The Witches

30th Anniversary of The Craft

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Paranormal researcher Richard Johnson leads a team of clairvoyants (Julie Harris, Claire Bloom) to determine if the notorious, bad karma-filled Hill House is truly haunted. What he doesn’t bargain for is intensely neurotic Harris developing an unhealthy sensitivity to the mansion’s evil-charged atmosphere. Based on Shirley Jackson’s novel *The Haunting of Hill House*, this is one of the all-time classics of the genre.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: UK

THE HAUNTING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces a frightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a poltergeist. Late one night, 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set… At first, the spirits that invade the Freeling’s home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) turn to an exorcist (Zelda Rubinstein) in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg.​

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

POLTERGEIST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Aero Theatre

The Freelings&#8217; suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the &#8216;other side&#8217;. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

Poltergeist

You’ve heard the whispers. You’ve seen the hype. Now experience the horror phenomenon that has audiences obsessed. Come see what everyone is talking about&#8230;or come back because you love this movie more than anything in the whole f***ing world!

Obsession

Brain Dead Studios

As legend has it, the malevolent ghost of La Llorona wanders along waterways searching for her two children who have drowned (either by her hand or by the hands of others) and seeks to avenge the man who has abused and abandoned her. She is an ominous figure whose apparition is preceded by the sound of her laments. Those who hear her cries are marked for death. In Jayro Bustamante’s film, these cries are intertwined with calls for social justice and solidarity within Indigenous communities.

DCP. Director: Jayro Bustamante. Screenwriters: Jayro Bustamante, Gustavo Matheu. With: María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kénefic.

In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s apocalyptic ghost fiction, *Kaïro*, the technologization of contemporary life leads to the collapse of human relations and communication, and the loss of a shared history. A classic of techno-horror cinema, exemplary of Japanese cinema’s reinvention of the *Kaidan* or spirit story genre, *Kaïro* remains one of the most memorable evocations of modern technologies of communication as spectral conduits. Feeding on the growing uncertainty between touch and vision, the film stands as a transitional cinematic experiment, between so-called digital dematerialization and the eventuality of spectral forms of corporeality.

DCP. Director/screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With: Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki.

La Llorona / Pulse

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Deborah Kerr brilliantly plays a repressed governess convinced that ghosts haunt the mansion and grounds of her innocent young charges (Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin). Jack Clayton’s gothic psychological thriller was inspired by Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” and adapted with the help of Truman Capote.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK

‘You Can’t Stream That On Television’

THE INNOCENTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star with Bruce Willis in Robert Zemeckis’ outrageously entertaining comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life… and death. Isabella Rossellini is a beautiful enchantress who changes their lives—and deaths—forever in this hilarious dark comedy with ground-breaking special effects.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

DEATH BECOMES HER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After years of slumber, the legendary vampire has awakened and found acceptance in a tattooed, pierced and black-clad world. He’s a rock star. And his awesome goth-riffed sound has echoed around the globe…and stirred to life the fearsome Mother of All Vampires (Aaliyah, in her final film role).

Based on *The Vampire Chronicles* by Anne Rice, whose work previously came to the screen in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

At 16, Justine is a brilliant, promising student and a strict vegetarian. But when she starts veterinary school, she quickly encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time and faces the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self emerges.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Los Feliz Theatre

Beetlejuice

Homicidal / Mr. Sardonicus

Halloween: H20

New Beverly Cinema

1925 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Robert York on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduced by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • In this original silent version of “Phantom” Lon Chaney's performance evokes both terror and sadness, even in the early scenes when only his shadow is shown. There is nothing like the original! • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Phantom of the Opera

Old Town Music Hall

Vidiots invites you and all your little witches and goblins to our annual **“Unscary” Halloween**,** **a free, all-ages, sensory-friendly Halloween-themed community event.

We&#8217;ll bring the **pumpkins** for carving and decorating, and we&#8217;ll have Vidiots-style **trick-or-treating**, tons of **tasty treats** for kiddos and grown-ups alike, a **free screening** of not-so-spooky All-Ages shorts, A special puppetty visit from our besties at **Bob Baker Marionette Theater**, a costume parade for the littles, and cauldrons full of magic and merriment, including delicious candy treats from our friends at [**Lawdie&#8217;s**](https://lawdiescandy.com). You just bring your Halloween spirit!

**11am &#8211; 12:00pm ** &#8211; Doors open and pumpkin carving begins in the video store!

**12:00pm** **&#8211; 12:30pm**&#8211; Costume Parade and Eagle Theatre trick-or-treating!

**1:00pm** &#8211; All-Ages Halloweenie short films in the Eagle!

Please RSVP above. As this is a free event, seating for the screening will be first-come first-serve and not guaranteed, but everyone is welcome in the rest of the venue for an Unscary good time!

**Sensory-friendly features:**

Gentle lighting and un-scary images, Reduced volume, Reserved, distanced seating options for puppet show and screening, Designated rest and quieter space in our intimate Microcinema

Vidiots Annual “Unscary” Halloween

**Screenwriters**: William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley

**Producers**: Carl Laemmle Jr.

Openly queer film director James Whale&#8217;s gothic masterpiece weaves the artistic style of German Expressionism, a distinctly camp sensibility, and a story of otherness that resonates throughout history. One of the greatest artistic triumphs of the Universal monster empire, this all-time classic features electric performances by Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester. Bleak and beautiful, this may be your grandmother&#8217;s monster movie, but it&#8217;s still fresh and iconic enough to be yours too!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Boris tonight for one creepy weekend!

*The Haunted Strangler, Targets, Black Sabbath*

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

Bride of Frankenstein

**Screenwriter**: Zach Cregger, Shay Hatten

**Producers**: Robert Kulzer,  Roy Lee,  Miri Yoon,  Carter Swan,  Asad Qizilbash

Have a bloody good time in our microcinema as Zach Cregger&#8217;s newest horror triumph takes over for Halloween Weekend! From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger *(Weapons, Barbarian)* comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the *Resident Evil* franchise. In an all-new story, ***Resident Evil*** follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

Resident Evil (2026)

**Screenwriters**: Debra Hill, John Carpenter

**Producers**: Debra Hill, John Carpenter

It wouldn&#8217;t be Halloween without a visit from Michael Myers &#8211; the monster that made the holiday &#8211; stalking our big screen with terror! The original horror classic still startles over 45 years after its release. The small town of Haddonfield is under attack from an escaped murderer stalking the alleys and sidewalks of the idyllic burg. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is just a studious teenager, planning on spending her All Hallow&#8217;s Eve carving pumpkins with her babysitting charge. When the killer begins to hound her and her friends, she&#8217;s got to discover the family secrets that led to this bloody rampage and escape his evil wrath. Also starring Donald Pleasance as Dr. Loomis, P.J. Soles, and *Real Housewife of Beverly Hills* Kyle Richards. Spend your Samhain with Vidiots and John Carpenter with the slasher that started it all!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Halloweenie classics on killer physical media!

*Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Trick or Treat, Something Wicked this way Comes*

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

Halloween

**Screenwriters**: Clay McLeod Chapman,  Glenn McQuaid

**Producers**: Brendan McCarthy,  John McDonnell,  Deirdre Levins,  Thomas Herberth, Florian Brüning

This campy queer horror film is a morbidly entertaining combination of classic Hollywood, gothic terror, and high-pitched melodrama, featuring a one-of-a-kind performance from Chris Colfer! The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him. Starring **Chris Colfer **(*Glee*) and **Alice Krige **(*Star Trek: The Next Generation*) and directed by **Glenn McQuaid **(*I Sell the Dead, V/H/S*). So, if you&#8217;ve been dying for a deadly dark comedy to end spooky season right, don&#8217;t decline your invitation to Grayson Manor!

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

**Screenwriters**: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper

**Producer**: Tobe Hooper

52 years ago Tobe Hooper set a new high-water mark for horror with this brutal and gruesome exercise in terror, and few films since have matched its levels of visceral torture. After running out of gas, five friends end up hunted by a hulking monster with a human-skin mask and a whirring chainsaw. One of the most influential horror films of all time, and a truly terrifying experience, this low-budget nightmare is an opera of carnage.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Tobe Hooper classic horror films tonight!

*Lifeforce, Salem&#8217;s Lot, The Funhouse*

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

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Vidiots

The Bride of Frankenstein

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

Tales from the Archives

Seven (Original 35mm Silver Retention Print)

Trick 'r Treat

Vista Theatre

Hell Houses are a distinctly American phenomenon which began in 1990 just outside of Dallas, Texas at the Trinity Assembly of God Church. The original Hell House was conceived as a modern-day fire-and-brimstone sermon. Today, this religious ceremony of sorts is replete with actors, extensive lighting equipment and full audio-visual tech crews.

Inside the Hell House, tour guides dressed as demons take visitors from room to room to view depictions of school massacres, date rape, AIDS-related deaths, fatal drunk driving crashes, and botched abortions. With full access to the behind-the-scenes action, HELL HOUSE follows the process from the first script meeting until the last of the 10,000 visitors passes through the Hell House doors. The movie gives a verite window into the whole process of creating this over-the-top sermon, while showing an intimate portrait of the people who fervently believe its message. Shot on 16mm film and featuring a score by Bubba and Matthew Kadane, formerly of the band Bedhead.

**dir. George Ratliff, 2001**
*United States, digital projection*
85 min

**SATURDAY, 10/31 · 1:30P DOORS · 2:00P SCREENING**

## $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)*.

*****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.***

HELL HOUSE (2001)

WHAMMY!

LA Filmforum: Francisco Romero – Local Reconstructions

2220 Arts + Archives

Gosford Park in 35mm

Eungyo (은교) with Park Hae-il

F. W. Murnau’s Faust at 100 with a live score by Julianna Barwick

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles “Chuck” Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man’s plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding stories to the nation’s reporters clamoring to cover the event. He’s become the self-anointed mastermind behind what soon becomes a national media sensation – and he’s desperately determined to milk it for all it is work.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

ACE IN THE HOLE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Small-time mobster Nicky (John Cassavetes) is holed up in a fleabag motel after finding out the boss he stole money from has put a hit out on him. Terrified and with nowhere to run, he calls on Mikey (Peter Falk), his oldest friend and the one person he thinks can save him. But does Mikey actually want to help Nicky this time, or is he merely leading him to his doom? 

Inspired by real-life figures from filmmaker Elaine May’s own childhood and anchored by electrifying performances from its stars—alongside supporting players Ned Beatty, Joyce Van Patten, and Carol Grace—MIKEY AND NICKY is a harrowing portrait of male friendship turned tragic and a masterpiece of American cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Muscle Distribution

COUNTRY: USA

MIKEY AND NICKY

Robert Mitchum has knuckle tatts, which I imagine was a big deal in the old days. He&#8217;s also dressed as a preacher and trying to murder some children in this ULTIMATE classic creepy horror classic. One and done from Charles Laughton, but who needs to work more when you&#8217;ve achieved perfection?

The Night of the Hunter

Bobert De Niro is very much a Holden Caulfield type in this tale of late-shift jobs and porno theatres. NYC grime never looked so good, Mohawks are an excellent fashion choice, cabs in the mist, etc etc.

Taxi Driver

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt&#8230; but he&#8217;s got a plan. He&#8217;s going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It&#8217;s going to be a snap and nobody&#8217;s going to get hurt&#8230; until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing &#8211; and extremely pregnant &#8211; investigator who&#8217;ll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom&#8230; you betcha!

Fargo

While the white sheet has become an icon of the returning dead, it also stands in the place of projection. The sheet, stretched like a translucent canvas, is a reminder of the first public exhibitions where shadowy figures suddenly appeared on or behind its surface. The screen, like the sheet, becomes the membrane through and onto which the figure of the ghost takes shape, confounding our ability to distinguish the figure (the ghost-as-sheet) from the ground (the screen-as-sheet). But while the sheet may serve as the connective tissue between a living audience and the dead, the image or shadows that congregate on screen stir up trouble for the living. Tonight’s films explore the convergence of touch (or the inability to touch) with the ghostly and our changing relationship with the past and the dead.—*Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Martine Beugnet*

Over a 12-year span (2004–2016), Marusya Syroechkovskaya documented her relationship with Kimi, the young man who became her friend, companion and husband. While documentary practice became the filmmaker’s lifeline, Kimi, like so many young Russians growing up under an increasingly autocratic regime, was caught in a spiral of self-destruction and drug addiction. The film’s subtitle, *a message from a silenced generation*, signals the refusal to provide any closure that would exorcise ghosts and free oneself from the past. Instead, the filmmaker creates a space where a dead friend returns to tell a story that is also the story of a lost generation.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Marusya Syroechkovskaya. With: Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Kirill Morev.

*A Ghost Story* is unusual in its use of the now dated, shrouded ghost, featuring Casey Affleck donning a plain white sheet with two black holes in lieu of eyes. While a deceptively simple narrative — a man (known only as C) dies and returns to haunt the house he lived in with his wife (M, played by Rooney Mara) — the film’s poignancy stems from its account of loss and grief, the cohabitation of death and life epitomized by the sharing of a mundane household object, and the sheet that hides and reveals live, inanimate and absent bodies.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: David Lowery. With: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara.

How to Save a Dead Friend / A Ghost Story

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cary Grant stars as the one sane member of a charmingly lunatic family in director Frank Capra’s classic comedy, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE.

When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discovers that, among many other acts of charity, the two genteel ladies help lonely old men die happy…by feeding them a wonderful meal before poisoning them.

Now, Mortimer desperately wants to protect the two serial murderers he loves, stop them from killing anyone else and keep his bride from discovering how deranged his family really is. Based on the hit Broadway play by Joseph Kesselring, the stellar cast also includes Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Sam Wasson There will be a book signing with Sam Wasson for his book, Frank Capra: A Life, prior to the screening at the Los Feliz 3 in partnership with Skylight Books. ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Sam Wasson Presents ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves that she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor’s respect.

4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm Composite Fine Grain, 35mm Nitrate Composite Print, and 35mm Nitrate Combine Track provided by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration services conducted by StudioPost, A NBCUniversal Company.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by NBCUniversal Restoration & Preservation Manager Jen Hashida New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’ ‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

THE WILD PARTY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In BULLET TRAIN, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug’s latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world’s fastest train. The end of the line is just the beginning in this non-stop thrill-ride through modern-day Japan from David Leitch, the director of DEADPOOL 2.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Repertory

COUNTRY: USA/Japan/UK

‘David Leitch: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

BULLET TRAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

Targets / Saint Jack

**Starring**: Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco, Eduardo Franco, Aparna Nancherla, Tom Law, Sam Richardson, Melissa Villaseñor, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Steve Purcell, Ego Nwodim, Nichole Sakura, Meryl Streep, Karen Huie, Vanessa Bayer

**Screenwriter**: Jesse Andrews

**Story By**: Jesse Andrews, Daniel Chong

**Producer**: Nicole Paradis Grindle, p.g.a.

Vidiots and Disney/Pixar invite you to a special screening of ***Hoppers*** followed by a conversation with Director **Daniel Chong**, Producer **Nicole Paradis Grindle**, p.g.a., and cast members **Piper Curda** and **Dave Franco**!

To save a cherished glade near her town, teenager Mabel uses experimental technology to go undercover inside a robotic beaver. As she rallies the local animals to defend their sanctuary, she learns that protecting nature begins with understanding our place within it.

Doors will Open at 1:30pm, Screening will start at 2:30pm, with conversation to follow.

Please note that this screening is first-come-first-served, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry. As we are hoping to accommodate as many people as possible, all free screenings are overbooked to account for no-shows. We recommend an early to on-time arrival, we may not be able to accommodate late entries.

Hoppers

**Screenwriter**: Ross McElwee

**Producers**: Mark Meatto,  Ross McElwee

With a special introduction from non-fiction filmmaking legend **Ross McElwee** before both screenings!

Join us in the microcinema for one of the most profound documentary experiences of the year, legendary game-changing documentarian Ross McElwee&#8217;s beautifully heartbreaking triumph *Remake*. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. His son Adrian grew up inside those films, and eventually began experimenting with the camera himself. When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough *Sherman&#8217;s March* into a work of fiction, twenty-year-old Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction and dies from a fentanyl overdose, leaving behind hours of personal video footage. Retracing Adrian’s final years, McElwee reckons with what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame. As he reflects on a lifetime behind the camera, Ross’s own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish takes on new significance. An ever-expanding hall of mirrors built from decades of home movies, *Remake* is both McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, and to let him go.

Remake

**Screenwriters**: Emilio Carballido, Roberto Galvadón

**Producer**: Armando Orive Alba

Vidiots is proud to partner with **Hello Stranger Foundation** for a special **Día de los Muertos** celebration, honoring culture, community, and the memories of those who came before us, with a special screening of ***Macario*** on Sunday November 1st. We&#8217;ll welcome the community with a beautiful art installation created by Rise in Color artist **Thunder One**. Be sure to arrive early to catch **DJJoey T** as he takes us on a journey through sound that is sure to get all the spirits swaying. The music sets will be accompanied by a whimsical visual projection display on the screen provided by **Society of Shadows.** 

A rich folk-tale fantasy deeply entrenched in the folklore of Día de los Muertos, *Macario* is a haunting gem of Mexican and world cinema with stunning visuals and a dark mysticism. Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death who each ask for a piece of his dinner. From who will he accept the bargain, and what price will he have to pay? The first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award, this supernatural drama is not to be missed on the big screen.

Macario was restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Fundación Televisa at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Filmoteca UNAM and in association with Televisa S. de R.L. de C.V.  Funding was provided by the Golden Globe Foundation, a generous supporter of Vidiots Foundation.

The **Hello Stranger Foundation** is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to bringing communities together through music, art, and cultural experiences. Rooted in creativity, inclusivity, and community connection, the foundation celebrates the diverse voices and traditions that make Los Angeles unique.

**Día de los Muertos** 

Join us on October 25th for more Día de los Muertos revelry including face painting, crafts, and more fun from 11:00am – 2:00pm. For more information click [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/).

**Picks From the Video Store:**

Quieres más cine Mexicano? Check out these treasures from our video store:

*Poison for the Fairies, Cabeza de Vaca, Alucarda*

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

Macario

## MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING!

Obsession with violence and death has always been the American way. From the founding of our country to the media glorifying intense acts of violence. Is this something we generally enjoy or something that has been programmed into our culture so we are numb when those in power decide to change things by violent means?

Originally released in 1981 in Japan under the name “Violence USA”, THE KILLING OF AMERICA” is a documentary that uses actual footage of death and violence to provide a gruesome commentary on our nations decline, obsession with guns, violence, and political assassinations during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Written by Leonard Schrader and narrated by the iconic voice of Chuck Riley, The Killing of America is an unabashed look in the mirror at what it truly means to be an American.

## DISCLAIMER: This documentary is full of footage of real death and real violence collected from news and archival sources.

**dir. Sheldon Renan, 1981**
*United States, digital projection*
90 min

**SUNDAY, 11/1 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $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)*.

*****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.***

THE KILLING OF AMERICA (1981)

An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.

CYBERCON: Robot Carnival

When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae relocates down south to her late husband’s hometown of Miryang. Despite her efforts to settle down, in this unfamiliar and much too normal place, she finds that she can’t quite fit in. Helping her out is Kim Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome bachelor, who owns a car repair shop. Life plods on. However, fate takes a vicious turn when Shin-ae loses her son in the most horrific way a mother could imagine. She turns to Christianity to relieve the pain in her heart, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Gong-ju is kept cloistered in a cheap apartment by her brother, whose only concern is the government assistance she receives. Over a series of clandestine meetings, the two begin an improbable relationship that defies the judgment and cruelty of the world around them.

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director and Best Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's OASIS is a “brave film” that “shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Oasis

BURNING is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people in his orbit: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers the romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun), a wealthy and sophisticated young man she returns from a trip with. However, when Jongsu learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Haemi suddenly disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount, culminating in a stunning finale.

Burning

Egyptian Theatre

The Getaway  / Charley Varrick

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producers**: Augustín Almodóvar, Michel Rubin

One of maestro Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s most-complicated and lauded masterpieces, this exquisitely shot meditation on loyalty and obsession earned Almodóvar the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for best Foreign Language Film. With a breathtaking and controversial mix of movement and stillness, murky morality, and outrageously envelope-pushing imagery and subject matter- Almodóvar creates a world with sympathy for monsters, oversized genitalia, and Pina Bausch performances no one should miss on the big screen. Two men (Benigno and Marco) almost meet while watching a dance performance (of German icon Pina Bausch no less), but their lives are irrevocably entwined by fate. They meet later at a private clinic where Benigno is the caregiver for Alicia, a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma. Marco is there to visit his girlfriend, Lydia, a famous matador, also rendered motionless. As the men wage vigil over the women they love, the story unfolds in flashback and flash-forward as the lives of the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward a shocking conclusion.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more masterpieces from the always fabulous Pedro Almodóvar tonight!

*Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In*

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

Talk to Her on 35mm

Beau Geste

Some Like It Hot in 4K

War for the Planet of the Apes

Netflix’s critically acclaimed limited series EAST OF EDEN, a fresh adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece from Zoe Kazan, features a formidable cast led by Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh as the indelible antihero Cathy Ames and explores the multigenerational saga of the Trask family (including Christopher Abbott as Adam and Mike Faist as Charles). The series arrives over 70 years after the 1955 film adaptation starring James Dean — directed by Elia Kazan, Zoe’s grandfather — focused solely on the book’s final section.

East of Eden Double Feature

**Screenwriter**: Allison Anders

**Producers**: Daniel Hassid,  Ruth Charny

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome cinema legends **Alison Anders** and **Illeana Douglas, **plus music supervisor **Karyn Rachtman**, and music producer** Larry Klein** for a special 30th Anniversary Screening of ***Grace of my Heart***!

A marvelously meandering musical excursion through the hitmakers of the New York City music scene of the 1950s and 1960s, Alison Anders&#8217; *Grace of my Heart* hits all the right notes, with a vibrant beat all its own. Illeana Douglas shines as Denise Waverly, a Philadelphia teen with stars in her eyes set to make it big in the Big Apple. While her own stardom withers early on, a slick producer recognizes her talent in songwriting and sets her off on a different path, crafting the hits behind the biggest stars of the day. After decades in the shadows &#8211; from the Doo Wop era to Rock n&#8217; Roll and into the swingin&#8217; 60s &#8211; she finally finds her time to shine. A fun and frenetic view of the male-dominated music scene and the tenacity of one woman to make her own way, this charmer is as fresh as it was 30 years ago.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our Allison Anders director&#8217;s section and take home more treasures on physical media!

*Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, Border Radio*

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

Grace of My Heart

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 1985 animated classic *Angel’s Egg*, featuring a live score performed on stage by Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulwax, Cavalera).

CYBERCON: Iggor Cavalera Live Score to Angels Egg (1985)

Followed by a conversation with directors **Phil Lord** & **Christopher Miller**

Going above and beyond for humanity is not what Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) signed up for. More content to hide in a classroom teaching high school science, Grace is thrust quite unwilling into space as Earth’s last hope for survival. Guided by a no-nonsense terrestrial leader in the form of Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller in a show-stopping performance) and an exuberant extra-terrestrial partner in the form of Rocky (brilliantly performed and voiced by James Ortiz), our hero will discover if he has what it takes to save himself–and the rest of us in the process. Directed with wit and wonder by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on the bestseller by Andy Weir.

2026. USA. Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. Screenplay by Drew Goddard, Andy Weird. With Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz. DCP courtesy Amazon MGM Studios. 156 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Project Hail Mary

JOAN is a nonprofit art space for exhibitions, performances, screenings, and discursive events in Downtown Los Angeles.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Tonalli, 2021. Image courtesy of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

Chapter Three

Now Instant Image Hall

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Thursday, November 12, 2026

7pm | 55-minute screening

JOAN and Now Instant Image Hall presents a selection of experimental films by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, an anonymous film collective founded in Tehuacán, Mexico, in 2012.

Emerging amid widespread protests against the Mexican government during the later years of the “War on Drugs,” the collective developed a radical audiovisual language in response to a period of political upheaval that marked a turning point for many in Mexico. Through psychedelic colors, layered analog film, and rhythmic soundscapes, their films preserve the memory of those affected by mass violence, from protesters and the disappeared to the dead.

For Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, anonymity is a political strategy that challenges the artist-centered logic of neoliberalism, which privileges individual authorship and intention in the production and interpretation of art. By working collectively, the group resists the notion of the singular artist as the primary source of meaning and value. Their commitment to collective authorship carries particular weight in Mexico, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, where reporting on organized crime and political corruption is often met with state retaliation.

The selected films draw on key moments in Mexican history, from Aztec mythology to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and the 2014 forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa student teachers. These historical references intersect with contemporary protests that bring enduring histories of violence into public consciousness. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos describes its aesthetic approach as “shamanic materialism,” combining expired film stock, found footage, color inversion, and organic materials that alter the surface of celluloid. The resulting images create a disorienting, trance-like experience that jolts the senses. Through these layered compositions, the collective exhumes fragments of collective memory that remain largely absent from mainstream television and commercial cinema.

Screening at Now Instant Image Hall

939 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012

For tickets and more information, visit Now Instant Image Hall.

El Nido del Sol2021, 5 min.

Drawing on ancient Aztec mythology, El Nido del Sol references Xólotl, the canine deity; Huitzilin, the hummingbird; and Xóchitl, the flower. Vivid, saturated images of flowers blend into one another, accompanied by rhythmic drumming. Translating to The Nest of the Sun, the title evokes the spiritual interconnectedness of celestial beings and the natural world in Indigenous Mexican cosmologies.

Batalla2017, 4 min.

A tribute to Aldo Gutiérrez Solano, a student at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College who was among those attacked by police on September 26, 2014. That night, students traveling in buses in Iguala, Guerrero, were attacked while preparing to travel to Mexico City for the annual commemoration of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. Forty-three students were forcibly disappeared, while Gutiérrez Solano survived a gunshot wound to the head that left him in a persistent vegetative state. Investigations have implicated local police, organized crime, and members of the Mexican military in the events surrounding the attacks and disappearances.

Altazor2019, 3 min.

An audiovisual tribute to Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s 1931 avant-garde poem Altazor. The poem follows a cosmic aviator in free fall through time, space, and infinity, exploring the limits of language and the nature of human existence.

Tonalli2021, 16 min.

Drawing on the ancient Nahuatl concept of tonalli, understood as the vital energy that animates living beings, the film alludes to the Day of the Dead and its roots to Indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations. Two heads, one a skull and the other a clay figure, fade in and out of view, each surrounded by flowers.

Aria 682023, 4 min.

Aria 68 revisits the historical trauma and recurring cyclices of violence surrounding the Tlatelolco student massacre, which took place in Mexico City on October 2, 1968. A recurring subject in the collective’s filmography, the massacre forms the basis for this “shamanic composition,” an intense audiovisual reflection on the enduring legacies of state violence in contemporary Mexico.

Notes for a Deja Vu2020, 22 min.

Scenes of contemporary protests unfold through freeway tunnels and the streets of downtown Mexico City, where demonstrators carry banners and images, including depictions of the Virgin Mary, flyers of missing women, and slogans commemorating the Tlatelolco Massacre. The footage is accompanied by the voice of poet, filmmaker, and artist Jonas Mekas, who reflects on the fragmented nature of memory.

Curated by Nahui Garcia, Associate Curator at JOAN.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

JOAN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Gavotte,” 1967, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 12 Mins, Friends of Walerian Borowczyk, France**

Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion.

FORMAT: DCP

**LULU, 1980, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 95 Mis, Studio TF1, France**

*In French with English Subtitles.*

The story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack “the Ripper.”

FORMAT: DCP

World Premiere of New 4K Restoration of LULU Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"Gavotte" / LULU

Now Instant Image Hall

****DEATH WISH CLUB (1984) is a film that was repackaged many times for the home video market, desperately trying and failing to find an audience (also known as *Gretta*, also known as *Carnival of Fools*, also known as *Erskine Caldwell's Gretta, a*lso known as *The Dark Side to Love)*. However it's mostly known in a heavily edited down short form as *The Case of Gretta Connors*, a part of the NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR horror anthology, which is unfortunate as its full 90 minute version must be seen to be believed!

Directed by John Carr, written by controversial Oscar-winning screenwriter Philip Yordan (!), and based very loosely on the 1955 Erskine Caldwell novel *Gretta,* the full cut of DEATH WISH CLUB unfolds a story that at no point will you know what comes next.

Rich misanthrope George Youngmeyer (J. Martin Sellers) meets the eccentric Gretta (the incredible Meridith Haze in her only known role) working at the carnival, stuffs a few hundred dollar bills down her shirt and takes her home. Gretta wants to be "a star" so Youngmeyer introduces her to the world of pornography. After seeing one of her films in his dorm, college student Glenn Marshall (Rick Barnes) becomes infatuated with the actress, and follows the clues from the adult store where the film was rented, to the production company that produced the picture, eventually finding himself face to face with Gretta, who is playing the piano pantsless at the shady "Club Manhattan". Glenn is sucked into a dangerous triad, and what follows becomes more incredulous from one moment to the next, including getting caught up in the titular "Death Wish Club".

Gender swapping, seances, giant bug POV shots, demolition balls, electric chairs, karate, and so much more await you in DEATH WISH CLUB.

**dir. John Carr, 1984**
*United States, digital projection*
90 min

**THURSDAY, 11/12 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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DEATH WISH CLUB (1984)

Black Fire with Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold

CYBERCON celebrates the late Japanese artist and creature designer Yasushi Nirasawa with a gallery exhibition and book launch for Peow Studio’s new English edition of Creature Core. Join us for a panel and video presentation from Zimmerit discussing the history of garage kits to the influence of Gundam and Japanese anime followed by a screening of *Godzilla: Final Wars* (2004).

CYBERCON: Peow Studio Book Launch & Exhibition W/ Zimmerit Panel + Godzilla: Final Wars

Followed by a conversation with writer-director **Ryûsuke Hamaguchi**

Based on an exchange of letters between philosopher Makiko Miyano and medical anthropologist Maho Isono, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi beautifully depicts the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of Marie-Lou, a French nursing home director and caregiver, and Mari, a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer. As they spend time together after a performance of one of Mari’s plays and at the nursing home where Marie-Lou implements a new program of radical empathy for the patients' bodies and souls against skeptical colleagues, both connect over longing, sentimental aspirations, and the sociopolitical strains that have driven their life choices and shaped their communities. *All of a Sudden* isn’t just a fascinating look into our era’s anxieties and injustices but a moving testimony to the power of human empathy in an era that may make you think there is none.

2026. France/Japan/Germany/Belgium. Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Screenplay by Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; based on the book by Maho Isono, Makiko Miyano. With Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyôzô Nagatsuka. DCP courtesy NEON. In French, Japanese; English subtitles. 196 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

All of a Sudden

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should — full of myth, wonder, and unwavering belief. IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME is a breathtaking father-son story about imagination, family, and the grace we extend to the people we love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rich Spirit

COUNTRY: USA

IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Mandarin with English subtitles.*

Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, is forced to abandon her studies and marry into wealth, becoming the fourth and newest concubine of the aging, unseen Master Chen. Inside his walled estate, she discovers a household ruled by a merciless ritual: each night, red lanterns are lit outside the chambers of whichever wife the master chooses to visit, granting her privilege and status while the others are cast into cold irrelevance. Songlian is drawn into the orbit of her rivals, each shaped by years of fighting for the same scraps of attention. Determined at first to rise above the games, Songlian is gradually worn down by isolation and humiliation until she strikes back, trading secrets and favors to secure her place in Master Chen’s hierarchy. As petty cruelty turns even more dire, Songlian is forced to confront what these desperate measures will cost her soul. Newly restored, the film stands as one of the defining works of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema and international film of the 1990s.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: China/Hong Kong

New 4K Restoration 35th Anniversary Limited Engagement

RAISE THE RED LANTERN

Snatch

The Burning / Madman

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

Join us for the world premiere of a new documentary on Stephan Hoeller followed by Q&A with special guest Gary Lachman

THE BISHOP OF HOLLYWOOD, the life and legacy of Dr. Stephan Hoeller

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producers**: Yoshio Sasaki, Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of *Spirited Away*, and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above the scenic port towns of the Mediterranean. *Porco Rosso* follows the titular former fighter pilot turned bounty hunter as he pursues bands of sky pirates across the Adriatic Sea. After a mysterious curse leaves him with the face of a pig, Rosso embraces a life of relative obscurity. When an American hotshot pilot named Curtis threatens to take him down, Rosso is forced to join forces with his former flame, the sultry lounge singer Gina, and an aspiring aerospace engineer, Fio, for one final battle. Miyazaki&#8217;s mid-career tour de force retains Studio Ghibli’s signature whimsy while simultaneously offering a sobering meditation on anti-fascism and the traumas of war.

Porco Rosso (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

Sexy, smart, and smoldering, this shocking neo-noir shot the Coen brothers into the upper echelons of filmmakers right off the bat. Far beyond your average freshman fare, the Coen Brothers debut film *Blood Simple* is stylish, brutal, and tinged with that signature Coen wit. The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more menace from the best brothers in the biz!

*Miller&#8217;s Crossing, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men*

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

Blood Simple

**Screenwriter**: Dan O&#8217;Bannon

**Producer**: Tom Fox

The most fun you&#8217;ll ever have with the undead! A gang of Punks and New Wave ne&#8217;er-do-wells get trapped in a cemetery as the dead begin to rise and start to crash their party. And these aren&#8217;t your average zombies. They can talk, reason, and even make jokes, but make no mistake — they are still out for your brains. A total blast from start to finish, this monster bash features killer special effects, a rockin&#8217; soundtrack, and one of scream queen Linnea Quigley&#8217;s most iconic moments. You&#8217;d be a ghoul to miss it!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more 80s classics with the Queen Linnea Quigley!

*Night of the Demons, Silent Night Deadly Night, Savage Streets*

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

The Return of the Living Dead

Paper Tiger 35mm

Lady Terminator

Frankenweenie in 35mm

Jealousy Is My Middle Name (질투는 나의 힘)  in 35mm

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 2003 animated classic Interstella 5555, featuring a live DJ score performed by SOSUPERSAM and Kyle Ng.

Feel free to get out of your seat and dance with us!

CYBERCON: SOSUPERSAM & Kyle Ng Live Score to Interstella 5555 (2003)

A clandestine group of scientists are conducting brutal experiments on human test subjects in an attempt to unlock psychic powers. An assault of industrial noise, sensory deprivation, and grotesque body horror, *Rubber&#8217;s Lover (1996)* is often considered an unofficial prequel to Fukui’s *964 PINOCCHIO (1991)*, expanding on its obsessions with technology, bodily transformation, and the limits of human consciousness.

CYBERCON: Rubber’s Lover

Every space hosts the accumulation of time and is thus a repository of memory, one that is active and dynamic.

Jean Khalil Chamoun’s *Women Beyond Borders* (2004) and Theo Panagopoulos’ *The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessin*g (2024) were made two decades apart, but together they foster an ongoing conversation at the intersection of identity, memory and place across Lebanon and Palestine.

Though distinct in form, the films consider the relationship between people’s lived environments and their individual and collective identities. The films navigate through spaces both historically and presently marked by displacement, violence and resilience. Both offer meditations and testimonies on how these spaces can inhabit a people’s memories, linger into their present realities and influence their futures.

Rather than attempting to unearth a singular tradition, this program amplifies an ongoing cinematic conversation across Lebanon and Palestine that is rooted in intertwined histories of occupation and resistance. This conversation is an urgent one to hold today in light of the ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon and historic Palestine that continues to target complete ecosystems. This systematic surge of destruction and harm affects far beyond the physical; it seeks to fracture memory, sever a people’s sense of being and belonging, and jeopardize social relations that places sustain. The moving image as a tool presents an opportunity to forge an alternative place of memory work, one capable of preserving spatial memory, making visible the forms of erasure, and imagining continuities that exceed the violence of occupation and its imposed restriction on bodies and space.

*Programmed by UCLA Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Aciah Abdulsater and Archive Research and Public Access Coordinator Nicole Ucedo. Notes and concept by Aciah Abdulsater.*

Filmmaker and researcher Theo Panagopoulos’ essay-style documentary assembles recently rediscovered archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, filmed in the 1930s and ’40s by a Scottish missionary during the British Mandate. Panagopoulos decides to reclaim the footage. In reframing the images with new sound and captions he questions the role of image-making as both a tool of witnessing and a perpetrator of violence, when covering the relationships between people and land. 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Theo Panagopoulos.

In a feature-length documentary, filmmaker Jean Khalil Chamoun follows the story of Kifah Afifi, a Palestinian refugee, Sabra and Shatila massacre survivor, and ex-abductee at the infamous Khiam detention center in then-occupied southern Lebanon. The film explores questions of womanhood and women’s relationship to community and space. By following Kifah’s recollection of her time in detainment, her struggles and what anchored her hope, the film sheds light onto women who defied societal, historical and political boundaries.

Digital media. Director/Screenwriter: Jean Khalil Chamoun.

Borders That Flower: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / Women Beyond Borders

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on two mangas by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Benzo.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

Q&A with filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past? Hold on to your seat for an explosive and intriguing thrill ride you’ll want to experience again and again.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles 20th Anniversary ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

DÉJÀ VU

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and Japanese with English subtitles.*

From master filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi comes a transformative portrait of hope and humanity. Marie-Lou is a care worker in Paris who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mari, a theater director in the throes of a recent life-changing diagnosis. Through tenderness and intimate understanding, their connection leads to profound discoveries in the ways they see the world, the future and our relationships to each other.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: France/Japan/Germany/Belgium

Q&A with filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and actors Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira Advance Screening

ALL OF A SUDDEN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta’s shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: IFC

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

BENEDETTA

In Session invites visitors to engage with readings, film/video and writing activities that relate to current exhibitions and are meant to generate self-reflection and group discussion.

This In Session will focus on Larry Johnson, who currently has work on view in In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA. Capacity is limited to 15 people. In Session is organized by MOCA Education.

A contemporary innovator of Pop, LA-based artist Larry Johnson makes photographs that look nothing like photographs. In his witty, incisive, cartoon-like proto-photos, Johnson appropriates the images and aesthetics of TV and movie animation, graphic design, commercial illustration, and advertising to deconstruct the terms of American culture’s self-presentation.

In Session: Larry Johnson

MOCA Grand Avenue

Kung Fu Panda

Ratatouille

The Last Picture Show

The Jerk

For more than a decade, University of Virginia colleagues Kevin Jerome Everson, Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts, and Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Edward Stettinius Professor of History, have collaborated on *Black Fire*, an ongoing body of work devoted to the history and experience of Black life at UVA in Charlottesville. The project grew out of Harold’s research into the political and cultural history of African American students and faculty at the university and her discovery of a fragmentary archive. Together, Harold and Everson began using this archival material as a point of departure, making images where images were absent and bringing Harold’s research into conversation with Everson’s approach to performance, duration, and gesture.

The selection presented here moves between histories of student organizing and institutional change, athletics, gospel, recreation, and the forms of social and cultural exchange that took place within and around the university.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A and conversation with Everson and Harold.

Special thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, K.J. Relth-Miller, and the Academy Museum.

Films appear courtesy of the filmmakers and Picture Palace Pictures. All films directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold.

Black Fire

1948  • A hurricane, a hotel full of uneasy people, Humphrey Bogart facing off with Edward G. Robinson — Key Largo hardly needs more to get your attention. Directed by John Huston, it was the fourth and final screen pairing of Bogart and Bacall.  • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Key Largo

1971 • Introduction by Screenwriter Larry Karazewski • Screenwriter Larry Karazewski (Ed Wood, Big Eyes) joins us to introduce this wonderfully quirky film. The film was directed by Hal Ashby, who had a gift for making odd, deeply human films. Over time, it has become a beloved cult favorite. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Harold and Maude

The LA premiere of the new kaleidoscopic retelling of the Orpheus myth, blending 16mm photography, stop-motion, and handmade illusions!

Virgilio Villoresi’s ORFEO (2025) — Los Angeles Premiere!

**Screenwriters**: Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson

**Producer**: Roy Conli

Disney meets Marvel in this thrilling and charming tale of robotic friendship and fighting for what&#8217;s right. A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. So join us in San Fransokyo with your family and inflatable friends.

Big Hero 6

**Screenwriter**: Budd Schulberg

**Producer**: Sam Spiegel

Vidiots remembers the iconic screen goddess **Eva Marie Saint!**

*I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let&#8217;s face it.* You might know that iconic quote, and you might be aware that Marlon Brando’s performance in this movie was a game-changer in film history, helping to popularize the more naturalistic style known as Method acting. But don’t let that overshadow the film itself, a masterpiece that earned eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and remains just as powerful 70 years later. Brando plays Terry Malloy, a longshoreman and former boxer who grows to resent the mobsters who control his local union. And in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint is luminous as Terry’s love interest, who acts as his conscience and inspires him to take a stand and fight back &#8211; no matter what the cost.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more treasures from Eva Marie Saint&#8217;s iconic career!

*Grand Prix, The Sandpiper, Vertigo*

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

On the Waterfront

**Writer:** John Hughes

**Producers:** John Hughes, Lauren Shuler Donner

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for this all-time teen classic of high school romance, jealousy, resourcefulness, and classism. Molly Ringwald plays Andie, a creative outcast from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a rich kid (80&#8217;s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy) and ends up causing rifts in both their worlds. This sweet and stylish romance features incredible performances from the entire cast including Annie Potts as the fashionista record store owner, Jon Cryer as the Otis Redding lip-syncing obsessed best friend, James Spader as the vilest of the upper crust, and of course Vidiots favorite Harry Dean Stanton as her single father.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Celebrate 100 Years of Harry Dean Stanton with some of these gems from his section:

*Two Lane Blacktop, Straight Time, Red Dawn*

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

Pretty in Pink

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

We&#8217;re bringing the party back to the big screen to kick off our birthday weekend like rock stars! Join us for one of our favorite cinematic/musical experiences with a reprise of legendary Director Jonathan Demme’s ecstatic musical masterpiece Stop Making Sense. Filmed at the Hollywood Pantages Theater in December 1983, this fascinating piece of musical memorabilia showcases the Talking Heads boundless creativity and showmanship on stage and off. A one-of-a-kind experience, join Vidiots as we revel in 41 years of Vidiots and the 42nd anniversary of this groundbreaking film, newly remastered in a stunning 4K presentation.

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Jonesing for more Demme? We&#8217;ve got a killer section for Jonathan Demme on our directors racks that includes these rarities!

*Crazy Mama, Who Am I This Time?, Swimming to Cambodia*, and make sure to check out his tasty episode of *Columbo &#8211; Murder Under Glass!*

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

Stop Making Sense

The Westerner

3-D SPACE and Hollywood Entertainment invite you to a very special rare 3D screening of *Charlie Victor Romeo*, a uniquely disquieting performance film created entirely from the "black box" transcripts of real-life airline emergencies.

These short and poignant vignettes of real-life peril are by turns distressing and quotidian- an anthology of last words and deeds whose specificity and urgency are made extraordinarily vivid by the stereoscopic intimacy.

"When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong? Derived entirely from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts of six major airline incidents and accidents, Charlie Victor Romeo puts the audience inside the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, offering a fascinating portrait of the psychology of crisis and a person’s will to live to the last second." - Dekanalog

“[This] chilling and groundbreaking production stretches the boundaries of film, theatre, and the traditional documentary with this stereoscopic 3-D film of a stage play that recreates transcripts word for word. CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO transports film audiences into the best seats of the theatre and delivers the intensity and gut-wrenching emotion of these emergencies via the unique approach of live performance.” - Shari Frilot, senior programmer Sundance Film Festival & New Frontier

"The scariest airplane movie ever!" - John Waters

"A radical film." - Agnes Varda

"One of the most terrifying films I have ever seen." - A.O. Scott, *New York Times*

"The experience is, to put it mildly, a nail-biter" - John Defore, *The Hollywood Reporter*

**dirs. Karlyn Michelson, Patrick Daniels & Robert Berger, 2013**
*United States, digital projection*
80 min
[https://charlievictorromeo.com/](https://charlievictorromeo.com/)

**SATURDAY, 11/14 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

## $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)*.

*****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.***

Charlie Victor Romeo (2013), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment & 3-D SPACE

The Grand Budapest Hotel in 35mm

Paisàn in 35mm

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) in 35mm

Presented in the definitive Final Cut featuring additional scenes and remastered sound and image! In decaying Neo-LA, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) haunts the streets in search of a fugitive gang of genetically-engineered replicants and encounters a woman who may hold the key to life itself. Through the smog and rain, shine neon-lit existential landscapes of philosophical inquiry: what is humanity? Ridley Scott’s METROPOLIS for the ‘80s is such a spectacle of cinematic craft — from the indelible sci-fi visuals to the Vangelis score to the time-defying special effects, you’d swear its creators were ‘more human than human.’ 

Co-starring Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah.

CYBERCON: Blade Runner

Denis Villeneuve reinvents the world of BLADE RUNNER as a dystopian wasteland thirty years after the events of the first film. Ryan Gosling stars as K, a new Blade Runner whose investigation plunges him into the depths of a crumbling society as he hunts the only man who can save us: Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard. Thanks in part to the mind-blowing images created by cinematographer Roger Deakins, BLADE RUNNER 2049 defies every expectation for Hollywood sequels and offers an alternative: a staggering, cerebral, self-possessed work which stands alone in its accomplishments.

The Witches

11:00 AM

30th Anniversary of The Craft

9:00 PM

THE HAUNTING

1:00 PM

POLTERGEIST

4:00 PM

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

6:30 PM

Poltergeist

1:00 PM

Obsession

3:30 PM

La Llorona

Pulse (Kaïro)

6:30 PM

THE INNOCENTS

1:00 PM

DEATH BECOMES HER

4:00 PM

QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

6:00 PM

RAW

9:00 PM

Beetlejuice

2:00 PM

Homicidal

Mr. Sardonicus

6:30 PM

Halloween: H20

10:59 PM

The Phantom of the Opera

Vidiots Annual “Unscary” Halloween

11:00 AM

Bride of Frankenstein

4:15 PM

Resident Evil (2026)

Halloween

6:00 PM

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

6:20 PM

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

8:45 PM

The Bride of Frankenstein

10:00 AM

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

3:00 PM

Tales from the Archives

4:00 PM

Seven (Original 35mm Silver Retention Print)

6:30 PM

Trick 'r Treat

10:59 PM

Hell House