The Secret World of Arrietty in 4K

To Catch a Thief in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

Interviews with the world’s best directors and TV creators about their process, craft, collaborations and the challenges (and opportunities) they face in getting their visions out of their heads and up on screen.

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Eddie Murphy rocketed to movie star status (and earned a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination) in this acclaimed action-comedy that pushes the limits of both genres. Nick Nolte is unforgettable as Jack Cates, a rough-edged Inspector on the hunt for two vicious cop-killers. Unlikely ride-along con Reggie Hammond (Murphy) is given 48-hour leave from prison to help Cates on the case. The laughs fly almost as much as the punches, as both men attempt two very different goals in a short amount of time.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction and live podcast recording with IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit host Jim Hemphill and filmmaker Walter Hill ‘Friend of the Fest’

IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit Presents 48 HRS.

Aero Theatre

Patrick Shiroishi Trio Live

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Please note that guests will be assigned seats at check-in. Check-in for AC members will be located one block away from the theatre. Please arrive early to find parking as there will be street closures in the area. You will receive specific arrival instructions in your reminder email sent out the day before the event.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After decades of being blown to bits by bombs, demolished by dynamite, mangled by magnets, battered by boulders, trampled by trains, tricked by tunnels, sprung by springs, steamrolled by steamrollers, maligned by misfires, bedeviled by bungees, rattled by rockets, backstabbed by bat suits, rocked by rocket skates, upended by unicycles, quaked by quake pills, rubberized by rogue bands and hurled headlong off every cliff in the Southwest, Wile E. Coyote (Genius) finally fights back. Teaming up with billboard accident lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte), he takes on slick corporate counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena) and ACME, Inc., the profit-obsessed conglomerate behind every one of the Coyote’s chaotic catastrophes.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Ketchup Entertainment

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Dave Green and cast World Premiere ‘You Can’t Handle The Toons! COYOTE VS ACME Inspirations’

COYOTE VS. ACME

Directors Village

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

*Song Exploder* is an award-winning podcast where musicians take apart one of their songs and, piece by piece, tell the story of how they created it. In conversation with host Hrishikesh Hirway, guests ranging from Lady Gaga to Fleetwood Mac to Pharrell to Paul McCartney have broken down their creative process, using their demos, voice memos and the isolated tracks from their recordings. *Song Exploder* has also had a long connection with film, featuring conversations with composers including Hans Zimmer, Ludwig Göransson, Nicholas Britell, Johann Johannson and more; Hirway himself composed the score to the 2025 film COMPANION. *Vulture* said “*Song Exploder* is probably the best use of the podcast format ever,” and in 2020, the podcast was adapted into a Netflix documentary series produced by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo star as grown-up siblings who couldn’t be more different. While conservative Sammy (Linney) stayed in her quiet hometown, rebellious Terry (Ruffalo) was on the road, drifting in and out of trouble. When Terry suddenly comes to visit, his presence has a profound influence on Sammy’s world. As Terry forms a special friendship with Sammy’s precocious eight-year-old son, Rudy (Rory Culkin), Sammy rediscovers her passion for life, entertaining a marriage proposal from her boyfriend (Jon Tenney) while having a fling with her boss (Matthew Broderick). But when Terry’s behavior becomes disruptive, Sammy must finally confront the choices of the past… and make new ones to renew her family’s future.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

Song Exploder Presents YOU CAN COUNT ON ME

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

Every week, *The Ringer*’s Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan — longtime friends and pop culture addicts — break down the latest in TV, movies, and music.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Found with two bullets in his back, Jason Bourne discovers he has the skills of a very dangerous man with no memory of his violent past. Racing to unlock the secret of his own identity, he discovers the deadly truth: he’s a 30-million-dollar weapon, lethally trained and built to disappear, the government’s top operative who has become its number one target.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA/Germany/Czech Republic

Introduction by The Watch hosts Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

The Watch Presents THE BOURNE IDENTITY

Los Feliz Theatre

To Live and Die in L.A. / The Rip

New Beverly Cinema

**Producer**: Sasha Waters

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world – issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation.

Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, *Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World *considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her.

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Vidiots

The Bat

The Fast and the Furious (25th Anniversary)

Vista Theatre

## Director Ken Camp in person!

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*“A sexual thriller”*

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Kenny Martinez (Mike Gonzalez) is a Los Angeles-based conceptual artist who decides to set up a confessional telephone answering machine as part of his latest project. As the constant deluge of traumatic and obscene voicemails threatens to create a rift in Kenny’s relationship with his girlfriend, Jill (Regina Oh!), a bizarre serial killer (Glen Meadmore) begins using the hotline to menace the couple.

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Inspired by artist Allan Bridge’s Apology Line project, Ken Camp’s *Mantra* is a queer shot-on-video “sexual thriller” that’s as shockingly outrageous as it is lyrically erotic. As the original poster proclaims, it’s “precisely the kind of picture that Dan Quayle—or GLAAD, for that matter—doesn’t want you to see!” (Muscle Distribution)

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## New digital preservation from the original 3/4” tape master.

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Courtesy of [Muscle Distribution](https://www.muscle-distribution.com/).

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**dir. Ken Camp, 1992***United States, digital projection*120 min

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## WEDNESDAY, 8/267:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

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With an introduction from director Ken Camp!

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## $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.***

MANTRA (1992) dir. Ken Camp in person!

WHAMMY!

We’re No Angels in VistaVision

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

What movies would make it into the film festival of your life?

The American Cinematheque has operated since 1985 as a year-round film festival.

In our new podcast, we’re asking friends and filmmakers – like Edgar Wright, Karyn Kusama, Mary Bronstein, Larry Karaszewski, and so many more – to program their own personal film festivals!

They’ll talk about their favorite films and most formative movie-going memories with our host, Grant Moninger, to create the film festival of their lives and celebrate the theatrical experience.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Italian with English subtitles*

An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.

Restoration funded by the Golden Globe Foundation. Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. from the 35mm original picture negative, a 35mm composite fine grain master positive and a 35mm optical track negative. Laboratory services by L’Immagine Ritrovata Group, Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services – Picture. Special thanks to Daphne Dentz, George Feltenstein, Craig Johnson.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: Italy

Introduction by The American Cinematheque Podcast guest Larry Karaszewski Closing Night ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

The American Cinematheque Podcast Presents SMOG

Special screening of It Lives In The Screening @ Brain Dead Studios 08/27

It Lives In The Screen @ Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Dialogue with the Wind,” 1988, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 20 Mins, Iran**

*In Persian with English subtitles.*

An Avant-garde short movie of Bahram Beyzaie about history of Kish island in south of Iran.

FORMAT: DCP

**KILLING MAD DOGS, 2001, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 135 Mins, Iran/France**

*In Persian with English subtitles.*

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband’s debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented by the Farhang Foundation and PARS Equality Center ‘Bahram Beyzaie: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

"Dialogue with the Wind" / KILLING MAD DOGS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a man-made Third Impact. After reaffirming both her own and her mother’s existence in a state of despair, Asuka returns and begins the counterattack. However, new enemies descend from the heavens. Meanwhile, Shinji witnesses the horrifying wreckage of Asuka’s EVA-02 while piloting EVA-01. Mass production models surround EVA-01 and perform a solemn ceremony. What does it mean to complete a human heart?

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

THE END OF EVANGELION

**Screenwriters**: Zou Jingzhi,  Xu Haofeng, Wong Kar-wai

**Producer**: Jacky Yee Wah Pang

Director Wong Kar-wai delivers a ravishing biopic of real-life martial artist Ip Man, which expertly fuses an action epic full of larger-than-life fight scenes with a decades-spanning tale of wistful longing and unrequited romance. Ip Man (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is first introduced in 1936 as he tries to prove his worth to a martial-arts master, in the process gaining the attention of the master’s equally skilled daughter Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi). As years pass, the two are torn apart by the outbreak of World War II, as Ip Man tries to escape the bloodshed and protect his family, while Gong Er swears vengeance against the traitorous pupil who killed her father. The winner of 12 Hong Kong Film Awards, *The Grandmaster* is notable for the fact that its actors spent years training in martial arts in order to make the fight sequences as stunning and believable as possible.

We will be screening the American cut.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more martial arts masterpieces tonight on physical media!

*Lady Snowblood, Shadow, Thirteen Samurai*

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

The Grandmaster on 35mm

Visitor Q/Audition

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Fanny & Alexander in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, German, French, Japanese and Italian with English subtitles*

In order to enable his blind wife (Jeanne Moreau) to see, Dr. Farber (Max von Sydow) invents a process that makes it possible to transmit the images recorded in the brains of sighted people directly into the visual systems of blind people. Farber’s son Sam (William Hurt) sets out on a journey around the world in order to “see” and record the various stations of his mother’s life for her. The Frenchwoman Claire (Solveig Dommartin) falls in love with him and sets out in pursuit of him. She, in turn, is followed by the author Eugene (Sam Neill), who is recording her adventure.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Germany/France/Australia

UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini’s second solo directorial effort is a semiautobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches: Skirt chaser Fausto, forced to marry a girl he has impregnated; Alberto, the perpetual child; Leopoldo, a writer thirsting for fame; and Moraldo, the only member of the group troubled by a moral conscience. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, I VITELLONI compassionately details a year in the life of a group of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy

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

I VITELLONI

One morning, rural schoolgirl Mitsuha and city kid Taki awaken to discover that they’ve switched bodies. The total strangers struggle to navigate each other’s lives, walking tightropes of intimacy and distance. But when they finally resolve to meet, the true nature of their connection threatens to seal their fate.

Instantly iconic, your name. was a worldwide smash hit and heralded writer/director Makoto Shinkai as a new great master of animation. Its sumptuous attention to detail in yearning vistas and pulsing city streets, driven by an unforgettable score from RADWIMPS, elevates its central romance to world-rending levels of destiny and longing.

Experience this animated masterwork, newly restored, on the big screen at Brain Dead Studios.

Your Name.

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Little Miss Sunshine

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy fill the screen in Douglas Sirk’s Technicolor operatic tragedy, WRITTEN ON THE WIND. Mitch Wayne, played by Rock Hudson, works hard as a geologist for the Texan oil-rich degenerate Hadleys who envelope him in their maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

70th Anniversary ‘Magnificent Melodramas: Douglas Sirk & Russell Metty’

WRITTEN ON THE WIND

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The only surviving accomplice of a gas station robbery gone bad, Samba Traoré flees the scene of the crime with a suitcase full of cash for his native village in rural Burkina Faso. There he attempts to make a fresh start while hiding how he came by his new fortune from those around him. Despite marrying the beautiful Saratou, earning the affection of her ten-year-old son, and opening a bar with his childhood friend, Samba’s newfound happiness is put to the test as he struggles to cope with the moral crisis of his crimes.

Considered a masterpiece of West African cinema – and recently named one of the top 10 films of all time in Luca Guadagnino’s Sight and Sound list – SAMBA TRAORÉ is a “taut study of guilt” (Film Comment), wrestling with both Samba’s desire for redemption and his fear of retribution. Silver Bear-winning filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo’s empathetic direction imbues the story with “extraordinary humanity” (The New York Times), recognizing in Samba the many contradictions of modern life in Burkina Faso. SAMBA TRAORÉ was selected for Locarno Heritage Online’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma restoration program.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: Switzerland/France/Burkina-Faso

SAMBA TRAORÉ

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“There They Go-Go-Go!,” 1965, Dir. Chuck Jones, 7 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Wile E. Coyote is so hungry that he forms a chicken out of mud, bakes it and tries to eat it, causing one of his teeth to fall out. He throws the mud bird away when a real one comes along – the Road Runner, who runs so fast that he literally burns up the road, setting Wile E.’s feet on fire!

FORMAT: DCP

**A FEW GOOD MEN, 1992, Dir. Rob Reiner, 138 Mins, Sony Pictures Repertory, USA**

Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner’s unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one’s conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who’s teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor, including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior (Nicholson). Superbly directed with a trio of powerhouse performances and an outstanding supporting cast including Kevin Pollak, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon.

FORMAT: DCP

‘You Can’t Handle The Toons! COYOTE VS. ACME Inspirations’

"There They Go-Go-Go!" / A FEW GOOD MEN

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In German with English subtitles. *

Simone (the magnetic Désirée Nosbusch) is a teenage runaway who is obsessed with the pop singer known as “R.” Soon, that obsession takes over her life. When “R” uses Simone with machine-like coldness, she plots her revenge with an unholy ceremony that’s equally romantic and horrifying. Fueled by a killer minimalist synth soundtrack from Rheingold and a gorgeous design aesthetic, DER FAN is a subversive and electric shocker that goes harder than you’d ever expect it to go.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Fun City Editions

COUNTRY: West Germany

DER FAN

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

The Maltese Falcon / The Petrified Forest

The Crow

1954 • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • Hitchcock pulls us right in the middle of the experience as James Stewart and builds a whole world across an apartment courtyard, full of human dramas, laughs and danger. Come see why this film remains one of Hitchcock’s most beloved. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Rear Window

1973 • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • Directed by George Lucas before Star Wars, this movie feels like a great 1960s memory you can step into. The soundtrack is half the fun with wall-to-wall hits. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

American Graffiti

Old Town Music Hall

**Screenwriter**: Jared Bush

**Producer**: Osnat Shurer

Sing along with this modern animated classic of a powerful girl pursuing her destiny and identity! Moana is on a daring mission to save her people, sailing out in the seas of the mighty Pacific with determination. Along the way she meets the once-mighty demigod Maui, who guides her towards her goal of becoming a master way-finder. Together they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds. Along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she always sought: her own identity. With a fun and inspiring soundtrack that includes tracks by Lin-Manuel Miranda, here&#8217;s your chance to belt out your favorite tunes with folks who love it as much as you do!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a whole section for Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson, including bangers for you AND the kiddos!

*Jumanji, Rampage, Southland Tales*

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

Moana Sing-Along

Our fuzzy overlords return to the big screen! Vidiots is purrfectly enthralled to bring back the cutest kitty compilation ever! *CatVideoFest* is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. *CatVideoFest* is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises money for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to best serve cats in the area.

To support our feline friends, we are highlighting the work of [Tail Town Cat Cafe](https://www.tailtowncats.com/), who house adoption-ready cats from [Kitten Rescue of Los Angeles](https://kittenrescue.org/) and help to find them amazing families and homes. To support their mission, please visit their website or their wish list by clicking [here](https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1SG1NXK67DON1/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex) or [here](https://www.chewy.com/g/tail-town-cats_b122796640).

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got more non-streaming kitties for your viewing pleasure on glorious physical media!

*Standard of Perfection: Show Cats, Cat Dancers, Cat Soup*

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

CatVideoFest 2026

**Screenwriter**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

**Producer**: Satoko Ishida

Join us in the microcinema for Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s ponderous and philosophical samurai epic *The Samurai and the Prisoner.* When Lord Murashige rises up against the tyrannical Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With Oda&#8217;s army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei, a brilliant and dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon, as he must outwit his enemies and uncover the truth before time runs out.

The Samurai and the Prisoner

**Screenwriter**: Jack B. Sowards from the work of Gene Roddenberry

**Producer**: Robert Sallin

*I have been and always shall be your friend.* Beam yourself up to the Starship Enterprise for a double shot of intergalactic fun and twice the Ricardo Montalban with one of the best films in the franchise, and an all-time classic of Science Fiction cinema *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* plus a bonus episode of the original series that inspired the film: *Space Seed*. Spock, Kirk, and the stalwart crew of the iconic Starship Enterprise are pulled back into action when old nemesis, the menacing villain Khan, steals a top-secret device called Project Genesis. Now the Enterprise is heading towards an intergalactic showdown in space! We&#8217;re setting our phasers (and projector) to stun!

Screening with:

**Space Seed** (Season One: Episode 22, 50 min, 1967)

**Director**: Marc Daniels

While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror (Ricardo Montalban in his first role as Khan) and his compatriots from Earth&#8217;s Twentieth Century.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our ***Star Trek*** section for all the shows, movies, and documentaries in the galaxy on DVD and Blu-Ray!

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

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan + Bonus Episode – Space Seed

**Screenwriter**: Jane Schoenbrun

**Producers**: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (*I Saw the TV Glow*) presents a new kind of horror remake in *Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma*. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit, their latest genre-bending wonder affirms there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the *Camp Miasma* slasher franchise is due for resurrection. And one young director (Hannah Einbinder) is more than up to the task. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress (Gillian Anderson), the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, delirium — under threat from the spear-wielding Little Death.

Winner of the Queer Palm, this transformative Cannes favorite leads its protagonists to true fulfillment, encouraging us to ask how we can reach our own.

The first step? Facing your fears fantasy.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

**Screenwriters/Producers**: S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock

There&#8217;s something under the ground! An isolated town is on the menu for the giant, subterranean Graboids and it is up to Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire to get everyone out alive! With some of the best monster effects of the entire 1990s on full display in the desert sun, this cult-classic delivers the scares, thrills, and laughs of a creature feature that is truly Perfection.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to play &#8220;6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon&#8221; horror edition? Bring home all the classic Bacon and more!

*Flatliners, Stir of Echoes, Friday the 13th*

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

Tremors

**Screenwriter**: Quentin Tarantino

**Producer**: Lawrence Bender

Your Saturday night just got a whole lot more kick ass as Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s *Kill Bill* ignites our big screen with an onslaught of celluloid action! A former assassin, known simply as The Bride (Uma Thurman), wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill (David Carradine) attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies. So, hop in your p***ywagon and get ready for a maelstrom of revenge so bad ass and bloody, you might never recover!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love watching women kick ALL THE ASS? So do we! Take home these bad ass delights!

*China O&#8217;Brien, Supervixens, Savage Streets, Switchblade Sisters, Magnificent Warriors*

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

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 on 35mm

Onslaught

*Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call:* ***SOV SEPTEMBER****. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!*

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*Video Violence* finds a normal and unsuspecting couple, Steve and Rachel, completely immersed in a town of blood-drunk crazies. Led by sickos Howard and Eli, these backwater psychopaths create and watch their own snuff films. One day an unmarked tape shows up in the return bin of Steve's video store, and it's the town postmaster being savagely mutilated. Can it be real, or is it just a gag? He’ll soon discover the horrifying answer… (Terror Vision)

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**dir. Gary P. Cohen, 1987***United States, digital projection*98 min

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**Doors Open**: SATURDAY, 9/5NOTE EARLY "MATINEE" TIME!3:30 4:00 SCREENING

**Screening Starts**: SATURDAY, 9/5NOTE EARLY "MATINEE" TIME!3:30 DOORS4:00

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## $10 general admission.

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

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[TERROR VISION](https://www.terror-vision.com/) is a Savannah, GA based DIY independent releasing company from Savannah who specializes in 80s horror LPs, tapes and blu-rays.

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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.***

SOV SEP: Video Violence (1987) pres. by Terror Vision

Top Hat in 35mm

Amadeus in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: Australia/France

4K Restoration ‘Starring Sam Neill’, ‘Transcendental Appointments’ and ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

THE PIANO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Alphaville

Robocop shows up as Burroughs in an equally insane adaptation by Cronenberg of the novel. Pest controller does William Tell and goes to the interzone, Roy Scheider unzips himself and the bug typewriters love it. I don&#8217;t know how to describe this, you just need to go for it, right in the mainline.

Naked Lunch

### **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) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) 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

Introduction by screenwriter Michael Waldron ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Michael Waldron Presents BRIEF ENCOUNTER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, and John Gavin discover that it takes the realities of life to help us discover who we truly are in this classic, stirring drama of ambition directed by Douglas Sirk. Featuring Susan Kohner as Sarah Jane, a troubled teenager caught between dueling identities in the complicated social landscape of mid-century America.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

‘Magnificent Melodramas: Douglas Sirk & Russell Metty’

IMITATION OF LIFE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**PROBLEM CHILD, 1990, Dir. Dennis Dugan, 81 Mins, Universal, USA**

John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck and Jack Warden star in this hilarious comedy with an offbeat sense of humor. Good-natured Ben Healy (Ritter) and his social-climbing wife Flo (Yasbeck) adopt seven-year-old Junior (Michael Oliver) to help brighten their lives. But Junior soon turns an ordinary camping trip, an innocent birthday party and even a little league baseball game into full-scale comic nightmares. Thinking all his new son needs is some loving attention, Ben puts up with Junior’s mishaps—but only to a point. Just as he’s ready to take drastic action, Ben realizes that beneath the little monster lurks an angel craving affection in this satire on the trials of modern-day family life.

FORMAT: 35mm

**PROBLEM CHILD 2, 1991, Dir. Brian Levant, 91 Mins, Universal, USA**

John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck and Jack Warden return in this hysterical comedy with an offbeat sense of humor. Junior (Oliver) and his dad, Ben Healy (Ritter), relocate to a town with an over abundant supply of single women. Junior resorts to his naughty tricks to survive and protect his dad from the clutches of the town’s kid-hating millionairess (Laraine Newman). On the way, Junior manages to create havoc at a carnival and sabotage an ill-fated wedding with the help of the town’s other pint-size terror, Trixie (Ivyann Schwan). The unlikely pair plot to bring their unsuspecting parents together in this subversive satire on the trial of modern-day family life.

FORMAT: 35mm

Q&A with filmmaker Brian Levant, screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and actors Amy Yasbeck, Ivy Schwan and Eric Edwards ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents PROBLEM CHILD: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR

1936 • One of MGM’s great prestige pictures, this film builds from Barbary Coast romance to one of the grand spectacle climaxes of 1930s Hollywood. Nominated for Best Picture and winner of the Academy Award for Sound Recording, it was famous for its recreation of the 1906 earthquake. But the film also has a strong musical component, showcasing Jeanette MacDonald’s golden voice. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

San Francisco

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Toshio Suzuki

Join us for a screening of the universally acclaimed and beloved animated film *Spirited Away* from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki. A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious porcine transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. A visually astounding feat of imagination and heart, this early-2000s brilliant and beautiful film was the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and is considered one of the greatest animated films of all time.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Studio Ghibli treasures on Blu-ray and DVD tonight!

*The Secret World of Arrietty, Sherlock Hound, The Cat Returns*

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

Spirited Away (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriters**: George Axelrod,  Billy Wilder

**Producers**: Charles K. Feldman,  Billy Wilder

We&#8217;re celebrating 100 years of one of the biggest icons of the silver screen &#8211; Marilyn Monroe &#8211; with a special screening of Billy Wilder&#8217;s hilarious classic comedy *The Seven Year Itch*. Laugh yourself silly with this beloved comedy of infatuation and infidelity starring Marilyn in one of her most-remembered roles (and dresses!). When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor. With pitch-perfect delivery, and her effortless charm &#8211; not too mention her most notable pose on a sewer grate &#8211; it isn&#8217;t hard to see why Marilyn Monroe continues to captivate 100 years after her birth (as Norma Jean Baker) and over 60 years after her tragic death.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Spend all weekend with Marilyn Monroe and these tantalizing treasures in glorious physical media!

*Don&#8217;t Bother to Knock, All About Eve, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes*

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

The Seven Year Itch

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen from the epic poem *The Odyssey* by Homer

**Producers**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

We&#8217;ve got your *Odyssey* right here with Ethan and Joel Coen&#8217;s endlessly entertaining reimagining of the ancient myth in the 1930s Deep South. This sepia tinted journey sings with crackling dialogue, stunning Roger Deakins cinematography, and a Grammy winning soundtrack. Three convicts escape a chain gang in Mississippi and set out to uncover buried treasure, all the while encountering one mythical task after another. A comic masterpiece from two of cinema&#8217;s most brilliant siblings, join Ulysses and the (chain) gang for one epic adventure on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home all the Coen Brothers you can binge on glorious physical media!

*Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy*

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

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

*Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call:* ***SOV SEPTEMBER****. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!*

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In Video Violence 2, the town crazies have graduated from gruesome basement antics to pirating a cable TV channel for the purpose of furthering their brand of homegrown depravity. With the help of ‘do-it-yourself’ videos submitted by adoring fans, the sadistic hosts guarantee the “Bloodiest Show on Earth.” (Terror Vision)

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**dir. Gary P. Cohen, 1988***United States, digital projection*75 min

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**Doors Open**: SUNDAY, 9/6NOTE EARLY "MATINEE" TIME!3:30 4:00 SCREENING

**Screening Starts**: SUNDAY, 9/6NOTE EARLY "MATINEE" TIME!3:30 DOORS4:00

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## $10 general admission.

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[TERROR VISION](https://www.terror-vision.com/) is a Savannah, GA based DIY independent releasing company from Savannah who specializes in 80s horror LPs, tapes and blu-rays.

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SOV SEP: Video Violence 2 (1988) pres. by Terror Vision

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*Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call:* ***SOV SEPTEMBER****. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!*

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After starring in 100 movies over the past two decades, Tina Krause has established herself as an unstoppable warrior from the DIY fringes. LIMBO is the first -- and to this day, only -- movie written and directed by Krause. And it’s truly invigorating. LIMBO presents three days in the life of a woman named Elizabeth, as she deals with identity issues, sexist mouth-breathers, supernatural manifestations . . . and a possible trip to hell. Combining video collage experiments with dreamy horror mood, this is what might happen if David Lynch and Nine Inch Nails collaborated on a shot-on-video horror movie. (Vinegar Syndrome)

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**dir. Tina Krause, 1999***United States, digital projection*55 min

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## SUNDAY, 9/67:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

Followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Tina Krause.

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## $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.***

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SOV SEP: Limbo (1999) Q&A wit dir. Tina Krause!

Niagara

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Prior to the event, actor Elizabeth Kaitan will be signing autographs at the Los Feliz 3. A separate fee will be charged for autographs on site.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Bimbos awaaaaaay! Two go-go dancers, Lulu (Elizabeth Kaitan) and Peaches (Christina Whitaker), are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie (Mike Muscat). Picking up waitress Darlene (Tammie Souza) along the way, the three are involved in wild car chases with cops as they head south to cross the border into Mexico, where they unexpectedly encounter Vinnie in a fleabag motel.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Full Moon Features

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Anita Rosenberg & actor Elizabeth Kaitan. Moderated by Jason Anders. Book signing with Anita Rosenberg for her book, How To Be The Star of Your Life: Lessons from Hollywood & Beyond, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Larry Edmund’s Bookshop. Director’s Cut ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents ASSAULT OF THE KILLER BIMBOS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘You Can’t Stream That on Television’

PINK FLAMINGOS

Cuddly Toys / The All-American Girl

**Screenwriters**: Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Malia Scotch Marmo

**Producers**: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen

Vidiots celebrates the life and legacy of the incredible **Sam Neill** with a special screening of the iconic *Jurassic Park* on glorious celluloid!

Hop in scientists and dino-philes, we&#8217;re heading on a prehistoric thrill ride to the world&#8217;s hottest new amusement park! In Steven Spielberg&#8217;s massive blockbuster based on the Michael Crichton best-selling novel, a group of scientists are among the first visitors to a theme park with an enormous, prehistoric twist. After extracting ancient DNA, billionaire John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough) has brought to life an island full of dinosaurs. When the safety precautions fail and the dinos are loose, can this rag-tag bunch of sexy scientists and pre-teens live through the night and outwit and outrun these vicious predators? Be a clever girl and find out!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to take home more Jeff Goldblum? We&#8217;ve got all the hits, and these deep cut gems!

*Vibes, Deep Cover, Hideaway*

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

Jurassic Park on 35mm

**Screenwriter**: Todd Haynes

**Producers**: Christine Vachon, Michael Stipe

Get all glammed-up for Todd Haynes&#8217; queer musical homage to the gender-bending glam-rock scene of the 70s. An investigative journalist seeks to find the secrets of superstar rocker Brian Slade, from his outlandish fashion, homosexual trysts, and even his own faked death. Glamorous, outlandish, campy, and endlessly fun, *Velvet Goldmine* is an ultra-stylish odyssey of sex, drugs, and glam rock you won&#8217;t want to miss on the big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home all the Todd Haynes you need for a weird, wild weekend!

*Safe, Dottie Gets Spanked, I&#8217;m Not There*

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

Velvet Goldmine on 35mm

‍*Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call:* ***SOV SEPTEMBER****. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!*

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As part of Whammy’s SOV September, The Philosophical Research Society’s 7th House Screenings & LA Filmforum are proud to present a rare theatrical screening of STRANDED IN CANTON (1974/2005), quintessential American photographer William Eggleston’s mesmerizing, unruly and disarmingly intimate lone foray into filmmaking. Armed with a then-new Sony Porta-Pak, Eggleston spent 1974 plunging headlong into the bars, back rooms and back roads of Memphis, New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta. Friends, family, artists, musicians, night owls and assorted eccentrics drift in and out of view, caught amid the boozy, volatile, freewheeling energy of the ’70s South. Nearly thirty years later, Eggleston and filmmaker Robert Gordon fashioned the long-unseen footage into a strange, hypnotic portrait of a vanished Southern world.

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In place of the blazing color and immaculate, observational compositions of his iconic photographs, Eggleston gives us wobbly, ghostly, grain-clouded black-and-white video: faces emerge from pitch darkness, the camera pushes within inches of its subjects as drunken monologues, musical performances, eruptions of violence and moments of unexpected tenderness careen around it. The same eye that transformed the everyday American South into some of the most indelible photographs of the last century is unmistakably present, but here everything moves, talks back and threatens to spill out of the frame. Among those caught in its orbit are blues legend Furry Lewis and Big Star’s Alex Chilton, filmed amid the same Memphis scene that gave rise to the band—and in the very year Eggleston’s The Red Ceiling appeared on the cover of their sophomore album Radio City. Decades later, the film so captivated Spiritualized’s J Spaceman and John Coxon that they composed an original score for it in 2015. (Note: this screening features the film’s original soundtrack, not the Spaceman/Coxon score.)

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Raw, funny, unnerving and at times almost hallucinatory, STRANDED IN CANTON is a startling moving-image counterpart to Eggleston’s photography, rarely seen and returning to a Los Angeles screen for the first time in 16 years.

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**‍dir. William J. Eggleston, 1974/2005***United States, digital projection*76 min

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SOV SEP: William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton (1974/2005) pres. by 7th House & LA Filmforum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

55th Anniversary ‘You Can’t See That On Television’

TWO-LANE BLACK TOP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The world’s most powerful superhero returns in this exciting sequel to THE GUYVER. Sean Barker returns to settle some unfinished business with the evil human mutants, the Zoanoids. Drawn to an archeological dig in Utah, he discovers an alien ship filled with weapons capable of world destruction. With the fate of all mankind in his hands, The Guyver makes a final stand against the forces of evil.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Steve Wang. Moderated by Josh Miller. New Restoration ‘Killer Movies with Josh Miller’

GUYVER: DARK HERO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment in this violent, controversial thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA/UK

STRAW DOGS

Rocky  / Bound for Glory

OPEN LABOR DAY MON. SEPT 7TH

CLOSED THE DAY AFTER - TUES SEPT. 8TH

CLOSED TUES 8TH

Stories Books & Cafe

**Screenwriter**: Wei Lu

**Producer**: Feng Tsu

Join Vidiots and our friends at CAPE for the new 4K Restoration of Chen Kaige&#8217;s ravishing Palme d&#8217;Or winning masterpiece *Farewell My Concubine*.

Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two boys mature, they develop complementary talents: Dieyi, with his fine, delicate features, assumes the female roles while Xiaolou plays masculine warlords. Their dramatic identities become real for Dieyi when he falls in love with Xiaolou, who fails to fully reciprocate his affections and marries a courtesan, Juxian (Gong Li), creating a dangerous, jealousy-filled romantic triangle.

Hailed as a “cultural achievement” (The New York Times) and widely considered one of the most important motion pictures ever made, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE is a “gorgeous, intoxicating epic” (Los Angeles Times) that is both “visually spectacular” and “sumptuous in every respect” (Time Out). Spanning 50 years from the early 20th century to the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige&#8217;s passionate, exquisitely shot film captures the vast historical scope of a changing country while revealing the intimate and touching details of a unique, tender, heartrending love story. Based on the bestselling novel by Lillian Lee, it was selected as one of the “100 Best Films in Global History” by TIME Magazine, was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and remains the only Chinese-language film to ever win the Palme d’Or.

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Film Movement Classics proudly presents the restored 4K version of this masterwork, allowing North American audiences to experience the uncut film (20 minutes longer than its original Miramax theatrical release) on screen for the first time ever.

[CAPE](https://capeusa.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7def9248c31af53024867804&id=e365482196&e=1ba9be92a7) is the premier non-profit organization creating opportunities and driving change for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) success in Hollywood. We work to shift culture through storytelling to create a better world. For over 30 years, CAPE has fought for API representation in film and television, because what we watch on our screens should reflect the world in which we live and project a better one. CAPE advances representation for APIs in Hollywood through three main verticals: (1) nurturing and engaging creative talent and executive leadership; (2) providing cultural script consulting and talent referrals through the CAPE Database; and (3) championing projects for critical box office and streaming success. Learn more at [capeusa.org](https://capeusa.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7def9248c31af53024867804&id=f542d8691d&e=1ba9be92a7).

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

Farewell My Concubine

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In one of his most legendary films, director David Lynch chronicles the intense emotional journey of a complex, lonely man and the dedicated surgeon who changed his life. John Merrick (John Hurt) was born with a horribly disfiguring congenital disease, and suffered the humiliation of being a sideshow freak. Only when London doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) rescues him does Merrick begin to regain the life of dignity and respect that everyone deserves. Based on a true story, the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film has earned its place in cinematic history. Visually fascinating and historically relevant, Lynch has created a haunting masterpiece of compassion, beauty and ultimately, humanity.

The film was produced by Brooksfilm, Mel Brooks’ production company.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

THE ELEPHANT MAN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, French and Arabic with English subtitles.*

The town council of Paimpont — a small village in Brittany — has unanimously voted in favor of welcoming a family of Ukrainian refugees. However, the refugees who turn up aren’t Ukrainian but Syrian, and some of the locals are not very pleased with their new neighbors. Yet the Fayad family avoids all the clichés the French villagers may have expected. So much so that, they leave one wondering: who in this little village are the true ‘barbarians’?

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: France

Q&A with filmmaker, screenwriter and actor Julie Delpy

MEET THE BARBARIANS

## Theatrical premiere of a new transfer!

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*Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call:* ***SOV SEPTEMBER****. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!*

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A gang of degenerate metalheads dabble in the occult, make enemies with local toughs, and embark on a revenge plot after they are transformed into vampires.

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**dir. Michael W. Johnson, 1996***United States, digital projection*90 min

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With an introduction from Mike & Tara Connelly of Underground Espionage.

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Courtesy of [Saturn's Core Audio & Video](https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/saturns-core), a New Jersey based home video label devoted to releasing underground oddities and shot on video cinema on VHS, and now, blu-ray discs! In partnership with OCN Distribution, Saturn's Core will exhume forgotten or under-seen genre cinema from the 80s and 90s, with an emphasis on SOV horror features.

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[Underground Espionage](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/underground-espionage/id1794849496) is a podcast from Mike and Tara Connelly dedicated to underground exploits. From shot-on-video movies to porn to cult films and much more, we shine a light on the black sheep. Past guests include Ross Snyder of Saturn’s Core, Tina Krause, Tim Ritter and Honk! Magazine. Support the worldwide DIY underground!

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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.***

SOV SEP: Possessed by Evil (1996) pres. by Saturn's Core & Underground Espionage

Red Desert

The Beguiled

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground sub-culture of like-minded souls.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

30th Anniversary ‘You Can’t Stream That on Television’

CRASH

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey must risk everything to prove that rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll can change lives.

The School of Rock

The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.

Lady Terminator

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Prior to the screening, Los Angeles Silent Film Festival and Film Preservation Society merch will be available for purchase in the auditorium.

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**“Now You Tell One,” 1926, Dir. Charley Bowers, 22 Mins, Blackhawk Films, USA**

Charley Bowers’ NOW YOU TELL ONE is a dazzling blend of slapstick, stop-motion animation and surreal visual invention. Long overlooked and only rediscovered decades after his death, Bowers has emerged as one of silent cinema’s most original comic filmmakers. His delightfully unpredictable comedy remains unlike anything produced by his contemporaries.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE BLACK PIRATE, 1926, Dir. Albert Parker, 101 Mins, Museum of Modern Art, USA**

Douglas Fairbanks reaches the height of his swashbuckling career in THE BLACK PIRATE (1926), one of silent cinema’s most spectacular adventure films. Produced at the peak of Fairbanks’ international popularity, the film follows a daring nobleman who infiltrates a band of pirates to avenge his father’s murder, leading to a succession of breathtaking action sequences staged with Fairbanks’ trademark athleticism and charm.

Equally remarkable is the film’s groundbreaking use of two-strip Technicolor. One of the earliest feature films photographed entirely in the process, THE. BLACK PIRATE demonstrated that color cinematography could become an integral part of dramatic storytelling rather than a novelty. This presentation features a beautiful new restoration that recreates the film’s original color design, allowing modern audiences to experience one of the silent era’s greatest technical and artistic achievements as it was originally intended.

*Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation in Cooperation with the British Film Institute. Funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Special thanks to Alexander Payne.*

FORMAT: DCP

Opening Night Introduction presentation by film historian Tracey Goessel. Live score by Cliff Retallick. 100th Anniversary Color Restoration Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art ‘Los Angeles Silent Film Festival 2026’

"Now You Tell One" / THE BLACK PIRATE

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Prior to the screening, Los Angeles Silent Film Festival merch will be available for purchase in the auditorium.

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Directed by Roland West from the enormously successful Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, THE BAT (1926) helped define the “old dark house” mystery long before it became a Hollywood staple. A mysterious masked criminal known only as “The Bat” stalks the corridors of an isolated mansion where hidden wealth, suspicious houseguests, secret passageways and unexpected murders keep audiences guessing until the final moments.

West directs with extraordinary visual flair, using expressive lighting, elaborate camera movement and striking Art Deco-inspired production design to create an atmosphere of mounting suspense. The film’s shadow-filled imagery would prove enormously influential on later horror and mystery films, while its combination of suspense and humor established a formula that filmmakers would revisit for decades.

Presented in the West Coast premiere of a new restoration during its centennial year, THE BAT remains one of silent cinema’s most stylish and entertaining mysteries, a masterfully crafted thriller whose influence can still be felt throughout the genre today.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Undercrank Productions

COUNTRY: USA

Opening Night Introduction by horror and science fiction film historian David Del Valle. Live score by Dean Mora. West Coast Premiere of New Restoration 100th Anniversary Film preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, digital restoration by Undercrank Productions ‘Los Angeles Silent Film Festival 2026’

THE BAT

Magnolia

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Coinciding with the opening of Luigi Mangione’s trial on September 8, Now Instant presents artist Stanya Kahn’s new short video work, *Deny, Defend, Depose*, a 30-minute film composed entirely of tweets posted in response to the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City on December 4, 2024.

The screening will be preceded by an introduction from Kahn.

Deny, Defend, Depose

Now Instant Image Hall

Three writers' rounds, featuring Adrian Bourgeois & friends, Sierra Drummund & friends, and Emily Laliotis & friends.

$12

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**Screenwriter**: M. Night Shyamalan

**Producers**: M. Night Shyamalan,  Barry Mendel,  Sam Mercer

M. Night Shyamalan twists the superhero genre into an introspective thriller in this genre-shattering slow burn. An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass. The closest cinema has come to picturing superheroes in real life, this banger is best on the big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Make it a M. Night Shyamalan weekend and take home these bangers on DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K!

*The Last Airbender, Glass, The Sixth Sense*

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

Unbreakable

**Producers**: Gabriel Sedgwick,  Nickolas Hasse

Our microcinema is going to the birds with Penny Lane&#8217;s rapturous documentary about everyone&#8217;s favorite escaped zoo owl Flaco &#8211; *Wild Inside*.

In February 2023, a Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco answers the call of the wild – and discovers he was wild inside all along. *Wild Inside* is an underdog story of resilience and self determination as Flaco the Owl beats the odds and accomplishes the impossible. Flaco busts out of his cage barely able to fly, but he adapts, he explores and eventually – it seems – he goes far beyond mere survival, becoming an internationally known icon of freedom, hooting from the highest water towers. He claims all of New York City as his wild kingdom.

The remarkable story of Flaco raises some questions: is it right to keep a bird in a cage? Is there any real distinction between “zoo animals” and “wild animals”? How can we be better to our nonhuman neighbors?

This one of a kind owl’s epic song is sung in *Wild Inside* by a chorus of besotted New Yorkers – young and old, bird-nerds and civilians, many of them immigrants themselves – all of them reaching for a glimpse of the wild, a glimmer of magic, or even just someone to believe in. Everywhere Flaco goes, he leaves that place and its people forever enchanted.

Wild Inside

**Screenwriters**: Willard Huyck,  Gloria Katz

**Producers**: Gloria Katz,  Robert Latham Brown

Get your brain ready for maximum meltage with this bizarro cult classic and one of the strangest superhero movies of all time. When a laser beam zaps a wise-cracking duck from Duckworld to Cleveland, he&#8217;s got to make the best on Earth and he makes friends with a rocker chick with enormous hair, and picks up a cigar habit. Can Howard make it back to his home planet? Will evil scientists blast something even more evil through their laserbeams? Does the plot even matter when you&#8217;ve got a smoking superhero duck made by human hands in a time before CGI? Do your Friday night a favor and lose your mind over *Howard the Duck*!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more gonzo comic book adaptations on DVD and Blu-Ray!

*Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Tank Girl*

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

Howard the Duck

## Followed by a post film discussion with author Vincent Albarano & filmmaker Devon Green!

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*Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call:* ***SOV SEPTEMBER****. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!*

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Jason is back for vengeance in the most sprawling and substantial of Bryan Fortin’s original Zones of Evil productions! Growing out of the 1980s fanzine and cable access program of the same name, Peabody, MA-based Fortin and collaborators Jim Demers and Steven Mallas (comprising FDM productions) produced a score of feature-length projects that never aired outside of Cablevision. Though their meditative *Happy Halloween* series is better known, *Jason’s Curse* is a more concise endeavor, full of atmospheric locations, impressive night-lensed chase scenes,and plenty of inventive kills.

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Fortin plays Rick, who, alongside his friend David (Brian Less), confronts Jason’s past killing spree that landed his sister in an asylum. As with other FDM productions, a lot of time is spent in Fortin’s house (standing in for a cabin) as he discusses the plot details and his character’s history, while a series of bloody kills occur outside. These moments are imbued with quiet charm in Bryan’s world, proving that he and his team created the peak of cable access programming experience. Despite the fact that there are rarely more than two people onscreen at one time, Fortin manages to transcend the sophomoric fan film heap and deliver a perfect bit of seasonal fun. Xposure Video is proud to present *Jason’s Curse* for the first time outside of the MA area. (Vincent Albarano)

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**dir. Bryan Fortin, 1994***United States, digital projection*84 min

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## FRIDAY, 9/117:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

Followed by a post film discussion with author Vincent Albarano & filmmaker Devon Green!

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## $10 general admission.

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Courtesy of [XPOSURE VIDEO](https://experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/products) - a distribution company founded by Vincent Albarano, author of [AESTHETIC DEVIATIONS: A Critical View of American Shot-on-Video Horror 1984-1994](https://experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/product/aesthetic-deviations-signed-copy). AESTHETIC DEVIATIONS delves deep into several of the most famous SOV horror titles to give credit for their unique and singular contributions to independent genre cinema. Informed equally by a fan’s passion and the studied approaches of scholarly analysis, Albarano offers the first-ever detailed examination of the SOV horror cycle, proving that this strain of amateur filmmaking is deserving of proper appraisal. Sure to enlighten and provoke thought among fans and converts to the unique charms of SOV cinema, as well as inspire newcomers, Albarano’s book proves an invaluable resource for a neglected area of cinematic inquiry.

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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.***

SOV SEP: Jason's Curse (1994) pres. by Xposure Video

The Monster Squad in 35mm

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Sam Neill is Smith, a man escaping the break-up of his marriage by finding isolation on a coastal island. As he settles in, the country experiences its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, which Smith is increasingly sucked into. 

This was the first feature film for both Sam Neill and filmmaker Roger Donaldson, as well as the first feature length film in color to be shot in New Zealand.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: American Genre Film Archive

COUNTRY: New Zealand

Q&A with filmmaker Roger Donaldson ‘Starring Sam Neill’

SLEEPING DOGS

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**MIRAGE, 1965, Dir. Edward Dmytryk, 109 Mins, Universal, USA**

During a blackout in a Manhattan skyscraper, accountant David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) descends a darkened staircase and encounters a mysterious woman (Diane Baker) who seems to know him. Then he learns a prominent philanthropist has fallen to his death… strangers begin hunting him… and Stillwell realizes he can’t remember the last two years of his life. Desperate for answers, he hires a wisecracking private detective (Walter Matthau) to help untangle the mystery—but the deeper they dig, the more danger they find. Stylish and atmospheric with a paranoid edge, Mirage blends noir-like suspense and comedy into a disorienting thriller that keeps us questioning what is real. With memorable supporting turns from Kevin McCarthy, George Kennedy, and Leif Erickson, a taut screenplay by Peter Stone (Charade), striking B&W location photography by Joseph MacDonald (Call Northside 777), a vibrant Quincy Jones score, and assured direction from Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet), Mirage is expert entertainment.

FORMAT: 35mm

**STRAIT-JACKET, 1964, Dir. William Castle, 93 Mins, Sony Pictures, USA**

After spending 20 years in a psychiatric institution for the brutal axe murders of her husband and his mistress, Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) is finally released into the care of her daughter, Carol (Diane Baker). Returning to a life she barely recognizes proves unsettling enough, but when a series of grisly murders begins, old suspicions and new fears quickly surface. Produced and directed by William Castle from a screenplay by Psycho novelist Robert Bloch, Strait-Jacket is a deliciously lurid blend of psychological suspense, gothic horror, and dark humor, with Crawford commanding the screen as a woman whose grip on reality may be slipping once again. Castle surrounds Crawford and Baker with a colorful supporting cast, including George Kennedy, Leif Erickson, and Rochelle Hudson, while milking the story for shocks and sinister surprises. Strait-Jacket is vintage Castle: stylish, campy, and macabre.

FORMAT: DCP

*Program notes by author Jeremy Arnold*

Q&A with actress Diane Baker, moderated by author Jeremy Arnold

MIRAGE / STRAIT-JACKET

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Prior to the screening, Los Angeles Silent Film Festival merch will be available for purchase in the auditorium.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Help Yourself,” 1927, Dir. Joe Pasternak, 20 Mins, Dino Everett/USC, USA**

Long believed lost, “Help Yourself” (1927) stars Swedish-born comedian El Brendel as a hungry drifter whose search for a meal unexpectedly leads to romance. Produced by future Hollywood legends Joe Pasternak and William R. Wilkerson before either achieved fame, the film was never released, and its negative was eventually destroyed. Surviving elements, discovered more than ninety years later, have now been painstakingly reconstructed by USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive Curator Dino Everett and film collector Louie Despres, making this screening the first opportunity in nearly a century to experience this forgotten comedy.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE SLANDERERS, 1924, Dir. Nat Ross, 60 Mins, Dino Everett/USC, USA**

The world premiere restoration of THE SLANDERERS (1924), a previously lost feature preserved from the only known surviving copy, a 16mm print recently discovered in the USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive. Directed by Nat Ross, the film follows a World War I veteran who returns home only to find himself confronting the corruption, rumor and small-town bureaucracy that threaten both his reputation and his future. Blending timely social commentary with compelling drama, THE SLANDERERS explores how quickly false accusations can overwhelm truth, a theme that remains remarkably relevant a century after the film was made.

FORMAT: DCP

Introduction by University of Southern California HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive Curator Dino Everett. Live score by Cliff Retallick. World Premiere of New Restorations ‘Los Angeles Silent Film Festival 2026’

The Secret World of Arrietty in 4K

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To Catch a Thief in 4K

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Patrick Shiroishi Trio Live

7:00 PM

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7:00 PM

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The Watch Presents THE BOURNE IDENTITY

10:00 PM

To Live and Die in L.A.

The Rip

7:30 PM

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

7:30 PM

The Bat

2:00 PM

The Fast and the Furious (25th Anniversary)

MANTRA (1992) dir. Ken Camp in person!

8:00 PM