Niagara

Academy Museum

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

24 hours in the lives of 3 young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot. World Cinema Atlas series, hosted by Ryan Lambert!

LA HAINE (1995) (R) Mon. 8/7: 3:00pm, 5:15pm & 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

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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.

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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

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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

Los Feliz Theatre

Cuddly Toys  / The All-American Girl

New Beverly Cinema

**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**: 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**: 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**: 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

Vidiots

Onslaught

Vista Theatre

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

WHAMMY!

### **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 Stream That On Television’

TWO-LANE BLACK TOP

Aero Theatre

### **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, actor David Hayter and special guests. Moderated by Josh Miller. New Restoration ‘Killer Movies with Josh Miller’

GUYVER: DARK HERO

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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

Destroyer

Acropolis Cinema presents *Little Boy*, by James Benning. 2025. Director in person!

James Benning’s mesmerizing new film spans decades of U.S. history with simple and seemingly minor gestures. Foregrounding its own structural form, *Little Boy* shows us a series of prefabricated toy models being painted in close-up, accompanied by the rallying cries of folk and pop standards, followed by images of the models’ final construction overlaid with passages of political oratory, from voices inspiring or nefarious. The cumulative image is one of a society doomed to cycles of domestic decline and implicated in international terror in the name of “peace-making” interventionism. A companion piece to *American Dreams: Lost and Found*, Benning’s 1984 film composed entirely of baseball card memorabilia, *Little Boy*—its title recalling the lyrics from Pete Seeger’s “What Did You Learn in School Today?”—is an American epic in miniature.

TRT: 74 min

In person: James Benning

Acropolis Cinema: James Benning's Little Boy

2220 Arts + Archives

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Blue Harbor Entertainment and Variance Films

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Giselle Bonilla, screenwriter Alex Heller and actors Will Brill and Gillian Jacobs L.A. Premiere

THE MUSICAL

“When you were mentioning Citizen Kane and 2001 [A Space Odyssey], you forgot to add Drive, we’ll let that slip” (Nicholas Winding Refn in Conversation with William Friedkin, 2015)

In his first Hollywood effort, Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive pulls none of the punches he delivered back home in Denmark. Drive brings Refn’s signature blend of drama and ultra-violence to Los Angeles. A stuntman moonlighting as a getaway driver must help his neighbor’s recently paroled husband in a supposedly routine pawn shop robbery. A million dollars and a few dead bodies later, the stuntman must confront a terrifying gangster to save the lives of his neighbor and her young son. A blood pumping score by Cliff Martinez and career high performances by Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Albert Brooks underscore a brutal tale of L.A.&#8217;s underbelly.

Drive (2011)

Brain Dead Studios

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 8/20) 7:30pm

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When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

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

THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW

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*In French with English subtitles.*

An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet’s outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society’s strife and—together with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)—travels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar’s very existence. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, *Gandahar* is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

GANDAHAR

Fight Club

*Stepney Western* is an experimental documentary by Harry Lawson, made in collaboration with a group of young inner-city horse riders from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Recasting their neighbourhood as the Wild West, the film sits at the porous boundary between fact and fiction, combining recontextualised iPhone clips shot by the riders and archival material with Lawson’s own footage. It is loosely centred on their Alternative Provision programme — a unique alternative for young people in England who struggle in mainstream education settings. 

*In With Both Feet* is a unique oral history of the stables, written by Kathryn Scanlan in response to the film. The audience will listen to a recording of Scanlan’s piece, read by Paula Archer, one of the founders of Stepney Bank Stables. What emerges is a kind of collective portrait, made up of edited fragments of speech from Lawson’s rushes.

The screening and reading will be followed by a conversation between Lawson and Scanlan.

Stepney Western + In With Both Feet

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriter**: Rafael Manuel

**Producers**: Jeremy Chua,  Alex Polunin,  Bianca Balbuena,  Bradley Liew,  Nadia Turincev, Omar El Kadi,  Rafael Manuel

Join us in the microcinema for one of the best films of the year and a masterwork of international cinema &#8211; Rafael Manuel&#8217;s phenomenally composed deadpan social satire *Filipiñana*. With jaw-dropping shot composition, immaculate color coding, a biting and satiric wit, and a slow deliberateness that builds to a shocking ending, this is a dazzler on another level with class consciousness to boot. If Ruben Ostlund and Wes Anderson had a Filipino baby, it still wouldn&#8217;t be as good as *Filipiñana*! Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see this stunner on a big screen!

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the verdant horizon. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds sampling its luxuries as members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the club president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the club’s doting and subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca (Teroy Guzman). The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

Filipiñana

**Screenwriter**: John Cassavetes

**Producer**: Al Ruban

Longtime pals Gus, Harry, and Arthur (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk) are launched head first into a shared midlife crisis after their best friend dies suddenly from a heart attack. Paranoid about their mortality and intent on blowing up their lives to avoid facing their grief, the three embark on a series of increasingly unhinged benders that ultimately test the limits of their friendship. Cassavetes, the preeminent actor’s director, delights in seemingly infinite takes and largely improvised performances from powerhouses Falk and Gazzara. The result is a tragicomedy that unabashedly pries open the male psyche, offering up playfulness and brutality in equal measure. 

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a full Cassavetes Director&#8217;s section, but we&#8217;ve also got these gems he stars in!

*Mikey and Nicky, Columbo: Étude in Black* (S.2 D.1), *The Fury*

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

Husbands

Camelot

Resident Evil

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

The King of Comedy with Dave Karger and Jason Bateman

The Uncles in 16mm with Tacita Dean and Laurence Kardish

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

At the height of his career, Dane Cook wasn’t just selling out arenas, he was redefining what a stand-up comedian could be. Then, in a shocking betrayal, the person he trusted most, his brother, stole multi-millions of dollars, forever changing his life. FUNNY MONEY: THE DANE COOK STORY is a gripping documentary about fame, family, greed and survival, revealing the extraordinary true story behind one of comedy’s biggest icons.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: UpStreamFlix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with comedian Dane Cook World Premiere

FUNNY MONEY: THE DANE COOK STORY

Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.

Mind Game

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Ichi the Killer

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*In Cantonese with English subtitles.*

After a fatal hit-and-run, three high school friends flee the crime scene. They are witnessed by Pearl, a sadistic young girl, who pursues the group and blackmails them into more crimes, with increasingly disastrous consequences.  

DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE (a.k.a. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIRST KIND), directed by Tsui Hark (A BETTER TOMORROW), is one of the most controversial and violent crime films from the Hong Kong New Wave of the 1980s.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cult Epics

COUNTRY: Hong Kong

DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this hysterical comedy, Armand and Albert have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand’s son announces that he’s getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley… and they’re all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transform themselves into Mr. and Mrs. Family Values in time? It’ll take the performance of their lives!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

### **ABOUT ONE INSTITUTE:**

Founded in 1952, One Institute (formerly ONE Archives Foundation) is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the country, dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS history and stories through education, arts, and social justice programs. One Institute’s one-of-a-kind exhibitions and public programs connect LGBTQ+ history and contemporary culture to effect social change. Through unique K-12 teacher trainings, lesson plans, and youth mentorship programs, the organization empowers teachers and students to bring queer history into classrooms and communities. As the independent community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, One Institute promotes the largest collection of LGBTQ+ materials in the world. In 2026, One Institute became stewards of STORIES: The AIDS Monument, in partnership with the City of West Hollywood.

Pre-screening Q&A with art director Tom Duffield 30th Anniversary Co-presented by One Institute Supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

THE BIRDCAGE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles.*

International superstar Maggie Cheung embodies tragic screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the “Greta Garbo of China,” in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan. Praised for her moving and emotive onscreen presence, Ruan’s private life, which was frequent fodder for the vicious Shanghai tabloids, began to mirror the melodramas which brought her fame, culminating in her suicide at age 24. Kwan and Cheung paint a kaleidoscopic yet intimate portrait of the ill-fated actress, deftly blending lush period drama, archival footage and metatextual documentary sequences of Cheung reflecting on Ruan’s legacy. The result is, much like the films of Ruan Lingyu themselves, “tender, vivid and almost overwhelmingly moving” (Time Out).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: Hong Kong

CENTER STAGE

Heat

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Now Instant presents a double bill of Harry Lawson&#8217;s experimental documentary *Stepney Western*, and Kelly Reichardt&#8217;s revisionist Western, *Meek&#8217;s Cutoff*.

Stepney Western + Meek’s Cutoff

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

Spirited Away (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriter**: Allan Moyle

**Producer**: Sandy Stern,  Rupert Harvey

Co-presented by our friends on the airwaves at [KPBJ](http://www.kpbj.fm/)!

Long live Pirate Radio and long live this bangin&#8217; early 90s cult classic starring Christian Slater as a teenage airwave bandit! In Arizona, an introverted and insightful teenager, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater), finds an outlet for his viewpoints through a shortwave radio. Broadcasting as Hard Harry, Hunter uses his pirate radio show to rant against the injustices and hypocrisies taking place in the area, and in society in general. After a tragedy, his principal seeks to get Hunter off the air once and for all. So get ready to stick it to the man, and the FCC with this banger as we pump the killer soundtrack through our dynamite speaker system!

KPBJ is a Freeform LPFM radio station serving the east San Fernando Valley and streaming online at [www.kpbj.fm](http://www.kpbj.fm/).

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Christian Slater cult classics tonight!

*The Legend of Billie Jean, Heathers, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie*

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

Pump Up the Volume

**Screenwriters**: Sylvester Stallone,  Norman Wexler

**Producers**: Robert Stigwood,  Sylvester Stallone

Your Friday night is never going to be the same because the steamiest, sweatiest, musclyest sequel of all time is about to scorch the Vidiots big screen in all its oiled up 80s glory! That&#8217;s right &#8211; Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s very 80s sequel to *Saturday Night Fever* is about to give you chills with killer tunes from Frank Stallone (with a few Bee Gees numbers for continuity), the sweatiest John Travolta you&#8217;ll ever see, and the fieriest dance bonanza to ever hit the big screen! It&#8217;s five years later and Tony Manero&#8217;s *Saturday Night Fever* is still burning even if he can&#8217;t book any gigs. Now he&#8217;s strutting toward his biggest challenge yet &#8211; making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage. Don&#8217;t ask why there&#8217;s an all dancing show on Broadway or why it highly resembles some of the *Goddess* numbers from *Showgirls*, just sit back and take in all the campy, sweaty glory with a crowd of Vidiots &#8211; you&#8217;ll catch the fever too!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more obscure 80s musicals tonight!

*Times Square, The Apple, Breaking Glass, Delivery Boys*

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

Staying Alive

The Wages of Fear

*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 college student goes undercover as a stripper and male hustler to infiltrate the crime duo responsible for his brother's death.

Twin Cheeks feels like if John Waters picked up a video camera and made a Twin Peaks homage and sprinkled in a dash of Rainer Werner Fassbinder for good measure. Filmed in a lot of the same locations David Lynch used but with the absurdity turned way up. Kelly Hughes is an unsung legend of the underground and we are so happy to bring his work to more people. (VHShitfest)

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**dir. Kelly Hughes, 1994***United States, digital projection*60 min

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SOV SEP: Twin Cheeks - Who Killed the Homecoming King? (1994) pres. by VHShitfest

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland,* directed by Ryan Worsley. 2022, digital color, sound, 96 minutes.

LA Premiere with Negativland in person!

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“Every bit as mind-altering as its subjects.”- Oscar Goff, Boston Hassle

“Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, *The Wire*

In 1978, David "The Weatherman" Wills, Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler formed Negativland, which quickly became an absurd and noisy multimedia world without boundaries, ownership or privacy.

Negativland's complex chaos of plunderphonics poses both serious and silly questions about the nature of sound, media, technology, control, propaganda, power and perception in the global village. Negativland continue to be pioneers of art in the electric age, and the medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.

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Negativland is an American experimental music band that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills, Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker. Negativland has released a number of albums ranging from pure sound collage to more musical expositions. They perform at 2220 Arts on Friday night, Sept 18.

Stand By for Failure – A Documentary About Negativland

Something Wicked This Way Comes in 35mm

The Others in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

After his young lover, Gitone (Max Born), leaves him for another man, Encolpio (Martin Potter) decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another. He’s invited to a poetry reading that ends in violence; is taken hostage by pirates; and is even forced to battle a gladiator disguised as a minotaur in a giant labyrinth.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: Italy/France

‘You Can’t Stream This On Television’

FELLINI SATYRICON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

THE INVITE in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Turner Classic Movies and the American Cinematheque present a special panel discussion with screening of DR. STRANGELOVE. This event is in celebration of the upcoming season of THE PLOT THICKENS: “Stanley,” a podcast about the life and career of Stanley Kubrick, the visionary filmmaker who redefined the art of filmmaking. THE PLOT THICKENS: “Stanley” is presented by TCM and Criterion.

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

For our seventh season, TCM is partnering with Criterion to tell the complete story of Stanley Kubrick. Stanley traces his journey from a curious Bronx teenager, first inspired by a camera gifted to him by his father, to a visionary director who redefined the art of filmmaking. Across his career, Kubrick pushed boundaries, challenged censorship and pursued an uncompromising level of creative control that shaped landmark films including LOLITA, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, THE SHINING and EYES WIDE SHUT. With revealing new interviews and never-before-heard archival audio, including a newly uncovered interview with Stanley Kubrick himself, Stanley brings listeners behind the scenes of Kubrick’s creative process, capturing the obsessive precision, artistic ambition and unforgettable imagery that cemented his legacy as one of the most influential filmmakers in history.

*Stanley*, an eleven-episode limited series podcast, starts September 24.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

“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

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Repertory

COUNTRY: UK/USA

Panel with author Jonathan Lethem and filmmaker Jason Reitman. Moderated by author Kenneth Turan. In-person appearance by TCM Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz.

TCM's The Plot Thickens Presents DR. STRANGELOVE

Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who&#8217;s a lawyer &#8211; Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it&#8217;s a real shock &#8211; for him and the Deep South!

My Cousin Vinny

*Josh and Benny Safdie, USA, 2014, 94 min. *

Dropping you onto the heart of dirty NYC, like a bastard cross between THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK and CHRISTIANE F., this crushing story of a young junkie hooked on heroin and the wrong man, fellow addict and lover, Ilya, is a harrowing ride from start to finish. Based on an unpublished memoir from star Arielle Holmes, this frenetic anxiety-trip bops and weaves through the streets, assaults the senses with black metal needledrops, and leaves you jonesing for the next Safdie brothers fix.

Heaven Knows What

Join us for an exciting evening as Getty curators share insights into the exhibition [Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles][1]. This talk and in-gallery tour will highlight the [Stendahl Art Galleries archive][2] and introduce how Earl Stendahl’s collecting of Mexican antiquities transformed the market for pre-Hispanic art in Los Angeles and beyond. The evening will be paired with themed cocktails and appetizers to surprise and delight.

*Stendahl’s World* is on view at the Getty Center until October 18, 2026. 

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


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/stendahls-world-marketing-ancient-mexico-and-modern-art-in-los-angeles/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/collection/113YNX
  [3]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Cocktails with a Curator:  Marketing Antiquities

Getty Center

Intro to Leatherworking

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

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

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

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (9/19)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A wealthy businessman makes a bet he can survive homelessness on the L.A. streets for 30 days but quickly discovers it is much tougher than he imagined.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor Lesley Ann Warren. Moderated by Foster Hirsch.

LIFE STINKS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Conceived by comedy greats Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, THIS IS SPINAL TAP chronicles one of England’s loudest bands on what proves to be a disastrous U.S. tour.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Bleecker Street

COUNTRY: USA

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

THIS IS SPINAL TAP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Roxy is an anthropology major at her local university as well as a DJ for the college’s radio station. One night, a listener calls into Roxy’s show to share a local legend about a hidden cemetery in the woods where a group of Friars were killed and buried because the townspeople believed they were vampires. Thinking this would be a great topic for her thesis, Roxy convinces her friends in a punk band to head out into the woods for a weekend of camping in order to find the cemetery. After discovering that the legend of the cemetery is in fact real, blood is accidentally spilled on the hallowed ground, and the undead Friars rise from their graves in search of fresh victims to satisfy their blood lust.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Kurtis Spieler. Moderated by Alex Gootter. West Coast Premiere

NIGHT OF THE VAMP-FRIARS

The Incredible Journey

Fritz the Cat

1953 • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • This delightful French beach vacation comedy is full of little everyday mishaps, without much dialogue. The subtitles are there, but you won’t be reading much since the jokes are visual and the sound effects are part of the punchlines. It’s the kind of film where the whole audience starts noticing the same tiny details and laughing at the same time! • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Mr. Hulot's Holiday

1974 • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • This was an “event” picture, and Universal leaned into it with “Sensurround”, a low-frequency sound system meant to feel like an earthquake. Join us for our version of that effect, with a little help from the lowest frequencies of our very own Mighty Wurlitzer! Join us for the full destruction of LA! • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Earthquake

Old Town Music Hall

An exclusive audiovisually illuminated conversation w/ author Andrea Wright exploring Jim Henson’s lifelong fascination with fairy tales!

THE FAIRY TALES OF JIM HENSON feat. TALES OF THE TINKERDEE (1962)

A special free-with-RSVP screening of three episodes of Henson's visionary fairy and folk tale television series! A rare big screen event!

Jim Henson's THE STORYTELLER — Three Classic Tales on the Big Screen!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Dick King-Smith, George Miller, Chris Noonan

**Producers**: Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell

This perennially delightful family film will still make you squeal with joy! Babe is a little pig who doesn&#8217;t quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck, who thinks he is a rooster, and Fly, the dog he calls mum, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be. So round up your little swineherds for one precious porcine adventure!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more delightful porkers on physical media tonight!

*Charlotte&#8217;s Web, Porco Rosso, Babe: Pig in the City*

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

Babe

**Producers**: Albert Maysles,  David Maysles

This landmark documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working tirelessly to sell gold-embossed bibles . Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples. One of the most important and illuminating documentaries of the mid-20th-century, *Salesman* showed the world a realism it had never seen and a pair of brothers who would change the documentary landscape forever. 

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our Maysles Brothers directors&#8217; section for more multi-faceted and entertaining non-fiction!

*Grey Gradens, Iris, Gimme Shelter*

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

Salesman

**Screenwriters**: Scott Frank,  Jon Cohen from the novella by Philip K. Dick

**Producers**: Gerald R. Molen,  Bonnie Curtis,  Walter F. Parkes,  Jan de Bont

An all-too prescient science fiction blockbuster of the surveillance state gone awry, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s adaptation of Philip K. Dick is a dystopian thriller for this and any time! Set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn&#8217;t even met. With the blockbuster action you&#8217;ve come to expect from Spielberg, and the dystopian cynicism of Philip K. Dick, *Minority Report* remains a big screen banger with a brain and a message that only gets more timely as our own surveillance state increases!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Philip K. Dick adaptations on glorious physical media!

*Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall*

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

Minority Report

**Screenwriter**: Elena Oxman

**Producer**: Marc Smolowitz,  Elena Oxman,  Asia Kate Dillon,  Allison Estrin, Henry Russell Bergstein

Featuring a conversation with writer/director **Elena Oxman, **Director of Photography ** Lucia Zavarcikova,** and cast member **Louisa Krause** after the screening.

Join us in the microcinema for Elena Oxman&#8217;s festival darling, the beautifully touching triumph *Outerlands* starring Asia Kate Dillon in a stirring performance. Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from. With beautiful cinematography and an exploration of a San Francisco seldom celebrated, this little charmer is a warm and wonderful treat.

Outerlands

**Screenwriter**: Henry Edwards

**Producer**: Robert Stigwood

Get ready for all the gonzo musical weirdness of this Beatles-tuned, Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees helmed cult classic of epic proportions! This musical, set to late-period Beatles hits, recounts the story of Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s famed musical group, which found success during World War I bringing music to weary soldiers in the field. The band&#8217;s leader has since died, and now it&#8217;s up to his grandson, Billy Shears (Peter Frampton), to carry on the group&#8217;s traditions. To this end, he recruits the Henderson brothers (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb) to help him defend the group&#8217;s magic instruments from nefarious crook B.D. Hoffler. It&#8217;s a bubblegum campfest head trip that is best experienced on the big screen with a crowd!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more musical weirdness? Try out these bizarro musical experiences!

*The First Nudie Musical, Fruit Fly, The Apple*

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

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

High Society

Hearts of the West

Gigi in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Acclaimed director George Stevens’ legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made SHANE one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Shane (Alan Ladd), a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). In fighting the last decisive battle, Shane sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody and atmospheric, the film is enhanced by the intense performances of its splendid cast.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

SHANE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Six divas of the silver screen – Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts – come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M’Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

1970s, Rio De Janeiro. Fifteen miles from paradise, two young men of the favelas find that in the battle between rich and poor, there is no right or wrong. A relentless, bloody masterpiece from start to finish, it’s no wonder this Brazilian arthouse smash stands as one of the touchstones of world cinema, going on to spawn sequel series. Based on the autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins.

City of God

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

Dead Ringers

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott) washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason.

Interested in chronicling the dead man’s unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre) takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). But as Leyden zeroes in on the truth about Dimitrios, he finds that his new associate has an ulterior motive in helping him – with Leyden as the unwitting accomplice!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Pure Cinema host Brian Saur ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Pure Cinema Presents THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Citizens in turn-of the-century London are terrified by a mysterious string of bloody killings in the city’s most infamous park. In a nearby estate, Phyllis Allenby fears that she has turned into a “she-wolf” who awakens at night to stalk and slash her innocent prey. Determined to prove that the woman he loves couldn’t be a murderess, Phyllis’ fiancé sets out to unmask the real killer.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by NBCUniversal Preservation Coordinator Felicity Flesher World Premiere of New 4K Restoration 80th Anniversary ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

SHE-WOLF OF LONDON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Luchino Visconti’s WHITE NIGHTS is an exquisite adaptation of Dostoevsky’s legendary novella, transforming this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy

New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

WHITE NIGHTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, French, Russian and Japanese with English subtitles.*

As the world recovers from the destruction of the Chernobyl disaster, William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth (Peter Sellars) attempts to restore the human race’s great works of art. His quest takes him to a hotel in Switzerland where he meets an old gangster (Burgess Meredith) and his daughter, Cordelia (Molly Ringwald). William’s journey also leads him to encounters with an absurd professor (Jean-Luc Godard) and an unhinged filmmaker (Woody Allen).

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/France

KING LEAR

The Unknown  / Outside the Law

CONCERT • The Beatles, Reimagined • Celter Skelter is an Irish-Celtic bluegrass tribute to the Beatles. Using traditional Irish and bluegrass folk instruments (accordion, fiddle, banjo, mandolin) to create the rock and orchestral arrangements of the Beatles, Celter Skelter tells the story of the Fab Four while covering their diverse musical catalog. It’s the Beatles like you’ve never heard them before!

Celter Skelter

Writer and podcaster Karina Longworth presents a rare screening of Hans Richter's avant-garde omnibus in celebration of YMRT's new season!

DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY (1947) — co-presented by YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS

**Screenwriters**: Charise Castro Smith,  Jared Bush

**Producers**: Yvett Merino Flores,  Clark Spencer

One of Disney’s most delightful and beloved films of the 21st century, the animated fantasy *Encanto* is overflowing with unforgettable characters, colorful adventures, and hum-worthy tunes. The Madrigals are a family living in a mystical house in the mountains of Colombia, and each member of the clan has their own special power — all except for teen daughter Mirabel (voice of Stephanie Beatriz), still disappointed that she’s the only ordinary one. But when their magical world faces a new threat, Mirabel seizes her chance to be a hero after all. María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Diane Guerrero, and Wilmer Valderrama also lend their voices, and Lin-Manuel Miranda contributes eight original songs (including the impossibly catchy “We Don&#8217;t Talk About Bruno”). Sing along with this enchanted musical with your little ones, or your Pixar-loving adult besties!

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

Encanto Sing-Along

**Screenwriter**: Mike Mills

**Producers**: Leslie Urdang,  Dean Vanech,  Miranda de Pencier,  Jay Van Hoy,  Lars Knudsen, Mark Levinson

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome Indie legend **Mike Mills** for an enchanting night of cinema starting with the lovable modern classic ***Beginners ***followed by a conversation with Mills.

A sweet and effervescent charmer that feels like a cinematic breath of fresh air, this magical little film of love, loss, family, and acceptance will melt even the iciest of hearts. Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend and an adorable pup. Smart, funny, and endlessly charming, it&#8217;s never too late to start falling in love with *Beginners* all over again!

And this screening is only half the fun! Join us after for Mills&#8217; latest triumph [***C&#8217;mon, C&#8217;mon***](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/cmon-cmon/) at 7:30pm. Please note: separate tickets are required for each movie.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more delights from the great Mike Mills tonight on glorious physical media!

*Thumbsucker, Paperboys, 20th Century Women*

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

An Evening with Mike Mills – Beginners

**Screenwriter**: Mike Mills

**Producers**: Andrea Longacre-White,  Lila Yacoub,  Chelsea Barnard

Our enchanting evening with **Mike Mills** continues with his latest intimate and tender triumph ***C&#8217;mon C&#8217;mon*** featuring an introduction by Mills.

An endearing and all-too-human treasure of cinema from the always charming and understated Mike Mills. Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future. With remarkable performances, graceful and nuanced direction, and lovely black and white cinematography, *C&#8217;mon C&#8217;mon* is yet another precious delight from the master of the soft touch!

And join us earlier for Mike Mills&#8217; marvelous charmer [***Beginners***](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/beginners/) followed by a conversation with Mills. Please note: separate tickets are required for each movie.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more delights from the great Mike Mills tonight on glorious physical media!

*Thumbsucker, Paperboys, 20th Century Women*

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

An Evening with Mike Mills – C’mon C’mon

*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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Welcome to the world of Brittney Meredith, a young fashion model in demand. She has it all; youth, beauty, and a handsome fiancé named Ricky. Tragedy strikes when Ricky is killed in a motocross accident. Brittney has only Ricky’s precious gift, a music box, to remember his undying love. The world and dreams of Brittany quickly change to nightmares, as Ricky comes back to pledge his eternal love for her once more. Ricky goes on a murderous rampage to have Brittney all to himself. As he gets closer to fulfilling his deadly desire, Brittney must figure out a way to stop her fatal nightmares…but, *in your dreams no one hears you SCREAM!* (Terror Vision)

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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: Dream Stalker (1991) pres. by Terror Vision

How to Marry a Millionaire

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

The George Lucas Talk Show is a long-running variety spoof show in New York City. Comedian Connor Ratliff (WIDOW’S BAY, Dead Eyes podcast) hosts the show as “Retired Filmmaker George Lucas,” the creator of STAR WARS, and he interviews real guests as themselves in a panel format. He is flanked by sidekick Watto, played by Griffin Newman (THE TICK, Blank Check podcast) and producer Patrick Cotnoir (Hey, That’s Me!: A Commentary Podcast, ASSSSCAT).

The show has been running since 2014 and has featured guests like Seth Rogen, Jon Hamm, Weird Al, Seth Meyers, Rachel Zegler, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Hale, Padma Lakshmi, the cast of SEVERANCE, Bobby Moynihan, Jeff Hiller, Kathleen Turner, Tatiana Maslany, Jack Quaid, Meredith Vieira, D’Arcy Carden, Heidi Gardner, Kevin Smith, and Lea Thompson, (and so, so many more).

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, 1958, Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 139 Mins, Janus, Japan**

A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director’s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas’s STAR WARS*. *THE HIDDEN FORTRESS delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity.

FORMAT: 35mm

**SPACEBALLS, 1987, Dir. Mel Brooks, 97 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

The evil leaders of Planet Spaceball, having foolishly squandered their precious atmosphere, devise a secret plan to take every breath of air away from their peace-loving neighbor, Planet Druidia.

They send the evil Dark Helmet to kidnap Princess Vespa on the day of her wedding, in the hope of holding Druidia to ransom. But the princess skips town and joins forces with a mercenary named Lone Starr and his sidekick, Barf.

FORMAT: 35mm

Introduction by The George Lucas Talk Show hosts Connor Ratliff and Griffin Newman

The George Lucas Talk Show Present THE HIDDEN FORTRESS / SPACEBALLS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Recently Deceased Media merch will be available for purchase prior to the screening.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero’s friends, EFFECTS is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and “accidents” happen, it’s clear that something isn’t right. EFFECTS is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker John Harrison Co-presented by Recently Deceased Media

Cinematic Void Presents EFFECTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

With strains of his nihilistic youth-culture script for Larry Clark’s KIDS, Harmony Korine’s directorial debut moves out of the city to wander the post-apocalyptic fallout of a suburban Midwestern landscape recently ravaged by a tornado. Weaving between the day-to-day lives of various poverty-stricken small-town outcasts, GUMMO’s scattershot structure and varied shooting styles present a collage of American themes on the precipice of an unpredictable new millennium, ultimately yielding a movie that Gus Van Sant called “both bracingly realistic and hauntingly dreamlike.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘You Can’t Stream That On Television’

GUMMO

The Thing with Two Heads / The Black Gestapo

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A Singing Plant. A Daring Hero. A Sweet Girl. A Demented Dentist. Seymour–an orphan and a nerd who works in a run-down flower shop on Skid Row–spends his time doing menial tasks and dreaming of his co-worker, Audrey. Then, one day, just after an eclipse of the sun, Seymour discovers a strange plant. The exotic plant draws customers, saves the flower shop from bankruptcy and makes Seymour a hero in Audrey’s eyes. But the plant has a rather unique appetite … and it’s getting interested in Audrey too. Based on the 1961 film and the stage musical, remastered in 4K.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Frank Oz New 4K Restoration 40th Anniversary ‘Beyond Fest 2026’ Pre-Fest Screening

Niagara

2:30 PM

LA HAINE (1995) (R) Mon. 8/7: 3:00pm, 5:15pm & 7:30pm

Cinematic Void Presents ASSAULT OF THE KILLER BIMBOS

7:00 PM

PINK FLAMINGOS

10:00 PM

Cuddly Toys

The All-American Girl

7:30 PM