Harriet the Spy in 35mm

Fritz Lang’s M

The 4th Man in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Season 5, Episode 16, “Flatbush,” Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 38 Mins**

In Episode 6 of Season 5, the investigation takes Oliver and Loretta back to the streets of his childhood, where buried memories surface and secrets about Lester and Nicky’s widows emerge. Mabel and Charles follow leads after a break-in.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, 2021, Hulu, USA**

From the minds of Steve Martin, Dan Fogelman & John Hoffman comes a comedic murder-mystery series for the ages. ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

**MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT, 2026, 99 Mins, Dir. Lawrence Kasdan, Netflix, USA**

MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT, from director Lawrence Kasdan, is the definitive documentary on beloved comedian Martin Short. Using beautiful, intimate, never-before-seen archive footage alongside exclusive interviews with some of the most established and beloved stars, the documentary takes a look at one of the most influential comedians of a generation.

FORMAT: DCP

Pre-recorded Q&A with actor Martin Short and filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan ‘Martin Short Weekend’

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING / MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**SHERLOCK JR., 1924, Dir. Buster Keaton, 45 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

Buster plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle’s master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The Electric House,” 1922, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 23 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home. He installs lots of fanciful gadgets. The one who should have received the degree gets even by rewiring all the gadgets to wreak havoc.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The Scarecrow,” 1920, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 18 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

‘What Is a Home Without a Mother’ reads the sign on the wall of Buster and Big Joe’s bachelor pad – a marvelously inventive house designed for effortless living. A two-reel trick-and-slapstick farce with Buster Keaton and funny furniture doing most of the farcing.

FORMAT: DCP

SHERLOCK JR. / "The Electric House" / "The Scarecrow"

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is released from prison to carry out a top secret mission rescuing POWs held in the jungles of Vietnam.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II in 70mm

Aero Theatre

### FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN

Brain Dead Studios presents ***FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN***, preceded by a special seminar presented by filmmaker **Heather Landsman** exploring the film’s ambitious creation, groundbreaking technology, and infamous legacy.

Celebrating its **25th anniversary**, ***Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within*** features a star-studded voice cast and years of cutting-edge development. The film remains one of the most revolutionary leaps in computer animation and motion capture.

**Brain Dead members can use their code to get a discounted ticket!**

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators. Although she is ignored at first, when contact with colonists on a planet thought safe is suddenly lost, Ripley and a military team are sent to confront the aliens.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA/UK

ALIENS in 70mm

Directors Village

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Reckless rich playboy, played by the great Rock Hudson in his breakthrough role, commits maritime manslaughter that ends the life of the town’s beloved local doctor. Douglas Sirk’s delirious Technicolor melodrama weaves its way through wild twists, turns, trials, tribulations, the American subconscious and the sudsy and spiritual journey to make right what can never be undone.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

‘Magnificent Melodramas: Douglas Sirk & Russell Metty’

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

Golden Globe winner John Travolta stars with Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito and Rene Russo in this wildly popular comedy of a gangster who turns into a big-time producer after he travels to Hollywood to collect a debt.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Pre-recorded introduction by Angelyne ‘Watch Local: Angelyne the Billboard Queen’

GET SHORTY

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Ready.. Set.. Zoom!”, 1955, Dir. Chuck Jones, 9 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote’s attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE VERDICT, 1982, Dir. Sidney Lumet, 129 Mins, Walt Disney Studios, USA**

An alcoholic Boston lawyer takes on a hopeless medical malpractice case in a desperate attempt to pursue justice and redeem his honor.

FORMAT: DCP

‘You Can’t Handle The Toons! COYOTE VS. ACME Inspirations’

"Ready.. Set.. Zoom!" / THE VERDICT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In German with English subtitles.*

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a role that earned her Best Actress at Cannes) insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most haunting performances ever captured on screen, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: France/West Germany

POSSESSION

Los Feliz Theatre

Cartoon Club

School of Rock

Taxi Driver

Cannibal Holocaust

New Beverly Cinema

FIVE UNRELEASED SHORTS FROM: NATE VARRONE, ANDREW THEODORE BALASIA, PHILIP STEIGER, AUDREY ARNOLD, ALEC MOELLER

Now Instant Image Hall

1964 • Introduction by Author Foster Hirsch • Few screen debuts have been as memorable as Julie Andrews in this film. She won the Academy Award, and the picture went on to receive 13 nominations and win five. The Sherman Brothers songs have become part of movie history, and the blend of live action and animation still offers pure movie magic. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Mary Poppins

1968 • Introduction by Author Foster Hirsch • Shot on real city streets, this film has a toughness and realism that helped set a new standard for police thrillers. It won the Academy Award for Film Editing, and its San Francisco car chase remains one of the most celebrated and influential action sequences ever put on screen.  • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Bullitt

Old Town Music Hall

The kick-off of Dead Day! Hollywood Entertainment presents a rare screening of the doc that captures a pivotal moment in Deadhead history

TIE-DIED: ROCK N' ROLL'S MOST DEADICATED FANS (1995)

Philosophical Research Society

Transform a tarot card into your own personalized piece of art! You'll start by selecting a card at random from a deck, then cutting away and rebuilding imagery using collage techniques to create a tarot card that reflects your own story, emotions, or intentions. No art or tarot experience needed - all materials are provided, and each attendee will leave with a one-of-a-kind customized tarot card. 

2-4PM

$20-$30 sliding scale 

Tickets available  here !

DIY Collage Tarot Cards

Scribble

Our fuzzy overlords return to the big screen! Vidiots is purrfectly enthralled to bring back the cutest kitty compilation ever! *CatVideoFest* is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. *CatVideoFest* is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises money for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to best serve cats in the area.

To support our feline friends, we are highlighting the work of [Tail Town Cat Cafe](https://www.tailtowncats.com/), who house adoption-ready cats from [Kitten Rescue of Los Angeles](https://kittenrescue.org/) and help to find them amazing families and homes. To support their mission, please visit their website or their wish list by clicking [here](https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1SG1NXK67DON1/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex) or [here](https://www.chewy.com/g/tail-town-cats_b122796640).

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got more non-streaming kitties for your viewing pleasure on glorious physical media!

*Standard of Perfection: Show Cats, Cat Dancers, Cat Soup*

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

CatVideoFest 2026

**Producer**: Bob Maurice

We got you front row passes to the most legendary concert in American history &#8211; and you get to enjoy the whole thing in the air conditioning! An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000. Join in on the musical mayhem on our big screen in glorious celluloid!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more incredible concert docs tonight on physical media!

*Wattstax, Gimme Shelter, Monterey Pop*, and so many more from our Music Documentary section!

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

Woodstock on 35mm

**Screenwriters**: Orian Barki,  Meriem Bennani,  Ayla Mrabet

**Producers**: John Michael Boling,  Jason Coombs

Join us in the microcinema for one of the most unique animated feature films of recent history &#8211; Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani&#8217;s intensely personal, singular, and genuine *Bouchra*. Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression. Juxtaposing decidedly absurd animation choices with the realism of her characters and dialogue, Bennani creates an asbolutely unique vision of artistry and queer identity.

Bouchra

**Screenwriters**: Mel Brooks, J.D. Shapiro, Evan Chandler

**Producer**: Mel Brooks

Vidiots is celebrating the 100th birthday of one of the greatest legends of comedy and cinema &#8211; the incomparable **Mel Brooks** &#8211; with a stupid fun screening of his ridiculous comedy classic *Robin Hood: Men in Tights!*

You know the legend, you&#8217;ve seen the cartoon, but you&#8217;ve never seen *Robin Hood* like this! Get ready for a night of ridiculousness as Mel Brooks, the maestro of the spoof takes on this timeless tale &#8211; with extra lycra! Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff. With Brooks at the helm, you know there will be laughs from start to end, not to mention the dreamiest casting of Robin Hood ever with Cary Elwes!

Picks from the Video Store

Take home all the laughs with our Mel Brooks treasure trove of physical media!

*The Producers, Spaceballs, High Anxiety*

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

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

**Screenwriters**: Harley Peyton, Mark Frost

*She’s dead… wrapped in plastic.* If your summer plans call for an enigmatic journey to the Pacific Northwest and a small sleepy burg called *Twin Peaks*, have we got news for you! Go back to the beginning of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s game-changing television phenomenon with a special theatrical screening of the first two episodes of this landmark series on our beautiful big screen. When the homecoming queen washes ashore shrouded in a plastic coccoon, this small town is thrown into tragedy and panic. Luckily, the FBI’s most intriguing special agent, Dale Cooper, is on the case and vows to unravel this enduring mystery that extends beyond Twin Peaks and into the dark recesses of this universe and beyond. Whether you’re starting the show for the first time, or you’re revisiting for your twentieth, there’s nothing like seeing this dark, clever, mystical, metaphysical, and offbeat masterpiece at Vidiots! 

Watch the whole first season with us!

[Episodes 1 + 2 in the Eagle Theatre](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/twin-peaks-the-original-mystery-episodes-1-2/) &#8211; Sun., July 26th, 7:00pm

[Episodes 3 + 4 in the Mubi microcinema](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/twin-peaks-the-original-mystery-episodes-3-4/) &#8211; Sat. Aug. 1, 7:30pm, Sun. Aug. 2, 7:30pm

[Episodes 5 + 6 in the MUBI microcinema](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/twin-peaks-the-original-mystery-episodes-5-6/) &#8211; Sat. Aug. 1, 10:00pm, Mon. Aug. 3, 7:30pm

[Episodes 7 + 8 in the MUBI microcinema](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/twin-peaks-the-original-mystery-episodes-7-8/) &#8211; Fri. Aug. 7, 10:00pm, Sat. Aug. 8, 7:30pm

Or, if you&#8217;re impatient, you can take home every single episode of the whole series and *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* from our David Lynch director&#8217;s section in the video store!

Twin Peaks: The Original Mystery – Episodes 7 + 8

**Screenwriter**: Bill Phillips from the novel by Stephen King

**Producer**: Richard Kobritz

A meeting of two of the greatest minds in horror, this vehicular monster movie combines the sentient machines of Stephen King with the uneasy vibes of John Carpenter for an 80s horror classic in high gear. Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie&#8217;s girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other. Featuring Vidiots&#8217; forever legend Harry Dean Stanton as a wisened, chain-smoking police detective trying to solve a string of mysterious homicides that appear to be the work of a motorpsycho.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got all your Carpenter favorites, and deep cuts in his directors section!

*Prince of Darkness, The Fog, Elvis*

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

Christine

**Producers**: Jeff Tremaine,  Spike Jonze,  Johnny Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville and the gang return for one final fling at the big screen. Featuring all-new stunts and stupidity along with the greatest hits and biggest laughs from the past, jackass: best and last is a joyously raucous celebration of all the mischievous camaraderie that you’ve come to love and expect from these idiots over the past 25 years. So, grab your dumb little buddies, raise your glasses, and come experience the cinematic event that promises to be the last time you’ll ever laugh this hard in a theatre.

Jackass: Best and Last

Vidiots

Three Wise Girls

The Odyssey (70mm)

Blood on the Moon

Ice Cream Man

Vista Theatre

Windgrease Cinema, curated by Harmony Holiday (Mythscience) and Minaret, features Kahlil Joseph's rarely seen work *Process*, which captures musician Sampha in Freetown, Sierra Leone, plus archival shorts, and a rare film on Tony Williams in Africa.

Windgrease Festival: Windgrease Cinema

2220 Arts + Archives

The Thin Red Line in 35mm

Bunny Lake Is Missing in 4K

Elle

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Mandarin with English subtitles.*

Set just prior to the start of the 21st century, this vaguely futuristic story follows two residents of a quickly crumbling building who refuse to leave their homes in spite of a virus that has forced the evacuation of the area. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him. Combining deadpan humor with an austere view of loneliness and a couple of unexpected musical numbers, Tsai Ming-Liang crafted one of the most original films of the 1990s.

FORMAT: 35mm

COUNTRY: Taiwan

DISTRIBUTOR: Big World Pictures

New 35mm print ‘Transcendental Appointments’

THE HOLE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**REELING, 2025, Dir. Yana Alliata, 76 Mins, The Future of Film is Female, USA**

REELING, the striking debut feature by Yana Alliata, is a lyrical and emotionally charged exploration of memory, trauma and belonging set against the idyllic family property on Oahu’s windward side. After a life-altering accident, Ryan returns to his family’s homestead for a birthday luau, attempting to reconnect with old friends and relatives who now feel like strangers. Amid laughter, music and the glow of torches, buried tensions simmer beneath the surface as Ryan uncovers the secret of when things took a tragic turn. REELING is executive produced by the singular Werner Herzog.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE FIRE WITHIN: A REQUIEM FOR KATIA AND MAURICE KRAFFT, 2022, Dir. Werner Herzog, 84 Mins, France/UK**

Written, directed and narrated by Herzog, THE FIRE WITHIN pays homage to the French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who left an archive of more than 200 hours of footage.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmakers Yana Alliata and Werner Herzog

REELING / THE FIRE WITHIN: A REQUIEM FOR KATIA AND MAURICE KRAFFT

**Alice Coltrane: *****Eternity&#8217;s Pillar***

Originally broadcast on late-night Los Angeles television between 1985 and 1988, *Eternity&#8217;s Pillar* is Alice Coltrane&#8217;s rarely seen series blending devotional music, meditation, and spiritual teachings. This special screening presents four newly restored episodes from the Coltrane archive, offering a rare glimpse into the visionary artist&#8217;s extraordinary creative and spiritual practice.

The acclaimed limited-edition Blu-ray collection featuring all seventeen surviving episodes will also be available for purchase at the screening.

Alice Coltrane: Eternity’s Pillar

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Moderated by David Canfield. ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’

PROJECT HAIL MARY in 70mm

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 10+

During the early aughts in Toronto, ambitious 13 year-old boy band fanatic Mei Lee is torn between remaining her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of teenage adolescence. When Mei discovers she transforms into a giant red panda when she gets too excited – which is, to her dismay, all of the time – she must reckon between her two selves: spirited teenager and obedient daughter. With vibrant animation and playful nods to the stylings of anime and manga, Turning Red captures the energy, uncertainty, and excitement of growing up.

(2022, Dir. Domee Shi, DCP, color, 100 min.)

Family Flicks: Turning Red

Hammer Museum

Join us for day of riso printing! Come by and participate in this quick turnaround open riso studio. Beginners and experiences artists can bring a simple photograph or design, or make something on the spot, and have us print it on our riso with a quick turnaround time. We will have supplies to make drawings, collages, or print an existing image. This session will be limited to one color or two color designs. We will print 20 copies of each design. To print extra copies, feel free to pay a small material fee.

1-Hour Risograph Printing (8/9)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

This true story of wartime valor stars Burt Lancaster as a French railway inspector who goes up against the Nazis in order to prevent a trainload of France’s most treasured paintings from being stolen. Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau co-star in this suspense-filled and sophisticated action film from John Frankenheimer.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/France

Introduction by filmmaker and actor Macon Blair ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Macon Blair Presents THE TRAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT, from director Lawrence Kasdan, is the definitive documentary on beloved comedian Martin Short. Using beautiful, intimate, never-before-seen archive footage alongside exclusive interviews with some of the most established and beloved stars, the documentary takes a look at one of the most influential comedians of a generation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan, producer Justin Wilkes and editor Sierra Neal. Moderated by Michael Schneider. ‘Martin Short Weekend’

MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A trio of silver-screen Western heroes are summoned to the town of Santa Poco, Mexico, which is under siege by bloodthirsty bandits. Believing it’s just a “personal appearance,” they answer the call and find they’re up against real banditos!

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

¡THREE AMIGOS!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

CLIFFORD

2011 • Introduction by Randy Haberkamp • Martin Scorsese made many extraordinary films, but nothing else in his career feels quite as magical as this. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winner of 5, it begins as a beautifully crafted adventure and gradually reveals itself as something richer: a moving tribute to pioneers of cinema • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Hugo

Join Miry's List on August 9th for a special New Arrival Supper Club featuring authentic Syrian cuisine prepared by newly arrived chefs Maysaa and Abdul Kanjo. 

Our New Arrival Supper Club brings together community members and newly arrived refugee families for a meaningful cultural exchange through food, conversation, and connection.


This intimate evening celebrates the rich culinary traditions of Syria while creating space to build friendships across cultures. Enjoy a thoughtfully prepared meal, hear stories of resilience and hope, and experience the power of sharing a table with neighbors from around the world.

Your participation supports Miry's List's ongoing mission to welcome and empower newly arrived refugee families as they build new lives here in America.


6-9pm

For more info on Miry's List and to get tickets, click  here !

Food is Love in Action

**Screenwriters**: Ryûnosuke Akutagawa,  Shinobu Hashimoto,  Akira Kurosawa

**Producer**: Minoru Jingo

One of the most influential movies ever made, *Rashomon* is an enduring masterpiece that served as the big breakthrough for both legendary director Akira Kurosawa and charismatic star Toshirō Mifune, and introduced a radical new idea to cinema: telling the same story multiple times through the POV of different characters. Set in 11th century Kyoto, the plot centers on a grisly crime — a samurai is murdered and his wife assaulted by a bandit — that’s depicted via a series of flashbacks in which the participants each give their version of what happened. When their stories fail to match up, it’s left to the viewer to determine where exactly the truth lies. The first Japanese movie to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this shapeshifting thriller has inspired countless imitators and even coined a psychological phenomenon called the “Rashomon Effect.”

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Toshiro Mifune tonight on Blu-Ray and DVD

*Chushingura, Hell in the Pacific, Samurai III*, and every single Kurosawa/Mifune collab!

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

Rashomon

**Screenwriters**: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

**Producers**: Jenno Topping,  Betty Thomas

Vidiots can&#8217;t wait to party with Writer/Directors **Deborah Kaplan** and **Harry Elfont** at a special screening of their quintessential 90s teen classic *Can&#8217;t Hardly Wait, *and you&#8217;re invited!

One of the best teen movies of the 1990s, this is one epic graduation party with a who&#8217;s who of 90s teen stars and beyond quotable dialogue! It&#8217;s graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means &#8211; time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance. So bring your besties for one last high school shindig and we will party like it&#8217;s 1998!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more of that sick 90s aesthetic? Get styling with these fashionable finds!

*Party Girl, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Hackers*

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

Can’t Hardly Wait

Returning every time we need her, **Anna Nicole Smith (Jamie Patterson** of **High Tower Video**) joins us at our new location with her personal VHS copy of the only Die Hard ripoff that matters - SKYSCRAPER (1996) !‍

If you missed our previous screenings of this at our old location, here is another opportunity to experience this singular VHS experience with a raucous Los Angeles audience.

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In a performance like no other, Anna Nicole shines as a pilot turned hero, with the right amount of screen time, re-used footage and gratuitous sex scenes to leave you wondering - what is actually going on here?! Some of Whammy fave PM ENTERTAINMENT's finest, most special work.

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A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages. - Letterboxd

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**dir. Raymond Martino, 1996‍***United States, VHS projection*96 min

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## $10 general admission.

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

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

SKYSCRAPER (1996) pres. by High Tower Video

WHAMMY!

Acropolis Cinema presents *Fast*, by Rob Tregenza. A slow film about a fast subject.

Rob Tregenza has worked at the leading edge of American independent cinema since his 1988 debut *Talking to Strangers*, a film built entirely from extended single-take sequences shot in nine locations across the city of Baltimore. His subsequent films—including *Inside/Out* (1997), *Gavagai* (2016), and *The Fishing Place* (2024)—constitute a body of work defined less by narrative than by the physical weight of recorded reality. Largely self-financed and operating outside the festival-circuit economy, he remains one of the few American filmmakers whose practice has more in common with Straub-Huillet or Chantal Akerman than with anything produced in the American independent mainstream.

Tregenza’s sixth feature returns to the American South—shot on location in Lexington and Richmond, Virginia—after his Norwegian excursions in *Gavagai* and *The Fishing Place*. Says Tregenza: “For Sterling (Madison Pankey), a sort of present day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a saturated phenomenon permitting her to move freely in time on a phantom road. It is a sort of Ford but never a DeLorean. A Southern woman with a fair deal of historical baggage and deep secrets, Sterling journeys back to her rural home, the Lotus takes her through the shadow of the valley into the adjoining worlds of the living and the dead. Desiring to become an F1 driver, Sterling must go fast/hard, against/through all tunnels imagined or concrete.” (MoMA)

TRT: 96 min

Acropolis Cinema: Rob Tregenza's Fast (2026)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the wake of box-office titans POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, John Boorman was granted the opportunity of a lifetime: to direct the sequel to THE EXORCIST. What followed was not salvation but spectacle, delivered with outsized ambition and surreal artistry. BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL chronicles how Boorman’s vision collided with industry expectations, turning EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC into one of the most notorious failures in Hollywood history.

Through candid interviews with Boorman himself, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher and a constellation of filmmakers and critics, director David Kittredge unspools a story of creative audacity, on sprawling soundstages, through ghost-glass effects, matte paintings, African-set simulations… and a crisis that almost cost the director his life. BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL is a tribute to daring cinema, a meditation on ambition and a mournful elegy for a golden age that would pay dearly for its risks.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Yellow Veil Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker David Kittredge, actor Linda Blair and producers Travis Stevens and Jim Fall. Moderated by Bryan Fuller. Advance Screening

BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL

Joining us in person:** Jaime Gerin, Rachel McDonald, METTE, Helen Morales, Aaron Rose, Nicholas Shaya, Cat Solen, Aidan Weaver**, and **Matt Wisner**. Followed by a courtyard after-party with a special guest DJ, **Cara Stricker.**

The Flux Screening Series brings the creative community together for a night of outstanding short films and music videos, featuring wildly inventive filmmaker presentations and performances. 

Our summer program features both music videos that broke the internet (but are now enjoyed on the Hammer's giant cinema screen) as well as unexpected short film and video gems that will likely become your new favorites. 

Director** Cat Solen** has been focused on television projects since we screened her last music video in 2019 (the incredible Tierra Whack video *Unemployed*). We're happy that** Olivia Rodrigo** cajoled her back to music videos, collaborating with her creative director **Jaime Gerin** on a beautifully handcrafted video for* The Cure*. 

We're excited to screen **Aidan Weaver**'s atmospheric mystery *A Crime Across Four Landscapes*, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Festival. Hot off his fantastic short film *Swim Lessons*, filmmaker Matt Wisner will join us to share his music video debut *Knifefish *for LA-based artist Oxis. 

Director-artist-curator-writer** Aaron Rose** returns to Flux to premiere *The Ego Has Landed *for the artist TRZTN, which Aaron describes as "a metaphor for identity crisis in the modern world." New York-based filmmaker and photographer **Nicholas Shaya** will present *Rotelle*, the story of a bicycle in the big city. 

The summer lineup spans comedy, dance, drama, animation, and music videos for** Charli xcx, PartyOf2, Rich the Kid, Tamino, Zwangere Guy**, and more.

Flux, Summer 2026

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Private Ernst Graeber goes home to Germany on leave from the Eastern Front during World War II to visit his family, but Germany is no longer the same.

COUNTRY: USA/West Germany

A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE

### ABOUT THE FILM:

Seven years ago, pioneering research spacecraft “Event Horizon” mysteriously vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. But then, in the darkness of deep space, a persistent signal prompts a rescue crew to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. What they uncover is an unimaginable interstellar horror that will test the entire team’s sanity and souls.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: PARAMOUNT

COUNTRY: USA

EVENT HORIZON

Ball of Fire / The Lady Eve

**Producers**: Caryn Capotosto,  Jodi Wille

The unbelievable but one-hundred percent true story of the Unarius Academy of Science —an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school in Southern California who in the 1980s became a prolific filmmaking collective and public access TV phenomenon under the direction of their outlandish spiritual leader Ruth E. Norman, AKA “Archangel Uriel.” Director Jodi Wille (*The Source Family*) brings this singular American story to the screen with the same wide-eyed fascination the subject demands. Engaging, enchanting, and extraterrestrial, *Welcome Space Brothers* is the most endearing cult documentary you&#8217;ve ever seen!

Welcome Space Brothers

Of Human Bondage

Ponyo in 35mm

Out of Sight

Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.

Cosmos

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 (8/19)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French, Arabic and Spanish with English subtitles.*

DESTINY centers on the twelfth-century Islamic philosopher, judge, and polymath Ibn Rushd, commonly known in the West as Averroes. In the Arab-ruled Spanish province of Andalusia, the brilliant Averroës (Nour el-Sherif) lives at the center of a secular, multicultural world of learning and open inquiry—until a sect of extremists set out to suppress everything he represents.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

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

DESTINY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles*

Opening March 15, 1997, this is the original film adaptation of the TV anime NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, helmed by filmmaker Hideaki Anno and airing from 1995-1996. It is composed of EVANGELION:DEATH, a compilation of episodes 1-24 out of the original 26 episode series, as well as EVANGELION:REBIRTH, a portion of the alternate ending to episode 25, “Air.”

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: DEATH & REBIRTH

Escape to the hilariously switched-on world of *Programme 4*, the groovy, feature-length “broadcast” from the Botany 500 Age of Television. Transmitting surreal local programming from the wall-to-wall carpeted dimension of Golden Sands — exclusively screened in-person for your analog pleasure with *Programme 4* creator **Rachel Lichtman** and more special guests.

Hosted by Masters of Ceremonies the **Sklar Brothers**, with pre and post-show cocktail lounge entertainment featuring the soft sounds of **Jon Spurney** on the Rhodes piano. Plus **special guests**, complimentary matchbooks, and more!

Doors will open at 6:00pm, with pre-show Rhodes piano entertainment starting at 6:30pm and a special pre-show screening at 7:20pm with our feature presentation beginning at 7:30pm

Programme 4

Joe Kidd

Sleazy Femme Film Fest is a forum for transgressive, queer, and low budget cinema curated by underground filmmaker Maren Moreno in Olympia, WA. Created in 2025 to showcase short films that have fallen prey to algorithmic internet censorship due to frank expression of sex, drug use, abortion and gender affirming care, Sleazy Femme has gone on to host an array of screenings in Olympia, New York City and Pittsburgh. Last year, the two day festival in Olympia featured the US premiere of Becca Kozak’s brilliant debut feature film SUGAR ROT.

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Prepare for an evening of teenage gay yearning, catholic eroticism and monster fucking. Sleazy Femme Film Fest is coming to LA to host a block of the sweetest and scuzziest short films from past and future screenings in Olympia, closing with a 30 year anniversary screening of the SOV mini punk documentary DIRTY GIRLS featuring a Q&A with director Micheal Lucid.

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**Rimbom Hairspray** dir. Elena Aranssay (2026)

**Body Tour** dir. Veronica Contreras (2024)

**Retro Sheilas in Space** dir. Juliet John (1996)

**Mommy on Drugs** dir. David Leo (2023)

**Nightcaller** dir. Odor Eater (2026)

**Optic Nerve** dir. Micheal Dorsey and Liz Vasquez (2022)

**The Devil in Me** dir. Ana Armengod (2015)

**Monsterdyke** dir. Kaye Adelaide (2021)

**Blue Moon Angels** dir. Clementine Narcisse (2024)

**Dog Pound** dir. Tatiana Salazar (2026)

**Skate Witches** dir. Danny Plotnick (1986)

**Lizzzard** dir. Kylee Hill (2026)

**Dirty Girls** dir. Micheal Lucid (1996)

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

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

SLEAZY FEMME FILM FEST

Mezzanine presents *Talking to Strangers*, by Rob Tregenza (1988, U.S. 90m, digital).

West Coast premiere of a new 4K restoration, followed by a recorded conversation with Rob Tregenza.

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Among the most distinctive American debuts of the 1980s, maverick independent filmmaker Rob Tregenza’s haunting, formally audacious feature—beloved by Jean-Luc Godard and Jonathan Rosenbaum, yet never available on home video—now appears in a beautiful restoration.

Known for its elaborate structural gambit, Tregenza’s film is made up of nine scenes, each filmed in a single eleven-minute take in various locations in Baltimore, with elaborately choreographed camera movements and an intricately calculated mise-en-scene. We watch an aspiring, somewhat unstable writer (Ken Gruz) meets a series of strangers, with whom he is confronted with probing questions about life, religion, ethics, art and love. Perhaps infamously, the film’s sequence order was randomized by Tregenza, save for the first and last scenes—and yet “the possibility of accident and error hovers over every moment suspensefully, as in a jazz improvisation” (Rosenbaum). A radical achievement of film style, we are thrilled to present Tregenza’s film to a new audience.

Special thanks to Nick Newman.

*"Masterpiece… If one of the earmarks of a groundbreaking work is its capacity to confound and/or challenge existing categories and assumptions, Tregenza’s first feature qualifies on several counts. Frankly and audaciously ‘experimental’ — in the original rather than the generic sense of that term — it is shot in wide-screen 35-millimeter and direct Dolby sound, implicitly inviting us to experience it as a movie in a theater, not as a film in an austere screening space. Financed and photographed by the writer-director himself, a Baltimore resident who raised the money by making TV commercials, it combines the rigors of elaborate preplanning with the bold risk taking of an aleatory event.”* -Jonathan Rosenbaum

Mezzanine: Rob Tregenza's Talking to Strangers (1988)

The Searchers in 70mm

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

A sort of sports show but not really. Filled with meaninglessness. Hosted by Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Tom Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943, while the male pros are at war, Dugan finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his all-girl team. Jon Lovitz adds a scene-stealing cameo as the sarcastic scout who recruits Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis), the baseball dolly with a Babe Ruth swing. Teammates Madonna, Lori Petty and Rosie O’Donnell round out the roster, taking the team to the World Series. Based on the true story of the pioneering women who blazed the trail, on the fields and off, for generations of athletes.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Repertory

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by The PosCast hosts Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur Opening Night Book signing for Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur’s new book, Big Fan, prior to the screening at 6:30pm in partnership with Larry Edmunds Bookshop. ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

The PosCast Presents A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

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. 8/20) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

[Tickets](https://pools.events/t/dvmcxo5k/)

Egg (2005, 1hr 13min) Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.

Tsukiko closes her eyes and sees a mysterious giant egg in her mind’s eye, growing and evolving with every blink. When it hatches, its horrors spill into the real world, growing ever more terrifying.

		

	
		
	

	
		
			
				
					
						
	
	

						
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Human Resources

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

Hosted by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley and Deadline’s Documentary Editor, Matt Carey,* Doc Talk* features weekly interviews with filmmakers, storytellers and industry leaders about creating critical content with the power to move the genre forward – and possibly change the world.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.*

From Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, AMERICAN DOCTOR follows three American physicians— Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Watermelon Pictures

COUNTRY: USA/State of Palestine/Malaysia/Qatar

Introduction by Doc Talk hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey. Live podcast recording with filmmaker Poh Si Teng and doctors Thaer Ahmad, Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa Advance Screening Opening Night ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

Doc Talk Presents AMERICAN DOCTOR

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

*StraightioLab* is an intellectual podcast where smart comedians George Civeris and Sam Taggart unpack the rich, multi-colored tapestry of straight culture. In each episode, George and Sam are joined by a guest to hold a mirror to society and finally get to the bottom of mysterious and perverse topics such as college fraternities, gender reveal parties, the military, themed restaurants and the concept of “the holidays.”

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

This documentary chronicles Madonna’s controversial 1990 “Blonde Ambition” international tour, kicking off in Japan during its rainy season, then traveling to North America with significant stops in Los Angeles, Detroit, Toronto and New York. The film is a behind-the-scenes look at Madonna’s relationships with her dancers and crew, her then-boyfriend Warren Beatty and her family and friends, achieving an intimate glimpse into the boundary-pushing singer’s drive and individuality.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Straightiolab hosts George Civeris and Sam Taggart Opening Night ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

StraightioLab Presents MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE

Moneyball

Join us for a screening of biopic La Bamba on the life of pioneering Mexican-American musician Ritchie Valens + panel discussion!

Ritchie Forever: LA BAMBA Screening & Panel Discussion on Ritchie Valens

Best trivia night in town hosted by Justin Hantz

$10 entry fee, teams of 4 or less

Winners take home the $$$!

Trivia Night!

Stories Books & Cafe

We&#8217;re firing up our 16mm projector for a night of the best of puberty&#8217;s pitfalls and adolescence at its most awkward with a program of long-forgotten and laughably outdated short films from the 1940s through the 1980s about humanity&#8217;s cringiest life stage with menstrucation&#8217;s finest, endearing Mormon comedy shorts, mid-century slut-shaming primers, and more! Sex ed doesn&#8217;t get any better than ***Dear Diary: A Film About Female Puberty ***(1981) get ready to cheer for the chef&#8217;s kiss of endings.  The crowd-pleasing BYU comedy short ***The Phone Call*** (1977) wants you to know that even geeky, karate and bassoon-loving Mormon fast food workers deserve love, and with a little self-confidence and a great ginger-fro, they just might get it! Plus, another sensational menstrucational treat: ***Linda&#8217;s Film on Menstruation*** (1974) complete with a menstrual game show, the mid-century mental hygiene primer ***Are You Popular? ***(1958) to gently remind you to not slut it up, and a special surprise cartoon from the **[A/V Geeks Archive](https://avgeeks.com)** that will have you rethinking everything you knew about the mouse! Arrive early to explore all the gross but necessary things that happen to the growing boy in the third edition of ***Boy To Man*** (1984). You will laugh, you will cringe, you will finally learn all about your changing body! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Featuring:

***Dear Diary, a film about female puberty*** (Color, 1981, 26 min)

*The Welcome to the Dollhouse* of puberty primers! Our incredibly awkward thirteen-year-old protagonist offers a narrative alternative to the facts about female puberty. Our homely heroine encounters peer pressure from her boy-crazy friends, changing sex roles, and making out with a pillow with a smiley face, all while she waits to become a woman. A bonafide crowd pleaser and the absolute top tier of menstrucational film!
***The Phone Call*** (Color, 1977, 28 min)

30 years before *Napoleon Dynamite*, this BYU-sponsored &#8220;comedy&#8221; follows an awkward teenage boy with Art Garfunkle&#8217;s hairstylist and a penchant for karate and bassoons as he works up the courage to ask his crush for a date.  The Mormons want you to know that nice guys can finish first! An audience favorite starring Marc McClure (Jimmy Olson from the Christopher Reeves *Superman* series).

***Linda&#8217;s Film on Menstruation*** (Color, 1974, 18 min)

*&#8220;It means that blood is falling out of my uterus!&#8221;***

A goofy sex education classic with two groovy teens from the mid-seventies. Judy is a regular 15 year old girl going through what every woman goes through at some point, her first monthly visitor. Her 16 year old boyfriend hasn&#8217;t got a clue, and quite frankly she doesn&#8217;t really either. Thankfully there&#8217;s an obnoxious cartoon to explain it all to them! If that doesn&#8217;t work, maybe the menstruation game show will hammer home the facts. Also featuring actor Jonathan Banks from *Breaking Bad*.

Plus more magic from the legendary **A/V Geeks** archive!

Doors will open at 6:30pm and the pre-show will begin at 6:40pm, so grab your popcorn early! Due to the rare nature of these films, condition will vary.

**Sweet 16mm** is a monthly screening of short films that demonstrate the special magic of the medium of 16mm. Ranging monthly from experimental to animation, educational, promotional, and ephemeral, we seek to spread the gospel of 35mm&#8217;s cheap and portable cousin and a physical media often overlooked and underrated. Sit in the room with the projector and behold the magical analog obscurities that we dig out monthly on glorious 16mm celluloid!

Sweet 16mm – Those Awkward Years

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producer**: Esther Garcia

Join us for one of Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s best dark comedies in all its colorful mastery in glorious 35mm film! From Academy Award-winner Pedro Almodóvar comes *Volver*, a darkly comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life&#8217;s most outrageous tribulations. A luminous Penélope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses, including Carmen Maura, star of Almodóvar&#8217;s *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*.

Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago&#8230;or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls&#8217; departed mother, Irene (Maura), has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula&#8217;s home. When Irene appears to Sole, she explains that she has returned to set right her daughters&#8217; troubled lives and reveal shocking secrets that will impact everyone! Raimunda has &#8220;female troubles&#8221; of her own, least of which is a corpse in the freezer! Winner of numerous film festival and critics&#8217; awards, *Volver* is a hilarious tale of love, loss, and forgiveness.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more of maestro Almodóvar&#8217;s uproarious dark comedies tonight!

*Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Kika*

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

Volver on 35mm

Theorem

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in VistaVision

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

An ongoing conversation about wellness from two obsessive friends. Jacqueline Novak and Kate Berlant have been inviting eavesdroppers into their conversations since 2020, and now their award-winning podcast returns. New episodes every Tuesday.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this mesmerizing and suspenseful film, a woman becomes convinced that a ten-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Poog host Kate Berlant ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

Poog Presents BIRTH

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

The Piano

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Dark City

**ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

*Bullseye *is a public radio show about what’s good in popular culture. Whether you’re already plugged in to the culture map, or looking for a signpost, *Bullseye *will keep you on target.

**ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this four-time Oscar nominated film (including Best Picture), Jason Robards stars as a nonconformist who is forced to find a conventional job.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Bullseye host Jesse Thorn ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

Bullseye Presents A THOUSAND CLOWNS

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

Hollywood’s golden era produced some of the greatest films ever made. *Ticklish Business* is the podcast where film critic Kristen Lopez digs into it with enthusiasm. Classic stars, forgotten gems and the chaos genius of Old Hollywood, examined with sharp humor and excellent guests.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The one film above all others by which Rita Hayworth is remembered, this feverish film noir was a monster hit and cemented her status as “The Love Goddess.” Glenn Ford stars as a wandering American in Buenos Aires who is befriended by wealthy casino owner George MacReady and given a job. Alas, the boss is married to the younger, very sensual Gilda (Hayworth), and pretty soon things really start to heat up. Steamily directed by Charles Vidor and starkly photographed by Rudolph Maté, this heady brew of sex, murder and betrayal is arguably Columbia’s most enduring film from the 1940’s, and Hayworth’s mock-striptease to “Put the Blame On Mame” is among the most memorable scenes from any movie ever.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Ticklish Business host Kristen Lopez ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

Ticklish Business Presents GILDA

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

Hosts and longtime frenemies Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger review chain restaurants and bicker about absolutely everything on the iHeartRadio award-winning Best Food Podcast, **Doughboys**.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Doughboys hosts Michael Mitchell and Nick Wiger Pre-show film and fast food trivia by Doughboys ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’ and ‘Doughboys: Fast Films’

Doughboys Present LITTLE CAESAR

### **ABOUT THE PODCAST:**

Puck founding partner Matthew Belloni takes you inside Hollywood, using exclusive reporting and insight to explain the backstories on everything from Marvel movies to streaming wars. Multiple times each week, Matt is joined by major executives, dealmakers and journalists, to discuss what is getting made and why, who is winning and losing and what people in show business are actually talking about.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Reese Witherspoon is Tracy Flick, a straight “A” go-getter who’s determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. But when popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) observes the zealous political locomotive that is Tracy, he decides to derail her obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate (Chris Klein) – with disastrous results!

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by The Town host Matt Belloni ‘Friend of the Fest 2026’

The Town Presents ELECTION

Pulp Fiction

**Screenwriters**: Melissa Mathison, Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Toshio Suzuki

Dive into this breathtaking and heartwarming adventure from the legendary Studio Ghibli, and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki. When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea. Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale *The Little Mermaid*, Miyazaki’s breathtaking, imaginative world is brought to life!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Miyazaki magic on Blu-ray and DVD tonight!

*Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service*

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

Ponyo (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriter**: Gregg Araki from the novel by Scott Heim

**Producers**: Gregg Araki,  Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte,  Mary Jane Skalski

Indie legend Gregg Araki&#8217;s most sensitive and thoughtful film to date, *Mysterious Skin* offers a profound and compassionate view into the lasting effects of childhood trauma. A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. With outstanding and compelling performances and empathetic direction, this powerful film still captivates and illuminates over 20 years later.

More encore screenings added in the microcinema from August 21-23 &#8211; screening only, no special guests

And come see Araki&#8217;s latest *sin*sational romp [*I Want Your Sex*](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/i-want-your-sex/), opening in our microcinema on Friday, August 28th.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for an Araki-thon this weekend? Buckle up for fun and visit his epic director&#8217;s section!

*Nowhere, Doom Generation, Smiley Face*

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

Mysterious Skin

**Screenwriter**: Christopher Hampton from the novel *Les Liaisons dangereuses* by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

**Producers**: Norma Heyman,  Hank Moonjean

Get ready for all the opulence, the intrigue, the seduction, and the betrayal of Stephen Frears&#8217; lush and salacious period piece. In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winner of Best Costumes, Art Direction, and Adapted Screenplay, and starring some of the best actors of any generation, this is one gorgeously sexy game of cat and mouse best watched in all its luxurious glory on our big beautiful screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more sexy period pieces? Slip into these swoon-worthy treasures!

*Ferdinando and Carolina, The Favourite, Women in Love*

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

Dangerous Liaisons

**Screenwriter**: Sam Raimi

**Producer**: Rob Tapert

The original night of terror in all its weird and twisted glory! Sam Raimi&#8217;s all-time horror classic is a smorgasbord of gory violence, guttural laughs, wildly inventive demons, and top-notch practical effects all helmed by the boundlessly charismatic Bruce Campbell. Five vacationing college students unwittingly resurrect demonic spirits through the Book of the Dead. Now there is no escape. The guilty must be punished.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more awesome low-budget deep cut horror classics?

*Messiah of Evil, Let&#8217;s Scare Jessica to Death, Fade to Black*

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

Harriet the Spy in 35mm

11:00 AM

Fritz Lang’s M

2:30 PM

The 4th Man in 35mm

7:30 PM

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING / MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT

11:00 AM

SHERLOCK JR.,

“The Electric House,”

“The Scarecrow,”

3:00 PM

RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II in 70mm

7:00 PM

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

6:30 PM

ALIENS in 70mm

7:00 PM

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

1:00 PM

GET SHORTY

4:00 PM

“Ready.. Set.. Zoom!”,

THE VERDICT,

7:00 PM

POSSESSION

10:00 PM

Cartoon Club

10:00 AM

School of Rock

2:00 PM

Taxi Driver

7:30 PM

Cannibal Holocaust

11:59 PM

FIVE UNRELEASED SHORTS FROM: NATE VARRONE, ANDREW THEODORE BALASIA, PHILIP STEIGER, AUDREY ARNOLD, ALEC MOELLER

Mary Poppins

2:30 PM

Bullitt

7:00 PM

TIE-DIED: ROCK N' ROLL'S MOST DEADICATED FANS (1995)

3:30 PM

DIY Collage Tarot Cards

2:00 PM

CatVideoFest 2026

12:00 PM

Woodstock on 35mm

2:30 PM

Bouchra

4:30 PM

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

7:00 PM

Twin Peaks: The Original Mystery – Episodes 7 + 8

7:30 PM

Christine

9:45 PM

Jackass: Best and Last

10:00 PM

Three Wise Girls

10:00 AM

The Odyssey (70mm)

Blood on the Moon

8:00 PM

Ice Cream Man

11:59 PM