LA Filmforum: Three Film Portraits by Jeffrey Skoller

2220 Arts + Archives

Aliens in 70mm

Prince of Darkness in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Icelandic and English with English subtitles.*

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Documentary Films

COUNTRY: Iceland/USA

Q&A with filmmaker Sara Dosa and producer Shane Boris Special Screening + free popcorn and soda courtesy of National Geographic Documentary Films

TIME AND WATER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

LEGEND, from director Ridley Scott, is a visually stunning fantasy-adventure in which pure good and evil battle to the death amidst spectacular surroundings. Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story stars Tom Cruise as a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily (Mia Sara) and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

LEGEND

Aero Theatre

**Directed by Peter Watkins**

*1976, 174 mins, Norway/Sweden, 35mm*

**35mm collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive**

Sunday, October 11

1:00 PM
Brain Dead Studios

611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

**“A work of genius.” — Ingmar Bergman**

We are thrilled to present a rare 35mm screening of the theatrical version of Peter Watkins’ masterpiece, one of the greatest films about art and art-making, in tribute to the late filmmaker (1935-2025). Known for its highly original style, Watkins’ biopic of the great Norwegian artist uses the tropes of a documentary film—direct-to-camera interviews, contrapuntal voice-over and vérité zooms—while employing non-professional actors, creating an utterly modern exploration of Munch’s ascension into the art world of the late 19th century.

**“Peter Watkins’s three-hour magnum opus is less a portrait of the great Norwegian painter Edvard Munch than it is an exposure of the artist’s frayed inner life.** Indelible images of the painter’s childhood occur and recur; ecstatic moments of human connection punctuate long stretches of boredom, loneliness, and frustration; aesthetic debates within Munch’s Berlin intellectual circle, which included the playwright August Strindberg, unravel at length. The result is an artist biopic—complete with dry voiceover narration—that moves with the logic of a free verse poem or a stream-of-consciousness novel. On one level, *Edvard Munch* is an exhaustive portrait of a particularly fervent moment in European politics and culture. On another, it’s a painfully intimate study of an individual with a particularly acute sense for, as one character in the film puts it, ‘the mysterious anguish of life’—and the cathartic anguish of art.”

*— Film at Lincoln Center*

**“This 1976 study of the tortured expressionist painter is obsessively detailed (and meticulously researched), but through Watkins’s jittery, subjective montage, it retains a life and madness of its own.”**

*— Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader*

**“A moving, complex, beautifully felt portrait of the great Norwegian artist.”**

*— The New York Times*

*In Norwegian, Swedish, German, Danish and English with English subtitles.*

Flyer by Ellie Sunlight Moon. Special thanks to Todd Wiener and Steven Hill (UCLA Film & Television Archive) and Darrell Brett.

Mezzanine presents: Edvard Munch

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can&#8217;t steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Onibaba

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs &#8212; and it&#8217;s absolutely impossible to contain.

28 Days Later

Brain Dead Studios

Participants will learn the methods of marbled paper production from start to finish.

Introduction to Paper Marbling Hosted By Sarah Plummer (10/11)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead, through Cocteau’s famous mirrored portal. *Orpheus*’s peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling represent the legendary Cocteau at the height of his powers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

Introduction by filmmaker Sky Hopinka In partnership with Vidiots Supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation ‘Here and Elsewhere: Films from Sky Hopinka’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Sky Hopinka Presents ORPHEUS

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Kunįkaga Remember Red Banks, Kunįkaga Remembers the Welcoming Song,” 2014, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 9 Mins, USA**

The video traverses the history and the memory of a place shared by both the Ho-Chunk and settler: Red Banks, a Ho-Chunk village site near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European in what is now called Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. Each serve as representations of personal and shared history, as well as of practices and processes of remembrance.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Fainting Spells,” 2018, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 11 Mins, USA**

Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant – used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Kicking the Clouds,” 2021, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 16 Mins, USA**

This film is a reflection on descendants and ancestors, guided by a 50-year-old audio recording of my grandmother learning the Pechanga language from her mother. After being given this tape by my mother, I interviewed her and asked about it, and recorded her ruminations on their lives and her own. The footage is of our chosen home in Whatcom County, Washington, where my family still lives, far from our homelands in Southern California, yet a home nonetheless.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Dislocation Blues,” 2017, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 17 Mins, USA**

An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Shaawan Francis Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry Running Wild describes what his camp is like, and what he hopes it will become.

FORMAT: DCP

**“When you’re lost in the rain,” 2018, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 5 Mins, USA**

In this video, drawing from Bob Dylan’s song “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” layers of experiences circling loss and longing are overlaid between images of landscapes and movement. In the song by Dylan, a stranger’s listlessness and exhaustion are woven through and around Juarez, Mexico, and so too in this video are these stories woven around colonial discontent and uncertainty as they move through an uneasy negotiation with the strangeness of the American pioneer spirit. 

FORMAT: DCP

**“Jáaji Approx,” 2015, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 8 Mins, USA**

Logging and approximating a relationship between audio recordings of my father and videos gathered of the landscapes we have both separately traversed. The initial distance between the logger and the recordings, of recollections and of songs, new and traditional, narrows while the images become an expanding semblance of filial affect. Jáaji is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary,” 2017, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 13 Mins, USA**

“The individual is not an autonomous, solitary object but a thing of uncertain extent, with ambiguous boundaries. So too is matter, which loses much of its allure the moment it is reduced to an object, shorn of its viscosity, pressure and density. Both subject and matter resist their reduction into objects. Everything is interconnected and intertwined.” -Kengo Kuma

The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” – such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole, chinuk wawa. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Lore,” 2019, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 10 Mins, USA**

Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this film stemming from Hollis Frampton’s “Nostalgia.”  The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, a not too distant ruin, with traces of nostalgia articulated in terms of lore; knowledge and memory passed down and shared not from wistful loss, but as a pastiche of rumination, reproduction and creation.

FORMAT: DCP

**“I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become,” 2016, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 12 Mins, USA**

An elegy to Diane Burns on the shapes of mortality and being, and the forms the transcendent spirit takes while descending upon landscapes of life and death. A place for new mythologies to syncopate with deterritorialized movement and song, reifying old routes of reincarnation. Where resignation gives hope for another opportunity, another form, for a return to the vicissitudes of the living and all their refractions.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Sky Hopinka In partnership with Vidiots Supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation ‘Here and Elsewhere: Films from Sky Hopinka’

Short Films from Sky Hopinka

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Canada/Hungary

Q&A with filmmaker Sophy Romvari. Moderated by Samantha Quan.

BLUE HERON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The American Cinematheque is thrilled to announce a limited engagement of TAKE ME HOME, Liz Sargent’s feature length version of the 2024 PROOF Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner. From an award-winning short film to a world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival with the feature is an inspirational journey, and we wish the team the best as they bring this moving film around the world.

Anna (Anna Sargent, making her acting debut), a middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. Alongside her sister Emily (Ali Ahn) and her father (Victor Slezak), they must confront challenging questions about the future, but Anna remains determined to build a life where all of them can thrive.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WILLA

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by actor Oliver Stark and pre-screening Q&A with filmmaker Liz Sargent and cinematographer Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi. Moderated by Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment Deputy Director Grace Kao. Limited Engagement Co-presented by CAPE, Antigravity Academy and Half Initiative

TAKE ME HOME

Los Feliz Theatre

The Dark Crystal

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors / The Blob

New Beverly Cinema

1993 • Special Guest: The film's Production Designer, William Sandell • This one didn’t start as a classic, but it earned its place the old-fashioned way: people kept watching it every Halloween until it became a tradition. The three leads are the whole show, and the comedy works even when things get silly. It’s bright, quick, and very rewatchable! • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Hocus Pocus

1931 • This is the performance that defined Dracula for generations. The early sound-era filmmaking gives it a spooky stillness that actually helps the mood, like the castle air itself has gone cold. This film is the one that kicked off Universal’s classic monster era. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Dracula

Old Town Music Hall

Horror master George A. Romero’s underseen, woozy feminist psychodrama of ’70s suburban discontent, witchcraft, and occult liberation.

George A. Romero's SEASON OF THE WITCH (1972)

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Tab Murphy

**Producer**: Igor Khait

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another&#8217;s footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more adorable bears from our All Ages section!

*Paddington, The Yogi Bear Show, The Country Bears*

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

Brother Bear

**Screenwriters**: Ivete Lucas,  Leah Marino

**Producers**: Holly Herrick,  Harry W. Hanbury,  Patrick Bresnan,  Zackary Drucker

Followed by a conversation with director **Patrick Bresnan** with **Alysa Nahmias** on Saturday and **Heather Courtney** on Sunday.

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stages a coup at New College, the state’s beloved public honors college, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in an unprecedented nationwide assault on academic freedom and diversity. 

*First They Came for My College* tells the inside story of the right-wing campaign to &#8220;reconquer&#8221; higher education in America. New College of Florida was the first public college to be transformed by a political coup &#8211; a blueprint for our new era of unprecedented censorship and political interference in academia. By embedding with the student newspaper, an outspoken professor, and students from all sides of the political spectrum, this verité feature reveals a microcosm of America&#8217;s culture wars and serves as an essential document for students today grappling with their moment in history.

First They Came for My College

**Screenwriters**: Carol Sobieski from the stage play by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan and the comic strip by Harold Gray

**Producer**: Ray Stark

Vidiots remembers the great **Tim Curry** with a special screening of the musical bonanza ***Annie*** for Tim Curry lovers of all ages!

*You love money and power and capitalism? You know they&#8217;re never going to love you back. *Annie is the luckiest orphan in all of America. Plucked from the nightmarish orphanage run by man-crazy lush Miss Hannigan (in a perfectly out-of-pitch performance by Carol Burnett) and thrust into unimaginable wealth by millionaire Daddy Warbucks, Annie melts the capitalist&#8217;s heart, but still longs for her birth parents. Warbucks offers a reward to locate them, which brings out many money-hungry frauds including imposters Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters. Join us as we sing and cheer along and bet your bottom dollar that you&#8217;ll have a blast at this classic musical!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Tim Curry treasures on glorious physical media!

*The Worst Witch, Legend, Muppet Treasure Island*

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

Annie

**Screenwriter**: Melody C. Roscher

**Producers**: Craig Shilowich,  Alexander Schepsman,  Danielle Massie,  Cody Ryder, Sam Bisbee,  Saba Zerehi

Writer/Director **Melody C. Roscher** in person at all screenings!

- Friday, October 9  with Melody C. Roscher and Alisha Wainwright, moderated by Raven Jackson

- Saturday, October 10 with Melody C. Roscher and Alisha Wainwright

- Sunday, October 11 &#8211; Introduction by Melody C. Roscher

Join us in the microcinema for Melody Roscher&#8217;s bitingly comic feature film debut that weaves themes of race, belonging, and family into a mercurial journey.  Bird returns home to visit her mom in search of the perfect wedding venue after a surprise engagement to her longtime boyfriend, but much to everyone&#8217;s surprise, she is actually on the hunt for something else. Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, *Bird in Hand* follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometown to plan the wedding with her narcissistic hippie mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti). Bird also has a hidden agenda, one that leads her to her mother&#8217;s new neighbors, a misguided couple on a mission to &#8216;rebrand&#8217; a plantation. Truth, lies, and fantasy collide against that backdrop, leading to a surprising climax as tender as it is funny. James LeGros, Jeffrey Nordling, and Annabelle Dexter-Jones co-star.

Bird in Hand

**Screenwriters**: Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner

**Producers**: Christian Halsey Solomon, Chris Hanley, Edward R. Pressman

*I have to return some videotapes*&#8230; Patrick Bateman is your average 1980s Wall Street executive, from his expensive designer suits, to his dinner reservations, to his business card, to his well-educated beautiful fiance, all up to the penchant for mergers and acquisitions, or is it murders and executions? Adapted from Bret Easton Ellis&#8217; notorious novel, *American Psycho* continues to make you laugh and shriek in equal measures as it steers you through the disquieting mind as it unravels into madness. So turn up the Huey Lewis, don your Armani dinner jacket, and get ready to have a *psycho* good time!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Bret Easton Ellis adaptations on physical media tonight!

*Rules of Attraction, The Canyons, The Informers*

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

American Psycho

**Screenwriter**: John Wilson

**Producers**: John Wilson,  Clark Filio,  Shirel Kozak,  Allie Viti

One part documentary, one part camcorder video essay, and one part the driest yet funniest of comedies, John Wilson extends his unique genre-bending style from the small screen to the big with this magnificently absurd examination of the literal ground below our feet. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world&#8217;s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry. So crawl out from under that rock and hit the pavement to catch this singular feature that only John Wilson could have made!

The History of Concrete

Vidiots

The Birds

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

Vista Theatre

**NADIE ES INOCENTE** is a hybrid fictionalized documentary of the youth gang Mierdas Punks, who play themselves. It follows reformed punk “Kara” as he takes the train from Ciudad Neza back to the main city to leave his former life behind. Shot on Betacam over a few years, and incorporating and repurposing 16mm concert footage from Minter’s collaboration with Gregorio Rocha SABADO DE MIERDA, the film is both a document of and dramatized collaboration with Minter’s subjects.

**ALMA PUNK** shares some similarity with the former, partially improvised and using non-actors, this time exploring the ins-and-outs of Mexico City’s punk scene. Following a young riot grrl as she moves north to Tijuana and eventually towards the United States. Once again challenging the form and rules of docudrama, we get a glimpse of pre-NAFTA and post 1985 earthquake Mexico.

**dir. Sarah Minter, 1986**
*Mexico, digital projection*
55 min

**dir. Sarah Minter, 1991**
*Mexico, digital projection*
56 min

Special thanks to Emiliano Rocha Minter & Steve Macfarlane.

**SUNDAY, 10/11 · 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.***

2 from Sarah Minter: NADIE ES INOCENTE (1986) + ALMA PUNK (1991)

WHAMMY!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In German with English subtitles.*

Berlin, 2019: The 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall is approaching, but former East German Railway worker “Micha” Hartung (Hübner) is focused on saving his failing video store, not on the past. When tabloid journalist Landmann (Ullrich) uncovers a report from the Stasi archives linking Micha to a mass escape of GDR citizens via the city’s Friedrichstraße Station in 1984, he moves to secure the rights to the story. Denying his role at first, Micha bends the facts, confirming the report in exchange for the cash royalty.  Suddenly, Micha is a media sensation. After Paula (Paul), who was a child on that train, sees Micha on TV, she travels to thank him. Upon meeting, Paula thinks she’s found her “Berlin Hero,” and Micha has found the woman of his dreams. Still, it is only a matter of time before the web of lies and half-truths unravels, jeopardizing the couple’s happiness and the country’s understanding of the past. Based on Maxim Leo’s eponymous novel, featuring an extraordinary cast including Charly Hübner, Leonie Benesch, Thorsten Merten, Becker himself, and his long-time ensemble, Christiana Paul, Jürgen Vogel, and Daniel Brühl, Wolfgang Becker’s final film is a heart-warming, honest comedy about the nature of truth. 

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Germany

Closing Film U.S. Premiere Pre-screening drink reception ‘German Currents 2026’

BERLIN HERO

The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him. 

Actor Chris Colfer (*Glee*) will join for a post-screening Q&A.

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Notorious

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Days of Heaven

Double Feature Presentation!

 

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961, Elia Kazan, 124 minutes) 

Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star as two teenaged lovers in 1928 Kansas whose internal conflicts over intimacy and sex--learned from overbearing parents--thwart their hopes for happiness in this heart-wrenching romantic drama. 

 

followed by

 

STILL WALKING (2008, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 114 min.) 

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.



Splendor in the Grass will screen first, followed by a 15 minute intermission, then Still Walking.

Splendor in the Grass + Still Walking

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

There will be a Vinegar Syndrome Pop-up Shop in the lobby before and after the screening.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A wickedly ridiculous ‘80s precursor to THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, this gorefest throws in a busload of creature-feature comforts: hulking Sasquatches, ghoulish zombies, bloody sacrifices and alien overlords. A group of vacationing teens get way more than just a fun-filled few days in the wilderness as their cabin is besieged first by a feral Bigfoot, followed by a shotgun-toting George Kennedy (COOL HAND LUKE, THE NAKED GUN) and an even bigger, grosser monster-mash surprise. Based on an original story by prolific SFX artist John Carl Buechler and directed by Emmett Alston (NEW YEAR’S EVIL), DEMONWARP is packed with gratuitous nudity, head-ripping action and the will to thoroughly entertain!

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Vinegar Syndrome

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Emmett Alston and producer Richard Albert New 4K Restoration Co-presented by Vinegar Syndrome and Scream Screen ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents DEMONWARP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Co-presented by Beyond Fest ‘Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan’

LADY IN THE WATER

The Town That Dreaded Sundown / The Evictors

**Producers**: Sky Hopinka,  John Cardellino,  Adam Piron, Noah Bashevkin

Vidiots, Mezzanine, and Cousin Collective invite you to special screening of Sky Hopinka&#8217;s new documentary ***Powwow People*** followed by a conversation with **Sky Hopinka** moderated by **Micah Gottlieb** of Mezzanine and the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.

*Powwow People* is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as outside observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow itself, inviting dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film. Structured around the arc of a single day, the film follows four central figures: Gina Bluebird, who frames the powwow’s shape and guides its setup; Ruben Littlehead, the MC whose presence anchors the present moment; Jamie John, a non-binary dancer imagining the future of these traditions; and Freddie Cozad, a singer and drummer considering the past. The film culminates in a 30-minute unbroken shot of a Northern Traditional dance special, drawing the viewer into the textures, movement, and collective presence of the powwow. It is both a reflection of a beloved community and a gesture toward the continuities of Native life.

Doors for the screening will open at 6:30pm, Screening will start at 7:30pm with conversation to follow.

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.

**Here and Elsewhere: Films from Sky Hopinka**

The American Cinematheque is proud to present a three-day celebration of the work and cinematic vision of filmmaker and visual artist Sky Hopinka, in partnership with Vidiots.

Moving fluidly between documentary, experimental cinema and poetic nonfiction, Hopinka’s films explore language, landscape, memory and Indigenous experience. Both deeply personal and formally adventurous, his work resists traditional boundaries between image and text, as well as past and present.

Through the program, audiences will be able to encounter a number of Sky’s works. The series begins at the American Cinematheque’s Los Feliz 3 with a presentation of ORPHEUS as part of Sunday Print Edition, followed by a selection of short films and Q&A. The celebration continues at Vidiots with a private screening of Hopinka’s new film ***Powwow People**,* before returning to the Los Feliz 3 for a screening of his acclaimed feature ***ma****ɬ****ni – towards the ocean, towards the shore***, followed by a Q&A.

Powwow People

Presented by the UCI Third Cinema Now Collective, a collaboration between Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Margaux Fitoussi, and Felix Jean-Louis of the University of California, Irvine. The film series highlights the work of filmmakers from across the Global South and creates a forum for genuine encounters between the UC Irvine community, greater Los Angeles, and filmmakers from around the world. Each screening contextualizes regional cinematic voices and facilitates an extended talkback discussion, centering regional voices as they speak back to American audiences at this pivotal historical juncture.

## L'Homme sur les quais (The Man by the Shore)

The parents of Sarah, 8 years old had to run away from the Haïti of the Duvaliers. The father, a discredited officer, trusted Sarah and her two sisters to their grandmother. For a time, secure away from Janvier’s revenge, a violent person dedicated to the new power, Sarah creates a world of her own, full of fantasies, of mysteries and rituals. 30 years later, the pictures of those years intermingle, nightmares recalling a man on the quays that put an end to her childhood.

**dir. Raoul Peck, 1993**
*Haiti, digital projection*
106 min

**MONDAY, 10/12 · 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)*.

*****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.***

L'HOMME SUR LES QUAIS (1993), pres. by UCI Third Cinema Now Collective

The Seven Year Itch

An Evening of Short Films by Women Directors

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks," Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice, however, struggles with his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his undeniable urges. But while staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice is seduced by the affectionate and yearning servant Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), an event that brings about profound changes in Maurice's life and outlook.

Maurice

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, QUERELLE finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.

Querelle

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative*

Ever a student of film theory, Ryusuke Hamaguchi credits his graduate work with Kiyoshi Kurosawa for challenging him to grapple with the essential contradiction of cinema: using a recording device to create fiction. Understanding this paradox, Hamaguchi has said, “is what directing is all about.” Curiously there’s a touch of Hirokazu Koreeda in this short about a film student making a documentary about people who knew her deceased sister, only to discover one of her subjects, a detached young man, can speak with her ghost. In Hamaguchi’s script and framing, the nature of the afterlife becomes enmeshed with the nature of cinema.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Nao Okabe, An Ogawa, Hyunri.

On the morning they’re supposed to get married, Seichi (Hikohiko Sugiyama) has woken up with a hangover from his bachelor party while Eiko (Aoba Kawa) wonders if now is the time to tell him about her affair. Meanwhile, across town, her ex-boyfriend, a nude model, decides he needs to stop the whole thing. As they each make their way to the event, Hamaguchi orchestrates an extended cross-cutting sequence that builds anticipation while building a multifaceted portrait of a generation at the crossroads between holding on to their ideals and surrendering to practicality.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Aoba Kawai. Hikohiko Sugiyama, Nao Okabe.

Heaven Is Still Far Away / I Love Thee for Good

Hammer Museum

A screening of four short documentary films about Amy Winehouse, The Raincoats, Deerhunter, and Belle and Sebastian

Amy Winehouse, The Raincoats, Deerhunter, Belle and Sebastian Doc Screening

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Shocking, outrageous and poetic, *JIGOKU* (HELL, a.k.a. *THE SINNERS OF HELL*) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, JIGOKU, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

JIGOKU

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

For ticket holders for preceding Henson event only! A free-with-RSVP screening of 3 eps of Henson's fairy & folk tale television series!

PRIVATE RSVP for TINKERDEE TICKET HOLDERS! Jim Henson's THE STORYTELLER

Free. Bad artist welcome

Hosted by an art group based in Echo Park

BYOP: Bring Your Own Pen Drink & Draw!

Stories Books & Cafe

**Screenwriters**: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe

**Producers**: Rupert Harvey, Peter Heller, Lloyd Segan

Vidiots is *dying* to welcome back legendary director **Ernest R. Dickerson** for a special screening of his cult classic horror starring Snoop Dogg &#8211; ***Bones*** on glorious 35mm celluloid!

Snoop Dogg haunts the streets in Ernest R. Dickerson&#8217;s wildly entertaining mash-up of Blaxploitation and horror. Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood to its former glory with the help of the iconic Pam Grier. Grisly, gruesome, with just the right pinch of schlock, Ernest Dickerson&#8217;s *Bones* brings the horror to the hood.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more killer flicks from the great Ernest R. Dickerson on glorious physical media tonight!

*Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, Futuresport, Surviving the Game*

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

Bones on 35mm

Hocus Pocus/The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

Invincible and Bee are low level criminals who spend their days selling bootleg VCDs (precursors to DVDs that were popular in Asia) at the mall. Their boss sends them on a routine job during which they accidentally kill a pedestrian. To keep their crime hidden, they decide the best place to hide the body is the mall. But, to their shock, the body they hit was infected by an extremely infectious bio-weapon that spreads to the mall’s patrons. What follows is an all night battle to stay alive while trapped in a neon-lit shopping center.

Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present an extremely rare screening of *Bio Zombie* directed by Wilson Yip (*Ip Man*, *Flash Point*)*.* This film is Hong Kong’s answer to *Dawn of the Dead* and is recommended for fans of *Idle Hands*, *Resident Evil*, and fluorescent frights.

Will you be able to survive a night in the mall?

**dir. Wilson Yip, 1998**
*Hong Kong, digital projection*
94 min

**WEDNESDAY, 10/21 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

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BIO ZOMBIE (1998), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment

Dark Star with Captain Voyeur

When Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck), a working class woman, meets and marries the wealthy Stephen Dallas (John Boles), they quickly have a daughter named Laurel (Anne Shirley). Stella and Stephen struggle to stay happy as their class differences become a problem; when they finally separate, Laurel is caught in the middle of the divorce. Soon, Lauren becomes the center of Stella's life. Stella tries to be a good mother, but realizes that her daughter can flourish quite well without her.

Stella Dallas

Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who takes human form to prey on men—but ends up finding something like humanity within herself—in this bleak and startling thriller directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth). With its powerful combination of Johansson’s brave performance, the moody cinematography of Daniel Landin, and the naturalistic (often improvised) dialogue, Under the Skin is a one-of-a-kind science-fiction horror, aided greatly by the unnerving atonal music of Mica Levi’s first score for a feature film.

Under the Skin

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In 1970s LA, struggling comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) hits it big with his raunchy alter ego, Dolemite, then risks it all to take his act to the big screen.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies’

DOLEMITE IS MY NAME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures:

God Killing Himself.

Mother Earth.

Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone

The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth. God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino

COUNTRY: USA

Limited Engagement New 4K Restoration Official Beyond Fest 2026 Selection Restoration personally supervised by filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Restored from the original 16mm negative and optical soundtrack. It was scanned and restored in 4K, and final grading was done at filmscan & more in Munich, Germany.

BEGOTTEN

Do You Love Me

Now Instant Image Hall

**Producers**: Alison Byrne Fields,  Josh Penn

With director **Sam Green** in conversation with **Dominic Willsdon**, Executive Director of IDA after the October 22nd screening!

Join us in the microcinema for an-all-too-human triumph of documentary filmmaking, Sam Greene&#8217;s profound and entertaining affirmation of life, The* Oldest Person in the World.  *Green creates a decade-long odyssey chronicling the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. As the title inevitably passes from one supercentenarian to the next, acclaimed filmmaker Sam Green traverses the globe to meet each new record holder, his personal fascination with what the title means becoming entangled with events and milestones in his own life. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.

The Oldest Person in the World

**Screenwriters**: Martin Donovan, David Koepp

**Producers**: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey

Bring your best frenemies and get ready for Vidiots epic annual Halloween Shindig! We&#8217;ll be kicking off the night with extra spooky tunes from **[DJ Jéli](https://www.instagram.com/chromequeen/), Tarot Card Readings**, and creeped out vibes before diving into the everlasting classic dark comedy ***Death Becomes Her***, followed by more Halloweenie revelry and plenty of spooky Vidiots fun. So, put on your costumes, bring your besties, and come for one killer party!

The quest for eternal youth is a bitch! National treasures Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as best frenemies who will stop at nothing to keep their youthful good looks and the love of Bruce Willis. When Isabella Rossellini offers up a magical immortality potion, the rivalry intensifies to deadly and devilishly funny heights. A marvelously twisted dark comedy that lives on forever!

Tarot Card Readings by Camilha Contreras &#8211; one card Tarot pulls from 6:00pm-8:00pm. Come early as time slots will likely fill up fast.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We would die for Goldie Hawn! Take home more ridiculous classics from one of America&#8217;s funniest ladies!

*Private Benjamin, Housesitter, Overboard*

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

Death Becomes Her + Vidiots Halloween Party

Dracula's Daughter/Frankenstein's Daughter

A couple ends up renting a haunted house in this eerie throwback to the classics of Italian horror cinema. Shot on consumer-grade digital video on the streets of Turin, director Fabio Zuliani's second feature has rarely, if ever, been screened theatrically in the US.

**dir. Fabio Zuliani, 2000**
*Italy, digital projection*
72 min

**THURSDAY, 10/22 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

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*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.***

THE HOUSE WITH ARCHED WINDOWS (2000), pres. by TAPE

The George Stevens Lecture on Directing presents Giant in 4K

Vampires in 4K with Memoirs of an Invisible Man in 35mm

Selected by Sammy Harkham: &#8220;A movie to see if you love drugs or have a large collection of mad magazines or listen to 90s hard rock or jack off to Basil Wolverton drawings or jack off to Gumby jacking off or laugh at Will Elder’s chicken fat or rent movies if Screaming Mad George is in the credits or watch YouTube clips of old borscht belt comedians or only like Steve Johnson when he’s more coked out than usual or you think Randy Quaid is under appreciated or you just like watching kids falling out of airplanes, Freaked is for YOU.&#8221;

Freaked

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Riding the J-horror wave spawned by RINGU and AUDITION, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE is one of the key 2000s films from Japan that redefined horror’s cultural landscape. A social worker visits an elderly woman at her house. The woman appears deeply disturbed, but that’s nothing compared to the shapeless black void — also known as “Kayako” — that lurks in an upstairs hallway. Quiet, creepy, and with bursts of unexpected intensity, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE combines liminal spaces and creepypasta chills to rattle your skeleton. There’s nothing scarier than not knowing what’s scaring you.

Ju-on: The Grudge

Join us for a special screening of the 2025 documentary *Nova ’78*, that chronicles the 1978 Nova Convention centered on William S. Burroughs and New York’s downtown avant-garde. After the screening, artist Julia Heyward performs her electronic-vocal monologue from the now-legendary event. Heyward then joins director Aaron Brookner for a Q&A about the convention, the recovered archive, and bringing *Nova ’78* to the screen.

#### About the Film

Created from 44 rolls of recovered and newly discovered film footage shot by filmmaker Howard Brookner, *Nova ’78* plunges viewers into the legendary Nova Convention, a three-day gathering celebrating countercultural talisman William S. Burroughs. Organized by Sylvère Lotringer, James Grauerholz, and John Giorno, the 1978 convention gave form to something already in the air in downtown New York: the sense that the Beats’ anti-establishment experiments with language, performance, and media were a consequential inheritance of a younger avant-garde, including the emerging No Wave scene, who were confronting many of the same anxieties about humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.

That lineage comes vividly into view as Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg take the convention stage alongside Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Anne Waldman and others, capturing a moment when Beat culture, experimental performance, minimalist music, punk and No Wave were all brushing against one another.

*Nova ’78* also preserves the atmosphere of its tense era. Political upheaval, threats to civil liberties, environmental anxiety, and the specter of nuclear catastrophe surface throughout the film, giving urgency to the artists’ experiments with language, technology, performance, and mass media. Burroughs’s longstanding fascination with systems of communication and control resonates sharply with this unsettled late-1970s landscape, as a younger generation searches for new forms through which to respond.The film also features previously unseen footage of William S. Burroughs, filmed by Howard Brookner with a young Jim Jarmusch working as sound recordist, including material from a journey to Colorado.

Rather than explain that moment from a distance, directors Rodrigo Areias and Aaron Brookner—Howard Brookner’s nephew and steward of his archive—let the recovered footage unfold on its own terms, through shots of performances, conversations, audiences, and unexpected encounters. The result is a vivid portrait of an artistic community in motion, aware of its predecessors while already becoming a reference point for what came next.

#### About the Performance
For this special Getty presentation, artist Julia Heyward appears in person to perform her celebrated harmonizer-modified vocal monologue Keep Moving Buddy, debuted at the Nova Convention as part of a tuxedo-clad double act with Laurie Anderson. Heyward then joins director Aaron Brookner for a conversation.

Presented as part of Ever Present and in dialogue with the October 4 program [A Moveable Feast of No: No Wave Women with Adele Bertei][1], this event extends the series’ exploration of the histories, affinities, and artistic lineages surrounding No Wave.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/ever-present-moveable-feast-no-wave

Ever Present: NOVA ’78 — with Julia Heyward and Aaron Brookner

Getty Center

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles*

“I’ve had enough trouble with men without marrying any!” declares Clara Bow (whose own hectic love life was this film's inspiration) as she flees wannabe Paris grooms for the French Riviera where comic mayhem ensues amidst Art Deco sets. Unseen for decades due to rights issues and still unavailable on any platform, this super-rare pre-Code romp is “a rush of great fun, high spirits, and good humor from a bright ensemble cast, and particularly vivacious Bow” (Derek Winnert).

*Special thanks to David Stenn; and Margot Gerber, Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.*

Director: Frank Tuttle. Screenwriter: Henry Myers. With: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles.

Her Wedding Night

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below. After a naïve real estate agent succumbs to the will of Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), the two head to London where the vampire sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $7.65 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

DRACULA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Decades before TOP GUN, there was WINGS, establishing atrial battle sequences that still rank among the best in motion picture history. Meticulously restored and featuring a dynamic soundtrack based on the original score, this timeless story of love and loss follows two men who go to war, and the girl they leave behind. The first Oscar winner for Best Picture, this grand spectacle from the early days of cinema features “It-girl” Clara Bow alongside Richard Arlen, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Gary Cooper in a legendary cameo appearance.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

WINGS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an all-consuming search. Armed with self-built boats, drones and underwater cameras, he relentlessly scours the river’s depths. As months pass, while his own family struggles to live with the uncertainty of Chris’s disappearance, Daniel begins helping other families with missing loved ones find answers – and, at times, the closure that continues to elude him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: Poland/France

Q&A with filmmaker Michał Marczak Advance Screening

CLOSURE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Serbian with English subtitles.*

Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life with his wife Maria and six-year old son Petar in tumultuous Serbia, trying to make ends meet. A sudden call from his former colleague Layla will change everything. Aware of his financial problems, Layla introduces Milos to Vukmir – a mysterious, menacing and politically powerful figure in the pornographic business. A leading role in Vukmir’s production will provide financial support to Milos and his family for the rest of their lives. A contract insists on his absolute unawareness of a script they will shoot. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem devised by his employer, “the director” of his destiny. Vukmir and his cohorts will stop at nothing to complete his vision. In order to escape the living cinematic hell he’s put into, and save his family’s life, Milos will have to sacrifice everything – his pride, his morality, his sanity and maybe even his own life.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Unearthed Films

COUNTRY: Serbia

A SERBIAN FILM

Aliens

From Dusk Till Dawn

Experience one of Australian horror’s great underknown classics —an eerie, dreamlike slow burn mystery that builds to an explosive finale!

NEXT OF KIN (1982)—A Slow Burn Pressure Cooker Ozploitation Horror Classic!

**Screenwriter**: Wes Craven

**Producer**: Robert Shaye

*One, two&#8230; Freddy&#8217;s coming for you!* The teenagers on Elm Street are having a hard time sleeping &#8211; some creep with knives for fingers keeps terrorizing them in their dreams. When her friends begin to die off one by one, Nancy Thompson has got to find a way to track the madman in her own nightmares in order to stop him once and for all in the waking world. Wes Craven&#8217;s original nightmare and the start of a monstrous 20-year franchise, this first installment of Freddy remains the most terrifying of the series and is considered one of the best horror movies of all time. So, get your hall pass and head down to the boiler room, because the man of your dreams is waiting for you!

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

A Nightmare on Elm Street

**Screenwriters**: Yeon Sang-ho,  Choe Gyu-seok

**Producers**: Hailey Yoomin Yang,  Sung Joon-ho

Our microcinema is going to the undead with horror master Yeon Sang-ho&#8217;s (*Train to Busan*) new Korean zombie thriller starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan. Professor Se-jeong (Jun) is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations. With new and fascinating ideas that bring the zombie genre into brilliant new territory of collective consciousness and mold networks, and the kind of action and pathos Yeon Sang-ho is best at, this is a no brainer for any horrorphile!

Colony

**Screenwriter**: Matthew Robbins, Guillermo del Toro

**Producers**: Ole Bornedal,  B.J. Rack

Don&#8217;t bug out &#8211; we&#8217;ve got the creature feature your Friday night has been missing &#8211; a Guillermo del Toro giant mutant cockroach movie starring Mira Sorvino and international superstar Giancarlo Giannini! After wiping out a massive population of disease-carrying cockroaches in Manhattan with a genetically engineered mutant cockroach breed, scientists discover they&#8217;ve created something much more deadly &#8211; an enormous breed of bug that can mimic the human form. If you&#8217;ve been waiting for the time to watch Oscar winners battle giant bugs on our big screen, your wait is over!

**Picks from the Video Store**

October&#8217;s a great month to visit our Del Toro director&#8217;s section for all your favorite Gothic gems on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K!

*Crimson Peak, Hellboy, Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth*

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

Mimic

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

The Frighteners

Creepshow

## Gold Standard Productions presents a Halloween season screening of their debut feature horror film BLOOD BARN, released this year as a Screambox Exclusive. Cast and creators in person!

In the summer of 85', Josie, a camp counselor, gathers her six closest friends for a final weekend at her family's secluded barn before they part ways for college. As buried secrets from her family's past emerge, a malevolent spirit begins to possess each counselor, hell-bent on vengeance. Josie must confront her family's dark history to stop the bloodshed before sunrise, or become the next victim of the Blood Barn.

**dir. Gabriel Bernini, 2025**
*United States, digital projection*
74 min

**FRIDAY, 10/23 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

Filmmakers in person!

## $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.***

BLOOD BARN (2025) w/ filmmakers in person!

LA Filmforum: The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

Hotel Transylvania

Blade in 4K

Horror of Dracula in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

Films coming soon.

21st Annual Horrorthon Hosted by Corn Gorn, the Living God!

21st Annual Horrorthon

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

Monster House

“We are the freaks.” Black lipstick, Wicca, and Catholic school angst — THE CRAFT is CARRIE by way of CLUELESS. When troubled teen Sarah (Robin Tunney, EMPIRE RECORDS) transfers to a new high school in LA, she is quickly befriended by a trio rumored to be witches — Bonnie (Neve Campbell, SCREAM), Rochelle (Rachel True, NOWHERE), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk, AMERICAN HISTORY X). It is not long before the spells and curses cast by the budding coven take on a life of their own. Less content to rest on hijinks and popularity contests than its contemporaries, the script by FLATLINERS scribe, Peter Filardi, crafts a broody atmosphere as thick as its protagonist’s eyeliner and continues to resonate with girl gangs and misfits who’ve long outgrown the braces and rosary combo. Co-starring Skeet Ulrich (SCREAM) and Breckin Meyer (ROADTRIP).  **Screening in 35mm! **

The Craft

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are bitter rivals in an all out bitch-fest war. The elixir of youth won&#8217;t stand in either of their ways to beat each other, and Bruce Willis gets dragged along as a poor schmuck witness to it all, to boot.

Death Becomes Her

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Rosemary’s Baby

60 years after its first screening in Algiers, *The Battle of Algiers* has lost none of its political punch. Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. In France, however, it remained effectively banned for years. Its extraordinary political afterlife has been equally paradoxical: a film embraced by anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the world has also been studied by military and counterinsurgency strategists, including at the Pentagon during the Iraq War.

Starring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot entirely on location in Algiers in a strikingly realist, quasi-documentary style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs the pivotal 1957 Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Beginning with French paratroopers closing in on FLN militant Ali La Pointe, the film moves backward to trace his politicization and the escalating confrontation between the National Liberation Front and the French colonial state. Yet *The Battle of Algiers* is less the story of an individual revolutionary than of a people becoming a political subject.

Made shortly before the manifestos that would theorize “Third Cinema,” the film became one of its enduring touchstones: cinema conceived not simply as representation but as intervention. Its unsettling treatment of colonialism, revolutionary violence, torture and collective resistance continues to raise urgent questions about political violence, national liberation and the unfinished work of decolonization.

*Note written by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana.*

DCP. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Screenwriters: Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas. With: Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Yacef Saâdi.

The Battle of Algiers — 60th Anniversary

An animation screening hosted by Loose Frames featuring animations summited by the community

Loose Frames Rattled Fabrications: Animated Shorts Screening (10/24)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy sing and dance to the music of Cole Porter in this musical spectacular about the problems that arise when the wrong partner of a ballroom dance team lands a starring role on the Great White Way in BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940.

In a case of mistaken identity, King Shaw (Murphy) is cast to star on Broadway—resulting an inflated ego for Shaw and a big headache for the theatrical company. Rather than stand in his way, King’s much-more talented partner, Johnny Brett (Astaire), coaches Shaw for his starring role. But when King arrives late and drunk on opening night, the true star goes on stage–and triumphs.

Featuring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in a six-minute tap dance finale to Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fantasy, magic and fun are all brewed together in this legendary adventure. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron’s power will be invincible. The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team including the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron’s evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Fun-Sized, Family-Friendly, Faintly Frightening Films’

THE BLACK CAULDRON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Venus on the Half-Shell,” 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 5 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*
Featuring Bona Tibertelli De Pisis’s excellent erotic graphic works – wife of writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont’s writings.

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE BEAST, 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 108 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Walerian Borowczyk’s most notorious film wildly re-works BEAUTY AND THE BEAST into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of “good taste.” Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, THE BEAST (aka LA BÊTE) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.

FORMAT: DCP

‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’ Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York

LA Filmforum: Three Film Portraits by Jeffrey Skoller

7:30 PM

Aliens in 70mm

2:00 PM

Prince of Darkness in 35mm

7:30 PM

TIME AND WATER

2:00 PM

LEGEND

7:30 PM

Mezzanine presents: Edvard Munch

1:00 PM

Onibaba

5:30 PM

28 Days Later

8:00 PM

Introduction to Paper Marbling Hosted By Sarah Plummer (10/11)

3:00 PM

Sky Hopinka Presents ORPHEUS

1:00 PM

Short Films from Sky Hopinka

4:00 PM

BLUE HERON

7:00 PM

TAKE ME HOME

9:30 PM

The Dark Crystal

2:00 PM

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

The Blob

6:30 PM

Hocus Pocus

2:30 PM

Dracula

7:00 PM

George A. Romero's SEASON OF THE WITCH (1972)

7:00 PM

Brother Bear

12:45 PM

First They Came for My College

1:30 PM

Annie

3:30 PM

Bird in Hand

4:30 PM

American Psycho

7:00 PM

The History of Concrete

7:30 PM

The Birds

10:00 AM

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

Nadie es Inocente

Alma Punk

8:00 PM