Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 4K

Never Mind the Happy: An Evening with Marc Shaiman and Bette Midler

Crawl with Rogue

Academy Museum

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other &#8212; to become brothers again like they used to be. Their &#8220;spiritual quest&#8221;, however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

The Darjeeling Limited

*Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 2007, 35mm, 158 min. *

Turning in a robust, near gonzo performance, Daniel Day-Lewis is Daniel Plainview, an oilman driven by ambition and good ol’ American greed to drain the land dry and line his pockets with the profits. A most savage vivisection of capitalism in the grand, blustering style of John Huston, this loose adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel *Oil! *is by turns slow-burning and an absolute gusher of male arrogance. Capturing both the dynamism of its filmmaker and star, the film is aided in its ruthless examination of human frailty by a nervy score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and lucent visuals by cinematographer Robert Elswit. **Screening in 35mm! **

There Will Be Blood

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who experiences a close encounter of the first kind – witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. Meanwhile, government agents have close encounters of the second kind – discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in an unusual place. Roy and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind – contact.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

The American Cinematheque’s personal newly struck 70mm print of Director’s Cut

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND in 70mm

Egyptian Theatre

The Getty Research Institute hosts the 8th annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, moderated panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

**Participants**

Anahit Galstyan, University of California, Santa Barbara \
Andrea Jung-An Liu, University of California, Berkeley \
Bermet Nishanova, University of California, Irvine \
Dejan Vasić, Stanford University \
Evelyn Char, University of California, Santa Cruz  \
Johnnie Chatman, University of California, San Diego \
Lily Allen, University of California, Riverside \
Margot Yale, University of Southern California \
Thomas Duncan, University of California, Los Angeles

**Schedule**

**9:45am Welcome and Introduction** \
Andrew Perchuk, Getty Research Institute \
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute

**10am Session I**

 - At the Seams: The Labor Politics of Home Sewing in Elizabeth
   Catlett’s *The Black Woman*

Margot Yale, University of Southern California \
Introduced by: Suzanne Hudson, University of Southern California

 - Subject to Revision: Portraiture and Transness in Andy Warhol’s *Little Red Books*

Thomas Duncan, University of California, Los Angeles \
Introduced by: George Baker, University of California, Los Angeles

 - Carolee Schneemann’s *Interior Scroll*—Fifty Years On

Dejan Vasić, Stanford University  \
Introduced by: Richard Meyer, Stanford University

**11:30am Session I Discussion** \
Moderator: Kristin Juarez, Getty Research Institute

**12pm Lunch Break**

**1:30pm Session II**

 - Ecological Erosions of Monuments: Ruin Aesthetics, Intentional and
   Unintentional

Andrea Jung-An Liu, University of California, Berkeley \
Introduced by: Gregory Levine, University of California, Berkeley

 - A Palimpsest of Nature—Traversing a Social History of Landscape
   Photography in the American West

Johnnie Chatman, University of California, San Diego \
Introduced by: Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego

 - Hideo Date, Nihonga, and the Transpacific, Asian American Roots of
   L.A. Pacific Modernism

Lily Allen, University of California, Riverside \
Introduced by: Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside

**3pm Session II Discussion** \
Moderator: Miguel de Baca, Getty Foundation

**3:30pm Afternoon Coffee Break**

**4pm Session III**

 - The Haptic Image: Illusion and Authenticity in Medieval Textiles of
   Central Asia, Iran, and India (9th–13th c.)

Bermet Nishanova, University of California, Irvine \
Introduced by: Matthew Canepa, University of California, Irvine

 - Fragrant Boundaries: Funerary Censing and the Architecture of Coexistence in Medieval Ahlat

Anahit Galstyan, University of California, Santa Barbara \
Introduced by: Heather Badamo, University of California, Santa Barbara

 - Drifting Close: Minor Intimacies & Liminal Moments in Lu Yu-jui’s *Squid Jigger Fishing Boat*

Evelyn Char, University of California, Santa Cruz \
Introduced by: Nicole Furtado, University of California, Santa Cruz

**5:30pm Session III Discussion** \
Moderator: Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute

**6pm Public Reception**

Organized by \
Getty Research Institute \
Stanford University \
University of California, Berkeley \
University of California, Irvine \
University of California, Los Angeles \
University of California, Riverside \
University of California, San Diego \
University of California, Santa Barbara \
University of California, Santa Cruz \
University of Southern California

The symposium will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][2] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][3] for more free programs.

  [1]: https://media.getty.edu/Text/85bf55c3-cc0f-51f0-b6f6-37896a8247dc.pdf
  [2]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [3]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Getty Graduate Symposium 2026

Getty Center

Always for Pleasure / Yum, Yum, Yum!: A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana

Hammer Museum

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

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (2/6)

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

Featuring:

Nathan Bulmer ([https://www.instagram.com/natemorebikes/](https://www.instagram.com/natemorebikes/))

Trevor Alixopulos ([https://www.instagram.com/clubtrev/](https://www.instagram.com/clubtrev/))

Sonja Von Marensdorff ([https://www.instagram.com/sonja_von_m/](https://www.instagram.com/sonja_von_m/))

Demi Naito ([https://www.instagram.com/pagesbydemi/](https://www.instagram.com/pagesbydemi/))

Coco Fox ([https://www.instagram.com/cocofoxcomics/](https://www.instagram.com/cocofoxcomics/))

Woody Fu ([https://www.instagram.com/woodyfu/](https://www.instagram.com/woodyfu/))

ared D. Weiss ([https://www.instagram.com/jdweiss25/](https://www.instagram.com/jdweiss25/))

Alex Siple ([https://www.instagram.com/alexsipleart/](https://www.instagram.com/alexsipleart/))

Comics O'Clock: A Comic Reading (2/6)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“A Day’s Pleasure,” 1919, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 18 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Charlie decides to take his wife and children on a boat trip, but the family car proves somewhat recalcitrant.

FORMAT: 35mm

**“A Dog’s Life,” 1918, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 33 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Thanks to a dog he finds, Charlie ends up in possession of some stolen loot. But the wrongdoers want their ill-gotten gains back.

FORMAT: 35mm

Get your ticket for just $4.59 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

"A Day's Pleasure" / "A Dog's Life"

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Thai with English subtitles.*

March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cineverse

COUNTRY: Thailand

A USEFUL GHOST

Los Feliz Theatre

Revenge of the Cheerleaders / Sex on the Run

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

New Beverly Cinema

The gorgeous new restoration of Michael Almereyda's work of ethereally cool 90s arthouse vampire cinema — produced by David Lynch!

NADJA (1994) — New 4K Restoration!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Austin Kolodney

**Producers**: Noor Alfallah,  Remi Alfallah,  Mark Amin,  Andrea Bucko,  Gordon Clark, Tom Culliver,  Cassian Elwes,  Billy Hines

If you missed our incredible evening with indie legend Gus Van Sant, you have another chance to check out his new riveting true crime thriller in our microcinema! *Dead Man’s Wire* tells the fascinating true story of the 1977 kidnapping of a prominent banker — a case that captivated the nation and unexpectedly turned the abductor into an outlaw folk hero. As the media frenzy intensifies, the standoff evolves into a spectacle of desperation, defiance, and blurred justice, with themes that still resonate today.

The film stars Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo, and Al Pacino. Directed by Academy Award®–nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant and written by Austin Kolodney, *Dead Man’s Wire* has been celebrated at numerous festivals, including the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and AFI Fest.

Dead Man’s Wire

**Screenwriter**: Yuichiro Kido from the the light novel byHiroshi Sakurazaka

**Producers**: Yukinori Nakamura,  Eiko Tanaka

Calling all anime-heads! Join us in the microcinema for the new explosive animated science fiction mind-bender *All You Need is Kill!* Set in the year 20XX, this eye-popping anime follows the story of Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman volunteering to help rebuild Japan after the mysterious appearance of a massive alien flower known as “Darol.” When Darol unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

All You Need is Kill

Vidiots

Sinners (70mm)

Lifeboat

Before Sunrise

Vista Theatre

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith in 4K

His House

Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.

SLC Punk

Rife with more tech speak than a 1995 Windows guide, HACKERS is the tale of a teenage gang of, well, hackers, who — decked out in Seditionaries, bondage pants, and rollerblades — go head-to-head with an evil mega-corporation that has coded a computer virus capable of destroying the world’s ecosystem. Containing a floppy disk worth of sense and a Prodigy-pounding soundtrack, it’s a super-modem of fun that’s rightfully earned its place as one of the coolest films of any decade. Starring then-unknowns: future Oscar® winner Angelina Jolie; U.S. television Sherlock, Jonny Lee Miller; SCREAM star and Shaggy, Matthew Lillard; SWIMFAN and BRING IT ON star, Jesse Bradford; Fisher Stevens, and more. Are you ready to hack the planet? **In 35mm!**

Hackers

**2 p.m.–5 p.m.**

Jon Moritsugu, The Godfather of Punk Cinema, defined the trashy, rough-hewn DIY aesthetic of 1990s underground filmmaking in scorched earth sendups of the nuclear family, teen angst, hero worship and even the pretension of underground filmmakers. Now, Moritsugu, three-time Best Feature award winner at the New York Underground Film Festival (*Scumrock*, *Fame Whore*, *Mod Fuck Explosion*) and recipient of the Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, wants to share his low-budget production secrets with you! In this free, afternoon seminar in advance of the [world theatrical premiere](https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/numbskull-revolution-2026-02-07/) of his most recent release *Numbskull Revolution*, Moritsugu will walk you through everything you need to know to lob cinematic bombs into the cultural gears from conception to exhibition in this special interactive talk. For even more inspiration, members of the UCLA Library Punk Collective will be on hand to share information about its holdings.

**Free admission. [Reservation required](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-a-movie-punx-diy-filmmaking-master-class-with-jon-moritsugu-tickets-1980487649874?aff=oddtdtcreator).**

**Please note: This event takes place in the Charles E. Young Research Library Conference Room on the UCLA campus ([view Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/YmFZQ76FUXDVCgts9)).**

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Make a Movie, Punx! DIY Filmmaking Master Class With Jon Moritsugu

Numbskull Revolution

Intro to Leatherworking

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

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

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

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (2/7)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Three policemen, each with his own motives and obsessions, tackle the corruption surrounding an unsolved murder at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop in the early 1950s. Detective Lieutenant Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of a murdered detective, is out to avenge his father’s killing. The ex-partner of Officer White (Russell Crowe), implicated in a scandal rooted out by Exley, was one of the victims. Sergeant Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) feeds classified information to a tabloid magnate (Danny DeVito).

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘Watch Local: Hollywood Center Motel’

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

For Maria de Medeiros’s first film role, in which she disguises herself as a male knight to live and love freely without the interference of a dangerous suitor, João César Monteiro created a theatrical representation of medieval life, complete with mythical creatures and painted and front-projected backdrops. Taking inspiration from the story of Bluebeard and Portuguese fables, SILVESTRE is a radical take on the historical film, and one of the best examples in Portuguese cinema of the confluence between reality and fantasy. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the film established Monteiro as one of the most original voices of his generation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘João César Monteiro: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

SILVESTRE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

**THE ALABAMA SOLUTION, 2025, Dir. Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, ****114 Mins, ****HBO, USA**

In 2019, filmmakers visit an Alabama prison to film a revival meeting. Off camera, incarcerated men whisper a message: terrible things are going on here that are being kept secret from the public. This sparks an immersive 6-year investigation to discover the reality behind the walls of the nation’s deadliest prison system, documented in THE ALABAMA SOLUTION, now nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 106 “What the Hell Did I Do?,” 2015, 38 Mins, Dir. Andrew Jarecki, HBO, USA**

Years after they began their investigation, the filmmakers present Robert Durst with shocking new evidence.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**THE JINX: THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF ROBERT DURST, 2015, HBO, USA**

HBO’s hit series sheds new light on real-estate scion Robert Durst who has been accused of three murders but has evaded justice for over 30 years.

Q&A with filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman ‘Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

THE ALABAMA SOLUTION / THE JINX: THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF ROBERT DURST

Emmanuelle / Black Emanuelle

Desires Within Young Girls

PRESENTING:

Gate Crashers

Workers&#8217; Comp

On The Day

Auto-Immune

RECENT WORKS FROM PHILIP STEIGER

Now Instant Image Hall

Join us for an evening of short films curated by PRS Contributing Artist Senon Williams in the Auditorium!

Rituals: An Evening of Short Films by Senon Williams and more

Free Repair Fair at Scribble

Bring your household items to be repaired for free! Volunteer to help repair items for your fellow community members!

2-5pm

Sign up  here .

Free Repair Fair

Scribble

**Screenwriter**: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, John Musker

**Producer**: Peter Del Vecho

Disney turns an old fairy tale on its amphibious head in its final cell animation classic. In the French Quarter of the Big Easy, Tiana is a waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams of being a restaurant owner. A spellbound frog approaches her, hoping to reverse his stature back into that of a prince, but the magic spell works the other way and turns Tiana into a frog. A beautifully rendered film full of old Disney charm, you&#8217;ll want to bring your little prince, princess, or amphibian down for a piece of the magic.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Craving more animated royalty? Take home cartoon monarchy from around the world!

*Princes and Princesses, The Tale of Princess Kayuga, The Adventures of Prince Achmed*

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

The Princess and the Frog

**Screenwriters**: Yasujirō Ozu, Kôgo Noda

**Producer**: Masaichi Nagata

Yasujirō Ozu takes his exquisitely composed slice of life mastery to the seaside in a reimagining of his 1934 film *A Story of Floating Weeds* &#8211; with one of the director&#8217;s few forays into color. With an elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. Tender, comic, understated and remarkably beautiful in its composition and cinematography, leave the world behind and lose yourself in this international classic.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Ozu tonight &#8211; he&#8217;s got a dedicated shelf in our directors section!

*Good Morning, Tokyo Story, Equinox Flower*

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

Floating Weeds

**Screenwriter**: Suhayla El-Bushra

**Producers**: Nicky Bentham,  Marica Stocchi

Nadia Fall&#8217;s compelling debut feature, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, offers a powerful and empathetic look into the lives of two alienated teenage girls, Doe and Muna, who leave the UK for Syria in search of purpose and belonging. The film highlights their profound sense of cultural rejection, stemming from experiences like racist bullying and overt societal hostility, encapsulated in Muna&#8217;s poignant question, *&#8220;Who&#8217;s gonna give a sh*t about two brown girls?&#8221;*.

Their journey is heavily influenced by deceptive online narratives and the false promises of extremist groups, illustrating how propaganda can slowly erode personal identity. Inspired by real-life accounts, *Brides* humanizes these complex stories, challenging sensationalized media portrayals and fostering critical discussion on youth vulnerability, societal alienation, and the insidious impact of digital influence.

Brides

**Screenwriters**: Steven Zaillian, Mark Jacobson

**Producers**: Brian Grazer,  Dan Griffin

Screen legends Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott in this powerful, true crime epic. Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem&#8217;s chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas&#8217;s multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary showdown. Based loosely on Frank Lucas&#8217; real life and crimes, this gritty, superbly acted crime classic is more than a shoot &#8217;em up, it&#8217;s a deftly constructed character drama as well as a compelling gangster flick &#8211; don&#8217;t miss it on the big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to take home more Ridley Scott? He&#8217;s got a huge director&#8217;s section with every one of his films!**

*Thelma and Louise, Alien, Blade Runner* and so many more!

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

American Gangster

**Screenwriters**: Steven Paul,  Anthony Foutz

**Producer**: Steven Paul

Vidiots welcomes **John Stamos** and uber-fan **Johnny Knoxville** for a rare 40th Anniversary screening of the bonkers &#8217;80s action spectacular *Never Too Young to Die*.

What do you get when you pit John Stamos and Vanity against an evil intersex Gene Simmons, and throw in Freddy Krueger and James Bond just for fun? The absolutely unhinged 80s camptastic action bonanza *Never Too Young to Die*. John Stamos plays a high school gymnast who&#8217;s forced to avenge his father&#8217;s death against an evil gang leader played by KISS frontman Gene Simmons. Now he&#8217;s heading into a dangerous underground world of espionage with only Prince-protégé and Playboy model Vanity by his side. The perfect unhinged 80s popcorn flick to watch with a bunch of rowdy Vidiots!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Want more insane 80s action? Check out our Cult section for these and more camptaculars!

*Class of 1984, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Solarbabies*

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

Never Too Young to Die

Heaven Can Wait

The Way We Were

February marks 4 years of Whammy existing in the physical realm, so we're throwing a FREE all day celebration!

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**12:00PM**: rummage sale from T.A.P.E.! come peruse their excess of donated film & video gear

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**2:00PM**: free HUELL HOWSER screening - three episodes, on VHS!

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**4:00PM**: make cassette loops with T.A.P.E.!

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**7:00PM:** party-style screening of SKYSCRAPER (1996) on VHS, hosted by High Tower Video (rated R)

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**8:30PM:**  big screen KARAOKE party, til late!

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## All elements of this event are absolutely FREE to attend!

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## Ticket links at the bottom of the page serve as a FREE RSVP - show your RSVP during the celebration for free sticker or VHS tape!

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WHAMMY! 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

WHAMMY!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 4K

High Life

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Charles Bronson stars as an ex-con and Vietnam vet whose efforts to run a straight business soon have him locking horns with both the law and the mafia in this explosive tale of backwoods revenge.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents MR. MAJESTYK

The Defilers / A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine

**Screenwriters**: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy

**Producer**: Karen Murphy

Vidiots remembers the remarkable warmth, talent, and gifts of the legendary **Catherine O&#8217;Hara** with a special screening of the howlingly hilarious mockumentary *Best in Show*.

Christopher Guest and an incredible ensemble of the funniest people on earth are ready to improv their way to a blue ribbon in this furry comedy phenomenon. From start to finish, you&#8217;ll bark with laughter as an eccentric blend of dog owners from across the country gear up to compete at the Mayflower Dog Show.

**Remembering Catherine O&#8217;Hara**

Catherine O’Hara, our scene stealing, impossibly funny, impeccably comically timed, deeply human, perfectly wigged icon, we will miss you so. Thank you for making us laugh til we cried and lighting up generations of artists to seize art and life with a vigor only you could inspire. We’ll be celebrating you in our video store and on our big screen always.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to bring more Catherine O&#8217;Hara brilliance home? Check out some of these delights on physical media:

*After Hours, SCTV, Waiting for Guffman*

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

Best in Show

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

**This is a free screening, with seating available on a first come, first served basis.**

From **Hideaki Anno** (*Neon Genesis Evangelion*, *Shin Godzilla*),

*Shin Ultraman* is a modern, lovingly obsessive take on one of Japan’s most

iconic screen heroes. It keeps the DNA of the original series intact while

updating it with clean, powerful VFX, unexpected humor, and that very Anno mix of spectacle, sadness, and big cosmic questions.

**Plot synopsis:**

As mysterious giant creatures begin appearing across Japan, the government

forms a special task force to combat the escalating threat. When a towering

silver humanoid known as *Ultraman* starts appearing during each attack,

the team must uncover who — or what — this alien protector truly is, and what his presence means for humanity’s future.

Shin Ultraman

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 6, “Cooper’s Dreams,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Cooper and company have tea with the Log Lady, who tells them there was a third man following after Leo and Jacques the night Laura died. At Jacques Renault’s cabin, Cooper, Hawk and Truman find Waldo the bird.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

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

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

“Cooper’s Dreams” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 6

Summer with Monika / Inga

**Screenwriters**: Sheba Anyanwu,  Kristen Adele Calhoun,  Madebo Fatunde,  Kahlil Joseph, Saidiya Hartman,  Irvin Hunt

**Producers**: Onye Anyanwu,  Kahlil Joseph,  Amy Greenleaf,  Nic Gonda

Get ready for Kahlil Joseph’s visionary cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.

Adapted from Joseph&#8217;s renowned video art installation, the film draws inspiration from a range of cultural and artistic touchstones: *BLKNWS* itself, the improvisational brilliance of *Kind of Blue*, the late works of Jean-Luc Godard, and the critical fabulations of Saidiya Hartman. It is shaped by conversations with Fred Moten, David Hammons, and Malik Sayeed, as well as the grounding influence of Cristina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, and the spiritual traditions of Ifá and West African cosmologies.

*BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions* brings together every format of the moving image —cinema, video art, music video, social media, and documentary. It is a layered, multi-dimensional exploration of what the moving image can achieve, both as an artistic medium and as a tool for cultural critique.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Giant

Mezzanine presents three recent short films by filmmaker Dwayne LeBlanc, including *Civic*, *Now, Hear Me Good*, and the Los Angeles premiere of *You Do Not Exist*. A conversation will follow the screening with Dwayne and writer/archivist Harmony Holiday.

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Among the most exciting Los Angeles-based independent filmmakers to emerge this decade, Dwayne LeBlanc’s rigorous and hypnotic films are tactile snapshots of a life in transition, each following the travels of a single character (portrayed by Barrington Darius) between L.A. and Europe. Set in intimate spaces – driving a car, at a crowded party, or alone in the backyard — and imbuing them with a deeply felt lyricism and texture, LeBlanc’s filmmaking is filled with inspired and intuitive choices, taking a polyphonic approach to depicting community life on screen.

Widely acclaimed after screening at international film festivals, these three short films will be screening together for the first time with the filmmaker in person, including the L.A. premiere of his new short *You Do Not Exist* — followed by a conversation with writer Harmony Holiday.

Mezzanine: Three Films by Dwayne LeBlanc

2220 Arts + Archives

Daughters of the Dust in 35mm

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

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

Widely regarded as the greatest motion picture ever made, Citizen Kane tops the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time. Orson Welles' groundbreaking 1941 debut remains a towering achievement in cinema – innovative, daring, and endlessly influential.

This unique screening will be hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.

    Conversations about Citizen Kane and its lasting impact
    Inside stories from the unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show
    Personal memories that reveal Welles' humor, charm, and presence

WEDNESDAY WITH WELLES

Fine Arts Theatre

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*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

In one of his richest works, João César Monteiro films young couples fleeing their authoritarian parents in the Portuguese countryside, capturing forgotten people and landscapes while infusing them with tales of mystery and imagination inspired by ancient, traditional legends. Beautifully filmed by cinematographer Acácio de Almeida, Veredas reconfigures a nation’s cultural identity and aesthetic traditions, replacing politically fabricated imagery dictated by decades of fascism with a vibrant, inventive mise-en-scène that paved the way for a renowned docufiction tradition in contemporary Portuguese cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal

TRAILS

Active Cultures and Now Instant present **Seeds**, a three-part cinematic meditation on new beginnings, hidden power, and pivotal transformation.

Seeds are more than sources of nourishment. They hold ancestral memory: essential for preserving biodiversity, food sovereignty, and cultural heritage, resisting colonial displacement and destruction. These tiny vessels are also powerful symbols. Moving beyond the botanical, this artist-led film series delves into life&#8217;s eternal cycles, the strength of resilience, the wonder of germination, and the quiet wisdom found in dormancy.

The second film in the series, *Tending the Wild*, is selected by Andrea Jimenez of Herb Club LA. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Andrea and Joel Garcia, Director of Meztli Projects. Together, they will discuss the film’s themes in relation to their work with people and plants in the local community, as well as reflections on the past ten years since the film was made.

***Please note: seating is limited. Doors open thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served.***

Seeds: Tending the Wild

**Screenwriters**: Wong Kar-Wai, Jeffrey Lau

**Producer**: Rover Tang

If it’s about sexy people in Hong Kong pining for lost love in stunning lighting, then it must be a movie by Wong Kar-Wai! Set in 1960, this ravishingly gorgeous drama is one of WKW’s earliest works, and marks his first collaboration with brilliant cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The film weaves a twisted web of erotic and romantic connections, which ensnare a womanizer (Leslie Cheung) searching for his birth mom, his lovesick ex-girlfriend (Maggie Cheung), a dancer (Carina Lau), and a cop (Andy Lau). It also features a last-minute cameo by Tony Leung Chiu-wai as a charismatic playboy (or is that redundant?). So forget your own relationship troubles and prepare to enter a world where heartache looks cool as hell.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Do you love Maggie Cheung as much as we do? Check out these deep cuts tonight!

*Heroic Trio, Irma Vep, Clean*

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

Days of Being Wild

Airport/Airport 1975

Lightstruck presents *Tacita Dean & Robert Nelson: Acting on Film* with Tacita Dean in person!

Lightstruck is honored to welcome artist Tacita Dean for a rare cinematic projection of her riveting 2015 film *Event for a Stage*, paired with Robert Nelson’s seldom seen 1982 short film *Hamlet Act*, both screening in their original 16mm format. These two remarkable films each explore the endlessly complex interplay between live performance and cinematic construction, as the camera, editing, and even the director’s presence complicate the illusion of narrative continuity, not to mention the presumptive reality that appears to hover at the margins.

Nelson’s film is a brilliant and unusual deconstruction of Hamlet’s play-within-a-play, activated into multiple, recursive layers of artifice through its employment of film and video to extend the original text’s nested complexity. Outtakes, retakes, and the typically unseen ragged edges of live performance carry as much meaning here as Shakespeare’s precise words and stage directions, giving us an exploded view of the highly constructed nature of cinematic performance.

Also invoking Shakespeare is actor Stephen Dillane in Dean’s breathtaking film, in which the volleying interactions between actor and director frame an almost molecular exploration of live performance and its resistance and acquiescence to being captured. Dean filmed the absolutely magnetic Dillane over four disparate performances, recomposing them into an explicitly filmic thread of continuity as he navigates between themes of memory, forgetting, family, artifice, and above all, the slippery power balance between actor and filmmaker at the heart of every cinematic performance.

Program and notes by Mark Toscano. Very special thanks to Tacita Dean, with additional thanks to Marine Pariente and Marian Goodman Gallery. 16mm print of Event for a Stage courtesy of Tacita Dean and Marian Goodman Gallery. 16mm print of Hamlet Act courtesy of the estate of Robert Nelson and Canyon Cinema.

Lightstruck: Tacita Dean & Robert Nelson (Acting on Film)

Short Films Honoring the Day of Remembrance: Executive Order 9066

The Revenant in 4K

SPEED KILLS

A short film by Ally Evenson

Directed by Antony Muse

A one-night premiere event at Brain Dead Studios, featuring the debut screening of SPEED KILLS, followed by a live Q&A with Evenson and Muse moderated by Mikael Wood from the LA Times, two intimate acoustic performances, and more.

Doors at 7:00pm. Screening and performances begin at 7:30 PM sharp.

Album out February 20.

Synopsis: When a mysterious car crash leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere, a wannabe race car driver takes shelter with a traveling theater troupe seeking safety, only to find herself in a twisted romance she couldn’t have imagined.

Includes Q&A with Director Antony Muse and Singer/Songwriter Ally Evenson and 2 live acoustic performances from the SPEED KILLS album.

Ally Evenson - Speed Kills Premiere at Brain Dead Studios

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

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 2/19) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (2/19)

Arabian Nights

**Screenwriters**: Louise Peter,  Mascha Schilinski

**Producers**: Lucas Schmidt,  Lasse Scharpen

Join us in the microcinema for the utterly gorgeous bleak beauty of Mascha Schilinski’s meditative and transcendent *Sound of Falling*. Fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory with exquisite painterly cinematography and expertly disquieting sound design. 

This Cannes Jury Prize-winning masterpiece tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.

Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

*“It knocks you off your feet and then sweeps you up again”* &#8211; The New Yorker

*“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance”* &#8211; Deadline

*★★★★ “Marvelously tells a century’s worth of women’s stories by weaving together the psychological, the physical, and even the spiritual”* &#8211; Observer

Sound of Falling

**Screenwriters**: Ernest Dickerson, Gerard Brown

**Producers**: David Heyman, Neal Moritz, Peter Frankfurt

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome co-writer and director **Ernest Dickerson** for a special screening of his 90s coming-of-age classic *Juice* followed by a conversation with the legendary filmmaker! And come early for an all vinyl DJ set, spinning Hip Hop bangers from the 1990s!

Ernest Dickerson&#8217;s directorial debut, *Juice* is an entertaining gritty crime drama featuring the first on-screen role for Tupac Shakur as the increasingly psychopathic Bishop. Four young friends in Harlem dig deeper into the world of crime when they decide to go from petty crime to planning a high-stakes robbery. While not everyone&#8217;s heart is in the heist, Bishop, the de facto leader pushes them to follow through with the ill-fated operation, putting their friendships and lives on the line. A gripping coming-of-age story against the backdrop of 1990s Harlem with phenomenal performances and deft direction from Dickerson. *So pop two quarters in, pop tart, and let&#8217;s get this game on!*

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Ernest Dickerson classics tonight!

*For One Night, Bones, Tales from the Crypt Presents:Demon Knight*

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

Juice

Gaslight/Laura

Sunshine in 35mm

Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.

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An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ***ANYTHING THAT MOVES***

is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of

Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, director **Alex Phillips**&#8216; rust

belt giallo continues his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this

tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery.
The film follows nubile sex worker Liam who bikes with his girlfriend — his

partner in both business and pleasure — through the city delivering snacks and

divine satisfaction to his love-hungry clients. Meanwhile, a serial killer&#8217;s

gory murders are piling up, and all the evidence seems to point back to the

lovers’ bed.

Produced in collaboration with cult home video outfit **Vinegar Syndrome**,

the film features standout supporting performances from erotic film legends

**Ginger Lynn** (*The Devil’s Rejects*) and

**Nina Hartley** (*Boogie Nights*).
With an original instrumental score by Chicago-based artists **Cue Shop**,

calling to mind the lush orchestrations of Bruno Nicolai, and lurid visuals by

acclaimed cinematographer **Hunter Zimny**

(*The Scary of Sixty-First*, *Funny Pages*),

*Anything That Moves* provides an immersive throwback to ’70s exploitation flicks.

Anything That Moves

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

“Ben Hecht has been squinting at ‘The Front Page’ again and, with one eye crinkled shut and the other sardonically glinting, he has written an impiously impish comedy about that recurrent journalistic marvel, the seven-day wonder. NOTHING SACRED, which is the title of the eminent professor’s thesis, and which is now being read at the Music Hall, has given the Fourth Estate the once-over (not so lightly) and has left it applying collodion to its wounds. . . . Only a journalistic renegade, teetering on a critical perch, would dare grant it the distinction of being one of the merrier jests of the cinema year. Mr. Hecht, having served his apprenticeship in the toughest Chicago school, is in a position to bat a skeptical eyebrow over the antics of the wayward press.”

*—Frank S. Nugent, The New York Times, November 26, 1937*

FORMAT: Nitrate

COUNTRY: USA

Presented in partnership with Eastman Museum, L.A. Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd. ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

NOTHING SACRED on Nitrate

Recounting the circumstances of his son Nando’s suicide, José seems both comforted by and unaware of filmmaker Juan Pablo González’s camera as he retells the events of that final day. The short unfolds in three chapters: each repetition feels like an excavation, grief both fresh and buried. Set against the vast farmlands he once worked on with his son, the film’s haunting soundscape and a capella cantos transform mourning into landscape, revealing how memory reshapes what remains and how loss echoes through time and place.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Juan Pablo González.

Chloé Zhao’s quietly devastating debut unfolds on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, where high school senior Johnny prepares to leave home until a sudden family death makes him reluctant to abandon his 13-year-old sister. Blending fiction and documentary, Zhao casts local community members without professional acting experience, grounding the film in authenticity. The result is a work of lyrical realism and emotional restraint that captures the beauty, hardship and resilience of reservation life.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Chloé Zhao. With: John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard, Eléonore Hendricks.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

The Solitude of Memory / Songs My Brothers Taught Me

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

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!**

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (2/20)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Iconic director David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO) deftly explores the thrill, pain and tenderness of an illicit romance in dour, gray post-war Britain. After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson, THIS HAPPY BREED) enter into a muted, passionate but ultimately unconsummated situationship. This depiction of powerful feelings kept under wraps is a definitive example of a particularly English style of emotional restraint. BRIEF ENCOUNTER is also a potent beacon for queer subtext, as its subject of forbidden love holds special resonance.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: UK

Get your ticket for just $7.74 at the box office! Print provided courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive ‘Film by the Foot’

BRIEF ENCOUNTER

A beautiful new restoration of Grigori Kromanov's bizarre & haunting, Estonian sci-fi mystery, based on a novel by the authors of "Stalker"!

DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (1979) – New 4K Restoration!

**Screenwriter**: Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis

**Producer**: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis

Get caught in a time warp with Bill Murray and his fuzzy friend in Harold Ramis&#8217; beloved comedy. When a narcissistic TV weatherman is sent to the small town of Punxsutawney to cover the annual emergence of Punxsutawney Phil, he finds himself stuck repeating the same day over and over. Outrageously funny with a sweet gooey middle, this is a comedy classic that deserves watching and rewatching and rewatching!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Ready to do the time warp again? Check out these other time-bending treasures

*Time Cop, Happy Death Day, Time Crimes*

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

Groundhog Day

Melody Time/The Sword in the Stone

The Bride of Frankenstein

*Los Angeles premiere w/ director Josh Heaps in person!*

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Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.

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City Wide Fever runs the well-worn tropes of 1970s horror - sex, violence, and endless style - through our fraught and fragmented 21 century. Shot throughout 2023 and ‘24 on an SD camera, the film acknowledges its predecessors while also looking towards new methods of storytelling.

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Produced by Guy Maddin, made with a tiny budget & shot unpermitted in and around NYC with a cast featuring Larry Fessenden, Ian Fidance, Michael M. Bilandic, and Carolyn Farina.

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**dir. Josh Heaps, 2025***United States, digital projection*74 min

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## Friday, 2/207:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

Followed by a Q&A with director Josh Heaps, led by filmmaker Devon Green.

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

CITY WIDE FEVER (2025), dir. Josh Heaps in person!

More information at: https://slamdance.com/festival/

Slamdance 2026

Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi in Dolby Vision

Apollo 13 in 4K

### NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2025)

*Run Time:* 95 minutes

Nine years in the making, *Numbskull Revolution* is Moritsugu at his most

epic, abrasive, and fully realized. A savage sci-fi satire set in a near-future

art-world dystopia, the film follows rival conceptual artists (Amy Davis and

James Duval) locked in a spiral of ambition, addiction, and ideological collapse.
Brutalist, hilarious, and unexpectedly raw — a maximalist cinematic overload.

### MY DEGENERATION (1989)

*Run Time:* 61 minutes

One of Moritsugu’s earliest features, *My Degeneration* is pure no-wave

cinema: feral, funny, and aggressively anti-polite. Shot on a shoestring and

fueled by punk nihilism, the film skewers youth culture, authority, and identity

with lo-fi fury and total disregard for good taste.
A foundational entry in Moritsugu’s anarchic filmography.

**Plus: an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Jon Moritsugu moderated by Alex Gootter of Hollywood Entertainment!**

Numbskull Revolution & My Degeneration

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

Presented in partnership with Eastman Museum, L.A. Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by Wesley Greene. ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

One of David Lean’s rare leanings into comedy, BLITHE SPIRIT is the classic adaptation of Noel Coward’s smash-hit theater piece starring Rex Harrison (MY FAIR LADY) as a novelist who cheekily invites spirit medium Margaret Rutherford (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST) to his house for a séance, hoping the experience will help inspire his current book project. Things go haywire, though, when she summons the spirit of Harrison’s deceased first wife…a severe inconvenience for his current second wife! With Technicolor panache and effective Forties special effects, BLITHE SPIRIT will thaw the cold heart of any cinema cynic.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: UK

Print courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

BLITHE SPIRIT on Nitrate

Loose Frames presents an evening of various funny, experimental, and evocative animated shorts. There will be a short Q&A with the filmmakers before the screening begins.

Loose Frames Community Shots Screening

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

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

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

KAOS/LACMA Cultural Literacy Collider

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

Clémenti’s penultimate screen role, for Portuguese iconoclast João César Monteiro, is a catalyst within a narrative hall of mirrors with a theatrical company fanatically rehearsing August Strindberg’s Inferno at its center. Featuring multiple timelines, a battle of wills between God and Lucifer, an obsession with John Wayne’s swaggering pelvis, and a dedication to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, the film is equal parts majestic and perverse, as Monteiro teeters to the edge of theatrical abstraction. For Clémenti, who fully retreated from the film industry in the 1980s—pouring his energy into theater, his own films, radio programs, and even acting in student projects at La Fémis—Le Bassin ’s auteurist rigors were a return to an earlier time. “You have to know how to disappear to be reborn,” he told Les Inrocks in 1998, “My encounter with Monteiro was magnificent […], with him, it was like with [Luis] Buñuel: we understand each other instinctively, without even speaking.” This renaissance was, tragically, also a swan song. That year, Clémenti was diagnosed with liver cancer, from which he passed away in 1999 at age 57.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal/France

THE HIPS OF J.W.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An ex-cop discovers that his brother’s recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city’s porno movie scene.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

HIT MAN

Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days  / The Autobiography of a Flea

The Fireworks Woman

**Screenwriters**: Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers

**Producer**: Dana Leigh Murray

*Life is full of possibilities. You just need to know where to look. Don&#8217;t miss out on the joys of life*. Jamie Foxx leads an all-star voice cast &#8211; including Tina Fey, Richard Ayoade, Angela Bassett, and Questlove &#8211; as Joe, a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn&#8217;t quite gone the way he expected. With his beloved piano, his true passion is Jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul. A beautiful and poignant film to remind everyone to seek out their spark and find the joy in the little things in life. 

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Got little music lovers in your house?

*School of Rock, Make Mine Music, Fantasia*

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

Soul

**Producers**: Jessica Hargrave,  Ryan White,  Tig Notaro,  Stef Willen

Join us in the microcinema for Ryan White&#8217;s poignant Academy Award nominated documentary *Come See Me in the Good Light.* An emotional and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Come See Me in the Good Light

**Screenwriter**: A.V. Rockwell

**Producers**: Eddie Vaisman,  Julia Lebedev,  Lena Waithe,  Rishi Rajani,  Brad Weston

Behold the force of nature that is Teyana Taylor in her breakthrough performance in A.V. Rockwell&#8217;s gripping and tender story of Black motherhood. Taylor plays Inez, a single mother playing by her own rules in 1990s New York. Forced to kidnap her own child from foster care after a stint in Rikers, the ground beneath their very feet threatens to collapse at every turn, even as her son and family grows. Moving, powerful, and touching, this portrait of family life in an unjust society comes alive with dynamic performances, evocative cinematography, and the perfect Quincy-Jonesesque soundtrack.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love Vintage NYC? Take home a slice of the Big Apple tonight!

*Variety, The Last Days of Disco, Crooklyn*

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

A Thousand and One

**Screenwriter**: Jessica Bendinger

**Producers**: Marc Abraham,  Thomas A. Bliss

*That&#8217;s all right. That&#8217;s OK! You&#8217;re gonna pump our gas someday! *The rivalry is on for two San Diego high school cheer teams and the battle is going to be petty! You know you can&#8217;t resist this trash-talking, high-flying, cat-fighting classic of Millennial cinema, so bring your squad to Vidiots to watch the cheer championships of the century and root for your favorite shady moment, bitchy dig, and high-kicking routine!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a girly teen flick? Check out these slumber party classics tonight!

*Girls Just Want to Have Fun, The Legend of Billie Jean, Slums of Beverly Hills*

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

Bring It On

**Screenwriter**: Michael Almereyda

**Producers**: Mary Sweeney,  Amy Hobby

Join us in the microcinema for the new restoration of Michael Almereyda&#8217;s gorgeous vampiric slow burn *Nadja*. Merging elements from *Dracula&#8217;s Daughter* (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel *Nadja* (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim&#8217;s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch. Breathtaking, ethereal, and magnificently ponderous, this undead indie treasure is a timeless unsung genre triumph.

**Restoration Info ******

The original Director’s Cut of NADJA was digitally restored by Arbelos and Grasshopper Film from the only extant element, the 35mm answer print—the version of the film that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994, three minutes longer than the commercial release. Laboratory services by OCN Labs, Five Seventy Films, Ben Gilbert Films, David Ferron and Blackhawk Films. Special thanks to Michael Almereyda and Absurda.

Nadja

**Screenwriter**: Terri Tatchell

**Producers**: Peter Jackson,  Carolynne Cunningham

Science fiction and social satire blend in this brilliant commentary on xenophobia and Apartheid, cloaked in the guise of a highly entertaining extraterrestrial action film. Thirty years after a group of malnourished aliens arrive on Earth as a last refuge, they are all segregated away from humans in a South African internment camp while the government runs inhumane tests on them and tries to steal their technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9. Now part-man, part alien, he is out to expose the government&#8217;s treatment of the aliens and fight for beings from all planets.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more science fiction that resonates with the times?

*Fahrenheit 451, Starship Troopers, The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale*

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

Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 4K

2:30 PM

Never Mind the Happy: An Evening with Marc Shaiman and Bette Midler

5:00 PM

Crawl

Rogue

7:30 PM

The Darjeeling Limited

7:00 PM

There Will Be Blood

9:15 PM

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND in 70mm

7:00 PM

Getty Graduate Symposium 2026

Always for Pleasure

Yum, Yum, Yum!: A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana

7:30 PM

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (2/6)

1:00 PM

Comics O'Clock: A Comic Reading (2/6)

7:00 PM

“A Day’s Pleasure,”

“A Dog’s Life,”

1:00 PM

A USEFUL GHOST

4:00 PM

Revenge of the Cheerleaders

Sex on the Run

6:30 PM

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

11:59 PM

NADJA (1994) — New 4K Restoration!

7:00 PM

Dead Man’s Wire

All You Need is Kill

10:00 PM

Sinners (70mm)

Lifeboat

7:30 PM

Before Sunrise

11:59 PM