**25th anniversary screening**, followed by a **Q&A with Saffron Burrows & Mia Maestro**.

**Doors:** 7:00 PM • **Film:** 7:30 PM

One of the boldest experiments ever released by a major film studio, maverick filmmaker Mike Figgis turned heads with this split-screen thriller, starring an incredible cast of A-list actors and taking place entirely in real-time as four continuous 98-minute DV takes unfold on screen. 

On Sunset Blvd., on the stretch between Book Soup and Dialog Café, Figgis follows a group of Hollywood executives, actors and spouses (Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Kyle McLachlan, Leslie Mann, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Danny Huston, Xander Berkeley, Glenne Headly, Holly Hunter) ahead of a major pitch meeting, as adulteries and other overlapping dramas ensue in each of their personal lives. 

With its improvised dialogue and elaborate structural gambit, *Timecode *is a relic of the turn-of-the-millenium digital boom—at the height of the crossover between the American independent and commercial film industries—and an emblem of an era when anything felt possible.

*“What is the purpose of the experiment? Above all, to show it can be done… Mike Figgis is a man who lives and breathes the cinema.”* — Roger Ebert

*“An impressive stunt… surprisingly breezy to watch.”* — Dave Kehr

Mezzanine Presents: Timecode in 35mm

Brain Dead Studios

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation

Frankenstein

Robert Grainer, an average man living in extraordinary times, worked as a day laborer in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century. Battered by the death of his family, he struggles to adjust to this new environment.

Train Dreams

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 8, “The Last Evening,” Dir. Mark Frost, 46 Mins**

Audrey is hired at One Eyed Jack’s, but is caught in a trap when her father arrives. Cooper gets Jacques Renault to reveal the details of Laura’s last night in the cabin. Deputy Andy saves Truman’s life and apprehends Renault.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“The Last Evening” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 8

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire and death in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Los Feliz Theatre

Alice in Wonderland  / Cinderella

New Beverly Cinema

The Wild Party/The Bride Wore Red

The Birds

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Nobody knows who murdered Miles Archer. But what Archer’s partner, Private Eye Sam Spade, *does* know is that Archer was killed while investigating the disappearance of a priceless statue. Now Spade has three mysterious clients who want him to find it at any cost.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

THE MALTESE FALCON

Aero Theatre

“What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” edited by Udo Kittelmann, is a sweeping odyssey into the depths of human experience, unfolding through film and video. Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the U.S., this audiovisual poem experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.

Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines. It dissolves the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.

“What a Wonderful World” presents a wide range of groundbreaking works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, or Lu Yang, alongside cinematic milestones by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. Together, these works form a panoramic and layered portrait of humanity and history across 120 years: altogether ironic, sincere, critical and compassionate.

“What a Wonderful World” will unfold as an explorative journey, a cinematic mystery tour, a soul-stirring experience. It invites visitors to confront the secrets and fragilities of humanity while holding up a mirror to the state of the world today.

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

Julia Stoschek Foundation at the Variety Arts Theater

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this sharp, irreverent comedy, a disgraced fashion designer with a dangerously low credit score, Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov) enters a reality show with a six-figure cash prize to save her babushka’s West Hollywood apartment. But as the competition intensifies, slick producer Nicol (Camila Mendes) pushes her to spin her family’s struggle into spectacle, forcing Margarita to decide whether to play along or take control of her own narrative, one unhinged look at a time.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: UTOPIA

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Nastasya Popov and actors Anna Baryshnikova, Galina Loginova, Nerses Stamos and Camila Mendes ‘Women Wednesday 2026’

IDIOTKA

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join us for a night of debut shorts from women directors! The Women Wednesday Night of Shorts features impressive debut short films from local up-and-coming filmmakers and a Q&A.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Spanked by a Ghost,” 2025,Dir. Katelyn Douglass, 12 Min**

**“Last Resort,” 2025, Dir. Bren Cukier, 9 Mins**

**“Lawyered Up,” 2025, Dir. Tatiana Blackington James, 19 Mins**

**“A Little House in Aberdeen,” 2022, Dir. Emily Goss, 7 Mins**

**“The Avon Lady,” 2023, Dir. Carolina Espiro, 13 Mins**

Q&A with filmmakers ‘Women Wednesday 2026’

Women Wednesday Night of Shorts Part 1

Lolita

**Producers**: Danielle Varga,  Brittany Shyne,  Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

Join us in the microcinema for Brittany Shyne&#8217;s breathtaking and poetic documentary portrait of centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black and white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational black farmers and the significance of owning land.

Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, *Seeds* is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and owning land. 

With remarkable intimacy, the film documents their everyday lives &#8211; cotton harvesting, chasing cows, dealing with broken machinery and financial precarities. The camera relishes simple moments &#8211; conversations through car windows, candy from grandma’s purse as it captures moments of warmth, joy and fulfillment &#8211; turning them into striking vignettes that honor the families’ connection to the land and each other. 

But the sobering reality underscores the urgency of their story. Black farmers owned 16 million acres of land in 1910 but today, that number has dwindled to a fraction. The farmers in the community struggle to access funding that white farmers nearby seem to secure with ease. 

Through these inter-generational stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism that persist to this present day, and the signs of hope and renewal with younger generations of farmers. *Seeds* emphasizes how human beings are innately tied to our foundational roots, roots which carry our ancestral memories &#8211; somber, bitter, and sweet.

Seeds

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producer**: Agustín Almodóvar

The queer erotic thriller of your dreams, don&#8217;t miss Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s self-reflexive and sinister chiller *Law of Desire*. When adult film director Pablo ditches his young boyfriend and heads to the beach, he doesn&#8217;t realize that another young lover (lil&#8217; Antonio Banderas) is on the horizon, waiting with obsessive tenacity to worm his way into Pablo&#8217;s life, and keep his ex out of it. Starring a very young Antonio Banderas as the obsessive sicko, with Almodóvar muse Carmen Maura as Pablo&#8217;s transgender sister who stirs the pot on this steamy sinister cinematic treasure.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Can&#8217;t get enough Almodóvar? Check out his director&#8217;s section for his whole catalog of dark, funny, and melodramatic masterpieces!

*Matador, The Skin I Live In, Volver***

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

Law of Desire on 35mm

Vidiots

Run of The Arrow

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, Russian, Vietnamese and French with English subtitles. *

Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, THE DEER HUNTER follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage. Experience the brutality of war and the depths of emotional strain on the human spirit in this extraordinarily powerful film classic.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: UK/USA

THE DEER HUNTER

*North American premiere of new director’s cut*

Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (*Winter’s Bone*), *Conbody vs Everybody* follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned?

Director: Debra Granik With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher.

As Conbody’s profile rises with increased media attention, Coss works to find investors and secure a permanent space.

DCP.

Conbody trainer Shane hits a setback and Coss and the team pitch in to help. 

DCP.

Syretta starts as a trainer at Conbody after her recent return home from prison. Coss supports his younger brother’s first run for City Council.

DCP.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

Conbody vs Everybody: Episodes 1–3

Hammer Museum

Come celebrate the nearing Spring with a night of comics read and performed live by five cartoonists at the vanguard of modern visual culture! For the benefit of Heavy Manners Library, experience wonder, delight, and a taste of the sublime before the works of four Los Angeles-based cartoonists and one touring from Portland, all them movers and shakers of West Coast independent sequential art.

**WHO: Quinn Amacher, Alayna Cabral, Luz Diaz, Maddy Peters, Sebastian Stone
WHAT: Comics reading by Los Angeles and Portland artists
WHEN: Friday, March 13th, 7-9 pm
WHERE: Heavy Manners Library, 1200 N Alvarado St

Quinn Amacher is a cartoonist and author of stories about motion and emotion. Made with hybrid digital/traditional media and in a variety of genres, her comix reframe the mundane and the banal into the fantastic and the absurd, disrupting our assumed inevitabilities and reconnecting the reader to the space of potential.

Alayna Cabral is a sequential artist, animator, and illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA. They have over 10 years of experience working in the animation industry as a storyboard artist, working on shows for Disney TVA, Warner Bros. and more. Along with working for studios, they self publish their own comic work and zines, and they have also created independent animated shorts that have screened world wide.

Luz Diaz, aka Bendita Garlopa, is an Argentine artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her artwork and comics are inspired entirely** by the things that confuse her the most.

Maddy Peters is a cartoonist who loves drawing unreasonable people and nightmarish situations. Her comics can be found in shops like Golden Apple and The Pop Hop, and at local comics fairs and zine fests. She is represented by 839 Gallery. In 2025, she self-published her first graphic novel, "The Baby Man," and she is currently writing and drawing a medical drama series called "Lion&#x27;s Gate." She ultimately makes comics because she finds life very funny.

Sebastian Stone is a dragon and multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. His vibrant, dense imagery carries across tattooing, painting and comics. The compulsion to self-publish as a zinester and self-actuate as a furry become one hybrid beast.

Freak Friday Comix Reading (3/13)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

QUEEN KELLY opens in the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau, sometime before the first World War, where the vain and cruel Queen Regina V (Seena Owen) obsesses over her feckless fiancé (Walter Byron), Prince “Wild” Wolfram. When the dissolute prince encounters an innocent but flirtatious convent girl, Patricia Kelly (Gloria Swanson), he falls in love. Desperate to see her before his upcoming wedding to the Queen, he kidnaps Kelly and brings her to his rooms in the palace. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she whips the nightgowned girl and throws her out into the night. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Kelly returns to the convent, where she receives a telegram, summoning her to the bedside of her dying aunt (Florence Gibson) in Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. There, the innocent young girl is shocked to find herself in a seedy bordello. On her deathbed, Kelly’s aunt begs her niece to wed the syphilitic brothel owner, Jan (Tully Marshall).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA

QUEEN KELLY

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Filipino with English subtitles.*

A nation’s trauma wrapped in a chilling allegory, ITIM is a 1970s folk horror spell from Filipino filmmaking powerhouse Mike De Leon (KISAPMATA). A man returns to his countryside home and falls for a woman seemingly possessed by the spirit of his missing sister, who now demands he solve the mystery behind her disappearance and uncover the truth. Haunting imagery and shockingly transgressive themes set the perfect backdrop for a country grappling with the wounded spirit of its history in this fiery, mournful masterpiece.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Severin Films

COUNTRY: Philippines

50th Anniversary ‘Directed by Mike De Leon’

ITIM

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Season 2, Episode 1, “May The Giant Be With You,” Dir. David Lynch, 93 Mins**

Agent Cooper, who has been shot, sees a vision of a giant.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“May The Giant Be With You” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 1

The Decameron

True Romance

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**Screenwriter**: Michel Franco

**Producers**: Michel Franco,  Alexander Rodnyansky,  Eréndira Núñez Larios

Join us in the microcinema for Michel Franco&#8217;s shocking new tense and sensual provocation starring Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández. A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he crosses the US-Mexico border and lands a starring role in the local ballet company, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together as well as her comfortable and privileged existence. Sexy, timely, and sobering, this disquieting gem will take you on a ride of emotions from lust to disgust with an ending that will haunt you for days.

Dreams

**Screenwriter**: Hype Williams

**Producers**: Larry Meistrich,  Ron Rotholz,  Robert Salerno,  Hype Williams, Avram &#8220;Butch&#8221; Kaplan

Get ready for DMX and Nas to take over the streets in Hype Williams&#8217; visually stunning crime drama. The only feature film in Hype Williams&#8217; storied career of directing over 200 music videos, after literally making a name for himself through graffiti, *Belly* goes beyond the average street drama. Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more films with Hip Hop royalty? We&#8217;ve got these bangers and so many more!

*High Life* (André 3000), *Set it Off* (Queen Latifah), *How High?* (Method Man and Redman)

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

Belly

**Producer**: Spike Jonze

Vidiots is pumped to welcome back **Johnny Knoxville** for the sequel with no equal &#8211; *Jackass Number Two*!

Is it the highest level of conceptual art of the 21st century or the stupidest thing you&#8217;ve ever seen? *You* get to decide in the sequel that would make Vito Acconci blush as the *Jackass* boys hit the big screen a second time with more stunts, pranks, and ridiculousness than you can shake a venomous king cobra at! Behold as Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to ratchet the stakes higher than ever before with snakes, bulls, giant hoses, shopping cart launchers, Busby-Berkeleyesque dance numbers, and pranks that will make you puke! With cameos from Tony Hawk, Mike Judge, and the Pope of Trash John Waters, it&#8217;s an All-Star bonanza of bad decisions!

Co-presented by the **Eagle Rock Run Club. **LA Marathon runners – show off your medal and we’ll have a special surprise for you at concessions!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Johnny Knoxville (in front of *and* behind the camera) tonight on glorious physical media!

*A Dirty Shame, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Being Evel*

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

Jackass Number Two

Project Hail Mary - 70mm Early Access

The Warriors

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson), a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett) and Zissou’s estranged wife (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure-comedy.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Breathless

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic &#8220;games&#8221; with one another for their own amusement.

Funny Games

Tuesday–Friday, Sunday 10am–6:30pmSaturday 10am–9pmMonday Closed

Selected Shorts: Virtue & Vice

Getty Center

*New director’s cut*

Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (*Winter’s Bone*), *Conbody vs Everybody* follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned?

Director: Debra Granik With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher.

As Conbody’s profile rises with increased media attention, Coss works to find investors and secure a permanent space.

DCP.

Conbody trainer Shane hits a setback and Coss and the team pitch in to help. 

DCP.

Syretta starts as a trainer at Conbody after her recent return home from prison. Coss supports his younger brother’s first run for City Council.

DCP.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

*North American premiere of new director’s cut
*

Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (*Winter’s Bone*), *Conbody vs Everybody* follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned?

Director: Debra Granik. With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher.

Coss celebrates five years home from prison. The team changes locations and new trainers join the team. Coss grows increasingly frustrated with reluctant investors. Includes an appearance by late actor Michael K. Williams.

DCP.

Coss and the CONBODY team navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests as they take hold in New York City. Coss’ brother takes another run at City Council. Coss and his girlfriend Roxie take a step forward together.

DCP.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

Conbody vs Everybody: Episodes 4–5

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on the short story “The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa” by Yasunari Kawabata (winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature), director Mikio Naruse’s first sound film vibrantly captures the social fabric of Asakusa, Japan’s largest entertainment district at the time, with musical flair and tenderness. Inspired by the visual storytelling of the silent film era, Naruse builds tension with nuanced sound design and inventive camerawork, vividly tracing the sisters’ distinct emotional arcs. A poignant exploration of women’s roles and lives in 1930s Japan, THREE SISTERS WITH MAIDEN HEARTS is a heartfelt portrait of three siblings choosing survival, sacrifice and the bonds that hold them together.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

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

THREE SISTERS WITH MAIDEN HEARTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Robert Duvall’s Oscar-winning performance dominates this study of Mac Sledge, a hard-drinking country singer whose latest binge has left him stranded at a remote and run-down Texas motel owned by a young widow whose joys in life are her young son and singing in her church choir. Penniless, Mac offers to work “a couple of days” to pay his bill, a stay that’s extended indefinitely when the two fall in love.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

TENDER MERCIES

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of a beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. Also starring Bella Heathcote, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Christina Hendricks and Desmond Harrington.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon Studios

COUNTRY: USA

‘Watch Local: Living Large at the Paramour Estate’

THE NEON DEMON

Expose Me, Lovely

Reynaldo Rivera joins Now Instant to present the Los Angeles premiere of his debut feature, *Fistful of Love*.

This ticketed presentation and post-screening conversation will be followed by a free public reception and slideshow celebrating the launch of *Propiedad Privada, *Rivera&#8217;s latest publication, released by Semiotext(e).

Screening: 6pm

Reception: 8pm

Fistful of Love + Propiedad Privada

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriters**: Robert Gordon from the novels by Daniel Handler

**Producers**: Albie Hecht,  Laurie MacDonald,  Walter F. Parkes

Vidiots remembers the remarkable warmth, talent, and gifts of the legendary **Catherine O’Hara **with a special screening of *Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events*

A delightfully gothic adventure for your budding bookworms from the book series by Daniel Handler, with wit, whimsy, and delectable art direction and costuming! Three unfortunate orphan siblings are sent to live with an eccentric and scheming relative whose only interest is their inheritance. As the children try to escape his dastardly clutches, he dons a number of ridiculous disguises to fool them back into the fold. Nominated four 4 Academy Awards and winner of Best Makeup with an incredible cast including Catherine O&#8217;Hara, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, and of course shapeshifter Jim Carrey, this stylish romp is ready for our big screen!

**Remembering Catherine O’Hara**

Catherine O’Hara, our scene stealing, impossibly funny, impeccably comically timed, deeply human, perfectly wigged icon, we will miss you so. Thank you for making us laugh til we cried and lighting up generations of artists to seize art and life with a vigor only you could inspire. We’ll be celebrating you in our video store and on our big screen always.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to bring more Catherine O’Hara brilliance home? Check out some of these delights on physical media:

*After Hours, SCTV, Waiting for Guffman*

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

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

**Screenwriters**: Collier Young, Ida Lupino

**Producer**: Collier Young

A taut and unnerving true crime classic from Ida Lupino. Roughly based on the killing spree of Billy Cook, this harrowing film follows two friends &#8211; Roy and Gilbert &#8211; who unknowingly pick up a sadistic serial killer on the lam off the side of the road who terrorizes them day and night in his attempt to evade justice for his previous slayings. William Talman as the sicko with a gun (and a permanently open eye) is truly a terrifying presence, bringing a visceral dread to the film, and to your nightmares shortly thereafter. The first film noir directed by a woman, *The Hitch-Hiker* is an unsettling treasure of 1950s cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more Ida Lupino gems? See her in front of and behind the camera in these classics:

*The Bigamist, Outrage, Columbo: Short Fuse + Swan Song, Twilight Zone: The 16mm Shrine (*star*) + The Masks (*director*)*

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

The Hitch-Hiker

**Screenwriters**: Christopher Guest,  Eugene Levy

**Producer**: Karen Murphy

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome back our neighbor, screen legend **John Michael Higgins** for a special screening of *A Mighty Wind* in remembrance of the remarkable **Catherine O&#8217;Hara, **followed by a conversation with Higgins!

*Hey, wha&#8217; happened?* We&#8217;re getting folksy AND getting the bands back together for Christopher Guest&#8217;s third hilarious mockumentary/musical, *A Mighty Wind* starring a dozen of the funniest people on the planet. Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor. With all the *Spinal Tap* band members as their alternate personas as *The Folksmen*, Catherine O&#8217;Hara and Eugene Levy as *Mitch and Mickey*, the doomed ex-lovers, and the *New Main Street Singers* who worship colors, it&#8217;s a cavalcade of washed up talent all ready for the stage again after all these years. The songs themselves range from authentic and beautiful, to historically grim, to downright hilarious and toe tapping, while the story has more bittersweet and human moments than its predecessors while never skimping on the laughs. Get your tickets for the comeback concert of the year &#8211; while they still last!

**Remembering Catherine O’Hara**

Catherine O’Hara, our scene stealing, impossibly funny, impeccably comically timed, deeply human, perfectly wigged icon, we will miss you so. Thank you for making us laugh til we cried and lighting up generations of artists to seize art and life with a vigor only you could inspire. We’ll be celebrating you in our video store and on our big screen always.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to bring more Catherine O’Hara brilliance home? Check out some of these delights on physical media:

*After Hours, SCTV, Waiting for Guffman*

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

A Mighty Wind on 35mm

Vidiots invites you back for more archival celluloid weirdness with a one-of-a-kind night of eye-popping, mind-bending, surreal, and hallucinatory 16mm short films culled from the incredible archives of **Smokehouse Films**.  From the 1920s through the 1970s, these are some of the most visually arresting films ever made including Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s seminal masterpiece ***Un Chien Andalou***, as well as works by Hans Richter, Jan Svankmajer, Jan Lenica, Ladisla Starevich, Man Ray, and more! Trust us, your eyeballs will never be the same!

Featuring:

***Un Chien Andalou*** (“*The Andalusian Dog*”, B+W, 1928)

Made in France by the brilliant Spanish director Luis Buñuel and the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. *Un Chien Andalou* is one of the best-known surrealist films of the avant-garde movement of the 1920s. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes that attempt to shock the viewer’s inner psyche. Its opening scene is one of the most famous in cinema history.

***Le Retour a la Raison*** (B+W, 1923)

A lush and hypnotic experimental film in which white specks and shapes gyrate over a black background, a light-striped torso, and a spinning egg crate &#8211; It consists of animated textures, rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse. One of the first Dadaist films and the first film made by Man Ray when he relocated to Paris.

**About John Cannizzaro and Smokehouse Films**

John Cannizzaro is a filmmaker whose works rotate between stop-motion animation and experimental films &#8211; often with an ethnographic element to them. As an archivist, his large collection of 16mm film prints center mainly around those very topics; ethnography, experimental works and stop motion animation.

Surreal 16mm from the Archives of Smokehouse Films

**Screenwriter**: David Loughery

**Producer**: Will Packer

Are you ready to fight to the death with Beyoncé in the boots with the fur? The catfight&#8217;s just getting started in this slick and satisfying thriller of lust, loyalty, and pining after Idris Alba! Things couldn&#8217;t be better for Derek Charles. He&#8217;s just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon. However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa, a temporary worker at Derek&#8217;s office. Lisa begins to stalk Derek, jeopardizing all he holds dear. You&#8217;ve seen the plot before, but you have never seen it with the ultimate Ali Larter/Beyoncé duel that set the world on fire!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Remember when Beyoncé was everywhere in Hollywood? You can take home all her starring roles tonight on physical media!

*Austin Powers: Goldmember, Cadillac Records, Carmen: A Hip Hopera***

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

Obsessed

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Lightstruck presents Ulrike Ottinger’s *TAIGA: A Journey to Northern Mongolia*. 501 minutes, English subtitles. 12 noon start time, with two breaks. The film will conclude at approximately 10pm.

Snacks, coffee and tea will be provided, as well as some dinner at the evening break, for a suggested donation.

Digital restoration courtesy of Arsenal with thanks to Carsten Zimmer, Reinhild Feldhaus, and especially Ulrike Ottinger.

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“Taiga is an experience that causes us to think about why we live as we do, what it is to be human, and what is important in life.” (Roger Ebert)

Lightstruck is extremely excited to present a truly epic cinematic experience, as we screen Ulrike Ottinger’s nearly 8.5-hour, immersive documentary *Taiga* (1992) in a special all-day screening.

Known for her meticulously crafted experimental narrative films infusing political radicalism with a rich, surrealist opulence, German artist Ulrike Ottinger has also produced a singular body of memorable nonfiction work, though perhaps none so monumental – and mesmerizingly beautiful – as *Taiga*.

During an extended period spent in Northern Mongolia through multiple seasons, Ottinger approached ethnography in a radically different way, rejecting authoritative narrativizing or presumptuous didacticism. The extended length of the film reflects Ottinger’s larger impulse and approach in this project: to spend time – unadulterated, attentive time – with the Northern Mongolians she had befriended, and to enable their own distinctive approach to time and space in everyday life dictate the scale and pace of the film.

Over ten parts and 38 chapters, we see a seance, two weddings, preparation of foods, wrestling contests, music performances, storytelling sessions, and countless other events large and small, yet all equally defining the overall year-to-year and day-to-day experiences of nomadic life in the Darkhad Valley of Northern Mongolia. The film succeeds so brilliantly in part because of the unapologetically and earnestly fascinated gaze with which Ottinger documents what she sees, and the clear love for and engagement with people that the filmmaking reflects.

“I tried to explain my wish, which was to record a way of life that no longer exists in the place where I’ve come from, in order to show the document to the people back home, who are very interested in the nomadic ways. At first this puzzled them, but then they thought, Yes, indeed, we too would be interested to know how your people live…” (Ulrike Ottinger)

Lightstruck: Ulrike Ottinger’s TAIGA (1991/92)

Lightstruck is thrilled to invite you to celebrate the origins of the experimental film community in a 16mm matinee program to complement the big Hollywood to-do later in the day – one show a twisted funhouse mirror vision of the other (but which is which??)

A luminous cinema icon unto himself, Jonas Mekas pioneered a distinctive form of hyper-present 16mm diaristic filmmaking, capturing the resolutely anecdotal with engaging, earthly poetry. But he was also inarguably one of the leading lights of the avant-garde, determined to foment and connect a global independent film community that he saw as utterly crucial to the potential, power, and humanity of the medium.

His feature *Birth of a Nation* radically appropriates a title inextricably linked to cinema history (yet tainted by its own corrupt vision), instead repositioning the phrase to describe and celebrate the myriad brilliant constellations of Mekas’s beloved film community. Utilizing his characteristic handheld camera, quick cutting, and an unparalleled eye for the touchingly mundane, Mekas creates a vital moving image album of filmmakers and assorted film friends that reveals these myths and legends of the avant-garde in all their anecdotal mortality.

Vastly more than a guessing game of who’s who in experimental film (there’s Will Hindle!), the film represents an incredibly rich emotional bridge between the vitality of these people at their moments of capture, and the assembly of this footage by Mekas into a collective portrait at a time (1996) when many were already gone, and their original contexts resolutely in the past. Seeing the film another 30 years further on, it packs an unexpected emotional wallop, as we are welcomed with inviting arms into the throng of a living, breathing community that – at least in its unique idiom and fragile temporality – has essentially disappeared. And yet, thanks to film itself, it still lives and breathes, and our local/global experimental film community is in part an ongoing tribute to the hundreds of folks in this film, who made independent movies and watched them together in independent spaces, just like us.

“We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are Cinema.” (Jonas Mekas)

PROGRAM: *Birth of a Nation* (1996) by Jonas Mekas. 16mm, bw & color, sound, 80 minutes.

Program by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. 16mm print from Film-makers’ Cooperative (which was co-founded by Jonas Mekas).

Lightstruck: Jonas Mekas’s BIRTH OF A NATION (1996)

2220 Arts + Archives

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A teenager with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby’s cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse, and attends funerals, where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core, Maude lives exactly as she pleases, with avid collecting and nude modeling among her many pursuits. To the disgust of Harold’s relatives and the befuddlement of Harold’s shrink, Harold falls in love with her. As lilting Cat Stevens tunes play on the soundtrack, Maude teaches Harold a valuable lesson about making the most of his time on earth.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

HAROLD AND MAUDE

“Like Van Gogh, Fleischer Studios, Robert Crumb, YELLOW SUBMARINE and the abstract-thought section of Pixar’s INSIDE OUT smooshed into a great lysergic cake.” – The Guardian

A superlative animated musical discovery! Touching on a wide range of styles from 1920s Art Deco to 1960s Psychedelia and 1970s Roxy Music-style decadence, BUBBLE BATH is a hypercolored yet relatable Eastern European avant-garde opera about dating problems. This irresistible experience charts the romance between medical student Anikó (a more curvaceous post-modern Betty Boop) and shop window decorator / stoned hippie alleycat Zsolt: both unsure of their attraction to each other, the choices they’ve made and what life has in store for them.

Bubble Bath

&#8220;Rude in the way the truth is rude &#8212; only funnier. The movie seduces with its humor, all the while presenting a realized vision of a harsh, absurd world.&#8221;

— Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Reese Witherspoon as potty-mouthed white trash Vanessa Lutz is among her most underrated roles. In this modern take on Little Red Riding Hood, Kiefer Sutherland plays the not subtly named Bob Wolverton, a serial killer who meets his match in Vanessa, a fifteen year old on her way to her grandmother’s after her parents are both arrested. Bob picks her up hitchhiking, gains her trust and then reveals himself &#8211; but Vanessa is sharp and quick, shooting him and leaving him for dead. Trouble is, he doesn’t die, and instead she finds herself on trial. Can this bad behaving juvenile delinquent win against a well-respected school counselor? You better believe she won’t go down without a fight! Written and directed by Matthew Bright, best known as the screenwriter for FORBIDDEN ZONE, FREEWAY is impressive and often hilarious with a great support cast including Brooke Shields, Amanda Plummer and Dan Hedaya. (Cristina Cacciopo)

Freeway

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

This incomparable story of crime and redemption from the French master Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out. A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, PICKPOCKET is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

PICKPOCKET

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I, 1944, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 103 Mins, Janus Films, Soviet Union**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

FORMAT: 35mm

**IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II, 1956, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 88 Mins, Janus Films, Soviet Union**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

FORMAT: 35mm

Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, IVAN THE TERRIBLE charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detected the portrait in the second film, with its summary executions and secret police, and promptly banned it.

IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I & PART II

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

The Maiku Hama Trilogy kicks things off in *akushon* black-and-white with THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE, set among the immigrant communities of a multi-cultural Yokohama. When Maiku accidentally saves a Taiwanese immigrant named Yang during a mahjong parlour brawl, he becomes embroiled in a tale of two brothers at the heart of an underground pan-Asian mafia on the brink of war.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Japan

West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration The Maiku Hama Trilogy: Part 1 ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE

Forbidden Letters

Vidiots invites you to don your red carpet best and join us for a big-screen viewing of Hollywood’s most glamorous and award-winning night. Behold the iconic fashion, see the musical acts, cry at the acceptance speeches, and cheer as your favorites win big. We’ll have fun raffles during commercial breaks, cheeky bingo, and lots of photo ops on our pink carpet, hosted by drag performer **Anya Body**. Join us for an unforgettable time and share the magic of movie-making’s biggest night with your fellow Vidiots. Black tie attire encouraged, not required.

Doors will open/ Pink Carpet will begin at **2:00pm** with the Televised Pre-Show on the big screen!

The awards show will begin at **4:00pm**

Submit your ballots before **4:05pm** to be eligible for prizes!

This evening is a fundraiser for the Vidiots Foundation and ticket prices are suggested donations – no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

All paid tickets will come with reserved seating, free tickets will be first-come first-served.

###### This event is not sponsored by or affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Vidiots Presents: That Awards Show

*THE BIBLE AS CECIL B. DEMILLE NEVER FILMED IT!*

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The stories of Adam and Eve, David and Bathsheba, and Sampson and Delilah are given a subversively erotic twist in this bawdy softcore epic from acclaimed Boys in the Sand filmmaker Wakefield Poole.

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Featuring a memorable comedic performance from The Devil in Miss Jones star Georgina Spelvin as Bathsheba, Wakefield Poole’s Bible! is a loving tribute to the women of the Good Book and to Old Hollywood silent cinema. 2K restoration.

(Muscle Distribution)

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**dir. Wakefield Poole, 1973***United States, digital projection*83 min, 1.33:1

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Due to the nature of the material, this screening is ages 18+ only.

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## Sunday, 3/157:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING$10 general admission, $9 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

Wakefield Poole's Bible! (1973)

WHAMMY!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Set in 1994, a record producer, Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) seduces young folksinger duo Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Alphie (George Gilmour) into becoming part of his stable of musical stars kept in line with sex and drugs.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/West Germany

Introduction by actor and fitness instructor Angie Shriner ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents THE APPLE

Venus in Furs / Succubus

**Screenwriter**: Lucrecia Martel

**Producers**: Vânia Catani,  Benjamín Doménech,  Santiago Gallelli

Join us for Lucrecia Martel&#8217;s brilliant and meditative examination of colonialism and existentialism; a bleakly funny and oft surreal historical drama. Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. Beautiful, ponderous, and philosophical, Martel challenges the viewer, but rewards them with a subdued and nuanced trance of historical cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more cinematic triumphs from the great Lucrecia Martel

*The Headless Woman, The Holy Girl, La Cienaga*

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

Zama

In memoriam of actor, writer, and filmmaker **Tom Noonan**, whose striking and unmistakable presence—at once gentle, sharply observant, and quietly disarming—left an indelible mark on American independent cinema and theatre, The Philosophical Research Society's 7th House and 2220 Arts present **WHAT HAPPENED WAS…**, his 1994 directorial debut.

A towering performer and creator of rare sensitivity and precision, Noonan brought a deeply human attentiveness to every role and project, masterfully moving between vulnerability, humor, and unease. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Screenwriting Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, his arresting two-hander is a darkly humorous portrait of dating dread. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending a claustrophobic Friday night together in an imposing apartment, the film exposes with startling clarity the fragile ways people struggle to connect. As the evening unravels, unsettling secrets and eccentricities are laid bare, and polite conversation gives way to something stranger, sadder, and more revealing.

Perhaps more resonant than ever in our age of strange and strained romantic connection, WHAT HAPPENED WAS… is presented in a pristine 4K restoration courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories, newly created from the original 35mm negative.

7th House: Tom Noonan's What Happened Was...

Heroin Skateboards presents Mutate Or Die

MUTATE OR DIE SCREENING

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 2, “Coma,” Dir. David Lynch, 46 Mins**

Agent Cooper learns that his former partner has escaped from a mental institution.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 3, “The Man Behind The Glass,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Donna finds a diary that belonged to Laura Palmer.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Coma” and “The Man Behind The Glass” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 2 & 3

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

There’s only one thing keeping aspiring executive Tim (Paul Rudd) from corporate success. He must find the perfect guest to bring to his boss’s monthly dinner party, where the winner of the evening is the one who arrives with the biggest buffoon. Luckily, Tim meets Barry (Steve Carell), a guy who re-creates famous works of art with stuffed mice. When the duo show up to dine, the lunacy kicks into high gear. It’s a hilarious feast about two unlikely friends and one outrageous dinner!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Kelly Goodner and Jim Hemphill St. Patrick’s Day Screening!

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS

A Woman in Flames / Belle de Jour

**Screenwriter**: Lina Wertmüller

**Producer**: Arrigo Colombo, Lina Wertmüller

The first film to garner an Oscar nomination for a woman director, Lina Wertmüller&#8217;s masterful and provocative concentration camp sex comedy (yes, you read that right) is one of the director&#8217;s greatest works; magnificently weaving audaciousness and true human pathos into a masterpiece of world cinema. Wertmüller regular &#8211; the incredibly facile Giancarlo Giannini &#8211; plays Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as &#8220;Pasqualino Seven Beauties,&#8221; a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost. After a series of terrible choices and a stint in Mussolini&#8217;s army, he is eventually sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer, played by Shirley Stoler (*The Honeymoon Killers*). Controversial from the jump, and funnier than any film about Nazis has a right to be &#8211; with absurdity at every corner along with staggering human truths &#8211; and stunning production design by Enrico Job, it&#8217;s the perfect time to rediscover this treasure of Italian cinema from one of the world&#8217;s greatest overlooked directors.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Need more Lina? We&#8217;ve got a whole Lina Wertmüller director&#8217;s section with all of her most provocative films!

*The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, Summer Night*

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

Seven Beauties

Movie theater chain established in 1938 showcasing the latest independent, foreign & art films.

This unique series is hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm and film at 8pm.

Tonight's show: THE MAGNIFICNET AMBERSONS The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

Fine Arts Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

REELING, the striking debut feature by Yana Alliata, is a lyrical and emotionally charged exploration of memory, trauma, and belonging set against the idyllic family property on Oahu’s windward side. After a life-altering accident, Ryan returns to his family’s homestead for a birthday luau, attempting to reconnect with old friends and relatives who now feel like strangers. As the pig roasts slowly in the imu pit and the atmosphere turns festive, buried tensions simmer beneath the surface. Amid laughter, music and the glow of torches, Ryan finds himself increasingly unmoored—until a fragmented memory resurfaces, revealing the moment when everything in his life changed. REELING is executive produced by the singular Werner Herzog.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Future of Film is Female

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Yana Alliata ‘Women Wednesday 2026’

REELING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

PUDDYSTICKS follows anxious videogame designer Liz and her therapeutic odyssey into a secret society of adults who play like they are little kids. Led by the alluring Sylvester Cromwell, the society compels each member to reveal their most shameful memory, with the promise of psychological healing through childlike play. But when Liz finally gains the courage to share her own darkest trauma, her world turns upside down and she must find her own way to free herself of her past.

Megan Seely’s debut feature is a joyously twisted dark comedy produced by Oscar-winner Alex Coco (ANORA), starring Dan Bakkedahl (VEEP), Mamoudou Athie (KINDS OF KINDNESS, THE DRAMA), Danny Deferrari (SHIVA BABY) and writer/director Megan Seely.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Future of Film is Female

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Megan Seely ‘Women Wednesday 2026’

PUDDYSTICKS

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

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 2/19) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, and English with English subtitles.*

The UK’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards and recipient of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, Akinola Davies Jr.’s MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father-son bonds. Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, the film follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. Brothers and collaborators Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies bring us a groundbreaking feature debut – centering an award-winning performance by Sopé Dìrísù (SLOW HORSES, GANGS OF LONDON) – that reveals the profound depths of what families leave unspoken.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: UK/Nigeria

MY FATHER'S SHADOW

Fellini’s Casanova

Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.

Tycoon

Bring a project you've been working on or try one of ours!

Presented by Sunday Scaries Art Club.

6-8pm

FREE! Some materials provided. First come, first serve.

Art Night at Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Thomas Lee Wright,  Barry Michael Cooper

**Producers**: George Jackson,  David McHenry

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary multi-hyphenate **Mario Van Peebles** for a special screening of his directorial debut film *New Jack City* followed by a conversation with **Van Peebles** and **Santi Elijah Holley, **the author of *An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created, *and a forthcoming book on Melvin Van Peebles and independent Black cinema.

Mario Van Peebles remixes the blaxploitation genre for the 1990s in this gritty gangster flick. The Cash Money Brothers with kingpin Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) at their helm run the steets and drug trade of New York City. Two hard-nosed NYPD officers (Ice-T and Judd Nelson) have got to go undercover to bring down the pushers and save the streets of Harlem from the crack epidemic. An electric debut that helped usher in the urban gangster wave of the 1990s, with a killer soundtrack, and tons of cameos from Fab Five Freddy, Flava Flav, Eek-a-Mouse, and Keith Sweat, to name a few, *New Jack City* is an intoxicating crime classic, best enjoyed big and loud!

Come early for an all vinyl DJ set from **DJ Jéli!**

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

New Jack City

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

American Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is assigned to track down and kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reportedly massacred hundreds of innocent people and set up his own fiefdom in the jungle. Willard and his crew encounter strange sights and people on their surreal journey into the heart of darkness.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT

“What do I get out of this?” asks Andy Griffith’s “Lonesome” Rhodes of Patricia Neal’s radio producer touring an Arkansas jail for local musical talent. In his rise to fame and influence, Rhodes’ narcissistic motivation remains the same throughout *A Face in the Crowd*, no matter what Everyman platitudes people project on him. Radio gets him started but television is the new medium that vaults him to the pinnacle of political power. With McCarthyism still in the air, director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg pitch a darker take on populism than Frank Capra’s in Meet Doe Joe, but they still share a faith in the American public’s natural resistance to authoritarian appeals that, for all the film’s prophetic bone fides, feels naive in retrospect.*—Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Elia Kazan. Screenwriter: Budd Schulberg. With: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa. 

*35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.*

A Face in the Crowd

Get your ticket for just $6.84 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Superstar Janet Jackson makes her stunning film debut in director John Singleton’s (BOYZ N THE HOOD) street-smart love story, POETIC JUSTICE. A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice (Jackson) and Lucky (Tupac Shakur) have only one thing in common: they can’t stand each other. But as their friends Lesha and Chicago (Regina King and Joe Torry) fight and make up in the back of the van, Justice and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together. After a surprising detour toward romance, the two travelers are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they’d left behind. Featuring the music of Naughty by Nature and Tony! Toni! Tone! and the poetry of Maya Angelou, POETIC JUSTICE is every bit as intense, original and unforgettable as BOYZ N THE HOOD.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

POETIC JUSTICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

In THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST, now in vibrant colour, Maiku Hama returns in a dashing convertible that is promptly repossessed. Taking on odd jobs like looking for lost dogs, Hama’s search leads him to a past he thought he’d left behind as the port city’s most legendary stripper returns and gangs vie for the control of the waterfront.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Japan

West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration The Maiku Hama Trilogy: Part 2

THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST

Rio de Janeiro, 1964. After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid’s room. The day before, the maid had quit. In the room, G.H. faces a huge cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against beings it treats as subordinate. Facing the insect, G.H. descends into an existential Via Crucis. This experience leads to the loss of her identity and makes her question all conventions that imprison females to this day. Based on a novel by Clarice Lispector.

The Passion According to G.H.

**Screenwriter**: David Lynch

**Producer**: Fred C. Caruso

David Lynch&#8217;s seductive suburban masterpiece still sizzles with surreal menace.  Kyle MacLachlan is Jeffrey &#8211; your everyday college boy back home for a summer with the folks in an idyllic enclave of upper middle-class America. A gruesome discovery in a field leads him into a nightmare world right behind the white picket fences. With signature Lynchian style and phenomenal performances from Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, and Laura Dern, it’s the kind of nightmare you won’t want to wake up from.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our David Lynch director&#8217;s section for all of the maestro&#8217;s masterpieces including:

*Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, Eraserhead*

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

Blue Velvet

**Screenwriter + Producer**: John Boorman

Vidiots is amped to welcome **Kumail Nanjiani **and** Emily V. Gordon** for a screening of John Boorman&#8217;s speedo-clad sci-fi cult classic *Zardoz*!

Strap on your red speedo and your ammunition holster, comb your mustache AND your ponytail and get ready to head into the far future with John Boorman&#8217;s science fiction epic *Zardoz*! With giant stone heads that vomit rifles to penis-hating immortals that hold all the world&#8217;s knowledge, to one of the most iconic wardrobe choices in cinema history, *Zardoz* continues to deliver the goods, one God-Wizard at a time!

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*Looker, Liquid Sky, The Final Programme***

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

Zardoz

Project Hail Mary 70mm

98th Oscars Animated Feature Film Winner

98th Oscars Best Picture Winner

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The cantankerous Rooster Cogburn is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn’s employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

TRUE GRIT

Infinite Space, a documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home&#8217;s telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl&#8217;s murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Body Double

*Thank you to our airline sponsor Delta Air Lines*

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES: **

Total runtime: 117 Mins.

**“Proshai, Livushka,” 2001, Dir. Tim Van Patten, HBO Original, USA**

Tony’s concern that his mother will rat him out to the Feds expires when she, literally, does.

Format: DCP

**“Pine Barrens,” 2001, Dir. ****Steve Buscemi, ****HBO Original, USA**

Paulie and Christopher end up on a nightmarish journey when they chase a Russian mobster into the South Jersey woods.

Format: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**THE SOPRANOS, 1999, HBO Original, USA**

Hailed as one of television’s essential dramas, David Chase’s THE SOPRANOS follows James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano: husband, father and mob boss. Revisit the entire series and celebrate 25 years with the family that started it all.

*Watch the complete HBO Original Series on [HBO Max.](https://www.hbomax.com/shows/sopranos/818c3d9d-1831-48a6-9583-0364a7f98453)*

25th Anniversary of Season 3 Panel with creator David Chase, director Steve Buscemi and executive producer Terence Winter Admission includes access to the anniversary panel following complimentary screenings of episodes “Proshai, Livushka” and “Pine Barrens” Patron, Silver Screen, Marquee and Movie Palace-level members now have exclusive access to tickets.

THE SOPRANOS Season 3: 25th Anniversary Panel

Special thanks to our community partners: *[UCLA AMIA Student Chapter](https://uclaamia.wordpress.com/)*, [UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies](https://elts.ucla.edu/)

For over four decades, from 1944–1991, Albania was ruled by one of the most repressive dictatorships anywhere in the world. For most of that time, the Marxist-Leninist regime was led by Enver Hoxha, who ruthlessly suppressed any opposition and kept his fearful population isolated from the outside world. Throughout that period, Albanians could see images of themselves and their country only as represented in the fiction features and documentaries produced by the state-run New Albania Kinostudio. In 1993, two years after the end of the regime, Albanian American visual artist and photographer Elena Dorfman began regularly visiting her mother’s home country and in 2018 she was granted unprecedented access to the collection of the Albanian National Film Archive. The result of her archival research, Dorfman’s experimental feature documentary, *THE DREAM & THE LIE* brings scenes from the archive’s film holdings together in a widescreen triptych image that can feel both epic and intimate in scale all at once. A captivating exploration of how movies were used by the regime to construct a powerful national mythology that penetrated deep into daily life, *THE DREAM & THE LIE* is also a visually arresting example of how artists can creatively and productively engage with archival material. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to host Elena Dorfman at the Billy Wilder Theater for a screening of *THE DREAM & THE LIE* followed by an in person conversation with the Archive’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence Ariel West about the film and relationship between the artist and the archive.

DCP. Director: Elena Dorfman. 

*Programmed and note written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm.*

THE DREAM & THE LIE

Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.

Drawing from Tavares Strachan’s immersive excursions into hidden histories and speculative futures in the exhibition [*The Day Tomorrow Began*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/tavares-strachan-day-tomorrow-began), mother and daughter design duo Aama Studio welcome us to a film salon where they will weave cinema, textiles, and personal memory to tell intergenerational stories. 

A tour of the exhibition, short films, and discussions will explore Black liberation, arcs of migration, and evolving identities, linking ancestral memory to possibilities of today and tomorrow.

**Program:**

3 pm: Short film screening
4 pm: *Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began* exhibition walkthrough with House of Aama
5 pm: Short film screening
6 pm: Post-screening conversation with Jamal Ademola, director of *House of Aama: Threads of Legacy*; Akua Shabaka and Rebecca Henry, co-creators of House of Aama; and special guests

Tuesday, 3/3

Brain Dead Studios

Mezzanine Presents: Timecode in 35mm

7:30 PM

⭐

Egyptian Theatre

Frankenstein

12:00 PM, 7:00 PM

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Train Dreams

3:00 PM, 10:30 PM

⭐

Los Feliz Theatre

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 8

6:30 PM, 10:30 PM

⭐

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

8:00 PM

⭐

New Beverly Cinema

Alice in Wonderland

Cinderella

7:30 PM

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Vista Theatre

The Wild Party/The Bride Wore Red

2:00 PM

⭐

The Birds

3:30 PM, 7:00 PM

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Tuesday, 3/3