Double Feature Presentation!


STELLA DALLAS (1937, King Vidor, 106 minutes) 

When Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck), a working class woman, meets and marries the wealthy Stephen Dallas (John Boles), they quickly have a daughter named Laurel (Anne Shirley). Stella and Stephen struggle to stay happy as their class differences become a problem; when they finally separate, Laurel is caught in the middle of the divorce. Soon, Lauren becomes the center of Stella's life. Stella tries to be a good mother, but realizes that her daughter can flourish quite well without her.

 

followed by

 

UNDER THE SKIN (2014, Jonathan Glazer, 108 min.) 

Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who takes human form to prey on men—but ends up finding something like humanity within herself—in this bleak and startling thriller directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth). With its powerful combination of Johansson’s brave performance, the moody cinematography of Daniel Landin, and the naturalistic (often improvised) dialogue, Under the Skin is a one-of-a-kind science-fiction horror, aided greatly by the unnerving atonal music of Mica Levi’s first score for a feature film.



Stella Dallas will screen first, followed by a 15 minute intermission, then Under the Skin.

Stella Dallas + Under the Skin

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

FORMAT: 35mm

DSITRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

40th Anniversary ‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies’

DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Guy and Prisca plan a getaway at a stunning resort with their children, Trent and Maddox, hoping for a new start. But the resort’s private beach hides a terrifying secret. As hours pass, the group realizes they are aging rapidly—and escaping the beach may be impossible.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Co-presented by Beyond Fest ‘Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan’

Los Feliz Theatre

Grizzly / The Manitou

New Beverly Cinema

Join us for the second installation of Vidiots&#8217; one-of-a-kind signature series ***Physical Media Mind Melters!*** This time we&#8217;re taking you to the edges of the galaxy with intergalactic eye-popping, head-scratching shorts, clips, trailers, and more on 35mm, 16mm, VHS, and DVD, all culled from our 70,000-title video store and ever-expanding film collection. To maximize brain-meltage we&#8217;ll be projecting live on four different physical media formats, from unhinged 35mm trailers, to insane experimental animation, to the most mesmerizing and mysterious bits we can pull from the depths of our VHS shelves. Psychedelic, funny, weird, and all in celebration of physical media and the endless worlds beyond our reach, this is one night your eyeballs may never recover from (in the best possible way)! The spaced-out vibes don&#8217;t end with the featured program. Stick around after for a free drink and ease back down to earth.

Physical Media Mind-Melters: Vidiots in Space!

Vidiots

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

Back From The Dead

Vista Theatre

There’s No Business Like Show Business

Stalker

Academy Museum

Aero Theatre

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Klute

An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?

A Face in the Crowd

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The American Cinematheque is thrilled to announce a limited engagement of TAKE ME HOME, Liz Sargent’s feature length version of the 2024 PROOF Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner. From an award-winning short film to a world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival with the feature is an inspirational journey, and we wish the team the best as they bring this moving film around the world.

Anna (Anna Sargent, making her acting debut), a middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. Alongside her sister Emily (Ali Ahn) and her father (Victor Slezak), they must confront challenging questions about the future, but Anna remains determined to build a life where all of them can thrive.FORMAT: DCP

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WILLA

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Liz Sargent and executive producer Lydia Storie. Moderated by Kristen Lopez.Limited Engagement

TAKE ME HOME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE VILLAGE

Throne of Blood / Ugetsu

**Screenwriter**: Walter Thompson-Hernández

**Producers**: Josh Peters,  Saba Zerehi,  Ben Stillman

Join us in the microcinema for Walter Thompson-Hernández&#8217;s breathtaking father-son story about imagination, family, and the grace we extend to the people we love. In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should &#8212; full of myth, wonder, and unwavering belief.

If I Go Will They Miss Me

**Screenwriter**: Stephen Winter

**Producers**: Jason Kliot,  Joana Vicente

Vidiots and [**One Institute**](https://www.oneinstitute.org/about/) are thrilled to welcome writer/director **Stephen Winter** for a special 30th Anniversary screening of the new 4K Restoration of the radical and riotous New Queer Cinema treasure ***Chocolate Babies***!

A frenetic debut feature from writer/director Stephen Winter, *Chocolate Babies* unleashes a world of anarchic camp and unapologetic Black queer power in one of the hidden gems of New Queer Cinema, ripe for rediscovery and ready to be introduced to new audiences. Through a campaign of fabulous surprise attacks, an underground band of radical queer HIV+ activists, addicts, and drag queens take to the streets of New York City to combat conservative politicians and government apathy towards the AIDS crisis.

For the film’s 25th anniversary, Frameline has commissioned a 4K restoration of *Chocolate Babies* in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Outfest Legacy Project. Following its festival run in the mid-1990s (playing at SXSW, the Berlinale, and Frameline21), *Chocolate Babies* struggled to secure major distribution due to its radically independent Black queer vision, but eventually found a home at Frameline Distribution who championed the film and continued to bring it to new audiences. Frameline proudly presents the world premiere of this pristine restoration in rich color and vivid detail like never before.

*Chocolate Babies* is presented by Vidiots and community programming partners One Institute as part of the 2026 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, presented by One Institute.

**About One Institute:**

Founded in 1952, **One Institute** (formerly ONE Archives Foundation) is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the country, dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS history and stories through education, arts, and social justice programs. Our one-of-a-kind exhibitions and public programs connect LGBTQ+ history and contemporary culture to effect social change. Through unique K-12 teacher trainings, lesson plans, and youth mentorship programs, we empower teachers and students to bring queer history into classrooms and communities. As the independent community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, we promote the largest collection of LGBTQ+ materials in the world.

Chocolate Babies

The Old Dark House/The Bat

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

In 1945, after the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government consults spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the souls&#8217; resentment and agony of the victims culminate together to revive the evil Onmyoji, Yasunori Kato. Only a young, psychically imbued priests&#8217; apprentice will dare fight the evil magician.

Tokyo: The Last War

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Akira

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: New Zealand/USA/Czech Republic

‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies”

JOJO RABBIT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures: 
God Killing Himself.
Mother Earth.
Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone
The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth.
God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino

COUNTRY: USA

Limited Engagement New 4K Restoration Official Beyond Fest 2026 Selection Restoration personally supervised by filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Restored from the original 16mm negative and optical soundtrack. It was scanned and restored in 4K, and final grading was done at filmscan & more in Munich, Germany.

BEGOTTEN

Critters

Supernatural / Terror Aboard

From Dusk Till Dawn

Brian Butler returns to reveal the hidden mythic currents behind Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.

Kenneth Anger’s INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME w/ Brian Butler

Philosophical Research Society

Free. Bad artist welcome

Hosted by an art group based in Echo Park

BYOP: Bring Your Own Pen Drink & Draw!

Stories Books & Cafe

**Screenwriter**: Michael Cristofer

**Producers**: Neil Canton, Peter Guber, Jon Peters

Have a hell of a good time with Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and of course Cher in this devilishly sexy comedy based on the John Updike novel. Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted — at a cost — when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives and promises to grant them supernatural powers even as he charms each of them with his own. Now that they have their own powers, it&#8217;s time to turn the tables on their sinister seducer. With an iconic cast, fiercely funny dialogue, and tons of witchy fun, you&#8217;ll want to gather up your coven and get ready for all the sexy and savage sorcery!

**Picks from the Video Store**

It&#8217;s time to Cher the love with these treasures on physical media!

*Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Good Times, Moonstruck*

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

The Witches of Eastwick

**Screenwriter/ Producer**: James Bond III

One of the best films to be released on Troma&#8217;s label, James Bond III&#8217;s *Def by Temptation* is a smart, slick, and stylish tale of faith, temptation, and demons! Joel grew up in the church but has recently started questioning his beliefs. After sensing a supernatural presence from his deceased father, Joel becomes compelled to visit his cousin in New York. But shortly after arriving, they become embroiled in a series of mysterious homicides of local men, all of whom were last seen in the company of a mysterious and beautiful woman. Beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson and starring Kadeem Hardison and Samuel L. Jackson, this sole directorial effort from child actor James Bond III is a macabre, neon-tinged portrait of late 1980s Brooklyn. The movie blends supernatural horror and religious mysticism, punctuated by an electrifying hip hop and R&B soundtrack. Newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more bangers from Troma? Check out their section in Cult for more weird bloody fun!

*Bloodsucking Freaks, Christmas Evil, Touch me in the Morning*

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

Def by Temptation

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

The Tingler

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Snow White wins the hearts of the Seven Dwarfs and triumphs over an evil Queen in the film that launched Disney’s animation legacy.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Fun-Sized, Family-Friendly, Faintly Frightening Films’

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

35mm can be beautiful, but 16mm is *personal*. And when it’s a marathon of IB Technicolor 16mm prints, it’s both! Join Secret Sixteen founder Mike Williamson, Josh Miller (Killer Movies) and Bret Berg (Museum of Home Video) for a 12-hour sensorial feast of shockingly saturated colors and bloody night terrors — all screened from Secret Sixteen’s siqq collection of this wonderous format.

With enough decades, any print says bye-bye to its color except for the literal magic of Technicolor. This ancient occult art used 3x the amount of film to conjure 3x the joy in seeing unreal amounts of hues…the kind of shades that physically can’t be created today, as the company discontinued its dark arts in ’75.

**Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen.** What we can say is this six-film marathon is soaking in cursed body parts, heavyweight character actors, even heavier cloaks, liminal libraries and haunting hallways, sweaty demonology, boosted bustiers, gorgeous lighting, the walls closing in, wealthy reprobates, moody golems, boundless beliefs, hammy histrionics, masked murderers, meek mod psychopaths, rural isolation, “I killed your friend” vibes, danger, paranoia, bite marks, high fashion and quite a few instances of eye-popping palates matching a 4D printing process to give you an unparalleled moment in time. A pigment of your imagination.

SECRET SIXTEEN: TECHNICOLOR TERRORS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

SPANNING TIME is a cinephilic love letter to the humble photobooth, drawing on one hundred years of cinema from around the world to illustrate the machine’s enduring and universal power both to freeze time and to transcend it. Created by film archivist and photobooth historian Brian Meacham, the film tells the story of these beloved machines, from their public debut in 1926, at the dawn of film’s sound era, to their return to popularity for a new generation a century later. Photobooths and cinema have grown up in parallel, and from silent comedies of the 1920s to American indies of the 1990s, from Hong Kong action to the French New Wave, the film illustrates the quiet power these machines have held for generations of friends, lovers, travelers, spies, convicts, exhibitionists and anyone else who needed a quick portrait in the pre-selfie era. Through this encyclopedic collage made of selections from more than 150 films, both familiar and obscure, the versatile photobooth provides a space for privacy in public, creates lasting memories and becomes an unlikely hideout, time machine, even death chamber. Draw the curtain, raise the stool, insert a quarter and smile!

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

SPANNING TIME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson stars as “the devil” opposite three witches played by superstar actresses Susan Sarandon, Academy Award winner Cher and Michelle Pfieffer in this offbeat thriller with a comic twist. In the quaint New England town of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie yearn to meet the man of their dreams. One rainy night, the women each express an overpowering need for just one dynamic male capable of challenging their liberated spirits, a man who could become their inspiration, their joy, their… everything. But take care with what you dream, for your dream may come true… as it does for the Witches of Eastwick.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

This festive event supports **Silverlake Shorts,** a monthly short-film screening series championing independent filmmakers and animators in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the event will also support the work of **Saturday Morning Cartoons United**™, a Los Angeles 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to celebrating legacy cartoons and strengthening local communities through shared cultural experiences.

### **ABOUT THE SHORTS:**

**“Parrots,” 2023, Dir. Jennifer Nie, 6 Mins, USA**

“Parrots” is a 6 minute slice-of-life short film about two girls growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, language and the mundane moments that don’t feel big when they happen, but end up defining a big part of who we become. As they observe and repeat things they don’t yet understand, they live and grow in a world more connected than they realize.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Arnold Escapes from Church,” 1988, Dir. Craig Bartlett, 2 Mins, USA**

Our favorite football head Arnold goes to church and daydreams about the 23rd Psalm.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**“Pilot Episode,” 1996, Dirs. Craig Barlett and Tuck Tucker, 11 Mins**

Arnold accidentally knocks out a bully named Harold during a baseball game, and Harold gives Arnold 24 hours to live before he beats him to a pulp.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Stoop Kid,” 1996, Dirs. Kelly James, Larry Leichliter and Jamie Mitchell, 11 Mins**

When Arnold finds out that Stoop Kid is afraid to leave his stoop, he feels sorry for him and decides to help him overcome his fear.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Arnold’s Halloween,” 1997, Dir. Jamie Mitchell, 22 Mins**

Arnold and Gerald team up to carry out the ultimate Halloween prank, by deliberately faking a news radio broadcast of an alien invasion, causing widespread panic throughout town not seen since Orson Welles inadvertently did so in 1938!

FORMAT: DCP

**“Haunted Train,” 1996, Dirs. Larry Leichliter, Jamie Mitchell and Juli Murphy, 11 Mins**

On a boring summer night, Grandpa tries to liven things up by telling a story about haunted Train Number 25.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**HEY ARNOLD!, 1996, Nickelodeon, USA**

Created by Craig Bartlett, HEY ARNOLD! premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996 and quickly became one of the defining animated series of its generation. Set in the fictional urban neighborhood of Hillwood, the series followed fourth-grader Arnold Shortman and his friends, family and neighbors as they navigated childhood, friendship, school and growing up. Known for its distinctive visual style, memorable characters, heartfelt storytelling and acclaimed music by composer Jim Lang, HEY ARNOLD! balanced humor with surprisingly thoughtful stories about family, identity, friendship and life in the city. From Arnold and Gerald to Helga, Phoebe, Harold, Rhonda, and the unforgettable residents of the Sunset Arms boarding house, the series created a world that felt both imaginative and deeply relatable.

Originally airing for five seasons, HEY ARNOLD! became a lasting part of Nickelodeon’s legacy and continues to inspire a devoted fanbase decades after its debut. In 2026, fans are celebrating 30 years of HEY ARNOLD! and the enduring heart, humor, music and characters that made Hillwood feel like home.

Panel with creator Craig Bartlett, composer Jim Lang, and actors Anndi McAfee, Justin Shenkarow and Olivia Hack. Special appearance by actor Lane Toran. Moderated by Andre Meadows. Special introduction featuring live music by composer Jim Lang 30th Anniversary Celebration Costume Contest! Co-presented by Silverlake Shorts and Saturday Morning Cartoons United

Hey Arnold!: A Spooktacular 30th Anniversary Screening

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A heartless industrialist has an evil plan: to level Arnold’s neighborhood and build a huge shopping mall. With time running out, someone needs to save the day. And that someone is Arnold.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by screenwriter and series creator Craig Bartlett Co-presented by Silverlake Shorts and Saturday Morning Cartoons United

HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Masque of the Red Death / House of Usher

The Butterfly Effect

*Please note: entry to the screening & reading is ticketed for the general public and free for LARB members. LARB Members can enter their Member Code upon checkout. *

*Seating for the screening & reading is extremely limited. Guests who were unable to purchase an online ticket may add their names to the standby list for the screening & reading upon arrival. Online tickets will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime; at that time, any unclaimed seats will be released for in-store purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. All Sales Final. *

*All screening & reading attendees are welcome to attend the launch party at no additional charge. *

LARB: Scene Screening & Reading

Click here for tickets to the attend LARB: Scene Launch Party after the screening.

LARB: Scene Launch Party

Now Instant Image Hall

1922 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • This is silent horror at its purest. And the behind-the-scenes story is amazing: it was made without permission as a Dracula film, and a court later ordered the prints destroyed. It survived against the odds. Actor Max Schreck’s makeup is one of the most enduring and memorable designs in horror. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Nosferatu

Old Town Music Hall

**Screenwriters**: Arthur Rankin Jr.,  Len Korobkin,  Harvey Kurtzman

**Producers**: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Get ready for the wildest, cutest, stop-motion spooky soiree ever made when all your favorite monsters (and even a pint-sized Peter Lorre) get together to sing, dance, and get groovy in this Rankin and Bass animated classic! If you&#8217;ve been looking for the kiddo gateway to all the classic horror monsters, look no further than this adorable animated shindig from the people that animated all our favorite holidays! When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein&#8217;s title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands! Bring your little monster lovers, or your stop-motion stan besties for the party of the season!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a Rankin and Bass section for all the cutest animated holidays and more!

*The Daydreamer, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Here Comes Peter Cottontail*

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

Mad Monster Party?

**Screenwriter**: Steve Tesich

**Producer**: Peter Yates

Get on your bikes and ride down to Vidiots for this coming-of-age classic on two wheels with a special pre-screening conversation with the legendary **Paul Dooley**!

Join us for Peter Yates&#8217; keenly observed character study and underdog teen triumph. Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends&#8217; and parents&#8217; annoyance. With affectionate characterization, a remarkable cast, and an un-clichéd underdog story for everyone, *Breaking Away* remains an effortless classic of 1970s cinema!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Paul Dooley tonight &#8211; no bicycle needed!

*Strange Brew, Waiting for Guffman, A Perfect Couple*

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

Breaking Away

**Screenwriter**: John Wilson

**Producers**: John Wilson,  Clark Filio,  Shirel Kozak,  Allie Viti

One part documentary, one part camcorder video essay, and one part the driest yet funniest of comedies, John Wilson extends his unique genre-bending style from the small screen to the big with this magnificently absurd examination of the literal ground below our feet. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world&#8217;s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry. So crawl out from under that rock and hit the pavement to catch this singular feature that only John Wilson could have made!

The History of Concrete

**Screenwriter**: David Cronenberg

**Producer**: Claude Héroux

We&#8217;re celebrating **Video Store Day** with horror maestro David Cronenberg&#8217;s VCR-centric classic ***Videodrome***!

*Long Live the New Flesh! * The master of body horror, David Cronenberg brings us one of his most viscerally disturbing treatises on voyeurism, sleaze, and the pursuit of the deepest of underground entertainment. As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon *Videodrome*, a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. After his girlfriend (Blondie&#8217;s Debbie Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind *Videodrome* and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought. So pop a tape in your abdomen and get ready for Video Store Day at Vidiots!

Vidiots celebrates **International Video Store Day** with a whole day reveling in the glory of physical media and the communal need for public access to video rental stores! We will have specials in the video store, an enormous physical media sale, and a special screening of David Cronenberg&#8217;s ***Videodrome***, all to relive a magical time when there was a video store in every neighborhood!

From 11:00am &#8211; 4:00pm our Microcinema will be packed to the rafters with tons of VHS, DVDs, Blu-Rays and even Laserdiscs for sale at bargain prices!

Videodrome

**Screenwriter**: Joe Lo Truglio

**Producers**: Kara Baker,  Joe Lo Truglio,  Joe Mortimer

With writer/director **Joe Lo Truglio** in person for the October 15th screening!

Join us in the microcinema for Joe Lo Truglio&#8217;s nail-biting nightmare of the darkness that lurks in the woods and inside us. In his directorial debut feature, veteran comedian and actor Joe Lo Truglio displays his darker side with this satisfying slow burn of isolation, PTSD, and pyschosis. After a violent attack, a woman searches for strength in the solitude of a lookout job, but is overwhelmed by something darker. With a phenomenal cast and a slow and steadily unhinged descent into madness and feminine rage, culminating in a gory and hallucinatory climax, you won&#8217;t want to skip this trip to the nature&#8230;of revenge!

October 16th will be screening only without guests.

Outpost

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

V/H/S/Halloween

October 18 · 6pm–10pm at Brain Dead Studios.

50/50 Horror is a one-night international short film festival dedicated to platforming and connecting the next generation of horror talent.

Past editions have brought together filmmakers and industry guests from CAA, UTA, WME, A24, Blumhouse, Monkeypaw and more.

Each ticket includes entry + food + popcorn & soda.

Parking is limited and Uber/Lyft is recommended.

50/50 HORROR

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Unpredictable and quite special, this off-the-chain semi-sequel to WILD AT HEART stars Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem and James Gandolfini in the wildest movie of any of their respective careers. Directed by Spanish provocateur Álex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST, ACCION MUTANTE), PERDITA’s nightmare splatter universe lingers in your imagination in an equal but different way than Lynch’s signature style.

Here, Perez reimagines Isabella Rossellini’s melancholic character into a tightly-coiled woman on the edge — one in love with an even crazier Bardem, who’s casually into blood rituals, bank/grave-robbing, extortion and wholesale slaughter. Gandolfini is just awesome as the bumbling FBI agent on their trail. This thing rocks.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: Spain

Q&A with author and screenwriter Barry Gifford ‘Barry Gifford: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ 4K Restoration by Severin Films

PERDITA DURANGO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Hailed as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly,” poet, author and screenwriter Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the Sailor and Lula novels that inspired David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART. Featuring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor, ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO brilliantly brings to life Gifford’s autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and screenwriter Rob Christopher and screenwriter Barry Gifford ‘Barry Gifford: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO

1974 • Introduction by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • Filmmaker Mel Brooks delivers a loving, laugh-out-loud tribute to classic horror in one of the funniest comedies of all time. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white with vintage-style sets, this is a pitch-perfect parody of Universal’s Frankenstein films.  • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Young Frankenstein

**Screenwriter**: Robert Malcolm Young

**Producer**: Jerome Courtland

Aliens! Kid-psychics! Black Cats! And Puppets! Come see the magically witchy movie that made Kim Richards a star! Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary psychic powers and the cutest black cat. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian&#8217;s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Can they escape the clutches of the evil capitalists and use their powers for good? Bring your little spellcasters to this fantastical adventure for your whole family or coven!

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

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

*The Worst Witch, Something Wicked this way Comes, Casper*

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

Escape to Witch Mountain

**Starring**: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer

*D&#8217;oh!* Spooky season just got more animated as **Vidiots** and our friends at **Stonecutters LA** are saluting one of the longest running Halloweenie television legacies ever &#8211; the brilliantly whacked-out *Treehouse of Horror* from *The Simpsons*. Join us as we screen **clips** from some of the best segments of its 30+ year run, host **trivia** for the Simpsons geek in your life (with prizes!), and chat with some special **surprise guests** from the *Simpsons* extended family! Come dressed as your favorite four fingered *Simpsons* character, there will be a **costume contest** as well as a **raffle**. Don&#8217;t miss this one of a kind afternoon of trivia, treats, tricks, and your favorite dysfunctional cartoon family!

All ticket sales and event proceeds directly benefit Vidiots Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

A Tribute to Treehouse of Horror

**Screenwriter**: William Peter Blatty

**Producer**: William Peter Blatty

Grab your crucifix and hold your loved ones close as Vidiots delves into the depths of demonic horror on glorious celluloid!  Linda Blair shot her way into the stuff of cinematic legend as 12-year-old Regan MacNeil in this twisted, horrifying classic &#8211; considered by many to be the scariest film of all time. Young Regan begins to adopt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith. A blood-curdling masterwork from the late great William Friedkin, *The Exorcist* is ready to possess you once again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to bring home more creepy kids? Try out these deep cuts from our horror and cult sections!

*The Possession* (2012), *Kiss Daddy Goodbye, The Visitor*

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

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The Exorcist on 35mm

## Part of the 2026 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, presented by One Institute.

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Angel's Body Temperature (天使の体温, 2001) opens on Aketo, a 20-year-old Tokyo college student with a lover, Hiroshi, who lives in Kyoto. They ache. They wander. When a young woman named Harumi drifts into Aketo's orbit and into his apartment, the film wallows in nostalgia and alienation. Shot on digital video with a grainy, restless texture - like a relic too quickly-forgotten on VHS.

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Directed by Akihiro Suzuki, Angel's Body Temperature belongs to a body of Japanese queer cinema from the late 1990s and early 2000s that has remained almost entirely invisible to Western audiences - a lost chapter of New Queer Cinema unfolding parallel to the movement's celebrated American and European counterparts. Suzuki's film shares that era's preoccupation with young men adrift in cities. Outside of directing, Suzuki notably programmed New Queer Cinema for Japan and even co-produced Latin Boys Go to Hell.

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The screening will be introduced by Dakota Noot, who contributed a commentary track to the film's recent North American Blu-ray release from Kani Releasing. A Q&A will follow, along with a virtual interview with director Akihiro Suzuki, offering rare direct access to a filmmaker whose work is only now finding the audience it deserves.

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## Sunday, 10/187:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

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## $10 general admission.

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**Dakota Noot** is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He uses drawings, paintings, and installations to create animal-human hybrids that explore rural yet fantastical, queer identities. Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, he continues to show in both North Dakota and Los Angeles, including solo and two-person shows at Highways Performance Space, MuzeuMM, and PØST. Noot has exhibited in group shows at Charlie James Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Torrance Art Museum and “Queer Biennial: What if Utopia?” at LAST Projects. His series of cutout drawing-installations have been shown at Art in Odd Places, LA Freewaves, Cerritos College Art Gallery, and Otis College. Noot has been featured in Hi-Fructose magazine. Outside of art-making, Noot has a dedication to pinku-eiga (pink film). He co-hosts a podcast on pink film, titled Two in the Pinku. Noot is currently writing a book a gay pinku (barazoku). He has contributed booklet essays, video essays, and audio commentaries to Vinegar Syndrome, Klubb Super 8, and 88 Films.

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**‍***Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

Angel's Body Temperature (2001) pres. by One Institute

WHAMMY!

The Seven Year Itch

In the Mouth of Madness in 4K

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

Hereditary

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

DR. BUTCHER, M.D. sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of VHS gorehounds and forever set an insane standard for Italian mad doctor/zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide. Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE) and Alexandra Delli Colli (THE NEW YORK RIPPER) star in this blood orgy of gut-munching, eyeball-gouging and face-chopping originally known as ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST, which a notorious American distributor would then re-edit, re-title and re-release as a certified grindhouse masterpiece. As a bonus, this is one of the rare Italian cannibal movies that features zero onscreen animal violence.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Severin Films

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents DR. BUTCHER, MD

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

### ABOUT THE FILM:

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies’

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Whispers

Art cinema meets eerie horror in this hypnotic ’70s cult classic—a somnambulant fever dream of seaside desolation and gathering dread.

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973) — A Hypnotic, Vibe-Drenched Cult Classic

**Screenwriters**: Martin Donovan, David Koepp

**Producers**: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey

Bring your best frenemies and get ready for Vidiots epic annual Halloween Shindig! We&#8217;ll be kicking off the night with extra spooky tunes and vibes before diving into the everlasting classic dark comedy ***Death Becomes Her***, followed by more Halloweenie revelry and plenty of spooky Vidiots fun. So, put on your costumes, bring your besties, and come for one killer party!

The quest for eternal youth is a bitch! National treasures Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as best frenemies who will stop at nothing to keep their youthful good looks and the love of Bruce Willis. When Isabella Rossellini offers up a magical immortality potion, the rivalry intensifies to deadly and devilishly funny heights. A marvelously twisted dark comedy that lives on forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We would die for Goldie Hawn! Take home more ridiculous classics from one of America&#8217;s funniest ladies!

*Private Benjamin, Housesitter, Overboard*

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

Death Becomes Her + Vidiots Halloween Party

**Screenwriter**: Joan Tewkesbury

**Producer**: Robert Altman

Part political thriller, part comedy, part musical, part whirling dervish, this kaleidoscopic symphony of celluloid could only be conducted by the maestro himself, Robert Altman. Dozens of characters&#8217; lives intersect in the bars, recording studios, music halls, hospitals, and airports of Music City, leading to a surprising and devastating climax. With overlapping soundtracks of dialogue, political rhetoric, and country music (written and performed by its stars including Karen Black and Ronee Blakley) and a cavalcade of fascinating characters that shoot for stardom, or fall from it, this film is a one-of-a-kind exercise in flawlessly-executed excess. Funny, cynical, and sonically enduring, you won&#8217;t want to miss a beat of *Nashville*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more physical media from maestro Altman tonight!

*A Wedding, California Split, The Long Goodbye*

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

Nashville

The Leech Woman

An Evening of Short Films by Women Directors

Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks," Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice, however, struggles with his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his undeniable urges. But while staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice is seduced by the affectionate and yearning servant Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), an event that brings about profound changes in Maurice's life and outlook.

Maurice

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, QUERELLE finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.

Querelle

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Shocking, outrageous and poetic, *JIGOKU* (HELL, a.k.a. *THE SINNERS OF HELL*) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, JIGOKU, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

JIGOKU

For ticket holders for preceding Henson event only! A free-with-RSVP screening of 3 eps of Henson's fairy & folk tale television series!

PRIVATE RSVP for TINKERDEE TICKET HOLDERS! Jim Henson's THE STORYTELLER

**Screenwriters**: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe

**Producers**: Rupert Harvey, Peter Heller, Lloyd Segan

Vidiots is *dying* to welcome back legendary director **Ernest R. Dickerson** for a special screening of his cult classic horror starring Snoop Dogg &#8211; ***Bones*** on glorious 35mm celluloid!

Snoop Dogg haunts the streets in Ernest R. Dickerson&#8217;s wildly entertaining mash-up of Blaxploitation and horror. Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood to its former glory with the help of the iconic Pam Grier. Grisly, gruesome, with just the right pinch of schlock, Ernest Dickerson&#8217;s *Bones* brings the horror to the hood.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more killer flicks from the great Ernest R. Dickerson on glorious physical media tonight!

*Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, Futuresport, Surviving the Game*

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

Bones on 35mm

Hocus Pocus/The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Invincible and Bee are low level criminals who spend their days selling bootleg VCDs (precursors to DVDs that were popular in Asia) at the mall. Their boss sends them on a routine job during which they accidentally kill a pedestrian. To keep their crime hidden, they decide the best place to hide the body is the mall. But, to their shock, the body they hit was infected by an extremely infectious bio-weapon that spreads to the mall’s patrons. What follows is an all night battle to stay alive while trapped in a neon-lit shopping center.

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Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present an extremely rare screening of *Bio Zombie* directed by Wilson Yip (*Ip Man*, *Flash Point*)*.* This film is Hong Kong’s answer to *Dawn of the Dead* and is recommended for fans of *Idle Hands*, *Resident Evil*, and fluorescent frights.

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## WEDNESDAY, 10/217:30P DOORS8:00P SCREENING

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**‍***Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

BIO ZOMBIE (1998), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment

Dark Star with Captain Voyeur

Join us for a day of learning, inspiration, and networking. Designed for high school educators, this program explores approaches for teaching historical counter-narratives through 20th and 21st-century artworks and archival materials from Getty's collection. Explore primary sources that reflect themes of community, identity, and resistance with curators, participate in art activities, and discuss how to meaningfully incorporate the materials into high school learning environments. 

The resources shared in this program feature artists Alison Saar, Marcus Lyon, PESTS, and Shepard Fairey; architect Paul R. Williams; and photojournalists George Rodriguez and Ted Soqui.  

This program is geared towards ethnic studies teachers and any high school educators interested in incorporating themes of community, identity, and resistance into their curricula through art. The content connects with English Language Arts, History/Social Science, and Visual Arts curriculum standards, as well as the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. 


Community, Identity, and Resistance in Art for High School Educators

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In 1970s LA, struggling comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) hits it big with his raunchy alter ego, Dolemite, then risks it all to take his act to the big screen.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

DOLEMITE IS MY NAME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures:

God Killing Himself.

Mother Earth.

Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone

The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth. God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino

COUNTRY: USA

Do You Love Me

**Producers**: Alison Byrne Fields,  Josh Penn

With director **Sam Green** in conversation with **Dominic Willsdon**, Executive Director of IDA after the October 22nd screening!

Join us in the microcinema for an-all-too-human triumph of documentary filmmaking, Sam Greene&#8217;s profound and entertaining affirmation of life, The* Oldest Person in the World.  *Green creates a decade-long odyssey chronicling the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. As the title inevitably passes from one supercentenarian to the next, acclaimed filmmaker Sam Green traverses the globe to meet each new record holder, his personal fascination with what the title means becoming entangled with events and milestones in his own life. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.

The Oldest Person in the World

**Screenwriters**: Martin Donovan, David Koepp

**Producers**: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey

Bring your best frenemies and get ready for Vidiots epic annual Halloween Shindig! We&#8217;ll be kicking off the night with extra spooky tunes from **DJ Jeli** and creeped out vibes before diving into the everlasting classic dark comedy ***Death Becomes Her***, followed by more Halloweenie revelry and plenty of spooky Vidiots fun. So, put on your costumes, bring your besties, and come for one killer party!

The quest for eternal youth is a bitch! National treasures Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as best frenemies who will stop at nothing to keep their youthful good looks and the love of Bruce Willis. When Isabella Rossellini offers up a magical immortality potion, the rivalry intensifies to deadly and devilishly funny heights. A marvelously twisted dark comedy that lives on forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We would die for Goldie Hawn! Take home more ridiculous classics from one of America&#8217;s funniest ladies!

*Private Benjamin, Housesitter, Overboard*

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

Dracula's Daughter/Frankenstein's Daughter

The George Stevens Lecture on Directing presents Giant in 4K

Vampires in 4K with Memoirs of an Invisible Man in 35mm

Selected by Sammy Harkham: &#8220;A movie to see if you love drugs or have a large collection of mad magazines or listen to 90s hard rock or jack off to Basil Wolverton drawings or jack off to Gumby jacking off or laugh at Will Elder’s chicken fat or rent movies if Screaming Mad George is in the credits or watch YouTube clips of old borscht belt comedians or only like Steve Johnson when he’s more coked out than usual or you think Randy Quaid is under appreciated or you just like watching kids falling out of airplanes, Freaked is for YOU.&#8221;

Freaked

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Riding the J-horror wave spawned by RINGU and AUDITION, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE is one of the key 2000s films from Japan that redefined horror’s cultural landscape. A social worker visits an elderly woman at her house. The woman appears deeply disturbed, but that’s nothing compared to the shapeless black void — also known as “Kayako” — that lurks in an upstairs hallway. Quiet, creepy, and with bursts of unexpected intensity, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE combines liminal spaces and creepypasta chills to rattle your skeleton. There’s nothing scarier than not knowing what’s scaring you.

Ju-on: The Grudge

Join us for a special screening of the 2025 documentary *Nova ’78*, that chronicles the 1978 Nova Convention centered on William S. Burroughs and New York’s downtown avant-garde. After the screening, artist Julia Heyward performs her electronic-vocal monologue from the now-legendary event. Heyward then joins director Aaron Brookner for a Q&A about the convention, the recovered archive, and bringing *Nova ’78* to the screen.

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Created from 44 rolls of recovered and newly discovered film footage shot by filmmaker Howard Brookner, *Nova ’78* plunges viewers into the legendary Nova Convention, a three-day gathering celebrating countercultural talisman William S. Burroughs. Organized by Sylvère Lotringer, James Grauerholz, and John Giorno, the 1978 convention gave form to something already in the air in downtown New York: the sense that the Beats’ anti-establishment experiments with language, performance, and media were a consequential inheritance of a younger avant-garde, including the emerging No Wave scene, who were confronting many of the same anxieties about humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.

That lineage comes vividly into view as Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg take the convention stage alongside Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Anne Waldman and others, capturing a moment when Beat culture, experimental performance, minimalist music, punk and No Wave were all brushing against one another.

*Nova ’78* also preserves the atmosphere of its tense era. Political upheaval, threats to civil liberties, environmental anxiety, and the specter of nuclear catastrophe surface throughout the film, giving urgency to the artists’ experiments with language, technology, performance, and mass media. Burroughs’s longstanding fascination with systems of communication and control resonates sharply with this unsettled late-1970s landscape, as a younger generation searches for new forms through which to respond.The film also features previously unseen footage of William S. Burroughs, filmed by Howard Brookner with a young Jim Jarmusch working as sound recordist, including material from a journey to Colorado.

Rather than explain that moment from a distance, directors Rodrigo Areias and Aaron Brookner—Howard Brookner’s nephew and steward of his archive—let the recovered footage unfold on its own terms, through shots of performances, conversations, audiences, and unexpected encounters. The result is a vivid portrait of an artistic community in motion, aware of its predecessors while already becoming a reference point for what came next.

#### About the Performance
For this special Getty presentation, artist Julia Heyward appears in person to perform her celebrated harmonizer-modified vocal monologue Keep Moving Buddy, debuted at the Nova Convention as part of a tuxedo-clad double act with Laurie Anderson. Heyward then joins director Aaron Brookner for a conversation.

Presented as part of Ever Present and in dialogue with the October 4 program [A Moveable Feast of No: No Wave Women with Adele Bertei][1], this event extends the series’ exploration of the histories, affinities, and artistic lineages surrounding No Wave.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/ever-present-moveable-feast-no-wave

Ever Present: NOVA ’78 — with Julia Heyward and Aaron Brookner

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an all-consuming search. Armed with self-built boats, drones and underwater cameras, he relentlessly scours the river’s depths. As months pass, while his own family struggles to live with the uncertainty of Chris’s disappearance, Daniel begins helping other families with missing loved ones find answers – and, at times, the closure that continues to elude him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: Poland/France

Q&A with filmmaker Michał Marczak Advance Screening

CLOSURE

Aliens

Experience one of Australian horror’s great underknown classics —an eerie, dreamlike slow burn mystery that builds to an explosive finale!

NEXT OF KIN (1982)—A Slow Burn Pressure Cooker Ozploitation Horror Classic!

**Screenwriter**: Wes Craven

**Producer**: Robert Shaye

*One, two&#8230; Freddy&#8217;s coming for you!* The teenagers on Elm Street are having a hard time sleeping &#8211; some creep with knives for fingers keeps terrorizing them in their dreams. When her friends begin to die off one by one, Nancy Thompson has got to find a way to track the madman in her own nightmares in order to stop him once and for all in the waking world. Wes Craven&#8217;s original nightmare and the start of a monstrous 20-year franchise, this first installment of Freddy remains the most terrifying of the series and is considered one of the best horror movies of all time. So, get your hall pass and head down to the boiler room, because the man of your dreams is waiting for you!

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

A Nightmare on Elm Street

**Screenwriters**: Yeon Sang-ho,  Choe Gyu-seok

**Producers**: Hailey Yoomin Yang,  Sung Joon-ho

Our microcinema is going to the undead with horror master Yeon Sang-ho&#8217;s (*Train to Busan*) new Korean zombie thriller starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan. Professor Se-jeong (Jun) is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations. With new and fascinating ideas that bring the zombie genre into brilliant new territory of collective consciousness and mold networks, and the kind of action and pathos Yeon Sang-ho is best at, this is a no brainer for any horrorphile!

Colony

**Screenwriter**: Matthew Robbins, Guillermo del Toro

**Producers**: Ole Bornedal,  B.J. Rack

Don&#8217;t bug out &#8211; we&#8217;ve got the creature feature your Friday night has been missing &#8211; a Guillermo del Toro giant mutant cockroach movie starring Mira Sorvino and international superstar Giancarlo Giannini! After wiping out a massive population of disease-carrying cockroaches in Manhattan with a genetically engineered mutant cockroach breed, scientists discover they&#8217;ve created something much more deadly &#8211; an enormous breed of bug that can mimic the human form. If you&#8217;ve been waiting for the time to watch Oscar winners battle giant bugs on our big screen, your wait is over!

**Picks from the Video Store**

October&#8217;s a great month to visit our Del Toro director&#8217;s section for all your favorite Gothic gems on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K!

*Crimson Peak, Hellboy, Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth*

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

Mimic

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

The Frighteners

Creepshow

## Gold Standard Productions presents a Halloween season screening of their debut feature horror film BLOOD BARN, released this year as a Screambox Exclusive. Cast and creators in person!

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In the summer of 85', Josie, a camp counselor, gathers her six closest friends for a final weekend at her family's secluded barn before they part ways for college. As buried secrets from her family's past emerge, a malevolent spirit begins to possess each counselor, hell-bent on vengeance. Josie must confront her family's dark history to stop the bloodshed before sunrise, or become the next victim of the Blood Barn.

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## FRIDAY, 10/237:30P DOORS8:00P SCREENING

Filmmakers in person!

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## $10 general admission.

***Basic*** *&* ***Microcinephile*** *members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply*.* Don't have a membership? Get one* *[here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership)*.

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**‍***Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

BLOOD BARN (2025) w/ filmmakers in person!

Hotel Transylvania

Blade in 4K

Horror of Dracula in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

Films coming soon.

21st Annual Horrorthon Hosted by Corn Gorn, the Living God!

21st Annual Horrorthon

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

Tuesday, 10/6

Egyptian Theatre

Stella Dallas + Under the Skin

7:30 PM

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Los Feliz Theatre

DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS

7:00 PM

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OLD

10:00 PM

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New Beverly Cinema

Grizzly

The Manitou

7:30 PM

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Vidiots

Physical Media Mind-Melters: Vidiots in Space!

7:30 PM

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Vista Theatre

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

12:30 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:30 PM

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Back From The Dead

2:00 PM

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Tuesday, 10/6