### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Wayward Prince Hal (Timothée Chalamet) must turn from carouser to warrior king as he faces hostilities from inside and outside the castle walls in the battle for England.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: UK/US/Hungary/Australia

Pre-screening Q&A with actor Timothée Chalamet ‘TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET LIVE: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE KING

Aero Theatre

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for a special Dinner and a Movie night marking the launch of our Jon & Vinny’s collaboration. Your ticket includes a bowl of this one-night-only custom Brain Dead pasta from Jon & Vinny’s to enjoy during a screening of Goodfellas!

Come ready to eat, hang out, and settle in for a classic night in the theater.

Jon & Vinny's + Brain Dead Dinner & a Movie: Goodfellas

Brain Dead Studios

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

Ann (Andie MacDowell), a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John (Peter Gallagher) has begun an affair with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John’s best friend Graham (James Spader) arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Egyptian Theatre

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

Sally Mann’s Art Work: On the Creative Life

Getty Center

**Hammer Forums are made possible by the Rosenbloom Family. **

Copresented with the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center at UCLA and the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute

Join renowned activist, professor, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow **Loretta J. Ross** to explore the powerful practice of "Calling In." With five decades in the human rights movement, Ross offers a transformative approach to move from conflict to constructive dialogue. In her new book, *Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel*, Ross addresses the challenge of building coalitions and community in a polarized world, and offers a compassionate alternative through accountability, empathy, and connection. Moderated by **Maia Ferdman** of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and the UCLA Dialogue Across Difference Initiative. Followed by light refreshments and a book signing with Dr. Ross.

Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Dr. Loretta Ross

**Hammer Forums are made possible by the Rosenbloom Family. **

Copresented with the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center at UCLA and the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute

Join renowned activist, professor, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow **Loretta J. Ross **to explore the powerful practice of "Calling In." With five decades in the human rights movement, Ross offers a transformative approach to move from conflict to constructive dialogue. In her new book, *Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel*, Ross addresses the challenge of building coalitions and community in a polarized world, and offers a compassionate alternative through accountability, empathy, and connection.

Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations and Cultivating Compassionate Connections with Dr. Loretta Ross

Hammer Museum

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to share coffee and discuss death.

Our objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their finite lives. This is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.

[https://deathcafe.com/](https://deathcafe.com/)

This event will be facilitated by Emily Yacina. Donuts and coffee will be provided.

Death Cafe 2/10

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 5, “The One-Armed Man,” Dir. Tim Hunter, 47 Mins**

Cooper questions Dr. Jacoby, who suspects Leo Johnson is the killer. Gordon Cole, Cooper’s supervisor, calls in with Albert’s report. Josie Packard spies on Ben Horne and Catherine Martell. Hawk tracks down the One-Armed Man.

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.

“The One-Armed Man” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 5

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

An older and a younger man meet by Lisbon’s Tagus River, united by an unspoken desire to end their lives with a “last dive” into its dark waters. Their chance encounter pushes them instead to fulfill their remaining desires and vices in the low-end streets of a decadent, romantic city, eventually finding respite, silence, and glimpses of humanity in the miraculous birth of a new love that overcomes the weight of solitude and despair. It is an afflicted yet sublime example of the dual nature of Monteiro’s gaze: he is drawn to carnal pleasures and glimpses of spiritual paradise, awash in natural light and poetry, shot under the influence of silent film, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Lisbon’s traditional feasts.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: France/Portugal

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

THE LAST DIVE

Los Feliz Theatre

In the Realm of the Senses / The Blood Spattered Bride

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriters**: Bi Gan,  Zhao Xiaohui

**Producers**: Zuolong Shan,  Yang Lele,  Charles Gillibert

A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (*Long Day’s Journey Into Night*), *Resurrection* conjures vast and ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A remarkable triumph that pushes the boundaries of the imagination and cinema.

Resurrection

**Screenwriter**: Mary Bronstein

**Producers**: Sara Murphy,  Ryan Zacarias,  Ronald Bronstein,  Josh Safdie,  Eli Bush, Conor Hannon,  Richie Doyle

Vidiots is excited to welcome Academy Award-nominated powerhouse **Rose Byrne** for a pre-screening conversation before Mary Bronstein&#8217;s empathetic tour de force *If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You.*

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child&#8217;s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. An emotional triumph of the weight and responsibilities of motherhood, Rose Byrne&#8217;s performance is undeniably powerful and truthful &#8211; already winning  Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for the Critics&#8217; Choice Award, BAFTA Award and an Academy Award for best actress.

Doors will Open at 6:00pm, Conversation will start at 7:00pm with screening to follow.

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Vidiots

Shockproof/The Secret of The Whistler

Sinners (70mm)

Vista Theatre

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

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

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.

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***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

The Man Who Laughs/Mad Love

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 4K

Sunshine in 35mm

Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.

Ticks

**Screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with director Alex Phillips, producer Hal Baum, and actress Ginger Lynn!**

An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ***ANYTHING THAT MOVES ***is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, director **Alex Phillips**&#8216; rust belt giallo continues his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery.

The film follows nubile sex worker Liam who bikes with his girlfriend — his partner in both business and pleasure — through the city delivering snacks and divine satisfaction to his love-hungry clients. Meanwhile, a serial killer’s gory murders are piling up, and all the evidence seems to point back to the lovers’ bed.

Produced in collaboration with cult home video outfit **Vinegar Syndrome**, the film features standout supporting performances from erotic film legends **Ginger Lynn** (*The Devil’s Rejects*) and **Nina Hartley** (*Boogie Nights*).

With an original instrumental score by Chicago-based artists **Cue Shop**, calling to mind the lush orchestrations of Bruno Nicolai, and lurid visuals by acclaimed cinematographer **Hunter Zimny **(*The Scary of Sixty-First*, *Funny Pages*), *Anything That Moves* provides an immersive throwback to ’70s exploitation flicks.

Anything That Moves

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

“Ben Hecht has been squinting at ‘The Front Page’ again and, with one eye crinkled shut and the other sardonically glinting, he has written an impiously impish comedy about that recurrent journalistic marvel, the seven-day wonder. NOTHING SACRED, which is the title of the eminent professor’s thesis, and which is now being read at the Music Hall, has given the Fourth Estate the once-over (not so lightly) and has left it applying collodion to its wounds. . . . Only a journalistic renegade, teetering on a critical perch, would dare grant it the distinction of being one of the merrier jests of the cinema year. Mr. Hecht, having served his apprenticeship in the toughest Chicago school, is in a position to bat a skeptical eyebrow over the antics of the wayward press.”

*—Frank S. Nugent, The New York Times, November 26, 1937*

FORMAT: Nitrate

COUNTRY: USA

Presented in partnership with Eastman Museum, L.A. Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd. ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

NOTHING SACRED on Nitrate

Recounting the circumstances of his son Nando’s suicide, José seems both comforted by and unaware of filmmaker Juan Pablo González’s camera as he retells the events of that final day. The short unfolds in three chapters: each repetition feels like an excavation, grief both fresh and buried. Set against the vast farmlands he once worked on with his son, the film’s haunting soundscape and a capella cantos transform mourning into landscape, revealing how memory reshapes what remains and how loss echoes through time and place.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Juan Pablo González.

Chloé Zhao’s quietly devastating debut unfolds on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, where high school senior Johnny prepares to leave home until a sudden family death makes him reluctant to abandon his 13-year-old sister. Blending fiction and documentary, Zhao casts local community members without professional acting experience, grounding the film in authenticity. The result is a work of lyrical realism and emotional restraint that captures the beauty, hardship and resilience of reservation life.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Chloé Zhao. With: John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard, Eléonore Hendricks.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

The Solitude of Memory / Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!**

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (2/20)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Iconic director David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO) deftly explores the thrill, pain and tenderness of an illicit romance in dour, gray post-war Britain. After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson, THIS HAPPY BREED) enter into a muted, passionate but ultimately unconsummated situationship. This depiction of powerful feelings kept under wraps is a definitive example of a particularly English style of emotional restraint. BRIEF ENCOUNTER is also a potent beacon for queer subtext, as its subject of forbidden love holds special resonance.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: UK

Get your ticket for just $7.74 at the box office! Print provided courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive ‘Film by the Foot’

BRIEF ENCOUNTER

Arabian Nights

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

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!

Philosophical Research Society

**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**: Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis

**Producer**: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis

Get caught in a time warp with Bill Murray and his fuzzy friend in Harold Ramis&#8217; beloved comedy. When a narcissistic TV weatherman is sent to the small town of Punxsutawney to cover the annual emergence of Punxsutawney Phil, he finds himself stuck repeating the same day over and over. Outrageously funny with a sweet gooey middle, this is a comedy classic that deserves watching and rewatching and rewatching!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Ready to do the time warp again? Check out these other time-bending treasures

*Time Cop, Happy Death Day, Time Crimes*

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

Groundhog Day

Melody Time/The Sword in the Stone

The Bride of Frankenstein

*Los Angeles premiere w/ director Josh Heaps in person!*

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Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.

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City Wide Fever runs the well-worn tropes of 1970s horror - sex, violence, and endless style - through our fraught and fragmented 21 century. Shot throughout 2023 and ‘24 on an SD camera, the film acknowledges its predecessors while also looking towards new methods of storytelling.

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Produced by Guy Maddin, made with a tiny budget & shot unpermitted in and around NYC with a cast featuring Larry Fessenden, Ian Fidance, Michael M. Bilandic, and Carolyn Farina.

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**dir. Josh Heaps, 2025***United States, digital projection*74 min

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## Friday, 2/207:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

Followed by a Q&A with director Josh Heaps, led by filmmaker Devon Green.

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

CITY WIDE FEVER (2025), dir. Josh Heaps in person!

WHAMMY!

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

### **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

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

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

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

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

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

**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

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

### **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

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?**

THE KING

7:30 PM

Jon & Vinny's + Brain Dead Dinner & a Movie: Goodfellas

7:00 PM

Frankenstein

12:00 PM

Train Dreams

3:30 PM

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

7:30 PM

Sally Mann’s Art Work: On the Creative Life

12:00 PM

Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Dr. Loretta Ross

7:30 PM

Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations and Cultivating Compassionate Connections with Dr. Loretta Ross

7:30 PM

Death Cafe 2/10

6:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 5

THE LAST DIVE

8:00 PM

In the Realm of the Senses

The Blood Spattered Bride

7:30 PM

Resurrection

7:00 PM

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

7:00 PM

Shockproof/The Secret of The Whistler

2:00 PM

Sinners (70mm)