2220 presents a special one-nite Valentine's Week screening of Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 German silhouette animation silent film THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED, the oldest surviving feature length animated film on its 100th anniversary year, with a live score by NYC's MORRICONE YOUTH!

Lotte Reiniger’s astonishing 1926 adaptation of tales from “One Thousand and One Nights”, THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED is the first feature length animated film, using striking silhouette cutouts and gorgeous color tinting to bring to life the story of an Arabian prince who is whisked away on a flying horse to an enchanted land where he tangles with an evil sorcerer, rescues a princess, and joins forces with none other than Aladdin.

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**Morricone Youth** is a collective of New York City musicians founded in 1999 reinterpreting 100+ film and television works all over the world, from CBGB's and the top of the World Trade Center to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, MassMoCA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Sydney Festival, as well as supporting Italian prog soundtrack legends Goblin on their 2017 North American tour.

Morricone Youth's *The Adventures of Prince Achmed* EP was composed for a live scoring of Lotte Reiniger's 1926 German animation silent film classic, first performed live at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2012. Morricone Youth's original reworked live film score for *The Adventures of Prince Achmed* had a vinyl release in 2016 distributed via Light In The Attic Records.

Morricone Youth live scores The Adventures of Prince Achmed

2220 Arts + Archives

The Wizard of Oz in 4K

Daughters of the Dust in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, TRAIN DREAMS—now nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Original Song—is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century.

An ode to a vanishing way of life, an ever-evolving world and to the extraordinary possibilities that exist within even the most simple of existences, TRAIN DREAMS captures a time and place that are now long gone, and the people who built a bridge to a future they could only dream of.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with director & co-writer Clint Bentley, cinematographer Adolpho Veloso and co-writer Greg Kwedar Special edition poster giveaway

TRAIN DREAMS in 35mm

Aero Theatre

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation

Frankenstein

Robert Grainer, an average man living in extraordinary times, worked as a day laborer in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century. Battered by the death of his family, he struggles to adjust to this new environment.

Train Dreams

Egyptian Theatre

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

Widely regarded as the greatest motion picture ever made, Citizen Kane tops the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time. Orson Welles' groundbreaking 1941 debut remains a towering achievement in cinema – innovative, daring, and endlessly influential. STUDENTS FREE with valid ID.

This unique screening will be 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.

    Conversations about Citizen Kane and its lasting impact
    Inside stories from the unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show
    Personal memories that reveal Welles' humor, charm, and presence

WEDNESDAY WITH WELLES

Fine Arts Theatre

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

Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. Today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against time.

LATE SHIFT (2026)(NR)(Wed 2/11) 2:30p 4:45p 7:00p

Gardena Cinema

“What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” edited by Udo Kittelmann, is a sweeping odyssey into the depths of human experience, unfolding through film and video. Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the U.S., this audiovisual poem experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.

Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines. It dissolves the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.

“What a Wonderful World” presents a wide range of groundbreaking works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, or Lu Yang, alongside cinematic milestones by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. Together, these works form a panoramic and layered portrait of humanity and history across 120 years: altogether ironic, sincere, critical and compassionate.

“What a Wonderful World” will unfold as an explorative journey, a cinematic mystery tour, a soul-stirring experience. It invites visitors to confront the secrets and fragilities of humanity while holding up a mirror to the state of the world today.

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

Julia Stoschek Foundation at the Variety Arts Theater

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and French with English subtitles.*

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment. Over six months, they co-created *In-I*, an intense, boundary-pushing performance they would go on to stage 100 times around the world.

Today, Juliette Binoche returns to that intimate journey. From the first spark of inspiration to the final applause, she retraces the emotional and creative arc of a singular collaboration. Drawing on dozens of hours of previously unseen footage, she reflects, as a filmmaker, on the nature of artistic creation, the vulnerability and exhilaration of taking risks and the personal transformation they demand.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: mk2 Films

COUNTRY: France

Q&A with filmmaker and actor Juliette Binoche L.A. Premiere

IN-I IN MOTION

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Thai with English subtitles.*

March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cineverse

COUNTRY: Thailand

A USEFUL GHOST

Los Feliz Theatre

In the Realm of the Senses / The Blood Spattered Bride

New Beverly Cinema

It&#8217;s that time of year again! Love is in the air and romance is on everyone&#8217;s mind. Romance and&#8230; SEX! But before you spend your Valentine&#8217;s Day in amorous pursuits, we&#8217;re cracking open the 16mm vaults to bring you a program of scandalous seventies sex ed primers, antiquated VD scare films, vintage burlesque, and even a naughty cartoon all on 16mm film! Films include the laughably frank *A Family Talks About Sex* (1977), a notorious VD cartoon from the mouse himself, and some sexy stripteases and soundies from yesteryear. Step back in time and learn all about the birds and bees from the days of yore &#8211; entirely on 16mm celluloid.

Featuring:

***A Family Talks About Sex*** (Color, 1977)

As their children are growing, one family (who mysteriously keeps morphing into different people, but with the same names) learns how to talk to their children about sex throughout their childhood and adolescence. What starts with frank words for genitalia and reprimanding fondling in public, turns into discussions on wet dreams, menstruation, pornography, and contraception. Magnificently cringey and massively laughable. **Back by audience demand!

Sweet 16mm: Sexual Edutainment

**Producer**: Louis Massiah

Co-Presented by community programming partners **BlackStar Projects** and featuring a conversation with director and producer **Louis Massiah,** moderated by **Courtney R. Baker** &#8211; Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside.

Author, educator, activist, and documentary filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara, with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. Editor of the breakthrough anthology *The Black Woman *(1970)* *and author of *The Salt Eaters *(1980) among other acclaimed works*, *Bambara came to Philadelphia and worked with Louis Massiah on the truth-telling documentary *The Bombing of Osage Avenue *(1986) and remained an activist and cultural worker in film and literature until her untimely death in 1995. *TCB &#8211; The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing* (2025, 105 min.) is a testament to their long and generative collaboration.

Massiah’s film, directed with and edited by Monica Henriquez, is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara&#8217;s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Not yet widely released, the film received its world premiere opening night at [BlackStar Film Festival](https://www.blackstarfest.org/festival/) in August, where it was awarded Best Feature Documentary by the jury, voted Favorite Feature Documentary by the audience, and called “riveting” by *Variety.*  Featuring: Toni Morrison, Nikky Finney, Haile Gerima, Shirikiana Aina, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Manthia Diawara, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Malaika Adero, Linda Holmes, Conor Tomás Reed, Makeba Lavan and Clyde Taylor.

**About Louis Massiah**

Louis Massiah’s award-winning documentaries include *The Bombing of Osage Avenue* (1986); *W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices* (1996), two episodes of the PBS series *Eyes on the Prize II* (1987), and *A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown* (2002). Recipient of many accolades, including a duPont-Columbia Award, a Peabody, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and a local Emmy for his coverage of the MOVE Commission Hearings, Massiah is founder and director of [Scribe Video Center](https://scribe.org/), a leading Philadelphia-based nonprofit media arts center that seeks to explore, develop, and advance media as art and tool for progressive social change. From 2010-2012, Massiah served as the Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College, and he received an Honorary Doctor of Arts in 2024.

**About BlackStar Projects**

BlackStar Projects creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown and Indigenous artists working outside the confines of genre. Beyond the annual film festival the organization produces year-round programs, including film screenings, exhibitions, a filmmaker seminar, a film production lab and a journal of film, art and visual culture. BlackStar is working towards a liberatory world in which a vast spectrum of Black, Brown and Indigenous experiences is irresistibly celebrated in arts and culture.

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

TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing

Vidiots

The Man Who Laughs/Mad Love

Sinners (70mm)

Vista Theatre

Mezzanine presents REMOVAL OF THE EYE, directed by Prashanth Kamalakanthan and Artemis Shaw.

2025, U.S., 92m.

L.A. premiere screening, followed by a Q&A with actor-writer-directors Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan.

"Funny and personal... a manic mix of post-millennial humor and urban-romantic anxiety." -Film Comment

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The brilliant husband-and-wife-duo of Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan (of LAFM 2024 selection NEW STRAINS) bring new dimensions to the home-movie with their hilarious sophomore feature, a punch-drunk exploration of the anxieties and rituals of new parenthood.

Set in a high-rise apartment, Ph.D student Kallia and fledgling-rapper Ram (Shaw and Kamalakanthan) endure sleepless nights with their newborn baby, while Kallia’s mother (who lives one floor below) looks to end their problems with a Greek rite of passage: to exorcise their family from the evil eye. With a Cassavetes-like inclination to turn the camera on themselves and their loved ones—including their actual baby and parents—Shaw and Kamalakanthan’s fearless, intimate comedy establishes them among the freshest and most inventive young American filmmakers working today.

Official Selection: 2024 Rotterdam International Film Festival, New/Next Film Festival

Special thanks to Andrew Adair (Cinema Conservancy).

Mezzanine: Removal of the Eye (2025)

Bramayugam

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Norwegian, English and Swedish with English subtitles.*

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: Norway/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/UK

Q&A with filmmaker Joachim Trier and actor Stellan Skarsgård ‘Stellan Skarsgård: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Grieving hairdresser Justice travels from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.

POETIC JUSTICE (1993)(R) Thu 2/12: 7:30pm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon Studios

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor and producer Timothée Chalamet. Moderated by Elle Fanning. ‘TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET LIVE: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

BEAUTIFUL BOY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME, a defining work of the year, is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by actor and producer Timothée Chalamet ‘TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET LIVE: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

MARTY SUPREME

Pretty Maids All In A Row / High School Girl

Just in time for Valentine's Day, a rare theatrical screening of selections from 5 decades of Wendy Clarke's monumental video project!

Wendy Clarke's LOVE TAPES – Rare Screening of the Monumental Video Project!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Alexi Wasser

**Producers**: Alexi Wasser,  Rebekah Sherman-Myntti,  KJ Rothweiler

The Vidiots microcinema is about to get a little filthy and absolutely absurd when we welcome writer/director/producer/star **Alexi Wasser** for two special screenings of her ridiculous sex comedy *Messy*.

Burned out on the rom com onslaught of Valentine&#8217;s? We&#8217;ve got the raunchy antidote for you &#8211; Alexi Wasser&#8217;s nympho-manic romp of sex, love, and delusion in the city! Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer. Laugh out loud funny, *Messy* made John Waters&#8217; list of favorite films of the year (2024). Ditch your date and bring all your besties for Wasser&#8217;s debut cult classic in the making!

Conversation with **Alexi Wasser** to follow the screening, moderated by **Cazzie David** on Thursday and **Karley Sciorentino** on Friday!

Messy

**Screenwriters**: Christopher Landon,  Phillip Murphy,  Michael Kennedy

**Producers**: Christopher Landon,  Greg Gilreath,  Adam Hendricks

Vidiots is terrified to welcome Director and Founding Member **Josh Ruben** for a special screening of the bloodiest rom com ever &#8211; *Heart Eyes, *followed by a conversation with Ruben and Writer **Michael Kennedy,** Actors **Jordana Brewster** (Detective Jeanine Shaw) and **Gigi Zumbado** (Monica), and Mask Designer **Tony Gardner.**

If you&#8217;re looking for a romantic date movie that&#8217;s soaked in buckets of blood, have we got the screening for your Valentine&#8217;s Day countdown! When the &#8220;Heart Eyes Killer&#8221; strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine&#8217;s Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives. A deliriously fun mash up of rom coms and slashers, this gorerrific love story has got something for everyone!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more Valentine&#8217;s horror? Check out these bangers from our video rental collection!

*My Bloody Valentine, Cupid, Trouble Every Day*

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

Heart Eyes

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

More information at: https://slamdance.com/festival/

Slamdance 2026

Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi in Dolby Vision

Apollo 13 in 4K

### NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2025)

*Run Time:* 95 minutes

Nine years in the making, *Numbskull Revolution* is Moritsugu at his most

epic, abrasive, and fully realized. A savage sci-fi satire set in a near-future

art-world dystopia, the film follows rival conceptual artists (Amy Davis and

James Duval) locked in a spiral of ambition, addiction, and ideological collapse.
Brutalist, hilarious, and unexpectedly raw — a maximalist cinematic overload.

### MY DEGENERATION (1989)

*Run Time:* 61 minutes

One of Moritsugu’s earliest features, *My Degeneration* is pure no-wave

cinema: feral, funny, and aggressively anti-polite. Shot on a shoestring and

fueled by punk nihilism, the film skewers youth culture, authority, and identity

with lo-fi fury and total disregard for good taste.
A foundational entry in Moritsugu’s anarchic filmography.

**Plus: an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Jon Moritsugu moderated by Alex Gootter of Hollywood Entertainment!**

Numbskull Revolution & My Degeneration

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

Presented in partnership with Eastman Museum, L.A. Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by Wesley Greene. ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

One of David Lean’s rare leanings into comedy, BLITHE SPIRIT is the classic adaptation of Noel Coward’s smash-hit theater piece starring Rex Harrison (MY FAIR LADY) as a novelist who cheekily invites spirit medium Margaret Rutherford (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST) to his house for a séance, hoping the experience will help inspire his current book project. Things go haywire, though, when she summons the spirit of Harrison’s deceased first wife…a severe inconvenience for his current second wife! With Technicolor panache and effective Forties special effects, BLITHE SPIRIT will thaw the cold heart of any cinema cynic.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: UK

Print courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

BLITHE SPIRIT on Nitrate

Loose Frames presents an evening of various funny, experimental, and evocative animated shorts. There will be a short Q&A with the filmmakers before the screening begins.

Loose Frames Community Shots Screening

Heavy Manners Library

Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.

Dive into a powerful educational series bridging generations through film, dialogue, and lessons on critical media literacy. Curated and facilitated by legendary KAOS Network founder Ben Caldwell, L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin, and LACMA assistant curator of film Matazi Weathers, this series spotlights bold works by local filmmakers, featuring surprise guest appearances and unfiltered conversations on the role of storytelling in shaping cultural consciousness, both locally and globally. 

Co-presented by KAOS Network and LACMA’s Aspect Ratio.

KAOS/LACMA Cultural Literacy Collider

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

Clémenti’s penultimate screen role, for Portuguese iconoclast João César Monteiro, is a catalyst within a narrative hall of mirrors with a theatrical company fanatically rehearsing August Strindberg’s Inferno at its center. Featuring multiple timelines, a battle of wills between God and Lucifer, an obsession with John Wayne’s swaggering pelvis, and a dedication to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, the film is equal parts majestic and perverse, as Monteiro teeters to the edge of theatrical abstraction. For Clémenti, who fully retreated from the film industry in the 1980s—pouring his energy into theater, his own films, radio programs, and even acting in student projects at La Fémis—Le Bassin ’s auteurist rigors were a return to an earlier time. “You have to know how to disappear to be reborn,” he told Les Inrocks in 1998, “My encounter with Monteiro was magnificent […], with him, it was like with [Luis] Buñuel: we understand each other instinctively, without even speaking.” This renaissance was, tragically, also a swan song. That year, Clémenti was diagnosed with liver cancer, from which he passed away in 1999 at age 57.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal/France

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘João César Monteiro: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE HIPS OF J.W.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An ex-cop discovers that his brother’s recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city’s porno movie scene.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘Watch Local: Hollywood Center Motel’

HIT MAN

Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days  / The Autobiography of a Flea

The Fireworks Woman

Menelik Shabazz & D. Elmina Davis' 1988 documentaries, part of Black Revivalist and Cushy Collective's day of Caribbean films fundraiser!

TIME & JUDGEMENT: DIARY OF A 400 YEAR EXILE + OMEGA RISING —Double Feature!

Menelik Shabazz & Horace Ové’s debut feature films, part of Black Revivalist and Cushy Collective's day of Caribbean films fundraiser!

BURNING AN ILLUSION (1981) + PRESSURE (1976) — Double Feature!

**Screenwriters**: Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers

**Producer**: Dana Leigh Murray

*Life is full of possibilities. You just need to know where to look. Don&#8217;t miss out on the joys of life*. Jamie Foxx leads an all-star voice cast &#8211; including Tina Fey, Richard Ayoade, Angela Bassett, and Questlove &#8211; as Joe, a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn&#8217;t quite gone the way he expected. With his beloved piano, his true passion is Jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul. A beautiful and poignant film to remind everyone to seek out their spark and find the joy in the little things in life. 

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Got little music lovers in your house?

*School of Rock, Make Mine Music, Fantasia*

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

Soul

**Producers**: Jessica Hargrave,  Ryan White,  Tig Notaro,  Stef Willen

Join us in the microcinema for Ryan White&#8217;s poignant Academy Award nominated documentary *Come See Me in the Good Light.* An emotional and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Come See Me in the Good Light

**Screenwriter**: A.V. Rockwell

**Producers**: Eddie Vaisman,  Julia Lebedev,  Lena Waithe,  Rishi Rajani,  Brad Weston

Behold the force of nature that is Teyana Taylor in her breakthrough performance in A.V. Rockwell&#8217;s gripping and tender story of Black motherhood. Taylor plays Inez, a single mother playing by her own rules in 1990s New York. Forced to kidnap her own child from foster care after a stint in Rikers, the ground beneath their very feet threatens to collapse at every turn, even as her son and family grows. Moving, powerful, and touching, this portrait of family life in an unjust society comes alive with dynamic performances, evocative cinematography, and the perfect Quincy-Jonesesque soundtrack.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love Vintage NYC? Take home a slice of the Big Apple tonight!

*Variety, The Last Days of Disco, Crooklyn*

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

A Thousand and One

**Screenwriter**: Jessica Bendinger

**Producers**: Marc Abraham,  Thomas A. Bliss

*That&#8217;s all right. That&#8217;s OK! You&#8217;re gonna pump our gas someday! *The rivalry is on for two San Diego high school cheer teams and the battle is going to be petty! You know you can&#8217;t resist this trash-talking, high-flying, cat-fighting classic of Millennial cinema, so bring your squad to Vidiots to watch the cheer championships of the century and root for your favorite shady moment, bitchy dig, and high-kicking routine!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a girly teen flick? Check out these slumber party classics tonight!

*Girls Just Want to Have Fun, The Legend of Billie Jean, Slums of Beverly Hills*

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

Bring It On

**Screenwriter**: Michael Almereyda

**Producers**: Mary Sweeney,  Amy Hobby

With a special introduction from writer/director **Michael Almereyda** before Saturday&#8217;s screening!

Join us in the microcinema for the new restoration of Michael Almereyda&#8217;s gorgeous vampiric slow burn *Nadja*. Merging elements from *Dracula&#8217;s Daughter* (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel *Nadja* (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim&#8217;s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch. Breathtaking, ethereal, and magnificently ponderous, this undead indie treasure is a timeless unsung genre triumph.

**Restoration Info ******

The original Director’s Cut of NADJA was digitally restored by Arbelos and Grasshopper Film from the only extant element, the 35mm answer print—the version of the film that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994, three minutes longer than the commercial release. Laboratory services by OCN Labs, Five Seventy Films, Ben Gilbert Films, David Ferron and Blackhawk Films. Special thanks to Michael Almereyda and Absurda.

Nadja

**Screenwriter**: Terri Tatchell

**Producers**: Peter Jackson,  Carolynne Cunningham

Science fiction and social satire blend in this brilliant commentary on xenophobia and Apartheid, cloaked in the guise of a highly entertaining extraterrestrial action film. Thirty years after a group of malnourished aliens arrive on Earth as a last refuge, they are all segregated away from humans in a South African internment camp while the government runs inhumane tests on them and tries to steal their technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9. Now part-man, part alien, he is out to expose the government&#8217;s treatment of the aliens and fight for beings from all planets.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more science fiction that resonates with the times?

*Fahrenheit 451, Starship Troopers, The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale*

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

District 9

Fast Company

Salesman/Glengarry Glen Ross

The Bride of Frankenstein

Sound of Metal

Contact in 35mm

Amores Perros in 4K with Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

Daisies

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Solaris

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The glorious epic style of Cecil B. DeMille is exemplified in this story of the Bible’s legendary strongman and the woman who seduces, then betrays him. Victor Mature is the classic Samson, muscular and fearless in his barehanded battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, his struggle with a giant, and the spectacular Old Testament climax where he pulls down the pagan temple. The enormous cast and the splendor of the production adds to the spectacle. And Delilah, the irresistible lady with the scissors, is brought to seductive life by lovely Hedy Lamarr.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Print from the collection of the Library of Congress ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

SAMSON AND DELILAH on Nitrate

IN PERSON Cinematographer Kees Van Oostrum, Writer/Director Ron Maxwell and other guests to be announced.                                                                          The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels

GETTYSBURG

During the Greek Civil War fought between 1946-1949, childhood itself became a frontline in the clash between government and rebel forces. Under the guise of offering protection and education, the Greek government enticed parents to surrender their children to a system of Childcare Cities that served as indoctrination mills that oftentimes alienated their wards from their own families. In her riveting, visually striking adaptation of the memoir of Greek writer Giannis Atzakas, writer-director Eleni Alexandrakis tells the searing story of Atzakas and his experience growing up in these harsh institutions all the while unable to shake the memory of his rebel father and his longing for — and aversion to — a reunion.

DCP. Director: Eleni Alexandrakis. Screenwriters: Eleni Alexandrakis, Panagiotis Evangelidis. With: Philippos Milikas , Marios-Konstantinos Gatetzas, Konstantinos Athanassakis, Aineias Tsamatis, Agni Stroubouli, Evi Saoulidou. 

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

Giannis in the Cities

Hammer Museum

To celebrate the opening of LACMA’s exhibition [*SUEÑO PERRO: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/sueno-perro-film-installation-alejandro-g-inarritu), marking the 25th anniversary of *Amores Perros* (2000), Iñárritu’s landmark Academy Award–nominated film, please join us for a screening and conversation with Iñárritu and LACMA director Michael Govan.

Iñárritu's feature directorial debut, *Amores Perros* tells three unsettling tales linked by a car accident, involving dog fighting, an injured model, and a hired killer. Experience the anniversary celebration with a new meticulous 4K restoration, supervised by Criterion Collection, Estudio Mexico Films, and Altavista Films.

**This event is currently sold out. Additional tickets may be released on this page at 9 am on the day of the event. Standby tickets also will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.**

Amores Perros Screening and Conversation with Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Michael Govan

Through the Looking Glass  / Bacchanale  / Bonus SECRET Third Movie

*Off-Platform* brings together Alice Scope, Alice Bucknell, and Lou Fauroux for a focused screening and conversation on life inside god-mode infrastructures and the queer refusals that move through them.

Fauroux’s post-internet mythologies meet Scope’s work on affective AI environments and Bucknell’s planetary simulations, framing a moment in which the platform era and the fantasy of total control—over the planet, over death, over love—are visibly cracking. The evening centers on two works: Fauroux’s *WhatRemains, Genesis*, a 2048 fiction of digital immortality and power, and Bucknell’s *Ground Truthing* (2026 premiere), a simulation film examining how satellites, GPS, digital Earth twins, and long-range climate models shape our understanding of the planet’s future.

***Please note: seating is limited. Doors open thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served.***

Off-Platform

Now Instant Image Hall

A beautiful new restoration of Grigori Kromanov's bizarre & haunting, Estonian sci-fi mystery, based on a novel by the authors of "Stalker"!

DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (1979) – New 4K Restoration!

**Screenwriters**: Louise Peter,  Mascha Schilinski

**Producers**: Lucas Schmidt,  Lasse Scharpen

Join us in the microcinema for the utterly gorgeous bleak beauty of Mascha Schilinski’s meditative and transcendent *Sound of Falling*. Fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory with exquisite painterly cinematography and expertly disquieting sound design. 

This Cannes Jury Prize-winning masterpiece tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.

Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

*“It knocks you off your feet and then sweeps you up again”* &#8211; The New Yorker

*“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance”* &#8211; Deadline

*★★★★ “Marvelously tells a century’s worth of women’s stories by weaving together the psychological, the physical, and even the spiritual”* &#8211; Observer

Sound of Falling

**Screenwriter**: James Baldwin

**Producers**: Rémi Grellety,  Raoul Peck,  Hébert Peck

One of the most important documentaries of the century, Raoul Peck&#8217;s fiery and provocative portrait of not only trailblazing author and activist James Baldwin, but America&#8217;s history of race relations is even more vital and prescient today. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, &#8220;Remember This House.&#8221; The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin&#8217;s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, drawing on footage of Baldwin as well as archival snapshots of America through the Black lens. A powerful and essential watch at anytime, don&#8217;t miss your chance feel the resonance in community!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more essential Black documentaries? Take home these and so many more!

*Portrait of Jason, Eyes on the Prize, What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library*

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

I Am Not Your Negro

Moulin Rouge! in 35mm

A boy seeks revenge for his father's murder but loses an arm rescuing the swordsmith's daughter and learns swordsmanship with a broken sword

THE BLADE (1995)(R)(Mon 2/23) 7:30pm by Big Bad Film Fest

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Brewster McCloud lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings he’s designing—encouraged by a mysterious woman who may be his guardian angel.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents BREWSTER MCCLOUD

The Girl From Starship Venus / Flesh Gordon

Acropolis Cinema presents *Evidence* (Dir. Lee Anne Schmitt, 2025).

Screening to be followed by a Q&A with Schmitt and director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg, Harvest)

Poisoned water, damaged earth, and elevated cancer rates: environmental clean-up sites are one of the legacies left behind by the American chemical and munitions manufacturer “Olin Corporation”. Its other legacy was the John M. Olin Foundation, which donated millions to pushing a conservative agenda from the 1970s to the early 2000s. As a by-product or direct effort, the Olin Corporation and other conservative think tanks have had a deep and unsettling impact on American politics, family values, and women’s health.

Working again the field of the 16mm New Left essay film, Lee Anne Schmitt connects an array of topics, books, and objects to reflect on the rise of the new conservative movement and the effects of dark money on American politics and culture. In easily her most personal film to date—as her father worked for Olin —she considers these values and their implications after becoming a mother. In the face of appalling attacks on women’s biological rights and the current dominance of the Republican party, *Evidence* is a sobering primer on the state of America today. (Berlinale)

TRT: 71 min

In person: Lee Anne Schmitt and Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: Lee Anne Schmitt's Evidence

Tuesday–Friday, Sunday 10am–6:30pmSaturday 10am–9pmMonday Closed

Screening: Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot with Barbara McCullough

The exhibition *Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985* shows how an incredible range of artists and activists used photography as a tool for social change. Meet some of the featured artists and special guests in the gallery to hear about the work in their own words.

Afterwards at 6:30pm, attend a screening of the documentary *Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot* followed by a conversation with the director, Barbara McCullough, in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium. 

Learn more and register for free film tickets under the Related section below. 

Artist Open House: *Photography and the Black Arts Movement*

Los Angeles Rebellion pioneer and filmmaker Barbara McCullough’s documentary *Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot* is a poetic meditation on the life of Los Angeles jazz musician, composer and community activist, Horace Tapscott (1934–1999). Screened in conjunction with the Getty’s exhibition [Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–85][1], the film—four decades in the making—is a loving portrait of Tapscott, Black Los Angeles, and musical history. After the screening, McCullough will be joined on stage in conversation with Kristin Juarez, senior research specialist for the [African American Art History Initiative][2] at the Getty Research Institute. 

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][3] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories, as well as the series [Black Visions: Film as Archive][4]. In addition, Barbara McCullough is featured in the Getty Research Institute’s [oral histories collection][5] as related to the 2008 program [Modern Art in Los Angeles: African American Avant-Gardes, 1965–1990][6]. 

DIRECTED BY: Barbara McCullough. PRODUCED BY: Barbara McCullough and Chephren Rasika. EDITED BY: Scott Brock. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Johnny Simmons, Al Santana, Charles Burnett, Bernard Nicola. 16mm to HD, color, sound, 72 minutes, 2017.

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][7] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][8] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/black-arts-movement/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/projects/african-american-art-history-initiative/
  [3]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/event_series.html
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/black-visions-film-as-archive/
  [5]: https://www.getty.edu/research/special_collections/oral_histories/index.html#video
  [6]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/african_am_avant_gardes/index.html
  [7]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [8]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot* with Barbara McCullough

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 7, “Realization Time,” Dir. Caleb Deschanel, 46 Mins**

Audrey cons her way into working at the perfume counter where Laura worked and discovers that it’s being used as a recruitment post for One Eyed Jack’s. James, Donna and Maddy plan to lure Jacoby away from his office.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Realization Time” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 7

Paranoia / The Sweet Body of Deborah

Visionary Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's gentle and hypnagogic meditation on sleep, memory, and the unseen world.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (2015)

**Screenwriter**: Mike Leigh

**Producer**: Simon Channing Williams

Nominated for five Oscars — including Best Picture — this incisive and engaging comedy-drama from writer-director Mike Leigh explores the difficulties of human connection and the cost of burying painful truths. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Hortense, a black doctor working in London, who decides to seek out her biological mother and is stunned to learn that she’s a working-class white woman named Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). Hortense tentatively reaches out to learn the truth about her parentage, but Cynthia’s own life is a disaster — she has a difficult relationship with her other daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook), and is mostly estranged from her more successful brother (Timothy Spall) and his snobbish wife (Phyllis Logan). One of the great triumphs of ‘90s indie cinema, *Secrets & Lies* serves as a fascinating example of Leigh’s unique filmmaking style, in which characters and scenes are honed over a process of months of improvisation to capture something powerfully authentic.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Want to do a Mike Leigh deep dive? His director&#8217;s section is stocked to the brim with delight &#8211; from the goofy to the profound!

*Naked, Life is Sweet, Nuts in May*

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

Secrets & Lies

Red River/To Have and Have Not

Don't Look Back

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Atropia

CITIZEN KANE

An evening w/ filmmaker Hazel Hill McCarthy III & artist Alejandro García Contreras, featuring two fascinating & vibrant ethnographic docs!

BIGHT OF THE TWIN (2016) feat. Genesis P-Orridge + VIA CRUXIS (2024)

**Screenwriters**: Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr., Raquel Villavicencio, Mike De Leon

**Producers**: Simon C. Ongpin, Charo Santos-Concio

Vidiots and community partners [A Bunch of Savages](https://www.abunchofsavages.com/about) remember the life and legacy of filmmaker **Mike de Leon** with an ultra-rare screening of his sinister masterpiece *Kisapmata*.

Considered one of the greatest Filipino films of all time, this psychological true-crime horror from Mike de Leon is an unnerving masterpiece from one of the greats of Filipino cinema. When Newlyweds Mila and Dadong are coerced into moving back in with her family, all the secrets that have been stifled for years begin to come to light, ending in an explosive climax. Eternally shocking, and increasingly rare, don&#8217;t miss your only chance to see this masterpiece on the big screen!

**A Bunch of Savages** is a creative collective in Los Angeles, California. We are unapologetically Filipino-American with a knack for premium multifaceted storytelling in the arts. Toss your KPIs out the window because we have one bonafide intention &#8211; To do cool sh*t that matters. If anyone asks, we’re a collective of dreamers, filmmakers, writers, and creatives with a commitment to empowering the next generation of artists. Our name comes from a phrase used to describe the Filipinos in 1899 by then Gov. Theodore Roosevelt.

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

Kisapmata (In the Wink of an Eye)

I, Madman

**Shadow Kitchen presents ‘Mixtape’ at Whammy!** - A program of short narrative, non-fiction, experimental and music video works by the collective of artists that make up the programming body of Shadow Kitchen. Featuring works by Anderson Matthew, Alex the Brown, Trevor Byrne, Sue Ding, Elenie Chung, Norbert Shieh, Maya E. Rudolph, Sean Huntley, and Tempe Hale. Filmmakers in attendance.

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These nine Los Angeles based filmmakers move across California to China, Norway and Argentina in an evening program that examines intimacy and spectacle, consciousness and catharsis, memory and dreams.

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Elenie Chung’s *Citric Acid* traces the slow fracture of an artistic bond under the pressure of competition, unfolding with quiet tension and striking subtlety. Tempe Hale’s *Pick Up the Stick* explores sibling intimacy through road trip footage and improvisation, while Maya E. Rudolph’s *ICEBERG* captures the emotional dissonance of youth caught between music, family obligation, and the ache of first love in a hazy Beijing summer.

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Several works interrogate how private lives are entangled with broader systems of power, history, and spectacle. Norbert Shieh’s essay film *Two Miles East* revisits a military jet crash to meditate on suburban life, militarization, and the myth of paradise. Alex the Brown’s *Apologia* reframes public apologies by powerful figures through analog video manipulation, exposing the hollow choreography of accountability, while Sue Ding’s *A Spectacle of Her Appetites* uses found footage to explore an emotional spectrum of appetite.

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Threaded throughout the program is an interest in how memory is recorded, distorted, and performed. Trevor Byrne’s *Indelible Laughter* excavates male camaraderie through humor as both bonding ritual and mask. Sean Huntley’s *Lapse* destabilizes perception through horror and photography, while Anderson Matthew and Satira’s *Madre de los Descalzos* reinterprets an Argentinian folkloric figure through a queer lens, in a fever-dream convergence of music video as experimental film.

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

MIXTAPE, pres. by Shadow Kitchen

WHAMMY!

Join us for a celebratory Los Angeles screening of *Joshua Bailey’s*

**Stolen Kingdom**, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Including an opening preview of *Cosmo Brusa Zappellini’s* experimental

doc-short **Even Now**.

**Synopsis:**

*Stolen Kingdom* is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief,

scandal and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an

animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. The film features key

figures from the park&#8217;s underground community, each sharing their unique

stories.
As the narrative unfolds, early pranks and antics are shown to have inspired

more recent crimes, culminating in a true crime mystery. What begins as a tale

of friendship and passion ends with one lingering question:

**Who stole Buzzy?**

Stolen Kingdom

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

Author Quatoyiah Murry's new project, with a haunting occult chiller & guests esoteric scholar William Kiesel and mythologist Maryam Sayad!

A DARK SONG (2016) presented by Quatoyiah Murry and Enlighted Artists!

**Screenwriter**: Rick Famuyiwa

**Producers**: Nina Yang Bongiovi,  Forest Whitaker

Hop on your bike and join us for a special free community screening of Rick Famuyiwa&#8217;s hilarious coming-of-age modern classic *Dope*. Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself. So, join the party with A$AP Rocky, Zoë Kravitz, and Shameik Moore for an LA story that everyone who grew up a nerd can relate to!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more local coming-of-age films? We&#8217;ve got these gems from our own backyard!

*The Slums of Beverly Hills, Boyz in the Hood, Mi Vida Loca*

**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. RSVPs will be limited to four tickets per order. Please note that any RSVPs exceeding four tickets will not be honored at check in.

Dope

Force of Evil/Body and Soul

Interstellar in 70mm

Silents Synced brings us two more fantastic silent movies synced to modern music by R.E.M. and Pearl Jam.

A WOMAN OF THE WORLD (2026/1925)(NR) & SHERLOCK JR. (2025/1924)

Abraham Polonsky, the writer of *Body and Soul*, said, “All films that are about crime are about capitalism.” In the 1940s, the House Un-American Activities Committee and studio executives conspired to create a blacklist barring hundreds of film artists suspected of communist sympathies, like Polonsky, from employment, upending countless lives. In Red Hollywood, Thom Andersen and Noël Burch reassess the blacklist’s legacy by reassembling footage from over 50 films made by blacklisted artists. These films, once dismissed as minor, are reconsidered as thoughtful attempts to tackle social and political issues in ways that Hollywood wouldn’t attempt again for decades.*—Public Programs Assistant Noah Brockman*

DCP. Directors/Screenwriters: Thom Andersen, Noël Burch. With: Billy Woodberry (narration).

George Coulouris stars as a Nazi commander who, seeing the writing on the wall for the Third Reich, disperses his officers incognito around liberated Europe to begin sowing seeds of discontent anew. As he assures them: “In our hands, hate can be turned into the most potent of weapons.” Settling himself in a Belgian town under Allied control, he works to undermine fledgling reconstruction efforts by playing on local antagonisms and resentment. A study of fascist rhetorical and propaganda tactics in the guise of a thriller, *The Master Race* was directed by Herbert J. Biberman who co-wrote the script with Anne Froelich and Rowland Leigh, with Biberman and Froelich both blacklisted just a few years later.*—Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Herbert J. Biberman. Screenwriters: Herbert J. Biberman, Anne Froelich, Rowland Leigh. With: George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen.

Red Hollywood / The Master Race

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, SAFETY LAST! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $6.57 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

SAFETY LAST

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

World premiere of new 4K restoration of an operatic, cinematic tour de force, w/ vignettes by some of the world's most acclaimed directors!

ARIA (1987) — WORLD PREMIERE of New 4K Restoration!

**Screenwriter**: Jack Hill

**Producer**: Robert Papazian

Get ready to watch the baddest ass bitch to ever grace the silver screen &#8211; the one and only Pam Grier &#8211; go undercover as a sex worker to avenge her smack-addicted sister in Jack Hill&#8217;s explosive Blaxploitation classic *Coffy*. Grier plays Coffy, a nurse who has had enough of the pimps and pushers that have taken over her neighborhood and gotten her sister addicted to heroin. Posing as a sex worker, Coffy&#8217;s a one-woman crusade to rid the world of the baddest of the bad. Stylish, violent, and oh so satisfying, this is one bad-ass flick you need to watch on the big screen with a crowd!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Can&#8217;t get enough Pam Grier? We&#8217;ve got dozens from her incredible 5 decade career.

*Foxy Brown, Holy Smoke, Jackie Brown*

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

Coffy

**Screenwriters**: Weird Al Yankovic,  Jay Levey

**Producers**: John W. Hyde,  Gene Kirkwood

Grab the remote and turn the channel to *UHF*, the one film to properly showcase the idiotic brilliance of Weird Al, and one of the strangest comedies of the 1980s (which is saying a lot for the 80s!) When his uncle hands George Newman (Weird Al) the keys to his flailing UHF (look it up youngsters!) station, George starts to nix the reruns and start making ridiculous and subversive content that finally brings in an audience. But a rival TV executive isn&#8217;t taking the success well and vows to bring down Newman and all his new programming. It&#8217;s goofy, it&#8217;s stupid, it&#8217;s beyond hilarious, it&#8217;s everything you would expect from a Weird Al movie and so much more!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

1989 was a crazy year for film? Check out these 1989 bangers from our video rental collection!

*Teen Witch, Heathers, Weekend at Bernie&#8217;s*

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

Thunder Road

Little Shop of Horrors

Discos Rolas presents a special 50th anniversary screening of *Chulas Fronteras* (1976), newly restored in 4K and paired with the short *Del Mero Corazón* (1979).

A performance by corrido singer-songwriter Gallo Armado (Monterrey, MX) will precede the screenings, and following them, filmmaker Maureen Gosling (editor of *Chulas Fronteras* and co-director of *Del Mero Corazón*) and Juan Antonio Cuéllar (longtime archivist of Arhoolie Records’ Frontera Collection) will join moderator Alexandra Lippman (Discos Rolas and Pomona College) for a discussion of the two films. The talk will be followed by DJ sets by Sonido Sabotaje (Monterrey, MX), Trucha Soul (Austin), and Sonido Sapo (LA).

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Directed by Les Blank and Chris Strachwitz, *Chulas Fronteras (Beautiful Borders)* celebrates the famed Mexican-American musicians of the borderlands, the migrant farming communities from which they come, the strong family bonds of Tejanos, and the social protest ethos inscribed in their music. From joyous, lively dance tunes to soulful, political work songs, musica norteña fuses traditional Mexican harmonies with central European dancehall rhythms. The film brims with tender affection for its subjects, the vitality of their marvelous music, and the generosity of spirit that they show in the face of hardship. *Del Mero Corazón (Straight from the Heart)*, directed by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, is a lyrical journey through the heart of Chicano culture as reflected in the love songs of the conjunto tejano and musica norteña traditions. The film was constructed from outtakes from *Chulas Fronteras* and additional footage shot in California.

Morricone Youth live scores The Adventures of Prince Achmed

8:00 PM

The Wizard of Oz in 4K

2:30 PM

Daughters of the Dust in 35mm

7:30 PM

TRAIN DREAMS in 35mm

7:30 PM

Frankenstein

Train Dreams

WEDNESDAY WITH WELLES

7:30 PM

LATE SHIFT (2026)(NR)(Wed 2/11) 2:30p 4:45p 7:00p

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

5:00 PM

IN-I IN MOTION

7:00 PM

A USEFUL GHOST

10:00 PM

In the Realm of the Senses

The Blood Spattered Bride

7:30 PM

Sweet 16mm: Sexual Edutainment

7:00 PM

TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing

7:30 PM

The Man Who Laughs/Mad Love

2:00 PM

Sinners (70mm)