Frankenweenie in 35mm

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

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Korean with English subtitles.*

POSSIBLE LOVE follows the intertwined relationship of two married couples facing different paths and hidden desires. Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) lives quietly with her laid-off husband Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and their young son Cheol until a funeral brings them into the orbit of Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), a documentary filmmaker chronicling laid-off workers, and her husband Sang-woo (Zo In-sung) — a couple whose affluent lifestyle stands in sharp contrast to their own. When Mi-ok agrees to be filmed, she grows close to Ye-ji, and finds herself uneasily drawn to the unreadable Sang-woo. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence. Marking his first release in eight years, highly acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong (BURNING, POETRY, SECRET SUNSHINE) brings his signature nuance to POSSIBLE LOVE, capturing shifting emotions, conflicts and contrasting outlooks that shape these relationships.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: South Korea

Q&A with filmmaker Lee Chang-dong. Moderated by Lee Isaac Chung.

POSSIBLE LOVE

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

5:30pm | **THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI**
7:30pm | **Intermission**
7:40pm | **WILD HORSE NINE**
9:40pm | **Q&A**
10:10pm | **Intermission**
10:20pm | **Introduction and surprise film***

**RSVP-holders will receive a poll and have the opportunity to vote on a surprise film of Rockwell’s for the third film of the triple feature.*

*Start times are approximate. There will be brief (approximately 5-10 minute) intermissions between films. RSVP includes entry to all films in the marathon.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, 2017. Dir. Martin McDonagh, 115 Mins, Disney, UK/USA**

*THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI* is a darkly comedic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (IN BRUGES). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.

FORMAT: DCP

**WILD HORSE NINE, 2026, Dir. Martin McDonagh, 119 Mins, Disney, UK/USA/Chile**

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

FORMAT: DCP

**Surprise film!**

Q&A with actor Sam Rockwell. Moderated by Colin Farrell. RSVP-holders will receive a poll to vote on a surprise film of Rockwell’s for the third film of the triple feature

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI / WILD HORSE NINE / Surprise Film

Aero Theatre

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

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

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

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

CYBERCON: Rubber’s Lover

Brain Dead Studios

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

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

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

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

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

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

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Theo Panagopoulos.

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

Digital media. Director/Screenwriter: Jean Khalil Chamoun.

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

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

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

TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

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

DÉJÀ VU

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: France/Japan/Germany/Belgium

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

ALL OF A SUDDEN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: IFC

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

BENEDETTA

Los Feliz Theatre

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

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

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

In Session: Larry Johnson

MOCA Grand Avenue

Kung Fu Panda

Ratatouille

The Last Picture Show

The Jerk

New Beverly Cinema

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

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

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

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

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

Black Fire

Now Instant Image Hall

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

Key Largo

1971 • This is a wonderfully quirky film directed by Hal Ashby, who had a gift for making odd, deeply human projects. Over time, it has become a beloved cult favorite. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Harold and Maude

Old Town Music Hall

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

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

Philosophical Research Society

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

**Producer**: Roy Conli

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

Big Hero 6

**Screenwriter**: Budd Schulberg

**Producer**: Sam Spiegel

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

*Grand Prix, The Sandpiper, Vertigo*

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

On the Waterfront

**Screenwriters**: Alex Huston Fischer,  Eleanor Wilson

**Producers**: Ed Sinclair,  Tom Carver,  Olivia Colman,  Justin Lothrop,  Brent Stiefel, Brad Zimmerman,  David Michôd,  Andrea Cornwell,  Oliver Kassman, Tim Headington,  Lia Buman,  Ryan Heller,  Michael Bloom

An audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention, *Wicker* tells the wholly original love story of an ostracized fisherwoman (Colman) who commissions a husband to be made by the local basketmaker (Dinklage). When her wicker husband (Skarsgård) proves more spectacular than she ever imagined, his soulful spirit and unique prowess awaken something inside her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination, and upheaval that threatens the very fabric of village life.

Wicker

**Writer:** John Hughes

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

*Two Lane Blacktop, Straight Time, Red Dawn*

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

Pretty in Pink

**Producers**: Nick Davis,  Sue Turley,  Tom Powers,  Bonnie Comley,  Stewart F. Lane

Join us and some of the funniest people on the planet for one of the most joyous documentaries of the year &#8211; the lightning in a bottle that was the 1972 Toronto production of the musical *Godspell. *Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in the musical, and began a legacy of Canadian comedy and camaraderie that would last for decades. Featuring interviews with the surviving cast members, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Myers, and more, the film recounts a pivotal moment in comedy history, in hilarious, moving, and inspiring detail.

*&#8220;Exuberant and essential… The niftiness of Davis’s film is that it’s about Godspell, and it’s about something bigger than Godspell &#8212; a pop movement that didn’t have a name yet, a cultural spirit that found its way into existence almost like (laughing) gas gathering in the air.”*

*&#8211; *Variety

*“A delightful romp down memory lane that takes surprising twists and turns.”*

*&#8211; *Deadline

*“The most incredible thing about *You Had to Be There* is that this film makes you feel like you were there, and these friends are your friends too.”*

*&#8211; *Mashable

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

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

**Picks from the Video Store:**

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

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

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

Stop Making Sense

Vidiots

The Westerner

Paper Tiger 35mm

Coffy

Coffy/Cotton Comes to Harlem

Lady Terminator

Vista Theatre

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

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

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

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

"The scariest airplane movie ever!" - John Waters

"A radical film." - Agnes Varda

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

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

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

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

## $10 general admission.

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

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

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

WHAMMY!

LA Filmforum: Sara Gómez’s Cuba – Empathy and the Revolution

2220 Arts + Archives

The Grand Budapest Hotel in 35mm

Paisàn in 35mm

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Skyler Gisondo can currently be seen starring in A24’s critically acclaimed PRIMETIME opposite Robert Pattinson, which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. He will next be seen alongside Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller and Ariana Grande in FOCKER-IN-LAW, the highly anticipated fourth installment of the MEET THE PARENTS franchise, premiering on Thanksgiving. His additional upcoming projects include Superman’s MAN OF TOMORROW, THE PEOPLE VS. GORILLA GRODD, a Jimmy Olsen spin-off series for HBO Max, A24’s GOBLIN and SHREK 5. His additional credits include Olivia Wilde’s critically acclaimed BOOKSMART, HBO’s THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES and recently can be seen in Apple TV’s BROTHERS alongside Woody Harrelson.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**PRIMETIME, 2026, Dir. Lance Oppenheim, 110 Mins, A24, USA**

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

FORMAT: DCP

**LICORICE PIZZA, 2021, Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 133 Mins, MGM, USA**

LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane (Alana Haim) and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written and directed by heralded filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, this potent coming-of-age drama tracks the treacherous navigation of first love. Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Tom Waits and Benny Safdie also star.

FORMAT: DCP

Pre-screening career conversation with actor Skyler Gisondo

PRIMETIME / LICORICE PIZZA

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

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

CYBERCON: Blade Runner

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

CYBERCON: Blade Runner 2049

First Come, First Serve. RSVP does not guarantee entree to screening

Synopsis:

Jaleesa Vincent and Luka Raubenheimer create Vampires Surf, a new fantasy surf film starring Frankie Harrer, Caity Simmers and Kobe Hughes, presented by Sun Bum.

Three immortal vampire girls have spent centuries surfing beneath the moon. When fate changes, they leave the shadows behind and become legends amongst mortals. But the return of the Blood Moon summons them to Coffin Bay, where an ancient prophecy and a powerful evil will decide their future. Spooky, funny and heartfelt, Vampires Surf is a timeless tale of surfing, friendship and following your destiny—even if it takes an eternity.

Vampires Surf presented by Sun Bum

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

GARDENA CINEMA Presents... the 35th Anniversary of CHILD's PLAY 3 with Producer & Second Unit Director Robert Latham Brown!

CHILD's PLAY 3: THE 35th ANNIVERSARY (Sun. 11/15)

Gardena Cinema

*Archive Talks* pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research. Each program will begin with a special talk by the invited scholar that will introduce audiences to new insights, interpretations and contexts for the films and media being screened.

The Archive first worked with archivist and scholar Laura Horak in 2022 when we presented a series of films unearthed by Horak and her collaborators, Maggie Hennefeld and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi. Their archival project *Cinema’s First Nasty Women *celebrated the work of silent comedians who brought an anarchic brand of gender non-conformity to slapstick. Alongside that work, Horak is also the director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University, which created the [Transgender Media Portal](https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/), a database of trans creators, including links to where their work can be seen. Suffice it to say, increasing the visibility and access to the media she studies is an essential element of Horak’s ongoing research project. With her latest book, *Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds*, Horak dives deep into the history, practice and aesthetics of trans artists in the United States and Canada in the 21st century while positioning them within the larger history of trans media production and representation. The Archive is pleased to welcome Horak back to the Billy Wilder Theater for a brief talk about her work followed by a selection of works by trans artists and an on-stage conversation, with more special guests to be announced soon!

Part of the Archive’s *[Legacy Project Screening Series](/series/outfest-ucla-legacy-project-screening-series/)*. 

*Support for the screening is provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Queer Screening Endowment and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation.*

*Total running time: 84 min.*

Director B. G-Osborne’s three-channel experimental film juxtaposes scenes of trans representation from popular film and television, exposing the emotions of popular trans representation — fascination, fear, sexualization, disgust.

DCP. Director: B. G-Osborne.

A Black trans woman talks about what she wants from life as she shops, flirts and gets ready for a date in this groundbreaking UCLA student film. 

Director: Nikolai Ursin.

*Preservation funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, Film Technology, Inc. Special thanks to Stephen Parr, Norman Yonemoto.*

Director Luis De Filippis explores the quiet relationship between a Canadian Italian trans girl in her early 20s and her Italian grandmother.

DCP. Director: Luis De Filippis.

In this Emmy-nominated web series, the classic romantic comedy structure meets a trans version of *The L Word.*

DCP. Director: Sydney Freeland.

Theo Jean Cuthand (Plains Cree) wrestles honestly with the contradictions of desire and the conundrum of wanting someone you know is bad for you in a colonial context.

DCP. Director: Theo Jean Cuthand.

Stop-motion animation that explores the joy of first love and grief of breaking up in this short film by Raven Davis (Anishinaabe).

DCP. Director: Raven Davis.

This experimental documentary presents Black trans women and their communities fighting back against the violence they face.

DCP. Director: Seyi Adebanjo.

Directed by Jess MacCormack and Alexus Young (Métis), this short experimental animated video documentary illuminates Young’s experience of a “starlight tour” in Saskatoon.

DCP. Directors: Jess MacCormack, Alexus Young.

Director Rhys Ernst’s documentary tells the story of a Black trans caterer and madame from the early 20th century.

DCP. Director: Rhys Ernst.

Director Tourmaline summons a haunting visitation with the spirits of Black trans ancestors via music, light, dancing and mystical scenarios.

DCP. Director: Tourmaline.

Archive Talks: Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister’s boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Shō Miyake. Live piano score by Cliff Retallick. Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

THE PATSY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Misa suffers from severe PMS, which can unravel her otherwise demure disposition with violent disregard for personal or professional company. Finally holding down a job assembling science kits for kids, she befriends Takatoshi, a withdrawn colleague prone to debilitating panic attacks.

Shō Miyake, adapting a novel by Seo Maiko, choreographs the blossoming relationship with gentle humor and sensitivity in gorgeous 16mm.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

ALL THE LONG NIGHTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island. Starring Sammy Petrillo, doing his jawdropping impression of Jerry Lewis.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR:

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with screenwriter Scott Alexander, author Dave Abramson, producer Jack Broder’s grandson David Kopple and comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff. Moderated by Dana Gould. Brand new scan of the film from the original camera negative There will be a book signing with Dave Abramson and Scott Alexander for Abramson’s book, Your Time is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story, following the Q&A at the Los Feliz 3 in partnership with Larry Edmund’s Bookshop.

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In French and English with English subtitles. *

A filmmaker consistently unafraid to wade through the weird miasma of contemporary life, Bertrand Bonello works from the outside in, dramatizing the psychological toll of the political and cultural world around us. Here he has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014 and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Using Henry James’s haunting 1903 short story “The Beast in the Jungle” as his film’s provocative inspiration, Bonello tells the story of a young woman (Léa Seydoux) who undergoes a surgical process to have her DNA—and therefore memories of all her past lives—removed. In so doing, she realizes her fate has long been intertwined, for better and worse, with a young man (George MacKay). Touching on modern anxieties of AI and incel culture, which may recur throughout history as commonly as love and hate, THE BEAST, like all good science-fiction, asks essential questions about the ever-shifting status of humanity itself.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

‘Léa Seydoux: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE BEAST

Join artist Cecilia Vicuña with poet, translator and longtime collaborator Rosa Alcalá for a bilingual performance of Vicuña's poetry on the occasion of her exhibition The Dream of Water: Quipu of Encounters Maricunga.

Vicuña and Alcalá have frequently performed together and have collaborated on translations of Vicuña's poetry including the books Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña and New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña.

Cecilia Vicuña is one of the inaugural winners of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, a juried prize that supports artists whose practices address critical intersections in art, architecture, design, climate, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice.

About Rosa Alcalá

Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Best American Poetry, and many other magazines and anthologies. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room. Her most recent poetry collection is YOU (Coffee House Press, 2024).

About Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948) is a visual artist, poet, filmmaker and activist based in New York. Her poetic work in space, performance and visual arts is considered a decolonizing vision that anticipated ecofeminism. She coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s in Chile as a new independent and non-colonized category for her precarious works composed of structures that disappear in the landscape, and in 1974, while in London, she co-founded the collective Artists for Democracy. Vicuña has re-invented the ancient Pre-Columbian quipu system of non-writing with knots through ritual acts that weave the urban landscape, rivers and oceans, as well as people, to re-construct a sense of unity and awareness of interconnectivity. These works bridge art and poetry as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.”

In recent years Vicuña has exhibited at Turbine Hall, TATE, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; Kunstinstitutt Melly (ex Witte de With) Rotterdam, The Netherlands; MUAC, Mexico; CA2M, Madrid, where she received the Velasquez Award; and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. Her retrospective Soñar el agua was recently on view at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, and MALBA, Buenos Aires and is currently on view at the Pinacoteca, São Paulo. She received the Golden Lion Award for her trajectory at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Her work is collected in major institutions around the world. In February 2023 she was elected Honorary Foreign Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters of the United States, and Dr. Honoris Causa by Universidad de Chile. She was the winner of the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2023, one of the most prestigious awards given by her homeland.

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize is funded by philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, the prize is awarded by MOCA every two years from 2024 until 2030. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize awards a $100,000 unrestricted honorarium and institutional support to complete a new project presented by MOCA. The winners also engage and collaborate with communities in LA and beyond.

Cecilia Vicuña Poetry Performance with translator Rosa Alcalá

Join artist Cecilia Vicuña in conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey on the occasion of Vicuña’s exhibition The Dream of Water: Quipu of Encounters Maricunga. Vicuña’s project at MOCA focuses on the ecological crisis unfolding in the Maricunga Salt Flats, located in the southernmost part of the Atacama Desert where fragile ecosystems–and the communities that have called this territory home for generations–face increasing threats from corporate lithium mining. The conversation will explore this newly commissioned work as well as Vicuña's decades long practice spanning poetry, performance, and textiles.

Cecilia Vicuña is one of the inaugural winners of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, a juried prize that supports artists whose practices address critical intersections in art, architecture, design, climate, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice.

About Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948) is a visual artist, poet, filmmaker and activist based in New York. Her poetic work in space, performance and visual arts is considered a decolonizing vision that anticipated ecofeminism. She coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s in Chile as a new independent and non-colonized category for her precarious works composed of structures that disappear in the landscape, and in 1974, while in London, she co-founded the collective Artists for Democracy. Vicuña has re-invented the ancient Pre-Columbian quipu system of non-writing with knots through ritual acts that weave the urban landscape, rivers and oceans, as well as people, to re-construct a sense of unity and awareness of interconnectivity. These works bridge art and poetry as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.”

In recent years Vicuña has exhibited at Turbine Hall, TATE, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; Kunstinstitutt Melly (ex Witte de With) Rotterdam, The Netherlands; MUAC, Mexico; CA2M, Madrid, where she received the Velasquez Award; and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. Her retrospective “Soñar el agua” was recently on view at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, and MALBA, Buenos Aires and is currently on view at the Pinacoteca, São Paulo. She received the Golden Lion Award for her trajectory at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Her work is collected in major institutions around the world. In February 2023 she was elected Honorary Foreign Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters of the United States, and Dr. Honoris Causa by Universidad de Chile. She was the winner of the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2023, one of the most prestigious awards given by her homeland.

About Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA who teaches postcolonial and Indigenous literature courses on the environment, globalization, critical ocean studies, and the Anthropocene and climate change, with a focus on the Caribbean and Pacific Islands (Oceania). She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures (U of Hawai`i Press, 2007), and Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019), which examines climate change and empire in the literary and visual arts. She is co-editor of the volumes Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (Virginia UP, 2005); Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment (Oxford UP, 2011); and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (Routledge, 2015) and of numerous journal issues on critical ocean, island and militarism studies. Her scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fulbright New Zealand, the Rachel Carson Center (LMU, Munich), the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. Most recently she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021-22).

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize is funded by philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, the prize is awarded by MOCA every two years from 2024 until 2030. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize awards a $100,000 unrestricted honorarium and institutional support to complete a new project presented by MOCA. The winners also engage and collaborate with communities in LA and beyond.

Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

1927 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Brett Valliant on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduction by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • This film stars Mary Pickford late in the silent era, still proving she could carry a comedy on sheer timing and personality, and she also produced the film. The cinematography was strong enough to earn an early Academy Award nomination.

My Best Girl

Join us for the closing reception of here now now gone gone here, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Senon Williams.

here now, now gone, gone here by Senon Williams CLOSING RECEPTION

Uma Sanasaryan traces the Goddess Kali's presence in Hollywood and uncanny historical parallels across cinema and pop culture.

HOLLYWOOD KALI: An Archival Exploration of Kali's Influence on Hollywood

**Screenwriters**: Peter Sauder, Barry Downes

**Producers**: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert

Join hands and form the circle of friendship with your favorite cuddly toy-turned-cartoon characters. *The Care Bears* team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician&#8217;s apprentice whose evil spell book causes sinister things to happen. Who says little furry creatures can&#8217;t make a difference?

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love to play with your toys while you watch them on your screen? Bring home more cutesy crossovers!

*My Little Pony, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Transformers*

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

The Care Bears Movie

**Screenwriters**: Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott from the novel by Fannie Hurst

**Producer**: Ross Hunter

Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Sandra Dee light up the screen in this Douglas Sirk tearjerking melodrama of single mothers and racial identity. The second screen adaptation of Fannie Hurst&#8217;s incendiery novel, Douglas Sirk ratchets up the drama, the color, and the story of this powerful tale of women&#8217;s resilience from its predecessor with Claudette Colbert. Lora Meredith (suspected murderess Lana Turner), a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, takes in a black widow Annie (Juanita Moore) and her mixed race daughter (Susan Kohner) to live with her and her daughter (Sandra Dee). Together, the women deal with the maelstrom of life&#8217;s ups and downs including the toll of success and Annie&#8217;s daughter desperately trying to erase her racial identity and come off as white. With incredible female characters and actors, that gorgeous Sirkian Technicolor touch, and a story of race that was decades ahead of its time, this classic melodrama is ready to pull you in and give you all the feels!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more gorgeous melodramas from our Douglas Sirk director&#8217;s section!

*Written on the Wind, All that Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession*

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

Imitation of Life (1959) on 35mm

Vidiots is electrified to welcome Electronic music pioneer and five-time Grammy nominee **Suzanne Ciani** to our microcinema for two screenings of ***CIANI/ORKEST***, a live quadrophonic concert film with the Metropole Orkest. Suzanne will join producer KamranV in conversation after the 4:45pm screening, with an introduction to the 7:30pm screening.

The legendary Suzanne Ciani joins the internationally acclaimed Metropole Orkest, conducted by Simon Dobson, for the release of [CIANI/ORKEST](http://akprecordings.com/cianiorkest), a landmark live album composed entirely of new work, created specifically for this unprecedented collaboration. Filmed live, you will be immersed in wall to wall sound for this jaw-dropping live performance.

Recorded at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) before a rapt audience, CIANI/ORKEST is not a retrospective. It is a bold, immersive meeting of the Buchla electronic instrument and 50-piece orchestral sound. The result is a sweeping sonic landscape, at once intimate and monumental.

Under the direction of the Metropole Orkest, renowned for its genre-defying collaborations with artists from jazz to contemporary classical &#8211; strings shimmer, brass swells and woodwinds echo the organic, fluid qualities that have always defined Ciani’s sound. “This project feels like a homecoming,” says Ciani. “The Buchla was always orchestral to me, an instrument capable of infinite color. Hearing those colors unfold through the Metropole Orkest has been profoundly moving.”

At the heart of CIANI/ORKEST lies Ciani’s lifelong commitment to quadraphonic sound. From her early Buchla performances in the late 1960s to her 2018 release LIVE Quadraphonic, Ciani has treated space as a primary compositional parameter. Working alongside immersive producer KamranV, Ciani continues to explore immersive sound as both artistic and human gesture. Kamran’s decades of work in spatial formats, converge here in service of a singular goal: to let sound behave as it does in the physical world.

CIANI/ORKEST

**Screenwriters**: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

**Producers**: Tony DeRosa-Grund, Tracey E. Edmonds, Marc Platt, Chuck Grimes

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome back writer/directors **Deborah Kaplan **and** Harry Elfont** and one of our favorite Pussycats **Rachael Leigh Cook **for a special screening of their meow-sical delight ***Josie and the Pussycats***! Plus, ultra-millennial DJ sets from **DJ Vick Jagger** before and after the screening!

Put on your kitty ears and get ready to rock out with the Pussycats in this smart, sassy, and salient satire. When Josie, Melody, and Val are given an opportunity to hit it big with their small-town girl band, they think all their dreams have come true &#8211; until they realize they&#8217;re just pawns in a game to control the youth of America. With great songs, clever consumerist critique, the epitome of Y2K fashion, and two super-villains played by Alan Cumming and Parker Posey, you&#8217;ll want to grab your friends and join us for all the meow-sical fun!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a girl group? Take home these rockin&#8217; gems on physical media!

*Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Breaking Glass, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains*

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

Josie and the Pussycats

FOOD IS LIFE in this mouthwatering “ramen western” about a misfit gang of ramen ronin who guide a noodle-shop owner in her quest for the perfect recipe. Comedy master Jûzô Itami whips kung fu, noir, tearjerkers, Chaplinesque silent antics, and, of course, the spaghetti western into a rich, full-bodied broth and serves it up hot as the wacky, surreal adventures of Tampopo (Itami’s wife Nobuko Miyamoto) are seasoned with the sexy exploits of a gastronome gangster (PERFECT DAYS star Kōji Yakusho). A tasty meditation on human hunger; savory and sweet; nourishing for the body and soul. Umami cinema.

Tampopo

In 1600, nobleman Orlando (Tilda Swinton) inherits his parents' house, thanks to Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp), who commands the young man to never change. After a disastrous affair with Russian princess Sasha (Charlotte Valandrey), Orlando looks for solace in the arts before being appointed ambassador to Constantinople in 1700, where war is raging. One morning, Orlando is shocked to wake up as a woman and returns home, struggling as a female to retain her property as the centuries roll by.

Orlando

From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE and STOKER, comes a ravishing new crime drama. PARK presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women - a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of a large inheritance. Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, THE HANDMAIDEN borrows the most dynamic elements of its source material and combines it with PARK Chan-wook’s singular vision to create an unforgettable viewing experience.

The Handmaiden

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a single show at Carnegie Hall. This is the movie.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. Gary Oldman’s metamorphosis as Dracula who grows from old to young, from man to beast is nothing short of amazing. Winona Ryder brings equal intensity to the role of a young beauty who becomes the object of Dracula’s devastating desire. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed doctor who dares to believe in Dracula, and then dares to confront him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Paper Moon / Nickelodeon

A whimsical, heartwarming, colorfully kaleidoscopic Czech New Wave gem — presented with gratitude to our members and volunteers!

Vojtěch Jasný's THE CASSANDRA CAT (1963) — Exclusive Members Screening!

Turn off your Apple 2C and get ready for some obsolete technology on celluloid as this month&#8217;s 16mm foray into celluloid weirdness delves into vintage animation, educational films, trippy trailers, antiquated advertisements, Sci Fi rarities and more from the 1950s through the 1980s heralding the “coming” world of robots, time and space travel, and the home computer explosion. From the poetic symphony of a robotic factory, to a lost Mid-Century promotional cartoon about the monopolization of plastics, to a dancing CPU chorus line, and more oddities and surprises you won&#8217;t be able to see anywhere else, this program is a TRIP &#8211; back to the future. Slightly ridiculous and definitely out of date, this compendium of vintage technology and imagined futures will be screened entirely on 16mm film with prints from the Sweet 16mm collection as well as the legendary archives of Oddball Films and A/V Geeks. 

**Sweet 16mm** is a monthly screening of short films that demonstrate the special magic of the medium of 16mm. Ranging monthly from experimental, animation, educational, promotional, and ephemeral, we seek to spread the gospel of 35mm’s cheap and portable cousin and a physical media often overlooked and underrated. Sit in the room with the projector and behold the magical analog obscurities that we dig out monthly on glorious 16mm celluloid!

Sweet 16mm: The Future of Technology from Yesteryear

**Producer**: Robbie Robertson

It&#8217;s our favorite time of year again, time to rock out with *The Band* and a cavalcade of musical superstars in Scorsese&#8217;s electrifying concert film. Seventeen years after joining forces as the backing band for rockabilly cult hero Ronnie Hawkins, Canadian roots rockers *The Band* call it quits with a lavish farewell show at San Francisco&#8217;s Winterland Ballroom on Nov. 25, 1976. Filmed by Martin Scorsese, this documentary features standout performances by rock legends such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, and Muddy Waters, as well as interviews tracing the group&#8217;s history and discussing road life.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more seminal concert films? Check out these bangers from our video rental collection!

*Wattstax, Monterey Pop, Johnny Cash &#8211; A Concert Behind Prison Walls*

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

The Last Waltz

Crime in the Streets/Hell is for Heroes

They Drive by Night/Crime in the Streets

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Steve Martin and John Candy star in John Hughes’ classic tale of holiday travel gone awry. Neal Page (Martin) is an uptight advertising executive trying to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. When his flight is rerouted to Wichita, he reluctantly partners with Del Griffith (Candy), an obnoxious yet lovable salesman. Together, they embark on a cross-country adventure that includes various modes of transportation, hilarious mishaps and unforgettable rental car shenanigans.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack&#8217;s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

NIGHTCRAWLER is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling - where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

Nightcrawler

A TV producer seeks to expose a tobacco industry cover-up with the aid of an ex-research scientist, but winds up fighting a battle on multiple fronts when the network balks at airing the story.

The Insider

Frank Pierson won an Oscar for his witty, tense, and emotional screenplay based on a real-life Brooklyn bank heist in 1972, with Actors Studio member and current Co-President Al Pacino giving one of his most indelible performances as the stressed-out robber. Pacino received his fourth consecutive Oscar nomination (his third consecutive for Best Actor) for this role, tying Marlon Brando for the most consecutive acting nominations for a male actor. Sidney Lumet received his second nomination for directing this Best Picture nominee, a classic of New York “fun city” cinema, with Chris Sarandon nominated for his role as Pacino’s transgender life partner. Additional Actors Studio members in the film include Carol Kane, Penny Allen, and Sully Boyer.

Dog Day Afternoon

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Spanish with English subtitles.*

Two robbers take a man and his kids hostage. Racing to the US-Mexico border, the captors rendezvous at a cantina — not knowing it is a vampire den.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA/Mexico

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth

**Producers**: Nathan Fielder,  Lance Oppenheim,  Tatiana Bears,  Maggie Ambrose,  Jack Davis

Join us in the microcinema for the documentary event of the year &#8211; Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim&#8217;s mind-blowing portrait of disgraced tech CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and a post-modern look at what money and the pursuit of entertainment can do to the truth. Thirty-four days before she&#8217;s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. A riveting and hilarious watch &#8211; it&#8217;s a film that will leave you thinking about it for weeks. Whether it&#8217;s your first watch, or you just need to see it again to wrap your brain around it, we&#8217;ve got you covered!

You Can See Everything

**Screenwriter/Producer**: John Hughes

With a special introduction from John Candy&#8217;s son **Chris Candy**!

*I like me!* Join Vidiots for the quintessential holiday charmer from the master of the feel good comedy John Hughes. Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife (Laila Robins) and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith (John Candy), whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Alice's Restaurant/I Love You, Alice B Toklas

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth 35mm

Rinko and Shigehiko are a strange couple, whose physical mismatch is reflected in the complete lack of intimacy between them. They connect as human beings but they live more like friends than as lovers and lead nearly independent lives. Both seem comfortable with this coexistence, but the desires that lurk beneath the surface are brought out with the introduction of a third element (played by Tsukamoto himself) into the equation. A visually-stunning and coldly-erotic masterpiece from the director of TETSUO: THE IRON MAN.

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A SNAKE OF JUNE (2002)

Jamal Malik, an 18-year old orphan form the slums of Mumbai, is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". Arrested on suspicion of cheating, he tells the police the incredible story of his life on the streets, and of the girl he loved and lost. Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, this is the ultimate tale of rags to riches.

Slumdog Millionaire

Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle, this is a savagely entertaining contemporary black comedy, which sees three cocksure twenty- somethings sharing a flat in Edinburgh getting more than they bargained for when they go in search of a new roommate.

Shallow Grave

Danny Boyle's explosive film tracks the misadventures of young men in Edinburgh trying to find their way out of joblessness, aimless relationships and drug addiction. Some are successful, while others hopelessly are not. Based on Irvine Walsh's novel, Trainspotting melds grit with poetry, resulting in a film of harsh truths and stunning grace. 

Trainspotting

A group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with the "Rage" virus from a medical research lab. When London bike courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma a month after, he finds his city all but deserted. On the run from the zombie-like victims of the Rage, Jim stumbles upon a group of survivors, including Selena (Naomie Harris) and cab driver Frank (Brendan Gleeson), and joins them on a perilous journey to what he hopes will be safety.

28 Days Later

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**BEING THERE, 1979, Dir. Hal Ashby, 130 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Peter Sellers triumphs in his classic performance as an illiterate gardener who is hilariously catapulted into the fast lane of political power. Shirley MacLaine and Academy Award winner Melvyn Douglas co-star. A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run-in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (MacLaine) and her husband Ben (Douglas), an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

FORMAT: 35mm

**DR. STRANGELOVE, 1964, Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 94 Mins, Sony, UK/USA**

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

Psychotic Air Force General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) unleashes an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable scheme sending bombers to attack Russia. Meanwhile, U.S. President Muffley (Peter Sellers) works with the Soviet Ambassador (Peter Bull) in a desperate effort to save the world. Featuring George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and a 33-year-old James Earl Jones in his feature film debut as Lt. Lothar Zogg.

FORMAT: DCP

BEING THERE / DR. STRANGELOVE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $5.85 at the box office! 80th Anniversary ‘Film by the Foot’

INSIDE JOB

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Presbyterian Church is a small mining town in the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest—and a perfect place where gambler John Q. McCabe and bordello madam Constance Miller can do business. Robert Altman’s dazzlingly original MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, stands the mythology of the Old West on its ear. Shot on beautiful Vancouver wilderness locations, this 1971 film captures the essence of a long-ago time, coupled with the edgy modern sensibility Altman brought to his other ’70s masterworks M*A*S*H and NASHVILLE. The spellbinding result, critic Pauline Kael wrote, is “a modern classic.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

MCCABE & MRS. MILLER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has always dreamed of being on TV and she’s dead-set on making that dream come true. But there is just one obstacle: Larry Maretto, her husband (Matt Dillon). So, Suzanne convinces a love-struck teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to get Larry out of the way for good.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Repertory

COUNTRY: USA/UK

TO DIE FOR

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When Brodie is dumped by his girlfriend, he retreats to the mall with his best friend T.S., whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated twosome decides to win their girlfriends back with the help of the ultimate delinquents, Silent Bob and Jay, whose continuing adventures take the word “nuisance” to a whole new level.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

MALLRATS

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

A truly rare screening of one of the most hilariously absurd Taiwanese films ever: an endearingly whimsical, animal-costumed fairy tale!

THE FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR (大俠梅花鹿, 1961) — co-presented by Kuo Hwa Theater

**Screenwriters**: Betty Comden, Adolph Green

**Producer**: Arthur Freed

Arguably the greatest movie musical ever made, and considered by many  to be one of the greatest films of all time, *Singin&#8217; in the Rain* remains a singular masterpiece of music, comedy, romance, and dance, set against a breathtaking Technicolor backdrop of imagination and artistry. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds electrify the screen in back-to-back legendary musical numbers. Jean Hagen delights as the perfectly hilarious villain. The entrancing Cyd Charisse shows off her spectacular moves in a dazzling pas de deux with Kelly. It&#8217;s an inspiring, entertaining, stunning, and remarkable work of cinematic majesty.

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

Singin’ in the Rain

**Screenwriter: **Ernest Lehman

**Producer:** Herbert Coleman

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

The ultimate Hitchcock thrill ride, centered on the Master of Suspense’s favorite theme: an innocent man accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Here, the poor sucker is an effortlessly cool Cary Grant (or is that redundant?), playing an advertising exec who’s mistaken for a spy named George Kaplan — and then mistaken for a murderer! His efforts to clear his own name and unravel a sinister conspiracy will take across the United States, from an epic train ride to an assassination attempt by airplane to a chase across Mount Rushmore. But hey, he does get to romance Eva Marie Saint along the way, so maybe it’s all worth it?

North by Northwest

**Screenwriters**: Leora Barish

**Producers**: Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford

Susan Seidelman&#8217;s stylish New York fairy tale features an effervescent young Madonna in her first film role. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a mystery woman, Susan, played by Madonna. When she spots an ad meant for Susan in the personals, Roberta goes to the rendezvous too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, she steps out of her own sterile existence and into the danger and romance of Susan&#8217;s life. With incredible 80s style, two iconic leads, and laughs, intrigue, and tons of fun to boot, we&#8217;ve got your Black Friday covered!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Visit the Susan Seidelman section for more stylish feminist fun!

*Smithereens, Making Mr. Right, She-Devil* (no really, it&#8217;s GREAT!)

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

Desperately Seeking Susan

**Screenwriter**: Michael Allin

**Producers**: Paul M. Heller, Fred Weintraub

Bruce Lee kicks all the ass in the ultimate martial arts action masterpiece, *Enter the Dragon*. A martial artist with a bone to pick, Lee vows to take down a reclusive crime lord by beating him in his own Kung Fu tournament. With remarkable combat choreography by Bruce Lee himself, this is one action-packed classic that never gets old and one of the greatest action movies ever made!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more killer martial arts movies tonight!

*5 Deadly Venoms, Vengeance is a Golden Blade, 36th Chamber of Shaolin*

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

Enter the Dragon

The Funhouse/Eaten Alive

Grindhouse

Join us for a special "Black Friday" screening of the contemporary Australian microbudget feature.

Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to excess, they spend their solitary hours in spaces both real and unreal. Occasionally, they are in the same part of the mall.

A deeply personal evocation of the alienation of consumer spaces and the loneliness that late capitalism both creates and feeds on, MALLS is a lament for a culture that is most alive in its doomed attempts to escape itself. Drawing equal inspiration from Tsai Ming-liang, the early work of John Waters, and the inevitable online brain-rot of its young creators, the film is a micro-budget testament to making your own fun in a world of fading possibility.

*“A dazzling slow-cinema study of consumerism and alienation, via two young drifting solitaires... a mesmerising film with great depth, penetrating its characters' souls... the concluding sequences are exhilarating.” -* ***Bill Mousoulis*** (filmmaker, programmer, founding editor of Senses of Cinema)
“A voraciously original feature debut from Adelaide filmmaker Daniel Tune, for whom the failing infrastructure of late capitalist life is a kind of silly putty... A film that has completely reshuffled my sense of the possible in contemporary Australian filmmaking” - ***Indigo Bailey***, Rough Cut Film
“Melancholy and often gross, appropriate for a film titled in mock tribute to some of the worst, most lonely places on Earth... Tune deeply understands the how and why of a long take on tender pain; the whole frame is alive with geometry and movement” – ***Kai Perrignon*** *(filmmaker, head programmer at Brunswick Underground Film Festival)*

**dir. Daniel Tune, 2025**
*Australia, digital projection*
60 min

**FRIDAY, 11/27 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

The feature will be preceded by a short film also produced by the [Moviejuice](https://moviejuice.org/) collective.

## $10 general admission.

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

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

MALLS (2025)

Gremlins

Europe ’51

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After an epic battle against the Borg, Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth’s timeline and preventing Earth’s first contact. Picard and the crew must work together to battle the Borg Queen before she assimilates all of mankind and changes history forever. Resistance is futile.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

30th Anniversary ‘Starring Patrick Stewart’

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

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POSSIBLE LOVE

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THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI,

WILD HORSE NINE,

5:30 PM

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

7:00 PM

CYBERCON: Rubber’s Lover

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The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

Women Beyond Borders

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TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

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DÉJÀ VU

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ALL OF A SUDDEN

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BENEDETTA

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In Session: Larry Johnson

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Ratatouille

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The Last Picture Show

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The Jerk

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Black Fire

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Key Largo

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Harold and Maude

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

7:30 PM

Big Hero 6

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On the Waterfront

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Wicker

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7:00 PM

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…

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Stop Making Sense

9:45 PM

The Westerner

10:00 AM

Paper Tiger 35mm

Coffy

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Coffy/Cotton Comes to Harlem

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Lady Terminator

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Charlie Victor Romeo

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