LA Filmforum: The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

2220 Arts + Archives

Hotel Transylvania

Blade in 4K

Horror of Dracula in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

Films coming soon.

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

21st Annual Horrorthon

Aero Theatre

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

Monster House

“We are the freaks.” Black lipstick, Wicca, and Catholic school angst — THE CRAFT is CARRIE by way of CLUELESS. When troubled teen Sarah (Robin Tunney, EMPIRE RECORDS) transfers to a new high school in LA, she is quickly befriended by a trio rumored to be witches — Bonnie (Neve Campbell, SCREAM), Rochelle (Rachel True, NOWHERE), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk, AMERICAN HISTORY X). It is not long before the spells and curses cast by the budding coven take on a life of their own. Less content to rest on hijinks and popularity contests than its contemporaries, the script by FLATLINERS scribe, Peter Filardi, crafts a broody atmosphere as thick as its protagonist’s eyeliner and continues to resonate with girl gangs and misfits who’ve long outgrown the braces and rosary combo. Co-starring Skeet Ulrich (SCREAM) and Breckin Meyer (ROADTRIP).  **Screening in 35mm! **

The Craft

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are bitter rivals in an all out bitch-fest war. The elixir of youth won&#8217;t stand in either of their ways to beat each other, and Bruce Willis gets dragged along as a poor schmuck witness to it all, to boot.

Death Becomes Her

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Rosemary’s Baby

Brain Dead Studios

60 years after its first screening in Algiers, *The Battle of Algiers* has lost none of its political punch. Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. In France, however, it remained effectively banned for years. Its extraordinary political afterlife has been equally paradoxical: a film embraced by anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the world has also been studied by military and counterinsurgency strategists, including at the Pentagon during the Iraq War.

Starring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot entirely on location in Algiers in a strikingly realist, quasi-documentary style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs the pivotal 1957 Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Beginning with French paratroopers closing in on FLN militant Ali La Pointe, the film moves backward to trace his politicization and the escalating confrontation between the National Liberation Front and the French colonial state. Yet *The Battle of Algiers* is less the story of an individual revolutionary than of a people becoming a political subject.

Made shortly before the manifestos that would theorize “Third Cinema,” the film became one of its enduring touchstones: cinema conceived not simply as representation but as intervention. Its unsettling treatment of colonialism, revolutionary violence, torture and collective resistance continues to raise urgent questions about political violence, national liberation and the unfinished work of decolonization.

*Note written by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana.*

DCP. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Screenwriters: Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas. With: Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Yacef Saâdi.

The Battle of Algiers — 60th Anniversary

Hammer Museum

An animation screening hosted by Loose Frames featuring animations summited by the community

Loose Frames Rattled Fabrications: Animated Shorts Screening (10/24)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy sing and dance to the music of Cole Porter in this musical spectacular about the problems that arise when the wrong partner of a ballroom dance team lands a starring role on the Great White Way in BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940.

In a case of mistaken identity, King Shaw (Murphy) is cast to star on Broadway—resulting an inflated ego for Shaw and a big headache for the theatrical company. Rather than stand in his way, King’s much-more talented partner, Johnny Brett (Astaire), coaches Shaw for his starring role. But when King arrives late and drunk on opening night, the true star goes on stage–and triumphs.

Featuring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in a six-minute tap dance finale to Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine.”

FORMAT: Digital

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fantasy, magic and fun are all brewed together in this legendary adventure. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron’s power will be invincible. The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team including the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron’s evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE BLACK CAULDRON

### **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

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Venus on the Half-Shell,” 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 5 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*
Featuring Bona Tibertelli De Pisis’s excellent erotic graphic works – wife of writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont’s writings.

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE BEAST, 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 108 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Walerian Borowczyk’s most notorious film wildly re-works BEAUTY AND THE BEAST into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of “good taste.” Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, THE BEAST (aka LA BÊTE) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.

FORMAT: DCP

‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’ Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York

"Venus on the Half-Shell" / THE BEAST

Los Feliz Theatre

The Cat and the Canary

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Maniac Cop 2

New Beverly Cinema

1920 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • This is one of the cornerstones of horror and one of the most striking example of German Expressionism. If you’re interested in film history, this film is essential. It's eerie fun. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1982 • Introduced by "Horror Nerd" comedian Samantha Hale • A comfortable suburban home, a close-knit family, and then absolute supernatural mayhem: Poltergeist knows exactly how to hook an audience. Once the little girl says “They’re here,” the film keeps building in scale and intensity without losing its human center. Nominated for three Academy Awards. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Poltergeist

Old Town Music Hall

Director Linus O’Brien in person, presenting the electrifying doc on his father’s delicious, definitive cult classic creation—ROCKY HORROR!

STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR! + Q&A w/ Dir. Linus O'Brien!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel

**Producer**: Michelle Murdocca

Pack a bag, grab the family, and head to Vidiots for the vacation of your deathtime! Welcome to *Hotel Transylvania*, Dracula&#8217;s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis&#8217;s 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything! Bring your little monster-lovers for this super fun monster mash!

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

**Screenwriters**: Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson

**Producers**: Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi, Kathleen Gavin

Get in the spooky spirit with a trip to the delightful nightmare world of Halloween Town with Jack Skellington and his gruesome band of ghoulfriends. Tired of the monotony of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, has a plan to kidnap Santa Claus and turn Christmas creepy. But as the winter holiday approaches, Jack&#8217;s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans and bring back Christmas merriment. A stop-motion delight for everyone with extraordinary animation, iconic songs, and a whole world of creepy creatures to fall in love with!

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

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

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

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

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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

With director **Sam Green** in in person at the Thursday, October 22nd and Saturday, October 24th screenings and in conversation with **Dominic Willsdon**, Executive Director of IDA after the October 22nd screening!

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

The Oldest Person in the World

**Screenwriters**: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson

**Producers**: Stanley Kubrick, Robert Fryer

This Stephen King adaptation crawls with atmospheric dread from the opening scene to the closing credits, inhabiting a special place in the psyche of all those who have witnessed its bloody, psychotic mastery.  Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance, a down-on-his-luck writer who accepts a caretaker job at the historic Overlook Hotel. After packing up the wife and child, this family fraught with their own demons embarks on a journey of isolation, madness, and mystical mind games culminating in a terrifying fever dream. A quintessential horror from one of America&#8217;s greatest directors and one of our most popular novelists.

**Please Note**: The screening on October 23rd will be presented digitally, October 24th will be presented on 35mm film.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more Stephen King classics? These are some of our favorites!

*The Mist, Dolores Claiborne, Carrie*

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

The Shining

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

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

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

Colony

**Screenwriter/ Producer**: James Bond III

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Def by Temptation

Vidiots

Rodan

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

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

V/H/S/Mixtape

Creepshow

Vista Theatre

## A Punk Rock Blade Runner for Artists!!!

***Numbskull Revolution*** took nine long years to complete and witnessed the end of the 29-year marriage and creative partnership of Moritsugu and Davis. This grand finale is their most epic and fully-realized motion picture. Ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, it is - at its most base level - a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism.

***Numbskull Revolution*** premiered at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in February 2026 and has since screened - traveling roadshow style - at kick-ass theaters, cool high art repositories, and punk rock clubhouses in 25 cities in the USA, Australia, and Canada. It will be premiering soon in Europe and South America. **NO FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS! NO LEGIT DISTRIBUTION!**

"Amy Davis and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension."

- Paul Malcolm: Senior Public Programmer, UCLA Film & Television Archive/Hammer Museum

**dir. Jon Moritsugu, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
95 min

**SATURDAY, 10/24 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

Followed by a Zoom Q&A with director **Jon Moritsugu** in conversation with filmmaker **Tucker Bennett**.

## $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)*.

********Jon Moritsugu** (*Mod Fuck Explosion, Fame Whore,* *Terminal USA, Scumrock)*, “The Godfather of Punk Cinema,” has returned from the near-dead with ******Numbskull Revolution******, his eighth feature! This collaboration with his now ex-wife, Amy Davis, marks the **OFFICIAL COMEBACK** for this Grammy-nominated Oscar Contender, who is arguably the world’s most uncompromising and extreme movie director. Numbskull Revolution, shot in 2017 in Santa Fe and Marfa, stars James Duval (“Frank the Bunny” from ***Donnie Darko***) and Amy Davis (as twin sisters).

## IG: @jon.moritsugu

## www.jonmoritsugu.com

*****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.***

NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2026) + Zoom Q&A w/ dir. Jon Moritsugu!

WHAMMY!

Men in Black in 35mm

Christine

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter (Lou Costello) that Dracula wants his brain for a monster’s body.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN

Filmmaker/author/musician Josh Malerman has done it all. He’s a New York Times best-selling author. His books have been adapted into major films, including *Bird Box*, the most-watched movie on Netflix starring Sandra Bullock. He wrote the theme song to the Emmy Award winning eleven season series *Shameless*. He spent six years on tour traveling the world, and to this day lives a carnival-esque life filled with artistic endeavors in Michigan. And yet with every new novel and creative venture, Josh must face the terror of the blank page and accept the rollercoaster ride of living the life of an artist. Now the audience can ride alongside Josh as he traverses the ups and downs of writing his next book. *From producers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt, Heretic). *

***Filmmaker, Author, and Musician Josh Malerman will be in attendance.***

From producers Beck/Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt, Heretic), Strange Loop, and Spin a Black Yarn.

A part of *****TWISTED SIGNALS, ***a film festival from Antenna Releasing and its partners.

To All the Books

For fans of films like *American Movie *and *Dancin’ Outlaw*, a “canceled” theater director summons a troupe of conservative actors to an abandoned cabin in rural Georgia to plot revenge on the Atlanta theater community with a musical retelling of the 1692 Salem witch trials. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival. 

***Filmmakers Dylan Frederick and Nick Clark will be in attendance.***

**Screening with the short film ***SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT*
Q&A moderated by filmmaker David Farrier (*Tickled, Mister Organ*)

A part of *****TWISTED SIGNALS, ***a film festival from Antenna Releasing and its partners.

American Theater

The female metal band ‘JUMP SCARE’ retreat to a remote cabin to write their next album only to be terrorized by the family of cannibals next door. This phantasmagoric blend of genres, tones, and colors is equal parts cannibal movie, slasher, rock opera, and with a touch of renegade humor thrown in for extra sauce. It’s your new cult favorite! *Featuring everyone’s favorite working actor, Eric Roberts, his 8,000th film from 2026*.

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***Filmmaker Donnie Hobbie will be in attendance.***

Q&A moderated by filmmaker Frankie Campisano

A part of *****TWISTED SIGNALS, ***a film festival from Antenna Releasing and its partners.

Jump Scare

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative*

Born out of a workshop with acting students from the Tokyo film school ENBU, *Intimacies *itself follows a group of students rehearsing and then staging a play. At four hours, it’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s earliest exploration of duration as a cinematic device with the first half focused on the group’s preparations and the second, aside from a brief, poignant coda, a presentation of the complete play. Personal problems and current events threaten to derail the project with director Reiko (Rei Hirano) adjusting and revising to keep the play and her relationship with the playwright, Ryo (Ryo Sato), on track.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Rei Hirano, Ryo Sato, Mikio Tayama.

Intimacies

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky’s the limit – major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Introduction by performer Avital Ash ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Avital Ash Presents THE ARTIST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When she first sets eyes on her new boss, the wealthy Cyrus Waltham Jr. (Antonio Moreno), department store clerk Betty Lou Spence (Clara Bow) is convinced he’s got “it,” an indefinable quality that makes one irresistible to the opposite sex. Betty Lou charms her employer on a date, but Cyrus suddenly cools when he hears a false story that Betty Lou has mothered an illegitimate child. Crushed by Cyrus’ assumption, the shopgirl ramps up the sex appeal to win her man back and teach him a lesson.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A young New York couple (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) moves into a new apartment building, where they’re quickly befriended by lovable Ruth Gordon and husband Sidney Blackmer. All is not as it seems, though, and Farrow soon comes to suspect that her neighbors have truly sinister plans in store for her and her unborn baby. This eerie supernatural thriller builds shivery atmosphere through each successive scene, right up until the shattering climax.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Sloan de Forest Book signing with Sloan de Forest for her book, The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Larry Edmunds Bookshop.

ROSEMARY'S BABY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Everyone is afraid of something… for Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels), his phobia is downright embarrassing. But when he moves his family to a small town, the one thing that bugs him most is now harming the townspeople at an alarming rate. For this unlikely hero, overcoming a childhood fear of spiders might just save the community, but it may already be too late! Directed by Frank Marshall and also starring John Goodman, this critically acclaimed, breathtaking hit entertains with its terrific mix of thrills, chills and laughter!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

ARACHNOPHOBIA

1935 • Introduction by Author Julian David Stone • This is one of the rare sequels people argue is even better than the original. It’s funny in an odd, dark way, it moves fast, and it has real emotion under the horror. Elsa Lanchester’s screen time is short but legendary, and the film’s look and spirit influenced decades of monster movies. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Bride of Frankenstein

1968 • Introduction by Author Julian David Stone • This is the film that basically rewired zombie culture. One of the most famous bits of movie-business trivia is that it ended up in the public domain because of a release-time copyright notice mistake, which is part of why it spread everywhere. Duane Jones as the lead was also a big deal for the time, and he’s terrific. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Night of the Living Dead

Vidiots invites you to join us for our third annual **Día de los Muertos Celebration &#8211; **a special community event in remembrance of our loved ones. Join us in the MUBI microcinema for face-painting and arts and crafts for all ages. Plus Día de los Muertos inspired treats, a community ofrenda in our lobby all week long, and more Vidiots surprises, it&#8217;s a day for community, for family, and for reverence to the dearly departed in our hearts.

We want to encourage our beloved community members to bring 4&#215;6 photos of your dearly departed for our **Community Ofrenda,** starting on **October 25th** in the Vidiots lobby. Please don&#8217;t bring anything irreplaceable!

Vidiots te invita a nuestra tercera celebración anual del **Día de los Muertos**, un evento para recordar a nuestros seres queridos. Acompáñanos en el MUBI Microcinema, donde habrá pintacaritas y artes para todas las edades durante el día.

También tendremos antojitos inspirados por el Día de los Muertos, una Ofrenda Comunitaria en nuestro lobby durante toda la semana, y muchas sorpresas más de Vidiots! Será un día para compartir en comunidad y familia, y para recordar y honrar a nuestros seres queridos difuntos.

Invitamos a toda nuestra querida comunidad a traer fotos tamaño 4×6 de sus seres queridos para colocar en nuestra **Ofrenda Comunitaria** a partir del **25 de octubre** en el lobby de Vidiots. ¡Solo recuerden no traer nada irremplazable!

**Sunday October 25**&#8211; 11:00 am &#8211; 3:00pm

**Face painting**: In the Microcinema, 11:00am &#8211; 2:00pm

**Día de los Muertos crafts **with **[The Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory](http://bharts.org/)** &#8211; In the Microcinema 11:00am &#8211; 2:00pm

[**Coco**](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/coco/) en Español &#8211; 1:00pm &#8211; The Eagle Theatre &#8211; $5.00 discounted tickets

**Sunday, November 1st**

[**Macario**](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/macario/) &#8211; 4:00pm &#8211; The Eagle Theatre &#8211; $5.00 discounted tickets and festivities galore!

Please grab your **free tickets above** to help us prep our face paints and sugar skulls, but no one will be turned away! Tickets for the screenings are sold separately at a special discounted rate!

Día de los Muertos Celebration

**Screenwriters**: Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich

**Producer**: Darla K. Anderson

Join Vidiots as we celebrate **Día de Los Muertos** with the stunning and beloved Pixar film *Coco*. Miguel is a boy who dreams of musical stardom despite his family&#8217;s ban on music. Finding himself in the Land of the Dead, he sets off on a journey to learn the true secrets of his family and a path to the music he loves. A true triumph of animation with dynamic visuals, compelling storytelling and a story of family, tradition, and loss that anyone can enjoy.

Vidiots is celebrating **Día de los Muertos** with spirited programming, activities, and surprises. Join us for crafts, contribute to our community ofrenda, plus more fun from 11:00am &#8211; 3:00pm. For more information click [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/).

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Need more (not-so) spooky options for the kiddos? Rent these gems from the video store:

*The Worst Witch, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Watcher in the Woods*

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

Coco en Español

**Screenwriter**: Melissa Mathison

**Producers**: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Everyone&#8217;s favorite wig-wearing, Reese&#8217;s Pieces-eating alien is back on our big screen! An all-time classic, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s moving and magical tale soars with the wonders and fears of childhood and the enduring power of intergalactic friendship. When Elliot brings home a marooned alien, he and his siblings do whatever it takes—hiding in closets, wrecking their Speak & Spell, flying their bikes across the moon—to help their interstellar friend find his way home. Bring your family and your favorite alien to experience this heartwarmer on the big screen, the way it was meant to be seen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more alien friends for your little one tonight!

*Batteries Not Included, Aliens in the Attic, Mac and Me*

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

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on 35mm

**Screenwriter**: William Peter Blatty

**Producer**: William Peter Blatty

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

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The Exorcist on 35mm

Once again it's WINGS NIGHT at Whammy! Join us for a secret spooky screening featuring our number one special boy Wings Hauser, presented by High Tower Video. We can't tell you what it is, but if you're like us and love the incomparable presence Wings brings to the screen, you won't be disappointed.

**dir. ????????, 19??**
*United States, digital projection*
?? min

**SUNDAY, 10/2 · 3:30P DOORS · 4:00P SCREENING**

Rated "R", not appropriate for children.

## $10 general admission.

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

A Secret WINGS HAUSER Horror Movie, pres. by High Tower Video

A.S. Hamrah and Hollywood Entertainment proudly present Stuart Gordon's final masterwork: *Stuck* featuring an exclusive pre-recorded virtual Q&A with star Mena Suvari and an in-person introduction by Gordon's daughter, Suzanna Gordon.

"Stuart Gordon’s *Stuck* is perhaps the most disturbing film of its era, which is that period in the George W. Bush years just before the economy collapsed. More than disturbing, in fact it is an alarming portrait of American citizens at the end of their collective rope, behaving in ways that are callous, uncivilized, and completely lacking in concern for other people. A chilling portrait of its time from a master filmmaker, once seen it is not to be forgotten." - A.S. Hamrah

Written by EZTV and *Dark Romances* alum John Strysik, **Stuck** tells the story of Brandi (Suvari), a compassionate hospice nurse who hits Tom (Stephen Rea), an unhoused man, with her car, lodging him in the windshield. Rather than seek help, she drives home, parks in her garage, and goes about her life and work as usual in the following days... What follows is a darkly comic, insightful, and unsettling descent into the darkness of human denial. Stuck is an inspired-by-a-true-story nightmarish descent into waking hell that demonstrates the incredible talents of Stuart Gordon - best known for supernatural horror and sci-fi classics like *Re-Animator* and *From Beyond* - when turned to the twisted sociopolitical milieu of the real world.

**dir. Stuart Gordon, 2007**
*United States, digital projection*
85 min

**SUNDAY, 10/25 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

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STUCK (2007), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment & A.S. Hamrah

On the seventh and a half floor of a nondescript office lies a door which invites curious travelers to do the impossible: see the world through the eyes of actor John Malkovich — for 15 minutes — before spitting them out on the New Jersey turnpike. But when a struggling puppeteer (John Cusack), his pet enthusiast wife (Cameron Diaz), and his office crush (Catherine Keener) begin to impose, their control over the life of the real Malkovich begins to turn the thespian into a bona fide head case. Starring the man himself, John Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich.

Being John Malkovich

From director and writer Marie Kreutzer (Corsage, Austria’s entry for the 95th Academy Awards), Gentle Monster tells the story of concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux), who has just relocated her family to a country house hoping to ease her husband Philip’s (Laurence Rupp) severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears their life apart. Trapped between the man she loves and the fear of what he may have done, Lucy must face the situation alone as her world unravels. With a cast that includes Jella Haase alongside the legendary, Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, Gentle Monster asks what we do when someone we love turns out to be someone we never really knew.

Gentle Monster

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In West Hollywood, a gay adult performer’s brutal murder went cold for decades. When filmmakers began documenting his story, the community’s involvement led to shocking discoveries through vintage footage linking suspects to the crime.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Rachel Mason and Dion Labriola, former Circus of Books owner Karen Mason and subject Clark Williams

MY BROTHER'S KILLER

**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

It's election night, feeling naughty? Then come join TAPE for an erotic night of experimental cinema! To kick off a month's long installation of Julie Orlick's *The One Person Cinema*, the program will feature parts one and two of the gay, French archival S&M film *Les fantômes du hard* in the microcinema. Blending shot-on-video smut with diaristic reflection, Lazare Lazarus unearths gay porn archives from Marseilles' legendary BDSM bar Le Mineshaft. Activating the archives of its founder, Lazare unearths a complex history of hardcore gay sex and the ghosts its left behind.

PLUS, don't miss your chance to see Orlick's erotic short **DÉSIR**, looping in **The One Person Cinema**. The installation explores a long distance relationship with taboo BDSM dynamics, voyeurism, performance, vulnerability, and projection (literally and figuratively). The work incorporates elements of 16mm experimental film, theater, sculpture, and public space for someone to be alone in, forcing one to view the film with no disturbances. While in the space, the audience member can be viewed from the outside while also being in a secret fantasy world. The One Person Cinema is a small 5’ x 3’ x 6’ room purposely built to premiere DÉSIR, equipped with headphones, a theater chair, carpet, and a viewing hole from the outside with a two-way mirror.

Huge thanks to Graham Akins, the lab technician in the UCLA sculpture department, for all of his help and generosity.

Looping film inside for *ONE NIGHT ONLY* Come early, or stay late ;)

## 18+ Adults only. ID checked at the door.

DÉSIR

Paris/Los Angeles / Black and White 16mm to digital / 2023 - 2026 / 3min 36sec

Starring Shelbie Dimond, Rose Minham and A. Nonynous Dick.

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 1

Lazare Lazarus | 2023 | France | 35’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 2

Lazare Lazarus | 2024 | France | 24’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

**TUESDAY, 11/3 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

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*Presented by* *[T.A.P.E.](https://tapeanalog.org/)* *- a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.*

*****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.***

Les fantômes du hard (2023-24) and DÉSIR (2026), pres. by TAPE (18+)

Bus Stop

My Dad Is 100 Years Old with Rome, Open City presented by Isabella Rossellini

Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) in 4K

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Oldboy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ultra-wealthy NYC teenager Balthy makes dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he’s communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WG Pictures
COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Oscar Boyson, actor Asa Butterfield and producer and actor Jaeden Martell

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR

**Screenwriter**: Ajon Singh

**Producers**: Robert Pattinson,  Brighton McCloskey,  Lars Knudsen,  Ari Aster, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones,  Fred Berger,  William Iannaccone

In 2006, *To Catch a Predator* host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Primetime

Viva Ingrid! with Journey to Italy presented by Isabella Rossellini

Followed by a conversation with writer-director **Gregg Araki**

Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde) is LA's hottest artist—her erotic art is more popular than ever, and her reputation for sleeping with her studio assistants is an open secret. Enter Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a dopey 20-something desperate for a job in the arts and, namely, to pay his rent. Soon after Erika hires Elliot, she propositions him for sex and introduces him to BDSM, catapulting him into a dizzying labyrinth of power dynamics in the bedroom and at the studio.

Gregg Araki's seminal Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993–97) transfixed a generation—reflecting the nihilism of American youth who grew up under Ronald Reagan, amid the threat of AIDS, and were really pissed off. Now, at 67, Araki's latest film shows how that '90s anger has shifted into a pervasive unease for Gen Z—economically and sexually—and the complications that arise when those two things collide. Never losing empathy for the characters or a sense of humor, Araki achieves the delicate balance of a raucous send-up of the art world, workplace dynamics, and sexual power in the way only a distinctive auteur can.

2026. Directed by Gregg Araki. Screenplay by Araki, Karley Sciortino. With Cooper Hoffman, Olivia Wilde, Chase Sui Wonders. DCP courtesy Magnolia Pictures. 90 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.

I Want Your Sex

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The PROOF Film Festival is thrilled to announce to screen THE MUSICAL, the feature length version of the 2024 PROOF Film Festival audience award winner. Starring Will Brill, Rob Lowe and Gillian Jacobs, we are so proud of filmmaker Giselle Bonilla and screenwriter & producer Alexander Heller as they bring this hilarious feature that began as a short to the masses.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When a frustrated playwright/middle school theater teacher finds out his ex-girlfriend has started dating his nemesis, the school’s principal, he exacts revenge the only way he knows how: by staging the most inappropriate play imaginable.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Blue Harbor Entertainment and Variance Films

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Giselle Bonilla and writer and producer Alex Heller ‘PROOF Film Festival 2026’ PROOF All-Access Badge holders get free access to this event! Not a badge holder? Check out badges for purchase here!

THE MUSICAL

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The PROOF Film Festival is thrilled to present MOTHERWITCH. MOTHERWITCH is based on the short proof-of-concept, by the director Minos Papas, “The Song of the Witch.” The short played at the inaugural PROOF Film Festival in 2023. The feature MOTHERWITCH debuted in 2026 at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Eleni, a painter in Cyprus in 1882, reaches into the shadows to resurrect her lost children, but instead summons the ancient Kalikantzari of Cypriot lore. She must now confront the storm of her grief and anger, and lift the curse.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Cyprus/North Macedonia/United States

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MOTHERWITCH

**Screenwriter**: J. Davis

**Producers**: John Hermann, Bert Kern, Douglas Matejka, Mark Myers, Leonora Pitts, Rick Rosenthal, Samuel Henry Miller

With cast and/or crew at every screening!

Join us in the microcinema for a refreshing dark comedy that will give you life &#8211; J. Davis&#8217; acerbically hilarious *I Hate Myself and Want to Die*. Jacob is an unrealized artist, freshly dumped, who’s come home to the desert to quietly end his life. The problem is, nothing goes according to plan. His mom needs a ride to the drugstore, his cousin needs a shoulder to cry on, and his best friend just wants to get high. Over a crazy night of parties, fistfights and car chases, Jacob rethinks his life and— maybe—his death.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

**Writer/ Producer**: Wong Kar-wai

Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of *Chungking Express *only to spin off on its own woozy axis, *Fallen Angels* plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man (Leon Lai Ming) looking to go straight; his business partner (Michelle Reis), who secretly yearns for him; and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more lush longing from Wong Kar-wai on Blu-Ray and DVD

*2046, In the Mood for Lover, Happy Together*

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

Fallen Angels

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From world leaders to pop culture icons, and international supermodels, Richard Avedon’s influence helped create the blueprint for our image-driven world. His photographs didn’t just reflect culture, they shaped it.

AVEDON traces the life and legacy of an artist who used photography to reinvent the world around him. Drawing on unprecedented access to his personal archives—never-before-seen stills, intimate behind-the-lens footage and new interviews with his closest collaborators—the film explores how his singular eye both reflected and reshaped the visual language of the 20th century, and why even the most iconic image is only half the story.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Ron Howard and actor and model Lauren Hutton

AVEDON

In the movie *Big*, Tom Hanks made a wish and became a man-child. In *Obsession*, Bear makes a wish and gets a psychotic girlfriend. The ultimate cautionary tale about seeing the world with rose-colored glasses, *Obsession *marks yet another blockbuster in the Blumhouse canon. Written, directed, and edited by the perversely clever Curry Barker, and apparently inspired by an episode of *The Simpsons*, *Obsession *is not only genuinely shocking and funny and best served in a cinema packed with horror fans, it’s also a trenchantly observant look at romance, sex, and basic human interaction—or lack thereof—among Gen Zers.

2026. USA. Written and directed by Curry Barker. With Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston, Megan Lawless, Cooper Tomlinson. DCP courtesy Focus Features. 109 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.

Obsession

These Long Shadows + Natchez

Now Instant Image Hall

Trash-Mex co-presents the LA premiere of the new restoration of a long completely lost Mexican animated space opera!

Roy del Espacio (1983) — LA Premiere! co-presented by Trash-Mex!

## This screening has SOLD OUT via pre-sale.

In the film, a pizza delivery person (Greg Diaz) dies while on the job, leaving three orders unfulfilled. Mourning him, a young woman (Rosie Wilt) spends a lost weekend donning and doffing multiple sullen personas—a pierrot, an ill-fated grunge star, a Chanel-suited First Lady. As she explores grief through cosplay, the spectre of the driver returns to finish his work. Those awaiting their orders—a handful of loners spangled across California’s San Gabriel Valley—receive their pizzas, and perhaps, an encounter with the beyond.

MORBID WEEKEND weds contemplative duration and passages of experimental abstraction with ghost story spookiness and sly humor. The film explores the roles we play at work, in our creative practices, and when we think no one else is around. It features music by one of LA’s best bands, 2070, and a driving minimalist score by Brian Sullivan (Mouthus, United Waters). Luca Cioci’s stunning photography captures the soft blue evenings of LA’s other valley—a mountain-hugged expanse east of Hollywood and inland from the coast. The film’s cast boasts a mix of LA-based filmmakers, musicians, writers, designers, and craftspeople, as well as canine and feline celebrities.

**dir. Chris Shields, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
68 min

**FRIDAY, 11/6 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING · Cast & crew in attendance! Q&A led by filmmaker Devon Green.**

## $12 general admission.

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*sold out* MORBID WEEKEND (2026) West Coast Premiere!

The Haunted Mansion

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (Rossellini visto da Rossellini)

Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta) in 35mm

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham&#8217;s criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

It’s a love story *“about a guy with seven sisters; with four blonde crazy brothers coming after him; about getting in tune and finding your music.” (Paul Thomas Anderson)* Intended as a small movie between epics MAGNOLIA and THERE WILL BE BLOOD, the big feelings contained in this little picture belie its original intent. Turning in the first “best performance of his career,” Adam Sandler is a maladapted man who copes with his loneliness by calling phone sex lines, ultimately leading to extortion, before meeting and falling in love with Lena (Emily Watson) and embarking on a wild plot to amass a million frequent-flyer miles by exploiting a pudding promo loophole. An absurdist romance, a dizzying, manic blur, deliberately disjointed… something a lot, like, love. Co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, and featuring a fittingly batty score by Jon Brion.  

**Screening in 35mm! **

Punch-Drunk Love

Two out-of-work actors &#8212; the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail &#8212; spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday &#8220;by mistake&#8221; at the country house of Withnail&#8217;s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Withnail & I

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Hardcore

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum*

Just as every memorable dinner harmonizes textures and flavors to create something more than the sum of its parts — of the type that feels like “a kind of love affair” — so too does Danish director Gabriel Axel’s *Babette’s Feast*. A dash of piety, a splash of romance, a hint of heartache, a touch of splendor, and generous portions of human frailty and desire all come together in Axel’s framing, Henning Kristiansen’s cinematography and the delicate performances of its outstanding cast to make you fall in love with the movies and dining, all over again. We’re pleased to present this Academy Award-winning classic of the culinary screen to mark the fifth anniversary of Lulu at the Hammer Museum.

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

Director: Gabriel Axel. Screenwriter: Gabriel Axel, Annemarie Aaes. With: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel.

Babette’s Feast

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“A Private Collection,” 1973, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 14 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk’s own collection of vintage erotica. “A Private Collection” marks the turning-point between Borowczyk’s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

FORMAT: DCP

**IMMORAL TALES, 1974, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 126 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

The first explicitly erotic feature from the notorious director of THE BEAST, IMMORAL TALES presents a veritable calvacade of depravity in four stories. Structured in reverse chronological order as if to suggest the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilization, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzsébet Báthory, or present-day teenagers, IMMORAL TALES would transform Walerian Borowczyk’s image from brilliant but obscure avant-garde artist to one of Europe’s most confrontational filmmakers when it came to trampling on sexual taboos.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"A Private Collection" / IMMORAL TALES

1989 • This is the film that helped kick off Disney’s modern animation run, and you can feel the confidence in the music and the storytelling. It won two Oscars, one for the score and one for “Under the Sea,” and the songs still play like hits because they were built like Broadway numbers. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Little Mermaid

1941 • Introduction by Author Harlan Lebo • Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner for its screenplay, this is one film that’s worth seeing on a big screen.   • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Citizen Kane

Commemorating 10 years since Cohen's passing w/ the U.S. theatrical premiere of long lost 1972 concert footage & rare childhood home movies

LEONARD COHEN: THE 'BIRD ON A WIRE' CONCERTS + Home Movies — U.S. Premiere!

**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 (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriter**: Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck

**Producer**: Darryl F Zanuck

**Vidiots** and the **Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society** are celebrating **100 Years of Route 66** with a special screening of John Ford&#8217;s classic Steinbeck adaptation *The Grapes of Wrath*.

We follow the Joad family, led by eldest son, Tom Joad (played by Henry Fonda) and matriarch, Ma Joad (played by Jane Darwell, who won an Academy Award for her performance) as they make the arduous journey from Oklahoma to California, seeking greater opportunities during the Great Depression. Along the way, they face discrimination, police brutality, and the trickle-down effects of corporate greed, ultimately leading Ma and Tom towards a new understanding of the American dream and workers&#8217; rights. This anticapitalist masterpiece is one of the most celebrated literary adaptations of the 20th century &#8211; don’t miss it!

The [**Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society**](http://www.eaglerockhistory.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing the history of the Eagle Rock Valley and its local landmarks. Established in 1961, the society protects a rich archive of historical images, regional stories, and old local newspapers to ensure the area&#8217;s heritage remains accessible to researchers, students, and residents.

**Historic Route 66** is more than just a paved highway—it represents a vital part of the American experience through its association with migration, commerce, and recreation. As one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System, it was officially established on November 11, 1926. The highway, which became one of the most iconic roadways in the country, stretches from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.

Route 66 served as a critical path for many migrating West, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the local economies of the communities it passed through, and in the 1950s, became a popular route for vacationers heading to the West Coast. It was also a major artery for transcontinental commerce. As businesses along the route flourished, communities rallied to preserve its legacy when it began to be bypassed by the growing Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eagle Rock’s celebration of Route 66 begins on October 19, 2026, with on Presentation by the Historical Society on Route 66 in Eagle Rock.  The celebration continues on  the second weekend of November 2026, with a community festival  hosted by the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce featuring  live music, food, a vintage car show, and a film festival presented by Vidiots Foundation.

The Grapes of Wrath

**Screenwriters**: Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol

**Producers**: Richard Abramson, Robert Shapiro, Paul Reubens

**Vidiots** and the **Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society** are celebrating **100 Years of Route 66** with a special screening of ***Pee-Wee&#8217;s Big Adventure***!

Hop on your bike and get ready for the most joyously wacky road trip of all time! For forty years, we&#8217;ve joined Pee-wee on his cross-country quest for his stolen bike. We&#8217;ve danced to &#8220;Tequila,&#8221; hitched a ride with Large Marge, and discovered that — **gasp* — *the Alamo has no basement. It&#8217;s a trip that some of us have taken countless times, but it never fails to delight with its perfect mix of imagination and glee, tempered with just the right amount of off-kilter, alt-comedy edge.

The [**Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society**](http://www.eaglerockhistory.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing the history of the Eagle Rock Valley and its local landmarks. Established in 1961, the society protects a rich archive of historical images, regional stories, and old local newspapers to ensure the area&#8217;s heritage remains accessible to researchers, students, and residents.

**Historic Route 66** is more than just a paved highway—it represents a vital part of the American experience through its association with migration, commerce, and recreation. As one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System, it was officially established on November 11, 1926. The highway, which became one of the most iconic roadways in the country, stretches from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.

Route 66 served as a critical path for many migrating West, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the local economies of the communities it passed through, and in the 1950s, became a popular route for vacationers heading to the West Coast. It was also a major artery for transcontinental commerce. As businesses along the route flourished, communities rallied to preserve its legacy when it began to be bypassed by the growing Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eagle Rock’s celebration of Route 66 begins on October 19, 2026, with on Presentation by the Historical Society on Route 66 in Eagle Rock.  The celebration continues on  the second weekend of November 2026, with a community festival  hosted by the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce featuring  live music, food, a vintage car show, and a film festival presented by Vidiots Foundation.

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

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

**Screenwriter**: Alex Cox

**Producers**: Peter McCarthy, Jonathan Wacks

A down-and-out young punk (Emilio Estevez) gets a job working with a seasoned repo man (Harry Dean Stanton), but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted &#8217;64 Chevy. Musically adorned with a killer punk soundtrack, this offbeat and absurd slice of 80s East LA is one ride you won&#8217;t forget.

**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.

Repo Man

Chicago in 35mm

Waikiki Brothers (와이키키 브라더스)

All time noir hits hard on the Los Angeles streets with incredible sunglasses. Murder is a tough business, and guess what! nothing goes well. A milestone film, get into it.

Double Indemnity

For those who prefer their “dark” and “broody” with a side of milk and cookies, BRICK is the first  neo-noir whodunit from writer-director and KNIVES OUT mastermind, Rian Johnson. Joseph Gordon Levitt is Brendan Frye, a loner and high-school Sam Spade, who knows all the angles but can’t make sense of the picture when his ex-girlfriend is found dead. In his search for the truth, he’ll wind his way through cliques he previously avoided to trade barbs with cheerleaders who give a “D” for danger on the way to uncover the mysterious “Pin.” Featuring a veritable who’s who of ‘00s Hollywood, including Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Emilie de Ravin and Megan Goode, BRICK is as much a hard-boiled pulp homage as it is a BUGSY MALONE for the “Forever 21&#8221;-set.

Brick

Bill Pullman can hardly believe when creepo Robert Blake prank calls him at home&#8230; and  then he turns into some other guy while sitting in a jail cell&#8230; What? Marilyn Manson is here too. Amazing late &#8217;90s Lynch weirdness at his sleaziest.

Lost Highway

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

An astronaut stranded on Mars must rely upon his ingenuity to survive and arrange a potential rescue. Celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day!

THE MARTIAN (2015)(PG-13) Sun 11/8: 5:00 pm Presented by Science on Screen

Gardena Cinema

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative*

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s first bona fide masterpiece and one of the best films of the 21st century, *Happy Hour* emerged from a workshop in 2013 with non-professional actors — some of whom ended up in the final film. Proof positive of the effectiveness of Hamaguchi’s improvisational, communal working method to this point in his career, there’s never a slack moment in its runtime of just over five hours as the group of women friends at its center navigate middle-age. Indeed, as Hamaguchi elevates his recurring themes of transition and change to sociological levels he seems to sharpen the drama’s intimacy and intensity.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi. With: Sachie Tanaka, Maiko Mihara, Hazuki Kikuchi.

Happy Hour

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Rigby Reardon is the private eyes of private eyes. He’s tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker, has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead him to the “Carlotta Lists.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by musician and record producer Simon Raymonde Co-presented by KCRW ‘Sunday Print Edition’

LA Filmforum: The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

1:00 PM

Hotel Transylvania

11:00 AM

Blade in 4K

2:30 PM

Horror of Dracula in 4K

7:30 PM

21st Annual Horrorthon

7:00 PM

Monster House

1:30 PM

The Craft

4:00 PM

Death Becomes Her

6:30 PM

Rosemary’s Baby

9:00 PM

The Battle of Algiers

7:30 PM

Loose Frames Rattled Fabrications: Animated Shorts Screening (10/24)

7:00 PM

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940

1:00 PM

THE BLACK CAULDRON

4:00 PM

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

7:00 PM

“Venus on the Half-Shell,”

THE BEAST,

10:00 PM

The Cat and the Canary

2:00 PM

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

7:30 PM

Maniac Cop 2

11:59 PM

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

2:30 PM

Poltergeist

7:00 PM

STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR! + Q&A w/ Dir. Linus O'Brien!

7:30 PM

Hotel Transylvania

1:15 PM

The Nightmare Before Christmas

4:00 PM

The Oldest Person in the World

5:30 PM

The Shining

6:30 PM

Colony

8:00 PM

Def by Temptation

9:45 PM

Rodan

10:00 AM

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

2:00 PM

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

7:00 PM

V/H/S/Mixtape

8:00 PM

Creepshow

11:30 PM

Numbskull Revolution

8:00 PM