Lightstruck is elated to present two full evenings of rarely screened animated shorts from one of the most significant centers of experimental animation production and creativity in the history of the medium: Poland. Spanning the early 1960s to the late 1980s, these two programs (March 26 and April 16) will showcase an incredibly eclectic selection focusing on little-known masterworks and deep-cut revelations, all screening in recent restorations.

Poland has an extraordinary animation history marked by radical experimentation in technique and texture, investigating dark and complex themes inspired by social critique and surrealist visions alike. Spanning stop motion, cutout, cel, paint on glass, and hand-drawn approaches, these programs extend to include exceptional techniques such as Zbig Rybczyński’s hyper-complex optical printing, Piotr Dumała’s exquisite renderings on plaster slabs, and Julian Antonisz’s unhinged cameraless animation produced on ingenious, visionary devices of his own making. A morbid and uneasy humor often punctuates these works, which pulse with rich, emotional, and dramatic narratives and themes matched only by the exceptional imagination and talents of their authors.

We selected the films for these programs with an emphasis on shorts not generally available on home media, and spanning a particularly diverse array of styles, aesthetics, techniques, and sensibilities. Widely celebrated artists like Rybczyński, Antonisz, Ryszard Czekała, and Jerzy Kucia will be represented by lesser known (but magnificent) offerings, while deeply memorable obscurities from Jacek Kasprzycki, Zofia Oraczewska, Ryszard Antoniszczak, and Ewa Bibańska will further illuminate Poland’s incredible spectrum of animation genius.

Programs by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. Films courtesy of Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (+ thanks to Stanisław Bardadin) and Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (+ thanks to Adrian Smykowski and Julia Bachman).

Polish Animation #2: Chance & Transition (1975-89)

2220 Arts + Archives

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Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning HARLAN COUNTY, USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Barbara Kopple Premiere of New 4K Restoration 50th Anniversary Opening Night ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2026’ and ‘Barbara Kopple Restorations’

HARLAN COUNTY, USA

Aero Theatre

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

Shadow Kitchen returns to Coaxial Arts with Animation Spring Mix: a super bloom of eight animated short films made by Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artists. These works demonstrate the visually diverse nature of animation made by filmmakers with tactile backgrounds in painting, illustration and sculpture. Whether the films are non-fiction, observational, or revealing the surreal and emotional world behind the veil of everyday experience, they are painstakingly created frame by frame. These are unique and tender films blending hand-drawn, painted, printed, digital and collaged storytelling forms. 
Select artists will be in attendance for Q&A. 

The Program:
Creatures of Chaos by Asavari Kumar
Busy Bodies by Kate Renshaw-Lewis
En La Esquina by Patricia luna
Evacuations by Lilli Carré
Stand Alone by Soyeon Kim
Umbilical by Danski Tang
Up Close by Sam Gurry
Deluge by Meejin Hong

Shadow Kitchen presents: Animation Spring Mix

Coaxial

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.

Gosford Park


Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy – who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy’s chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

Clue

Egyptian Theatre

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

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 4/16) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/16)

Heavy Manners Library

The Mystery of the 13th Guest / The Living Ghost / The Face of Marble

New Beverly Cinema

Join us for a screening of the exhilarating documentary about the legendary GRAMMY-winning musician - Billy Preston followed by a Q&A!

BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT Screening  & Q&A

Philosophical Research Society

The Drama

Men of San Quentin/The Miracle Kid

Vista Theatre

Acropolis Cinema presents *Harvest*, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024.

Part of "Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari," a complete retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 - May 9 at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.

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Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, who deconstructed human behavior within bounded communities in *Attenberg* and *Chevalier*, sets her sights on entirely new environs in *Harvest*, which takes place in a remote village in medieval England.

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, Tsangari’s film stars Caleb Landry Jones as Walter Thirsk, the former childhood friend and manservant of the village’s weak-willed landowner, Master Kent (Harry Melling). Marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders, the town’s denizens fall under new threat after Kent’s iron-fisted city cousin comes into possession of the land, with new plans for agricultural profit. Shot in the sun-dappled Scottish countryside with natural light by cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Tsangari’s most ambitious work to date is both carnal and cerebral, a multifaceted reflection on man’s relationship to the land, rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance. (NYFF)

TRT: 131 min

In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: Harvest (Tsangari, 2024)

Rocco and His Brothers in 4K

The Idiot (Hakuchi) in 35mm

Academy Museum

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**POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS, 2025, Dir. Gianfranco Rosi, 114 Mins, MUBI, Italy**

*In Italian, Arabic, Japanese and English with English subtitles.*

Naples is a city forever marked by the looming presence of Mount Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call.

FORMAT: DCP

**IN VIAGGIO: THE TRAVELS OF POPE FRANCIS, 2023, Dir. Gianfranco Rosi, 82 Mins, Magnolia Pictures, Italy**

*In Italian and Spanish with English subtitles.*

IN VIAGGIO: THE TRAVELS OF POPE FRANCIS is a decade-long chronicling of the travels of Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic church across all corners of the world. Composed mostly of archival footage, the film grants rare access to the public life of the pontifical, not only from the elevated security of a pulpit but from the more democratic grounds of unpaved streets and vast public avenues.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2026’ and ‘Gianfranco Rosi: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS / IN VIAGGIO: THE TRAVELS OF POPE FRANCIS

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Free screening! General admission, first come first serve with RSVP.

Predator

Brain Dead Studios

Avant-garde cinema represents films that are experimental or innovative, typically rejecting traditional narrative structures while exploring abstract concepts and emphasizing visual and aural elements. Avant-garde animation often utilizes techniques that abstract form, defy continuity and emphasize musicality.

*Programmed by Molly Regan. Notes written by Clare Britton and Molly Regan.*

*Special thanks to our community partner: [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Animation Workshop](https://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/)*

Created during his time at the UCLA Animation Workshop, Robert Abel’s *Freight Yard **Symphony *presents a sensorial impression of a commercial rail yard, in which the destruction of semiotics makes way for a new language of rhythm, where alphabetical and numerical language indicators become purely textural amongst the frenzied jazz score. Using photo collage and paper craft, Abel’s early modernist work showcases the immense talent of this future pioneer of visual effects.

DCP. Director: Robert Abel.

In Chel White’s *Choreography for the Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha), *machine and human attempt to understand each other’s dissonant identities through the glass-plate barrier of a photocopy machine. This barrier, reminiscent of zoo or aquarium glass windows, distorts and abstracts to create a half-truth. Chel White straddles the line between sensual and grotesque representations of the human body, juxtaposed with the mundane artifacts that scaffold daily life, such as keys, currency, tools and playing cards.

DCP. Director: Chel White. 

*Courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.*

Michel Gondry’s *The Science of Sleep *synthesizes live action and animation to emphasize dissatisfaction with reality, and the lure of imagination. Made in the age of CGI pipelines overwhelmingly contributing to special effects in the future film industry, Gondry’s trademark whimsical style prioritizes practical effects, taking a minimal approach to visual effects. Blurring the lines between real life and fantasy, this film invites us to experience the impossible.

DCP. Director: Michel Gondry. Screenwriter: Michel Gondry. With: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mioux-Mioux.

UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! Avant-garde Animation

Hammer Museum

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (4/17)

Comics O&#x27;Clock is a comics reading featuring live readings by local cartoonists hosted by Mikey Heller. This event will be pay what you want, with donations going to Heavy Manners Library.

Featuring:

Chris Allison ([https://www.instagram.com/toonholechris/](https://www.instagram.com/toonholechris/))

Elizabeth Chee ([https://www.instagram.com/lizcheeart/](https://www.instagram.com/lizcheeart/))

Julia Mata ([https://www.instagram.com/cipota666/](https://www.instagram.com/cipota666/))

Wynton Redmond ([https://www.instagram.com/wyntonred/](https://www.instagram.com/wyntonred/))

Kenzie Bugg ([https://www.instagram.com/pk_kenziebugg/](https://www.instagram.com/pk_kenziebugg/))

Chris Cornwell ([https://www.instagram.com/cornwellcomics/](https://www.instagram.com/cornwellcomics/))

Abby Jo Turner ([https://www.instagram.com/abbyjoturner/](https://www.instagram.com/abbyjoturner/))

Isa Hanssen ([https://www.instagram.com/isawiitch/](https://www.instagram.com/isawiitch/))

Comics O'Clock: A Comic Reading (4/17)

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.

As we count down to the upcoming World Cup, this outdoor screening invites audiences to revisit iconic moments from soccer history. Bring friends, family, and a picnic and experience the beautiful game on the big screen in a communal, joyful setting. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition [*Fútbol Is Life*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/futbol-life-animated-sportraits-lyndon-j-barrois-sr), this series highlights how transcendent moments on the pitch become lasting cultural memories that connect people across generations and borders.    

***Pelé***
2021, 1h 48m

*Pelé *chronicles the life of the Brazilian football player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. The documentary looks back at the extraordinary period when Pelé, the only player to win three World Cup titles, went from a young superstar in 1958 to a national hero, amidst a radical and turbulent era in Brazilian history. The film charts Pelé’s remarkable journey to becoming the "King of Football" and leading his nation’s team to their historic win at the 1970 World Cup. With rare and exclusive filmed access to Pelé himself, the film emotionally showcases the star reflecting upon his impressive career.

The documentary also includes rare archive and interviews from former legendary team-mates at Santos Futebol Clube and the Brazilian national team, including Zagallo, Amarildo, and Jairzinho, as well as extraordinary testimonials from family members, journalists, artists and other personalities who witnessed the golden age of Brazilian football.

Fútbol on Film: Pelé

LACMA

Three Wise Girls / Men in Her Life

Reservoir Dogs

Marcus Correa, Carlos Jaramillo, and Thomas Lopez join Now Instant for the West Coast launch of *TOKALA*, a photo and film series exploring the intersection of climate and social justice through youth organizers and the communities they advocate for. The evening is free and open to the public, and will feature presentations of the first two films in the series by Jazmin Garcia, which will remain on loop in the cinema throughout the event.

A DJ set by VAGO will take place downstairs in the bar, and Churros Galeno will be available on Chung King Road.

Guests are welcome to arrive at any time during the evening.

Tokala

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriter**: Elena Oxman

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

Featuring a conversation with writer/director **Elena Oxman** after the Wednesday screening.

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

Outerlands

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Tôru Hara

Join us on the Catbus for one of cinema&#8217;s most magical and beloved experiences that no one of any age can deny. While certainly not the first film to come out of Studio Ghibli, *My Neighbor Totoro* is often considered to be the studio and director Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated masterpiece. A touching story about two sisters who befriend the wood spirits in rural Japan, *My Neighbor Totoro* is an endearing fable centered on childhood wonder, family, imagination, and the importance of taking care of nature. It’s almost as if the film was made specifically to overwhelm the viewer with good vibes, and it’s hard not to fall in love with this lush, magical world of trolls wearing leaf hats and a bus that’s also a cat. There’s a reason Totoro has become the mascot of Studio Ghibli, and one of the cuddliest-looking creatures in animation history.

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

My Neighbor Totoro (Subtitled)

**Screenwriter**: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie

**Producers**: Grace Glowicki,  Ben Petrie,  Yona Strauss

Presented in **Smell-O-Vision** on Monday 4/20!

Join us in the microcinema for the funniest, stinkiest horror comedy of the year &#8211; Grace Glowicki&#8217;s supremely absurd, magnificently DIY, and laugh-so-hard-it-hurts *Dead Lover*. A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. A painfully funny and odiferous low-budget masterpiece of gonzo proportions, this inventive gut-buster is one of the funniest, weirdest films you&#8217;ve ever seen AND smelled!

Dead Lover

**Screenwriters**: Walter Tevis,  Richard Price

**Producers**: Irving Axelrod,  Barbara De Fina

Scorsese, Newman, and Cruise hit the pool hall for this sequel to *The Hustler &#8211; *25 years on &#8211; with incredible cinematography from the legendary Michael Ballhaus and a killer soundtrack from Robbie Robertson of *The Band*. &#8220;Fast Eddie&#8221; Felson (Paul Newman reprising his Oscar-winning role) is back on the beat &#8211; after years of laying low, he&#8217;s ready to get back in the pool hall and start hustling again, this time with a young protegé Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). When the two part ways over Lauria&#8217;s flashy, showboating ways, they are destined to come face to face in a game of winner take all! So grab your pool cues and get ready to win with *The Hustler* all over again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Paul Newman tonight with these classics on physical media!

*The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Rachel, Rachel, Sometimes a Great Notion*

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

The Color of Money

**Screenwriters**: Parker Bennett, Ed Solomon, Terry Runte

**Producers**: Jake Eberts,  Roland Joffé

Grab the controller for your Super Nintendo and get ready to get weird in this bizarro tale of two plumbers on a quest to save the world from projectile-throwing 8bit dinosaurs! It&#8217;s not a game anymore as Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. Now these mustached blue-collar heroes are the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa (Dennis m*therf$&ing Hopper!).

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a whole section devoted to video game adaptations! Take home these bangers tonight!

*Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken*

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

Super Mario Bros.

Vidiots

Normal

Mr. Celebrity/Hot Rhythm

Cape Fear

Los Angeles Filmforum and Dirty Looks present *Filmforum 50, program 11: Flaming Creatures: The Films of Jack Smith.*

Five films, all screening in 16mm, TRT 72 min. Mature subject matter (ages 18+ only).

Full program notes and lineup at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

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This screening is dedicated to Agosto Machado (????-2026), “a lady never tells.”

Appearing in the films are luminaries Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Francis Francine, Judith Malina, Tony Oursler and Tiny Tim. Flaming Creatures was produced for $300\*.\*

*Jack Smith (1932–1989) was a New York-based filmmaker, photographer, and actor known for his pioneering influence in experimental filmmaking and performance art. Smith moved to New York City in 1953, where he attended film classes at the City College of New York, finding employment as a photographer. He studied dance with Ruth St. Denis, direction with Lee Strasberg, and worked as an actor and assistant with Ken Jacobs before shooting his first film, Scotch Tape, in 1959. His best-known film, Flaming Creatures (1963), was confiscated by the New York Police Department and banned throughout the United States due to nudity and charges of obscenity. Smith never again created a finished artwork. His next film, Normal Love (1963), was often re-spliced as it ran, repeatedly reedited, and regularly awarded new titles such as Normal Fantasy, Exotic Landlordism of Crab Lagoon, and The Great Pasty Triumph. From the late 1960s into the 1980s, Smith focused on theater and performance, and combined live happenings with screenings of films and slideshows. Throughout his life, Smith pioneered a radical artistic practice that challenged the economic conditions of late capitalism, fixed definitions of gender and sexuality, and the production and dissemination of art itself. Smith’s influence pervades experimental filmmaking and performance art in the US to this day, and is present in the works of Andy Warhol, John Waters, Laurie Anderson, and Cindy Sherman, among countless others. In 1998, The Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S.1 Museum mounted Jack Smith: Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times, a retrospective of his work that traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Berkeley, California; and Berlin, Germany*

Filmforum 50: Flaming Creatures – The Films of Jack Smith

Ordinary People in 35mm

Janie Geiser’s Time, a substance

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The meek shall inherit the earth. Wrong. Not in the bleak near-future of the second of three MAD MAX movies. Mel Gibson stars in the film that made him an international superstar as Max, a former cop reduced to scavenging for gasoline—the decaying world’s most prized commodity—as he cruises the barren, post-apocalyptic Outback along highways crawling with human vermin.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR

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Horror-meister John Carpenter teams Kurt Russell’s outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic THE THING. In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Once unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

THE THING

We’re proud to present a program of films by the Quay Brothers, featuring *IN ABSENTIA*, *THE COMB*, and *STREET OF CROCODILES*, alongside Christopher Nolan&#8217;s QUAY (2015).

Working between literature, music, and dream logic, the Quays build dense, tactile worlds out of dust, thread, and shadow. Their films feel unearthed rather than made, intimate and uncanny in equal measure.

Presented in 35mm!

The Quay Brothers

A figure known as &#8220;The Assassin&#8221; descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

Mad God

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

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

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS

*Harlem Nights* marks the only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy. Set in 1930s Harlem, the film imagines a world of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops. Anchored by a jazzy score blending big band and Duke Ellington standards, the film unites three generations of Black comedy — Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Murphy — alongside an overflowing ensemble cast. Often misunderstood on release, *Harlem Nights* stands as a bold assertion of authorship and creative control, envisioning Black autonomy over space, style and destiny.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director/Screenwriter: Eddie Murphy. With: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Jasmine Guy, Della Reese.

The Last Laugh: Harlem Nights and the Legacy of Comedy as Resistance

Raiders of the Lost Ark

High Society  / Pride of the Blue Grass

The LA Premiere of a rare voyage into trippy Soviet sci-fi animation—feat. a beloved classic & two mindbending shorts by Vladimir Tarasov!

THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET (1981) + Tarasov's THE RETURN & THE PASS

Bring your gently loved clothes and household items and leave with something new to you! Enjoy free plant-based food and authentic Palestinian coffee while you shop :)

Suggested donation: $10+ (NOTAFLOF)

Supporting 16 verified families in Gaza.

Bring pieces to swap, small household items (nothing too heavy or large), accessories, books, art, or just yourself!

Please leave at home: underwear, bras, baby clothes, heavy/sharp items, dirty/stained clothing.

Masks required- this is a covid-conscious event.

Donations accepted until 4pm day of swap!

2-5pm

L.A. Swap for Gaza

Night of Solidarity for Iran: April 26th

Live Music (A Meditation for Peace)

& Educational Panel


Houman Pourmehdi, master musician 

Assal Rad & Pouya Alimagham, renowned historians 

DJ Rose Knows, extraordinaire


Scribble 5541 York Blvd Los Angeles 90042

7PM Doors, 7:30PM Show. FREE



Night of Solidarity For Iran

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Michael Burton,  Matt McManus

**Producers**: Robert Wald,  Dmitri Villard

A super fun intergalactic adventure for kiddos of all ages, this 1980s Disney live action fantasy classic will bring your imagination to the stars. 12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn&#8217;t aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost. Full of top-notch special effects, a touching story, and an extra helping of nostalgia, you&#8217;ll want an extra ticket for this fantastic flight!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more family-friendly science fiction? Take a trip with these fantastic adventures!

*Batteries Not Included, The Explorers, Short Circuit* (I+II)

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

Flight of the Navigator

Join us in the microcinema for a local piece of musical history. This homegrown concert film directed by **Charlie Weinmann** documents the August 20, 2025 performance by guitarist/bandleader **Jeff Parker** and his **ETA IVtet** (with drummer **Jay Bellerose**, bassist **Anna Butterss**, and saxophonist **Josh Johnson**) at Highland Park, Los Angeles venue **Lodge Room**, which yielded the band&#8217;s forthcoming album ***Happy Today*** (to be released by **International Anthem** and **Nonesuch Records** on May 15, 2026).
*Happy Today* is the ETA IVtet’s first recording made outside of the now-shuttered, widely-beloved Highland Park, Los Angeles micro-club ETA. Part laboratory, part low-stakes proving ground, ETA was where the band’s collective sound coalesced over the course of a storied seven-year Monday night residency that yielded two critically-acclaimed records — 2022’s *Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy* and 2024’s *The Way Out of Easy* — the latter of which debuted #1 on the *Billboard* Contemporary Jazz Charts, and was called &#8220;a testament to the power of live jazz&#8221; by *The Guardian*.

With *Happy Today*, the ETA IVtet&#8217;s sound — honed in such an intimate setting — is scaled up for a much larger audience and space at Lodge Room. But the essential formula of the music remains the same, and has the same hypnotic, deeply-tuned listening effect. The almost alchemical musical communication between Parker, Bellerose, Butterss, and Johnson creates a feeling of connection not only between the band but also between the band and their audience – an ongoing trust exercise that invites listeners to become part of the exchange, and experience the joy of deep listening.

A shadow-laden, almost noirish capture of the band in its full sprawling glory, Weinmann’s *Happy Today* film makes the joyful experience of Parker&#8217;s now-legendary, ever-elusive ETA IVtet – a band who only ever played at a single small Los Angeles venue for the first seven years of their existence, and have only played a few shows since that venue closed at the end of 2023 – viewable and widely-accessible for the first time.

Jeff Parker – ETA IVtet – Happy Today

**Screenwriters**: Mohamed Abu Youssef, Abdel Hay Adib

**Producer**: Gabriel Talhami

A phenomenal melodrama, Hitchcockian thriller, and biting commentary on Egypt&#8217;s path to progress, Youssef Chahine&#8217;s *Cairo Station* remains one of the greatest films in Egyptian history. Qinawi (played by director Youssef Chahine), a physically challenged newspaper salesman obsesses over Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells illegal spirits in the train station. In love with Abu Siri &#8211; a porter at the station attempting to unionize his fellow workers &#8211;  Hanuma teases Qinawi with the possibilities of love. His obsession turning to blood lust, the film dives to a thrilling conclusion. Banned in Egypt for over 20 years, this examination of the country as a whole through the microcosm of a train station shocked the Arab world with its forward-thought.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more masterpieces from the great Youssef Chahine on DVD tonight!

*Alexandria&#8230;Why?, An Egyptian Story, Alexandria Again and Forever*

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

Cairo Station

**Screenwriter**: Jon Moritsugu

**Producers**: Jacques Paisner

Are you ready to get skullf*&ed Vidiots?!? Lose your mind over the newest film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema &#8211; Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis. Is it a movie? Is it a hallucination? You decide as satire and deconstruction collide in the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos. *Fuck Art* with us in the microcinema as we delve into Shitsville USA and a contest between the world&#8217;s greatest art stars that includes video store drug trips, poisonous art displays, and artistic malaise to the hilt. As unhinged and insane as anything you&#8217;ve seen in the last decade, this one-of-a-kind specimen of strange is a cinematic acid trip to the max!

Numbskull Revolution

Libeled Lady

Our quarterly VHS vendor fair returns, Sunday, Jan. 25th!

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## VENDORS:

TBA

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## FOOD:

Cliq Claq Pizza

Spinboy Coffee

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## TATTOOS:

Lowkey Los Angeles

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## SUNDAY, 4/26Noon to 4pFree admission!

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Our VHS SWAP happens every 3 months, on the last Sunday of the month.

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See you there!

APRIL VHS SWAP!

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Marathon Man in 4K

Dodes’ka-den in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From visionary director Harmony Korine comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as “spring break”—the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents SPRING BREAKERS

Los Feliz Theatre

The Ape Man / Voodoo Man / Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**SILENT FRIEND, 2025, Dir. Ildikó Enyedi, 147 Mins, 1-2 Special, Germany/France/Hungary**

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

At the heart of an old German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass, the distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches. In 2020, a visiting neuroscientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botanical consciousness. In 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by studying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Three lonely souls, three outsiders. Over time, each is transformed by the quiet, enduring and mysterious power of nature. From Ildikó Enyedi, the director of Academy Award-nominated ON BODY AND SOUL, comes SILENT FRIEND, an epic, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux and Venice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler, Enyedi crafts a funny, tender meditation on the essential question of what it means to be human

FORMAT: DCP

**MY TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1989, Dir. Ildikó Enyedi, 104 Mins, Kino Lorber, Hungary**

*In Hungarian with English subtitles.*

Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness,’ reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. Tarkovsky’s fabulous actor, Oleg Yankovsky, performs an unforgettable double with the young Polish actress Dorotha Segda.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi Advance Screening ‘Ildikó Enyedi: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

SILENT FRIEND / MY TWENTIETH CENTURY

hey, nothing - Live at Brain Dead Studios: An Intimate Acoustic Performance + Documentary Screening

From Tyler & Harlow: Sweat, blood, & beers. Last Spring we played a bunch of shows all around North America. During that time, a camera man by the name of Jake video recorded our mornings, afternoons, evenings, & late nights. After a year in the cutting room, thoroughly deleting countless hours of incriminating footage, we are finally ready to share with you our journey.

hey, nothing - Live at Brain Dead Studios: An Intimate Acoustic Performance + Documentary Screening

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 12, “The Black Widow****,” Dir. Caleb Deschanel, 46 Mins**

Audrey has photos that may save Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 13, “Checkmate****,” Dir. ****Todd Holland****, 46 Mins**

Andy and Dick search Little Nicky’s files.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 14, “Double Play****,” Dir. ****Uli Edel****, 46 Mins**

The rivalry between Cooper and Earle is revealed.

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 Black Widow,” “Checkmate” and “Double Play” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 12, 13 & 14

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

**Picks from the Video Store******

Take home more Catherine Deneuve tonight on Blu-Ray and DVD!

*La Chamade, Donkey Skin, Un Flic***

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

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Up In Smoke/In The Money

Acropolis Cinema presents *The Slow Business of Going*, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2001.

Part of "Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari," a complete retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 - May 9 at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.

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William Gibson meets Samuel Beckett in Tsangari’s feature directorial debut, an exhilarating, shape-shifting work set mostly in the indeterminate spaces of hotel rooms and aboard a barge in Texas, as Global Nomad Project representative Petra Going (Lizzie Curry Martinez) travels the world, generating and transmitting memories back to the Experience Data Agency. Audaciously stylized and charming in its singular brand of lo-fi sci-fi, *The Slow Business of Going* radically changes forms (and, frequently, formats) with each strange situation Petra finds herself in. The result is a fast and funny ode to life without a home base and a stimulating exploration of human consciousness between the real and the virtual. (Film at Lincoln Center)

TRT: 101 min

In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: The Slow Business of Going (Tsangari, 2001)

La La Land in 35mm

Eddy Furlong is a naughty boy, getting involved with some serious dickheads. Muscly big bro Ed Norton gets out of jail and says no way to his racist past. Regret, tragedy and reckoning in this late &#8217;90s classic.

American History X

Make Me a Star / Don’t Gamble with Strangers

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

Let's Go Navy/Here Come the Marines

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/30)

*The Third Horizon: A Film Triptych* explores speculative futures through ritual, movement, and myth. Where the body, music, and ecology converge across time.

Bringing together Kordae Jatafa Henry&#8217;s *Makara*, *Earth Mother, Sky Father*, and *IF NOT NOW (excerpt)*, the program unfolds as a form of spiritual cinema, where animation, performance, and sound operate as systems of transmission.

Spanning past, present, and future temporalities, the works examine the body as a site of spirit, memory, and transformation. Through choreography, visual effects, and sound, each film reimagines relationships between the Anthropocene, infrastructure, and Black virtuosity.

The Third Horizon: A Film Triptych

**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau

**Producers**: Éric Altmayer,  Nicolas Altmayer

Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau&#8217;s brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director&#8217;s most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst. Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. As a mysterious virus spreads to pandemic proportions (with mind-blowing special effects), and a mysterious junky uncle comes to stay with them, Alpha must learn to navigate the nightmares of school, home, and health as her family&#8217;s ghosts haunt her present and future. Ducournau continues to prove herself to be one of world cinema&#8217;s most exciting voices &#8211; effortlessly elevating genre filmmaking to a transcendent experience &#8211; a slow burn through a dark dreamscape of plagues, puberty, and addiction.

Alpha

Lassie's Great Adventure/The Green Hornet

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

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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 (5/1)

Parajanov’s iconic masterwork—an intimate, near-wordless portrait of Armenian cultural memory, rendered in pure visual poetry.

Sergei Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)

**Screenwriters**: Walter Hill, David Shaber, Sol Yurick

**Producer**: Lawrence Gordon

*Warriors, come out to Plaaaaaay!* Run for your life with the Warriors, a Coney Island gang falsely accused of the assassination of Cyrus &#8211; a gang leader with a plan to unify all the New York City gangs into an unstoppable force.  With the local radio station blasting their information along with the funkiest of tunes, every hyper-stylized gang in town is out the get the Warriors, including the Baseball Furies, the Orphans, and the Lizzies. Can they make it back to Coney Island safe? Can they clear their name and nail the real assassins? Will Michael Beck from *Xanadu* fall in love along the way? You&#8217;ll just have to throw on your leather vest and ride the subway down to Vidiots with your gang to find out in Walter Hill&#8217;s ultimate cult classic!

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

The Warriors

**Screenwriters**: Rachel Wolther,  Alex Huston Fischer

**Producers**: Matt Day,  Anu Valia,  Jason Klorfein

Join us for a night of cinema, comedy, and dance when we bring you the absurd short film ***Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone** *preceded by live comedy sets from **Carmen Christopher**,** Aparna Nancherla**, and** Kyle Mooney** and followed by a conversation with the **filmmakers** and **Cocoon Central Dance Team** moderated by **The Daniels**!

This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team &#8211; Sunita Mani (*GLOW*, *MR. Robot*), Tallie Medel (*Everything Everywhere All At Once*), and Eleanore Pienta (*A Different Man*) &#8211; is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs lounge about, fight beachballs, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe.

Produced by the Academy Award-winning Daniels (*Everything Everywhere All At Once*). Featuring Kate Berlant (*Would It Kill You To Laugh?*), Joe Pera (*Joe Pera Talks With You*), Keith Poulson (*I Blame Society*), and Reggie Watts (*Comedy Bang Bang*). Written and Directed by Rachel Wolther (*The French Italian*), and Alex H Fischer (*Save Yourselves!*) .

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

Snowy Bing Bongs – Comedy, Dance, Cinema Spectacular!

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in 35mm

High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) in 35mm

**Screenwriters**: Dr. Seuss, Allan Scott

**Producer**: Stanley Kramer

Vidiots is Seussing out with one of the wildest and weirdest children&#8217;s movies of all time *The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T*! Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart&#8217;s existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker&#8217;s sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream where the evil Dr. T threatens hundreds of boys with an eternity of piano lessons &#8211; on one giant piano! More hallucinatory than most children&#8217;s movies will allow, this one-of-a-kind Seussical is totally bonkers entertainment for your film nerd partner AND your five-year-old!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more imaginative films for the kiddos?

*The Phantom Tollbooth, The Boy with Green Hair, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland*

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

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

**Screenwriter**: Satyajit Ray from the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay

**Producer**: Asim Dutta, Nepal Dutta

With a special video introduction from Wes Anderson!

Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, *Days and Nights in the Forest* is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale. Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends—Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh)—drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism. Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), *Days and Nights in the Forest*touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak.

*Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.*

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

Days and Nights in the Forest

**Screenwriter**: Helen Childress

**Producers**: Danny DeVito,  Michael Shamberg

Dust off your flannels and Doc Martins and join us for the ultimate Gen X hang! After college, Lelaina (Winona Ryder) films a documentary about herself and friends as they flounder in their attempts to forge relationships and begin careers. Vickie (Janeane Garofalo) works retail, has an endless string of one-night stands and awaits the results of her HIV test. Sammy (Steve Zahn) tries to come out to his parents. Lelaina gets involved with yuppie Michael (Ben Stiller) while maintaining a love-hate relationship with Troy (Ethan Hawke), who&#8217;s undergoing an existential crisis.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Pocket more Winona Ryder on DVD and Blu-Ray tonight!

*Lucas, Heathers, Night on Earth*

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

Reality Bites

**Screenwriter**: Elliot Tuttle

**Producers**: Bijan Kazerooni, Will Youmans, Waylon Sall, Adam Kersh

Vidiots is so excited and proud to finally be able to share our very own house manager and burgeoning new directing talent **Elliot Tuttle&#8217;s** provocative new film ***Blue Film*** on our big screen with you! This incendiary and singular vision has been buzzing around the festivals (that would dare to have it) and is finally receiving its theatrical release with its Los Angeles premiere at Vidiots!

When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man (Reed Birney) with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually reveal their true desires in a seductive thriller being called &#8220;one of the most daring American films of recent vintage.”

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

Blue Film

Tootsie in 35mm

The Hireling in 35mm

Sanjuro in 35mm

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back with Billy Dee Williams

May 3 · 6pm–10pm at Brain Dead Studios.

50/50 Comedy is a one-night international short film festival dedicated to platforming and connecting the next generation of comedic talent.

Past editions have brought together filmmakers and industry guests from CAA, UTA, WME, 3 Arts and more.

Purchase of ticket will include entrance to the festival + meal & concessions are included.

Our last Comedy Festival honored Kyle Mooney with the first ever 50/50 Achievement Award.

Parking is limited and Uber/Lyft is recommended.

50/50 Comedy

**Screenwriters**: John Lasseter, Dan Fogelman, Daniel Gerson, Joe Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, Jørgen Klubien

**Producer**: Darla K. Anderson

Start your engines for this high-octane animated comedy. Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town&#8217;s offbeat characters. Drive your little auto-enthusiasts to Vidiots for this vehicular delight!

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

Cars

**Screenwriter**: Tom Schulman

**Producers**: Steven Haft,  Paul Junger Witt,  Tony Thomas

A new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams), is introduced to an all-boys preparatory school that is known for its ancient traditions and high standards. He uses unorthodox methods to reach out to his students, who face enormous pressures from their parents and the school. With Keating&#8217;s help, students Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) and others learn to break out of their shells, pursue their dreams and seize the day.

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

Dead Poets Society

**Screenwriter**: Emilio Fernández from the novella by John Steinbeck

**Producer**: Óscar Dancigers

Co-presented by Community Partners **El Cine **with a special introduction by **Gilbert Trejo.**

Join us for a rare treat of  Emilio Fernández&#8217;s stunning John Steinbeck adaptation *La Perla*; a 1947 Mexican–American cinematic treasure that demands to be seen in community on the big screen. Made in both Spanish and English versions, this timeless treasure has been living between languages for nearly 80 years, in a way that feels especially resonant. The film follows Kino, a pearl diver whose life shifts after discovering a rare pearl, bringing both hope and consequences. With stunning cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa and a powerful performance by Pedro Armendáriz, *La Perla* remains a defining work of Mexican cinema and is preserved by the United States National Film Registry.

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

The Pearl (La Perla)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness, this English-dubbed reedit of the first two films in the classic Japanese *chanbara* series LONE WOLF AND CUB is a giddily entertaining, mesmerisingly gory classic of East-meets-West grindhouse mayhem. Following the murder of his wife at the hands of an evil shogun, an avenging ronin (Tomisaburo Wakayama) roams the countryside with his young son—and the boy’s sword-shooting baby carriage—in tow, dispatching ninja assassins with steely resolve in operatically stylized flurries of hallucinatory violence. With its pulsing synth soundtrack and delirious action set pieces—kinetically edited whirlwinds of flashing blades, spurting blood, and severed limbs—SHOGUN ASSASSIN proved an instant cult favorite that has bubbled its way up from the underground to the mainstream thanks to its influence on artists ranging from the Wu-Tang Clan to Quentin Tarantino.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan/USA

Co-presented by 36 Cinema Special thanks to Harry Guerro for the print ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents SHOGUN ASSASSIN

Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered absurdity as Netflix Is a Joke Fest presents a special screening of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!—the film that redefined the spoof comedy genre and cemented Lt. Frank Drebin as an all-time cult hero.

Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered absurdity as Netflix Is a Joke Fest presents a special screening of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!—the film that redefined the spoof comedy genre and cemented Lt. Frank Drebin as an all-time cult hero.


The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad!

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 15, “Slaves and Masters,” Dir. Diane Keaton, 46 Mins**

Earle sends a “message” to Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 16, “The Condemned Woman,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Albert reveals that it was Josie who shot Cooper.

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.

“Slaves and Masters” and “The Condemned Woman” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 15 & 16

I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku) in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Drawing on 600 hours of never-seen footage, this is the untold underdog story of Lilith Fair, the women’s music festival of the late ’90s started by Sarah McLachlan in opposition to “industry wisdom” that women couldn’t sell tickets or keep radio listeners. The film charts the story of the tour’s massive success, the backlash that emerged, and its ongoing legacy. Interviews include Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls, Natalie Merchant, Brandi Carlile and Olivia Rodrigo.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Hulu

COUNTRY: Canada/USA

Q&A with filmmaker Ally Pankiw and executive producer Cassidy Hartmann ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2026’

LILITH FAIR: BUILDING A MYSTERY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A colorful array of characters competes at a national dog show. Starring Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Jennifer Coolidge.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Christopher Guest and actor Eugene Levy ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2026’ and ‘Starring Catherine O’Hara’

BEST IN SHOW

35mm can be beautiful, but 16mm is *personal*. Join Secret Sixteen founder Mike Williamson, Josh Miller (Killer Movies) and Bret Berg (Museum of Home Video) for a 12-hour survival quest of prehistoric vengeance, loincloth love, epic fantasy and muscular magic — screened from Secret Sixteen’s incredibly siqq collection of Swatch watch-era swords ’n sorcery.

Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen. What we can say is that this six-film marathon is soaking in noble scoundrels, rival clans, misty caverns, captured kingdoms, pernicious priests, powers of the gods, super-strength, a buffet of side boob, a distinct lack of pants, astounding production design, excessive spectacle, obligatory quicksand, flying jump kicks, lizard people, huge people, small people, grotesque wounds, sub-human slaying, mass destruction, primordial pulp, swords within swords and good mostly triumphing over evil…mostly.

SECRET SIXTEEN: 80’s SWORDS AND SORCERY

This program explores how reenactment exposes cinema’s inherent nature to simultaneously depict, reconstruct and reinterpret. In these films, our subjects perform their own stories, exploring the productive tensions between reality, art and representation on-screen.

*Programmed by Noah Brockman.***
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*Special thanks to our community partners: [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television](https://www.tft.ucla.edu/)
*

Penelope Spheeris’ 1972 UCLA thesis film features Jennifer Michaels and Dana Reuben in Warholian docufiction. Fascinated by society’s degenerates, Spheeris employs loosely scripted reenactment as critique. Turning tricks, seducing trade and performing gender, Michaels and Reuben mock straight culture from its fringes. Michaels, an iconic trans actress who worked with Pat Rocco on *Sex and the Single Gay* (1970) and starred in *Changes* (1970), lends a particularly notable performance. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.—*Wilde Davis*

Director: Penelope Spheeris. With: Dana Reuben, Jennifer Michaels.

*A Little Stiff* doesn’t end where it begins so much as it ends where it’s conceived. In this precursor to Caveh Zahedi’s later autobiographical present-tense documentaries, the cast play themselves as they reenact roughly the same unrequited infatuation between Zahedi and McKim that led to the film’s own production. As Zahedi wanders around UCLA’s Arts building, feeds peanuts to squirrels with his friend Greg Watkins, and plunges himself further into a state of longing, we observe the mundanities and ecstatic moments of Zahedi’s spiral through intensely naturalistic performances. Shot on a shoestring budget, *A Little Stiff* feels like a mumblecore *The* *Sorrows of Young Werther.—Noah Brockman*

Directors: Greg Watkins, Caveh Zahedi. Screenwriters: Greg Watkins, Caveh Zahedi. With: Caveh Zahedi, Erin McKim, Greg Watkins.

*DCP courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.*

UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! Reenactment

Intro to Leatherworking

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

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

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

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (4/18)

Experience the award-winning film *Memories of Love Returned* at LACMA after its resounding world tour and special premiere in Uganda. American-born Ugandan actor, writer, filmmaker, and playwright Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine will be present to discuss his film and its expansive journey with a special guest. 

***Memories of Love Returned***
2024, Uganda/United States, 76 minutes
Luganda and English with English subtitles
Projected on DCP

On April 24, 2002, filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for it to be repaired he stumbled upon a small photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950s to his death in 2006. This chance encounter turned into a 22-year journey documenting and exploring Kibaate’s life and photography and the profound impact it had on Ntare’s life and the lives of the entire community he documented. Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, this intimate, nuanced documentary about the transformative power of photography was named best documentary at the Africa International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival.

*Doc Talk* co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey call *Memories of Love Returned*  "one of the best documentaries of the year."

Memories of Love Returned with Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

Romancing the Stone

Hot Fuzz

Join us for a reading and conversation with legendary musician Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist of Hole for the launch of her new book!

An Afternoon with Melissa Auf der Maur

Join us for a reading and conversation with legendary musician Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist of Hole for the launch of her new book.

Polish Animation #2: Chance & Transition (1975-89)

8:00 PM

HARLAN COUNTY, USA

7:30 PM

Shadow Kitchen presents: Animation Spring Mix

7:30 PM

Gosford Park

Clue

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 4/16) 7:30pm

7:30 PM

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/16)

4:00 PM

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

The Living Ghost

The Face of Marble

7:30 PM

BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT Screening & Q&A

7:30 PM

The Drama

Men of San Quentin/The Miracle Kid

7:30 PM