Acropolis Cinema presents *The Slow Business of Going*, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2001.

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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William Gibson meets Samuel Beckett in Tsangari’s feature directorial debut, an exhilarating, shape-shifting work set mostly in the indeterminate spaces of hotel rooms and aboard a barge in Texas, as Global Nomad Project representative Petra Going (Lizzie Curry Martinez) travels the world, generating and transmitting memories back to the Experience Data Agency. Audaciously stylized and charming in its singular brand of lo-fi sci-fi, *The Slow Business of Going* radically changes forms (and, frequently, formats) with each strange situation Petra finds herself in. The result is a fast and funny ode to life without a home base and a stimulating exploration of human consciousness between the real and the virtual. (Film at Lincoln Center)

TRT: 101 min

In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: The Slow Business of Going (Tsangari, 2001)

2220 Arts + Archives

Marathon Man in 4K

La La Land in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**POWER BALLAD, 2026, Dir. John Carney, 98 Mins, Lionsgate, USA/Ireland**

When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves — even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (SING STREET, ONCE), POWER BALLAD is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship and the price of ambition. 

FORMAT: DCP

**ONCE, 2007, Dir. John Carney, 86 Mins, Searchlight Pictures, Ireland**

*In English and Czech with English subtitles.*

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

FORMAT: DCP

Advance Screening Pizza from LaSorted’s, beer & wine (21+), popcorn, soda and candy courtesy of Lionsgate

POWER BALLAD / ONCE

Aero Theatre

Eddy Furlong is a naughty boy, getting involved with some serious dickheads. Muscly big bro Ed Norton gets out of jail and says no way to his racist past. Regret, tragedy and reckoning in this late &#8217;90s classic.

American History X

Brain Dead Studios

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.

LACMA members are invited to join FILM at LACMA for a special advance screening of the first two episodes of *Widow's Bay*, followed by a conversation with creator and executive producer Katie Dippold; director and executive producer Hiro Murai; featured cast and executive producer Matthew Rhys; and featured cast Stephen Root.

*Widow’s Bay* is a quaint island town 40 miles off the coast of New England. But something lurks beneath the surface. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling community. There’s no Wi-Fi, spotty cellular reception, and he must contend with superstitious locals who believe their island is cursed. He wants these people to respect him. They don’t. They think he is soft and cowardly. And he is. But Loftis is determined to build a better future for his teenage son and turn the island into a tourist destination. Miraculously, he succeeds: tourists are finally coming. Unfortunately, the locals were right. After decades of calm, the old stories that seemed too ludicrous to be true, start happening again. *Widow’s Bay* blends genuine horror with character-driven comedy.

The series will make its global debut on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, with the first two episodes. New episodes stream weekly every Wednesday through June 17, 2026, on Apple TV.

Watch the [official trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmc2RYm6PUE)

You will receive a link to view the episodes on the event date.

**This screening is hosted by Slipstream, a LACMA-approved third-party screening platform. If you have not previously registered with Slipstream, you will be asked to provide a valid email address and set a password to create an account.**

Members-Only Advance Screening: Widow's Bay and Post-Screening Conversation

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Hungarian with English subtitles.*

Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Films Boutique

COUNTRY: Hungary

Q&A with filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi ‘Ildikó Enyedi: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

ON BODY AND SOUL

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

This raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmüller (SWEPT AWAY) centers on sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia’s candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife, and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences. A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Italy

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI

Los Feliz Theatre

Make Me a Star / Don’t Gamble with Strangers

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Vidiots

Let's Go Navy/Here Come the Marines

Normal

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

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’

LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS

BEYOND THE STREETS is proud to present its latest documentary, DEAD CITY PUNX. the movie follows a band - Dead City Punx - whose massive illegal outdoor shows full of fireworks, fistfights, bonfires, and graffiti pit them against the LAPD, LAFD, and the mayor, ultimately resuscitating LA's music scene while forcing the viewer to question what DIY and punk really mean when shit gets real. executively produced by Roger Gastman, Joseph Pattisall, and Zack de la Rocha.

Born from stolen equipment and street life connections, the band Dead City Punx — Meka, Grumpy, Mike, and Adrian — built stages for their shows from shoplifted wood, used social media as their "bat signal," and turned every performance into a crime scene complete with graffiti backdrops, bonfires, and police helicopters. Through fan-filmed concert footage and exclusive interviews

Four outcasts from society's margins ignited a pandemic-era music movement that challenged definitions of public space, rebellion, and the right to assemble. BEYOND THE STREETS presents the story of Dead City — raw, unfiltered, and as real as their shows. Each character reveals their humble beginnings on the margins of society between wild Dead City performances, demonstrating how they became a band that “makes shows a crime scene.”

BEYOND THE STREETS presents Dead City Punx Documentary Screening

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 (4/30)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

Pedro Almodóvar, Spain’s premiere writer-director, creates an off-kilter universe of madness, mayhem and pure fun. High atop one of Spain’s poshest penthouses, three women have come to the end of their mental ropes. Super-sexy Pepa (Carmen Maura) is forever teetering around atop her skyscraper spikes as she obsesses over Iván (Fernando Guillén), the lover who just jilted her over the answering machine! Her neurotic best friend Candela (María Barranco) is seeking refuge at Pepa’s place because she recently realized her lover is a terrorist. And Iván’s ex-wife Lucía (Julieta Serrano) was just released from a 20-year stint in a mental institution. They’re all mighty mad—in fact, they’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown—and one of them is about to commit murder unless the other half-crazed femmes fatales can stop her!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: Spain

Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30pm ‘The Greg Proops Film Club’

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 12, “The Black Widow****,” Dir. Caleb Deschanel, 46 Mins**

Audrey has photos that may save Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 13, “Checkmate****,” Dir. ****Todd Holland****, 46 Mins**

Andy and Dick search Little Nicky’s files.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 14, “Double Play****,” Dir. ****Uli Edel****, 46 Mins**

The rivalry between Cooper and Earle is revealed.

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 Black Widow,” “Checkmate” and “Double Play” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 12, 13 & 14

*The Third Horizon: A Film Triptych* explores speculative futures through ritual, movement, and myth. Where the body, music, and ecology converge across time.

Bringing together Kordae Jatafa Henry&#8217;s *Makara*, *Earth Mother, Sky Father*, and *IF NOT NOW (excerpt)*, the program unfolds as a form of spiritual cinema, where animation, performance, and sound operate as systems of transmission.

Spanning past, present, and future temporalities, the works examine the body as a site of spirit, memory, and transformation. Through choreography, visual effects, and sound, each film reimagines relationships between the Anthropocene, infrastructure, and Black virtuosity.

The Third Horizon: A Film Triptych

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau

**Producers**: Éric Altmayer,  Nicolas Altmayer

Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau&#8217;s brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director&#8217;s most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst. Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. As a mysterious virus spreads to pandemic proportions (with mind-blowing special effects), and a mysterious junky uncle comes to stay with them, Alpha must learn to navigate the nightmares of school, home, and health as her family&#8217;s ghosts haunt her present and future. Ducournau continues to prove herself to be one of world cinema&#8217;s most exciting voices &#8211; effortlessly elevating genre filmmaking to a transcendent experience &#8211; a slow burn through a dark dreamscape of plagues, puberty, and addiction.

Alpha

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

**Picks from the Video Store******

Take home more Catherine Deneuve tonight on Blu-Ray and DVD!

*La Chamade, Donkey Skin, Un Flic***

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

Lassie's Great Adventure/The Green Hornet

Mezzanine presents VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi), a film by Agnes Varda. 1985, France, 105m, DCP.

Followed by a conversation with writer Megan O’Grady and Carolina A. Miranda.

On occasion of the release of her new book, *How It Feels to Be Alive*, we are thrilled to have celebrated art critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in person to present Agnès Varda’s masterpiece, starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a young female hitchhiker wandering aimlessly through the unearthly winter landscape of southern France.

Special thanks to Thora Siemsen and Brian Belovarac (Janus Films).

**Megan O’Grady** is a critic and essayist whose writing draws from history, memoir, and the lyric essay. Her magazine and newspaper journalism on contemporary art and literature are often extensions of larger inquiries into representation and identity, explored through immersive reading and looking. The personal and social contexts of art and the way in which it negotiates cultural conversations over time are ongoing preoccupations. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, where she created the Culture Therapist column, her work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Vogue, where she was once a contributing editor. Her book, How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) considers the influence of books and art on our attention and imagination, their rippling impact on our self-conception and the way we move in the world.

**Carolina A. Miranda** is a writer in Los Angeles who covers the intersection of design and visual culture with politics and society. Until 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she reported on subjects such as museums and race, architecture and the pandemic, and the ways in which communities are rethinking the nature of monuments. She has produced stories for the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, Artnews, Alta Journal and Fresh Air, and is a regular contributor for public radio station KCRW. She was a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism and a recipient of the 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She is currently at work on a book about culture and authoritarianism in Chile.

Mezzanine: Agnès Varda's VAGABOND w/ Megan O'Grady

Ponyo

Grand Guignol Silent Shorts

Bearing Witness: 10 Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn’t over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Cassandra Moore, Vice President of Mastering and Archive at NBCUniversal World Premiere of New 4K Restoration

THE LOVE TRAP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jack Nicholson is at his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy about three sailors on the loose. Two hard-boiled career petty officers, Buddusky (Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young), are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows (Randy Quaid), from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offense. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking to Meadows and are determined to show him a good time on their journey north. Their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blind drunk in their hotel room. In New York, they tangle with some Marines, and in Boston, Buddusky takes Meadows to a brothel for his first sexual experience. Finally, after reluctantly turning in Meadows, Buddusky and Mulhall realize they are as much prisoners of their own world as Meadows now is of his.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Repertory

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by screenwriter Samy Burch ‘INT. MOVIE THEATRE’

Samy Burch Presents THE LAST DETAIL

*Screening as part of the Programmers’ Jam: an annual gathering of repertory exhibitors and distributors!*

One of the beating hearts of classic film noir-dom.  This searing 1940s tale from iconic crime author Cornell Woolrich (“The Bride Wore Black”) takes every opportunity to go moodily dark and arthouse.  Director Robert Siodmak sets PHANTOM LADY in an alternate-reality NYC, with expressionistic camerawork and an artificial setting that influenced the likes of DARK CITY and EYES WIDE SHUT.

Phantom Lady

*Screening as part of the Programmers’ Jam: an annual gathering of repertory exhibitors and distributors!*

Freedom is never free, no matter how stunning the scenery.  In this meditative feminist highway tale by unsung Swiss auteur Alain Tanner, an intense friendship quickly forms between two young vagabonds: Jeanne from the big city and Marie from the countryside.  Their impulsive hitch-hiking day trip morphs into an endless cyclical wandering from village to village, from roadway to mountain trail as the pair evade predatory men, the despair of hunger and the long banal arm of the law.  This is THELMA & LOUISE for the Alps, with fantastic long takes and two perfect performances from Clémentine Amouroux and Catherine Rétoré.

Messidor

Join us for a special Earth Day celebration featuring ecological artist and herbalist Paige Emery, which will include a talk and brunch inspired by historical cookbooks from the Getty Library collection.

While visitors enjoy select recipes, Paige will be joined in conversation with Melissa Goldstein—founder and editor of *Mother Tongue* magazine—to explore rituals of remembering the earth. Together, they will reflect on how art, healing practices, and ecological thought can reconnect us to ancestral memory and inspire more just and embodied futures. 

Following the talk, Emery will perform a sound piece in the Getty Central Garden, weaving together the healing arts and critical ecology, ecopoetics and socio-environmental practice, inviting us to imagine deeper relationships with the natural world.

This event is part of the Getty Research Institute’s [*Tastemakers*][1] series, featuring communal gatherings inspired by cookbooks from the Getty Library. 

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][2] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/tastemakers/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Tastemakers: Earth Mother with Paige Emery

Getty Center

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 (5/9)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

REPAST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Epic yet intimate, sweeping yet personal, THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS stands as one of the greatest achievements in the history of television as well as legendary director Maurice Pialat’s magnum opus. Commissioned for French TV in 1971, Pialat and screenwriter René Wheeler crafted a seven-episode, nearly 400-minute miniseries about the impact of World War I on a simple French family living in the countryside. Applying a naturalistic focus to their subject, Pialat and Wheeler capture both the historical scope of the conflict and the subtle ways that a small town’s quotidian routines and rituals—church, school, tavern—are indelibly touched by it. At the center of the richly detailed narrative are the Picards, headed by Albert (Pierre Doris), a game warden for the wooded estate of a local marquis (Fernand Gravey). He and his gentle wife, Jeanne (a heartbreaking Jacqueline Dufranne), raise two teenagers—Marcel (Henri Puff), at risk of being drafted; and Marguerite (Agathe Natanson), contemplating marriage—but also shelter three abandoned boys for the duration. Most rambunctious and soulful among them is Hervé (Hervé Lévy), whose journey from boyhood to adolescence, all while becoming a surrogate child to the Picards and hoping for a reunion with his soldier father (Paul Crauchet), lends a beating heart to THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS—a panoramic tale that explores the longing, loyalty and resilience that sustain humanity amid times of earth-shattering loss.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS Ep. 6 & 7

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Bridges was nominated for an Oscar for his role in this action-filled crime caper in which he plays Lightfoot, the naïve sidekick to the veteran bank robber Thunderbolt. The two revisit an old crime site after losing the loot the first time and decide to retrieve the stash. But some of the original robbers have different plans and it soon becomes every man for himself…

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

*Between a script and a film, there is a whole territory to cross.*

*LES ANNÉES 80 is the time spent in this territory.*

*A love battle with reality and its elements: actors, singers and dancers bound and constrained by a story in a set under a light crossed by music.*

*How, between the script (which is always unrepresentable) and its future performance, the different elements of reality gradually come together to make a film. How to turn reality into fiction.*

*We shot 40 hours of ¾-inch video with 4 different cameras. We edited this into a one-hour film in which only the actors who would be taking part in GOLDEN EIGHTIES appeared.*

*We then transferred this cut to 1-inch film which we transferred to a 16mm negative from which we printed a 35mm positive (without using an internegative).*

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Chantal Akerman Foundation

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Photo courtesy of Collections CINEMATEK © Chantal Akerman Foundation ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

LES ANNÉES 80

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

Human Highway

Jaromil Jireš’s mesmerizingly dreamlike Czech New Wave fantasy—a lush, surreal tale of transformation, enchantment, & dark fairytale wonder

Jaromil Jireš’s VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970)

Philosophical Research Society

Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is an installation that responds in real time to Earth’s internal rumblings – an artificial ecosystem with pre-digital sensibility. In *RedSkyFalls*, the mountainous landscape of a computer desktop serves as a habitat for aquatic plants and small luminous organisms with an animal intuition, the *Réplicas*, nestled inside the grooves of aluminium plates. Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is on view at the Portugal Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from **May 9 to November 22**, and is curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau.

Built from a calibrated mix of animal parts drawn from a dark cauldron, each *Réplica* borrows its vital pulse from the beat of a heart in a fly’s leg, the wave of a fish larva’s tail, and the quiver of a rat’s whisker. This patchwork of movement engraves onto the metal plate a linear fossil, a path where light generates a figure that continuously fulfills its hollow-graphic fate.

From **May 9-July 5,** REDCAT hosts a reproduction of one of the *Réplicas* of *RedSkyFalls*. In Los Angeles, as in Venice, the piece reacts to live seismic activity worldwide. Other *Réplicas* will be installed in San Francisco, California (CCA Wattis Institute); Lima, Peru (Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI); and Lisbon, Portugal (Galeria Zé dos Bois). The piece is installed in highly seismic geographies, where it responds to tectonic events with higher synchronicity, building an extended relational infrastructure. 

[More about *RedSkyFalls*](http://www.redskyfalls.com) by Alexandre Estrela at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

RedSkyFalls (Réplica): 61st La Biennale di Venezia – Portuguese Pavilion

REDCAT

**Producers**: Diane Ademu-John,  Carl Deal,  Tia Lessin,  Karen Ranucci,  Caren Spruch, Tony Tabatznik

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the *Democracy Now!* newsroom. In *Steal This Story, Please!*, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. *Steal This Story, Please!* is a gripping account of the trailblazing journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show *Democracy Now!*, Goodman amplifies stories and voices too often silenced by commercial media.

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (*Trouble the Water, Citizen Koch, The Janes*) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a media landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press and on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, *Steal This Story, Please!* is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press stops challenging power?

Steal This Story, Please!

**Screenwriters**: Jules Feiffer, E.C. Segar

**Producer**: Robert Evans

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome stars and comedic legends **Paul Dooley **and** Donovan Scott** for a post screening conversation! 

Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall exude overpowering charm in Robert Altman&#8217;s endearing tribute to the original Fleischer Brothers spinach-scarfing sailor man. Popeye goes searching for his father but washes ashore after a storm and winds up meeting his beloved Olive Oyl. But Olive&#8217;s fiancé, Bluto isn&#8217;t going to step aside without a fight. A delightful and quirky manic musical fantasy world from one of the great masters of American cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Robert Altman was one of the best directors to ever live! Take home some of his many masterpieces tonight!

*3 Women, California Split, Nashville* (and dozens more!)

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

Popeye

**Screenwriter**: Joel Alfonso Vargas

**Producer**: Paolo Maria Pedullà

In a tight-knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg &#8220;nutcracker&#8221; cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature, teaming up with discovery talent Collado and Checo, to deliver a raw and deeply authentic look at life in The Bronx. With humor and grit, Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn.

Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

**Screenwriter**: Hiroshi Takahashi

**Producer**: Nobuhiro Iizuka

Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry outcarry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, *Serpent’s Path* is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart.

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

Serpent’s Path

Police Story

Terms of Endearment in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Three strong women — Roberta Martin (Rosie O’Donnell), Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore) and Tina “Teeny” Tercell (Melanie Griffith) — return home to reunite with their childhood friend Chrissy DeWitt Williams (Rita Wilson) and see her through the end of her first pregnancy. The four lifelong friends share their memories of the unforgettable summer of 1970, the summer their innocent younger selves (Christina Ricci, Gaby Hoffmann, Thora Birch, Ashleigh Aston Moore) grew up.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

NOW AND THEN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**FLOWING, 1956, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 116 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Three super-stars lead a great cast: head-of-the-geisha-house Isuzu Yamada looks on the bright side, while daughter Hideko Takamine works that sewing machine. But quietly observing maid Kinuyo Tanaka is the only one who actually realizes the inevitable end of their world in a harsh post-war Tokyo.

FORMAT: 35mm

**MOTHER, 1952, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 98 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on a children’s essay adapted by famed Japanese screenwriter Yoko Mizuki in her first work for Naruse, Mother stars the legendary actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka as a beleaguered working class matron, whose self-sacrificing efforts to maintain her family during Tokyo’s postwar reconstruction make her a paragon of maternal virtue in the eyes of her teenage daughter Toshiko (Kyoko Kagawa). Toshiko idealizes her mother and the value system she embodies, a naive perspective that pleasantly lifts what in fact unfurls as a bitterly sad, episodic tale of slow-burn economic emmiseration. Anticipating the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien in its ironically sentimental vision of Confucian dissolution, Naruse’s film is a melodramatic tearjerker for the ages.

FORMAT: 35mm

Mother’s Day Screening 35mm prints 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’

FLOWING / MOTHER

Screening of Fuck My Son! with special Mother&#8217;s Day Q+A

Synopsis: An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan&#8217;s joyfully disgusting comic book.

Current Q&A confirmed:

Todd Rohal (Writer/Director)

Johnny Ryan (Comic Book Writer)

Tipper Newton (Actress)

Robert Longstreet (Actor)

Steve Little (Actor)

Johnny Ryan&#8217;s Biological Mother

Tipper Newton&#8217;s Biological Mother

Fuck My Son!

Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present the LA premiere of Doris Wishman’s final movie: *Dildo Heaven*, unreleased and unseen since its festival debut in 2002. This special Mother’s Day tribute will feature a conversation with filmmakers and former Wishman crew members Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon and Elizabeth Pauker, director of the forthcoming documentary *AKA Doris Wishman*. The feature will be preceded by Ascher’s 2020 short film *Doris Wishman Directs A Music Video*.

Roommates Lisa, Beth, and Tess are three young women who each share the same goal of hooking up with their respective male bosses. While their attempts at seduction get off to a rough start, their peeping tom neighbor Billy spends his days spying through keyholes and trying to get a piece of the action. Will these roommates finally make it with their managers? And what about Billy?

Octogenarian filmmaker and “Queen of Sexploitation” Doris Wishman was working at a sex shop in Miami in the early 90s when she met experimental musician Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A.), spurring a full-blown career revival that saw her honored at film festivals around the world and featured on HBO’s *Real Sex* and *Late Night with Conan O’Brien*. Intended to be her comeback movie, Dildo Heaven premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival just months before her passing in 2002 and then was never officially widely released until now. A charming shot-on-video sex comedy that defies all description–and surely the only movie by a senior citizen to feature an original rap theme song–*Dildo Heaven* (also known as *Desperate Desires*) is a fitting swan song for one of the most beloved cult filmmakers of all time.

Dildo Heaven

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this four-time Oscar nominated film (including Best Picture), Jason Robards stars as a nonconformist who is forced to find a conventional job.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Chandler Levack ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Chandler Levack Presents A THOUSAND CLOWNS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The American Cinematheque is pleased to present a selection of short films this Mother’s Day. Join us for an afternoon of themes surrounding motherhood, love and close relationships. The program will be followed by a Q&A with local filmmakers.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Cow Heavy and Floral,” 2024, Dir. Richa Rudola, 15 Mins, USA**

A split-screen film about a postpartum writer struggling to make a deadline as she experiences an identity crisis between her various personas.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Before You,” 2025, Lauren Melinda, 15 Mins, USA**

On the way to an abortion clinic with her husband, a woman finds herself pulled into the memories of everything that led them there, and everything that came after.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Potato Potato,” 2025, Dir. Josh Locy, 14 Mins, USA**

When Cynthia writes a letter to her unborn baby about her hopes for the future, the baby writes back.

FORMAT: DCP

**“In the Name of the Child,” 2025, Dir. Dejan Mrkic**

A distraught mother visits a local store hoping to mend a significant hole in her life.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmakers Mother’s Day Screening

On Motherhood: A Short Film Program

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s indie music scene in 2011. Based in part on Chandler Levack’s own young adulthood prior to becoming a professional music critic and filmmaker, the film stars Barbie Ferreira as Grace Pine, a young woman who moves to Montreal, Quebec, with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill but instead becomes romantically involved with Archi (Devon Bostick) and Chevy (Stanley Simons), two members of the aspiring indie rock band Bone Patrol, and takes a job as the band’s publicist.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sumerian Pictures

COUNTRY: Canada

MILE END KICKS

The seriously spaced-out masterwork that's a psychedelic see-it-to-believe it experience! Plus a primo selection of sci-fi animated shorts!

Helmut Herbst's THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS + Spaced-Out Shorts!

**Screenwriter**: Ernest Lehman

**Producer**: Robert Wise

The hills are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews in this much-beloved musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein and versatile film director Robert Wise. In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home. The winner of 5 Academy Awards, this celebrated musical is ready to warm your heart all over again. So dress your family in matching lederhosen and get ready to get swept away in the magic, music, and warmth of *The Sound of Music*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Robert Wise classics from his director&#8217;s section tonight!

*I Want to Live!, The Andromeda Strain, West Wide Story*

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

The Sound of Music Sing Along

**Screenwriter**: Catherine Johnson

**Producers**: Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman

Calling all Dancing Queens! Spend your Mother&#8217;s Day with Vidiots and the mother of all jukebox musicals! You&#8217;ll want to Gimme gimme gimme this joyous musical jam-packed with the rousing tunes of everyone&#8217;s favorite Swedish quartet &#8211; ABBA. National treasure Meryl Streep plays an independent, single mother an hotelier on a luscious and scenic Greek island. As her daughter (Amanda Seyfried) prepares for her wedding day, she sets about to find her biological father by reaching out to three of her mother&#8217;s former lovers. So get ready for an entertaining musical vacation you&#8217;ll want to sing along to from start to triumphant finish!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Mother&#8217;s Day recommendations? Take home these entertaining heart-warmers to share with your family!

*Steel Magnolias, Akeelah and the Bee, Mermaids*

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

Mamma Mia! on 35mm

The Wages of Fear in 4K

Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku) in 35mm

Advance Screening, Q&A, and Live Performance

Join Rostam for the Los Angeles premiere of American Stories: A Concert Film, featuring 8 songs from both the new album and Rostam’s catalog, in anticipation of his upcoming album American Stories (out May 15). The 34-minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with Rostam and director Antony Muse and an intimate live performance from Rostam.

American Stories: A Concert Film

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The original Ghostface Killer is on the loose!  A vicious villain with an unstoppable five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals. Meanwhile, a young student tries to learn kung fu and is taken under the wing of an old chess master. The basics of chess prove to be the same as the basics of fighting, and eventually the heroes will have to fight Ghostface Killer, who verbally insults his opponents as he annihilates them.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Hong Kong

Co-presented by 36 Cinema ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING

This program presents a glimpse into the wild and varied work of the graduating class of CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program, featuring the incredible range of experimentation that characterizes the literary accomplishment of students in the program. Come celebrate the grit and imagination of the class of 2026!

Unknown Event

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Watching the Way You Move: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson*. West Coast premieres! (+ a world premiere!). Kevin Jerome Everson in person!

Full film lineup and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/spring-2026/watching-the-way-you-move-an-evening-with-kevin-jerome-everson/

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Filmforum welcomes back Kevin Jerome Everson with a compelling array of recent work (2023-2026) (+ a short from 2016), ranging from observations of state bird-watchers to a powerful examination of the now shuttered Ohio State Reformatory in his hometown of Mansfield Ohio, to a short tribute to Gail Fisher, the first Black woman to win an Emmy.

It’s difficult to encapsulate the range of Everson’s prolific and varied films. He creates a wide array of distilled interpretations of aspects of Black life in the USA, in part producing an archive of lived experiences that have been erased in dominant culture. An artist, not a documentarian, he erases the line between staging and verité, and, through his films, insists on and deliberately enacts the presence and importance of family, labor, athletics, art-making, politics, and community. He listens to the echoes of people in empty spaces, re-valorizes almost-forgotten historical figures, and arranges performances for the camera of actions that are regularly carried out without being recorded or appreciated. Every time we host Everson, we share in the beauty and energy of the ever-growing project of his film artistry. Please join us for some of his latest work. – Adam Hyman

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**Kevin Jerome Everson** (b. 1965 Mansfield, OH, lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art, Director of Studio Arts, University of Virginia. Everson's art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography and film, including 13 features and over 300 solo & collaborative shorts. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize, Heinz Award, Alpert Award, and Rome Prize, & grants and commissions from Ford Foundation/Just Films, Knight Foundation, The Brick & Creative Capital among others. He is currently in post production on his first fiction feature Lowndes County.

Special Thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, Kate Lain, the Academy Museum.

Films appear courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures.

LA Filmforum: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 17, “Wounds and Scars,” Dir. James Foley, 46 Mins**

Norma’s sister, Annie, arrives in Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 18, “On the Wings of Love,” Dir. Duwayne Dunham, 46 Mins**

Cooper is reinstated at the FBI.

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.

“Wounds and Scars” and “On the Wings of Love” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 17 and 18

**Screenwriters**: James Foley, Robert Redlin from the novel by Jim Thompson

**Producers**: Ric Kidney,  Robert Redlin

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome **Jason Patric** for a special 35mm screening of his sizzling hot neo-noir ***After Dark, My Sweet*** to celebrate the life and legacy of filmmaker **James Foley**, featuring a special video introduction from Vidiots Founding Member **Alex Winter** and a post-screening conversation with Patric moderated by writer/film critic **Travis Woods**!

Sex, crime, and mental illness collide in this steamy and nuanced neo-noir adapted from Jim Thompson&#8217;s scorching novel. Kid Collie (Jason Patric) is an ex-boxer on the run from a mental hospital when he runs into the seductive widow Fay (Rachel Ward) who takes him on to work at her estate and into her bed. When they are joined by the dangerous Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern), they concoct a kidnap and ransom plan that drags them all into misery and murder. Watch out and don&#8217;t get burned in this fiery car wreck of a romance as it singes the big screen from Jason Patric&#8217;s personal 35mm print!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to take home Jason Patric tonight? Don&#8217;t we all!?! Try out these treasures on glorious physical media!

*Keyhole, The Lost Boys, Narc, Your Friends and Neighbors*

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

After Dark, My Sweet on 35mm

An Evening of Short Films from Asian American Filmmakers

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 87 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

An expanded version of episode VI in Kieślowski’s legendary DEKALOG, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman in an adjacent housing project.

FORMAT: DCP

**A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 85 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

A shocking, powerful film expanded from episode V of Kieślowski’s legendary DEKALOG, A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘Krzysztof Kieślowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE / A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

Antenna Releasing and Pure Cinema Podcast present “Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Wednesdays” at Braindead Studios, a collaboration between the newest indie distributor on the block and the official podcast of Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema &#8211; invading the coolest spot to see underground movies on the West Side. First up: Bruce Toscano’s 1984 underground classic, The Jar.

Join Pure Cinema hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur as they present this newly restored oddity from the fine folks at Terror Vision. Synopsis: A motorist who comes upon an auto accident finds a bottle at the scene. The bottle contains a demon who proceeds to possess him. That’s all you need to know, and the less you know the better!

The Jar (aka Charon) was released by Magnum Entertainment in 1984 and was omnipresent in video rental stores. While the film was shot in scope, the distributor released it in a butchered cropped presentation cutting out about half of the intended frame in a murky VHS transfer. Terror Vision has restored Charon/The Jar using a partial camera negative along with a print to finally offer director Bruce Toscano’s unique vision in all its beautiful, color drenched glory. Accompanied by a stunning synth score.

The Jar

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In Miami, siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang’s art forgery ring flourishes when they encounter a disgraced millionaire in need of their expertise. Meanwhile, FBI Art Crimes agent Emily Lee moves to Miami to investigate a series of mysterious paintings.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia Distribution

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Jing Ai Ng Co-presented by CAPE ‘Women Wednesday’

FORGE

**Screenwriter**: Shatara Michelle Ford

**Producers**: Pin-Chun Liu,  Shatara Michelle Ford,  Naima Abed,  Adam Wyatt Tate,  Josh Peters, Robina Riccitiello,  Ben Stillman,  Ana Leocha,  Tyler Bagley,  Chris Quintos Cathcart

Featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmaker **Shatara Michelle Ford **and star** Sasha Compère**!

Three black queer femmes in their mid 30s take a road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. With their sophomore feature, Shatara Michelle Ford (*Test Pattern*) puts their singular stamp on the American road movie. After an unceremonious layoff, Z (Denée Benton, *The Gilded Age*) embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend that has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures. Tender and expansive, Ford has created an ode to chosen family and the radical act of claiming space to dream —and exist— beyond the systems of an increasingly fraught country.

*Part of The Future of Film is Female&#8217;s [THREE FILMS, FIVE CITIES](https://www.futureoffilmisfemale.com/three-films-five-cities) project.*

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

Dreams in Nightmares

VEERANA follows Jasmin, a bloodsucking seductress who leads men to their doom after being possessed by the spirit of a witch. Unless Jasmin's family can find a way to break the curse, she'll be used in a Satanic ritual to raise the real witch from her tomb. A kaleidoscopic dream zone full of Bava-esque lightning, gloopy monsters, and a killer synth score, this is the most extravagant production from the Ramsay family—India's most popular and successful horror filmmakers.

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**dirs. Tulsi & Shyam Ramsay, 1988***India, digital projection*135 min

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## WEDNESDAY, 5/137:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

$8 general admission, $7 for members.

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

VEERANA (1988)

WHAMMY!

Altered Innocence + Dirty Looks present *Something Must Break.*

Ester Martin Bergsmark, *Something Must Break* (*Nånting måste gå sönder*), Swedish (with English subtitles), 85min., 2014

Author Eli Levén in person.

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Dirty Looks presents the long-overdue U.S. release of Swedish trans-punk modern classic, *Something Must Break* (*Nånting måste gå sönder*), 2014, distributed by Altered Innocence. A fraught romance traces the transition of androgynous teen Sebastian (Saga Becker) and her crust punk boyfriend Andreas (Iggy Malmborg). Shot in gritty relief against the industrial edges of Stockholm. Andreas grows volatile, as this love stresses his het identity and Sebastian slips deeper into gender play. Written by Eli Levén and directed by Ester Martin Bergsmark (*She Male Snails*), this Golden Tiger-winning film is a bold work of contemporary Scandinavian queer cinema and based off the 2010 novel, *You Are the Roots That Sleep at My Feet and Keep the Earth in Place*.

Dirty Looks: Something Must Break

Night and the City in 35mm nitrate

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Launched in 1974 in Los Angeles, Z Channel was one of the United States’ first pay cable stations. Z Channel’s prominence was solidified in 1980 when maverick programmer Jerry Harvey took over as head of programming. Z’s uniqueness was attributed to Harvey and his staff’s determination, diverse taste and encyclopedic knowledge of cinema. Harvey’s programming showcased a combination of classic, international, independent and Hollywood films. Z was the network first to develop programming innovations such as ‘director’s cuts’ and uniquely themed on-air festivals, while also airing many rare and never before seen exclusives and critically acclaimed films not in the mainstream.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Soraya Releases LLC

COUNTRY: USA

Panel with filmmakers Xan Cassavetes, Stuart Cooper and Vera Anderson, producers Rick Ross and Marshall Persinger and Z programmer Tim Ryerson ‘Watch Local: Z Channel’

Z CHANNEL: A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (5/14)

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Sergei Eisenstein travelled to Mexico December 1930 to experience firsthand its “geographical, ethnological, cultural and historical diversity” and to make a feature film. After shooting tons of beautiful 35mm footage, drawing hundreds of sketches and writing volumes of critical texts, he departed April 1932 without a completed project. This digital edition explores his unfinished cinema work available in partially edited fragments realized by others. The content and quality of the different releases vary greatly due to many factors none of which reflect poorly on Eisenstein. Viewed together with newly created interviews and reflections, the short and long films form a magnificent magical testament dedicated to the spirit of unbound creativity.

*Film notes by Ian Christie and Bruce Posner*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Time in the Sun,” 1940, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov and Eduard Tissé, 61 Mins, Kino Lorber**

After Sol Lesser’s early compilations carved from the Mexican footage, “Time in the Sun” was a first attempt to do justice to what its director, Marie Seton, believed was Eisenstein’s vision. Having spent time with him in Yalta in 1934 and heard his rapturously account of the group’s experiences in Mexico, she resolved in 1938 “to reconstruct the dream in order that it might not be entirely lost.” Seton and her collaborators effectively molded the material into a conventional ethnographic documentary that foregrounded the exotic customs and costumes which Eisenstein had Tissé and Alexandrov film copiously. “Time in the Sun” largely follows the sequence of “novellas” or episodes set in different regions and eras that he had sketched for the benefit of his sponsors and the Mexican Government. Seton’s commentary also draws heavily on one of his key inspirations, Anita Brenner’s “Idols Behind Altars,” emphasizing the “Indian spirit” that had survived Spanish invasion and dictatorship. But with its conventional music, and tentative dramatization in the marriage sequence set in Tehuantepec and the climactic revenge drama at Tetlapayac Hacienda, it hardly seems to fulfill Eisenstein’s aspirations. We know he was bitterly disappointed when he finally saw it in 1946, but we are no closer to knowing what he might have created from this spectacular material. Based on Anita Brenner’s “Idols Behind Altars” (1929), Franz Blom’s “The Conquest of Yucatan” (1936), and writings researched by Samuel A. Datlowe and Marie Seton.

FORMAT: DCP

**Mexican Symphony: “Zapotec Village” / “Idol Of Hope” / “The Conquering Cross,” 1941, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 45 Mins, Kino Lorber**

Three rare travelogues “Zapotec Village,” “The Conquering Cross” and “Idol of Hope” are presented in the projection order indicated by Bell & Howell Filmosound Library in 1941. Missing are “Mexican Marches,” “Spaniard and Indian” and “Land and Freedom.” The entire series of six short, one-reel and two-reel, nonfiction ethnographic films were edited with footage recycled from the earlier THUNDER OVER MEXICO, EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO, “Death Day” and “Time in the Sun.” The travelogues were shaped into dapper and informative educational compilations, heavy on voice-over narration, that report on Mexican Indian life, cultural and historic backgrounds, and exotic scenic locations. Equally apparent throughout, and incorporated to great effect, appears much footage shot by Eisenstein but not previously seen or currently possible to view elsewhere. The hybrids could be projected, grouped together one-after-the-other, to form a composite feature-length documentary “Mexican Symphony.” The newly minted Eisenstein films play benignly symphonic in form and presentation.

FORMAT: DCP

**“The Disaster in Oaxaca,” 1931, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 16 Mins, Kino Lorber**

A month after Eisenstein’s group had entered Mexico in December 1930, the southern province of Oaxaca was devastated by a magnitude 8 earthquake which destroyed its capital. The Russians hired a plane to fly to Oaxaca, to film the damage and its aftermath, apparently hoping to capture material ahead of newsreel companies. The footage of shattered buildings, displaced inhabitants and the funeral of a child eloquently documented the scale of the disaster that killed over one hundred people. Quickly edited by Eisenstein, it was shown in Mexican theaters, and a copy was sent to the USSR, no doubt to prove that the Russians were gainfully employed after their fruitless year in Hollywood. Tissé’s filming may be largely functional, but Eisenstein’s montage pointedly contrasts the ruined houses of the rich with those of the poor, and includes several sequences that anticipate the religious themes which would preoccupy him during his time in Mexico: notably life-size religious statues being rescued from a ruined church, as if emphasizing their powerlessness, and a silhouetted angel sculpture hanging over a jagged void captioned “the angel of death.”

FORMAT: DCP

Advance Screening of New Restorations Films courtesy of British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive and Gosfilmofond of Russia Photo courtesy of Kino Classics, Gosfilmofond, Filmmakers Showcase Restorations by Bruce Posner ‘Sergei Eisenstein Restorations’

¡SERGEI EISENSTEIN MÉXICO! Exotic Travelogues

**Screenwriter**: Ed Solomon

**Producers**: Iain Canning,  Jim Parks

Join us in the microcinema for Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s latest triumph, a brilliant artistic character study with phenomenal performances from Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel. A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

The Christophers

**Screenwriters**: Guillermo Ríos,  Leticia Lopez Margalli,  Eugenio Derbez

**Producers**: Eugenio Derbez,  Lorenzo O&#8217;Brien

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome Writer/Producer/Director and Star **Eugenio Derbez** for a special screening of his hilariously sweet comedy ***Instructions Not Included**!*

A hilarious and heartfelt mix of wacky comedy and tearjerker drama, *Instructions Not Included* has more than earned its success as Mexico’s biggest hit movie and the highest-grossing Spanish-language film at the U.S. box office. Talented multi-hyphenate Eugenio Derbez directs, produces, co-writes, and stars as Valentin, the biggest womanizer in Acapulco, whose life changes forever when a former lover drops off a baby at his doorstep. Soon, Valentin is working in Hollywood as a stuntman while doing his best to raise his precocious daughter, but challenges loom in the form of a custody battle with his ex and a mysterious medical ailment. You’ll laugh and cry along with Derbez as his character slowly but surely learns how to become a better man!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Eugenio Derbez tonight on glorious physical media!

*How to Be a Latin Lover, CODA, Overboard*

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

Instructions Not Included

I Know Where I’m Going!

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

American Psycho

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

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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 (5/15)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Pay Day,” 1922, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 22 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Charlie is a bricklayer who sets off to celebrate payday with his pals. But his wife is waiting with the rolling pin.

FORMAT: 35mm

**“Shoulder Arms,” 1918, Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 38 Mins, Janus Films, USA**

Enlisted during the First World War, Charlie discovers the hard life of the trenches and the dangers of combat.

FORMAT: 35mm

Get your ticket for just $5.40 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

"Pay Day" / "Shoulder Arms"

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on a children’s essay adapted by famed Japanese screenwriter Yoko Mizuki in her first work for Naruse, Mother stars the legendary actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka as a beleaguered working class matron, whose self-sacrificing efforts to maintain her family during Tokyo’s postwar reconstruction make her a paragon of maternal virtue in the eyes of her teenage daughter Toshiko (Kyoko Kagawa). Toshiko idealizes her mother and the value system she embodies, a naive perspective that pleasantly lifts what in fact unfurls as a bitterly sad, episodic tale of slow-burn economic emmiseration. Anticipating the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien in its ironically sentimental vision of Confucian dissolution, Naruse’s film is a melodramatic tearjerker for the ages.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

MOTHER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

One evening Nelly meets Loulou, a down-and-out young man. After her husband kicks her out, she goes off to live with Loulou. She is soon with child, but Loulou doesn’t change his wayward life, spending time with his pals and pulling off small-time robberies. Deeply hurt by his attitude, Nelly decides not to keep the baby. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cohen Media Group

COUNTRY: France

‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

LOULOU

This is an Elliott Smith tribute night produced by North Star Sessions featuring over 20 local songwriters.

$15

Advance tickets available  here !

Ballads of Big Nothing

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**Screenwriter**: Helen Childress

**Producers**: Danny DeVito,  Michael Shamberg

Dust off your flannels and Doc Martens and join us for the ultimate Gen X hang! Part post-collegiate ensemble dramedy, part love triangle romance, and all the epitome of mid-90s fashion and vibes, Ben Stiller&#8217;s *Reality Bites* is one of the defining films of a generation. Winona Ryder is a documentary filmmaker navigating jobs, life, and relationships alongside her best friends &#8211; played brilliantly by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. When she starts dating a yuppie who offers her a shot at broadcast television (AKA early reality TV), will she sell out or go for the disaffected hottie that&#8217;s been there the whole time? Somebody call the cinema police, because Janeane Garofolo truly *steals* the whole show as one of the coolest women characters in film of the decade!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Pocket more Winona Ryder on DVD and Blu-Ray tonight!

*Lucas, Heathers, Night on Earth*

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

Reality Bites

**Screenwriters**: James Dearden,  Nicholas Meyer

**Producers**: Stanley R. Jaffe,  Sherry Lansing

A blockbuster of lust and obsession that set the world on fire, Adrian Lyne&#8217;s *Fatal Attraction* is the ultimate scorned female revenge tale, or every unfaithful man&#8217;s worst nightmare; depending on how you look at this killer erotic thriller. When New York lawyer Dan Gallagher uses his wife&#8217;s absence to hook up with a scorching book publisher, he could never imagine the spiral of madness he would create. Now, his fling actually expects things from him, and trying to keep his family together, he leaves her to unravel, demanding to be seen as a human being and not an expendable fling. But when her justifiable frustration ratchets up to violence, now even Dan&#8217;s wife, child, and bunny rabbit are in danger. With an ending essentially rewritten by a focus group, this complicated thriller is still one hell of a watch!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Did you know we have a section for Erotic Thrillers? Take home more sizzling smoke-shows tonight!

*Poison Ivy, Single White Female, Disclosure*

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

Fatal Attraction

**Screenwriter**: Graham Yost

**Producers**: Mark Gordon,  Bill Badalato,  Terence Chang

John Woo&#8217;s underrated American follow-up to *Hard Target* is a thermonuclear blast! In Woo and John Travolta&#8217;s first collaboration, they plant the seeds for *Face/Off* as Travolta deploys his first scenery-chewing, gonzo villain, playing an eccentric US Air Force Major who steals a nuclear weapon. The only thing he didn&#8217;t count on was Christian Slater, the one Captain who knows how to stop him. Co-starring Samantha Mathis and a murderers&#8217; row of character actors, including Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Bob Gunton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Kurtwood Smith, *Broken Arrow* is an outlandishly action-packed thrill ride, filled with the double-gunning fun Woo&#8217;s fans crave.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got all the 1980s Christian Slater classics you crave!

*The Legend of Billie Jean, Pump Up the Volume, The Wizard, Heathers*

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

Broken Arrow

Howl’s Moving Castle

Robin and Marian in 4K

Odd Man Out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Screening: *MAINTENANCE ARTIST*

Presented in conjunction with [*Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/realms-dharma-buddhist-art-across-asia), Tenzin Phuntsog’s *Next Life* tells the story of a a Tibetan family in exile searches for moments of temporary happiness after their father is given an irrevocable diagnosis from a Tibetan doctor’s pulse reading. Through tender acts of care, quiet moments of intimacy, and memories of Tibet, the question of homeland surfaces: a place they cannot return to. *Next Life* moves through these moments gently, centering the Tibetan concept of Tse Chema—reincarnation—as a way of holding the cycle of life: birth, death, and rebirth and their karmic traces.

The program will begin with Phuntsog's new short work *Auras. *After *Next Life*, hear from Phuntsog in conversation with special guests and celebrate Tibetan Buddhist culture with offerings of Tibetan ceremonial practices from local Tibetan cultural practitioners.

***Next Life***
2026, 73 minutes
United States, Mexico
Tibetan, English, Mandarin
Shot on 35mm, DCP Projection

***Auras***
2026, 7 minutes
Tibet, India, United States, Mexico
Shot on 35mm, DCP Projection

**Tenzin Phuntsog** is a San Francisco–based artist and filmmaker. His work has been recently featured at the Berlinale Forum Expanded, IFFR Rotterdam, Edith Russ Haus, Redcat Los Angeles, EMAF, Seoul Media City Biennale, Experimenta, and the Tang Museum.

Tenzin Phuntsog’s Next Life

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Facing pressures to marry and having witnessed her two sisters’ own marital struggles, sightseeing bus guide Kiyoko (Hideko Takamine) strives for her own solitary independence, resisting suitors and openly expressing a disdain for men. Through a family of four siblings, each from different fathers, Naruse explores the suffocating family life of Kiyoko’s *shitamachi* household and its surroundings. LIGHTNING is a buildup of vignettes, events and occurrences, as Kiyo experiences the world around her—misfortune, family tragedy, interpersonal quarrels and the vulgarities of men—trying to make sense of a modern existence where the promise of happiness still comes second for women.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Kadokawa

COUNTRY: Japan

LIGHTNING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*“THE JOURNEY was born directly out of a collapsed project in 1982, when I tried to organize another antinuclear war film, to be funded by Central TV in England, and working with a number of peace groups across the UK. I felt that THE WAR GAME was out-of-date, and I was concerned about the escalating nuclear arms race, that was allied to the US foreign policy of a nuclear war that would be limited to Europe. My idea was to create a series of scenes, again depicting the consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain, on a larger scale than THE WAR GAME, that would allow citizens across Britain to express their concerns via their involvement in the production of this project. However, Central TV withdrew its funding, on the grounds that the budget was becoming too large, and the project collapsed. After rethinking the scale of the project into a more global film dealing with the general silence on the burgeoning nuclear arms race, I appealed for funding to a number of international TV channels. Without exception, every TV channel that I contacted refused, even though I was only requesting support for filming an ultra low-cost segment in each country, where I would ask local people what they knew and felt about the world arms race. *

*“During the time while I had no funding from the professional sector, I happened to be showing THE WAR GAME to the world’s oldest peace movement association, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (SPAS), in Stockholm. In May 1983, during its 100th anniversary congress, SPAS unanimously decided to support fund-raising for a new film about the nuclear threat. Based in Stockholm, and with initial funding from SPAS, I immediately began to involve the network of friends and acquaintances that I had acquired over many years of travelling and lecturing, to build an international fund-raising drive for the new film, and to start research in those parts of the world where I would organize local productions groups for the actual filming.*

*“The film’s core concept started to emerge: I would visit families or groups of people in various countries, and interview them to find out what they knew about the state and consequences of the world arms race, and the effects of nuclear weapons. The interviews would also focus on the role that mass media and educational systems played in shaping a world view, and on the knowledge that these people had – or did not have – vis-à-vis these subjects.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: New Zealand/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/Italy/Japan/Sweden/UK/Germany

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

Acropolis Cinema: The Slow Business of Going (Tsangari, 2001)

7:30 PM

Marathon Man in 4K

2:30 PM

La La Land in 35mm

7:30 PM

POWER BALLAD,

ONCE,

6:30 PM

American History X

8:00 PM

Members-Only Advance Screening: Widow's Bay and Post-Screening Conversation

7:00 PM

ON BODY AND SOUL

7:00 PM

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI

10:00 PM

Make Me a Star

Don’t Gamble with Strangers

7:30 PM

The Young Girls of Rochefort

7:30 PM

Let's Go Navy/Here Come the Marines

2:00 PM

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