cinema, textiles, and personal memory to tell intergenerational stories. 

A tour of the exhibition, short films, and discussions will explore Black liberation, arcs of migration, and evolving identities, linking ancestral memory to possibilities of today and tomorrow.

**Program:**

3 pm: Short film screening
4 pm: *Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began* exhibition walkthrough with House of Aama
5 pm: Short film screening
6 pm: Post-screening conversation with Jamal Ademola, director of *House of Aama: Threads of Legacy*; Akua Shabaka and Rebecca Henry, co-creators of House of Aama; and special guests

Aama Studio: Threads of Legacy Film Salon

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend’s flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn’t feel well. What’s come over him?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

###

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

THE THIN LINE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

“Who are…you?”

Mima Kirigoe, a former pop idol, makes a bold transition into acting, taking on a role in a drama that includes a disturbing assault scene, and even releasing a provocative nude photo book. Her dramatic reinvention grabs public attention, but also provokes unease among her fans, her manager and even herself as she struggles with the rapid shift from her days as a pop idol. As a stalker begins to shadow her, a screenwriter and a photographer are murdered one after another. “Did I kill them?” Mima begins to wonder if a split personality is gradually taking over, just like the character that she plays in the drama. Then “the other Mima” the pop idol who was supposed to have “graduated,” appears in front of her…

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

PERFECT BLUE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Dis-moi,” 1980, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 45 Mins, INA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

An intimate documentary portrait of three elderly spirited Jewish women who survived the Holocaust. They invite Akerman into their Paris apartments, feed and regale her with stories about exile and deportation alongside those about love and acts of kindness, while also chiding, ‘Eat or else I won’t tell you the rest’. Meanwhile, Akerman’s own mother can be heard on voiceover discussing her grandmother, who she lived with after she returned from Auschwitz, where her parents died.

FORMAT: DCP

**HISTOIRES D’AMÉRIQUE: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY, 1989, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 96 Mins, Janus Films, France/Belgium**

*In English and French with English subtitles.*

The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.

FORMAT: DCP

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

"Dis-moi" / HISTOIRES D'AMÉRIQUE: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Closing out the trilogy is THE TRAP in which Nagase stars in a memorable double role. When a string of young women in floral dresses are found dead, alarms are sounded throughout Yokohama about the possibility of a serial killer on the loose. But when all evidence points to Hama, he has to fight against the clock and former allies, putting his trust in a rookie cop and his trusted sidekick Hoshino. Will Hama escape the trap?

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Japan

West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration The Maiku Hama Trilogy: Part 3

THE TRAP

Los Feliz Theatre

The Lickerish Quartet / Therese and Isabelle

Nights in Black Leather

New Beverly Cinema

Based on the romance written by Raduan Nassar about a Lebanese family living in Brazil’s inland, the movie is a backwards version of the parable of the prodigal son. André is an unattached son, who left family and home due to severe paternal laws and suffocating maternal affection and love. Pedro, his older brother, received from his mother the mission to bring André back home.

The appearance of the brother causes André to remember moments he lived with his family since childhood and the reasons that led him to leave home: rigid and repressive morals of the father and the relationship with an excessive tendering mother. Against his father’s sermons, André celebrates life, sex and freedom. There is also an even dire motive: the incestuous relationship between André and his sister Ana. André agrees to go back home with his brother, but such decision will shake the very foundations of the family.

To the Left of the Father

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriters**: Jonathan Aibel,  Glenn Berger

**Producer**: Melissa Cobb

Bring your little kung fu warriors for twice the action, twice the laughs, and twice the fun, because *Kung Fu Panda* is back &#8211; and better than ever! Po is finally living the dream as the Dragon Warrior—until a dark secret from his past comes roaring back. When the ruthless peacock lord Shen unleashes a terrifying new weapon to wipe out kung fu itself, Po and the Furious Five race across China to put an end to his plans. But if Po is to have any hope of stopping him, he must first unravel the mystery of where he came from and come to terms with his trauma. With an all-star voice cast including Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman, and Jackie Chan, this is one animated adventure that really kicks butt!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more fun for the kiddos? Our All Ages section in the video store has tons of fun &#8211; including:

*Three Lives of Thomasina, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, The Point*

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

Kung Fu Panda 2

**Screenwriter**: Colin Higgins

**Producer**: Charles B. Mulvehill, Colin Higgins

Vidiots remembers the life and legacy of the singular **Bud Cort** with screenings of his seminal work &#8211; Hal Asbhy&#8217;s dark comedy masterpiece *Harold and Maude*.

The oddest romantic comedy ever made! Hal Ashby&#8217;s pitch-perfect dark comedy remains a hilariously morbid triumph even 50 years after its release. Bud Cort stars as the titular Harold, a rich and disaffected young man with a penchant for phony suicides and antagonizing his mother. The singular Ruth Gordon illuminates the screen and the world as Maude, an aging Holocaust survivor who finds pleasure in the strangest of places. An unlikely friendship forms and transforms both of them forever. Featuring a killer soundtrack by Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens).  Initially a box-office bomb, this enduring cult classic has been added to the *National Film Registry* by the Library of Congress and is listed in AFI&#8217;s top *100 Funniest Movies of All-Time*.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Need more Bud Cort classics to take home tonight? Check out these gems and more!

*Brewster McCloud, But I&#8217;m a Cheerleader, Love Letters*

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

Harold and Maude

**Screenwriter/Producer**: Louise Weard

*Castration Movie *is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard.* Anthology i. Traps *contains two chapters. In *Chapter i. Incel Superman*, a production assistant named Turner Stewart (Noah Baker) sees his world spiral out of control as he uncompromisingly attempts to shape his life into the one he feels he deserves. In* Chapter ii. Traps Swan Princess*, a trans sex worker named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (Louise Weard) finds her relationships becoming increasingly strained as she decides to pursue motherhood.

Written and directed by Louise Weard, *Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps* features a cast headlined by Louise Weard (*Computer Hearts*), Vera Drew (*The People&#8217;s Joker*), Alice Maio Mackay (*The Serpent’s Skin*), Avalon Fast (*Camp*), John Paizs (*Crime Wave*), Lea Rose Sebastianis (*In a Violent Nature*), and Nate Wilson (*The All Golden*), amongst a mix of other emerging talent and weird and wonderful cameos.

“As daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade.” &#8211; William Bibbiani, *The Wrap***

“*Castration Movie* mixes Cassavetes-level rawness, a dazed Warholian languor and quotable banter worthy of Kevin Smith… With its scenes of unsimulated sex, water-sports, self-harm and the graphic aftermath of surgery, *Castration Movie*’s list of trigger warnings is longer than some films’ scripts.” &#8211; Ryan Gilbey, *The Guardian***

“*Castration Movie* holds the shimmering promise of what cinema can be now, when multiplex fare has entered its moribund final act and fascism is tightening its grip on dissent, free expression, and the rights of the vulnerable. Great films about real things made on the margins are evermore essential, and this is a great film.” &#8211; Chris Sheilds, *Screen Slate***

“It&#8217;s so painful and good that I can only bear to watch it in like, fifteen minute increments while pacing around the room in psychic discomfort” &#8211; Torrey Peters (author, *Detransition, Baby*)

“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” &#8211; Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, *Manhunt)***

“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” &#8211; Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, *Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film*)

Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

**Screenwriter**: Robin Schiff

**Producer**: Laurence Mark

We&#8217;ve got your business woman&#8217;s special right in time for  Saturday night! Put on your most colorful 90s dresses, hop in your convertible, and get ready to hit the high school reunion in style! One of the best buddy movies ever, and a laugh riot from start to finish, this is one underdog story with style, flash, and plenty of shade. Romy and Michele are happy in their LA life, but when their ten year reunion looms, they feel like they need to lie to get the respect they deserve from the former cool kids. But maybe, they&#8217;re just perfect on their own and maybe they&#8217;ll perform an interpretive dance to prove such a point! Bring your besties for a night of fun, fashion, and friendship that still kills 30 years later!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more lady buddy comedies? Laugh along with these bangers!

*Ass Backwards, Spring Breakdown, Girls Trip*

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

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

**Screenwriter**: Greg Harrison

**Producers**: Greg Harrison,  Danielle Renfrew Behrens

Vidiots is ready to rave with writer/director **Greg Harrison** and producer **Danielle Renfrew Behrens** for the world premiere of the new remaster of the quintessential SF party movie ***Groove***. Plus live DJ sets from **DJ Forest Green** and **DJ Dmitri** to keep the party going all night long!

You are invited to the hottest party of the year! As the sun goes down on Saturday night, rave kids Colin and Harmony take their relationship to the next level, veteran clubgoer Leyla surfs the Internet for a lift to the rave and workaholic David just wants to make it home in one piece. By sunrise, romances ignite, hearts break and lives are changed forever. Featuring a pulsating soundtrack and exciting performances from newcomers Lola Glaudini (TV&#8217;s &#8220;*NYPD Blue*&#8220;), Denny Kirkwood (*Never Been Kissed*), Rachel True (*The Craft*) and Steve Van Wormer (*Idle Hands*). Featuring DJs John Digweed, Polywog, & Wish.

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

Groove

Vidiots

Project Hail Mary 70mm

Of Unknown Origin/Ben

Vista Theatre

Los Angeles Filmforum and Rotations present *Gunvor Nelson Tribute Trilogy, Tribute 1: Red Shift*. Co-presented with the Academy Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

In-person introduction by Steve Anker!

Screenings:

Red Shift

1984, 50 minutes, B&W, SOUND, 16mm

Red Shift is one of Nelson’s most admired films, a dense narrative film about family relations in which the various roles are played by members of her family.

Frame Line

1983, 22 minutes, B&W, SOUND, 16mm

Frame Line is Nelson’s first collage film. The film that inaugurated her original series of animated films, all made at the Film Workshop in Stockholm.

Time Being

1991, 8 minutes, B&W, SILENT, 16mm

Time Being is a commemoration in four sequences of Nelson’s mother.

TRT: 80 min

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A pioneer of personal cinema and feminist film who never shied away from challenges, Nelson's innovative films combine painting, collage, and sound experimentation, embodying humor, resistance, intimacy, and tactile sensation. Nelson’s family and generational study Red Shift (1984), and her painfully sensitive portrayal of her dying mother in Time Being (1991) are regarded as the high points of her family and hometown productions.

This retrospective will be co-presented by LA Filmforum, Rotations, the Academy Museum, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu and Steve Anker.

∆

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

LA Filmforum & Rotations: Gunvor Nelson Tribute - Red Shift

2220 Arts + Archives

98th Oscars Wildcard Winner

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Tragedy seems to follow Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) everywhere she goes. After a domestic dispute results in the death of both of her parents, Pearl moves in with her aunt, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), on a Texas farm. When Pearl notices Laura Belle’s son, the fiery Lewt (Gregory Peck), life on the ranch erupts into chaos. The two have a brief courtship, but Lewt abruptly ends the relationship. When Pearl tries to move on, Lewt’s jealousy leads to a climactic gun battle between the former lovers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

New 4K Restoration 80th Anniversary ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

DUEL IN THE SUN

*Thank you to our airline sponsor Delta Air Lines.*

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The American Cinematheque is thrilled to welcome filmmaker, screenwriter and actor Steve Buscemi for a special 30th Anniversary screening of TREES LOUNGE, beautifully restored from the original negative by IndieCollect in association with the Eastman Museum. Buscemi and DP Lisa Rinzler collaborated on the restoration with the IndieCollect team, led by Cameron Haffner & Eva Yuma. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A. Join us at the Aero Theatre as we celebrate Buscemi’s work on both sides of the camera for this critically acclaimed comedy.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue-collar town. He seems to always be thinking, “If only X then I could stop drinking.”

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: IndieCollect

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker, screenwriter and actor Steve Buscemi 30th Anniversary New 4K Restoration by IndieCollect

TREES LOUNGE

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept&#8217;s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

The Holy Mountain

*A loser gets dumped. A weird experi**ment goes crazy. **A dangerous Dance Freak runs wild.*

A FEATURE LENGTH MOVIE: In a secret government facility, a team of scientists have done impossible, indescribable things. Genetic mutations, inter-dimensional experiments: nasty top secret stuff. They played GOD. And like GOD they are all probably dead. The filmmakers only had like $45,000 to make this movie and they ran out of that money almost immediately so a lot of that stuff is just implied through dialogue. There is dancing, but it isn’t that crazy. Also the movie gets loud sometimes, but it’s not that long.

Dance Freak

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Bengali with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: India

Pre-recorded introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson New 4K Restoration ‘Transcendental Appointments’ and ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Howard Beale, a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he “skews old” – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast go ahead, hoping that the final event will give the network its greatest ratings ever.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

50th Anniversary ‘Starring Robert Duvall’

NETWORK

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

2nd SUNDAY  70mm PLUS series. Columbia’s most celebrated title! Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port. Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture of 1962, Lawrence of Arabia stands as one of the most timeless and essential motion picture masterpieces. The greatest achievement of its legendary, Oscar -winning director, David Lean (1962, Lawrence of Arabia: 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai), the film stars Peter Otoole, in his career-making performance as T.E. Lawrence, the audacious World War I British army officer who heroically united rival Arab desert tribes and led them to war against the mighty Turkish Empire.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

Fine Arts Theatre

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her Emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler); Fear (Bill Hader); Anger (Lewis Black); Disgust (Mindy Kaling); and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). Although Joy, Riley's main and most important Emotion, tries to keep things positive, the Emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. (2015, Dir. Pete Docter, DCP, color, 95 min.)

Family Flicks: Inside Out

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

If adolescence can sometimes look a little messy on the outside that’s because it’s complete emotional chaos on the inside. Pixar’s instant classic about growing up takes us inside the mind of Riley, a rural teenager whose struggle with alienation after a big city move is compounded by her personified feelings, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust, who must learn to appreciate each other so Riley can thrive again in her new environment.

DCP. Director: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen. Screenwriter: Josh Cooley. With: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind. 

*Recommended for ages 6+*

Inside Out

In this D&B Films production, Jane (Loletta Lee), a rebellious student from a lower-class background, is saved by May (May Lo), who comes from a wealthy family. The film follows their friendship and respective romances in this coming-of-age tale, engaging with the changing economic and social realities of Hong Kong’s booming 1980s. *Devoted to You* was one of many youth romance films starring teen idols that also functioned as quasi-music videos — especially as a vehicle for Cantonese pop star Jacky Cheung, who plays May’s love interest.

Director/Screenwriter: Clifton Ko.. With: May Lo, Loletta Lee, Jacky Cheung, Michael Wong.

Here, one of the Hong Kong New Wave’s most renowned directors, Stanley Kwan, crafts a haunting portrait of urban disillusionment. Produced by D&B Films, this melancholic drama stars Tony Leung and Chow Yun-fat as part of a circle of young dreamers undone by romance, betrayal and tragedy. Blending noir mystery with aching sadness, Kwan transforms a tale of pleasure and decay into a meditation. Under the neon glow of a restless city, intimacy, ambition, and despair unceremoniously coexist to poignant effect.

Director: Stanley Kwan. Screenwriters: Lai Kit, Yau-tai On-ping (Chiu Kang-chien). With: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Elaine Jin, Irene Wan, Chow Yun-fat.

*—guest programmer Janet Louie*

Devoted to You / Love Unto Waste

Please note: This screening takes place at [2220 Arts + Archives](https://www.2220arts.org/), 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057

Total runtime: 80 min.

*Red Shift* is one of Gunvor Nelson’s most admired films, a dense narrative film about family relations in which the various roles are played by members of her family. The film merges two diegetic times, both present and past, and pending between close-ups and long shots. Nelson’s depiction of family life is both candid and considerate, displaying an amalgamation of emotions ranging from delight to distress.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Frame Line* is Nelson’s first collage film. The film that inaugurated her original series of animated films, all made at the Film Workshop in Stockholm. *Frame Line* is a reflection on Stockholm and Sweden, on Nelson’s return to her native country and a place that is both familiar and distant, both beautiful and ugly at the same time. The film begins with images and glimpses of Stockholm that Nelson has collected, then developing this audiovisual material into a new visual work where animation becomes a way of discovering both what the camera has captured and what can be created anew through free association.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Time Being* is a commemoration in four sequences of Nelson’s mother. The film that starts and ends with lengthy black leader, is a brutal yet beautiful depiction of her mother dying and how the bond between them is cut off. After a prologue follows a series of three shots, each beginning in static takes of her mother lying in a bed at a hospital. For each shot the distance to the mother increases and the camera moves closer towards Nelson.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Off-site: Gunvor Nelson Tribute I: Red Shift

Dive into a powerful educational series bridging generations through film, dialogue, and critical media literacy. Curated and facilitated by legendary KAOS Network founder Ben Caldwell, L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin, and LACMA assistant curator of film Matazi Weathers, this series spotlights bold works by local filmmakers, surprise guest appearances, and unfiltered conversations on the role of storytelling in shaping cultural consciousness, both locally and globally.

Our January session will focus on honoring the life and work of Nigerian L.A. Rebellion filmmaker, painter, and author Ijeoma IIoputaife (1951–2025), also known as Omah Diegu and ‘oma ‘taife The first African woman to study film at UCLA, she was part of the second generation of the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers, also called the L.A. Rebellion. Today, her short film *African Women, U.S.A.* (1980) is one of the standard works of feminist African-American cinema. After returning to Nigeria, she lived in Germany for a while which led to the autobiographical documentary *The Snake in my Bed* (1995) made in collaboration with Das kleine Fernsehspiel.

Co-presented by KAOS Network and LACMA’s Aspect Ratio.

KAOS/LACMA Cultural Literacy Collider

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo will do to restore his family’s honor! Pietro Germi’s SEDUCED AND ABANDONED was the follow-up to his international sensation DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE, and in many ways it’s even more audacious—a rollicking yet raw series of escalating comic calamities that ensue in a small village when sixteen-year-old Agnese (the beautiful Stefania Sandrelli) loses her virginity at the hands of her sister’s lascivious fiance.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy

Introduction by filmmaker Jim Cummings ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Jim Cummings Presents SEDUCED AND ABANDONED

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows—Veronica, Linda, Alice and Belle—have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses’ criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, Veronica joins forces with the other three women to pull off a heist that her husband was planning. Starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya and Robert Duvall.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK/USA

WIDOWS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Filipino and Ilocano with English subtitles.*

One Sunday in November, Mila (Charo Santos) announces to her father Dadang (Vic Silayan), a retired police officer, that she is pregnant, asking for permission to marry her co-worker Noel (Jay Ilangan). The noose tightens as Dadong’s unreasonable expectations for a dowry are not met and he exhibits an increasingly authoritarian streak. When the couple marries, Mila’s father begins a game of exclusion and manipulation to reassert control over his kin. Based on the true crime reportage “The House on Zapote Street” penned by Nick Joaquin, Mike De Leon’s KISAPMATA, beautifully restored in 4K by L’Immagine Ritrovata, is a stunning example of psychological horror that meticulously tightens the noose around its characters’ neck until the outcome feels inevitable.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Philippines

4K Restoration ‘Directed by Mike De Leon’

KISAPMATA

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, and English with English subtitles.*

The UK’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards and recipient of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, Akinola Davies Jr.’s MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father-son bonds. Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, the film follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. Brothers and collaborators Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies bring us a groundbreaking feature debut – centering an award-winning performance by Sopé Dìrísù (SLOW HORSES, GANGS OF LONDON) – that reveals the profound depths of what families leave unspoken.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: UK/Nigeria

MY FATHER'S SHADOW

Rio de Janeiro, 1964. After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid’s room. The day before, the maid had quit. In the room, G.H. faces a huge cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against beings it treats as subordinate. Facing the insect, G.H. descends into an existential Via Crucis. This experience leads to the loss of her identity and makes her question all conventions that imprison females to this day. Based on a novel by Clarice Lispector.

The Passion According to G.H.

Suzuki's feverish phantasmagoria of theatrical illusion, haunted memory, and obsessive longing!

Seijun Suzuki's TAISHŌ TRILOGY:  KAGERO-ZA (1981)

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Nicholas Stoller,  Matthew Robinson

**Producer**: Kristin Burr

Grab your backpack, your monkey, and your sense of adventure for a cinematic journey to a lost Inca civilization. Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization. Bring your little explorers for big screen excitement from everyone&#8217;s favorite explorer!

Coge tu mochila, tu mono y tu sentido de la aventura para un viaje cinematográfico a una civilización inca perdida. Dora, una chica que ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida explorando la jungla con sus padres, ahora debe enfrentarse a su aventura más peligrosa hasta ahora: la escuela secundaria. Siempre exploradora, Dora se encuentra rápidamente guiando a Boots (su mejor amigo, un mono), Diego y un grupo extraño de adolescentes en una aventura para salvar a sus padres y resolver el misterio imposible detrás de una civilización inca perdida. ¡Trae a tus pequeños exploradores para la emoción en pantalla grande del explorador favorito de todos!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to explore more with Dora? Take home these adventures on physical media!

*Dora the Explorer: It&#8217;s a Party, Dora the Explorer: World Adventure, Dora the Explorer: Super Babies*

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

Dora and the Lost City of Gold en Español

**Producers**: Pierre-Olivier Bardet,  Frederick Wiseman

Vidiots remembers the legacy of documentary filmmaking icon **Frederick Wiseman** with a screening of his artistic masterpiece *National Gallery*.

Frederick Wiseman’s *National Gallery* takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. *National Gallery *is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home six decades worth of Frederick Wiseman &#8211; including these treasures

*Titticut Follies, Model, Welfare, The Store, Meat*

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

National Gallery

**Screenwriter**: Louise Weard

**Producers**: Dakota Blais, Remy Boydell, Heather Buckley, Aoife Josie Clements, Hazel Norwood, Elizabeth Purchell, Mark Wilmot

*Castration Movie *is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard.The second part of *Castration Movie *(running 300 minutes with an intermission) contains one chapter:

In *Chapter iii. Polygon!!!! Heartmoder*, Circle (Lex Walton) tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York.

“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” &#8211; Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, *Manhunt)***

“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” &#8211; Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, *Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film*)

“Watching *Castration Movie* got me so hyped for the future of film.” &#8211; Morgan M. Page (writer, *Framing Agnes*)

“*Castration Movie *is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” &#8211; Theda Hammel (filmmaker, *Stress Positions*)

Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds

Vidiots welcomes back our found footage besties **Museum of Home Video** with an event they like to call &#8220;the Super Bowl for moviegoers&#8221;.  **Every** movie is fascinating for its first five minutes: that brief moment before it either hooks you or loses you.  For the **5 Minutes Game**, we&#8217;ve lined up ten unpredictable movies you’ve never seen or heard of.  We’ll watch the first five minutes of each &#8212; and then you, the audience votes on what we’ll watch in full.  If you think you’ve uncovered all the strange videos left to discover, think again!

This event is co-hosted / co-curated by **Josh Miller** (co-screenwriter of *Violent Night* and the *Sonic The Hedgehog* movie franchise!)

**Museum of Home Video** is a found footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers. Each week at museumofhomevideo.com, VJs Bret Berg, Jenny Nixon and IVOR mix the best and wildest bits of late-night talk, game shows, local programming, movie wowzers, and commercial breaks. Like Weird Al’s *UHF* with a college radio vibe, the site’s other dazing and amazing streams include *Musicvideodrome* and the kids-themed *Playtime*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more found footage weirdness? Dive deep with these obscure treasures:

TV Carnage presents* Casual Fridays, Animal Charm, The Educational Archives: Social Engineering 101***

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

The 5 Minutes Game presented by The Museum of Home Video

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 6, “Demons,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Donna tries to convince Truman that Harold Smith has Laura’s secret diary.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 7, “Lonely Souls,” Dir. David Lynch, 47 Mins**

Cooper and the One-Armed Man inspect guests at the Great Northern.

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.

“Demons” and “Lonely Souls” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 6 & 7

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Hebrew with English subtitles.*

Nadav Lapid’s THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER is the story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular protagonist, Nira, discovers that her young student, Yoav, has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, she slowly and progressively becomes interested in cultivating the boy’s gift. But when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his family in an attempt to protect his talent before he passes from boyhood to adolescence, and his purity is lost.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Israel/France

Q&A with filmmaker Nadav Lapid ‘Nadav Lapid: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

Last Tango in Paris

**Screenwriter**: Sean Wang

**Producers**: Carlos López Estrada,  Josh Peters,  Valerie Bush,  Sean Wang

On the cusp of high school, Chris Wang, a.k.a Wang Wang, is spending an aimless summer in his quiet Northern California hometown of Fremont. His mom, Chungsing, is the only person who sees and loves Dìdi (the affectionate term in Mandarin meaning “little brother”) for who he really is. Chris can’t stand it when she looks at him with the loving gaze of an immigrant mother whose greatest pride and most animated dreams rest in her child. He’s too busy watching skate videos on YouTube and scouring the Myspace page of his crush, Madi. When Chris, wielding the power of a well-deployed Paramore t-shirt and A Walk to Remember reference, finds a way to get close to Madi, he suddenly seems to be figuring things out.

But Dìdi (弟弟) isn’t the story of a teenage boy getting the girl. In Sean Wang’s telling, Chris doesn’t exactly come of age as much as trip and stumble his way through an endless teenage summer — and perhaps find a way to log off AIM and see his mother for the first time.

**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.

Dìdi (弟弟)

**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

**Screenwriters**: Ted Allan,  John Cassavetes

**Producers**: Yoram Globus,  Menahem Golan

The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls who reunite after years apart. Exhilarating and risky, mixing sober realism with surreal flourishes, *Love Streams* is a remarkable film that comes at the viewer in a torrent of beautiful, erratic feeling. This inquiry into the nature of love in all its forms was Cassavetes’s last truly personal work.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Gena Rowlands treasures tonight on DVD and Blu-ray!

*The Neon Bible, Columbo: Playback (S4 D3), Hysterical Blindness*

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

Love Streams

### **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

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)

**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

**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**: 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

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

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

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 Staples Sisters, 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?

*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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

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

FLOATING CLOUDS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Laura Ellis

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode

7:15pm | **BLACK ANGEL**

8:36pm | Intermission

8:46pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

8:56pm | **BLUES IN THE NIGHT**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**BLACK ANGEL, 1946, Dir. Roy William Neill, 81 Mins, Universal Pictures, USA**

Originally released August 2, 1946

Kirk Bennett is sentenced to die for the murder of gorgeous actress Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), but his wife (June Vincent) won’t give up trying to prove his innocence. She desperately enlists the aid of Marty Blair (Dan Duryea), a pickled pianist on the skids who happens to be the victim’s husband! The amateur sleuths go undercover as a performing duo, tracing clues to a ritzy Sunset Strip nightclub run by shady operator Marko (Peter Lorre). Bringing extra heat is Broderick Crawford as a dogged LAPD police captain. As usual in Woolrich stories, things aren’t what they seem—leading to one of the writer’s most memorable and unexpected climaxes. Known for his smarmy, villainous turns in many films of the period, here Duryea had his first role as a leading man in one of the era’s best adaptations of a novel by Cornell Woolrich, the undisputed master of noir fiction. Featuring fantastic art direction by Martin Obzina and inventive camerawork by Paul Ivano.

FORMAT: 35mm

**BLUES IN THE NIGHT, 1941, Dir. Anatole Litvak, 92 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

Originally released November 15, 1941

The first noir film to delve into the jazz world, BLUES IN THE NIGHT details the rise and inevitable fall of a St. Louis band. They land their big break when they get booked at a New Jersey nightclub, but the band’s leader, played by Richard Whorf, falls under the spell of the club’s *femme fatale* owner. It doesn’t take long for the other members to sour, setting off a chain reaction of jealousy, betrayal, and, eventually, murder. The supporting cast is superb, made up of familiar noir faces like Jack Carson, Howard Da Silva and Lloyd Nolan, while the screenplay by Robert Rossen makes good on the lyrics of the tragic, Oscar-nominated title song. Future director Elia Kazan has his biggest movie role as the band’s clarinetist.

FORMAT: 35mm

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

BLACK ANGEL / BLUES IN THE NIGHT

In the most commercially successful Black comedy feature of its era, Eddie Murphy stands at the center of the Black Pack as Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, who leaves royal luxury for Queens, New York, in search of love on his own terms.

Robert Townsend’s audacious directorial debut remains a razor-sharp satire of Hollywood’s degrading and limited roles for Black actors. Townsend stars as Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor pressured to erase himself to fit an “Eddie Murphy type” while auditioning for an outlandish Blaxploitation knockoff. A foundational text of the Black Pack collective, the independently produced film insists on comedy as social critique — using satire not as escapism, but as a strategy to expose industry gatekeeping, reclaim authorship and speak truth to power.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: Robert Townsend. Screenwriters: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend. With: Robert Townsend, Anne-Marie Johnson, Helen Martin.

Comedy as Resistance: Hollywood Shuffle

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

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 (4/3)

Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens' fascinating experimental doc about the psychonautic scientist who tried to communicate with dolphins

JOHN LILLY & THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (2025)

**Screenwriters**: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

**Producer**: Stanley Kubrick

Vidiots invites you to go off the rails with Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s unhinged dark comedy triumph. With a pitch-black satirical humor, and three phenomenal performances from the legendary Peter Sellers, *Dr. Strangelove* is often considered one of the best films ever made. After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. Frenetic, chillingly hilarious, and perenially apropos to any epoch, it&#8217;s time to revel in this fascinating masterpiece all over again!

**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.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

**Screenwriters**: Melvyn Bragg, Norman Jewison, Tim Rice

**Producers**: Norman Jewison, Robert Stigwood

*What&#8217;s the buzz, tell me what&#8217;s a happenin&#8217;! *You know you can&#8217;t resist the most divine of Rock Operas from the pen of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the direction of dearly departed Norman Jewison. Follow Jesus and his disciples in his last days as a theater troupe acts out (and sings) the final days of the Christian savior, from meetings with Pontius Pilate, to the Last Supper, and beyond. The biblical musical spectacle that lives forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a Rock Opera? Try out these off-the-wall options!

*Phantom of the Paradise, The Apple, Shock Treatment, Listzomania*

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

Jesus Christ Superstar

**Screenwriter**: Georgi M. Unkovski

**Producers**: Ivan Unkovski,  Ivana Shekutkoska,  Katarina Prpic

Join us in the microcinema for Georgi M. Unkovski&#8217;s delightful coming-of-age triumph for the pink sheep in every family! 15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else. Winner of both an audience and jury award at Sundance, this international charmer (that features an actual pink sheep!) has a rhythm all its own.

DJ Ahmet

**Screenwriters**: Tsui Hark, Koan Hui

**Producer**: Tsui Hark

Adopted by a renowned swordsmith, a young man discovers that his biological father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs afoul of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront Lung.

The Blade

The Drama

In celebration of their collaborative, two-venue run of Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens’ JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE, 7th House and Brain Dead are thrilled to co-present Mike Nichols’s THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN (1973).&#8221;

*DAY OF THE DOLPHIN* imagines a world where the boundary between human and animal intelligence begins to dissolve. When a team of researchers successfully teaches dolphins to communicate in English, their breakthrough attracts the attention of powerful forces eager to weaponize the discovery.

The film draws direct inspiration from the pioneering work of Dr. John C. Lilly, whose real-life research into dolphin intelligence and communication captivated both the scientific community and the public imagination in the 1960s and ’70s. Lilly believed that dolphins possessed complex language and consciousness, and his experiments attempted to bridge the gap between species.

Released at the height of that cultural fascination, *DAY OF THE DOLPHIN* transforms Lilly’s radical ideas into a tense political thriller about the ethics of science, the limits of communication, and what might happen if we finally succeeded in speaking with another intelligent species. Presented alongside *JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE*, the film offers a fascinating glimpse into how Lilly’s extraordinary research rippled into popular culture.

The Day of the Dolphin

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

11:00am | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson. Book signing with Steven C. Smith for his new book, *Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema*.

12:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and author Steven C. Smith

12:10pm | **HANGOVER SQUARE**

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### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released February 7th, 1945

In this Edwardian noir, George Sanders is a Scotland Yard psychologist and Laird Cregar (in his final role) is a distinguished composer who moonlights as a serial killer. Linda Darnell steals the show as a conniving singer with a grisly sendoff. Bernard Herrmann’s “Concerto Macabre,” centerpiece of the film’s climax, is one of the most thrilling works composed for the cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson Introduction by Eddie Muller and author Steven C. Smith Book signing with Steven C. Smith for his new book, Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema, prior to the screening at 11:00am at the Egyptian Theatre, in partnership with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop. ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

HANGOVER SQUARE

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

4:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

4:10pm | **ANATOMY OF A MURDER**

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### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released July 1, 1959

One of the best courtroom movies ever made. James Stewart plays an Upper Peninsula of Michigan lawyer drawn out of retirement to represent an Army Lieutenant charged with murder. The Lieutenant admits to the crime despite having no memory of committing it, and Stewart’s character is given the unenviable task of mounting an “irresistible impulse” defense. The contrast between the scandal and the wholesome, small-town setting in which it’s discussed is perfectly realized by director Otto Preminger. The director constantly pushed the boundaries of what could be depicted onscreen, and ANATOMY OF A MURDER represents the platonic ideal in terms of blending entertainment with social commentary. Stewart earned a fifth and final Oscar nomination for his work here, but he’s given stiff competition from George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara and jazz luminary Duke Ellington, who also composed the score.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

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

ANATOMY OF A MURDER

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

7:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

7:10pm | **THE YELLOW CANARY**

8:43pm | Q&A with actor Pat Boone. Moderated by Eddie Muller.

9:23pm | **THE CRIMSON CANARY**

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### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THE YELLOW CANARY, 1963, Dir. Buzz Kulik, 93 Mins, USA**

Originally released May 15, 1963

Wait a minute—where’d this come from? A late-cycle film noir with a script by Rod Serling, from a novel by Whit (TOUCH OF EVIL) Masterson? Starring *Pat Boone* as an egomaniacal pop crooner whose only child is kidnapped for a king’s ransom? With Barbara Eden as his wife? And Jack Klugman the investigating cop? With a wall-to-wall jazz-pop score by Kenyon Hopkins? And a supporting cast that’s a Who’s Who of sixties favorites: Steve Forrest, Jesse White, Harold Gould, Milton Seltzer, Jeff Corey, Joe Turkel . . . Be here at the Egyptian Theatre as the Film Noir Foundation resurrects this pop culture obscurity in a brand-new digital restoration —**with star Pat Boone in person!** One of the first features on the résumé of veteran TV-director Buzz Kulik (PLAYHOUSE 90, TWILIGHT ZONE, WARNING SHOT, BRIAN’S SONG).

FORMAT: DCP

**THE CRIMSON CANARY, 1945, Dir. John Hoffman, 64 Mins, Universal Pictures, USA**

Originally released November 9, 1945

THE CRIMSON CANARY boasts two things that make B-movies so much fun: a great premise and a short runtime. A trumpet player gets locked up after the lead singer of his band gets whacked. The trumpeter’s fiancée sets out to find the real killer with help from a jazz-loving detective. The film’s Black-led musical numbers have little to do with its plot, which made them easier to cut for Southern censors, but they make up several of the film’s best moments. Coleman Hawkins rips through spirited renditions of “Rifftide” and “Hollywood Stampede,” while blues/folk legend Josh White brings down the house with his signature tune “One Meatball.” Featuring a memorably nasty performance by Claudia Drake (DETOUR) as the murdered singer.

FORMAT: 35mm

Q&A with actor Pat Boone. Moderated by Eddie Muller. Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi THE YELLOW CANARY World Premiere of New Digital Restoration by Film Noir Foundation and Cinema Preservation Alliance ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

THE YELLOW CANARY / THE CRIMSON CANARY

Robert Townsend pens a soulful love letter to Black popular music in this film loosely inspired by Motown-era vocal groups. It follows a fictional quintet from 1960s chart success through industry exploitation, infighting and addiction.

Here Eddie Murphy stands at the center of the Black Pack as Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, who leaves royal luxury for Queens, New York, in search of love on his own terms. The most commercially successful Black comedy feature of its era, this blockbuster is also a case study in power and authorship, as Murphy gives a tour de force performance of multiple characters and earns a “story by” credit. Ultimately, the film shows how box office clout enabled Black cultural specificity while embedding sharp critiques of race, class and respectability within mainstream studio comedy.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: John Landis. Screenwriter: David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein. With: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones.

98th Oscars Animated Feature Film Winner

11:00 AM

98th Oscars Best Picture Winner

7:30 PM

TRUE GRIT

2:00 PM

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN

7:30 PM

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

6:00 PM

Body Double

8:15 PM

SPIRITED AWAY

1:00 PM

THE SOPRANOS Season 3: 25th Anniversary Panel

7:00 PM

THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)(R) & SPINAL TAP 2: THE END CONTINUES (2025)(R)

THE DREAM & THE LIE

7:30 PM

Aama Studio: Threads of Legacy Film Salon

3:00 PM

THE THIN LINE

1:00 PM

PERFECT BLUE

4:00 PM

“Dis-moi,”

HISTOIRES D’AMÉRIQUE: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY,

6:30 PM

THE TRAP

10:00 PM

The Lickerish Quartet

Therese and Isabelle

6:00 PM

Nights in Black Leather

11:59 PM

To the Left of the Father

7:00 PM

Kung Fu Panda 2

12:30 PM

Harold and Maude

3:30 PM

Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps

5:00 PM

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

6:30 PM

Groove

9:00 PM

Project Hail Mary 70mm

Of Unknown Origin/Ben

7:30 PM