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

2220 Arts + Archives

The Grand Budapest Hotel in 35mm

Paisàn in 35mm

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

Pre-screening career conversation with actor Skyler Gisondo

PRIMETIME / LICORICE PIZZA

Aero Theatre

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

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

CYBERCON: Blade Runner

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

CYBERCON: Blade Runner 2049

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

Synopsis:

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

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

Vampires Surf presented by Sun Bum

Brain Dead Studios

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

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

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

Gardena Cinema

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

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

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

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

*Total running time: 84 min.*

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

DCP. Director: B. G-Osborne.

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

Director: Nikolai Ursin.

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

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

DCP. Director: Luis De Filippis.

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

DCP. Director: Sydney Freeland.

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

DCP. Director: Theo Jean Cuthand.

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

DCP. Director: Raven Davis.

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

DCP. Director: Seyi Adebanjo.

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

DCP. Directors: Jess MacCormack, Alexus Young.

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

DCP. Director: Rhys Ernst.

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

DCP. Director: Tourmaline.

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

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE PATSY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

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

ALL THE LONG NIGHTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR:

COUNTRY: USA

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

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In French and English with English subtitles. *

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

‘Léa Seydoux: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE BEAST

Los Feliz Theatre

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

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

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

About Rosa Alcalá

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

About Cecilia Vicuña

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

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

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

Cecilia Vicuña Poetry Performance with translator Rosa Alcalá

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

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

About Cecilia Vicuña

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

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

About Elizabeth DeLoughrey

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

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

Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

MOCA Grand Avenue

Ratatouille

The Last Picture Show

New Beverly Cinema

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

My Best Girl

Old Town Music Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Peter Sauder, Barry Downes

**Producers**: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

The Care Bears Movie

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

**Producer**: Ross Hunter

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Imitation of Life (1959) on 35mm

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

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

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

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

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

CIANI/ORKEST

**Screenwriters**: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

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

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Josie and the Pussycats

Vidiots

The Westerner

Paper Tiger 35mm

Vista Theatre

The Misfits in 4K

L’amore in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor Paul Giamatti Advance Screening

THE DEBUT

Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Mija begins to study poetry writing at the local cultural center. At first she finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world, but then, when Jong-wook is mired in a shocking scandal, Mija taps into newfound depths of disappointment and pain.

Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong's POETRY is a “tour de force” that presents an “extraordinary vision of human empathy” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Poetry

BURNING is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people in his orbit: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers the romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun), a wealthy and sophisticated young man she returns from a trip with. However, when Jongsu learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Haemi suddenly disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount, culminating in a stunning finale.

Burning

Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity - from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho’s oppressive struggles, mirror South Korea’s traumatic political history during the late 20th century.

An official selection of the Directors' Fortnight selection in Cannes and winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, PEPPERMINT CANDY is a powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema that elegizes a generation of marginalized people with “quiet, heartbreaking power” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Peppermint Candy

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The British expedition saw Mount Everest as a conquest; Himalayan climber Tenzing Norgay saw its summit as a spiritual calling. TENZING tells the true story of the unsung hero who reached the top alongside Edmund Hillary, revealing the courage, resilience & cultural identity behind the historic feat.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Apple Original Films

COUNTRY: UK/Australia/USA

TENZING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation. Banned upon its release in the director’s homeland, the art-house smash *WR* is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Yugoslavia

Cinematic Void Presents W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Squeaky-clean suburbanite Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) gets a crash course in the dark side of life when he stumbles upon a severed ear in a field near his home. Before his amateur investigation is over, he encounters kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, Isabella Rossellini as a tormented torch singer and Dennis Hopper as one of the scariest villains in film history. Director David Lynch combines Hitchcockian suspense, surrealist imagery and a Hardy Boys plot to create a one-of-a-kind Grimm’s fairy tale for adults. Laura Dern and Dean Stockwell costar.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

BLUE VELVET

Onslaught / One Spoon of Chocolate

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

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

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

Wicker

**Screenwriter**: Ken Russell from the stage play by John Whiting and the novel *The Devils of Loudon* by Aldous Huxley

**Producers**: Ken Russell, Robert H. Solo

Ken Russell&#8217;s lavishly deranged and gloriously sacrilegious masterpiece comes to Vidiots in a beautiful new restoration on glorious 35mm celluloid! One of the most controversial films of all time, Ken Russell&#8217;s outrageous masterpiece can finally be seen in ALL its glory, with the complete cut finally restored after 55 years of censorship. A film that is as fundamentally important in its political lessons as it is funny, romantic, and jaw-droppingly beautiful, it is a one-of-a-kind cinematic spectacle meant to be experienced on the big screen. In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ With exquisite set design from Derek Jarman, unbelievable performances from Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave (and everyone else in the cast), some of the most audacious footage in cinema history, and a message it&#8217;s necessary for every generation to hear, you need to drop everything and prepare yourself for the phenomenon!

And if you need another helping of nunsploitation, don&#8217;t miss an ultra-rare screening of Juan López Moctezuma&#8217;s [***Alucarda***](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/alucarda/) on November 21st.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Can&#8217;t get enough Ken Russell? Neither can we! Visit his director&#8217;s shelf for these outrageous gems and more!

*Listzomania, Women in Love, Crimes of Passion*

The Devils on 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

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

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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

Nightcrawler

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

The Insider

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

Dog Day Afternoon

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Spanish with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA/Mexico

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth

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

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

You Can See Everything

**Screenwriter/Producer**: John Hughes

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

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

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth 35mm

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

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## 7:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

A SNAKE OF JUNE (2002)

WHAMMY!

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

Slumdog Millionaire

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

Shallow Grave

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

Trainspotting

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

28 Days Later

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: 35mm

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

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

BEING THERE / DR. STRANGELOVE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

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

INSIDE JOB

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

MCCABE & MRS. MILLER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Repertory

COUNTRY: USA/UK

TO DIE FOR

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

MALLRATS

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

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

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

**Screenwriter**: Chris Butler

**Producers**: Travis Knight,  Samuel Wilson****

After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, headstrong teenager Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) launches a desperate rescue mission into the Impassable Wilderness—an enchanted forest hidden just beyond Portland, Oregon. Joined by her hapless but loyal classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay), Prue navigates a world of talking animals, bandits, and powerful figures driven by grief and ambition. As the pair is drawn into a conflict threatening the balance of the forest itself, Prue must discover the strength and belief she never knew she possessed. If she hopes to save her brother and protect Wildwood’s fragile future, she will have to risk everything. From Oscar®-nominated and BAFTA®-winning LAIKA, Wildwood is a sweeping adventure about love, sacrifice, and the magic that reveals itself when we dare to look beyond the familiar.

Wildwood

**Screenwriters**: Betty Comden, Adolph Green

**Producer**: Arthur Freed

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

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

Singin’ in the Rain

**Screenwriters**: Paweł Pawlikowski,  Hendrik Handloegten

**Producers**: Mario Gianani,  Lorenzo Mieli,  Ewa Puszczyńska,  Jeanne Tremsal,  Edward Berger, Dimitri Rassam,  Lorenzo Gangarossa

Sandra Hüller illuminates the screen in Pawel Pawlikowski&#8217;s stunning and existential gem of family, fascism, and Goethe in post-WWII Germany. *Fatherland* centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) &#8211; actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins &#8211; from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family. 

With *Fatherland*, Pawel Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning *Ida* and *Cold War*, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style &#8211; the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

*“[A] perfectly cut jewel of a movie”* – The New York Times

“*[Sandra Hüller] gives the kind of performance you never forget*” – New York Magazine

“*Another expansive, enriching work from a modern master*” – Time Out

“*A rich and moving journey through post-World War II Germany*” – TheWrap

Fatherland

**Screenwriter: **Ernest Lehman

**Producer:** Herbert Coleman

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

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

North by Northwest

**Screenwriters**: Leora Barish

**Producers**: Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Visit the Susan Seidelman section for more stylish feminist fun!

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

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

Desperately Seeking Susan

**Screenwriter**: Michael Allin

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more killer martial arts movies tonight!

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

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

Enter the Dragon

The Funhouse/Eaten Alive

Grindhouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## $10 general admission.

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

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

MALLS (2025)

Gremlins

Europe ’51

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

30th Anniversary ‘Starring Patrick Stewart’

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor star in one of the greatest musicals ever filmed. Musician Don Lockwood (Kelly) rises to stardom during Hollywood’s silent-movie era–paired with the beautiful, jealous and dumb Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen). When Lockwood becomes attracted to young studio singer Kathy Selden (Reynolds), Lamont has her fired. But with the introduction of talking pictures, audiences laugh when they hear Lockwood speak for the first time–and the studio uses Selden to dub her voice. Set during the advent of “talkies,” this film classic song-and-dance numbers celebrate the beginning of movie musicals.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The greatest concert film of all time, STOP MAKING SENSE brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison, alongside an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

STOP MAKING SENSE

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Rear Window

ICA LA is proud to partner with [Visual AIDS](http://visualaids.org) for Day With(out) Art 2026 by presenting *seeds in a dying colony*, a program of four newly commissioned videos that move through the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic. Across fractured histories and landscapes marked by extraction, the works trace how systems of power shape the body, memory, and experiences of care.

*seeds in a dying colony* will feature four newly commissioned short videos by artists from across the world: **Edgar Hudson** (Tanzania), **Bruna Kury** and **Matheus Mello** (Brazil/Spain), **Sido Lansari** (Morocco/France), and **Micaela Cyrino** (Brazil).

*seeds in a dying colony* will be screened all day at ICA LA from 11AM–6PM. Visitors will also have the chance to view exhibitions on view including *[Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses](https://www.theicala.org/en/exhibitions/765-carl-cheng-nature-never-loses)*, *[Zoe Walsh: Gathering](https://www.theicala.org/en/exhibitions/798-zoe-walsh-gathering)*, *[Amia Yokoyama: Our Strange Hollows](https://www.theicala.org/en/exhibitions/831-amia-yokoyama-our-strange-hollows)*, as well as a Bookshelf Residency exhibition organized by Sming Sming Books and Kate Lester.

Day With(out) Art 2026: seeds in a dying colony

ICA LA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Denzel Washington stars as Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America. Forced to accept an under-the-table job finding a missing socialite, Easy is caught between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. And as soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse (Don Cheadle) find the mysterious Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), trouble follows.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Being the adventures of a young man…who loved a bit of the old ultra-violence…went to jail, was brain washed…and came out cured…or was he? In a futuristic welfare state, Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a vicious young hoodlum, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his droogs, assaulting innocent people in the streets and in their homes. Finally captured by the police, Alex undergoes rehabilitation in the form of aversion therapy as brutal and horrifying as any of his offenses.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: UK/USA

55th Anniversary ‘Title Design By: PABLO FERRO’

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Batman Returns

1944 • A sweet, wonderful movie starring the beloved Judy Garland, directed by Vincente Minnelli whom Garland married after making the film.  The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was introduced in this film by Garland, as well as “The Trolley Song”!  This film is a shining moment for the heyday of MGM musicals. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Meet Me in St. Louis

1940 • Introduction by Randy Haberkamp • Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, this is one of the most charming romantic comedies ever made. Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are wonderful together, and the shop itself becomes a whole little world, full of workday frustrations, quiet hopes, and small human comedy.  • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Shop Around the Corner

**Directors**: David Hand, James Algar, Paul Satterfield, Jim Handley, Bill Roberts, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen

**Producers**: Walt Disney, Ben Sharpsteen

Walt Disney&#8217;s timeless masterpiece is a breathtaking extravaganza of sight and sound! The feature film that exposed millions of impressionable kiddos to the glory of classical music, this gorgeous and symphonic masterpiece will have you waltzing with mythical centaurs, making magic with Mickey Mouse, pirouetting with hippos, and more! Presented in Fantasound &#8211; a precursor to surround sound &#8211; Fantasia was the first film ever screened in stereo. Widely considered one of the greatest animated features ever made, and in the top 25 grossing films ever, this breathtaking classic never gets old. See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song, and experience the excitement that is *Fantasia*!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more Disney rarities? Our video store has the complete collection of Out of Print *Walt Disney Treasures *on DVD for countless Disney deep dives!

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

Fantasia on 35mm

**Screenwriter**: Agnès Varda

**Producers**: Georges de Beauregard,  Carlo Ponti

One of the most delightful films of the French New Wave, iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life as she awaits test results of a biopsy, *Cléo from 5 to 7* is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Our Agnès Varda section has just about every film of the legendary and far-reaching filmmaker

*Mur Murs, Vagabond, Le Bonheur*

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

Cléo from 5 to 7

**Screenwriters**: Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin

**Producers**: Kathleen Kennedy, Michael Crichton, Ian Bryce

Let&#8217;s go storm-chasing, Vidiots! Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton are a bitterly divorced couple and a pair of determined climatologists out for the adventure of a lifetime in storm country as a record-breaking number of tornados threatens the lives and livelihoods of the Oklahomans in their wake. This unprecedented storm season is the perfect time to risk their lives and attempt to release &#8220;Dorothy,&#8221; a groundbreaking instrument for storm tracking, and maybe even the perfect setting to rekindle their relationship. More fun than an airborne cow, with the perfect delirious blend of thrills and schmaltz, this is one high-flying adventure that really gets off the ground — and stays there!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a whole disaster section to take home your favorite calamities on glorious physical media!

*The Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Dante&#8217;s Peak*

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

Twister

**Screenwriters**: Im Jun-hyeong,  Hwang Jo-Yoon

**Producer**: Kim Dong-ju

One of the greatest &#8211; and most twisted &#8211; revenge thrillers of all time, this visceral thrill ride from Park Chan-wook never gets old. Come see the original &#8220;hallway fight&#8221; and so much more when Park Chan-wook&#8217;s *Oldboy* returns, restored and remastered in stunning 4K. For over twenty years, this cult classic has been thrilling audiences and inspiring other filmmakers. Grab a friend (or an octopus) and come experience *Oldboy* on the big screen.

After being mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned with no human contact for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly released without any explanation. In a twisted game of cat and mouse, he has only five days to retrace his past, track down his captors, and get his revenge.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more dark treasures from Park Chan-wook on Blu-Ray and DVD!

*Lady Vengeance, Thirst, Joint Security Area*

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

Oldboy

Station West

Paradise Alley

Henri is a frustrated teenager living with his parents in a provincial French coastal town. When they drag him to the train station to bid adieu to his sister, Henri sneaks off to a secluded bathroom and interrupts a hustler named Jean satisfying the masochistic desires of an older male client. Henri falls desperately in love with the sexy criminal, but Jean evades Henri’s affections. Undeterred, Henri shadows Jean as he traverses the dark and dangerous underbelly of their sleepy village. But as he descends deeper and deeper into Jean’s world, there may not be an easy way out. Patrice Chéreau’s 1983 drama is a revelation: an amazingly accomplished work that genuinely channels the transgressive, unsanitized sensibility of Jean Genet, boasting a breakout lead performance by young Jean-Hugues Anglade and a script that took co-writers Chéreau and legendary gay French author and activist Hervé Guibert six years to perfect. The result is a rich, strange, and sumptuous film leading us to exhilaratingly mysterious and unfamiliar spaces both physical and psychological.

**dir. Patrice Chéreau, 1983**
*France, digital projection*
110 min

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The Wounded Man (1983)

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FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

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FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: France/Japan

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