Between pandemics, people’s revolts and male institutions, this period film cheekily combines fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets. Inspired by the life story of Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century mystic and the first woman to write a book in English.

Followed by Q & A with director Caroline Golum and actress Tessa Strain.

Fairfax Film Festival: Revelations of Divine Love

Brain Dead Studios

[Tickets](https://pools.events/t/hreelu9u/)

***Fresh Kill*** is a 1994 experimental film directed by Shu[ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_Lea_Cheang)Lea Cheang and written by Jessica Hagedorn.

A disturbingly prescient ecofeminist parable and a brain-wave-scrambling cyberpunk fantasia, the debut feature from new-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang merges a bold vision of resistance with an exuberant early-internet aesthetic. In a dystopian-chic New York where sushi joints and toxic-waste sites exist side by side, a lesbian couple (Sarita Choudhury and Erin McMurtry) turn to the hacker underground to solve their daughter’s disappearance, in the process exposing a conspiracy involving corporate greenwashing and tainted fish. Swinging between outré satire and agitprop, *Fresh Kill* sounds the alarm about a capitalist system that pollutes everything from our waterways to our bodies to our minds.

		

	
		
	

	
		
			
				
					
						
	
	

						
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Human Resources

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 15, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 55 Mins, Paramount, USA**

There’s some fear in letting go.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 16, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 57 Mins, Paramount, USA**

No knock, no doorbell.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, 2017, Paramount, USA**

Directed entirely by David Lynch, this 18-part limited event series picks up 25 years after the residents of a quaint northwestern American town were stunned when their homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, was shockingly murdered. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is written and executive produced by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and is executive produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland.

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 15 & 16

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In silent-era Hollywood, stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is brought to a hospital after an on-set accident. There, he befriends a young girl (Catinca Untaru) and tells her a fantastical tale of epic heroes taking revenge on an evil ruler. The story transports her from the hospital into the exotic landscapes of her imagination.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: USA/India

THE FALL

Los Feliz Theatre

Midnight Run /

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriter**: Brian De Palma

**Producer**: Edward R. Pressman

Brian De Palma joins forces with songwriting superstar Paul Williams for one hell of a Faustian rock opera! Fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley) finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan (Paul Williams), who steals both his music and the girl Winslow wants to sing it, Phoenix (*Suspiria&#8217;s* Jessica Harper), for the grand opening of his rock palace, the Paradise. After Swan has Winslow sent to prison for trespassing, Winslow endures a freak accident that leaves him disfigured, after which he seeks revenge on both Swan and the Paradise. With killer music, a love story to span the ages, humor, stunning visuals, and remarkable performance numbers, this movie has really got it all!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

Phantom of the Paradise

**Screenwriters**: Alexander Korda, Graham Greene

**Producers**: Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, David O. Selznick

Join us for Carol Reed&#8217;s slick masterpiece of thrilling double-crosses, doomed love, and startling philosophy. Holly Martins, an author of pulp Westerns, arrives in postwar Vienna as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has recently died. Martins stays around to investigate the death and finds everything isn&#8217;t what it seems. Joseph Cotton is the perfect patsy, Alida Valli is the gorgeous mystery, and Orson Welles is the smooth-talking devil twisting the rules to suit his own fortune. Often regarded as one of the best films of all time from the stunning cinematography, to the performances, to Welles&#8217; adlibbed monologue on the Medicis and cuckoo clocks, *The Third Man* is every bit as good as the hype.

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

The Third Man on 35mm

Vidiots

The Thief and The Cobbler

The Odyssey (70mm)

Vista Theatre

The Cat Returns

Titicut Follies in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Wealthy socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow.

FORMAT: DCP

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Country: USA

New 4K Restoration Lost Joan Crawford film previously out of circulation for over 90 years!

LETTY LYNTON

Aero Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two codependent best friends living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their lives into chaos.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction with filmmaker and screenwriter Dylan Meyer, actors Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat and cast Advance Screening ‘THE WRONG GIRLS Los Feliz Theatre Takeover’

THE WRONG GIRLS

**Screenwriter**: Jane Schoenbrun

**Producers**: Sarah Winshall,  Carlos Zozaya,  Abby Harri

Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey (Anna Cobb in her feature debut) sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World&#8217;s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises. After the initiation, she documents the changes that may or may not be happening to her, adding her experiences to the shuffle of online clips available for the world to see. As she begins to lose herself between dream and reality, a mysterious figure reaches out, claiming to see something special in her uploads.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

All tickets come with a free small popcorn. Please enter through the video store. Doors will open 45 minutes before showtime.

If online tickets are no longer available HAVE NO FEAR, we will ALWAYS have walk-ups available starting 45 minutes before showtime (which give you plenty of time for free popcorn and a browse of the video store)!

This series was designed for audience members 12 and up, please note some films may contain more mature content than others. We encourage parents, caretakers, and guardians to explore the program and titles prior to ticket purchases. We will include MPAA ratings for all films in this series. Parental discretion is advised.

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

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

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

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome back legendary indie filmmaker **Gregg Araki** for a special screening of *Mysterious Skin* including a conversation with Araki and actor **Joseph Gordon-Levitt!**

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.

Second screening added by popular demand with a special introduction from **Gregg Araki** and **Joseph Gordon-Levitt**!

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

A New Leaf

Join us for Whammy fave OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO, an experimental Tokusatsu flavored epic that is certain to give you the most movie for your dollar you'll experience all year! A portion of the proceeds will go towards the fundraiser for Terry's next film [A.A.A. LOVE WILL REIGN AGAIN](https://www.gofundme.com/f/aaa-love-will-reign-againthe-new-film-from-terry-chiu)!

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"*I believe in the revolutionary worth of lo-fi storytelling, because most people will instead treat it like a pit stop towards big-budget production, and so take for granted the innovation and potential of maximizing lo-fi creation as its own means to an end."*

– Terry Chiu

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## In the destroyed present, the aggressively badass Keikei (Xinkun Dai) and her lackadaisical white-shirted pal Rev (Ging Yu Kei) wander the wasteland looking for their friend Spike (Matias Rittatore), in between running into the confrontational Lady Moondrift (Pei Yao Xu) and her Candy Ass Kickers (They kick candy ass!!!), or the deadly Psycho on The Radio - whose kill count is like into the 900s - with the promise that one day, they'll get all the answers to their problems from the Embodiment of Angst.

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"Writer/Director Terry Chiu's an open book. His fears, anxiety, humour and personality are splattered all over the epic 3-hour running time of OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO, but the greatest trick he pulls is balancing it all like a circus acrobat juggling ten chainsaws dipped in battery acid.

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This isn't merely stream-of-consciousness madness, or wackiness for the sake of it, but a well-thought-out (Every line is carefully scripted) piece that is also hilariously funny. Terry's base style is ADULT SWIM meets SHINYA TSUKAMOTO, but he knows when to slow things down, to engross the viewer in his characters' twisty philosophical musings, brilliantly clarified by Burnt-In Chinese/English subtitles, and a narrative gambit straight out of END OF EVANGELION, that puts the endeavour in a different emotional context, before the audience is bodyslammed with a climax worthy of a quadrillion dollar blockbuster (but with more cardboard). You may not get all the answers on the first viewing, but that's part of the design.

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No one is making films like Terry Chiu, and his work deserves to be consumed by the world's eyes, ears, and brain mush. It is criminal that his work has barely played anywhere. Where the hell is The Locarno Film Festival when you need them?"

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– Justin Decloux, The Laser Blast Film Society / The Important Cinema Club

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**dir. Terry Chiu, 2022***Canada, digital projection*175 mins

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## WEDNESDAY, 8/57:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

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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.***

OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO (2022)

WHAMMY!

Howl’s Moving Castle

Unfaithful with Adrian Lyne

SPECIAL BRAIN DEAD SOUND AND FURY WEEK DOUBLE FEATURE

CAM (2018) & FACES OF DEATH (2026) Double Feature with Director Daniel Goldhaber & Writer Isa Mazzei Q+A

Cam Synopsis: When her account is stolen by a look-alike, a cam girl sets out to unmask the mysterious woman and get her identity back.

Faces of Death Synopsis: A content moderator stumbles upon a series of violent videos that appear to re-enact death scenes from the infamous 1978 film "Faces of Death." In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fake or unfolding in real time.

CAM & FACES OF DEATH Double Feature + Q&A w/ Daniel Goldhaber & Isa Mazzei

### SPECIAL BRAIN DEAD SOUND AND FURY WEEK DOUBLE FEATURE

***CAM*** and ***FACES OF DEATH*** come together for a special double feature, followed by an **in-person Q&A with director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei.**

### CAM

*Release Year:* 2018  |

*Run Time:* 94 mins  |

*Format:* DCP
[Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8xZ5WDonk)

When her account is stolen by a look-alike, a cam girl sets out to unmask the mysterious woman and get her identity back.

### FACES OF DEATH

*Release Year:* 2026  |

*Run Time:* 98 mins  |

*Format:* 35mm
[Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6L502Ukb4)

A content moderator stumbles upon a series of violent videos that appear to re-enact death scenes from the infamous 1978 film *Faces of Death*. In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fake or unfolding in real time.

CAM & FACES OF DEATH + Q&A w/ Daniel Goldhaber & Isa Mazzei

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Arabic with English subtitles.*

One of director Youssef Chahine’s most controversial works ignited a firestorm of criticism from both Islamic and Christian voices, who objected to its liberal reinterpretation of the biblical story of Joseph (here renamed Ram to skirt censorship that forbids the depiction of religious figures). Nevertheless the film proved one of Chahine’s biggest commercial triumphs at home, a passionate evocation of ancient Egypt that uses the story—in which a young dreamer (Khaled el-Nabawy) leaves behind his backwards rural home and sets off to the intellectual center of Egypt on a journey fraught with political and sexual peril—to comment on deeply personal ideas about resistance, sacrifice, and liberation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

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

THE EMIGRANT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A pretty saloon entertainer escapes the marshal’s custody and hides in a small town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see their father re-married.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

‘Magnificent Melodramas: Douglas Sirk & Russell Metty’

TAKE ME TO TOWN

### **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:**

Welcome to Greenleaf, a picture-postcard Indiana town where the high school is the proud focus of attention and “alternative lifestyle” means you bowl on alternate Tuesdays. But on the night of the Oscars. telecast, the town’s – and the world’s – center of attention is Greenleaf teacher Howard Brackett. A former student who’s now a superstar actor tells an audience of millions that Howard is gay. Poor Howard. He’s outted when he didn’t know he was in! Kevin Kline plays stunned Howard, scrambling to go forth with his wedding to devoted Emily (Joan Cusack) and doing his frantic best to assert his manliness. With clever dialogue, antic situations and a stellar cast that includes Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds and Bob Newhart, In & Out is out-and-out fun!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

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

Doughboys Present IN & OUT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A best-selling author’s newest novel is literally driving readers insane. When the author inexplicably vanishes, a special investigator hired to track him down crosses the barrier between fact and fiction and enters a terrifying world from which there is no escape.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

Cabaret

Pulp Fiction

Now Instant and escorpión present Kiro Russo&#8217;s *Dark Skull*, featuring a recorded introduction from Russo that will be shown before the film.

Dark Skull

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriters**: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack

**Producers**: David Permut,  Ben Browning,  Megan Ellison

Does your summer need a little spice? Have we got the dinner party for you! Join us in the microcinema for Olivia Wilde&#8217;s wildly entertaining and perversely hilarious comedy *The Invite* for a fun and naughty night of indie cinema! Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

The Invite

**Screenwriter**: Reid Carolin

**Producers**: Nick Wechsler,  Gregory Jacobs,  Channing Tatum,  Reid Carolin

Is it hot in here, or is it just Matt Bomer? Get ready to go wild with Mike and the boys in the original thirst trap throwdown! Would anyone have guessed that Steven Soderbergh would have taken on the male-exotic dance scene with such zeal? With Channing Tatum and a cavalcade of the sexiest men in America stripping down to their skivvies, it&#8217;s no wonder this beefcake bonanza launched the thirst of millions worldwide and led to a jock-thrusting empire that anyone can get behind! You can leave your dollar bills at home, we&#8217;ve got the money gun prepped and primed for this sexy fun night for anyone who&#8217;s feeling a little thirsty with all this heat!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Spend the night with Channing Tatum with a marathon on DVD and Blu-Ray

*Side Effects, Hail,Caesar, Step Up*

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

Magic Mike

**Screenwriters**: Matthew Weisman,  Jeph Loeb,  Steven E. de Souza

**Producer**: Joel Silver

With a special introduction from the big baddie himself **Vernon Wells**!

Get your bazookas ready for a non-stop action bonanza as Schwarzenegger takes on an army of mercenaries to save his daughter (none other than Alyssa Milano!) by brawling in the mall, and blowing up as much of LA as he can! One of the best popcorn blockbusters of the 1980s, Rae Dawn Chong and the Governator team up for action, for fun, and for revenge in this bad-ass specatacular. John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped by a group of assassins led by ultra villain Bennett (Vernon Wells). To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she&#8217;s killed. Join us for all the fun as we watch this explosive banger big and loud!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Rae Dawn Chong on glorious physical media tonight!

*Fear City, Highball, Tales from the Darkside*

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

Commando

**Screenwriter**: Sabrina Greco

**Producer**: Abbie Jones

With writer/director **Sabrina Greco** in person at both screenings! Saturday, August 15th Greco will be in conversation with **Micah Gottlieb** of *Mezzanine* and the *Los Angeles Festival of Movies*.

Join us in the microcinema for the cringiest party this summer with Sabrina Greco&#8217;s absurd indie comedy *Lockjaw*! Six weeks after getting into a drunk driving accident that leaves her jaw wired shut, Rayna tries to have a fun night out with her friends, but ends up at a magician&#8217;s house where she summarily attempts to destroy everyone&#8217;s night &#8211; including her own!

Lockjaw

Christiane F.

The Dark Knight Rises

Scooby-Doo in 35mm

Train to Busan in 4K with Yeon Sang-ho

The Ugly with Yeon Sang-ho and Park Jeong-min

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

LEARNING TO FLY follows former competitive runner turned photographer Aisha McAdams as she embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of some of the biggest names in ultra running, such as Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag, as they compete at the Western States Endurance Run in the Mountains of Eastern California and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) in the French Alps.

While photographing and interviewing these elite runners, Aisha confronts her own painful and complex past, and the reasons why she had to step away from racing, a pursuit that had once brought her a much-needed sense of freedom, joy and belonging.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA/France/Switzerland/Italy/China/Hong Kong

Q&A with filmmaker Max Lowe, producer Evan Hayes and subject Aisha McAdams West Coast Premiere Screening + Popcorn & soda Running gear giveaway!

LEARNING TO FLY

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Balloonatic”, 1923, Dir. Buster Keaton, 22 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

Buster rises to new heights as he sails heavenward in a balloon. He bumps into clouds and, in trying to bring down a duck, punctures the gas bag and crashes in the woods where he saves Phyllis Haver from a bear and falls in love. His courtship and the balloonatic events that follow are hilarious.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Cops”, 1922, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 18 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

A carefully orchestrated series of gags in which Buster plays an innocent who tries to impress his girl by becoming more than he is, and winds up inextricably caught in a police parade that breaks up to pursue him.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The Haunted House”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 20 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

Bank teller Buster spills glue on his money, gets himself accused of robbery and winds up in a haunted house full of spooky devices.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The High Sign”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 19 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

Buster plays a contract-killer who must murder the town miser, August Nickelnurser. But Nickelnurser knows a good man when he sees one and hires Buster as his bodyguard.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The Goat”, 1921, Dir. Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair, 23 Mins, Cohen Film Collection, USA**

A mistaken-identity crisis precipitates an almost continuous – and continuously brilliant chase through two adjoining towns where Buster is taken for ‘Deadeye Dan, Public Enemy’.”

FORMAT: DCP

105th Anniversary of “The Haunted House,” “The High Sign” and “The Goat” ‘Summer Busterblocks’

Buster Keaton Shorts Block

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer&#8217;s chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

Jacob’s Ladder

### DEEP WATER

***Deep Water***, Adrian Lyne&#8217;s powerfully sexy, witty, and intoxicating return to the erotic thriller, finally receives its theatrical premiere. Lyne will join Hollywood Entertainment **in person** for a very special evening—including some unprecedented interactive surprises!

Featuring an all-star cast including **Ben Affleck**, **Ana de Armas**, **Tracy Letts**, **Jacob Elordi**, **Finn Wittrock**, **Lil Rel Howery**, and more, this modern spin on a Patricia Highsmith classic unfolds in a sumptuous Southern setting. A simmering tale of an open marriage gone wrong, *Deep Water* is filled with egos, mind games, manipulation, and suggestions of murder as Vic and Melinda find themselves at war with their psychosexual instincts—and each other. Their world begins to unravel as their friends wonder if Vic is responsible for the disappearances of Melinda&#8217;s lovers&#8230;

**Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present this timeless tale with a contemporary twist.**

Don&#8217;t miss Adrian Lyne&#8217;s appearances at the Academy Museum for presentations of *Fatal Attraction* (for which he received an Academy Award nomination) and *Unfaithful* on **August 13** and **August 14**, respectively.

Deep Water

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Pre-recorded introduction by Angelyne ‘Angelyne Watch Local’

VOLCANO

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Guided Muscle,” 1955, Dir. Chuck Jones, 7 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by – the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn’t catch the bird, and the book, “How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner,” isn’t much help either.

FORMAT: DCP

**ERIN BROCKOVICH, 2000, Dir. Steven Soderbergh, 131 Mins, Universal, USA**

Erin (Julia Roberts) is a sassy single mother and low-level law-office worker who becomes obsessed with a case involving a California utility company that’s accused of polluting the drinking water in a small town. She puts everything into fighting the corporation.

FORMAT: DCP

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

"Guided Muscle" / ERIN BROCKOVICH

### 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

Knights of the Round Table

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

1926 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • Director Ernst Lubitsch brings that famous “Lubitsch touch” to a silent comedy that's playful and surprisingly modern in how it handles romance and mischief. It’s a great reminder that silent-era comedy could be sophisticated without being stiff.

So This is Paris

1978 • This is the film that made people believe a comic-book hero could truly come alive on screen. Christopher Reeve is marvelous, making Superman noble and inspiring while also giving Clark Kent real sweetness and charm. John Williams’s score is one of the great glories of modern movie music, and hearing it in a theater is a thrill all by itself. The visual effects won a Special Achievement Academy Award, but what really lasts is the film’s heart. It has a sincerity and sense of wonder that still win people over. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Superman

Old Town Music Hall

**Screenwriters**: Jymn Magon, Chris Matheson, Brian Pimental

**Producer**: Dan Rounds

Head out on a road trip of goofing proportions in this very 90s animated dad joke! An endearing modern-day story about how the lovable Goof bonds with his teenage son Max on a hilarious cross-country road trip. En route to the ol&#8217; fishing hole, they find themselves up to their floppy ears in misadventure! A movie for the goofball in all of us featuring one of the most epically 90s animated musical sequences ever!

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

A Goofy Movie

**Producer**: Sasha Waters

Featuring a conversation with filmmaker **Sasha Waters** after the August 12th screening!

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world – issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation.

Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, *Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World *considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her.

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

**Screenwriters**: Dudley Nichols,  Georges de la Fouchardière,  Andre Mouézy-Éon

**Producer**: Fritz Lang

Watch out for the double cross in Fritz Lang&#8217;s film noir classic *Scarlet Street *starring crime cinema&#8217;s crown prince Edward G. Robinson and the infectiously alluring Joan Bennett as the feisty femme fatale. Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she&#8217;s really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris&#8217;s work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much. A razor-sharp thriller with an abundance of artistic flourishes, plus wit and wisecracks, *Scarlet Street* is among Fritz Lang&#8217;s most entertaining masterpieces.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Our Film Noir section is magnificent! Take home hundreds of classics on Blu-Ray and DVD including:

*The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Naked Alibi, Leave her to Heaven*

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

Scarlet Street

**Screenwriters**: Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright from the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O&#8217;Malley

**Producers**: Marc Platt,  Eric Gitter,  Nira Park,  Edgar Wright

Vidiots is ecstatic to welcome director **Edgar Wright** for an evening of epic epicness starting with a screening of his beloved cult classic ***Scott Pilgrim vs. the World***.

Director Edgar Wright stepped away from British comedies to direct this classic of Canadian cinema. *Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World*, Wright&#8217;s beloved cult classic, follows the titular Toronto slacker and indie rocker (Michael Cera) overcoming his beloved Ramona Flowers&#8217; seven evil exes and learning some self-respect in the process. Not only is Wright&#8217;s adaptation one of the best comic book movies ever, it&#8217;s one of the best video game movies, aping the structure of a sidescroller to give this wildly inventive comedy some 8-bit flair. Try not to fill up on garlic bread because movies as special as *Scott Pilgrim *only come around so often. 

A conversation with **Edgar Wright** will follow this screening, but the fun doesn&#8217;t end there! Join us as Wright introduces one of the wildest movies of all time, Russ Meyer&#8217;s [***Beyond the Valley of the Dolls!** *](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls/)Please note, separate tickets will be required for each movie.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Visit our Edgar Wright directors section for so much more fun on glorious physical media!

*Shaun of the Dead, baby Driver, The Sparks Brothers* (and all the rest!)

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

An Evening with Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

**Screenwriters**: Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer

**Producer**: Russ Meyer

Our evening of epic epicness continues with a special screening of Russ Meyer&#8217;s sexy psychedelic cinematic freakout *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls* introduced by **Edgar Wright**!

*This is my happening and it freaks me out!* Sex, drugs, rock n&#8217; roll, psychedelia, melodrama, camp, and just crazy crazy fun &#8211; there is no other film that gives so much! The only film penned by Roger Ebert, and the only studio film of Russ Meyer, this rock extravaganza is a one-of-a-kind spectacular of cinematic excess.  Only partially inspired by its predecessor *Valley of the Dolls, Beyond* is the Hollywood dream, nightmare, and wet-dream rolled into one, with one of the best on-screen bands (and soundtracks) in the history of film and wall-to-wall quotable dialogue and frenetic editing. An all-girl rock group finds fame, love, drugs, and drama when they move to LA, but success has its drawbacks, especially in the glittering city of the angels. A film so intensely groovy, funny, visually and sonically enthralling, you will never be the same again! Don&#8217;t miss your chance to rock out with these dolls on the big screen!

This screening is only half the fun! Join us earlier for a screening of [***Scott Pilgrim vs the World***](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world/) followed by a Q+A. Please note, separate tickets will be required for each movie.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Russ Meyer films are almost impossible to stream &#8211; lucky we&#8217;ve got a ton on DVD and Blu-Ray!

*Faster, Pussycat, Kill Kill!, Up!, Supervixens*

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

An Evening with Edgar Wright: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Misbehaving Ladies

The Rainmaker

Munich in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In Steven Spielberg’s massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park’s mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

JURASSIC PARK

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A tall, handsome ‘preacher’ – his knuckles eerily tattooed with ‘love’ and ‘hate’ – roams the countryside, spreading the gospel… and leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake. To Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), the work of the Lord has more to do with condemning souls than saving them, especially when his own interests are involved. Now his sights are set on $10,000 – and two little children are the only ones who know where it is. ‘Chill…dren!’ the preacher croons to the terrified boy and girl hiding in the cold, dark cellar… innocent young lambs who refuse to be led astray.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

### **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

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1935 • Introduction by Karie Bible • Few films bring together this much classic Hollywood talent so effortlessly. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at their most glamorous, Irving Berlin supplied the songs, and RKO gave it the shine and style that made its musicals so special. For anyone wanting to know what the great Hollywood musicals were like, this picture is a must-see. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Top Hat

**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 with an all-star cast, featuring the voices of Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, and Betty White.

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

Ponyo (English Dubbed)

**Writers:** Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson

**Producers:** Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson

Bond is back, and this time he&#8217;s up against Christopher Walken and the iconic Grace Jones in this Roger Moore-era 007 installment. A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We have all the Bonds on DVD and Blu-ray as well as these killer espionage thrillers!

*Danger: Diabolik, Billion Dollar Brain, Pretty Poison*

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

A View to a Kill

**Screenwriter**: Megan Griffiths

**Producers**: Lacey Leavitt,  Mischa Jakupcak,  Joy Saez

Vidiots is excited to welcome writer/director **Megan Griffiths** for a special 15th Anniversary screening of her engaging character study ***The Off Hours*** followed by a conversation with Griffiths and cast members **Amy Seimetz**, **Scoot McNairy, **and** Ross Partridge**, moderated by Vidiots Founding Member** Mark Duplass!**

You&#8217;re awake when everyone else is asleep. You&#8217;re standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. Your off hours are spent trying to figure out why you&#8217;re here, whether you want to stay, and how to leave.

In *The** Off Hours*, Amy Seimetz commands the screen as Francine, a waitress whose liberation from her mundane existence is long overdue. In the restless world of the night shift at a highway diner, Francine&#8217;s life consists of casual encounters and transient friendships. What she wants is out of reach—or is it that she&#8217;s lost track of wanting anything at all? When a banker turned big-rig driver played by Ross Partridge becomes a regular, he sparks hope in Francine. As change begins to invade the quiet diner, Francine is reminded that it is never too late to become the person she was meant to be.

Writer/director Megan Griffiths draws complex characters and stays true to them, respecting their shortcomings and yearnings for connection. Lynn Shelton, Scoot McNairy, Tony Doupé, Bret Roberts and newcomers Gergana Mellin and Madeline Elizabeth round out the all-star indie cast of *The** Off Hours*.

The Off Hours

Glass Hill presents an Arc Iris Movie Night: *iTMRW.*

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*iTMRW* is a 90-minute multimedia science fiction production that combines the music of Arc Iris’ recent futuristic concept album, *iTMRW*, with the contemporary dance theater of HDC Dance Ensemble choreographed by Danielle Davidson.

The year is 2080. *iTMRW*, the love story of Robert and his android partner, Jenny, unfolds against the backdrop of a world where advanced technology is both a source of and a “cure” for human alienation: advertisements come in the form of “pop-up thoughts,” entire cities float on islands of trash, female forms are purchased and discarded at will, and aristocrats live in a state of debauchery and despair. The piece takes its title from iTMRW, the mega-corporation that produces and sells every single product known to man. Despite societal chaos, the human spirit persists in its quest for love.

“The show unspools a color-saturated vision of the year 2080, in which … the future looks synthetic and soulless. Still, like a rose through concrete, the human spirit won’t be suppressed.” - BOSTON GLOBE

Edited by Matthew Sterling. Written by Arc Iris.

Arc Iris Movie Night: iTMRW

2220 Arts + Archives

Ponyo in 35mm

A Snake of June

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Print courtesy of University of North Carolina School of the Arts ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS

The Thrill Killers / Psychedelic Sexualis

**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

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

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.

Flux, Summer 2026

Hammer Museum

### **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

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

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

### **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

DESTINY

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 Shur Opening Night Book signing for Joe Posnanski and Michael Shurnew’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

### **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

Philosophical Research Society

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

Theorem

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in VistaVision

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

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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.

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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

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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**.

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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.

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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’

Tuesday, 8/4