Los Angeles Filmforum, the Harry Smith Archive, and The Philosophical Research Society's 7th House Screenings present *Filmforum 50, program 12: Harry Smith’s Film #18: Mahagonny*.

Closing event of *The Cosmic Collage of Harry Smith*.

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Experimental filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist Harry Smith’s final film was an epic four-screen projection titled *Mahagonny*. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny* for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. His friends have said that Smith was obsessed with the opera, playing it over and over in his room at the Chelsea Hotel. The film was shot from 1970 to 1972 and edited for the next eight years. The “program” of the film is meticulous, with a complex structure and order. The Weill opera is transformed into a numerological and symbolic system. Images in the film are divided into categories— portraits, animation, symbols and nature— to form the palindrome P.A.S.A.N.A.S.A.P.

Mahagonny is an allegory of contemporary life; it explores the needs and desires of man amid the rituals of daily life in New York City. Smith’s New York, like *Mahagonny*, is a place where everything is permitted and the only sin is not having enough money. Much of the film takes place within the Chelsea Hotel. The film contains invaluable cameos of important avant-garde figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Jonas Mekas, intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe’s studio, New York City landmarks of the era, and Smith’s visionary animation.

Complete program notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

Filmforum 50 – Harry Smith’s Film #18: Mahagonny

2220 Arts + Archives

One Battle After Another in 70mm

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Ahead of this year’s ‘Bleak Week,’ the American Cinematheque presents a special screening of SÁTÁNTANGÓ, Béla Tarr’s monumental seven-hour masterpiece, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.

We were honored to welcome Béla Tarr for the second year of ‘Bleak Week,’ and are proud to honor his legacy with a return to one of the defining works of his extraordinary career ahead of this year’s festival.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Hungarian with English subtitles.*

One of the greatest achievements in art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” SÁTÁNTANGÓ, based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, follows members of a defunct agricultural collective living in a seemingly post-apocalyptic landscape in the long shadow of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious messianic character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone’s lives forever.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Arbelos Films

COUNTRY: Hungary/Germany/Switzerland

In honor of Béla Tarr 25th Anniversary of 4K Restoration ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’ Pre-Festival Screening

SÁTÁNTANGÓ

Aero Theatre

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

Grey Gardens

Merging elements from DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel NADJA (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (TESLA, EXPERIMENTER, HAMLET) acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and= Jim&#8217;s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch.

Nadja

Brain Dead Studios

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

Joe and Hubbs are a pair of rockers who are on a quest for 'chicks.' This is the tale of their adventures over one night.

THE STONED AGE (1994)(R) Sun 5/31: 7:30 pm

Gardena Cinema

*La Llorona* (2019), directed Guatemala filmmaker Jayro Bustamante, is a fictionalized take on the the country’s genocide trials in which former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was found guilty of human rights violations and crimes against humanity. Playing with the horror film genre and the trope of the legend of La Llorona, Bustamante paints a compelling picture of how collective Indigenous memory still haunts not just the dictator, but his family and society, in the collective search for justice. The film stars María Mercedes Coroy and María Telón, two of Guatemala’s best-known contemporary actors of Maya Kaqchikel descent. 

This screening will be followed by a 20-minute pre-recorded interview with actress Coroy conducted by William Ramirez, public program coordinator at the Getty Research Institute. It will be followed by a presentation by Alicia Ivonne Estrada, professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge, whose work centers Central American history, Maya cultural productions, literature, and radio. This event is part of the Research Institute’s [Latinx and Latin American Art Initiative][1], which currently focuses on Central America and its diasporas. 

DIRECTED BY: Jayro Bustamente. PRODUCED BY: Jayro Bustamente. WRITTEN BY: Jayro Bustamente & Lisandro Sanchez. 97 minutes, 2019. Spanish and Maya with English subtitles.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][2] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][3] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][4] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/projects/latin-american-latinx-art-initiative/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *La Llorona*

Getty Center

Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

Alice Linton and poet Percy Primrose (Carlyle Blackwell) are in love, against her father’s (John Bunny) wishes. When Alice falls ill with grief over the forbidden relationship, Percy disguises himself as “Doctor Cupid” to trick Alice’s father into approving the marriage. Celebrated stage actor and comedian John Bunny starred in over 150 short films for the Vitagraph Company, often paired with Flora Finch in a series of “Bunnyfinch” comedies, from 1910 to his untimely death in 1915. Despite Bunny’s popularity, only a portion of his work survives.—*Brian Belak*

**Production:** Vitagraph Company of America. **With:** John Bunny, Carlyle Blackwell.

*Preservation funding provided by Louis B. Mayer Foundation. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm tinted nitrate print. Laboratory services by the PHI Stoa Film Lab. Special thanks to the Irish Film Institute.*

Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.

*Los Angeles Premiere of New Restoration*

In the early decades of American cinema, few figures loomed as large, or rode as boldly across the silver screen, as Tom Mix. As an actor, the former frontier lawman and Wild West show performer brought genuine horsemanship and the ability to do his own stunts to his film roles. He also cultivated an instantly recognizable identity punctuated by a white 10-gallon Stetson, ornate costumes and a confident grin, establishing a colorful vision of the American cowboy that captivated audiences throughout the 1920s. This persona reflected both the mythologizing of the Old West and the desires of a modern, urban audience seeking escapism in the aftermath of World War I.

Based on the Max Brand novel, the mystery-melodrama *Trailin’ *was helmed by Mix’s favorite director, Lynn Reynolds, and co-starred Eva Novak in one of her 10 feature film appearances opposite Mix. Novak was a popular actor in her own right, appearing in 48 films from 1921 to 1928, and reportedly learned to perform many of her own stunts from Mix himself. In order to play the wealthy young hero Anthony Woodbury, Mix shed his familiar flamboyant Western regalia in favor of the refined garments of an aristocrat-in-training. Dissatisfied with his privileged position in life, Anthony longs to discover the identity of his mother — a secret that his father refuses to reveal. When his father is killed in a mysterious duel, Anthony embarks on a quest for justice and self-discovery, confronting danger, intrigue and the charms of the spirited Sally Fortune (Novak).

As expected, the film performed well at the box office, and contemporary reviews were generally enthusiastic. *Wid’s Filmdom* hailed it as “a different Tom Mix and a different Mix picture,” while *Moving Picture World* declared, “Mix at his best. A splendid Western that has the thrills and plenty of action.”*—Steven K. Hill *

**Production**: Fox Film Corp. **Director:** Lynn F. Reynolds. **Screenwriter:** Lynn F. Reynolds. Based on the novel by Max Brand. **With:** Tom Mix, Eva Novak, J. Farrell MacDonald, Sid Jordan.

*Preservation funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm nitrate print. Laboratory services by the PHI Stoa Film Lab.*

Trailin’

Lela Swift began her career in television during the early 1940s as an assistant to the chief television engineer at CBS, where she was at the forefront of an evolving broadcast industry. By 1945, she had moved into production as a writer and studio assistant floor manager, and in 1950, she was promoted to director. During a decades-long career, Swift directed a variety of genres, including early 1950s television anthologies such as CBS’ prestigious *Studio One*, ABC’s *Wide World of Mystery* and NBC’s *Purex Specials for Women,* and won three Emmy Awards for directing the daytime series *Ryan’s Hope*. Swift’s prolific creative output traces television’s history of innovation, imagination and changing audience taste.—*Maya Montañez Smukler*

*World Premiere of New Preservation*

With original commercials

As a pioneering staff director at CBS Television in New York, Lela Swift helmed episodes of the live anthology mystery *The Web* on alternating weeks, trading duties with series producer Herbert Hirschman. In this Swift-directed installment, a mysterious man (John Baragrey) seemingly returns from the dead to upend the lives of a domineering mother (Jessie Royce Landis) and her tormented daughter (Marian Russell). Punctuated by close-ups and a gently foreboding atmosphere, this early effort by Swift anticipates her later innovative work directing hundreds of episodes of the cult-classic gothic soap opera *Dark Shadows *(1966–71).*—Mark Quigley*

DCP. CBS. **Production:** A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production in association with the CBS Television Network. **Producer:** Herbert Hirschman. **Director:** Lela Swift. **Writer:** Art Wallace. **With:** Jessie Royce Landis, John Baragrey, Marian Russell.

*Preservation funding provided by the John H. Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment. Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 16mm kinescope. Laboratory services by Endpoint Audio Labs. *

*World Premiere of New Preservation*

Produced live, this *Dragnet*-style series explored social justice cases adapted from the files of the Legal Aid Society of New York City. Lela Swift directs this tense installment starring Gary Merrill (*All About Eve*, 1950) as an earnest lawyer attempting to help an innocent family being unfairly persecuted following the murder conviction of their son. At a time when the Hollywood Blacklist dictated many hiring practices in the film and television industry, the episode, written by Anne Howard Bailey (*The Adams Chronicles*, 1976), boldly examines the immorality of “guilt by association” and prejudice.*—Mark Quigley*

DCP. NBC.** Production: **Talent Associates-John Rust Production. **Producer: **David Susskind. **Director:** Lela Swift. **Writer:** Anne Howard Bailey. **With:** Gary Merrill, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh.

*Preservation funding provided by the John H. Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment. Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 16mm kinescope. Laboratory services by Endpoint Audio Labs.*

Lela Swift: Television Director

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

“They come in search of the American Dream, only to find they have become the unwanted,” begins this groundbreaking television documentary on the troubles faced by Latino immigrants in the United States. Amid calls for broader governmental reform of the immigration process, the film focuses on human roles in the everyday drama, casting immigrants’ plight as powerless political pawns in a game that exploits undocumented migrants’ labor while criminalizing them at the same time. As Pablo, Gabriel and Yolanda Lopez and the Garcia family seek to improve their livelihood in a new country, away from economic troubles at home, they face repeated profiling, raids and deportation by border patrol and immigration enforcement officers, creating a revolving door of frustration for all involved.

Producer-director José Luis Ruiz produced programs for KABC, KNBC and KCET throughout the 1970s, establishing a Latino presence in film and television, and was later executive director of the National Latino Communications Center (NLCC) and a founding board member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC). Writer Frank del Olmo was the first Latino listed on the masthead of the *Los Angeles Times*, where he worked as a reporter for decades covering issues of illegal immigration and the Latino community, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

*The Unwanted* won an award for Current Affairs Special at the 1975 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards after its primetime airing on KNBC Channel 4. Praised at the time by the *Los Angeles Times* for the choice to “minimize statistics, to humanize stereotypes,” the documentary and the discussion around who gets the privilege to be American is as relevant as ever 50 years later, as immigration policy remains hotly debated and deportations continue. This revolving door has yet to stop spinning.—*Brian Belak*

DCP. KNBC. **Producer:** José Luis Ruiz. **Director: **José Luis Ruiz. **Writer:** Frank del Olmo. **Cinematographer:** Larry Mitchell. **With:** Barry Newman.

*Restoration funding provided by the John H. Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from multiple 16mm reversal prints, a 16mm work print and a 35/32mm track negative. Laboratory services by Prasad Corp. and Endpoint Audio Labs. Special thanks to José Luis Ruiz.*

The Unwanted

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

At an all-girls school in Switzerland, Christa Storm (Dorothy Wilson) is a star pupil and stroke seat on the rowing team, but her clandestine affair with young chemist David Perrin (Douglass Montgomery) from another college leads her into trouble when she discovers she’s pregnant. As Christa’s attention in school slips, she incurs the discipline of the team’s steely coach, Hannah (Kay Johnson), who removes her from the boat and threatens expulsion. Worse, Christa’s businessman father (Walter Connolly) objects to marriage between Christa and David over concerns that David’s studies doom him to a life of poverty. How will Christa and her coming baby keep an even keel through all this choppy water?

This pre-Code film was a remake of a 1932 German original (*Acht Mädels im Boot*) and billed as “America’s daring reply to *Mädchen in Uniform* (1931).” Paramount’s advertising played up the salacious suggestion of a female-only school where men are forbidden. Most of the cast members were selected through a nationwide beauty contest aimed at filling out the ensemble with new faces to Hollywood, including Jean Rogers of *Flash Gordon *(1936). Silent film star Peggy-Jean “Baby Peggy” Montgomery (also known as Diana Serra Cary), now a teenager, appears as one of the students.

Mostly filmed on location at Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains, *Eight Girls in a Boat* shines during its rowing scenes as sunlight dapples on the water. The *New York Times* praised director Richard Wallace’s “considerable delicacy and tact” around the illicit motherhood theme and Dorothy Wilson’s “genuinely and shyly touching” portrayal of “the girl’s loneliness, her sense of ostracism and shame.” Wilson, known for being cast as the lead in *The Age of Consent* (1932) while working as a secretary at RKO, eventually married *Eight Girls* screenwriter Lewis R. Foster and largely retired from film roles just a few years later.—*Brian Belak*

**Production:** Charles R. Rogers Productions, Inc. **Distribution:** Paramount Pictures. **Producer:** Charles R. Rogers. **Director:** Richard Wallace. **Screenwriters: **Helmut Brandis, Lewis R. Foster, Casey Robinson. **Cinematographer:** Gilbert Warrenton. **With:** Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson, Walter Connolly, Peggy-Jean “Baby Peggy” Montgomery.

*Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Packard Humanities Institute from the 35mm original nitrate picture negative, acetate composite fine grain positive and nitrate print. Laboratory services by the PHI Stoa Film Lab, Audio Mechanics, Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to the Library of Congress, NBCUniversal, David Stenn.*

Eight Girls in a Boat

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

Described as “tight, swift and sexy” by the *Los Angeles Daily News*, Jay Dratler’s 1947 novel *The Pitfall* was a perfect vehicle for Hungarian émigré and hard-hitting genre director André de Toth. Despite jettisoning the novel’s more salacious moments due to Hays Code restrictions, screenwriter Karl Kamb and an uncredited William Bowers perfectly capture the trappings of infidelity, larceny and obsession, played out in sun-drenched post-war Southern California (as opposed to the rainy back alleys typical of the noir genre). The Regal Films production was shot at General Service Studios in Hollywood by longtime RKO cinematographer and frequent noir contributor Harry J. Wild. Iconic Los Angeles locations such as Santa Monica Bay, the Miracle Mile May Co. Building and the Hall of Justice were also utilized.

Former Warner Bros. song and dance man Dick Powell had already proven his noir chops as hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe in 1944’s *Murder, My Sweet*, and he is impeccably cast as bored, married insurance man John Forbes, whose life is about to spiral out of control after meeting the alluring Mona Stevens, played by Lizabeth Scott. Raymond Burr had mostly been relegated to bit parts in the nine films he completed in 1948; *Pitfall *provided a breakout co-starring role, as private investigator J. B. MacDonald, which he plays with subversively kinky malice. 

Aided by a script that flips the traditional femme fatale archetype, Scott’s luminous portrayal reveals a more textured and sympathetic victim of circumstance, given that her character is the target of three wildly different and problematic men. The *New York Times *heralded Scott as “provocative, and acting better than she has ever done before,” and the performance is now considered one of her greatest. Despite some of its atypical attributes, *Pitfall* is a deftly executed meditation on the degeneration of mid-century masculinity, and it stands as one of the great entries in the noir genre.—*Todd Wiener *

**Production:** Regal Films, Inc. **Distribution:** United Artists.** Producer:** Samuel Bischoff. **Director:** André de Toth. **Screenwriter:** Karl Kamb. Based on the novel by Jay Dratler. **Cinematographer:** Harry Wild. **With:** Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr.

*Restoration funding provided by the Century Arts Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from acetate dupe picture negatives and track negatives. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics.*

Pitfall

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

Based on an unpublished short story by Erich Maria Remarque, *The Other Love* explores the existential themes of love and death that recur throughout his novels, such as *Three Comrades* and *Arch of Triumph*. The plot concerns a concert pianist, Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck), convalescing from tuberculosis in the Alps, who is tempted by a short, adventure-filled life as opposed to the sedate existence in the sanatorium that offers her a chance at a future. She must choose between two lovers: her doctor (David Niven) and an impetuous race car driver (Richard Conte). Director André de Toth, though better known for helming gutsy and tense low-budget Western and film noir projects than for high-fashion “woman’s pictures,” guides his stellar cast, as well as cinematographer Victor Milner and composer Miklós Rózsa, to deliver a moody and melodramatic gem.

An early feature from Enterprise Productions, *The Other Love* was released to significant fanfare with an equally large marketing pitch. The independent production company was founded as an alternative to the vertically integrated major studios, with the egalitarian hope that talent partnerships would yield larger profit participation for all involved. The rollout for *The Other Love* spared no expense, with months of advance print and radio advertising, extensive promotional tie-ins and a U.S. premiere aboard a DC-6 airliner. Unfortunately, Enterprise’s bloated budgets took a toll, and the studio only lasted three years until its bankruptcy — though not before releasing such classics as *Body and Soul* (1947), *Ramrod *(1947) and *Force of Evil* (1949).

After the premiere and preview screenings of *The Other Love*, the original longer ending was replaced with one deemed more palatable to American audiences for its general U.S. release. This original version, now restored, has not been seen by audiences since the 1940s.*—Jillian Borders*

DCP. **Production:** Enterprise Productions, Inc. **Distribution:** United Artists. **Producer:** David Lewis. **Director:** André de Toth. **Screenwriters:** Ladislas Fodor, Harry Brown. Based on a story by Erich Maria Remarque. **Cinematographer:** Victor Milner. **With:** Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland, Joan Lorring.

*Restoration funding provided by the Century Arts Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from the 35mm original nitrate picture negative, nitrate fine grain positive and original nitrate track negatives. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics, Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to Paramount Pictures Archive, FotoKem, Deluxe Media Audio Services.*

The Other Love

Hammer Museum

Ever wanted to build a synthesizer?

In this beginner&#x27;s workshop led by Dogbotic, participants will learn the process step-by-step, demystifying the horrible world of electrical engineering at every turn. You&#x27;ll learn how to build basic oscillators, filters, LFOs, and amplifiers, how to rig up your circuit to be light-sensitive, and oh-so-much more. Each participant will make their own working synth prototype, which we&#x27;ll tune together to form a delicious sound bath. You&#x27;ll then get to take your prototype home and use it to impress and irritate your friends and loved ones.All parts are included, no prior circuitry experience or musical ability needed!

You’ll be learning with:

Kirk Pearson (Dogbotic founder, creative director) and Sean Russell Hallowell (Dogbotic partner, technical director), both teach the DIY Synths virtual workshop.

About Dogbotic:

Dogbotic is a Bay-area based collective that teaches unconventional art classes as a means to promote creativity, discourage mindless consumerism, and engage in conversations about how to use our art to make the world more equitable. Our instructors love teaching artists how to engineer, and convincing folks how straightforward a lot of seemingly “difficult” concepts are. We hope to be a space free of judgement that fosters genuine collaboration and curiosity and an appreciation for the weird and wonderful.

Learn more us and our virtual workshops at [dogbotic.com](http://dogbotic.com/)

Build Your Own Synth hosted by Dogbotic (5/31)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Quiet passions erupt from within in Naruse’s late period masterpiece, a sumptuous melodrama of undulating and repressed feeling, set as the postwar dispersal of modernization stretches beyond Tokyo. Widow Reiko (Takamine) runs her in-law’s produce store, having rebuilt it herself in the 18 years since his passing, but faces a sudden outburst of new pressures: a push to remarry, fierce competition from a newly-minted supermarket and a love confession from her dead husband’s much younger brother Koji (Yuzo Kayama). Scripted by Takamine’s husband Zenzo Matsuyama, YEARNING finds devastating power in its tragic underpinnings as Takamine’s expressions—noted by even the faint glimmer of her eyes—convey multitudes—desire, melancholy and, as the film’s Japanese original title suggests, a swell of confusion in the wake of newfound longing.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

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

YEARNING

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

3:00pm | **Episode 1: “Too Mad Too Shy”**

3:24pm | **Episode 2: “Grow You Little Bastard”**

3:50pm | **Episode 3: “Survived Another Day”**

4:17pm | **Episode 4: “Coconut Killer”**

4:42pm | **Episode 5: “Are You Here For Me”**

5:09pm | **Episode 6: “Don’t Be a D…”**

5:36pm | Q&A with filmmaker Warwick Thornton

*Start times are approximate. Ticket includes entry to all episodes.*

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Episode 1: “Too Mad Too Shy,” 2020, Dir. Warwick Thornton, 24 Min, A24, Australia**

Confused, lethargic and lazy, Warwick Thornton is alone and lonely. Angry at himself for feeling this way, he decides to survive on the beach by himself.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 2: “Grow You Little Bastard,” 2020, Dir. Warwick Thornton, 26 Min, A24, Australia**

Warwick realises his journey is harder than expected, as he feels lost and alone. Desperate for a beer, he struggles to keep going.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 3: “Survived Another Day,” 2020, Dir. Warwick Thornton, 27 Min, A24, Australia**

As Warwick tries yoga, he starts to face his demons and feels things shifting. However, he still struggles with the overwhelming loneliness.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 4: “Coconut Killer,” 2020, Dir. Warwick Thornton, 25 Min, A24, Australia**

Warwick experiences fleeting moments of happiness for the first time in a long while. He knows he has to face his demons at some point, as flashbacks from his old life resurface.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 5: “Are You Here For Me,” 2020, Dir. Warwick Thornton, 27 Min, A24, Australia**

Positive changes begin to form for Warwick, as his hunting and gathering skills improve. He finally feels confident enough to go spearfishing in shark- and croc-filled waters.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 6: “Don’t Be a D…” 2020, Dir. Warwick Thornton, 27 Min, A24, Australia**

Warwick feels a sense of achievement, as he manages to nail a few yoga poses. He also feels his sense of humour returning and decides it’s time to go home.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**THE BEACH, 2020, A24, Australia**

Award-winning film director Warwick Thornton attempts to transform his life while alone on a remote beach.

*Thank you to our airline sponsor Delta Air Lines.*

Q&A with filmmaker Warwick Thornton ‘Warwick Thornton: A Bleak Week Retrospective’

THE BEACH Marathon

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have – a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with costume designer Mona May. Moderated by co-screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith. ‘AS IF!: The Costumes of Mona May’

THE HOUSE BUNNY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan bring their head-bobbing, club-hopping Butabi brothers to the big screen in this fall-down-funny comedy. It seems like Steve (Ferrell) and Doug Butabi (Kattan) will never be cool enough to make the Roxbury club’s guest list. That is, until they have a fender bender with their role model, club regular Richard Grieco. Eager to avoid litigation, Grieco befriends the starstruck pair and escorts them into a glittery world they once only dreamed about. Score! No longer will the hapless Butabis be A-club people leading B-club lives…maybe. 

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY

Los Feliz Theatre

Cinderella

Crimson Tide / Déjà Vu

New Beverly Cinema

A celebration of new work by Dr. Vanessa Carlisle & Dr. Stephanie Covington. 

Come by for words, snacks, crafts, music, and community. 

7-9pm

FREE! Books available for purchase. 

Spring is Sprung!

Scribble

**Screenwriters:** David Mickey Evans, Robert Gunter

**Producers:** Dale De La Torre, William S. Gilmore

*You&#8217;re killing me Smalls!* This much-cherished home run of a family film hits its the Vidiots big screen for a championship screening. During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team, and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall. Bring your teammates and swing for the fences!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more underdog sports movies? Take home these winners tonight!

*The Bad News Bears, The Mighty Ducks, Little Big League*

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

The Sandlot

**Screenwriter**: Sophy Romvari

**Producers**: Ryan Bobkin, Sara Wylie, Sophy Romvari, Gábor Osváth

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.

Blue Heron

**Producers**: Lance Oppenheim, Mel Oppenheim, Lauren Cioffi, Xander Robin

Join us in the microcinema for one wild serpentine ride with Xander Robin&#8217;s *The Python Hunt*, a documentary as entertaining as it is rich in societal and environmental questions and revelations. In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the &#8216;glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures, and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory. Perfectly paced with a soundtrack, characters, and cinematography that make it feel like the lost piece of Harmony Korine&#8217;s *Florida Trilogy*, this remarkable feature is definitely ssssstranger than fiction! Don&#8217;t miss your chance to join the hunt!

&#8220;*Outrageously entertaining and* i*rresistible cocktail of vigilantism, competition and nature conservation.&#8221; *—MOVEABLE FEST

“*A wild [&#8230;] journey into the swamp of the American soul.*” —THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

The Python Hunt

**Screenwriters**: Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader

**Producer**: Tom Luddy, Mataichirô Yamamoto

Paul Schrader&#8217;s visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima&#8217;s last day, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer&#8217;s life as well as by gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, *Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters* is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.

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

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Vidiots

Cutthroat Island

First Blood/ Extreme Prejudice

Vista Theatre

Castle in the Sky in 35mm

The Asphalt Jungle in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Joel and Ethan Coen’s haunting tale of passion, crime and punishment, all presented in glorious black-and-white. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Ed Crane, a barber in a small Northern California town in 1949 who is dissatisfied with his life – until his wife’s (Frances McDormand) infidelity presents Ed with an opportunity for blackmail that he thinks will help him to change it. However, Ed’s scheme soon unravels and lays bare even darker secrets before leading to murder. Co-starring Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Jon Polito and a young Scarlett Johansson.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Ellis Deakins Theatrical World Premiere of New Restoration 25th Anniversary ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’

THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE

Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.

The Piano Teacher

Egyptian Theatre

Build Your Own Synth hosted by Dogbotic (6/1)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A Vietnam veteran returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets, he plans the ultimate heist.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Allen Hughes ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents DEAD PRESIDENTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is in a constant struggle to overcome a traumatic event early in his life. He has been allowed a second chance at life after a long stay in a mental institution and returns to the streets where he grew up; sent to a halfway house under the stern but unsupervised watch of Mrs. Wilkenson (Lynn Redgrave). The sights, sounds and smells of revisiting the familiar streets of his old neighborhood send Spider further down a shadowy path that reawakens memories of his where his mother (Miranda Richardson) and his father (Gabriel Byrne) raised him. He soon begins to uncover the real truth shifting seamlessly back and forth between the tragic events that polarized a boy’s adolescence to the shell of a man enduring the surreal plausible reality of today.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: Canada/UK

Introduction by Brandon David Wilson U.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’

SPIDER

War of the Worlds  / Edge of Tomorrow

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

We&#8217;re bringing the party back to the big screen to kick off June 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 40 years of Vidiots and the 41st anniversary of this groundbreaking film, newly remastered in a stunning 4K presentation.

In honor of our third anniversary in Eagle Rock, we will be offering **one free rental** in the video store all day on June 1st!

**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

Grave of the Fireflies

Mamma Mia! Singalong

Shakespeare&#8217;s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Diary of an Unknown Soldier,” 1959, Dir. Peter Watkins, 20 Mins, UK**

*“The failure of ‘The Web’ (which did, quite undeservedly, win Four Stars in the 1956 ‘Ten Best’ competition), and of a subsequent film, ‘The Field of Red,’ set during the American Civil War – which was not only bad, but somehow (fortunately) disappeared – did not deter me. By 1959, I was working as an assistant film editor at ‘World Wide Pictures’, a documentary film company; and fortunate to have as colleagues many of the finest surviving filmmakers and editors from the days of the GPO and Crown Film Units – including the editor John Trumper, who had worked with John Grierson (and who later edited ‘Privilege’). Also with me at World Wide was Kevin Brownlow, a young filmmaker who was already making a great impact with his invaluable restoration work on Abel Gance’s masterpiece, ‘Napoleon’. Kevin was also steadily working on his own master-work, ‘It Happened Here’, a film depicting what would have happened if Germany had won World War II and occupied Britain. At the same time – with assistance from what had become the Playcraft Film Unit, Roger Higham from my army days in Canterbury, and a friend from London, Brian Robertson, who was to play the leading role – I was preparing ‘The Diary of an Unknown Soldier.’” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

**CULLODEN, 1964, Dir. Peter Watkins, 69 Mins, UK**

*In English and Scottish Gaelic with English subtitles.*

*“This was the 1960s, and the US army was ‘pacifying’ the Vietnam highlands. I wanted to draw a parallel between these events and what had happened in our own UK Highlands two centuries earlier, including because our knowledge of what took place after ‘Culloden’ was basically limited to an exotic image of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ on the label of a Drambuie whiskey bottle. Secondly, I wanted to break through the conventional use of professional actors in historical melodramas, with the comfortable avoidance of reality that these provide, and to use amateurs – ordinary people – in a reconstruction of their own history. Many of the people portraying the Highland army in our film were direct descendants of those who had been killed on the Culloden Moor.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

"The Diary of an Unknown Soldier" / CULLODEN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A bold and provocative essay film by Warwick Thornton about the deeply spiritual meaning of the Southern Cross constellation for Aboriginal people.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Ronin Films

COUNTRY: Australia

*Thank you to our airline sponsor Delta Air Lines.*

‘Warwick Thornton: A Bleak Week Retrospective’

WE DON'T NEED A MAP

Days of Heaven / The Wild Child

Mezzanine and Now Instant present the Los Angeles premiere of the restoration of *Ana* by the singular Portuguese husband-and-wife team António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, a poet and a psychiatrist whose beautiful collaborations were a major influence on their contemporaries, including Manoel de Oliveira and their student Pedro Costa.

“Largely unknown outside Portugal, filmmakers António Reis (1927-1991) and Margarida Cordeiro (b. 1939) are legendary figures in their native country. Reis was a poet, a folklorist, and an ethnographer; Cordeiro, a psychiatrist by trade. Across the four films they made together, the duo forged a cinema of profound commitment, deeply rooted in the language, labors, myths, dreams, and material realities of a land and a people: namely, the peasants of Trás-os-Montes in Portugal’s remote Northeast. With one foot firmly anchored in the earth and the other in the cosmos, Reis and Cordeiro conjure up the deep, cyclical time of folk tradition. Their films are a collision of the forces of documentary and poetry, fact and fabulation, the ancient and the avant-garde, a vertigo of contradictions at once harmonious and sharply unreconciled. Employing simple and direct means, their work is all the more mystical for being so concrete. ‘Here and nowhere else. Here and anywhere else’—this is the paradoxical space-time of their films, in the words of Serge Daney.

Now Instant Image Hall

Universal Soldier

Mountains of the Moon

African Video Club presents MIRROR MIRROR VOL. 5, an ongoing screening series dedicated to filmmakers across the diaspora.

Join us for a special screening of *My Father's Shadow*, the debut feature from director Akinola Davies Jr. and the UK's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.

Set on the day June 12th, 1993 during Nigeria's first presidential election following years of military rule, the film follows two young brothers as they spend the day with their estranged father, moving through Lagos amid a country on the cusp of political change.

An evening of film and good company.

MIRROR MIRROR VOL. 5: My Father's Shadow

Clash by Night with Don’t Bother to Knock

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, Greek, Romanian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Kurdish with English subtitles.*

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

FORMAT: 35mm

COUNTRY: Greece

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

ULYSSES' GAZE

Slowburn Shoot: An Indie Wrestling Story with Q&A with director Adam J. Wilde hosted by Chris Van Vliet

Synopsis: Slowburn Shoot is a feature length Documentary that takes an unvarnished look at the world of independent wrestling through the lens of Absolute Intense Wrestling. Rising stars and aging vets alike all pass through scrappy regional leagues like AIW. For some, it’s their only paycheck. For others, it’s their last chance. Slowburn Shoot also chronicles the trials and tribulations of founder John Thorne and his beloved co-owner “Chandler Biggins”. The story is told by some of the biggest names in professional wrestling today. They tell their own tales while revealing the tragedy and the ultimate triumph that is Absolute Intense Wrestling.

Slowburn Shoot with Q&A with director Adam J. Wilde hosted by Chris Van Vliet

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most—each other.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: Australia

Introduction by filmmaker Adrian Chiarella and actors Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen Advance Screening Popcorn and soda courtesy of NEON

LEVITICUS

Mezzanine and Now Instant present the Los Angeles premiere of the restoration of *Rosa de Areia* by the singular Portuguese husband-and-wife team António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, a poet and a psychiatrist whose beautiful collaborations were a major influence on their contemporaries, including Manoel de Oliveira and their student Pedro Costa.

“Largely unknown outside Portugal, filmmakers António Reis (1927-1991) and Margarida Cordeiro (b. 1939) are legendary figures in their native country. Reis was a poet, a folklorist, and an ethnographer; Cordeiro, a psychiatrist by trade. Across the four films they made together, the duo forged a cinema of profound commitment, deeply rooted in the language, labors, myths, dreams, and material realities of a land and a people: namely, the peasants of Trás-os-Montes in Portugal’s remote Northeast. With one foot firmly anchored in the earth and the other in the cosmos, Reis and Cordeiro conjure up the deep, cyclical time of folk tradition. Their films are a collision of the forces of documentary and poetry, fact and fabulation, the ancient and the avant-garde, a vertigo of contradictions at once harmonious and sharply unreconciled. Employing simple and direct means, their work is all the more mystical for being so concrete. ‘Here and nowhere else. Here and anywhere else’—this is the paradoxical space-time of their films, in the words of Serge Daney.

Rosa de Areia

**Screenwriters**: Carole Eastman,  Bob Rafelson

**Producers**: Richard Wechsler,  Bob Rafelson

Join us as we embark on a road trip with legends Jack Nicholson and Karen Black in Bob Rafelson&#8217;s iconic drama. Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in *Easy Rider, *director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study *Five Easy Pieces. *Nicholson plays the now iconic cad BobbyDupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, *Five Easy Pieces *is a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation and was nominated for four Oscars and five Golden Globes.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We love Karen Black, and we&#8217;ve got you covered to fall down her physical media rabbit hole!

*Day of the Locust, Trilogy of Terror, Rubin and Ed*

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

Five Easy Pieces

Disclosure Day

Deadly China Doll

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Monkey Business in 4K

Michael Mann’s Manhunter: The Final Cut with Michael Mann

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/UK

Ultra rare screening! Last screened in L.A. in 1998 ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’

BATMAN in 70mm

**NEW DATE:** Friday Jun 12

“After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” asked artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles in 1977. With that provocation, she shattered the divide between art and everyday labor, becoming the first artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation. Her collaborations with municipal workers injected art directly into the city’s bloodstream and redefined what creative practice could be. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, Ukuleles pioneered the radical idea that routine maintenance—from changing diapers to picking up city trash to caring for the earth—could be acts of performance art.

Join us for a screening of *MAINTENANCE ARTIST*, the first feature documentary to explore this revolutionary public artist’s career. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, the film traces a half-century of social and artistic upheaval through the lens of essential labor and public art. *MAINTENANCE ARTIST* celebrates Ukeles’s call for a “Maintenance Revolution,” honoring the workers who keep our world running and the artist who insisted that their labor deserves to be seen.

The screening will be introduced by multimedia artist Debra Scacco, the first civic-appointed artist in residence in the City of Santa Monica’s Water and Waste divisions (2023–25). 

DIRECTED BY: Toby Perl Freilich; PRODUCED BY: Toby Perl Freilich & Judith Mizrachy; EDITED BY: Anne Alvergue. 95 minutes, 2025.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][1] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories. The event is inspired by the Getty Research Institute’s collections of [feminist performance artists’ archives][2].

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][3] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][4] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/projects/study_of_performance_woman_artists_archives/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *MAINTENANCE ARTIST*

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*Farhang Short Film Festival 3rd prize winner*

A Kurdish city in western Iran, Sardasht was the target of a chemical weapons attack in 1987. Director Pejman Alipour captures the moment the city’s peaceful calm was shattered in this powerful, watercolor-style animated short. 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Pejman Alipour. 

Tajikistan's submission to the Oscars for Best International Feature Film, *Black Rabbit, White Rabbit* finds writer-director Shahram Mokri working at the top of his cinematic game. On a film set for the remake of a classic Iranian film, the crew’s armorer worries that a prop gun may not be what it seems and a mysterious young woman arrives to demand an audition. Meanwhile, at a well-appointed villa, a woman recovering from a car accident discovers she may be the target of a murder plot. In Mokri’s inimitable style, long camera takes and elliptical editing blur time and space, visions and reality, history and fiction. 

DCP. Director: Shahram Mokri. Screenwriters: Shahram Mokri, Nasim Ahmadpour. With: Babak Karimi, Hasti Mohammaï, Kibriyo Dilyobova.

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An older man (Lionel Atwill) warns a younger man (Cesar Romero) about a temptress (Marlene Dietrich) in 19th-century Spain.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $7.20 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN

The Third Man

Inglourious Basterds

Iconic comedian **Paula Poundstone** is known for her smart, observational humor and a spontaneous wit that has become the stuff of legend. She regularly plays theaters across the country, hosts a weekly comedy podcast, _Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone_, and is a regular panelist on NPR’s _Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me_. She also voiced the character ‘Forgetter Paula’ in the feature films _Inside Out_ and _Inside Out 2._

  

Paula has starred in several HBO specials, including _Cats, Cops and Stuff_, which nabbed a cable ACE award for Best Comedy Special. She was the first female comic to host the White House Correspondents Dinner.  Paula has starred in two television series, both entitled _The Paula Poundstone Show_. Paula’s second book, _The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness_, was one of eight semi-finalists for the Thurber Prize For American Humor; the audiobook was one of five finalists for the AUDIE award for Audiobook of the Year. P

  

  

  

  

  

  

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PAULA POUNDSTONE

The Wallis

**Screenwriter**: Boots Riley

**Producers**: Aaron Ryder,  Andrew Swett,  Allison Rose Carter,  Jon Read,  Boots Riley

Get your eyeballs and brain ready for maximum explosiveness as Boots Riley&#8217;s newest inventive, hilarious, surreal, stylish, stop-motion-sprinkled, and utterly singular masterpiece hits our microcinema in all its dazzling propagandistic glory! The fashion, the fun, the gonzo satire &#8211; it&#8217;s the wildest ride in cinema this year and an absolute revelation for those of us who have been craving the return of originality to filmmaking. Keke Palmer heads a crew of professional fashion boosters out to resell expensive clothes at a discount, but when a fashion maven (Demi Moore at her bitchy best) vows to take them down, and an unexpected guest with a magical gadget appears &#8211; their quest begins to turn global. Boots Riley solidifies his place among America&#8217;s most inventive auteurs with yet another brilliantly bonkers but perennially relevant capitalist critique that will keep you laughing, gagging (at the FASHION), and cheering throughout.

I Love Boosters

**Screenwriters**: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris

**Producers**: Doug Mitchell, George Miller, P.J. Voeten

One of the best films of 2015 and winner of six Academy Awards, George Miller’s reboot of the *Mad Max* series is as thrillingly imaginative as the previous installments. This time around, Tom Hardy’s Max is along for the ride as Charlize Theron’s badass Imperator Furiosa flees the forces of a brutish warlord through a primitive, post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. Taking the form of an epic, breathlessly inventive chase sequence, *Mad Max**: Fury Road* is a nigh-operatic spectacle of anarchic action and vehicular carnage that never takes its foot off the gas!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more bad-ass Aussie adventures? Head down under with these deep cuts!

*Dead End Drive-In, Razorback, Stone*

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

Mad Max: Fury Road

**Screenwriters**: Ewan Leslie,  Karen McCullah,  Kirsten Smith

**Producers**: Lauren Shuler Donner,  Ewan Leslie

*I can do this. I am a dude. I am a hunky dude! I&#8217;m a badass hunky dude! *From the Golden Era of teen Shakespearean adaptations, Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum star in this gender-bending modernization of The Bard&#8217;s *Twelfth Night*. Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola&#8217;s twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus. Who needs the World cup when you&#8217;ve got Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum falling in love in drag on the soccer field?!?

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a huge Shakespeare section with all the classics AND the best 1990s and 2000s adaptations!

*10 Things I Hate About You, Romeo + Juliet, O*

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

She’s the Man

**Screenwriters**: Ícaro Martins, José Antonio Garcia

Get your kicks in the microcinema with the coolest queer punk Brazilian soccer sex romp you&#8217;ve never seen! São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.

Banned shortly after its premiere at the 1983 São Paulo International Film Festival and never released outside of Brazil until now, Ícaro Martins and José Antonio Garcia’s *Onda Nova: Gayvotas Football Club* is a defiantly queer and gleefully anarchic sex comedy that still packs a subversive punch (or kick?) all these years later. Join us to rediscover your new favorite swingin&#8217; raunchy rockin&#8217; sports movie!

Onda Nova

Southern Comfort

Escape to Witch Mountain

Ladies of the Chorus in 35mm

Bound

How to Marry a Millionaire

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away&#8230;

Damnation

Speed Racer is the tale of a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, he must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. Inspired by the cartoon series.

Speed Racer

Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

The Graduate

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*Cinema-ye Azad*, or Free Cinema, was an underground movement of filmmakers in Iran that began in 1969, with the explicit aim of creating a fully independent cinema opposed to the mainstream “Filmfarsi” in both form and content, methods and ideals. Where the better-known, contemporaneous Iranian New Wave predominantly consisted of foreign-educated, Tehran-based middle-class filmmakers, *Cinema-ye Azad *consisted of self-taught filmmakers, sharing resources and knowledge with one another to bring the possibility of cultural production to disadvantaged provinces. At its height, *Cinema-ye Azad* boasted hundreds of active members, a critical magazine and festivals around the country, but the dream was short-lived as the movement ceased activities after the revolution. Its works, however, are being rediscovered thanks to the dedication of curators and archivists in London and Iran. As part of this year's UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema, the Archive is pleased to present two screenings highlighting the films of two key *Cinema-ye Azad* figures, Nasib Nasibi and Behnam Jafari.

 *Program curated by *Arta Barzanji and Shaghayegh Raoufi with research and archival support from Hadi Alipanah. *Film notes written by Hadi Alipanah, Arta Barzanji and Shaghayegh Raoufi.*

A report on historical buildings, legends and traditions along the route from Isfahan to Shiraz, passing through regions including Mahyar, Shahreza, Ziaratgah, Aminabad, and Izadkhast. The film mixes documentary observation with the poetic vision seen in Nasib Nasibi’s later works.

DCP. Director: Nasib Nasibi. Screenwriters: Nasib Nasibi, Abbas Nalbandian. With: Bahram Ardabili.

*How Frightening Is the Darkness of the Soul!* is an avant-garde film poem about drowning in a world of madness in search of true liberation. It highlights the close connections between literary and theatrical circles and the filmmaker's approach to avant-garde cinema. Initially, the main character attempts to escape the monotony of daily life by immersing herself in a world of madness. The film is a journey through the path she takes.

Director: Nasib Nasibi.

Screenwriters: Nasib Nasibi, Abbas Nalbandian. With: Mahvash Bargi, Farhad Majd Abadi, Shokooh Najm Abadi.

Cinema-ye Azad: Nasib Nasibi

Join us for a launch event to celebrate the release of Nick Thorburn&#x27;s new book from Fantagraphics, *Pear Shape*. Featuring Nick Thorburn and special guests Giovanni Marks, Jesse Moynihan, and Nick Edwards!

Nick Thorburn: Pear Shape Book Launch

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car. Featuring vividly drawn characters and bold political commentary, STREET WITHOUT END is the grandly entertaining silent melodrama with which Naruse arrived at the brink of the sound era.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

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

STREET WITHOUT END

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

*“EDVARD MUNCH is the most personal film I have ever made. Its genesis lies in a visit to the Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo, in 1968, during the time of a screening of several of my films by the Oslo University. I was awestruck by the strength of Munch’s canvases, especially those depicting the sad life of his family, and was very moved by the artist’s directness – with the people in his canvases looking straight at us. I also felt a personal affinity with his linking of past and present, e.g., in the large painting showing the anguish of his family as his sister Sophie is dying: the artist and his brothers and sisters are depicted as adults – as they were in the 1890s when he painted this scene – even though the event had taken place ca. 20 years earlier. On another occasion, I was also very moved by Munch’s masterpiece ‘Death of a Child,’ hanging in the National Gallery in Oslo; in this painting the artist is broken, and has, in an almost desperate frenzy, blurred the form of his earlier depiction of Sophie’s death. This painting, in its time, was attacked as being ‘incomplete’ – a charge which branded certain of his other works as well.*

*“It took me three years to persuade Norwegian TV (NRK) to fund this film, and in the end it only happened because Swedish TV convinced them to participate in a co-production.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Norway/Sweden

EDVARD MUNCH

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Philip Hartman’s priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Film Desk

COUNTRY: USA

NO PICNIC

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Irene, unhappily married to her jealous husband Howard, imagines another life for herself in recurrent dreams of a fantasy lover. When Howard dies in a fire, these indulgent dreams morph into vivid visions where her late husband haunts her. The lines between reality and fantasy blur, and Irene finds herself trapped in a waking nightmare filled with lust, murder and mystery. 

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

‘Watch Local: Sex, Lies and… Fame at the Chateau Marmont’

THE NIGHT WALKER

Cartoon Club

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Desperate Living

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Linklater's visionary philosophical exploration of dreams, consciousness, and the nature of reality!

Richard Linklater's WAKING LIFE (2001) — 25th Anniversary!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaiman

**Producer**: Toshio Suzuki

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of *Spirited Away*, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity.

Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.

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

Princess Mononoke (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriter**: John Michael Hayes from the stage play by Lillian Hellman

**Producers**: Robert Wyler, William Wyler

Bring your hankies for William Wyler&#8217;s provocative and powerful film adaptation of Lillian Hellman&#8217;s heartbreaking story of homophobia and slander, starring icons Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine.  Longtime friends Martha (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen (Audrey Hepburn) run a boarding school for girls. When an unruly child, Mary, is punished for lying, she concocts a story that Karen and Martha are having a lesbian relationship. As homophobic hysteria hits, parents begin to pull their kids from the school and the two embark to clear their names from the rumors. Nominated for five Academy Awards, this classic was pushing the envelope at a buttoned up time in American history and paved the way for more queer cinema to hit the theaters as the 60s and morality loosened over the next decade.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Shirley MacLaine classics from her whole incredible career tonight on glorious physical media!

*Sweet Charity, What a Way to Go!, Steel Magnolias, Bernie*

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The Children’s Hour

**Screenwriters**: David Koepp,  Robert Towne

**Producers**: Tom Cruise,  Paula Wagner

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he&#8217;s surprised to learn that he&#8217;s the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

Mission: Impossible

**Screenwriter/Producer**: John Waters

Join Vidiots as we head out to the trailer park for one of the trashiest films ever made and the quintessential cult classic that changed cinema forever. Sleaze-bag criminal Divine is dubbed by the tabloids &#8220;The Filthiest Person Alive&#8221; for her audacious and oft-disgusting exploits. Connie and Raymond Marble are a couple of kidnappers and baby merchants who will do anything to take down Divine and assume the title for themselves. But we all know no one can take down Divine or out-trash her and her foul family members. The midnight movie that brought bad taste to the mainstream, this offensive and hilarious trashterpiece put the Dreamland crew on the map and got Middle-America to watch underground film! Call your Egg Man and bring your gang to John Waters&#8217; masterfully offensive salute to filth!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more trashy underground weirdness? Our cult section can take you to some wild places from your couch!

*Thundercrack, Terminal Degeneration: The Films of Jon Moritsugu, Hard Ticket to Hawaii*

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Pink Flamingos

Motel Hell/Terror at Red Wolf Inn

Los Angeles Filmforum, EZTV, and Hollywood Entertainment present Filmforum 50, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey, with co-director Barbara T. Smith in conversation with Michael J. Masucci.

The film’s two chapters will be presented with a short intermission featuring international snacks from some of the countries visited in the film.

Program notes and complete info at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/

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*The 21st Century Odyssey* is a video travelogue through love, liberatory technology, social and personal mythology, and the pleasures and rigors of making life into art told in part through the pixelated beauty of the videophone. Though rarely screened, it is a rich and resonant chapter in the legendary Barbara T. Smith’s careerlong experiments with machine innovation. Her partnership with Kate Johnson and EZTV documents an epic befitting their shared goals of evolving and synthesizing video art and performance art’s past and future. The film’s patient veneration of the quotidian alongside the grand coupled with the ache of long-term romantic longing re-embodies the interpretive act of translating this two-year-plus durational performance project into its video form.

The film sees Smith from 1991 through 1993 sending photo messages to her lover, physician Roy Walford, while he is sealed inside the Biosphere 2 and serving as its resident physician. Highlighting the newly-available and newly-aesthetically-permeable availability of transmissions via broadcast and teleconference by the Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, the film spans four continents and even the subject’s college reunion. Smith and Johnson’s resulting document of a durational performance is a stirring and strange tale of Smith as Odysseus. Unlike her inspiration, she can reach her (doctor) Penelope via semi-frequent messages. But the resulting tensions of their avant-garde and at-times intangible communication creates new permeations of distance-via-intimacy that are being newly defined as they happen, resonating profoundly in the world that these pioneers created for us. This is documentary as video art, love as performance piece, and a must-see for admirers of Smith, Johnson, and EZTV.

Special thanks to Mara McCarthy and The Box.

Filmforum 50: Barbara T. Smith - The 21st Century Odyssey

Bend It Like Beckham in 35mm

Shaolin Soccer in 35mm

Offside in 35mm

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as &#8220;The Filthiest Person Alive&#8221;.

**Introduced by screenwriter Bruce Wagner**

**Presented by Mezzanine & The Big One**

**Sunday, June 14**

Brain Dead Studios

611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
**Doors:** 7:30pm

**Film:** 8:00pm

We are thrilled to present a special screening of David Cronenberg’s pitch-black Hollywood satire—a portrait of Los Angeles as an inferno of narcissism, greed and sexual perversity—whose polarizing reception upon release has led to its contemporary reappraisal as a modern camp classic.

This event is presented with *The Big One*, a print-exclusive literary magazine featuring emergent and established Los Angeles writers. Issue No. 4, “Wellness & Reinvention,” features an interview with novelist, screenwriter, and producer Bruce Wagner, and will be sold at the event.

Wagner’s darkly comedic depictions of the intersections of fame, desire, desperation, and metaphysics draw from his own experiences living in Los Angeles, delivering transgressive, surreal, and sometimes cynical narratives. He is a conduit of Hollywood lore, having gone from chauffeuring stars as a local limo driver himself to portray Robert Pattinson portraying the limo driver in *MAPS TO THE STARS*, a screenplay Wagner wrote twenty-three years prior to its release. He sat down with *The Big One* to discuss Los Angeles literature, his legacy, and the film:

“It was something I wrote out of utter exasperation… I wrote MAPS TO THE STARS when I felt stillborn. I felt that everything had died, in essence, so I wrote something like a dream journal. I wrote something that I felt would be impossible to make into a film. Not that it wasn’t cinematic, but that it didn&#8217;t cohere or imitate or feel remotely compatible with Hollywood movies and even as an independent or a foreign film.” – Bruce Wagner

Special thanks to Johanna Stone and Gabrielle Sones (*The Big One*) and Darrell Brett.

“This is *MULHOLLAND DRIVE* for perverts.” – Ivy Wolk

“A vicious masterpiece.” – Daniel Goldhaber

Maps to the Stars with Bruce Wagner

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*Cinema-ye Azad*, or Free Cinema, was an underground movement of filmmakers in Iran that began in 1969, with the explicit aim of creating a fully independent cinema opposed to the mainstream “Filmfarsi” in both form and content, methods and ideals. Where the better-known, contemporaneous Iranian New Wave predominantly consisted of foreign-educated, Tehran-based middle-class filmmakers, *Cinema-ye Azad *consisted of self-taught filmmakers, sharing resources and knowledge with one another to bring the possibility of cultural production to disadvantaged provinces. At its height, *Cinema-ye Azad* boasted hundreds of active members, a critical magazine and festivals around the country, but the dream was short-lived as the movement ceased activities after the revolution. Its works, however, are being rediscovered thanks to the dedication of curators and archivists in London and Iran. As part of this year's UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema, the Archive is pleased to present two screenings highlighting the films of two key *Cinema-ye Azad* figures, Nasib Nasibi and Behnam Jafari. 

*Program curated by **Arta Barzanji and Shaghayegh Raoufi with research and archival support from Hadi Alipanah. Film notes written by Hadi Alipanah, Arta Barzanji and Shaghayegh Raoufi.*

Every day, a young man plays his trumpet from the top of a half-finished building while facing the city. Ambiguous happenings around him suggest the outlines of what may lurk below the peaceful surface of society.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Nematollah Gorji, Ahmad Amini, Hassan Seifi.

This satirical collage of Iranian cinema stages a confrontation between the ethos of the commercial “Filmfarsi” and the artistic ambitions of the New Wave cinema. In a direct reference to *Cinema-ye Azad*, the film ends with the arrest and exile of young amateur filmmakers from professional cinema.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Khosrow Haritash, Said Oveissi, Zari Khoshkam.

This film follows the restless lives of two young pickpockets through the labyrinth of seedy streets and shadowy alleyways, in a world where every day ends in triumph or ruin.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Davood Teymouri, Naser Tarighat, Ghazal Irandoust.

A social portrait of two young lovers that reflects the larger prejudices of society.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Farhad pour Azam, Shirin Jannesari, Behrouz Razavi.

In his cinematic debut, Saeed Poursamimi plays a former inmate who frees a genie from a bottle. After thousands of years of captivity in the bottle, the genie finds himself in a world that has been completely transformed by its people’s beliefs. The two embark on a bitter journey to find the remnants of the forgotten magical realm. Director Behnam Jafari uses stark visuals and provocative metaphors to explore the impossibility of relying on traditional myths in the face of a new world.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Saeed Poursamimi, Hamid Taati, Mohammad Poursattar.

Cinema-ye Azad: Behnam Jafari

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During the height of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, a busload of Iranian college students returning to the U.S. after a field trip in Canada are thrown into political and legal limbo when they’re refused entry at the border. A ripped-from-the-headlines urgency drives writer-director Parviz Sayyad’s *Checkpoint* as the students split along factional lines in their struggle to reclaim their rights and dignity. Executive producer Mary Apick also leads a committed ensemble cast that never loses sight of the fragile, individual humanity ever at risk amid grand ideological clashes.

Director/Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad. With: Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Parviz Sayyad.

This provocative film stars Mary Apick as a young woman who is drawn to a mysterious suitor haunting the dead-end street where she lives, only to discover that he is not what he seems and she and her family may be in danger. A giant of Iranian cinema, writer-director Parviz Sayyad rose to fame as the star of the commercial *Samad* film and television series before producing some of the key works of the Iranian New Wave, including films by Sohrab Shahid Saless, Ebrahim Golestan and Dariush Mehrjui. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, *Dead End* plays with themes of voyeurism and surveillance in a society on the verge of radical transformation. 

DCP. Director: Parviz Sayyad. Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad, Houshang Baharlou. With: Mary Apick, Parviz Bahador, Apick Yousefian.

Checkpoint / Dead End

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**DEKALOG: ONE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 56 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.

FORMAT: DCP

**DEKALOG: TWO, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 59 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Dorota is in love with two men: her gravely ill husband, Andrzej, and a fellow musician who is the father of her unborn child. Andrzej’s doctor, himself no stranger to loss, is Dorota’s downstairs neighbor; she implores him to swear to a prognosis for her husband, and in doing so puts a very serious decision into his hands.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

**DEKALOG, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Janus Films, Poland**

This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the twentieth century’s greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, DEKALOG focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, DEKALOG arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives.

Introduction by film critic, educator and scholar Doug Cummings Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘Krzysztof Kieślowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DEKALOG: ONE & TWO

Join Julia Voss and Daniel Birnbaum in a talk discussing Hilma af Klint  as a lens to examine Wassily Kandinsky and more.

Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future ONLINE EVENT!

The LA premiere of the new restoration of the wonderful TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK + a cult gem starring fellow Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn!

Filmforum 50 – Harry Smith’s Film #18: Mahagonny

One Battle After Another in 70mm

2:00 PM

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

6:30 PM

SÁTÁNTANGÓ

2:00 PM

Grey Gardens

5:30 PM

Nadja

8:00 PM

THE STONED AGE (1994)(R) Sun 5/31: 7:30 pm

7:30 PM

Screening: *La Llorona*

3:00 PM

Doctor Cupid

Trailin'

11:00 AM

The Web: “Time For Hate”

Justice: “House of Hatred”

12:25 PM

The Unwanted

2:30 PM

Hearst Metrotone News: “The Wellesley Crew!”

Hearst Metrotone News: “Wellesley Girls Crew Race” (excerpt)

Hearst Metrotone News: “Water Skiing In Mountain Resorts, Lake Arrowhead, Calif.” (excerpt)

Eight Girls in a Boat

4:55 PM

Pitfall

7:40 PM

The Other Love

9:35 PM

Build Your Own Synth hosted by Dogbotic (5/31)

11:00 AM

YEARNING

1:00 PM

THE BEACH Marathon

3:00 PM

THE HOUSE BUNNY

7:00 PM

A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY

10:00 PM

Cinderella

2:00 PM

Crimson Tide

Déjà Vu

6:30 PM

Spring is Sprung!

7:00 PM

The Sandlot

12:00 PM

Blue Heron

The Python Hunt

3:30 PM

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

7:00 PM

Cutthroat Island

10:00 AM

First Blood/ Extreme Prejudice

6:30 PM

Screening: La Llorona