You’ve heard the whispers. You’ve seen the hype. Now experience the horror phenomenon that has audiences obsessed. Come see what everyone is talking about&#8230;or come back because you love this movie more than anything in the whole f***ing world!

Obsession

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 1, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 60 Mins, Paramount, USA**

My log has a message for you.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 2, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 54 Mins, Paramount, USA**

The stars turn and a time presents itself.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, 2017, Paramount, USA**

Directed entirely by David Lynch, this 18-part limited event series picks up 25 years after the residents of a quaint northwestern American town were stunned when their homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, was shockingly murdered. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is written and executive produced by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and is executive produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland.

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1 & 2

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A hapless man’s romantic obsession with his ex-wife draws him into a deadly caper in this definitive noir.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

CRISS CROSS

Los Feliz Theatre

Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Roman Holiday

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriter**: Takehiko Inoue

**Producer**: Toshiyuki Matsui

Get on the court with this dynamic and inspiring animated sports story that scores both visually and emotionally.

Shohoku’s “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota has been following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player.

Addicted to the sport from a young age, and now in his second year of high school, Ryota and his teammates must face the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

The First Slam Dunk

**Screenwriter**: Boots Riley

**Producers**: Aaron Ryder,  Andrew Swett,  Allison Rose Carter,  Jon Read,  Boots Riley

Get your eyeballs and brain ready for maximum explosiveness as Boots Riley&#8217;s newest inventive, hilarious, surreal, stylish, stop-motion-sprinkled, and utterly singular masterpiece hits our microcinema in all its dazzling propagandistic glory! The fashion, the fun, the gonzo satire &#8211; it&#8217;s the wildest ride in cinema this year and an absolute revelation for those of us who have been craving the return of originality to filmmaking. Keke Palmer heads a crew of professional fashion boosters out to resell expensive clothes at a discount, but when a fashion maven (Demi Moore at her bitchy best) vows to take them down, and an unexpected guest with a magical gadget appears &#8211; their quest begins to turn global. Boots Riley solidifies his place among America&#8217;s most inventive auteurs with yet another brilliantly bonkers but perennially relevant capitalist critique that will keep you laughing, gagging (at the FASHION), and cheering throughout.

I Love Boosters

**Screenwriters**: Harry Dodge, Silas Howard

**Producers**: Silas Howard,  Harry Dodge,  Steak House

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome filmmakers **Silas Howard, Harry Dodge, **and **Steak House** for a special 25th Anniversary screening of their trailblazing trans and butch buddy comedy ***By Hook or By Crook***! Conversation moderated by filmmaker **Vera Drew**!

Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, *By Hook or By Crook* is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome, gender-bending, small town dreamer with a nagging messiah complex. Emotionally defeated after the death of his father, Shy heads to the big city to sink himself into a &#8220;life of crime.&#8221; He is quickly distracted by Valentine, a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for her birthmother. The two freaky grifters join forces and learn the true meaning of &#8220;poise under pressure&#8221; in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted, anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust and redemption.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more phenomenal trans cinema tonight on fabulous physical media!

*Funeral Parade of Roses, Women in Revolt, Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean*

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

By Hook or by Crook

Vidiots

Disclosure Day (70mm)

Bound

Vista Theatre

Only Yesterday

Aardman Animations Celebration

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon neo-noir novel, stoner private eye Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix, in an industrial-strength mullet) winds his way through three interrelated cases in 1970 Los Angeles after an ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) turns up at his door. Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone and Martin Short round out the amazing cast.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

INHERENT VICE in 70mm

Aero Theatre

A treasure chest of narrative fragments, *The Decay of Fiction* lacks the itinerary and “instructions for use” that automatically comes with a linear story. The shards of its many implied plotlines are the fruit of O’Neill’s all-encompassing sense of form, which for better or worse is conceptual rather than technical or material. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, *The Chicago Reader*, May 30, 2003,

https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2023/03/ghosts-of-hollywood/

“I am interested in exploring the boundaries of believability. The narrative tradition insists that, no matter how fantastic the story, its surface must be seamless. By contrast, I call attention to the artifice, all the staged aspects, and allow the well-worn stories to slip over and through one another. The film’s intention could be described as wanting to take stories off the screen and into the imagination. I like to work within the gaps between reality and story, to look at what is going on around the story, its context, and to make that a part of my conversation with the audience.” – Pat O’Neill

**Tickets:** $15 general, $10 students/seniors (purchased at door), free for Filmforum members.

The Decay of Fiction

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

This unique series is hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm and film at 8pm.

Tonight's show:TOUCH OF EVILMexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on th

TOUCH OF EVIL

Fine Arts Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: UK

Q&A with filmmaker Mark Jenkin Advance Screening

ROSE OF NEVADA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: UK

ENYS MEN

**Screenwriters**: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald

**Producer**: Bernard Maurice

Join Monsieur Hulot in Paris in this breathtaking comedy masterpiece. *“A film that comes from another planet, where they make films differently.”* So sayeth legendary French auteur Francois Truffaut about *PlayTime*, a movie that looks and feels like nothing else you’ve ever seen before. Director Jacques Tati spent a small fortune constructing an artificial city to shoot in (the set was big enough to require its own power plant!), all for a surreal comedy about a lonely Everyman (Tati himself) wandering around a bizarre, modernist metropolis he can’t quite comprehend. You’ll want to see this on the big screen so you can take in every detail of Tati’s unforgettable masterpiece, one of the greatest movies ever made about the absurdity of modern life.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

PlayTime

**Screenwriter**: Leah McKendrick

**Producers**: Todd Black,  Becky Sanderman,  Jason Blumenthal,  Steve Tisch, David J. Bloomfield

**KCRW**,** Vidiots**, and** Netflix **invite you to a special advance screening of ***Voicemails for Isabelle ***followed by a conversation with director **Leah McKendrick** and actress **Zoey Deutch**.

Jill copes with her sister’s death by leaving her voicemails chronicling her chaotic life in San Francisco. When the number is unknowingly reassigned, an elusive Austin real estate agent begins receiving the hilariously confessional messages.

Doors will Open at 6:00pm, Screening will start at 7:00pm, with conversation to follow.

Guests must RSVP to attend. For more information and to RSVP click [here](https://events.humanitix.com/kcrw-partner-screening-voicemails-for-isabelle).

Please note that this screening is first-come-first-served, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry. As we are hoping to accommodate as many people as possible, all free screenings are overbooked to account for no-shows. We recommend an early to on-time arrival, we may not be able to accommodate late entries.

Voicemails for Isabelle

Beginners

Pom Poko

Shadow of a Doubt with Guillermo del Toro

North by Northwest with Guillermo del Toro

There's No Business Like Show Business

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

During disco’s 1970s heyday, 17-year-old busboy Eddie Adams is looking for a break when he is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Horner rechristens Eddie ‘Dirk Diggler’ and makes him a star of adult cinema. Enjoying his new-found fame and a hedonistic lifestyle to match, Eddie is little prepared for the changes in the porn industry that are to come with the arrival of the 1980s and the rise of video tape.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

BOOGIE NIGHTS in 70mm

Three months after a painful breakup, a Los Angeles based photographer drifts through Silver Lake&#8217;s creative chaos—dodging well-meaning friends, career pressures, and fleeting flings—as he navigates his way into the next chapter.

Situations

*Special thanks to our community partners: *[El Cine](https://www.somoselcine.org/), *[UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies](https://rothmanfoodinstitute.ucla.edu/)*

Director Alfonso Arua’s *Like Water for Chocolate *was an arthouse sensation when first released and still defines the evocative power of food in film. Based on Laura Esquivel’s novel, its sensuous tale of forbidden love unfolds in early 20th-century Mexico when Tita is bound by family tradition to remain unmarried to care for her mother. Prevented from acting on her love for the handsome Pedro, she pours her passion and heartbreak into her cooking which has a magical, intoxicating effect on those who consume it. The intimacy of the heart and the intimacy of the kitchen transform culinary preparation into a powerful expression of desire, rebellion and yearning.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Alfonso Arau. Screenwriter: Laura Esquivel. With: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torné. 

*35mm print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.**
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Like Water for Chocolate

Hammer Museum

Join us for an evening of poetry featuring Daryl Gussin , Violetta Balkoff, Hanna Pachman, Candace Hansen, Charlie Stuip, Katherine Charney, Briana Gonzales, Laura Mathis, and Andra Knox.

This reading will also include a fundraiser with tons of prizes to benefit Heavy Manners Library!

An Evening of Poetry (6/26)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

The most controversial film of Bresson’s career, THE DEVIL, PROBABLY was off-limits to viewers under the age of 18 in France as an incitement to suicide. A film that caused Rainer Werner Fassbinder to threaten to walk off the Berlin Film Festival jury if his support for it was not made public, it traces the last six months in the life of a young Parisian in search of his own demise, who rejects the conventional solutions offered by politics and religion, saying “My sickness is that I see clearly.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: The Film Desk

COUNTRY: France

THE DEVIL, PROBABLY

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Cairo As Seen by Chahine,” Dir. Youssef Chahine, 24 Min, Egypt**

*In Arabic with English subtitles.*

This concise masterpiece by famed Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine began as a commission by French television. Using his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transforms this portrait of a city into a self-portrait of a filmmaker. The film was banned in Egypt for its realistic portrayal of Cairo.

FORMAT: DCP

**CAIRO STATION, Dir. Youssef Chahine, 76 Min, Janus Films, Egypt**

*In Arabic with English subtitles.*

A newspaper hawker (portrayed by the director himself) at the eponymous train depot develops a frightening obsession with a sexy lemonade vendor (co-star Hind Rustom was nicknamed the “The Arab Marilyn Monroe.”) That’s the premise for this suspenseful drama which cunningly uses the bustling station to depict clashing strata of Egyptian society. Chahine’s combination of gritty authenticity and psychosexual Expressionism created a landmark of Egyptian cinema—despite public boycotts over its unflinching perversity and politics.

FORMAT: DCP

New 4K Restoration of CAIRO STATION ‘Youssef Chahine: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

“Cairo As Seen By Chahine” / CAIRO STATION

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 3, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 58 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Call for help.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 4, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 56 Mins, Paramount, USA**

…brings back some memories.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, 2017, Paramount, USA**

Directed entirely by David Lynch, this 18-part limited event series picks up 25 years after the residents of a quaint northwestern American town were stunned when their homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, was shockingly murdered. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is written and executive produced by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and is executive produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland.

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 3 & 4

Creature from the Black Lagoon 3-D / It Came from Outer Space 3-D

Inglourious Basterds

A dreamy and lyrical meditation on language, memory, myth, and what human life might become beyond the ruins of the contemporary world

Ben Rivers's MARE'S NEST (2025) — LA Premiere!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Toshio Suzuki

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of *Spirited Away*, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity.

Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.

Princess Mononoke (Japanese with English subtitles)

**Producers**: Andrew Renzi,  Nick Boak,  Kyzza Terrazas,  Santiago Maza,  Sabrina Coulston, Colin Cadarette,  Travis Gutiérrez Senger

With Director **Travis Gutiérrez Senger** at the Sunday, June 28th screening!

From executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna *ASCO: Without Permission* challenges the limits of documentary conventions to tell the story of a revolutionary Chicano art group who turned 1970s LA into their defiant canvas. Merging activism with radical artmaking, ASCO challenged the established order of Hollywood, museums, and media and are now considered amongst the 20th century&#8217;s most significant artists. Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger mirrors their boundary-breaking spirit through a groundbreaking approach, weaving nonfiction, and fiction together with a new generation of artists. The result is more than a profile &#8212; it&#8217;s a reimagining of what&#8217;s possible in art and cinema, celebrating iconoclasts who were decades ahead of their time.

ASCO: Without Permission

**Screenwriters**: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

**Producer**: Joel Silver

Lily and Lana Wachowski&#8217;s ground-breaking science fiction parable set the standard for both action movies and Science Fiction films for years to come with its innovative visuals and one-of-a-kind fight choreography. Set in the 22nd century, *The Matrix* tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers that now rule the earth. So, take your blue pills and join us for some futuristic fun.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Party like it&#8217;s 1999 with these throwbacks on glorious physical media!

*Criminal Lovers, Better Than Chocolate, Man on the Moon*

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

The Matrix

**Screenwriter**: Avalon Fast

**Producers**: Taylor Nodrick,  Jacob Glickman,  Jackie De Nivervilla,  Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, Maya Cadieux-Rouillard

Summer is finally here, and it&#8217;s time to bring your coven to the woods of our microcinema for Avalon Fast&#8217;s dark and witchy indie darling *Camp*. Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life. She feels the weight of these accidents like a curse has been placed upon her. Her dad suggests she go to a Camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt; she can be a counsellor there. When Emily arrives, she is taken in by the other counselors, they accept her as she is and wrap her in a veil of peace & forgiveness. Emily stands at the forefront of a new kind of life, but there’s a voice out there in the woods she can’t quite seem to ignore. The voice is whispering, she’s telling Emily to go home.

Camp

**Producer**: Godfrey Reggio

Hold onto your eyeballs for one of the most dazzling and transcendent documentaries of all time &#8211; Godfrey Reggio&#8217;s hypnotic experimental masterpiece *Koyaanisqatsi*. Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning &#8220;life out of balance,&#8221; this renowned experimental documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Featuring extensive footage of natural landscapes and elemental forces, the film gives way to many scenes of modern civilization and technology. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass. This mind-opening masterwork will change the way you think about documentary and cinema all together, so open your mind to the whole world with *Koyaanisqatsi*!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more mind-blowing experimental documentaries? We have got you covered!

*Proteus, Decasia, Sans Soleil*

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

Koyaanisqatsi

**Screenwriter**: Ryuya Suzuki

**Producer**: Kenji Iwaisawa

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, *Jinsei* (meaning “life” in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.

Jinsei

The Invite

Race with The Devil

The Goonies in 4K

The Prince and the Showgirl in 35mm with Bus Stop

I Confess in 35mm with Guillermo del Toro

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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 neighbour, 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: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

SPACEBALLS in 70mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When a nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past. Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is nominated for 13 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in 70mm

**THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL + BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY**

A double feature celebrating two essential figures of Los Angeles underground music culture.

Each film will be followed by a Q&A featuring the filmmakers, cast and crew.

### THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL

*Director:* David Markey

*Cast:* Allison Anders, Fat Mike, & Thurston Moore

*Run Time:* 101 mins

[*Trailer*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVOt09XR1JM)

*Format:* DCP

*Release Year:* 2025

BILL BARTELL is not famous but those who knew him think he should be.

Bill was a musician, band manager, record label owner, police officer, rodeo bull rider, an attention-seeking recluse, and the ultimate fan-boy. He led an exceedingly compartmentalized life, keeping a tight lid on his background, his occupations, relationships and sexuality, hiding the jarring conflicts. The whole of his life was an enigma and maintaining it took a toll. Many of those who knew him during his 52 years of life were kept in the dark of his doings. No one knew &#8211; and still no one knows &#8211; the whole of his life.

### BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY

*Director:* Andrew Reich

*Cast:* Jeffrey McDonald, Steve McDonald

*Run Time:* 87 mins

[*Trailer*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcwDoLuo1QU)

*Format:* DCP

*Release Year:* 2024

Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal West Coast band of the last half century. Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers. They have influenced independent music in ways that beg to be acknowledged. From inventing Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Hair Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years. They are the underappreciated link between countless threads of Los Angeles rock. The band that connects Black Flag to The Partridge Family, The Runaways to The Cowsills Seeds, The Go-Go’s to The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Born Innocent will introduce a wider audience to two of the coolest people alive. The McDonald Brothers embody Southern California, rock and roll, and what it means to be an artist.

THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL + BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY

Premiering on June 27, 1966, on ABC-TV, *Dark Shadows *(1966–71) represented an outré experiment in daytime television that became an unexpected breakout hit and evergreen cult classic. Created by horror-maestro Dan Curtis (*The Night Stalker*, *Trilogy of Terror*), the innovative soap opera, which initially struggled in the ratings, expanded greatly in popularity in its second year with the addition of a 175-year-old charismatic vampire character named Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). As the eerily atmospheric series evolved to fuse gothic supernatural elements and romance into complex storylines, it developed a passionate youth following and became a pop culture phenomenon. In the process, the videotaped series earned the distinction of being the first soap to spawn a theatrical motion picture spin-off, *House of Dark Shadows* (1970), and several additional feature films and reboots. The beloved original series ran for over 1,200 episodes before its abrupt cancellation in 1971. In the ensuing decades, the aura surrounding* Dark Shadows *has only intensified, with the influential program enjoying nearly constant reruns in syndication, luring an influx of new viewers into the mysterious, shadow-drenched world of the wealthy Collins family of fictional Collinsport, Maine. 

Join us for a celebration of* Dark Shadows*, exactly 60 years to the day of its premiere, including the debut episode and rare archival footage. Before the screening, historian Jim Pierson will sign copies of *Dark Shadows Noir: Classic Black and White Photography from the Dan Curtis Productions Archive. *Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with *Dark Shadows *star, actor David Selby, and Jim Pierson. 

*Programmed and note written by John H. Mitchell Television Curator Mark Quigley.***
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***Special thanks to our community partner: [Women In Media](https://womennmedia.com/)**
*

The series debut introduces central protagonist, young Victoria “Vicki” Winters (Alexandra Moltke), as she arrives to begin her new life as a governess for the secretive (and cursed) Collins family. Directed by television pioneer Lela Swift, who would helm over 500 episodes of *Dark Shadows*. With original commercials. 

ABC. Production: Dan Curtis Productions. Executive Producer: Dan Curtis. Director: Lela Swift. Writer: Art Wallace. With: Joan Bennett, Mitchell Ryan, Louis Edmonds. 

Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) regains her true identity and plots a desperate escape from being eternally bound to her captor, vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). 

ABC. Production: Dan Curtis Productions. Executive Producer: Dan Curtis. Director: Lela Swift. Writer: Joe Caldwell. With: Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, John Karlen.

Carl (John Karlen) and his brother Quentin Collins (David Selby) are caught in a deadly confrontation between vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) and a crucifix-wielding preacher (Jerry Lacy). 

ABC. Production: Dan Curtis Productions. Executive Producer: Dan Curtis. Director: Henry Kaplan. Writer: Sam Hall. With: Jonathan Frid, David Selby, John Karlen.

60th Anniversary Screening: ABC-TV’s Dark Shadows

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn’t happy, they themselves aren’t happy, but they don’t talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their unhappiness largely so that they will not show especially to their three boarders their problems.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

35mm print courtesy of National Film Archive of Japan Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

WIFE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Swedish with English subtitles.*

One of Bo Widerberg’s most explicitly political works imbues the true story of a 1931 labor strike with a powerful contemporary resonance. In the industrial district of Ådalen, in the north of Sweden, a peaceful demonstration takes a tragic turn, leading to a historic general strike. Amid these events, the teenage Kjell (Peter Schildt) experiences sacrifice and strife, love and loss and the consequences of this shocking violence. Working once again with ELVIRA MADIGAN cinematographer Jörgen Persson—who captures shimmering, light-filled images in graceful widescreen—Widerberg entwines a stirring portrait of resistance with an intimate coming-of-age journey for a vision of history that feels vibrantly, urgently alive.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

West Coast Theatrical Premiere of New Restoration ‘Bo Widerberg: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

ÅDALEN 31

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their innocent gender-confused child, Glen/Glenda, and hit Hollywood, where a movie depicting the killer dolls’ murder spree is underway

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA/UK/Romania

Introduction by filmmaker and actor Vera Drew ‘Hollywood Pride Presents INT. Movie Theatre’

Vera Drew Presents SEED OF CHUCKY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Harvey Keitel and Madonna star in this captivating and controversial story about a filmmaker whose brutal honesty in portraying an abusive marriage begins to seep off of the set and into real life. As “Mother of Mirrors” director Eddie Israel (Keitel) digs deeper into the private lives of the cast, his own secrets threaten to ruin his career and relationship with wife Madelyn (Nancy Ferrara).

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/Italy

‘Watch Local: Sex, Lies and… Fame at the Chateau Marmont’

DANGEROUS GAME

Silverado

The Passenger

Exorcist II: The Heretic

A safe space for curious kids (aged 10-13) to explore magic, intuition, and their connection to the web of life. Gently guided, age-appropriate, and rooted in respect for nature and all living beings. 

9-11:30am

$30

RSVP  here !

For more information, reach out to janae@moonseed.love

Moonseed: Academy for Young Mystics

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**Screenwriter**: Brad Bird

**Producers**: John Lasseter, John Walker

It&#8217;s time to get back in the superhero game with the whole fam in Brad Bird&#8217;s beloved Pixar adventure! Bob Parr has long since given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it&#8217;s time to get back into the spandex costume and save the day all over again. With an *incredible* amount of fun, action, comedy, and good feelies, *The Incredibles* lives up to its name!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a whole section for Pixar and their treasure trove of animated fun! Check out these gems and more tonight!

*Coco, Pixar Shorts Volumes 1 + 2, Toy Story 1- 4*

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

The Incredibles

**Producers**: Taylor Hackford, Leon Gast

It&#8217;s 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the &#8220;Rumble in the Jungle&#8221; is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America&#8217;s top Black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

When We Were Kings

**Screenwriter**: Elaine May

**Producer**: Mike Nichols

Nichols and May team up again, this time with an all-star cast, to bring you this much-cherished comedy of closeted manners, adapted from the French play and film *La Cage Aux Folles*. A gay cabaret owner and his drag-performing partner agree to head back to the closet in order to win over their son&#8217;s fiancé&#8217;s conservative politician parents. So make sure you *Fosse Fosse Fosse* on down to Vidiots and share this hilarious queer banger with a crowd!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more hilarious films from Mike Nichols and Elaine May!

*The Heartbreak Kid, The Graduate, A New Leaf*

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

The Birdcage

**Screenwriter**: Bruno Bozzetto,  Guido Manuli,  Maurizio Nichetti

**Producer**: Bruno Bozzetto

Hold onto your eyeballs, Bruno Bozzetto&#8217;s animated masterpiece is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with a brand new restoration! This ridiculous Italian answer to Fantasia is an animated exercise in irony no animation lover should miss on the big screen! An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named &#8216;Prisney,&#8217; he rallies an orchestra of geriatric women, a bullish conductor, and an animator that he keeps locked in the dungeon. What could go wrong? Too dark and bizarre for the kiddos, this bonkers and brilliant film is ripe for rediscovery!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more bizarre animation? Check out these titles and hundreds more!

*Heavy Metal, Fritz the Cat, Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness*

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

Allegro non troppo

Wake in Fright

Dirty Looks presents *Three Bewildered People in the Night*, the first (unreleased) film by Gregg Araki.

Gregg Araki, *Three Bewildered People in the Night*, 92min., B&W 16mm on HD digital video, 1987

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Gregg Araki’s first, unreleased feature is a moody chamber drama about friendship, apathy and sexual fluidity. David (Mark Howell) is a performance artist, navigating the poseur factions of the L.A. underground, with his video artist gal pal, Alicia (Darcy Marta), and her photographer boyfriend, Craig (John Lacques). They tramp the urban wasteland at night, from arcade to diner to another sad club scene, and soon sparks fly between the boys, too. Araki’s early debt to Jean Luc Godard is palpable in this aching black and white movie that moves like a Smiths song. HD 16mm scan by Outfest Legacy Project, courtesy of Strand Releasing.

Dirty Looks: Gregg Araki's Three Bewildered People in the Night

2220 Arts + Archives

All That Money Can Buy (The Devil and Daniel Webster)

Let’s Make Love

Frenzy with Guillermo del Toro

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Director Stanley Kubrick’s awesome epic is one of the most visually stunning films ever produced in 70mm. Kirk Douglas stars as the gladiator who leads his fellow slaves in a revolt against Rome, while co-stars Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin and Nina Foch get swept into the firestorm. Brilliantly scripted by writer Dalton Trumbo (whose hiring by producer Douglas helped shatter the blacklist), with Oscar-winning photography by Russell Metty.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

SPARTACUS in 70mm

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James Stewart and Kim Novak star in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece thriller about an acrophobic detective hired to shadow a friend’s mysterious and suicidal wife.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

VERTIGO in 70mm

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Ikiru

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut&#8217;s alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine&#8217;s father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers&#8217; seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Stolen Kisses

The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each *Family Flicks* program.

Dazzling, hand-painted watercolor animation brings Gabrielle Vincent’s Belgian children’s books to life in this Oscar-nominated gem. In a world sharply divided by fear between bears, who live above, and mice, who live below, an unlikely bond blooms between a grumpy, music-loving bear and a spirited little mouse with big dreams. Mutual need brings them together but a shared love of creativity and fun connects them in a story about how friendship can change the world.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner. Screenwriters: Daniel Pennac, Gabrielle Vincent. With: Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall.

Ernest & Celestine

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+

Dazzling, hand-painted watercolor animation brings Gabrielle Vincent’s Belgian children’s books to life in this Oscar-nominated gem. In a world sharply divided by fear between bears, who live above, and mice, who live below, an unlikely bond blooms between a grumpy, music-loving bear and a spirited little mouse with big dreams. Mutual need brings them together but a shared love of creativity and fun connects them in a story about how friendship can change the world.

(2012, Dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner. DCP, color, 80 min.)

Family Flicks: Ernest & Celestine

*Legacy* is the story of Bissie Hapgood, a woman unraveling under the pressures of a vapid and materialistic society consumed with dinner-plate settings, soap operas and sexual frustration. The material originated as a one-woman show in 1973, written and performed by Joan Hotchkis, a versatile talent celebrated for her roles on television series including *The Odd Couple *and *The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts*. Karen Arthur, a first-time filmmaker, saw Hotchkis on stage and convinced the actor to adapt the screenplay and star in the film. Independently produced and financed, *Legacy*, like its peers *Wanda* (1970) and *A **Woman Under the Influence *(1974), confounds 1970s Hollywood’s expectations with the introduction of a new kind of cinematic woman. Bissie stuns audiences with her honesty that is confrontational, yet heartfelt and a vulnerability that is never sentimental and always surprising.

*Legacy* features an exceptional crew at the start of what would become a set of accomplished careers. Arthur, who would go on to direct *The Mafu Cage* (1978) and become a prolific television director, winning an Emmy Award for *Cagney & Lacey*, collaborated with cinematographer John Bailey (*Ordinary People*, 1980, *In the Line of Fire*, 1993) and editor Carol Littleton (*E.T.*, 1982, *The Manchurian Candidate*, 2004).

*Note written by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler.*

Special thanks to our community partners: [American Film Institute](https://www.afi.com/), ***[Women In Media](https://womennmedia.com/)***, [UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center](https://csw.ucla.edu/) 

Director/Producer: Karen Arthur. Screenwriter: Joan Hotchkis. With: Joan Hotchkis.

Legacy

Join us for a night of music featuring performances by Escape-ism, Tunde Adebimpe, Smooth Jas (solo), and Mo0d, the last show at our 1200 N Alvarado address!

Escape-ism, Tunde Adebimpe, Smooth Jas (solo), Mo0d

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*In French with English subtitles.*

*“We are now moving through a very bleak period in human history – where the conjunction of Post Modernist cynicism (eliminating humanistic and critical thinking in the education system), sheer greed engendered by the consumer society sweeping many people under its wing, human, economic and environmental catastrophe in the form of globalization, massively increased suffering and exploitation of the people of the so-called Third World, as well as the mind-numbing conformity and standardization caused by the systematic audiovisualization of the planet have synergistically created a world where ethics, morality, human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) are considered “old fashioned.” Where excess and economic exploitation have become the norm – to be taught even to children. In such a world as this, what happened in Paris in the spring of 1871 represented (and still represents) the idea of commitment to a struggle for a better world, and of the need for some form of collective social Utopia – which WE now need as desperately as dying people need plasma. The notion of a film showing this commitment was thus born.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: France

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**DEKALOG: FIVE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 60 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind

FORMAT: DCP

**DEKALOG: SIX, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 61 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

**DEKALOG, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Janus Films, Poland**

This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the twentieth century’s greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, DEKALOG focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth and the passage of time. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, DEKALOG arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives.

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘Krzysztof Kieślowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DEKALOG: FIVE & SIX

The US theatrical premiere of the beautiful restoration of a long-buried gem of Estonian cinema — a vibrant celebration of childhood wonder

COLOURFUL DREAMS (1974) — US Premiere of Gorgeous New Restoration!

Berk and Bourgeois present: a 60th anniversary celebration of Revolver and Pet Sounds!

LA's finest singer/songwriters join forces to celebrate the birthdays of Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson by performing two of their classic works in their entirety.

Doors at 7pm

$12 in adv / $15 at the door

Advance tickets available  here !

Revolver and Pet Sounds

**Screenwriters**: Roger Allers,  Ron Clements, and John Musker from the story by Hans Christian Anderson

**Producers**: Howard Ashman,  John Musker

*Darling it&#8217;s better down where it&#8217;s wetter! *Vidiots is headed under the sea for a sing-along of titan proportions with one of the most beloved Disney movies of the 1980s. Get ready to belt it out to your favorite tunes like &#8220;Part of Your World&#8221; &#8220;Poor Unfortunate Souls&#8221; and the Oscar-winning &#8220;Under the Sea&#8221; with your underwater friends like Ariel and Sebastian, and your underwater enemies like the evil sea witch Ursula &#8211; originally fashioned after drag superstar Divine. This eternal fairytale is as enchanting 35 years later as it ever was, so dive in with us to an ocean of musical fun!

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

The Little Mermaid Sing-Along

**Screenwriter**: Shinobu Hashimoto

**Producer**: Tatsuo Hosoya

Director Masaki Kobayashi delivers a samurai movie like no other with this provocative drama, which dares to examine the dire consequences of blindly obeying authority. In 17th-century Japan, masterless samurai Tsugumo Hanshiro (Tatsuya Nakadai) asks the powerful Iyi clan if he can commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of their estate, but clan elder Saito (Rentaro Mikuni) suspects he’s just another beggar looking for money. When Saito forces him to go through with the ceremony, Tsugomo tells the clan the shocking story of how the heartlessness of the samurai code destroyed his life. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, *Harakiri* is a timeless meditation on the difficulty of holding on to one’s humanity in the face of a cruel and unjust system.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our massive Samurai section to take home tons of bad-ass action!

The Complete *Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, Sword of Doom, Chushingura*

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

Harakiri

**Producers**: Ro Haber,  Caryn Capotosto

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome filmmaker **Ro Haber** along with comedy icons **Julia Sweeney **and** Harper Steele** for an extra special screening of the massively entertaining, endearing, and thought-provoking documentary ***We Are Pat***!

*We Are Pat* explores the evolution of gender identity and comedy from the ‘90s to the present day through the lens of the iconic *Saturday Night Live* sketch, *It’s Pat*. The film examines Pat’s origins as a joke rooted in the cultural anxiety of the ‘90s around gender while drawing striking parallels to today’s culture wars around transness and queerness. Trans and non-binary comedians and culture-makers reimagine and rewrite the original Pat sketches, using camp and humor to reclaim and re-envision an iconic character in American comedy. The film explores humor as both a tool of oppression and a radical force for change. Beyond comedy, *We Are Pat* raises complex questions: How does art age? What responsibility does a creator have as cultural values evolve? Can we reclaim narratives that once mocked us, transforming pain into laughter, visibility, and ultimately, our own creations? With the laugh, cry, cheer trifecta, this magnificent documentary will give you all the feels!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more fabulous queer documentaries on DVD tonight!

*Wigstock: The Movie, The Joy of Life, Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community*

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

We Are Pat

The Wild Party

**Screening Starts**: LAST  HERE AT 2514 SUNSET BLVD!

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What if *The Evil Dead* was reimagined as a forgotten, mid-level horror paperback that you found at a thriftstore for 25 cents? That’s sort of the vibe of *Forever Evil*. Punching above its weight, this ambitious 1987 Texas horror epic combines heavy metal album cover special effects, off-brand Lovecraft mythos, and a novelesque plot into something uncannily familiar–it’s a film you feel you’ve seen even when watching it for the first time.

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Is it too long? For some. Is it too boring? Maybe for the weak of heart. Does it feel birthed from some greater cosmic video store consciousness directly on to a VHS tape? Yes. Hence it’s the perfect movie to send the Whammy! Analog Media faithful onto bigger and better things!

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Join crap lovers and film critics, Sarah Fensom and Chris Shields, for a glimpse of low-budget nirvana in a film that teaches you to never trust a real estate agent. There will be trivia, prizes, and maybe even an original song!

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All hail Yog Kothag!

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**dir. Roger Evans, 1987***United States, VHS projection*107 min

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$10 general admission. Sign in to your membership at checkout for member discounts. Don't have a membership? Get one [here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership).

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

FOREVER EVIL (1987) on VHS! [last screening at 2514 Sunset!]

WHAMMY!

Whisper of the Heart

The Hitch-Hiker

Shakespeare&#8217;s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After a rollercoaster crash at a California amusement park, safety inspector Harry Calder (George Segal) soon realizes a psychopath is sabotaging rides across to country to black mail the multinational corporations that own the parks. Now Calder must figure out which park the mad bomber is targeting on the Fourth of July. Originally presented in Sensurround and part of Universal Pictures disaster film cycle including the likes of EARTHQUAKE, ROLLERCOASTER features a solid cast including Timothy Bottoms, Susan Strasberg, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and the band SPARKS in a show stopping live performance at Magic Mountain.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents ROLLERCOASTER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles.*

A small peasant village’s struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

New Restoration ‘Youssef Chahine: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE LAND

Born to Kill / The Set-Up

Now Instant and [Rotations](https://rotations-la.net/) present a special screening of Caroline Golum’s *Revelations of Divine Love*, accompanied by Ioanna Filippopoulou’s *Three Mystics*, followed by a post-screening conversation with actress Tessa Strain and Molly Lambert.

Revelations of Divine Love

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriters**: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.

**Producer**: Charles Brackett

*I&#8217;m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille*. One of Hollywood&#8217;s most enduring classics, Billy Wilder&#8217;s *Sunset Boulevard *stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who thinks he can squeeze an aging and forgotten silent star (the glorious Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond), but learns he&#8217;s getting much more than he bargained for. Wryly funny, with memorable performances and endlessly quotable dialogue, there&#8217;s a reason this film is widely regarded as the best movie about Hollywood ever made. Don your turban and cigarette holder and spend your New Year&#8217;s Eve with Vidiots and Norma Desmond!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

Sunset Boulevard

**Screenwriter**: Robert Alan Arthur, Bob Fosse

**Producer**: Robert Alan Arthur

It&#8217;s Showtime Folks! Bob Fosse only made a handful of films (in between revolutionizing the world of dance), and while all are impressive, none deliver as much razzle-dazzle as this seminal semi-autobiographical masterpiece. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of his craft as one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him &#8211; his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going. Winner of the Palme d&#8217;Or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 9 Academy Awards, *All That Jazz* is a musical like no other and a cinematic triumph on every level.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Fosse tonight, from brutal true crime to cheeky musicals &#8211; there&#8217;s no bad film from Bob Fosse!

*Star 80, Lenny, Sweet Charity*

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

All That Jazz

Acropolis Cinema presents *Escape* (Dir. Masao Adachi, 2025).

A contemporary of Nagisa Ōshima and Kōji Wakamatsu, Masao Adachi has spent more than six decades as a revolutionary figure on both cinematic and political stages. These personal histories are brilliantly distilled in his biopic of Japanese terrorist Satoshi Kirishima, who, as one of the country’s most wanted men, successfully evaded capture for nearly 50 years before revealing his true identity on his deathbed. Kirishima’s remarkable, often troubling life—from anarchist activities to a new existence under an assumed name, all the while driven by guilt for failing to fulfill his vocation—is told through a dazzling mix of archival footage, staged recreations, and outright fantasy that allows Adachi to trace a history of resistance and terror in Japan. The performances from Kanji Furutachi and Rairu Sugita convey lifetimes of idealism and regret (NYFF, Film at Lincoln Center)

Acropolis Cinema: Masao Adachi's Escape (2025)

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 5, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 58 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Case files.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 6, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 58 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Don’t die.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, 2017, Paramount, USA**

Directed entirely by David Lynch, this 18-part limited event series picks up 25 years after the residents of a quaint northwestern American town were stunned when their homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, was shockingly murdered. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is written and executive produced by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and is executive produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland.

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 5 & 6

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Web,” 1956, Dir. Peter Watkins, 20 Mins, UK**

A reconstruction of the Allied landing in occupied France during the Second World War.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE GLADIATORS, 1968, Dir. Peter Watkins, 105 Mins, Sweden**

*In English, Cantonese, French, German and Swedish with English subtitles.*

*“The growing professional isolation which followed the banning of THE WAR GAME, as well as the vicious critical attacks on PRIVILEGE made me rather inclined to leave the UK. I was finally able to do so, and began what became permanent exile from my own country, when I was approached by Sandrews in Stockholm. Sandrews was a major cinema distributor and at that time a production company (they were producing two films by Susan Sontag); they had just premiered THE WAR GAME in Stockholm, and offered to produce any film I chose to make. Nicholas Gosling, a young writer, joined me in developing a script for what became my second feature film. THE GLADIATORS is a bleak satire set in the near future, in which the major powers of the world, East and West, aligned and non-aligned, recognize the possibility of a major world war within our lifetime, and try to forestall it by channeling man’s aggressive instincts in a more controllable manner. They do this by forming an International Commission along the lines of the United Nations, dedicated to fighting a series of contests between teams of selected soldiers from each country. These competitions, which can be fought to the death, are called ‘Peace Games’, and are broadcast on global television via satellite – complete with sponsors and commercials. The film follows Game 256, which is being ‘played’ in the International Peace Game Centre near Stockholm, under the controlling eye of a highly sophisticated computer, hired out to the International Commission by the (neutral) Swedish Army. The international group of officers watching Game 256 decide to eliminate a man and a woman from opposing teams who reach out to each other, because they decide that such forms of communication would be the gravest threat of all to the stability of the existing world-system.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

"The Web" / THE GLADIATORS

**Screenwriter:** Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon from the short story by Stephen King

**Producers: **Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, Andrew Scheinman

Bring your gang for Rob Reiner&#8217;s beloved tale of friendship adapted from the short story by Stephen King. In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends — sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O&#8217;Connell) — are in search of a missing teenager&#8217;s body. Wanting to be heroes in each other&#8217;s and their hometown&#8217;s eyes, they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. They sneak smokes, tell tall tales, cuss &#8217;cause it&#8217;s cool, and band together when the going gets tough. When they encounter the town&#8217;s knife-wielding hoods who are also after the body, the boys discover a strength they never knew they had. One of the most enduring childhood films of the 1980s, this classic never gets old!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

Stand by Me (1986)

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producers**: Agustín Almodóvar,  Pedro Almodóvar

Weaving stories within stories, fictions within truths, and layers upon layers, this meta masterpiece from maestro Almodóvar is an essential and torturous melodrama of young queer love, clerical overreach, gender transformation, and the creative transformation from fact to fiction.  Gael García Bernal stars in this mind and gender-bending cine-novela as a trans drag performer out to reunite with her old flame from her Catholic school days and sell him on a film that looks a lot like her life. But blackmail, double crosses, and secret identities and histories drag everyone into a web of power, seduction, and making a film within a film. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see this masterpiece on glorious celluloid!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Our Almodóvar section has it all &#8211; from his dark comedies, to his psycho-sexual thrillers, to his tangled melodramas! Try these masterful deep cuts!

*Dark Habits, Matador, Pepi, Luci, Bom Y Otras Chicas del Monton*

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

Bad Education on 35mm

Galaxy Quest in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper. After Roger Thornhill, an innocent man, is mistaken for a wanted fugitive he is pursued across North America by a pair of espionage agents trying to kill him, as well as by police who suspect him of murder.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

NORTH BY NORTHWEST in 70mm

### **ABOUT THE EVENT: **

*In Swedish with English subtitles.*

When a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

THE MAN ON THE ROOF

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador,” 1991, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 4 Mins, Amnesty International, France/Belgium/Switzerland**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Commissioned by Amnesty International for its TV program Ecrire contre l’oubli (Write Against Oblivion), Akerman’s contribution in the form of a poem is dedicated to Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, an El Salvadorian trade unionist and mother of three, murdered by the US-backed junta. Deneuve emerges from the calm of a Parisian night to deliver a heartfelt plea for remembrance of Febe Elisabeth’s too short life. Sonia Wieder-Atherton’s cello weeps appropriately.

FORMAT: DCP

**FROM THE OTHER SIDE, 2012, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 99 Mins, Icarus Films, Belgium**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

With her unmistakable style Chantal Akerman explores the border between the United States and Mexico.

For years immigrants passed through San Diego, but cutting-edge technologies have helped stem the flow of illegal immigration there. This leaves only the mountains and deserts of Arizona for those desperate enough to try their luck. And it is here that Akerman shifts her focus, between Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona and the desert in between.

FORMAT: DCP

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

“For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador” / FROM THE OTHER SIDE

**Screenwriters**: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

**Producer**: Joel Silver

Lily and Lana Wachowski’s ground-breaking science fiction parable set the standard for both action movies and Science Fiction films for years to come with its innovative visuals and one-of-a-kind fight choreography. Set in the 22nd century, *The Matrix* tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers that now rule the earth. So, take your blue pills and join us for some futuristic fun.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

The Matrix (1999)

Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller narrates this cinematic adaptation of Robert Macfarlane&#8217;s bestselling book, *Underland*. The documentary voyages into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes to explore the world beneath our feet. One not of fear and darkness, but rather of knowledge and wonder that can be found nowhere else. Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside several ‘astronauts of the underworld’ into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe. *Underland* dives deep into the Earth to present a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on this fragile surface.

&#8220;*Underland* serves to draw the viewer completely into the compelling, unnerving, alluring void.&#8221;

—SCREEN

&#8220;An immersive sensory experience, complete with ethereal cinematography and intricate sound design, to take you into worlds unknown.&#8221;

—MOVEABLE FEST

&#8220;Robert Petit&#8217;s thrilling, unnerving documentary plays like a sprawling epic about the scope of human existence.&#8221;

—OBSERVER

&#8220;[&#8230;] It is at once [a] sensorial, philosophical experiences to be had, preferably in a darkened theater.&#8221;

—ScreenAnarchy

&#8220;*Underland* isn&#8217;t merely notable for its ability to capture abject darkness&#8230;but for its stellar soundscape that whirrs, drones, hums and echoes, almost replicating the sensitivity one&#8217;s ears achieve when the light suddenly vanishes.&#8221;

—FILMMAKER MAGAZINE

Underland

**Screenwriters**: Lee Hall, Tom Hooper from the stage play by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the book by T.S. Elliot

**Producers**: Debra Hayward,  Tim Bevan,  Eric Fellner

*Meow*! You are cordially invited to the feline ball to end it all when Vidiots goes full Jellicle with a special screening of the all-star furry film meowiscal bonanza *Cats*!  No one thought this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical could ever make the leap to the big screen, but thanks to CGI fur suits, and a cast that includes Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, and Jason Derulo, the world has been gifted the magic of one of the most outlandishly surreal head trips in cinema. You know the songs, you know the actors, you know the composers, but are you ready to roll down our furry pink carpet and experience this cinematic spectacle the way it was meant to be seen &#8211; Big and Loud and with a Crowd, because *jellicles can and jellicles DO!*

Doors will open at 6:00pm and there will be feline delights before and after the screening with **live DJ sets**, **themed libations** and plenty of warm fuzzy Vidiots meowgic throughout the evening. Come dressed to impress &#8211; whether that&#8217;s your best ballgown or your best Rum Tum Tugger bodysuit, we will have a **costume contest** after the screening!

Tuesday, 6/16

Brain Dead Studios

Obsession

8:00 PM

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Los Feliz Theatre

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1 & 2

7:00 PM

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CRISS CROSS

10:00 PM

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New Beverly Cinema

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Roman Holiday

7:30 PM

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