Like a pod of dolphins leaping harmoniously through the waves, the SoCal tour of ***JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE*** arrives April 2–5 through a collaboration between **Oscilloscope**, **Brain Dead Studios**, **7th House**, **Philosophical Research Society, **and **Ojai Playhouse****.**

Directed by **Michael Almereyda** and **Courtney Stephens**, this new documentary explores the life and work of the daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly, a scientist who dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. Lilly’s motto, “My body is my laboratory,” guided his pioneering and controversial research into the intelligence and language of dolphins and whales, as well as his explorations of psychedelics and sensory deprivation.

Alongside the documentary, 7th House and Brain Dead present two films shaped by his work: Mike Nichols’s DAY OF THE DOLPHIN (Saturday, 4/4 at Brain Dead Studios) and Ken Russell’s ALTERED STATES (Sunday, 4/5 at The Philosophical Research Society). Together, these films chart the strange and fascinating cultural wake of Lilly’s quest to understand the mind, the ocean, and the hidden systems that might connect them both.

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Brain Dead Studios

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

Thursday, April 2nd starting at 7PM, come out to Film & Fabric: Volume 8, the latest installment of the Short Film Screening Series hosted by Julian Vargas, now held at Coaxial Arts. This month we've got a thrilling/experimental/absurd lineup of films made by some of the most compelling Filmmakers in town. Our lineup features Films by: Guadalupe Arellanes, Jack Schurman, Finn Disharoon, Ian Riedel & Eamonn Wilcox, Sam Mandich, Julian Vargas, and a very special MYSTERY FILMMAKER.

Film&Fabric: Come for the movies, stay for the interstitial clips, leave with new friends.

@filmandfabric @jjjjjuliann

Sam Mandich (@sammymandich)
Guadalupe Arellanes (@gwadalinaaa)
Jack Schurman (@jackschurman)
Ian Riedel (@ianriedel_)
Eamonn Wilcox (@_unknownballers)
Finn Disharoon (@finn_dish)
Ryan Luis Fuller (@gh0sttaste)

Film & Fabric: Volume 8

Coaxial

Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) are a young couple living in a New York apartment building who are delighted by the news that Rosemary is pregnant. But strange physical changes, bizarre cravings, and the increasingly suspicious behavior of her husband and neighbors cannot begin to prepare her for the horrific truth about her baby. 

Rosemary's Baby

The highly anticipated drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer reunites director Yorgos Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy. 


The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Egyptian Theatre

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

When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

BEN-HUR (2026 Re-release)(1959)(G)(Wed 4/1) 7pm (Thu 4/2) 7pm

Gardena Cinema

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/2)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Rohmer, best known as the doyen of French naturalism, veered about as far as you could get from his signature style with this adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century Arthurian romance *Perceval, the Story of the Grail*, in which Fabrice Luchini’s Perceval crosses a deliberately artificial landscape of cardboard castles and fiberglass rivers, all built in the Epinay Studios near Paris, in search of the Cup of Christ, his journey periodically described by a singing chorus.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Les Films du Losange

COUNTRY: France/Italy/West Germany

PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and French with English subtitles.*

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She takes the chamber play to its ultimate form: it is almost entirely chamber. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possible in this place and whether filming is a realistic option. Akerman does not film here with any intentions defined in advance. She wants to be as open and blank as possible to ensure that things take their own course.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Icarus Films

COUNTRY: Belgium/France

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DOWN THERE

Los Feliz Theatre

The Exile / The Prisoner of Zenda

New Beverly Cinema

Every 1st Thursday of the month we’ll be hosting a music open mic night for kids and teens.


Our intention is to create a supportive and joyful space where young people can come together, share their love of music, practice performing regularly, make mistakes, try again & grow!

All performers must be under 18 & guardians must be present.

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.




Big Glow: Youth Open Mic

North Star Sessions is a free showcase that strives to be a safe and inclusive place for artists and music lovers in the LA music scene. We will highlight the work of 3 musicians, and have an open mic draw between sets.

This month will be showcasing Cogito, Amanda on the Moon, and Eva Luna Smith. 

8pm




North Star Sessions

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Katie Silberman,  Emily Halpern,  Sarah Haskins,  Susanna Fogel

**Producers**: Megan Ellison,  Jessica Elbaum,  Katie Silberman,  Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld

Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high school peers. But on the eve of graduation, the best friends suddenly realize that they may have missed out on the special moments of their teenage years. Determined to make up for lost time, the girls decide to cram four years of not-to-be missed fun into one night &#8212; a chaotic adventure that no amount of book smarts could prepare them for.

Booksmart

**Screenwriters**: Ugo Bienvenu,  Félix de Givry

**Producers**: Félix de Givry,  Sophie Mas,  Natalie Portman,  Ugo Bienvenu

A magical and beautifully animated journey through time, *Arco* is a dazzling adventure about a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a charming and touching friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to get Arco home, while the two children may also be the only ones who can save our planet.  A wondrous odyssey filled with hope and optimism for our future, *Arco* is an enchanting fable from breakout filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu, produced by Remembers’ Bienvenu and Felix de Givry, and mountainA’s Natalie Portman and Sophie Mas. The film debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and won The Cristal Award for Best Feature Film at the 2025 Annecy Awards.

Arco (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriters**: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers

**Producers**: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Maurice Sendak, John B. Carls, Vincent Landay

Let your imagination run away with this innovative and breathtaking adaptation of the beloved Maurice Sendak book from the visionary mind of Spike Jonze. Max is a chaotic little boy in a wold suit, a 9-year-old destructive force acting out for his loneliness and familial strife. After an argument, he boards a boat and sails to an island of enormous talking beasts. Convincing them he has magical powers, Max becomes their king and they set out together to play rumpus, build forts, and discover secret hideaways. It&#8217;s a beautiful and artistic rendition of the power of the childhood imagination.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for deep cut Spike Jonze? We&#8217;ve got that AND all the hits!

*Yeah Right!, Tell Them Anything You Want, Work of Director Spike Jonze*

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

Where the Wild Things Are

**Screenwriter**: Harry Lighton

**Producers**: Lee Groombridge,  Ed Guiney,  Andrew Lowe,  Emma Norton

Come for Alexander Skarsgård as a leather daddy, stay for the romance, laughter, and humanism of Harry Lighton&#8217;s sweet and kinky dom com! Colin, a timid man is swept off his feet when Ray, an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. It&#8217;s got all the biker orgies and back alley b.j.s you would hope for, but it&#8217;s also truly a wonderfully universal triumph of warmth and humor for anyone &#8211; not just those in the kink community.

Pillion

**Producers**: Mel Stuart, Larry Shaw

Remembering the life and legacy of **Reverend Jesse Jackson**.

One of the most electrifying music documentaries ever, the eternally funky *Wattstax* is part concert-film and part powerful document of the historic Watts neighborhood of 50 years ago. Known as &#8220;The Black Woodstock&#8221; Wattstax was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to commemorate the seven-year anniversary of the Watts riots. Organized by legendary Stax Records, this monumental concert includes performances from soul superstars Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Carla and Rufus Thomas, The Bar-Kays and more, with speeches from Jesse Jackson and Melvin Van Peebles, and a comedy set from Richard Pryor. So join us as we get funk-adelic and blast this groovy classic on our killer speakers!

Come early for a Vinyl DJ Set from our bestie **DJ Jéli**!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Soul and Funk performances to take home? Our physical media collection will keep you funky for years to come!

*Don&#8217;t Forget the Motor City, Back to Stax, Marvin Gaye: The Real Thing*

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

Wattstax

Vidiots

Project Hail Mary 70mm

The Golden Eye/The Feathered Serpent

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Entrenched in the devastating reality of postwar Japan, Naruse’s masterpiece adapts Fumiko Hayashi’s final completed novel to trace the lives of two repatriated lovers reunited in the ruins of a defeated nation. The wartime affair of Tomioka, a married Forestry Ministry officer (Masayuki Mori) and typist Yukiko (Hideko Takamine) continues in the postwar rubble, but their bleak existence pales against the faraway romance that took place in French Indochina. Reluctant to leave his wife, the lecherous Tomioka comes and goes at his leisure to visit Yukiko, who clings to him desperately, propping up the vestiges of their long-lost passion over the course of years. Takamine’s heartbreaking performance is perhaps her finest hour, a role of sheer emotional magnitude that bears an agonizing love, drawn from the fading memory of what once was.

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’

FLOATING CLOUDS

Aero Theatre

*Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 2012, 35mm, 137 min. *

A film in constant motion like the waves Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) used to drift upon as a sailor before his discharge, THE MASTER dives into Quell’s conflicted relationship with Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a larger-than-life cult leader in search of spiritual enlightenment in the face of trauma in post-war America. Dueling virtuoso performances from Phoenix and Hoffman lend an air of the monumental to this riveting, and often confounding, if not perplexing live-wire act from Paul Thomas Anderson, who freeforms an inspired tale of power and submission and religiosity from such varied influences as the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Thomas Pynchon, and John Steinbeck.

The Master

Jeffrey &#8216;The Dude&#8217; Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

The Big Lebowski

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Laura Ellis

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode

7:15pm | **BLACK ANGEL**

8:36pm | Intermission

8:46pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

8:56pm | **BLUES IN THE NIGHT**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**BLACK ANGEL, 1946, Dir. Roy William Neill, 81 Mins, Universal Pictures, USA**

Originally released August 2, 1946

Kirk Bennett is sentenced to die for the murder of gorgeous actress Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), but his wife (June Vincent) won’t give up trying to prove his innocence. She desperately enlists the aid of Marty Blair (Dan Duryea), a pickled pianist on the skids who happens to be the victim’s husband! The amateur sleuths go undercover as a performing duo, tracing clues to a ritzy Sunset Strip nightclub run by shady operator Marko (Peter Lorre). Bringing extra heat is Broderick Crawford as a dogged LAPD police captain. As usual in Woolrich stories, things aren’t what they seem—leading to one of the writer’s most memorable and unexpected climaxes. Known for his smarmy, villainous turns in many films of the period, here Duryea had his first role as a leading man in one of the era’s best adaptations of a novel by Cornell Woolrich, the undisputed master of noir fiction. Featuring fantastic art direction by Martin Obzina and inventive camerawork by Paul Ivano.

FORMAT: 35mm

**BLUES IN THE NIGHT, 1941, Dir. Anatole Litvak, 92 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

Originally released November 15, 1941

The first noir film to delve into the jazz world, BLUES IN THE NIGHT details the rise and inevitable fall of a St. Louis band. They land their big break when they get booked at a New Jersey nightclub, but the band’s leader, played by Richard Whorf, falls under the spell of the club’s *femme fatale* owner. It doesn’t take long for the other members to sour, setting off a chain reaction of jealousy, betrayal, and, eventually, murder. The supporting cast is superb, made up of familiar noir faces like Jack Carson, Howard Da Silva and Lloyd Nolan, while the screenplay by Robert Rossen makes good on the lyrics of the tragic, Oscar-nominated title song. Future director Elia Kazan has his biggest movie role as the band’s clarinetist.

FORMAT: 35mm

Live musical performance by singer Laura Ellis and the Nick Rossi Trio Introductions by Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode and Nick Rossi ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

BLACK ANGEL / BLUES IN THE NIGHT

The true story of the sacred heart, told by Father Arturo Cornejo.

BENDITO CORAZON (2026)(NR) Fri 4/3: 5pm Sat 4/4: 3pm 5pm Sun 4/5: 1pm Mon

A shy teenage girl sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after a humiliating senior prom moment.

@seeiton16mm Presents CARRIE (1976)(R)(Fri 4/3) 10:00pm

In the most commercially successful Black comedy feature of its era, Eddie Murphy stands at the center of the Black Pack as Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, who leaves royal luxury for Queens, New York, in search of love on his own terms.

Robert Townsend’s audacious directorial debut remains a razor-sharp satire of Hollywood’s degrading and limited roles for Black actors. Townsend stars as Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor pressured to erase himself to fit an “Eddie Murphy type” while auditioning for an outlandish Blaxploitation knockoff. A foundational text of the Black Pack collective, the independently produced film insists on comedy as social critique — using satire not as escapism, but as a strategy to expose industry gatekeeping, reclaim authorship and speak truth to power.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: Robert Townsend. Screenwriters: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend. With: Robert Townsend, Anne-Marie Johnson, Helen Martin.

Comedy as Resistance: Hollywood Shuffle

Hammer Museum

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

**Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (4/3)

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 6, “Demons,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Donna tries to convince Truman that Harold Smith has Laura’s secret diary.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 7, “Lonely Souls,” Dir. David Lynch, 47 Mins**

Cooper and the One-Armed Man inspect guests at the Great Northern.

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.

“Demons” and “Lonely Souls” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 6 & 7

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Reservoir Dogs

Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens' fascinating experimental doc about the psychonautic scientist who tried to communicate with dolphins

JOHN LILLY & THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (2025)

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

**Producer**: Stanley Kubrick

Vidiots invites you to go off the rails with Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s unhinged dark comedy triumph. With a pitch-black satirical humor, and three phenomenal performances from the legendary Peter Sellers, *Dr. Strangelove* is often considered one of the best films ever made. After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. Frenetic, chillingly hilarious, and perenially apropos to any epoch, it&#8217;s time to revel in this fascinating masterpiece all over again!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative presented by Vidiots Foundation.

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

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

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

**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

**Screenwriters**: Melvyn Bragg, Norman Jewison, Tim Rice

**Producers**: Norman Jewison, Robert Stigwood

*What&#8217;s the buzz, tell me what&#8217;s a happenin&#8217;! *You know you can&#8217;t resist the most divine of Rock Operas from the pen of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the direction of dearly departed Norman Jewison. Follow Jesus and his disciples in his last days as a theater troupe acts out (and sings) the final days of the Christian savior, from meetings with Pontius Pilate, to the Last Supper, and beyond. The biblical musical spectacle that lives forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a Rock Opera? Try out these off-the-wall options!

*Phantom of the Paradise, The Apple, Shock Treatment, Listzomania*

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

Jesus Christ Superstar

**Screenwriter**: Georgi M. Unkovski

**Producers**: Ivan Unkovski,  Ivana Shekutkoska,  Katarina Prpic

Join us in the microcinema for Georgi M. Unkovski&#8217;s delightful coming-of-age triumph for the pink sheep in every family! 15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else. Winner of both an audience and jury award at Sundance, this international charmer (that features an actual pink sheep!) has a rhythm all its own.

DJ Ahmet

**Screenwriters**: Tsui Hark, Koan Hui

**Producer**: Tsui Hark

Brace yourself for the high-intensity fury of *The Blade*, a martial-arts spectacular with fast fighting moves and even faster editing (no really, these are some extremely frenetic action sequences). Hong Kong maestro Tsui Hark (*Peking Opera Blues*, The *Once Upon a Time in China* series) delivers his own brilliant take on the classic trope of the one-armed swordsman in this thrilling tale of revenge: a blacksmith’s apprentice (Vincent Zhao) sets out to defeat the villain who murdered his father, and when his quest causes him to get an arm chopped off, he adapts by training in a new fighting style full of spinning sword strikes. Hailed by Quentin Tarantino as one of the coolest movies ever made, *The Blade* is a must-see action classic!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Tsui Hark martial arts madness? Take home tons of great cinema tonight!

*Once Upon a Time in China 1-3, Vampire Hunters, The Master*

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

The Blade

The Drama

Pride of the Blue Grass/Federal Fugitives

American Graffiti

LA Festival of Movies presents *Chronovisor*, by directors Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes, USA, 2026. West Coast Premiere.

The life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

LA Festival of Movies: Chronovisor

LA Festival of Movies presents *Animation Today*, presented by Cartuna, with an introduction by guest curator Sean Buckelew.

Six animated shorts. Many US premieres!

Full lineup at: https://lafestivalofmovies.org/animation-today

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Animation is a special medium within the spectrum of filmmaking, an artistic avenue where truly anything is possible. It can be made collaboratively with big teams, and can adhere to traditional narrative filmmaking principles, or it can be made by a single person and truly eschew any rules. It can make manifest the imaginary while also showing its own handmade analogue craft in every frame.

The independently produced animated short is a special format within the medium. The films in this program exist outside of the boundaries of the commercial industry, and genuinely function as art for art’s sake. They come from a diverse range of artists from all over the world (including the United States, where, without much support for the arts, it is incredibly difficult to create animated shorts), featuring a wide variety of techniques, from tactile stop motion made by veterans of the craft to cutting-edge 3D by young mavericks that are giving the big studios a run for their money. And beyond the medium, they are just unique, compelling films made by radical filmmakers.

I'm incredibly excited to present these films to an LA audience. In a time when organic creative processes feel constantly challenged, it’s inspiring to remember what’s still possible.

—Sean Buckelew, guest curator

LA Festival of Movies: Animation Today (shorts program)

LA Festival of Movies presents the newly restored *Macho Dancer*, co-presented by A Bunch of Savages. Directed by Lino Brocka. 133 min, Philippines, 1988.

West Coast Premiere of the new 4K restoration. In Tagalog with English subtitles.

∆

Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol (Allan Paule) leaves the provinces to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Metro Manila.

Long out-of-print and beautifully restored, the late Filipino master Lino Brocka delivers one of his most enthralling films with this queer coming-of-age story set in Manila's bustling gay clubs, which demonstrates Brocka's flair for socially conscious melodrama with pulp provocation. The film follows ingenuous teenage sex worker Pol (Allan Paule) as he leaves his small town to go to the city, where he gets hired as an erotic dancer—meeting new friends, lovers, and potential enemies. Featuring extended, seductive dance sequences that pulse with sweat and longing, the film is at once salacious and wonderfully sincere, ever sensitive to the fragile dreams of youth. With his sharp eye for class-based exploitation, Brocka doesn't shy away from tragedy in this bold, highly entertaining depiction of the realities of sex work. -BR

*Prior Screenings: 2026 MoMA To Save and Project*

LA Festival of Movies: Macho Dancer

2220 Arts + Archives

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

11:00am | Doors open & Live piano performance

12:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

12:10pm | **THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released December 15, 1955

Frank Sinatra is Frankie Machine, a hustler and recovering drug addict. Frankie decides to go straight and pursue his dream of becoming a musician, but the more time he spends on the outside the harder it becomes to resist the temptation of the needle. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is the darkest noir gets, bolstered by Otto Preminger’s unflinching direction and Sam Leavitt’s cinematography, which renders every moment of Frankie’s sobriety a claustrophobic nightmare. The real highlight of the film, however, is Sinatra’s Oscar-nominated performance. He’s remarkable as the weak-willed drummer, utilizing his slight physique and baby-blue eyes to haunting effect. Featuring Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak as the devil and angel, respectively, on Frankie’s shoulders.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Reel Media International

COUNTRY: USA

Live piano performance Introduction by Eddie Muller Print from the collection of the Library of Congress ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

### ABOUT THE EVENT:

3:00pm | Doors open & Live piano performance

4:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

4:10pm | **ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released October 12, 1959

Disgraced ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) masterminds a piece-of-cake bank robbery in upstate New York, but to pull it off he requires the cooperation of two dangerously mismatched cohorts: hot-headed redneck war veteran Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) and gambling addict jazzman Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte); their racist antagonism threatens to thwart a seemingly fool-proof plan. Silent producer Belafonte hired blacklisted screenwriter Abraham Polonsky to adapt William P. McGivern’s novel, specifically to subvert the sanctimony of THE DEFIANT ONES (1958), a “feel good” movie about racism. Robert Wise’s direction is as fresh and expressive as anything being done by the French New Wave of the period, and the score by John Lewis’ Modern Jazz Quartet is innovative and exhilarating. With vivid supporting performances by Shelley Winters, Kim Hamilton and Gloria Grahame. An all-time classic heist thriller—and much more.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Live piano performance Introduction by Alan K. Rode ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Swing Four

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller, Elizabeth Bougerol and Nick Rossi

7:15pm | **KANSAS CITY**

9:11pm | Intermission

9:21pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode, Elizabeth Bougerol and Nick Rossi

9:31pm | **PETE KELLY’S BLUES**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**KANSAS CITY, 1996, Dir. Robert Altman, 116 Mins, AGFA, USA**

Originally released August 16, 1996

Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Jean Harlow obsessed housewife trying to free her loser husband from the clutches of a local gangster. She kidnaps the wife of a politician as leverage, but things get complicated when the two women develop a friendship and discover just how crooked their city has become. All this on the day before the 1934 Democratic primary election, no less. Shot with painstaking attention to period detail, director Robert Altman enlists real musicians to play venerated jazz figures like Ben Webster, Lester Young and Mary Lou Williams. Their performances, captured by Altman in a concert-documentary style, give the film an intoxicating sense of excitement despite its bleak conclusion. Featuring a sensational late-period turn by Harry Belafonte as the incredibly named “Seldom Seen.”

FORMAT: DCP

**PETE KELLY’S BLUES****, 1955, Dir. Jack Webb, 95 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Originally released July 31, 1955

The lone Technicolor offering of the festival has Jack Webb as a Prohibition-era bandleader who refuses to bend the knee to a local bootlegger. The actor maintains the same ironclad will that made him a star on DRAGNET, but PETE KELLY’S BLUES, which he also directed, ventures further into the darkness than the procedural franchise ever could. The gangland violence and speakeasy musical numbers are skillfully recreated, especially when they collide in the astonishing final act. Webb also assembles a Murderers’ Row of supporting talent from noir stalwarts Edmond O’Brien and Lee Marvin to vocal powerhouses Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald. Lee, in only her third onscreen appearance, scored a 1956 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as a boozy torch singer.

FORMAT: DCP

Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol and the Nick Rossi Swing Four Introductions by Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode, Elizabeth Bougerol and Nick Rossi ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

KANSAS CITY / PETE KELLY'S BLUES

The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each *Family Flicks* program.

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time. Propelled by a crackling script and exuberant song-and-dance routines, Kelly plays a silent movie star trying to make the leap to talkies, while Reynolds’ struggling chorus girl finds her entry into Hollywood no less complicated. With Donald O’Connor delivering the delirious gags, this timeless classic will leave you with a glorious feeling.

Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Screenwriter: Betty Comden, Adolph Green. With: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds.

*Recommended for ages 6+*

Singin’ in the Rain

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+ 

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time. Propelled by a crackling script and exuberantly delightful song-and-dance routines, Kelly is a silent movie star making a trying transition to the talkies, and Reynolds is the chorus girl who complicates the affair. (1952, Dirs. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 35mm, color, 103 min.)

Family Flicks: Singin' in the Rain

Considered the first Chicano feature, Efraín Gutiérrez’s landmark independent film *Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! *(*¡Por favor, no me entierren vivo!*) was believed lost for years until UCLA Distinguished Professor Chon Noriega tracked down the director and relocated elements to the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where collaborative restoration efforts brought the film back to life.

Incorporating Chicano forms of popular theater and music, the bilingual film offers a rhythmic, in-depth look at 1970s-era South Texas Chicano culture, as its central character questions his place in a society that undervalues Latinos, so many of whom had been killed in the Vietnam War. A historic, influential hit in regional theaters, the film’s tremendous impact on Chicano cinema was further cemented in 2014, when it was named to the National Film Registry for its historic, cultural, and artistic significance. Today, in a moment when visibility itself can feel precarious, the film’s call to live boldly in defiance of erasure resonates as powerfully as it did 50 years ago.

***Special thanks to our community partner: [Chicano Hollywood](https://chicanohollywood.com/)***

Director: Efraín Gutiérrez. Screenwriter: Sabino Garza. With: Efraín Gutiérrez, Josefina Paz, David Moss.

50th Anniversary Screening: Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive!

Animal Crackers

Little Annie Rooney  / Sparrows

LA Loft Movie Club returns to PRS for their 1st 2026 screening— a festival of imaginative, rapidly produced one minute films!

LA LOFT MOVIE CLUB: "Quick & Dirtily" — A One Minute Movie Festival!

**Screenwriters:** Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds

**Producer:** Graham Walters

*Just keep swimming! *Whether you’re a fully grown fish or a little guppy, you’ll want to paddle on over to Vidiots for a screening of this hugely beloved Pixar classic that mixes big laughs, adventure, and heart. You probably know the plot, but just in case: neurotic clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) sets off on a wild journey across the ocean when his son Nemo is captured by divers, in the process encountering pacifist sharks, surfer-dude turtles, and a forgetful blue tang named Dory (a pitch-perfect Ellen DeGeneres) who becomes his loyal traveling companion. Meanwhile, Nemo ends up in a fish tank at a dentist’s office, full of other creatures planning their own jail break. It’s Pixar at their very best, serving up the sort of perfect popcorn entertainment that will mesmerize viewers of all ages.

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

Finding Nemo

**Screenwriter**: Anouk Moyaux

**Producer**: Helen Olive

Co-Presented by El Cine

*After several years&#8217; absence, Gibran, a 37-year-old Mexican-American, returns to Los Angeles with the goal of saving up to purchase land in Tecate, the village where he was born in Mexico. As he organizes his departure, he rediscovers the emotional and historical ties that bind him to the United States.*

Among the most beautiful recent films about Los Angeles, French director Anouk Moyaux deftly blends documentary and naturalism to paint a lilting, utopian city-symphony, a slacker portrait of urban sprawl as seen through the eyes of its Mexican residents. With plans to move back to his hometown of Tecate, Gibran spends his long goodbye hanging out with friends, earning extra cash and idling away in the city’s hills and valleys for the last time. With luminous 16mm photography of East L.A., Moyaux’s film is a vibrant outsider’s-view of the immigrant experience told without sentimentality or didacticism, and the rare L.A. movie to let the city speak for itself. -MG

**[Los Angeles Festival of Movies](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/)**

Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) presented by [Kino Film Collection](https://kinofilmcollection.com/) and [Mezzanine](https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, showcasing new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience.

Now in its third year, the festival redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night, across four east side LA venues.

LAFM – Selegna sol

*A socially awkward high school student films himself as he blunders through attempts to make friends, spiraling into a dark place where his only close relationship is with his phone.*

An utterly contemporary L.A. high school movie, Frédéric Da&#8217;s defiantly handcrafted sophomore feature—shot entirely on an iPhone—is a disarmingly authentic, slippery and devastating portrait of teenage angst. Made with an impressive array of nonprofessional actors and shot on location at a campus in Los Angeles, the film follows Isaiah (Isaiah Brody) who films himself on an iPhone as he experiences the daily indignities of being in high school. With the feel of a raw found-footage documentary, the rigor of its conceptual gambit makes it a mesmerizing experience, and a marvel of resourceful filmmaking. -MG

*Please note: this film contains disturbing images of teen violence. Viewer discretion is advised.*

[**Los Angeles Festival of Movies******](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/)

Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) presented by [Kino Film Collection](https://kinofilmcollection.com/) and [Mezzanine](https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, showcasing new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience.

Now in its third year, the festival redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night, across four east side LA venues.

LAFM – isaiah’s phone

**Screenwriter**: Ernest Lehman from the play by Edward Albee

**Producer**: Ernest Lehman

You&#8217;re invited to the messiest dinner party in theatre and film &#8211; Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in Mike Nichols&#8217; explosive directorial debut adaptation of Edward Albee&#8217;s Tony-winning absurdist masterpiece. A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university&#8217;s faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the acerbic middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards and winner of 5 (Liz Taylor&#8217;s second win), this is precisely what they mean when they say a &#8220;tour de force&#8221;!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love the theatre of the absurd? Want to watch more adaptations? Take home these absurdist gems tonight!

*Rhinoceros, Beyond Therapy, Beckett on Film, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead*

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

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

**Screenwriters**: Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

**Producers**: Taylor Hess,  Jesse Miller,  Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

Filmmaker **Courtney Stephens** in person Saturday &#8211; with a Q+A after the 4:30pm show and an introduction before the 7:30pm show!

The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russell’s *Altered States* and Mike Nichols’s *The Day of the Dolphin*. 

Directors Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.

“An illuminating work of cultural archaeology”

&#8220;*Earth Coincidence* paints Lilly as a 20th-century polymath, a one-of-a-kind maverick&#8220;

—THE FILM STAGE

**Screenwriter**: Sophy Romvari

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

US Premiere &#8211; Q+A with writer/director **Sophy Romvari**

*In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family&#8217;s oldest child.*

Sophy Romvari&#8217;s deeply intimate portrait of a family coping with a challenging situation evokes the specific curiosity and disorientation of being a kid with sophistication, soul, and playfulness. It&#8217;s transportative. Eylul Guven, the young actress at the center of this story, gives a performance so honest and relatable it could be mistaken for documentary—which is key to the film&#8217;s unexpected elliptical structure. Just when the film proves itself to be an impressive but straightforward coming-of-age tale, it suddenly transforms, exploding and expanding the personal into something unexpected, ambitious, and intellectual. -SW

[**Los Angeles Festival of Movies******](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/)

Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) presented by [Kino Film Collection](https://kinofilmcollection.com/) and [Mezzanine](https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, showcasing new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience.

Now in its third year, the festival redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night, across four east side LA venues.

LAFM Closing Night – Blue Heron

Pinocchio

\#### Save the date for April 13!  
  
College Night returns to the Getty Center. Join us for our annual after-hours celebration exclusively for college students—featuring art, food, music, behind-the-scenes experiences, artmaking, and more. All for free! #### ART EXHIBITIONS - \*Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages\*  
\- \*How to Be a Guerrilla Girl\*  
\- \*Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985\*  
\- \*Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing\*  
\#### MUSIC and LIVE ART - DJ Hourglass spotlights the sounds of the African diaspora, uplifting queer Black voices - Performance artist, poet, and educator Gabrielle Civil presents "Black Weirdo School (Visiting Lectures)" at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30pm - Graffiti artist Prime demonstrates the pioneering "LA Style"—a mix of bold, geometric block letters with calligraphic and monochromatic influences #### SCREENINGS - Watch short film and video works from Getty Research Institute archives #### ACTIVITIES - Customize a reusable tote bag with a silk screen designed by Nova Community Arts or DIY at Creation Stations - Make art with the Paranormal LA course from Otis College of Art and Design - Take a self-guided scent tour created by the Institute for Art and Olfaction - Send yourself or someone someone special a postcard from a collage postcard-making station. Stamps provided. - Personalize and upcycle materials with Collage Garage - Join drawing demonstrations and live figure drawing led by artist Peter Zokosky - Grab your friends and pose inside photo booths and play games on the Garden Terrace #### TOURS - Join a variety of tours to explore galleries, exhibitions, and behind-the-scenes areas. - Tours depart from the Museum Entrance Hall from 6:30–8:00 p.m. #### FOOD - Enjoy a free meal provided until 8:30 p.m. or while supplies last. - Additional snacks or beverages can be purchased at the Coffee Kiosk and Trellis Bar. #### SHOP - The Getty Museum Store will be open with a 20% discount for attendees #### SUSTAINIBILITY - Bring a refillable water bottle and get a sticker designed by LA graffiti legend Prime - Carpooling, rideshares, and public transit encouraged

College Night 2026

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Directed by 9th-degree black belt/philosopher/author/inspirational speaker Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, the one-of-a-kind MIAMI CONNECTION is one of the most entertaining martial arts films made in America that you will ever see. The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice in the streets of Orlando. It’ll take every ounce of their blood and courage, but Dragon Sound can’t stop until they’ve completely destroyed the dealers, the drunk bikers, the kill-crazy ninjas, the middle-aged thugs, the “stupid cocaine” . . . and the entire MIAMI CONNECTION.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: USA

Print courtesy of AGFA ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents MIAMI CONNECTION

The Canadian

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Stacey Steers: Alchemical Collages*. Stacey Steers in person!

Full film lineup and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

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Weaving together archetype, allegory, and wonder, Stacey Steers’ films create a mythos all their own. Her heroines, lifted from early 20th-century silent films, ebb toward eternity, inky waves alight in their swell. Their collaged effigies move through narratives of personal recollection, environmental anxiety, and science fiction convention. Ruminative and unfixed, Steers’ worlds are steeped in implication, yet unclaimed by certainty. The material becomes mercurial as exploratory dreamscapes reimagine these appropriated images, loosening them from their original contexts and allowing new meanings to surface. Working through an intuitive, labor-intensive process, Steers prints, hand-processes, and photographs each frame on 35mm film, imbuing the work with a tactile, almost alchemical presence that bridges cinema’s past with an unsettled, speculative present. – Sam Gurry

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**Stacey Steers** is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her recent work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives.

Steers’ films have screened widely at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Directors New Films (New York), IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno IFF, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). Recently she has expanded her work to include collaborative installations that join invented, three-dimensional production elements with film loops, creating a new context for experiencing her films. Stacey Steers is a recipient of major grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital and the American Film Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She lives and works in Boulder, CO.

LA Filmforum: Stacey Steers – Alchemical Collages

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family. With his rise through the organisation, however, comes the dangers of violence, double-crosses, drug addiction and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

GoodFellas

Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is both ruthless and mysterious, has ties to one of the most dangerous crime families in London. He crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), a midwife who has come across potentially damaging evidence against the family, which forces him to set in motion a plan of deceit, death and retribution.

Eastern Promises

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 10, “****Dispute Between Brothers,” Dir. Tina Rathborne, 47 Mins**

Cooper gets ready to leave Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 11, “****Masked Ball****,” Dir. Duwayne Dunham, 47 Mins**

Andrew Packard resurfaces.

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.

“Dispute Between Brothers” and “Masked Ball” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

The Crime of the Century / Her Bodyguard

We&#8217;re cranking up the Elmo 16CL projector for another round of obscure 16mm rarities, this time all from the late 1940s through the early 1960s with a slate of social engineering films designed to create model citizens and healthy adults. From strangers with candy to high school dropouts, to puberty&#8217;s pitfalls and civic responsibility, these largely forgotten gems are laughably out-of-date and teeming with an antiquated morality you can only find in yesteryear. Films include ***The Dangerous Stranger*** (1949) the stranger danger film that started it all from the king of the scare film Sid Davis, ***The Dropout** *(1962) for the ne&#8217;er-do-wells, ***Molly Grows Up*** (1953) menstrutainment at its finest, ***The Meaning of Adolescence*** (1953) to guide you through those awkward years, ***Responsibility*** (1953) from Herk Harvey &#8211; the director of *Carnival of Souls*, and the incredibly rare NFBC global responsibility primer ***Our Town is the World***  (1950s, Canada), plus more celluloid rarities and a surprise pre-show for the early birds! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm: Mid-Century Social Guidance Classics

**Screenwriters**: George LaVoo,  Josefina Lopez

**Producers**: Effie Brown, George LaVoo

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome director **Patricia Cardoso** for a special screening of her essential East LA coming-of-age triumph*** Real Women Have Curves***.

A humorous and warmhearted look at a Chicano teenage girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations, class constrictions, family duty, and her own personal aspirations. In Boyle Heights, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory. Winner of several Sundance Prizes, The Humanitas Award, and Independent Spirit Awards, this slice of relatable life is an influential and powerful classic of Latina and independent cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more local coming-of-age films? We’ve got these gems from our own backyard!

*The Slums of Beverly Hills, Boyz in the Hood, Mi Vida Loca*

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

Real Women Have Curves

Mr. Muggs Steps Out/Follow the Leader

**Screenwriter**: Elena Oxman

**Producer**: Marc Smolowitz,  Elena Oxman,  Asia Kate Dillon,  Allison Estrin, Henry Russell Bergstein

Featuring a conversation with writer/director **Elena Oxman** after the Wednesday screening.

Join us in the microcinema for Elena Oxman&#8217;s festival darling, the beautifully touching triumph *Outerlands* starring Asia Kate Dillon in a stirring performance. Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from. With beautiful cinematography and an exploration of a San Francisco seldom celebrated, this little charmer is a warm and wonderful treat.

Outerlands

**Screenwriter**: Gaspar Noé

**Producers**: Olivier Delbosc,  Vincent Maraval,  Marc Missonnier,  Pierre Buffin

Co-presented by Community Programming Partners **Synth History**

Nobody does a mind-f*&k like Gaspar Noé, and *Enter the Void* may be his most hallucinatory work in an ouvre of envelope-pushing and eye-popping spectacles. This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past &#8212; where he sees his parents before their deaths &#8212; to the present &#8212; where he witnesses his own autopsy &#8212; and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave. Give yourself over to this experiential head-trip and leave the real world behind!

**About the score/soundtrack**:

*Enter the Void* is the 14th installment of Vidiots’ & Synth History’s *Iconic Scores* screening series, which highlights pioneering scores and soundtracks in electronic music!

The soundtrack for *Enter the Void *blends musique concrète, experimental, and electroacoustic styles. Noé would collaborate again with Thomas Bangalter (of legendary electronic duo Daft Punk), who also scored *Irréversible*. Bangalter was originally approached to create an original score for the film, however due to his involvement scoring *Tron: Legacy*, he&#8217;d take on the role of sound effects director instead, providing a library of ambient sounds and experimental samples which Noé then compiled.

One source of inspiration was &#8220;Revolution 9” by The Beatles, a collage of sounds that Noé described in The Quietus as a work &#8220;where you catch the beginning of a note, or of a melody and then it&#8217;s already somewhere else.&#8221; The film includes a recording from electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) of Bach&#8217;s &#8220;Air on the G String”, *ANS *by Coil which utilizes the rare, photoelectric ANS synthesizer (if you came to our screening of *Solaris* you might remember that composer Eduard Artemyev also used this!), Throbbing Gristle’s &#8220;Hamburger Lady,” LFO’s “Freak”, nearly every part of electroacoustic musician Jean-Claude Éloy&#8217;s compositions *Shânti* and *Gaku-no-Michi, *Toshiya Tsunoda&#8217;s &#8220;Music for Baby&#8221;, Alvin Lucier&#8217;s &#8220;Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers&#8221;, works by Denis Smalley, Lullatone, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Thomas Bangalter‘s own track &#8220;Désaccords,” originally composed for *Irréversible*.

A fitting collage of sounds for a visually stunning film that you definitely don’t want to miss on the big screen! We guarantee you&#8217;ll remember it forever.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more mind-melting cinema? You&#8217;ve come to the right place!

*Liquid Sky, Holy Motors, Telephone Book*

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

Enter the Void

Blues Busters/Feudin Fools

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary *Symbiopsychotaxiplasm*, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture.

NATIONTIME is the long-lost film that William Greaves made about the National Black Political Convention of 1972, when 10,000 black politicians, activists and artists went to Gary, Indiana, to forge a national unity platform in advance of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions. The delegates included a wide array of political thinkers — Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, Pan-Africanist Amiri Baraka, PUSH founder Jesse Jackson, elected officials Ron Dellums, Charles Diggs, Walter Fauntroy, Richard Hatcher, Carl McCall, plus key women in the fight for racial equality -- Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Fannie Lou Hamer and Queen Mother Moore (who was arguing for reparations). Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree lent their star quality and entertained the crowds. Sidney Poitier & Harry Belafonte narrate the film.

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One of the most powerful films Greaves ever made, this is the director’s original 80-minute version that was never released. Found in a Pittsburgh warehouse in 2018, the 48-year-old negative was painstakingly restored by IndieCollect under the supervision of Louise Greaves, the director’s widow and filmmaking partner. (Kino Lorber)

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**dir. William Greaves, 1972***United States, digital projection*80 min‍

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## WEDNESDAY, 4/157:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

$10 general admission, $9 for members.

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

NATIONTIME (1972)

WHAMMY!

Lightstruck is elated to present two full evenings of rarely screened animated shorts from one of the most significant centers of experimental animation production and creativity in the history of the medium: Poland. Spanning the early 1960s to the late 1980s, these two programs (March 26 and April 16) will showcase an incredibly eclectic selection focusing on little-known masterworks and deep-cut revelations, all screening in recent restorations.

Poland has an extraordinary animation history marked by radical experimentation in technique and texture, investigating dark and complex themes inspired by social critique and surrealist visions alike. Spanning stop motion, cutout, cel, paint on glass, and hand-drawn approaches, these programs extend to include exceptional techniques such as Zbig Rybczyński’s hyper-complex optical printing, Piotr Dumała’s exquisite renderings on plaster slabs, and Julian Antonisz’s unhinged cameraless animation produced on ingenious, visionary devices of his own making. A morbid and uneasy humor often punctuates these works, which pulse with rich, emotional, and dramatic narratives and themes matched only by the exceptional imagination and talents of their authors.

We selected the films for these programs with an emphasis on shorts not generally available on home media, and spanning a particularly diverse array of styles, aesthetics, techniques, and sensibilities. Widely celebrated artists like Rybczyński, Antonisz, Ryszard Czekała, and Jerzy Kucia will be represented by lesser known (but magnificent) offerings, while deeply memorable obscurities from Jacek Kasprzycki, Zofia Oraczewska, Ryszard Antoniszczak, and Ewa Bibańska will further illuminate Poland’s incredible spectrum of animation genius.

Programs by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. Films courtesy of Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (+ thanks to Stanisław Bardadin) and Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (+ thanks to Adrian Smykowski and Julia Bachman).

Polish Animation #2: Chance & Transition (1975-89)

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.

Gosford Park


Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy – who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy’s chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

Clue

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 4/16) 7:30pm

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/16)

The Mystery of the 13th Guest / The Living Ghost / The Face of Marble

Join us for a screening of the exhilarating documentary about the legendary GRAMMY-winning musician - Billy Preston.

BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT Screening

Men of San Quentin/The Miracle Kid

Acropolis Cinema presents *Harvest*, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024.

Part of "Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari," a complete retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 - May 9 at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.

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Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, who deconstructed human behavior within bounded communities in *Attenberg* and *Chevalier*, sets her sights on entirely new environs in *Harvest*, which takes place in a remote village in medieval England.

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, Tsangari’s film stars Caleb Landry Jones as Walter Thirsk, the former childhood friend and manservant of the village’s weak-willed landowner, Master Kent (Harry Melling). Marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders, the town’s denizens fall under new threat after Kent’s iron-fisted city cousin comes into possession of the land, with new plans for agricultural profit. Shot in the sun-dappled Scottish countryside with natural light by cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Tsangari’s most ambitious work to date is both carnal and cerebral, a multifaceted reflection on man’s relationship to the land, rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance. (NYFF)

TRT: 131 min

In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: Harvest (Tsangari, 2024)

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Free screening! General admission, first come first serve with RSVP.

Predator

Avant-garde cinema represents films that are experimental or innovative, typically rejecting traditional narrative structures while exploring abstract concepts and emphasizing visual and aural elements. Avant-garde animation often utilizes techniques that abstract form, defy continuity and emphasize musicality.

*Programmed by Molly Regan. Notes written by Clare Britton and Molly Regan.*

*Special thanks to our community partner: [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Animation Workshop](https://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/)*

Created during his time at the UCLA Animation Workshop, Robert Abel’s *Freight Yard **Symphony *presents a sensorial impression of a commercial rail yard, in which the destruction of semiotics makes way for a new language of rhythm, where alphabetical and numerical language indicators become purely textural amongst the frenzied jazz score. Using photo collage and paper craft, Abel’s early modernist work showcases the immense talent of this future pioneer of visual effects.

Director: Robert Abel.

In Chel White’s *Choreography for the Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha), *machine and human attempt to understand each other’s dissonant identities through the glass-plate barrier of a photocopy machine. This barrier, reminiscent of zoo or aquarium glass windows, distorts and abstracts to create a half-truth. Chel White straddles the line between sensual and grotesque representations of the human body, juxtaposed with the mundane artifacts that scaffold daily life, such as keys, currency, tools and playing cards.

Director: Chel White.

*Print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.*

Michel Gondry’s *The Science of Sleep *synthesizes live action and animation to emphasize dissatisfaction with reality, and the lure of imagination. Made in the age of CGI pipelines overwhelmingly contributing to special effects in the future film industry, Gondry’s trademark whimsical style prioritizes practical effects, taking a minimal approach to visual effects. Blurring the lines between real life and fantasy, this film invites us to experience the impossible.

Director: Michel Gondry. Screenwriter: Michel Gondry. With: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mioux-Mioux.

*Print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. *

UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! Avant-garde Animation

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (4/17)

Comics O&#x27;Clock is a comics reading featuring live readings by local cartoonists hosted by Mikey Heller. This event will be pay what you want, with donations going to Heavy Manners Library.

Featuring:

Chris Allison ([https://www.instagram.com/toonholechris/](https://www.instagram.com/toonholechris/))

Elizabeth Chee ([https://www.instagram.com/lizcheeart/](https://www.instagram.com/lizcheeart/))

Julia Mata ([https://www.instagram.com/cipota666/](https://www.instagram.com/cipota666/))

Wynton Redmond ([https://www.instagram.com/wyntonred/](https://www.instagram.com/wyntonred/))

Kenzie Bugg ([https://www.instagram.com/pk_kenziebugg/](https://www.instagram.com/pk_kenziebugg/))

Chris Cornwell ([https://www.instagram.com/cornwellcomics/](https://www.instagram.com/cornwellcomics/))

Abby Jo Turner ([https://www.instagram.com/abbyjoturner/](https://www.instagram.com/abbyjoturner/))

Isa Hanssen ([https://www.instagram.com/isawiitch/](https://www.instagram.com/isawiitch/))

Comics O'Clock: A Comic Reading (4/17)

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.

As we count down to the upcoming World Cup, this outdoor screening invites audiences to revisit iconic moments from soccer history. Bring friends, family, and a picnic and experience the beautiful game on the big screen in a communal, joyful setting. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition [*Fútbol Is Life*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/futbol-life-animated-sportraits-lyndon-j-barrois-sr), this series highlights how transcendent moments on the pitch become lasting cultural memories that connect people across generations and borders.    

***Pelé***
2021, 1h 48m

*Pelé *chronicles the life of the Brazilian football player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. The documentary looks back at the extraordinary period when Pelé, the only player to win three World Cup titles, went from a young superstar in 1958 to a national hero, amidst a radical and turbulent era in Brazilian history. The film charts Pelé’s remarkable journey to becoming the "King of Football" and leading his nation’s team to their historic win at the 1970 World Cup. With rare and exclusive filmed access to Pelé himself, the film emotionally showcases the star reflecting upon his impressive career.

The documentary also includes rare archive and interviews from former legendary team-mates at Santos Futebol Clube and the Brazilian national team, including Zagallo, Amarildo, and Jairzinho, as well as extraordinary testimonials from family members, journalists, artists and other personalities who witnessed the golden age of Brazilian football.

Fútbol on Film: Pelé

LACMA

Three Wise Girls / Men in Her Life

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Tôru Hara

Join us on the Catbus for one of cinema&#8217;s most magical and beloved experiences that no one of any age can deny. While certainly not the first film to come out of Studio Ghibli, *My Neighbor Totoro* is often considered to be the studio and director Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated masterpiece. A touching story about two sisters who befriend the wood spirits in rural Japan, *My Neighbor Totoro* is an endearing fable centered on childhood wonder, family, imagination, and the importance of taking care of nature. It’s almost as if the film was made specifically to overwhelm the viewer with good vibes, and it’s hard not to fall in love with this lush, magical world of trolls wearing leaf hats and a bus that’s also a cat. There’s a reason Totoro has become the mascot of Studio Ghibli, and one of the cuddliest-looking creatures in animation history.

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

My Neighbor Totoro (Subtitled)

**Screenwriter**: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie

**Producers**: Grace Glowicki,  Ben Petrie,  Yona Strauss

Presented in **Smell-O-Vision** on Monday 4/20!

Join us in the microcinema for the funniest, stinkiest horror comedy of the year &#8211; Grace Glowicki&#8217;s supremely absurd, magnificently DIY, and laugh-so-hard-it-hurts *Dead Lover*. A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. A painfully funny and odiferous low-budget masterpiece of gonzo proportions, this inventive gut-buster is one of the funniest, weirdest films you&#8217;ve ever seen AND smelled!

Dead Lover

**Screenwriters**: Walter Tevis,  Richard Price

**Producers**: Irving Axelrod,  Barbara De Fina

Scorsese, Newman, and Cruise hit the pool hall for this sequel to *The Hustler &#8211; *25 years on &#8211; with incredible cinematography from the legendary Michael Ballhaus and a killer soundtrack from Robbie Robertson of *The Band*. &#8220;Fast Eddie&#8221; Felson (Paul Newman reprising his Oscar-winning role) is back on the beat &#8211; after years of laying low, he&#8217;s ready to get back in the pool hall and start hustling again, this time with a young protegé Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). When the two part ways over Lauria&#8217;s flashy, showboating ways, they are destined to come face to face in a game of winner take all! So grab your pool cues and get ready to win with *The Hustler* all over again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Paul Newman tonight with these classics on physical media!

*The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Rachel, Rachel, Sometimes a Great Notion*

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

The Color of Money

**Screenwriters**: Parker Bennett, Ed Solomon, Terry Runte

**Producers**: Jake Eberts,  Roland Joffé

Grab the controller for your Super Nintendo and get ready to get weird in this bizarro tale of two plumbers on a quest to save the world from projectile-throwing 8bit dinosaurs! It&#8217;s not a game anymore as Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. Now these mustached blue-collar heroes are the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa (Dennis m*therf$&ing Hopper!).

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a whole section devoted to video game adaptations! Take home these bangers tonight!

*Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken*

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

Super Mario Bros.

Mr. Celebrity/Hot Rhythm

Cape Fear

35mm can be beautiful, but 16mm is *personal*. Join Secret Sixteen founder Mike Williamson, Josh Miller (Killer Movies) and Bret Berg (Museum of Home Video) for a 12-hour survival quest of prehistoric vengeance, loincloth love, epic fantasy and muscular magic — screened from Secret Sixteen’s incredibly siqq collection of Swatch watch-era swords ’n sorcery.

Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen. What we can say is that this six-film marathon is soaking in noble scoundrels, rival clans, misty caverns, captured kingdoms, pernicious priests, powers of the gods, super-strength, a buffet of side boob, a distinct lack of pants, astounding production design, excessive spectacle, obligatory quicksand, flying jump kicks, lizard people, huge people, small people, grotesque wounds, sub-human slaying, mass destruction, primordial pulp, swords within swords and good mostly triumphing over evil…mostly.

SECRET SIXTEEN: 80’s SWORDS AND SORCERY

This program explores how reenactment exposes cinema’s inherent nature to simultaneously depict, reconstruct and reinterpret. In these films, our subjects perform their own stories, exploring the productive tensions between reality, art and representation on-screen.

*Programmed by Noah Brockman.***
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*Special thanks to our community partners: [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television](https://www.tft.ucla.edu/)
*

Penelope Spheeris’ 1972 UCLA thesis film features Jennifer Michaels and Dana Reuben in Warholian docufiction. Fascinated by society’s degenerates, Spheeris employs loosely scripted reenactment as critique. Turning tricks, seducing trade and performing gender, Michaels and Reuben mock straight culture from its fringes. Michaels, an iconic trans actress who worked with Pat Rocco on *Sex and the Single Gay* (1970) and starred in *Changes* (1970), lends a particularly notable performance. The film was preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Academy Film Archive in 2012.—*Wilde Davis*

Director: Penelope Spheeris. With: Dana Reuben, Jennifer Michaels.

*A Little Stiff* doesn’t end where it begins so much as it ends where it’s conceived. In this precursor to Caveh Zahedi’s later autobiographical present-tense documentaries, the cast play themselves as they reenact roughly the same unrequited infatuation between Zahedi and McKim that led to the film’s own production. As Zahedi wanders around UCLA’s Arts building, feeds peanuts to squirrels with his friend Greg Watkins, and plunges himself further into a state of longing, we observe the mundanities and ecstatic moments of Zahedi’s spiral through intensely naturalistic performances. Shot on a shoestring budget, *A Little Stiff* feels like a mumblecore *The* *Sorrows of Young Werther.—Noah Brockman*

Directors: Greg Watkins, Caveh Zahedi. Screenwriters: Greg Watkins, Caveh Zahedi. With: Caveh Zahedi, Erin McKim, Greg Watkins.

*DCP courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.*

UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover! Reenactment

Intro to Leatherworking

While making a small accessories pouch, learn the basics of working with leather. This will cover different types of leather, terms and tools for working with chrome tanned pieces. This is a hands class on with sharp tools and Sharpies and is intended for beginners 14 years and older. Leave the class with a new appreciation for leather and take home a small finished pouch and a pattern to make more if you fall in love with the craft!

For more work by C&J Goods visit...

[http://www.candjgoods.com](http://www.candjgoods.com/)

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (4/18)

Experience the award-winning film *Memories of Love Returned* at LACMA after its resounding world tour and special premiere in Uganda. American-born Ugandan actor, writer, filmmaker, and playwright Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine will be present to discuss his film and its expansive journey with a special guest. 

***Memories of Love Returned***
2024, Uganda/United States, 76 minutes
Luganda and English with English subtitles
Projected on DCP

On April 24, 2002, filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for it to be repaired he stumbled upon a small photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950s to his death in 2006. This chance encounter turned into a 22-year journey documenting and exploring Kibaate’s life and photography and the profound impact it had on Ntare’s life and the lives of the entire community he documented. Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, this intimate, nuanced documentary about the transformative power of photography was named best documentary at the Africa International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival.

*Doc Talk* co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey call *Memories of Love Returned*  "one of the best documentaries of the year."

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

8:00 PM

Film & Fabric: Volume 8

7:00 PM

Rosemary's Baby

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

BEN-HUR (2026 Re-release)(1959)(G)(Wed 4/1) 7pm (Thu 4/2) 7pm

7:00 PM

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/2)

4:00 PM

PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS

7:00 PM

DOWN THERE

10:00 PM

The Exile

The Prisoner of Zenda

7:30 PM

Big Glow: Youth Open Mic

5:00 PM

North Star Sessions

8:00 PM

Booksmart

1:00 PM

Arco (English Dubbed)

4:00 PM

Where the Wild Things Are

4:30 PM

Pillion

7:00 PM

Wattstax

7:30 PM

Project Hail Mary 70mm

The Golden Eye/The Feathered Serpent

7:30 PM