### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**PAPER TIGER, 2026, Dir. James Gray, 115 Mins, NEON, USA**

In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense crime thriller, set in 1986 New York, a naïve engineer, Irwin (Miles Teller) accepts a seemingly lucrative business proposition from his brother, Gary (two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver), a former cop. But when Irwin witnesses something he wasn’t meant to see at the Gowanus Canal, the brothers find themselves pulled into a dangerous confrontation with the newly emerging Russian mafia. As the threat of violence escalates, Irwin’s wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson) sounds the alarm, Irwin desperately tries to protect his family and Gary is forced to make an impossible choice to save those he loves.

FORMAT: DCP

**PATERSON, 2016, Dir. Jim Jarmusch, 117 Mins, Amazon, USA**

Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, he writes poetry into a notebook; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer; he goes home to his wife, Laura. By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily. The film quietly observes the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with actor Adam Driver Advance Screening of PAPER TIGER

PAPER TIGER / PATERSON

Aero Theatre

On the seventh and a half floor of a nondescript office lies a door which invites curious travelers to do the impossible: see the world through the eyes of actor John Malkovich — for 15 minutes — before spitting them out on the New Jersey turnpike. But when a struggling puppeteer (John Cusack), his pet enthusiast wife (Cameron Diaz), and his office crush (Catherine Keener) begin to impose, their control over the life of the real Malkovich begins to turn the thespian into a bona fide head case. Starring the man himself, John Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich.

Being John Malkovich

Brain Dead Studios

From director and writer Marie Kreutzer (Corsage, Austria’s entry for the 95th Academy Awards), Gentle Monster tells the story of concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux), who has just relocated her family to a country house hoping to ease her husband Philip’s (Laurence Rupp) severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears their life apart. Trapped between the man she loves and the fear of what he may have done, Lucy must face the situation alone as her world unravels. With a cast that includes Jella Haase alongside the legendary, Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, Gentle Monster asks what we do when someone we love turns out to be someone we never really knew.

Gentle Monster

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In West Hollywood, a gay adult performer’s brutal murder went cold for decades. When filmmakers began documenting his story, the community’s involvement led to shocking discoveries through vintage footage linking suspects to the crime.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Rachel Mason and Dion Labriola, former Circus of Books owner Karen Mason and subject Clark Williams

MY BROTHER'S KILLER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (AKA Deadpool), brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg, Cable.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘David Leitch: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DEADPOOL 2

Los Feliz Theatre

Excalibur

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriter**: Ross McElwee

**Producers**: Mark Meatto,  Ross McElwee

With a special introduction from non-fiction filmmaking legend **Ross McElwee** before both screenings!

Join us in the microcinema for one of the most profound documentary experiences of the year, legendary game-changing documentarian Ross McElwee&#8217;s beautifully heartbreaking triumph *Remake*. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. His son Adrian grew up inside those films, and eventually began experimenting with the camera himself. When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough *Sherman&#8217;s March* into a work of fiction, twenty-year-old Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction and dies from a fentanyl overdose, leaving behind hours of personal video footage. Retracing Adrian’s final years, McElwee reckons with what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame. As he reflects on a lifetime behind the camera, Ross’s own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish takes on new significance. An ever-expanding hall of mirrors built from decades of home movies, *Remake* is both McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, and to let him go.

Remake

Vidiots

Paper Tiger - Early Access Preview 35mm

Vista Theatre

It's election night, feeling naughty? Then come join TAPE for an erotic night of experimental cinema! To kick off a month's long installation of Julie Orlick's *The One Person Cinema*, the program will feature parts one and two of the gay, French archival S&M film *Les fantômes du hard* in the microcinema. Blending shot-on-video smut with diaristic reflection, Lazare Lazarus unearths gay porn archives from Marseilles' legendary BDSM bar Le Mineshaft. Activating the archives of its founder, Lazare unearths a complex history of hardcore gay sex and the ghosts its left behind.

PLUS, don't miss your chance to see Orlick's erotic short **DÉSIR**, looping in **The One Person Cinema**. The installation explores a long distance relationship with taboo BDSM dynamics, voyeurism, performance, vulnerability, and projection (literally and figuratively). The work incorporates elements of 16mm experimental film, theater, sculpture, and public space for someone to be alone in, forcing one to view the film with no disturbances. While in the space, the audience member can be viewed from the outside while also being in a secret fantasy world. The One Person Cinema is a small 5’ x 3’ x 6’ room purposely built to premiere DÉSIR, equipped with headphones, a theater chair, carpet, and a viewing hole from the outside with a two-way mirror.

Huge thanks to Graham Akins, the lab technician in the UCLA sculpture department, for all of his help and generosity.

Looping film inside for *ONE NIGHT ONLY* Come early, or stay late ;)

## 18+ Adults only. ID checked at the door.

DÉSIR

Paris/Los Angeles / Black and White 16mm to digital / 2023 - 2026 / 3min 36sec

Starring Shelbie Dimond, Rose Minham and A. Nonynous Dick.

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 1

Lazare Lazarus | 2023 | France | 35’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 2

Lazare Lazarus | 2024 | France | 24’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

**TUESDAY, 11/3 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $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)*.

*Presented by* *[T.A.P.E.](https://tapeanalog.org/)* *- a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.*

*****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.***

Les fantômes du hard (2023-24) and DÉSIR (2026), pres. by TAPE (18+)

WHAMMY!

Bus Stop

My Dad Is 100 Years Old with Rome, Open City presented by Isabella Rossellini

Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) in 4K

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**GODZILLA MINUS ONE, 2023, Dir. Takashi Yamazaki, 124 Mins, GKIDS, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

A kamikaze pilot plagued by survivor’s guilt seeks redemption when a giant monster he failed to kill is transformed by radiation from atomic bomb tests and lays siege to post-war Japan.

FORMAT: DCP

**GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, 2026, Dir. Takashi Yamazaki, 135 Mins, GKIDS, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life.

Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.

There is no third time. Everything ends here.

FORMAT: DCP

Advance screening of GODZILLA MINUS ZERO Co-presented by Beyond Fest

GODZILLA MINUS ONE / GODZILLA MINUS ZERO

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Oldboy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ultra-wealthy NYC teenager Balthy makes dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he’s communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WG Pictures
COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Oscar Boyson, actor Asa Butterfield and producer and actor Jaeden Martell

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR

**Starring: **Ruth Madeley, Madeline Delp, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O’Brien, Rob Delaney 

**Screenwriters**: Siân Heder,  Rebekah Taussig

**Producers**: Siân Heder,  David Permut,  John W. Beach,  Kevin Cleary,  Kevin J. Walsh

Vidiots, Future of Film is Female and Apple Original Films invite you to a special advance screening of Siân Heder&#8217;s ***Being Heumann***!

They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building. In 1977, a young disabled woman (Ruth Madeley) and a scrappy coalition of outsiders decide they’ve had enough. What begins as one impulsive act becomes the longest occupation of a federal building in American history, as hundreds spontaneously seize government offices and refuse to leave until the bureaucrat in their way (Mark Ruffalo) takes action. Bringing rebellion in all its forms to the hallowed halls, a movement’s accidental leaders struggle to find their path forward where none has ever been paved for them. Directed by Academy Award winner Siân Heder (*CODA*) and based on true events, *Being Heumann* is the revolutionary, irreverent and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.

Doors for the screening will open at 6:00pm, Screening will start at 7:00pm.

Please note that this screening is first-come-first-served, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry. As we are hoping to accommodate as many people as possible, all free screenings are overbooked to account for no-shows. We recommend an early to on-time arrival, we may not be able to accommodate late entries.

Being Heumann

**Screenwriter**: Ajon Singh

**Producers**: Robert Pattinson,  Brighton McCloskey,  Lars Knudsen,  Ari Aster, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones,  Fred Berger,  William Iannaccone

In 2006, *To Catch a Predator* host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Primetime

Some Like It Hot in 4K

Black Fire with Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

After moving to the countryside, Lucy hopes for a fresh start with her family — but a police visit and her husband’s dark secret shatter her world.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: Austria

Q&A with filmmaker Marie Kreutzer and actor Léa Seydoux ‘Léa Seydoux: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

GENTLE MONSTER

CYBERCON celebrates the late Japanese artist and creature designer Yasushi Nirasawa with a gallery exhibition and book launch for Peow Studio’s new English edition of Creature Core. Join us for a panel and video presentation from Zimmerit discussing the history of garage kits to the influence of Gundam and Japanese anime followed by a screening of *Godzilla: Final Wars* (2004).

CYBERCON: Peow Studio Book Launch & Exhibition W/ Zimmerit Panel + Godzilla: Final Wars

Followed by a conversation with writer-director **Ryûsuke Hamaguchi**

Based on an exchange of letters between philosopher Makiko Miyano and medical anthropologist Maho Isono, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi beautifully depicts the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of Marie-Lou, a French nursing home director and caregiver, and Mari, a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer. As they spend time together after a performance of one of Mari’s plays and at the nursing home where Marie-Lou implements a new program of radical empathy for the patients' bodies and souls against skeptical colleagues, both connect over longing, sentimental aspirations, and the sociopolitical strains that have driven their life choices and shaped their communities. *All of a Sudden* isn’t just a fascinating look into our era’s anxieties and injustices but a moving testimony to the power of human empathy in an era that may make you think there is none.

2026. France/Japan/Germany/Belgium. Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Screenplay by Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; based on the book by Maho Isono, Makiko Miyano. With Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyôzô Nagatsuka. DCP courtesy NEON. In French, Japanese; English subtitles. 196 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

All of a Sudden

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should — full of myth, wonder, and unwavering belief. IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME is a breathtaking father-son story about imagination, family, and the grace we extend to the people we love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rich Spirit

COUNTRY: USA

IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Mandarin with English subtitles.*

Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, is forced to abandon her studies and marry into wealth, becoming the fourth and newest concubine of the aging, unseen Master Chen. Inside his walled estate, she discovers a household ruled by a merciless ritual: each night, red lanterns are lit outside the chambers of whichever wife the master chooses to visit, granting her privilege and status while the others are cast into cold irrelevance. Songlian is drawn into the orbit of her rivals, each shaped by years of fighting for the same scraps of attention. Determined at first to rise above the games, Songlian is gradually worn down by isolation and humiliation until she strikes back, trading secrets and favors to secure her place in Master Chen’s hierarchy. As petty cruelty turns even more dire, Songlian is forced to confront what these desperate measures will cost her soul. Newly restored, the film stands as one of the defining works of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema and international film of the 1990s.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: China/Hong Kong

New 4K Restoration 35th Anniversary Limited Engagement

RAISE THE RED LANTERN

Snatch

The Burning / Madman

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

Join us for the world premiere of a new documentary on Stephan Hoeller followed by Q&A with special guest Gary Lachman

THE BISHOP OF HOLLYWOOD, the life and legacy of Dr. Stephan Hoeller

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producers**: Yoshio Sasaki, Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of *Spirited Away*, and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above the scenic port towns of the Mediterranean. *Porco Rosso* follows the titular former fighter pilot turned bounty hunter as he pursues bands of sky pirates across the Adriatic Sea. After a mysterious curse leaves him with the face of a pig, Rosso embraces a life of relative obscurity. When an American hotshot pilot named Curtis threatens to take him down, Rosso is forced to join forces with his former flame, the sultry lounge singer Gina, and an aspiring aerospace engineer, Fio, for one final battle. Miyazaki&#8217;s mid-career tour de force retains Studio Ghibli’s signature whimsy while simultaneously offering a sobering meditation on anti-fascism and the traumas of war.

Porco Rosso (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

Sexy, smart, and smoldering, this shocking neo-noir shot the Coen brothers into the upper echelons of filmmakers right off the bat. Far beyond your average freshman fare, the Coen Brothers debut film *Blood Simple* is stylish, brutal, and tinged with that signature Coen wit. The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more menace from the best brothers in the biz!

*Miller&#8217;s Crossing, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men*

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

Blood Simple

**Screenwriter**: Dan O&#8217;Bannon

**Producer**: Tom Fox

The most fun you&#8217;ll ever have with the undead! A gang of Punks and New Wave ne&#8217;er-do-wells get trapped in a cemetery as the dead begin to rise and start to crash their party. And these aren&#8217;t your average zombies. They can talk, reason, and even make jokes, but make no mistake — they are still out for your brains. A total blast from start to finish, this monster bash features killer special effects, a rockin&#8217; soundtrack, and one of scream queen Linnea Quigley&#8217;s most iconic moments. You&#8217;d be a ghoul to miss it!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more 80s classics with the Queen Linnea Quigley!

*Night of the Demons, Silent Night Deadly Night, Savage Streets*

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

The Return of the Living Dead

Paper Tiger 35mm

Lady Terminator

Frankenweenie in 35mm

Jealousy Is My Middle Name (질투는 나의 힘)  in 35mm

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 2003 animated classic Interstella 5555, featuring a live DJ score performed by SOSUPERSAM and Kyle Ng.

Feel free to get out of your seat and dance with us!

CYBERCON: SOSUPERSAM & Kyle Ng Live Score to Interstella 5555 (2003)

A clandestine group of scientists are conducting brutal experiments on human test subjects in an attempt to unlock psychic powers. An assault of industrial noise, sensory deprivation, and grotesque body horror, *Rubber&#8217;s Lover (1996)* is often considered an unofficial prequel to Fukui’s *964 PINOCCHIO (1991)*, expanding on its obsessions with technology, bodily transformation, and the limits of human consciousness.

CYBERCON: Rubber’s Lover

Every space hosts the accumulation of time and is thus a repository of memory, one that is active and dynamic.

Jean Khalil Chamoun’s *Women Beyond Borders* (2004) and Theo Panagopoulos’ *The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessin*g (2024) were made two decades apart, but together they foster an ongoing conversation at the intersection of identity, memory and place across Lebanon and Palestine.

Though distinct in form, the films consider the relationship between people’s lived environments and their individual and collective identities. The films navigate through spaces both historically and presently marked by displacement, violence and resilience. Both offer meditations and testimonies on how these spaces can inhabit a people’s memories, linger into their present realities and influence their futures.

Rather than attempting to unearth a singular tradition, this program amplifies an ongoing cinematic conversation across Lebanon and Palestine that is rooted in intertwined histories of occupation and resistance. This conversation is an urgent one to hold today in light of the ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon and historic Palestine that continues to target complete ecosystems. This systematic surge of destruction and harm affects far beyond the physical; it seeks to fracture memory, sever a people’s sense of being and belonging, and jeopardize social relations that places sustain. The moving image as a tool presents an opportunity to forge an alternative place of memory work, one capable of preserving spatial memory, making visible the forms of erasure, and imagining continuities that exceed the violence of occupation and its imposed restriction on bodies and space.

*Programmed by UCLA Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Aciah Abdulsater and Archive Research and Public Access Coordinator Nicole Ucedo. Notes and concept by Aciah Abdulsater.*

Filmmaker and researcher Theo Panagopoulos’ essay-style documentary assembles recently rediscovered archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, filmed in the 1930s and ’40s by a Scottish missionary during the British Mandate. Panagopoulos decides to reclaim the footage. In reframing the images with new sound and captions he questions the role of image-making as both a tool of witnessing and a perpetrator of violence, when covering the relationships between people and land. 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Theo Panagopoulos.

In a feature-length documentary, filmmaker Jean Khalil Chamoun follows the story of Kifah Afifi, a Palestinian refugee, Sabra and Shatila massacre survivor, and ex-abductee at the infamous Khiam detention center in then-occupied southern Lebanon. The film explores questions of womanhood and women’s relationship to community and space. By following Kifah’s recollection of her time in detainment, her struggles and what anchored her hope, the film sheds light onto women who defied societal, historical and political boundaries.

Digital media. Director/Screenwriter: Jean Khalil Chamoun.

Borders That Flower: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / Women Beyond Borders

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on two mangas by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Benzo.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

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

TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past? Hold on to your seat for an explosive and intriguing thrill ride you’ll want to experience again and again.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles 20th Anniversary ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

DÉJÀ VU

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and Japanese with English subtitles.*

From master filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi comes a transformative portrait of hope and humanity. Marie-Lou is a care worker in Paris who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mari, a theater director in the throes of a recent life-changing diagnosis. Through tenderness and intimate understanding, their connection leads to profound discoveries in the ways they see the world, the future and our relationships to each other.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: France/Japan/Germany/Belgium

Q&A with filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and actors Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira Advance Screening

ALL OF A SUDDEN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta’s shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: IFC

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

BENEDETTA

In Session invites visitors to engage with readings, film/video and writing activities that relate to current exhibitions and are meant to generate self-reflection and group discussion.

This In Session will focus on Larry Johnson, who currently has work on view in In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA. Capacity is limited to 15 people. In Session is organized by MOCA Education.

A contemporary innovator of Pop, LA-based artist Larry Johnson makes photographs that look nothing like photographs. In his witty, incisive, cartoon-like proto-photos, Johnson appropriates the images and aesthetics of TV and movie animation, graphic design, commercial illustration, and advertising to deconstruct the terms of American culture’s self-presentation.

In Session: Larry Johnson

MOCA Grand Avenue

Kung Fu Panda

Ratatouille

The Last Picture Show

The Jerk

For more than a decade, University of Virginia colleagues Kevin Jerome Everson, Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts, and Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Edward Stettinius Professor of History, have collaborated on *Black Fire*, an ongoing body of work devoted to the history and experience of Black life at UVA in Charlottesville. The project grew out of Harold’s research into the political and cultural history of African American students and faculty at the university and her discovery of a fragmentary archive. Together, Harold and Everson began using this archival material as a point of departure, making images where images were absent and bringing Harold’s research into conversation with Everson’s approach to performance, duration, and gesture.

The selection presented here moves between histories of student organizing and institutional change, athletics, gospel, recreation, and the forms of social and cultural exchange that took place within and around the university.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A and conversation with Everson and Harold.

Special thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, K.J. Relth-Miller, and the Academy Museum.

Films appear courtesy of the filmmakers and Picture Palace Pictures. All films directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold.

Black Fire

Now Instant Image Hall

1948  • A hurricane, a hotel full of uneasy people, Humphrey Bogart facing off with Edward G. Robinson — Key Largo hardly needs more to get your attention. Directed by John Huston, it was the fourth and final screen pairing of Bogart and Bacall.  • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Key Largo

1971 • Introduction by Screenwriter Larry Karazewski • Screenwriter Larry Karazewski (Ed Wood, Big Eyes) joins us to introduce this wonderfully quirky film. The film was directed by Hal Ashby, who had a gift for making odd, deeply human films. Over time, it has become a beloved cult favorite. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Harold and Maude

Old Town Music Hall

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

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

**Screenwriters**: Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson

**Producer**: Roy Conli

Disney meets Marvel in this thrilling and charming tale of robotic friendship and fighting for what&#8217;s right. A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. So join us in San Fransokyo with your family and inflatable friends.

Big Hero 6

**Screenwriter**: Budd Schulberg

**Producer**: Sam Spiegel

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

*I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let&#8217;s face it.* You might know that iconic quote, and you might be aware that Marlon Brando’s performance in this movie was a game-changer in film history, helping to popularize the more naturalistic style known as Method acting. But don’t let that overshadow the film itself, a masterpiece that earned eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and remains just as powerful 70 years later. Brando plays Terry Malloy, a longshoreman and former boxer who grows to resent the mobsters who control his local union. And in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint is luminous as Terry’s love interest, who acts as his conscience and inspires him to take a stand and fight back &#8211; no matter what the cost.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more treasures from Eva Marie Saint&#8217;s iconic career!

*Grand Prix, The Sandpiper, Vertigo*

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

On the Waterfront

**Writer:** John Hughes

**Producers:** John Hughes, Lauren Shuler Donner

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for this all-time teen classic of high school romance, jealousy, resourcefulness, and classism. Molly Ringwald plays Andie, a creative outcast from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a rich kid (80&#8217;s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy) and ends up causing rifts in both their worlds. This sweet and stylish romance features incredible performances from the entire cast including Annie Potts as the fashionista record store owner, Jon Cryer as the Otis Redding lip-syncing obsessed best friend, James Spader as the vilest of the upper crust, and of course Vidiots favorite Harry Dean Stanton as her single father.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Celebrate 100 Years of Harry Dean Stanton with some of these gems from his section:

*Two Lane Blacktop, Straight Time, Red Dawn*

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

Pretty in Pink

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

We&#8217;re bringing the party back to the big screen to kick off our birthday weekend like rock stars! Join us for one of our favorite cinematic/musical experiences with a reprise of legendary Director Jonathan Demme’s ecstatic musical masterpiece Stop Making Sense. Filmed at the Hollywood Pantages Theater in December 1983, this fascinating piece of musical memorabilia showcases the Talking Heads boundless creativity and showmanship on stage and off. A one-of-a-kind experience, join Vidiots as we revel in 41 years of Vidiots and the 42nd anniversary of this groundbreaking film, newly remastered in a stunning 4K presentation.

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Jonesing for more Demme? We&#8217;ve got a killer section for Jonathan Demme on our directors racks that includes these rarities!

*Crazy Mama, Who Am I This Time?, Swimming to Cambodia*, and make sure to check out his tasty episode of *Columbo &#8211; Murder Under Glass!*

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

Stop Making Sense

The Westerner

3-D SPACE and Hollywood Entertainment invite you to a very special rare 3D screening of *Charlie Victor Romeo*, a uniquely disquieting performance film created entirely from the "black box" transcripts of real-life airline emergencies.

These short and poignant vignettes of real-life peril are by turns distressing and quotidian- an anthology of last words and deeds whose specificity and urgency are made extraordinarily vivid by the stereoscopic intimacy.

"When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong? Derived entirely from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts of six major airline incidents and accidents, Charlie Victor Romeo puts the audience inside the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, offering a fascinating portrait of the psychology of crisis and a person’s will to live to the last second." - Dekanalog

“[This] chilling and groundbreaking production stretches the boundaries of film, theatre, and the traditional documentary with this stereoscopic 3-D film of a stage play that recreates transcripts word for word. CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO transports film audiences into the best seats of the theatre and delivers the intensity and gut-wrenching emotion of these emergencies via the unique approach of live performance.” - Shari Frilot, senior programmer Sundance Film Festival & New Frontier

"The scariest airplane movie ever!" - John Waters

"A radical film." - Agnes Varda

"One of the most terrifying films I have ever seen." - A.O. Scott, *New York Times*

"The experience is, to put it mildly, a nail-biter" - John Defore, *The Hollywood Reporter*

**dirs. Karlyn Michelson, Patrick Daniels & Robert Berger, 2013**
*United States, digital projection*
80 min
[https://charlievictorromeo.com/](https://charlievictorromeo.com/)

**SATURDAY, 11/14 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

Charlie Victor Romeo (2013), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment & 3-D SPACE

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

2220 Arts + Archives

The Grand Budapest Hotel in 35mm

Paisàn in 35mm

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) in 35mm

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

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

CYBERCON: Blade Runner

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

CYBERCON: Blade Runner 2049

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

Synopsis:

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

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

Vampires Surf presented by Sun Bum

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

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

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

Gardena Cinema

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

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

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

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

*Total running time: 84 min.*

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

DCP. Director: B. G-Osborne.

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

Director: Nikolai Ursin.

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

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

DCP. Director: Luis De Filippis.

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

DCP. Director: Sydney Freeland.

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

DCP. Director: Theo Jean Cuthand.

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

DCP. Director: Raven Davis.

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

DCP. Director: Seyi Adebanjo.

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

DCP. Directors: Jess MacCormack, Alexus Young.

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

DCP. Director: Rhys Ernst.

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

DCP. Director: Tourmaline.

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE PATSY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

ALL THE LONG NIGHTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR:

COUNTRY: USA

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

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In French and English with English subtitles. *

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

‘Léa Seydoux: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE BEAST

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

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

About Cecilia Vicuña

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

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

About Elizabeth DeLoughrey

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

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

Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

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

My Best Girl

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

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

**Screenwriters**: Peter Sauder, Barry Downes

**Producers**: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

The Care Bears Movie

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

**Producer**: Ross Hunter

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Imitation of Life (1959) on 35mm

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

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

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

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

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

CIANI/ORKEST

**Screenwriters**: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

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

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Josie and the Pussycats

The Misfits in 4K

L’amore in 35mm

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

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

Poetry

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

Burning

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

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

Peppermint Candy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Yugoslavia

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

Onslaught / One Spoon of Chocolate

Director **Lee Chang-dong** in person

Winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, *Possible Love* marks the long-awaited return of Lee Chang-dong (*Burning*, *Poetry*), whose infrequent releases make each new film a major—and always ravishing—cinematic event. The precarious existence of a laid-off factory worker and his wife is upended when an affluent documentary filmmaker chooses them as the subjects of her latest project. Featuring an extraordinary ensemble led by Jeon Do-yeon, winner of the Cannes Best Actress prize for *Secret Sunshine*, the film unfolds as a haunting, slow-burning examination of class disparity, lingering trauma, and the elusive quest for human connection. Probing the mysteries of human behavior, Lee exposes the quiet hypocrisies and unspoken desires that shape how we perceive—and exploit—one another.

2026. South Korea. Written and directed by Lee Chang-dong. With Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong, Zo In-sung. DCP courtesy Netflix. In Korean; English subtitles. 164 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission**
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

General admission tickets go on sale Monday, November 2 at 11 a.m.

Enhance your movie experience as a member! Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant.

[BECOME A MEMBER](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership)

*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Possible Love

**TAPE Los Angeles** is excited to present new films by Los Angeles artist **Mike Stoltz** - Join us for a FREE screening of a selection of new single-channel film work freshly finished in 2026! This includes Pinktoned, the single-channel version of its expanded cinema companion piece that was on view at the Hammer Museum for Made in LA 2025. All films were shot on 16mm and this screening will include 16mm projection.

Mike Stoltz is a Los Angeles-based moving image artist who makes films, installations, and objects that examine how human beings move through and exist within the constructed landscape. His film experiments and works are microscopic deep dives into buzzing natural phenomena inherent in the creation, projection and viewing of the moving image.

*Blue Nile/Cosmogram #2*

collaboration with Adee Roberson

(2026, 16mm to HD, 2:45)

*Testament*

(2026, 16mm, sound, 5:45)

*Pinktoned*

(2026, 16mm to HD, 11:00)

*Artificial Horizons Test*

(2026, 16mm, silent, 5:45)

TRT: 27 minutes

Stoltz's 16mm films and videos have screened internationally at venues such as Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, The Hammer Museum, Media City Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Courtisane, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Light Field, International Film Festival Rotterdam, REDCAT,and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

**TUESDAY, 11/17 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## This is a totally FREE! Use the ticket link to RSVP to reserve a seat.

*Presented by* *[T.A.P.E.](https://tapeanalog.org/)* *- a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.*

*****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.***

ARTIFICIAL HORIZONS TEST - new films by Mike Stoltz, pres. by TAPE (FREE!)

The Getaway in 35mm

Four strangers' paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA.*

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

This screening will be preceded by a book signing of *Banton of Paramount: Haute Couture in Hollywood’s Golden Age* with author Howard Gutner beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby.

*Special thanks to our community partner: [Art Deco Society of Los Angeles](https://artdecola.org/)*

The playboy and thief Gaston (Herbert Marshall) meets the expert pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins) on the Riviera, and they, of course, fall in love. In Paris, Gaston gets a job as the personal secretary to a wealthy heiress to a perfume company, Mariette (Kay Francis), hiring Lily as the maid, so they can rob her blind. Unfortunately, while cleaning up the corruption on her company’s board, he also falls in love with her. No director was better at exposing the false morality of the bourgeoisie when pursuing sexual desire. Here, Ernst Lubitsch sets up a faux marriage, then turns the relationship into a ménage à trois, which he provocatively suggests may be the best way to keep a sexual relationship interesting and stable. Lubitsch’s direction of actors is almost Pirandellian, with the actors speaking their emotional lines in a virtual monotone, thus creating parodies of romantic love.

On display in this luscious pre-Code comedic romance is the creative genius of Travis Banton, one of Hollywood’s most important costume designers, whose collaborators included Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg. A conversation on Banton’s influence and evocative style, with author Howard Gutner and Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis, will precede the screening.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Screenwriter: Samson Raphaelson. With: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles.

*Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from the 35mm nitrate studio print and a 35mm acetate dupe negative. Laboratory services by Fotokem, Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc., Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to Library of Congress, George Willeman, British Film Institute, Universal Pictures.*

Archive Talks: Trouble in Paradise

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Greatest Love Of All Time,” 1977, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 10 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A portrait of Serbia’s erotic surrealist painter Popovic Ljuba, with Richard Wagner’s Tannhauser on the sound track.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE MARGIN, 1976, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 88 Mins, Janus Films, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York 4K Restoration of THE MARGIN ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"The Greatest Love of All Time" / THE MARGIN

Deliverance / Zardoz

**Screenwriter**: Juzo Itami

**Producers**: Seigo Hosogoe, Juzo Itami, Yasushi Tamaoki

We&#8217;re serving up the ultimate cinematic feast, Juzo Itami&#8217;s delectable &#8220;ramen western,&#8221; just in time for feasting season!  After the death of her husband, the widow of the proprietor of a noodle shop must rely on a cabal of gastronomes to help her find the perfect recipe. Deliciously funny, sexy and surreal, this hilarious satire satisfies down to the soul. Get ready to devour this treasure of Japanese and culinary cinema in its new 4K restoration on our big delicious screen! And come hungry, our concessions stand will have delicious ramen to slurp during the film!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Hungry for more foodie movies?  Check out these bangers from our video rental collection!

*Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers, Like Water for Chocolate, The Trip***

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

Tampopo

50th Anniversary of Carrie with Sissy Spacek

### THE CELL (2000)

Our friends in AFTER are hosting a special screening of the 2000s classic *THE CELL*, accompanied by the band in person and music videos.

### About the Film

Expert child psychotherapist Jennifer Lopez goes inside a mad serial killer&#8217;s mind to find out where he&#8217;s keeping his irl victims. Beautiful set-pieces in a surrealist dreamscape that draws from the art of Damien Hirst et al. It&#8217;s *Silence of the Lambs* on shrooms.

AFTER presents THE CELL (2000)

When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae relocates down south to her late husband’s hometown of Miryang. Despite her efforts to settle down, in this unfamiliar and much too normal place, she finds that she can’t quite fit in. Helping her out is Kim Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome bachelor, who owns a car repair shop. Life plods on. However, fate takes a vicious turn when Shin-ae loses her son in the most horrific way a mother could imagine. She turns to Christianity to relieve the pain in her heart, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 11/19) 7:30pm

Olivia Wilde out-Albees Edward Albee (and out-LaButes Neil LaBute) in this viciously funny four-hander about a couple who inadvertently spice up their marriage when they invite over their swinging neighbors for a casual dinner party. Deftly adapted by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones from the popular Spanish movie *Sentimental*, *The Invite* confirms Wilde as an uncommonly, if unsurprisingly, gifted director of actors, each of whom plays their parts to perfection: the put-upon neurotic wife (Wilde, paying homage to Diane Keaton), the half-hearted husband (Seth Rogan), the Tantric seeker (Ed Norton), and the free-spirited bohemian (Penelope Cruz). 

2026. USA. Directed by Olivia Wilde. Screenplay by Will McCormack, Rashida Jones. With Wilde, Penelope Cruz, Edward Norton, Seth Rogen. DCP courtesy A24. 107 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission**
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

General admission tickets go on sale Monday, November 2 at 11 a.m.

Enhance your movie experience as a member! Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant.

[BECOME A MEMBER](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership)

*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

The Invite

**Screenwriter:** Greg Mottola

**Producers:** Nancy Tenenbaum, Steven Soderbergh

*The Daytrippers*, directed by late-aughts comedy mainstay Greg Mottola (*Superbad*, *Adventureland*), follows one crazy day in the life of the dysfunctional Malone family as they embark on a frenzied odyssey through New York City. When eldest daughter Eliza (Hope Davis) finds a love letter addressed to her husband (Stanley Tucci), the whole family—including Eliza’s younger sister Jo (an effortlessly cool Parker Posey in the most dazzling pair of red leg warmers), mother Rita (comedy legend Anne Meara), father Jim (Pat McNamara), and Jo’s fiancé Carl (a baby-faced Liev Schreiber)—squeezes into a station wagon trekking from Long Island to the city in search of answers. The group stumbles and bickers through encounters with distinctly New York oddballs, artists, and elitists but no one is prepared for when their sleuthing leads to a devastating revelation. Anchored by standout performances from Posey, Davis, and Meara, Greg Mottola&#8217;s family road-trip from hell is a hilarious, clever, and surprisingly poignant indie gem.

The Daytrippers

Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

Directed and shot on 35mm and 16mm by Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER), the crew includes filmmaker and actor Benny Safdie (THE SMASHING MACHINE) and music producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Grammy winner for albums with Vampire Weekend and Adele).

GQ praised Cameron Winter’s show at Carnegie Hall as “staggeringly good,” and Nick Cave said he has a “a glorious, emotive voice with brilliant, blistering words, a racked and wondrous thing.” Winter’s solo album *Heavy Metal* was named one of the best of the year by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Paste and Mojo and Geese’s last record *Getting Killed* was named the best album of 2025 by The New Yorker, NME and Stereogum.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films and Criterion

COUNTRY: USA

CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL

*Michel Gondry, USA, 2004, 35mm, 108 min. *

Everyone has an ex they’d rather forget; now, you can. For Joel (Jim Carrey), the culmination of his on-again, off-again relationship with Clementine (Kate Winslet) is the erasure of him from her memory. Thanks to a breakthrough procedure from Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), he too can wipe the experience from his mind, but his heart is a different matter. As he courses through the years of make-ups and break-ups, though the memories fade, the love remains, but for how long? A visionary experiment in love from the minds of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry.

Tuesday, 11/3

Aero Theatre

PAPER TIGER,

PATERSON,

7:30 PM

⭐

Brain Dead Studios

Being John Malkovich

7:30 PM

⭐

Egyptian Theatre

Gentle Monster

1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:50 PM

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Los Feliz Theatre

MY BROTHER'S KILLER

7:00 PM

⭐

DEADPOOL 2

10:00 PM

⭐

New Beverly Cinema

Excalibur

7:30 PM

⭐

Vidiots

Remake

7:00 PM

⭐

Vista Theatre

Paper Tiger - Early Access Preview 35mm

7:00 PM

⭐

WHAMMY!

Les fantômes du hard (2023-24) and DÉSIR

8:00 PM

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Tuesday, 11/3