Viva Ingrid! with Journey to Italy presented by Isabella Rossellini

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ken Russell’s adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel follows two sisters living in a 1920s mining town in the midlands of England, who embark on relationships that entwine passion, sensuality and recklessness. Whilst on holiday with their partners, the relationships head in divergent directions. Starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: UK

‘You Can’t Stream That On Television’

WOMEN IN LOVE

Aero Theatre

Brain Dead Studios presents O.V.A. Night, a surprise screening of obscure anime rarely seen on the big screen.

O.V.A. (Original Video Animation) emerged in Japan during the home video boom of the 1980s. Released directly to home video, OVAs gave animators the freedom to work outside the usual restrictions of television and theatrical releases, opening the door to stranger stories, bigger ideas, and imagery that could never have made it onto TV. The result was some of the most ambitious, violent, experimental, and downright bizarre anime of the era.

Many of these titles have never been properly restored or given a theatrical release, and we think they deserve to be played big, played loud, and seen with a crowd.

O.V.A. Night – Vol. III

Brain Dead Studios

From director and writer Marie Kreutzer (Corsage, Austria’s entry for the 95th Academy Awards), Gentle Monster tells the story of concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux), who has just relocated her family to a country house hoping to ease her husband Philip’s (Laurence Rupp) severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears their life apart. Trapped between the man she loves and the fear of what he may have done, Lucy must face the situation alone as her world unravels. With a cast that includes Jella Haase alongside the legendary, Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, Gentle Monster asks what we do when someone we love turns out to be someone we never really knew.

Gentle Monster

Egyptian Theatre

Followed by a conversation with writer-director **Gregg Araki**

Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde) is LA's hottest artist—her erotic art is more popular than ever, and her reputation for sleeping with her studio assistants is an open secret. Enter Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a dopey 20-something desperate for a job in the arts and, namely, to pay his rent. Soon after Erika hires Elliot, she propositions him for sex and introduces him to BDSM, catapulting him into a dizzying labyrinth of power dynamics in the bedroom and at the studio.

Gregg Araki's seminal Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993–97) transfixed a generation—reflecting the nihilism of American youth who grew up under Ronald Reagan, amid the threat of AIDS, and were really pissed off. Now, at 67, Araki's latest film shows how that '90s anger has shifted into a pervasive unease for Gen Z—economically and sexually—and the complications that arise when those two things collide. Never losing empathy for the characters or a sense of humor, Araki achieves the delicate balance of a raucous send-up of the art world, workplace dynamics, and sexual power in the way only a distinctive auteur can.

2026. Directed by Gregg Araki. Screenplay by Araki, Karley Sciortino. With Cooper Hoffman, Olivia Wilde, Chase Sui Wonders. DCP courtesy Magnolia Pictures. 90 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

I Want Your Sex

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The PROOF Film Festival is thrilled to announce to screen THE MUSICAL, the feature length version of the 2024 PROOF Film Festival audience award winner. Starring Will Brill, Rob Lowe and Gillian Jacobs, we are so proud of filmmaker Giselle Bonilla and screenwriter & producer Alexander Heller as they bring this hilarious feature that began as a short to the masses.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When a frustrated playwright/middle school theater teacher finds out his ex-girlfriend has started dating his nemesis, the school’s principal, he exacts revenge the only way he knows how: by staging the most inappropriate play imaginable.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Blue Harbor Entertainment and Variance Films

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Giselle Bonilla and writer and producer Alex Heller ‘PROOF Film Festival 2026’ PROOF All-Access Badge holders get free access to this event! Not a badge holder? Check out badges for purchase here! For PROOF Badge Holders: Badges will not be available for pick-up this day, but you can reserve your ticket online in advance at no additional cost. To use your badge benefits for this event, you must reserve your seat in advance.

THE MUSICAL

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should — full of myth, wonder, and unwavering belief. IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME is a breathtaking father-son story about imagination, family, and the grace we extend to the people we love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rich Spirit

COUNTRY: USA

IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The PROOF Film Festival is thrilled to present MOTHERWITCH. MOTHERWITCH is based on the short proof-of-concept, by the director Minos Papas, “The Song of the Witch.” The short played at the inaugural PROOF Film Festival in 2023. The feature MOTHERWITCH debuted in 2026 at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Eleni, a painter in Cyprus in 1882, reaches into the shadows to resurrect her lost children, but instead summons the ancient Kalikantzari of Cypriot lore. She must now confront the storm of her grief and anger, and lift the curse.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Cyprus/North Macedonia/United States

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MOTHERWITCH

Los Feliz Theatre

Double Harness / Peter Ibbetson

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriter**: J. Davis

**Producers**: John Hermann, Bert Kern, Douglas Matejka, Mark Myers, Leonora Pitts, Rick Rosenthal, Samuel Henry Miller

With cast and/or crew at every screening! Post-screening conversation moderated by **Jay Duplass** on November 7th and **Patton Oswalt** on November 8th!

Join us in the microcinema for a refreshing dark comedy that will give you life &#8211; J. Davis&#8217; acerbically hilarious *I Hate Myself and Want to Die*. Jacob is an unrealized artist, freshly dumped, who’s come home to the desert to quietly end his life. The problem is, nothing goes according to plan. His mom needs a ride to the drugstore, his cousin needs a shoulder to cry on, and his best friend just wants to get high. Over a crazy night of parties, fistfights and car chases, Jacob rethinks his life and— maybe—his death.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

**Writer/ Producer**: Wong Kar-wai

Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of *Chungking Express *only to spin off on its own woozy axis, *Fallen Angels* plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man (Leon Lai Ming) looking to go straight; his business partner (Michelle Reis), who secretly yearns for him; and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

**Picks from the Video Store**

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*2046, In the Mood for Lover, Happy Together*

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

Fallen Angels

Vidiots

Buddy

Hardcore/Joe

Vista Theatre

Bus Stop

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From world leaders to pop culture icons, and international supermodels, Richard Avedon’s influence helped create the blueprint for our image-driven world. His photographs didn’t just reflect culture, they shaped it.

AVEDON traces the life and legacy of an artist who used photography to reinvent the world around him. Drawing on unprecedented access to his personal archives—never-before-seen stills, intimate behind-the-lens footage and new interviews with his closest collaborators—the film explores how his singular eye both reflected and reshaped the visual language of the 20th century, and why even the most iconic image is only half the story.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Ron Howard and actor and model Lauren Hutton

AVEDON

In the movie *Big*, Tom Hanks made a wish and became a man-child. In *Obsession*, Bear makes a wish and gets a psychotic girlfriend. The ultimate cautionary tale about seeing the world with rose-colored glasses, *Obsession *marks yet another blockbuster in the Blumhouse canon. Written, directed, and edited by the perversely clever Curry Barker, and apparently inspired by an episode of *The Simpsons*, *Obsession *is not only genuinely shocking and funny and best served in a cinema packed with horror fans, it’s also a trenchantly observant look at romance, sex, and basic human interaction—or lack thereof—among Gen Zers.

2026. USA. Written and directed by Curry Barker. With Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston, Megan Lawless, Cooper Tomlinson. DCP courtesy Focus Features. 109 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Obsession

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Nothing equals THE BIRDS for sheer terror when Alfred Hitchcock unleashes his foul friends in one of his most shocking and memorable masterpieces. As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town, preying on schoolchildren and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can’t be explained and can’t be stopped in one of Hollywood’s most horrific films of nature gone berserk.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

THE BIRDS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Small-time mobster Nicky (John Cassavetes) is holed up in a fleabag motel after finding out the boss he stole money from has put a hit out on him. Terrified and with nowhere to run, he calls on Mikey (Peter Falk), his oldest friend and the one person he thinks can save him. But does Mikey actually want to help Nicky this time, or is he merely leading him to his doom? 

Inspired by real-life figures from filmmaker Elaine May’s own childhood and anchored by electrifying performances from its stars—alongside supporting players Ned Beatty, Joyce Van Patten and Carol Grace—MIKEY AND NICKY is a harrowing portrait of male friendship turned tragic and a masterpiece of American cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Muscle Distribution

COUNTRY: USA

MIKEY AND NICKY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When two Paris nightclub jazz players (Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier) meet two vacationing American beauties (Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll), their passion for music is suddenly challenged by their desire for love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30pm. 65th Anniversary ‘The Greg Proops Film Club’

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents PARIS BLUES

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Colt Seavers is a battle-scarred stuntman fresh off an almost career-ending accident. When his ex, Jody, requests him specifically for a new film she’s directing, Colt returns to set to find the movie’s leading man missing and production in peril. Ensnared in an increasingly wild conspiracy, he must solve the mystery to save Jody’s film and get one last shot with her. What could possibly go right?

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

‘David Leitch: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE FALL GUY

World War Z

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

These Long Shadows + Natchez

Now Instant Image Hall

Trash-Mex co-presents the LA premiere of the new restoration of a long completely lost Mexican animated space opera!

ROY DEL ESPACIO (1983) — LA Premiere! co-presented by Trash-Mex!

Join PRS for the ground breaking queer cinema buddy comedy, By Hook or By Crook. Followed by a Q&A with written and director Silas Howard.

By Hook or By Crook (2001) Screening & Q&A

Philosophical Research Society

From unconventional friendships to shared obsessions, these shorts explore the unexpected but fascinating ways people connect. Each story offers a glimpse into a community, a relationship, or a world where shared experience is what brings people together.

- *Lucrecia and the Witches* – Dir. Eduardo Lecuona

- *Stalin Boys* – Dir.(s) Ora DeKornfeld, Bianca Giaever

- *He&#8217;s Out There* – Dir(s). Kurt Andrew Schneider & Sam Davis

- *The Long Con* – Dir. Aitch Alberto

- *Meat* – Dir. Adolfo Margulis

Click [here](https://glaff2026.eventive.org/schedule/6abfec57c8262f378263b0ff) for more information and to purchase tickets.

[**GLAFF**](https://glaff2026.eventive.org/schedule/schedule) (GuadaLAjara Film Festival) has been running since 2010 as a boutique platform dedicated to Latin American, Latinx, and BIPOC filmmakers. We discover, support, and uplift new voices while showcasing established talent from the U.S. and Latin America. As a non-profit, we’re committed to giving back to the community.

This year we’re celebrating the 16th edition of the festival. On **Friday, November 6**, GLAFF takes over the historic **Vidiots** for an extraordinary full-day lineup anchored by our **Centerpiece Gala screening of *****14th***** and an in-person conversation with director Ava DuVernay**, alongside an afternoon shorts block exploring unexpected community connections and a late-night feature presentation of James Gray’s *Paper Tiger*.

GuadaLAjara Film Festival – Shorts Block 2: IN GOOD COMPANY

**Cinematographers**: Michael Cambio Hernandez & Clifford Charles

**Composer**: Jason Moran

**Editor**:  Spencer Averick

**Producers**: Spencer Averick, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes, Tammy Garnes

**The screening will be followed by a conversation with director and producer Ava DuVernay.******

Look closely at the constitutional crises dominating headlines today and a pattern emerges, hardwired into 160 years of history. 14th exposes an unfinished battle to define America, now taking on drastic new dimensions.

Click [here](https://glaff2026.eventive.org/schedule/6abfc47a75241ad761c0ec62) for more information and to purchase tickets.

[**GLAFF**](https://glaff2026.eventive.org/schedule/schedule) (GuadaLAjara Film Festival) has been running since 2010 as a boutique platform dedicated to Latin American, Latinx, and BIPOC filmmakers. We discover, support, and uplift new voices while showcasing established talent from the U.S. and Latin America. As a non-profit, we’re committed to giving back to the community.

This year we’re celebrating the 16th edition of the festival. On **Friday, November 6**, GLAFF takes over the historic **Vidiots** for an extraordinary full-day lineup anchored by our **Centerpiece Gala screening of *****14th***** and an in-person conversation with director Ava DuVernay**, alongside an afternoon shorts block exploring unexpected community connections and a late-night feature presentation of James Gray’s *Paper Tiger*.

GuadaLAjara Film Festival – CENTERPIECE GALA: 14th

**Screenwriter**: James Gray
**Producers**: Rodrigo Teixeira, Anthony Katagas, Raffaella Leone, Gary Farkas, Carlo Salem, Andrea Bucko, James Gray, Andrea Leone, Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, Marco Perego

In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense crime thriller, set in 1986 New York, a naïve engineer, Irwin (Miles Teller) accepts a seemingly lucrative business proposition from his brother, Gary (Adam Driver), a former cop. But when Irwin witnesses something he wasn’t meant to see at the Gowanus Canal, the brothers find themselves pulled into a dangerous confrontation with the newly emerging Russian mafia. As the threat of violence escalates, Irwin’s wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson) sounds the alarm, Irwin desperately tries to protect his family, and Gary is forced to make an impossible choice to save those he loves.

*En este thriller criminal intenso y emocional de James Gray, ambientado en 1986, Nueva York, un ingeniero de buena fe, Irwin (Miles Teller), acepta una propuesta de negocios aparentemente lucrativa de su hermano Gary (Adam Driver), un expolicía. Pero cuando Irwin presencia algo que no debía ver en el canal Gowanus, los hermanos se ven arrastrados a un peligroso enfrentamiento con la mafia rusa. A medida que la amenaza de violencia aumenta, Hester (Scarlett Johansson), esposa de Irwin, da la voz de alarma, Irwin intenta proteger a su familia y Gary se ve obligado a tomar una decisión imposible para salvar a quienes ama.*

Click [here](https://glaff2026.eventive.org/schedule/6ad6319df9d9cfca0b8a6e72) for more information and to purchase tickets.

[**GLAFF**](https://glaff2026.eventive.org/schedule/schedule) (GuadaLAjara Film Festival) has been running since 2010 as a boutique platform dedicated to Latin American, Latinx, and BIPOC filmmakers. We discover, support, and uplift new voices while showcasing established talent from the U.S. and Latin America. As a non-profit, we’re committed to giving back to the community.

This year we’re celebrating the 16th edition of the festival. On **Friday, November 6**, GLAFF takes over the historic **Vidiots** for an extraordinary full-day lineup anchored by our **Centerpiece Gala screening of *****14th***** and an in-person conversation with director Ava DuVernay**, alongside an afternoon shorts block exploring unexpected community connections and a late-night feature presentation of James Gray’s *Paper Tiger*.

GuadaLAjara Film Festival – Paper Tiger

Beau Geste

Dirty Harry/Escape From Alcatraz

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

## This screening has SOLD OUT via pre-sale.

In the film, a pizza delivery person (Greg Diaz) dies while on the job, leaving three orders unfulfilled. Mourning him, a young woman (Rosie Wilt) spends a lost weekend donning and doffing multiple sullen personas—a pierrot, an ill-fated grunge star, a Chanel-suited First Lady. As she explores grief through cosplay, the spectre of the driver returns to finish his work. Those awaiting their orders—a handful of loners spangled across California’s San Gabriel Valley—receive their pizzas, and perhaps, an encounter with the beyond.

MORBID WEEKEND weds contemplative duration and passages of experimental abstraction with ghost story spookiness and sly humor. The film explores the roles we play at work, in our creative practices, and when we think no one else is around. It features music by one of LA’s best bands, 2070, and a driving minimalist score by Brian Sullivan (Mouthus, United Waters). Luca Cioci’s stunning photography captures the soft blue evenings of LA’s other valley—a mountain-hugged expanse east of Hollywood and inland from the coast. The film’s cast boasts a mix of LA-based filmmakers, musicians, writers, designers, and craftspeople, as well as canine and feline celebrities.

**dir. Chris Shields, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
68 min

**FRIDAY, 11/6 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING · Cast & crew in attendance! Q&A led by filmmaker Devon Green.**

## $12 general admission.

***Basic*** *&* ***Microcinephile*** members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply*.* Don't have a membership? Get one *[here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership)*.

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

*sold out* MORBID WEEKEND (2026) West Coast Premiere!

WHAMMY!

LA Filmforum: Sara Gómez’s Cuba – Empathy and the Revolution

2220 Arts + Archives

The Grand Budapest Hotel in 35mm

Paisàn in 35mm

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) in 35mm

Presented in the definitive Final Cut featuring additional scenes and remastered sound and image! In decaying Neo-LA, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) haunts the streets in search of a fugitive gang of genetically-engineered replicants and encounters a woman who may hold the key to life itself. Through the smog and rain, shine neon-lit existential landscapes of philosophical inquiry: what is humanity? Ridley Scott’s METROPOLIS for the ‘80s is such a spectacle of cinematic craft — from the indelible sci-fi visuals to the Vangelis score to the time-defying special effects, you’d swear its creators were ‘more human than human.’ 

Co-starring Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah.

CYBERCON: Blade Runner

Denis Villeneuve reinvents the world of BLADE RUNNER as a dystopian wasteland thirty years after the events of the first film. Ryan Gosling stars as K, a new Blade Runner whose investigation plunges him into the depths of a crumbling society as he hunts the only man who can save us: Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard. Thanks in part to the mind-blowing images created by cinematographer Roger Deakins, BLADE RUNNER 2049 defies every expectation for Hollywood sequels and offers an alternative: a staggering, cerebral, self-possessed work which stands alone in its accomplishments.

CYBERCON: Blade Runner 2049

First Come, First Serve. RSVP does not guarantee entree to screening

Synopsis:

Jaleesa Vincent and Luka Raubenheimer create Vampires Surf, a new fantasy surf film starring Frankie Harrer, Caity Simmers and Kobe Hughes, presented by Sun Bum.

Three immortal vampire girls have spent centuries surfing beneath the moon. When fate changes, they leave the shadows behind and become legends amongst mortals. But the return of the Blood Moon summons them to Coffin Bay, where an ancient prophecy and a powerful evil will decide their future. Spooky, funny and heartfelt, Vampires Surf is a timeless tale of surfing, friendship and following your destiny—even if it takes an eternity.

Vampires Surf presented by Sun Bum

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

GARDENA CINEMA Presents... the 35th Anniversary of CHILD's PLAY 3 with Producer & Second Unit Director Robert Latham Brown!

CHILD's PLAY 3: THE 35th ANNIVERSARY (Sun. 11/15) 8pm

Gardena Cinema

*Archive Talks* pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research. Each program will begin with a special talk by the invited scholar that will introduce audiences to new insights, interpretations and contexts for the films and media being screened.

The Archive first worked with archivist and scholar Laura Horak in 2022 when we presented a series of films unearthed by Horak and her collaborators, Maggie Hennefeld and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi. Their archival project *Cinema’s First Nasty Women *celebrated the work of silent comedians who brought an anarchic brand of gender non-conformity to slapstick. Alongside that work, Horak is also the director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University, which created the [Transgender Media Portal](https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/), a database of trans creators, including links to where their work can be seen. Suffice it to say, increasing the visibility and access to the media she studies is an essential element of Horak’s ongoing research project. With her latest book, *Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds*, Horak dives deep into the history, practice and aesthetics of trans artists in the United States and Canada in the 21st century while positioning them within the larger history of trans media production and representation. The Archive is pleased to welcome Horak back to the Billy Wilder Theater for a brief talk about her work followed by a selection of works by trans artists and an on-stage conversation, with more special guests to be announced soon!

Part of the Archive’s *[Legacy Project Screening Series](/series/outfest-ucla-legacy-project-screening-series/)*. 

*Support for the screening is provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Queer Screening Endowment and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation.*

*Total running time: 84 min.*

Director B. G-Osborne’s three-channel experimental film juxtaposes scenes of trans representation from popular film and television, exposing the emotions of popular trans representation — fascination, fear, sexualization, disgust.

DCP. Director: B. G-Osborne.

A Black trans woman talks about what she wants from life as she shops, flirts and gets ready for a date in this groundbreaking UCLA student film. 

Director: Nikolai Ursin.

*Preservation funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, Film Technology, Inc. Special thanks to Stephen Parr, Norman Yonemoto.*

Director Luis De Filippis explores the quiet relationship between a Canadian Italian trans girl in her early 20s and her Italian grandmother.

DCP. Director: Luis De Filippis.

In this Emmy-nominated web series, the classic romantic comedy structure meets a trans version of *The L Word.*

DCP. Director: Sydney Freeland.

Theo Jean Cuthand (Plains Cree) wrestles honestly with the contradictions of desire and the conundrum of wanting someone you know is bad for you in a colonial context.

DCP. Director: Theo Jean Cuthand.

Stop-motion animation that explores the joy of first love and grief of breaking up in this short film by Raven Davis (Anishinaabe).

DCP. Director: Raven Davis.

This experimental documentary presents Black trans women and their communities fighting back against the violence they face.

DCP. Director: Seyi Adebanjo.

Directed by Jess MacCormack and Alexus Young (Métis), this short experimental animated video documentary illuminates Young’s experience of a “starlight tour” in Saskatoon.

DCP. Directors: Jess MacCormack, Alexus Young.

Director Rhys Ernst’s documentary tells the story of a Black trans caterer and madame from the early 20th century.

DCP. Director: Rhys Ernst.

Director Tourmaline summons a haunting visitation with the spirits of Black trans ancestors via music, light, dancing and mystical scenarios.

DCP. Director: Tourmaline.

Archive Talks: Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister’s boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Shō Miyake. Live piano score by Cliff Retallick. Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

THE PATSY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Misa suffers from severe PMS, which can unravel her otherwise demure disposition with violent disregard for personal or professional company. Finally holding down a job assembling science kits for kids, she befriends Takatoshi, a withdrawn colleague prone to debilitating panic attacks.

Shō Miyake, adapting a novel by Seo Maiko, choreographs the blossoming relationship with gentle humor and sensitivity in gorgeous 16mm.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

Q&A with filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

ALL THE LONG NIGHTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island. Starring Sammy Petrillo, doing his jawdropping impression of Jerry Lewis.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR:

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with screenwriter Scott Alexander, author Dave Abramson, actor Elsie Fisher, producer Jack Broder’s grandson David Kopple and comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff. Moderated by Dana Gould. Brand new scan of the film from the original camera negative There will be a book signing with Dave Abramson and Scott Alexander for Abramson’s book, Your Time is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story, following the Q&A at the Los Feliz 3 in partnership with Larry Edmund’s Bookshop.

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In French and English with English subtitles. *

A filmmaker consistently unafraid to wade through the weird miasma of contemporary life, Bertrand Bonello works from the outside in, dramatizing the psychological toll of the political and cultural world around us. Here he has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014 and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Using Henry James’s haunting 1903 short story “The Beast in the Jungle” as his film’s provocative inspiration, Bonello tells the story of a young woman (Léa Seydoux) who undergoes a surgical process to have her DNA—and therefore memories of all her past lives—removed. In so doing, she realizes her fate has long been intertwined, for better and worse, with a young man (George MacKay). Touching on modern anxieties of AI and incel culture, which may recur throughout history as commonly as love and hate, THE BEAST, like all good science-fiction, asks essential questions about the ever-shifting status of humanity itself.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

‘Léa Seydoux: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE BEAST

Join artist Cecilia Vicuña in conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey on the occasion of Vicuña’s exhibition The Dream of Water: Quipu of Encounters Maricunga. Vicuña’s project at MOCA focuses on the ecological crisis unfolding in the Maricunga Salt Flats, located in the southernmost part of the Atacama Desert where fragile ecosystems–and the communities that have called this territory home for generations–face increasing threats from corporate lithium mining. The conversation will explore this newly commissioned work as well as Vicuña's decades long practice spanning poetry, performance, and textiles.

Cecilia Vicuña is one of the inaugural winners of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, a juried prize that supports artists whose practices address critical intersections in art, architecture, design, climate, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice.

About Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948) is a visual artist, poet, filmmaker and activist based in New York. Her poetic work in space, performance and visual arts is considered a decolonizing vision that anticipated ecofeminism. She coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s in Chile as a new independent and non-colonized category for her precarious works composed of structures that disappear in the landscape, and in 1974, while in London, she co-founded the collective Artists for Democracy. Vicuña has re-invented the ancient Pre-Columbian quipu system of non-writing with knots through ritual acts that weave the urban landscape, rivers and oceans, as well as people, to re-construct a sense of unity and awareness of interconnectivity. These works bridge art and poetry as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.”

In recent years Vicuña has exhibited at Turbine Hall, TATE, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; Kunstinstitutt Melly (ex Witte de With) Rotterdam, The Netherlands; MUAC, Mexico; CA2M, Madrid, where she received the Velasquez Award; and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. Her retrospective “Soñar el agua” was recently on view at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, and MALBA, Buenos Aires and is currently on view at the Pinacoteca, São Paulo. She received the Golden Lion Award for her trajectory at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Her work is collected in major institutions around the world. In February 2023 she was elected Honorary Foreign Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters of the United States, and Dr. Honoris Causa by Universidad de Chile. She was the winner of the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2023, one of the most prestigious awards given by her homeland.

About Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA who teaches postcolonial and Indigenous literature courses on the environment, globalization, critical ocean studies, and the Anthropocene and climate change, with a focus on the Caribbean and Pacific Islands (Oceania). She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures (U of Hawai`i Press, 2007), and Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019), which examines climate change and empire in the literary and visual arts. She is co-editor of the volumes Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (Virginia UP, 2005); Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment (Oxford UP, 2011); and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (Routledge, 2015) and of numerous journal issues on critical ocean, island and militarism studies. Her scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fulbright New Zealand, the Rachel Carson Center (LMU, Munich), the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. Most recently she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021-22).

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize is funded by philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, the prize is awarded by MOCA every two years from 2024 until 2030. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize awards a $100,000 unrestricted honorarium and institutional support to complete a new project presented by MOCA. The winners also engage and collaborate with communities in LA and beyond.

Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

MOCA Grand Avenue

Ratatouille

The Last Picture Show

1927 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Brett Valliant on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduction by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • This film stars Mary Pickford late in the silent era, still proving she could carry a comedy on sheer timing and personality, and she also produced the film. The cinematography was strong enough to earn an early Academy Award nomination for Charles Rosher.

My Best Girl

Old Town Music Hall

The LA premiere of the new kaleidoscopic retelling of the Orpheus myth, blending 16mm photography, stop-motion, and handmade illusions!

Virgilio Villoresi’s ORFEO (2025) — Los Angeles Premiere!

Join us for the closing reception of here now now gone gone here, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Senon Williams.

here now, now gone, gone here by Senon Williams CLOSING RECEPTION

Uma Sanasaryan traces the Goddess Kali's presence in Hollywood and uncanny historical parallels across cinema and pop culture.

HOLLYWOOD KALI: An Archival Exploration of Kali's Influence on Hollywood

**Screenwriters**: Peter Sauder, Barry Downes

**Producers**: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert

Join hands and form the circle of friendship with your favorite cuddly toy-turned-cartoon characters. *The Care Bears* team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician&#8217;s apprentice whose evil spell book causes sinister things to happen. Who says little furry creatures can&#8217;t make a difference?

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love to play with your toys while you watch them on your screen? Bring home more cutesy crossovers!

*My Little Pony, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Transformers*

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

The Care Bears Movie

**Screenwriters**: Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott from the novel by Fannie Hurst

**Producer**: Ross Hunter

Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, and Sandra Dee light up the screen in this Douglas Sirk tearjerking melodrama of single mothers and racial identity. The second screen adaptation of Fannie Hurst&#8217;s incendiery novel, Douglas Sirk ratchets up the drama, the color, and the story of this powerful tale of women&#8217;s resilience from its predecessor with Claudette Colbert. Lora Meredith (suspected murderess Lana Turner), a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, takes in a black widow Annie (Juanita Moore) and her mixed race daughter (Susan Kohner) to live with her and her daughter (Sandra Dee). Together, the women deal with the maelstrom of life&#8217;s ups and downs including the toll of success and Annie&#8217;s daughter desperately trying to erase her racial identity and come off as white. With incredible female characters and actors, that gorgeous Sirkian Technicolor touch, and a story of race that was decades ahead of its time, this classic melodrama is ready to pull you in and give you all the feels!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more gorgeous melodramas from our Douglas Sirk director&#8217;s section!

*Written on the Wind, All that Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession*

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

Imitation of Life (1959) on 35mm

Vidiots is electrified to welcome Electronic music pioneer and five-time Grammy nominee **Suzanne Ciani** to our microcinema for two screenings of ***CIANI/ORKEST***, a live quadrophonic concert film with the Metropole Orkest. Suzanne will join producer KamranV in conversation after the 4:45pm screening, with an introduction to the 7:30pm screening.

The legendary Suzanne Ciani joins the internationally acclaimed Metropole Orkest, conducted by Simon Dobson, for the release of [CIANI/ORKEST](http://akprecordings.com/cianiorkest), a landmark live album composed entirely of new work, created specifically for this unprecedented collaboration. Filmed live, you will be immersed in wall to wall sound for this jaw-dropping live performance.

Recorded at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) before a rapt audience, CIANI/ORKEST is not a retrospective. It is a bold, immersive meeting of the Buchla electronic instrument and 50-piece orchestral sound. The result is a sweeping sonic landscape, at once intimate and monumental.

Under the direction of the Metropole Orkest, renowned for its genre-defying collaborations with artists from jazz to contemporary classical &#8211; strings shimmer, brass swells and woodwinds echo the organic, fluid qualities that have always defined Ciani’s sound. “This project feels like a homecoming,” says Ciani. “The Buchla was always orchestral to me, an instrument capable of infinite color. Hearing those colors unfold through the Metropole Orkest has been profoundly moving.”

At the heart of CIANI/ORKEST lies Ciani’s lifelong commitment to quadraphonic sound. From her early Buchla performances in the late 1960s to her 2018 release LIVE Quadraphonic, Ciani has treated space as a primary compositional parameter. Working alongside immersive producer KamranV, Ciani continues to explore immersive sound as both artistic and human gesture. Kamran’s decades of work in spatial formats, converge here in service of a singular goal: to let sound behave as it does in the physical world.

CIANI/ORKEST

**Screenwriters**: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

**Producers**: Tony DeRosa-Grund, Tracey E. Edmonds, Marc Platt, Chuck Grimes

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome back writer/directors **Deborah Kaplan **and** Harry Elfont** and one of our favorite Pussycats **Rachael Leigh Cook **for a special screening of their meow-sical delight ***Josie and the Pussycats***! Plus, ultra-millennial DJ sets from **DJ Vick Jagger** before and after the screening!

Second Screening Added Friday, November 20th &#8211; Screening Only, No Guests or DJs

Put on your kitty ears and get ready to rock out with the Pussycats in this smart, sassy, and salient satire. When Josie, Melody, and Val are given an opportunity to hit it big with their small-town girl band, they think all their dreams have come true &#8211; until they realize they&#8217;re just pawns in a game to control the youth of America. With great songs, clever consumerist critique, the epitome of Y2K fashion, and two super-villains played by Alan Cumming and Parker Posey, you&#8217;ll want to grab your friends and join us for all the meow-sical fun!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a girl group? Take home these rockin&#8217; gems on physical media!

*Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Breaking Glass, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains*

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

Josie and the Pussycats

The Westerner

Paper Tiger 35mm

The Misfits in 4K

L’amore in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor Paul Giamatti Advance Screening

THE DEBUT

Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Mija begins to study poetry writing at the local cultural center. At first she finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world, but then, when Jong-wook is mired in a shocking scandal, Mija taps into newfound depths of disappointment and pain.

Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong's POETRY is a “tour de force” that presents an “extraordinary vision of human empathy” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Poetry

BURNING is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people in his orbit: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers the romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun), a wealthy and sophisticated young man she returns from a trip with. However, when Jongsu learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Haemi suddenly disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount, culminating in a stunning finale.

Burning

Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity - from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho’s oppressive struggles, mirror South Korea’s traumatic political history during the late 20th century.

An official selection of the Directors' Fortnight selection in Cannes and winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, PEPPERMINT CANDY is a powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema that elegizes a generation of marginalized people with “quiet, heartbreaking power” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Peppermint Candy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The British expedition saw Mount Everest as a conquest; Himalayan climber Tenzing Norgay saw its summit as a spiritual calling. TENZING tells the true story of the unsung hero who reached the top alongside Edmund Hillary, revealing the courage, resilience & cultural identity behind the historic feat.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Apple Original Films

COUNTRY: UK/Australia/USA

TENZING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation. Banned upon its release in the director’s homeland, the art-house smash *WR* is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Yugoslavia

Cinematic Void Presents W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM

Onslaught / One Spoon of Chocolate

**Screenwriters**: Alex Huston Fischer,  Eleanor Wilson

**Producers**: Ed Sinclair,  Tom Carver,  Olivia Colman,  Justin Lothrop,  Brent Stiefel, Brad Zimmerman,  David Michôd,  Andrea Cornwell,  Oliver Kassman, Tim Headington,  Lia Buman,  Ryan Heller,  Michael Bloom

An audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention, *Wicker* tells the wholly original love story of an ostracized fisherwoman (Colman) who commissions a husband to be made by the local basketmaker (Dinklage). When her wicker husband (Skarsgård) proves more spectacular than she ever imagined, his soulful spirit and unique prowess awaken something inside her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination, and upheaval that threatens the very fabric of village life.

Wicker

**Screenwriter**: Ken Russell

**Producers**: Ken Russell, Robert H. Solo

Ken Russell&#8217;s lavishly deranged and gloriously sacrilegious masterpiece comes to Vidiots in a beautiful new restoration! In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Devils on 35mm

Director **Lee Chang-dong** in person

Winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, *Possible Love* marks the long-awaited return of Lee Chang-dong (*Burning*, *Poetry*), whose infrequent releases make each new film a major—and always ravishing—cinematic event. The precarious existence of a laid-off factory worker and his wife is upended when an affluent documentary filmmaker chooses them as the subjects of her latest project. Featuring an extraordinary ensemble led by Jeon Do-yeon, winner of the Cannes Best Actress prize for *Secret Sunshine*, the film unfolds as a haunting, slow-burning examination of class disparity, lingering trauma, and the elusive quest for human connection. Probing the mysteries of human behavior, Lee exposes the quiet hypocrisies and unspoken desires that shape how we perceive—and exploit—one another.

2026. South Korea. Written and directed by Lee Chang-dong. With Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong, Zo In-sung. DCP courtesy Netflix. In Korean; English subtitles. 164 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Possible Love

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Mandarin with English subtitles.*

Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, is forced to abandon her studies and marry into wealth, becoming the fourth and newest concubine of the aging, unseen Master Chen. Inside his walled estate, she discovers a household ruled by a merciless ritual: each night, red lanterns are lit outside the chambers of whichever wife the master chooses to visit, granting her privilege and status while the others are cast into cold irrelevance. Songlian is drawn into the orbit of her rivals, each shaped by years of fighting for the same scraps of attention. Determined at first to rise above the games, Songlian is gradually worn down by isolation and humiliation until she strikes back, trading secrets and favors to secure her place in Master Chen’s hierarchy. As petty cruelty turns even more dire, Songlian is forced to confront what these desperate measures will cost her soul. Newly restored, the film stands as one of the defining works of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema and international film of the 1990s.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: China/Hong Kong

New 4K Restoration 35th Anniversary Limited Engagement

RAISE THE RED LANTERN

Daisy Miller

**TAPE Los Angeles** is excited to present new films by Los Angeles artist **Mike Stoltz** - Join us for a FREE screening of a selection of new single-channel film work freshly finished in 2026! This includes Pinktoned, the single-channel version of its expanded cinema companion piece that was on view at the Hammer Museum for Made in LA 2025. All films were shot on 16mm and this screening will include 16mm projection.

Mike Stoltz is a Los Angeles-based moving image artist who makes films, installations, and objects that examine how human beings move through and exist within the constructed landscape. His film experiments and works are microscopic deep dives into buzzing natural phenomena inherent in the creation, projection and viewing of the moving image.

*Blue Nile/Cosmogram #2*

collaboration with Adee Roberson

(2026, 16mm to HD, 2:45)

*Testament*

(2026, 16mm, sound, 5:45)

*Pinktoned*

(2026, 16mm to HD, 11:00)

*Artificial Horizons Test*

(2026, 16mm, silent, 5:45)

TRT: 27 minutes

Stoltz's 16mm films and videos have screened internationally at venues such as Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, The Hammer Museum, Media City Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Courtisane, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Light Field, International Film Festival Rotterdam, REDCAT,and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

**TUESDAY, 11/17 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## This is a totally FREE! Use the ticket link to RSVP to reserve a seat.

*Presented by* *[T.A.P.E.](https://tapeanalog.org/)* *- a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.*

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

ARTIFICIAL HORIZONS TEST - new films by Mike Stoltz, pres. by TAPE (FREE!)

The Getaway in 35mm

Four strangers' paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA.*

*Archive Talks* pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research. Each program will begin with a special talk by the invited scholar that will introduce audiences to new insights, interpretations and contexts for the films and media being screened.

This screening will be preceded by a book signing of *Banton of Paramount: Haute Couture in Hollywood’s Golden Age* with author Howard Gutner beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby.

*Special thanks to our community partner: [Art Deco Society of Los Angeles](https://artdecola.org/)*

The playboy and thief Gaston (Herbert Marshall) meets the expert pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins) on the Riviera, and they, of course, fall in love. In Paris, Gaston gets a job as the personal secretary to a wealthy heiress to a perfume company, Mariette (Kay Francis), hiring Lily as the maid, so they can rob her blind. Unfortunately, while cleaning up the corruption on her company’s board, he also falls in love with her. No director was better at exposing the false morality of the bourgeoisie when pursuing sexual desire. Here, Ernst Lubitsch sets up a faux marriage, then turns the relationship into a ménage à trois, which he provocatively suggests may be the best way to keep a sexual relationship interesting and stable. Lubitsch’s direction of actors is almost Pirandellian, with the actors speaking their emotional lines in a virtual monotone, thus creating parodies of romantic love.

On display in this luscious pre-Code comedic romance is the creative genius of Travis Banton, one of Hollywood’s most important costume designers, whose collaborators included Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg. A conversation on Banton’s influence and evocative style, with author Howard Gutner and Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis, will precede the screening.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Screenwriter: Samson Raphaelson. With: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles.

*Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from the 35mm nitrate studio print and a 35mm acetate dupe negative. Laboratory services by Fotokem, Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc., Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to Library of Congress, George Willeman, British Film Institute, Universal Pictures.*

Archive Talks: Trouble in Paradise

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Greatest Love Of All Time,” 1977, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 10 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A portrait of Serbia’s erotic surrealist painter Popovic Ljuba, with Richard Wagner’s Tannhauser on the sound track.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE MARGIN, 1976, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 88 Mins, Janus Films, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York 4K Restoration of THE MARGIN ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"The Greatest Love of All Time" / THE MARGIN

Deliverance / Zardoz

**Screenwriter**: Juzo Itami

**Producers**: Seigo Hosogoe, Juzo Itami, Yasushi Tamaoki

We&#8217;re serving up the ultimate cinematic feast, Juzo Itami&#8217;s delectable &#8220;ramen western,&#8221; just in time for feasting season!  After the death of her husband, the widow of the proprietor of a noodle shop must rely on a cabal of gastronomes to help her find the perfect recipe. Deliciously funny, sexy and surreal, this hilarious satire satisfies down to the soul. Get ready to devour this treasure of Japanese and culinary cinema in its new 4K restoration on our big delicious screen! And come hungry, our concessions stand will have delicious ramen to slurp during the film!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Hungry for more foodie movies?  Check out these bangers from our video rental collection!

*Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers, Like Water for Chocolate, The Trip***

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

Tampopo

Point Blank/The Split

50th Anniversary of Carrie with Sissy Spacek

### THE CELL (2000)

Our friends in AFTER are hosting a special screening of the 2000s classic *THE CELL*, accompanied by the band in person and music videos.

### About the Film

Expert child psychotherapist Jennifer Lopez goes inside a mad serial killer&#8217;s mind to find out where he&#8217;s keeping his irl victims. Beautiful set-pieces in a surrealist dreamscape that draws from the art of Damien Hirst et al. It&#8217;s *Silence of the Lambs* on shrooms.

AFTER presents THE CELL (2000)

When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae relocates down south to her late husband’s hometown of Miryang. Despite her efforts to settle down, in this unfamiliar and much too normal place, she finds that she can’t quite fit in. Helping her out is Kim Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome bachelor, who owns a car repair shop. Life plods on. However, fate takes a vicious turn when Shin-ae loses her son in the most horrific way a mother could imagine. She turns to Christianity to relieve the pain in her heart, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 11/19) 7:30pm

Olivia Wilde out-Albees Edward Albee (and out-LaButes Neil LaBute) in this viciously funny four-hander about a couple who inadvertently spice up their marriage when they invite over their swinging neighbors for a casual dinner party. Deftly adapted by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones from the popular Spanish movie *Sentimental*, *The Invite* confirms Wilde as an uncommonly, if unsurprisingly, gifted director of actors, each of whom plays their parts to perfection: the put-upon neurotic wife (Wilde, paying homage to Diane Keaton), the half-hearted husband (Seth Rogan), the Tantric seeker (Ed Norton), and the free-spirited bohemian (Penelope Cruz). 

2026. USA. Directed by Olivia Wilde. Screenplay by Will McCormack, Rashida Jones. With Wilde, Penelope Cruz, Edward Norton, Seth Rogen. DCP courtesy A24. 107 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

The Invite

**Screenwriter:** Greg Mottola

**Producers:** Nancy Tenenbaum, Steven Soderbergh

*The Daytrippers*, directed by late-aughts comedy mainstay Greg Mottola (*Superbad*, *Adventureland*), follows one crazy day in the life of the dysfunctional Malone family as they embark on a frenzied odyssey through New York City. When eldest daughter Eliza (Hope Davis) finds a love letter addressed to her husband (Stanley Tucci), the whole family—including Eliza’s younger sister Jo (an effortlessly cool Parker Posey in the most dazzling pair of red leg warmers), mother Rita (comedy legend Anne Meara), father Jim (Pat McNamara), and Jo’s fiancé Carl (a baby-faced Liev Schreiber)—squeezes into a station wagon trekking from Long Island to the city in search of answers. The group stumbles and bickers through encounters with distinctly New York oddballs, artists, and elitists but no one is prepared for when their sleuthing leads to a devastating revelation. Anchored by standout performances from Posey, Davis, and Meara, Greg Mottola&#8217;s family road-trip from hell is a hilarious, clever, and surprisingly poignant indie gem.

The Daytrippers

Rolling Thunder

Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a single show at Carnegie Hall. This is the movie.

Directed and shot on 35mm and 16mm by Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER), the crew includes filmmaker and actor Benny Safdie (THE SMASHING MACHINE) and music producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Grammy winner for albums with Vampire Weekend and Adele).

GQ praised Cameron Winter’s show at Carnegie Hall as “staggeringly good,” and Nick Cave said he has a “a glorious, emotive voice with brilliant, blistering words, a racked and wondrous thing.” Winter’s solo album *Heavy Metal* was named one of the best of the year by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Paste and Mojo and Geese’s last record *Getting Killed* was named the best album of 2025 by The New Yorker, NME and Stereogum.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films and Criterion

COUNTRY: USA

CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL

*Michel Gondry, USA, 2004, 35mm, 108 min. *

Everyone has an ex they’d rather forget; now, you can. For Joel (Jim Carrey), the culmination of his on-again, off-again relationship with Clementine (Kate Winslet) is the erasure of him from her memory. Thanks to a breakthrough procedure from Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), he too can wipe the experience from his mind, but his heart is a different matter. As he courses through the years of make-ups and break-ups, though the memories fade, the love remains, but for how long? A visionary experiment in love from the minds of writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek swap in and out while a mural painted in a dried out pool reveals some sort of inkling of truth. Altman, true American surrealist!

3 Women

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Natural Born Killers

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Rosalie,” 1966, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 15 Mins, Friends of Walerian Borowcyzk, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Of all his films, Borowczyk’s favorite was “Rosalie.” Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden. Featuring a profoundly touching performance by Ligia Borowczyk, once again Borowczyk uses animated objects to relate (horrific) action indirectly. An over-exposed, chiaroscuro image gives the proceedings an ethereal quality halfway between one of Beckett’s monologues and David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD.

FORMAT: DCP

**BLANCHE, 1971, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 94 Mins, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.

FORMAT: DCP

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

"Rosalie" / BLANCHE

Ocean’s Eleven

Zodiac

Towards where to breathe + Towards Tenderness

**Screenwriters**: David Lynch, Barry Gifford

**Producers**: Steve Golin, Michael Kuhn, Sigurjon Sighvatsson

Ill-fated lovers Sailor and Lula (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) hit the road to escape a hit man and end up in an absurdly nightmarish landscape in David Lynch&#8217;s dark romantic fairy tale that earned the Palme d&#8217;Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990.  A violent, erotic, and comedic take on the road movie, this high-octane adventure features an incredible cast, distinctly Lynchian iconography, and (as always) a score by the legendary Angelo Badalamenti. Based on the outrageously enjoyable novel by Barry Gifford.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Harry Dean and Lynch collaborations tonight!

*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Inland Empire, Twin Peaks: The Return*

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

Wild at Heart

**Producers**: Liani Greaves,  Anne De Mare

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. For four hours, this extraordinary group – many of whom had not seen each other in fifty years – reminisced, critiqued, argued, laughed and drank while wrestling with their place in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape. 

Shot on 16mm film, newly restored and now directed by Greaves’ son David, this landmark film is at once a self-exploration and an inquiry into the heart of the critical mass of energy called the Harlem Renaissance. William Greaves’ intent was not only to document these artists and intellectuals as they spoke about their lives and work but also to plumb the meaning of the extraordinary creative period in which they lived to help us better understand how culture has been passed on from one generation to another and the role that the artist plays in keeping it alive.

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

**Screenwriter**: William Gibson

**Producer**: Don Carmody

We know you can&#8217;t get Keanu out of your head, even when he&#8217;s storing all your data inside his own brain! In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant&#8217;s safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life. A super fun sci-fi thrill ride with a killer cast that includes Ice-T, Dolph Lundgren, and Takeshi Kitano, and an increasingly prescient message &#8211; *Johnny Mnemonic* is one hell of a mind-trip!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home Keanu tonight on glorious physical media!

*River&#8217;s Edge, Bill and Ted&#8217;s Excellent Adventure, My Own Private Idaho*

Johnny Mnemonic on 35mm

Straw Dogs (1971)

Dazed and Confused

Wendell & Wild

Stromboli in 35mm

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

Viva Ingrid!

Journey to Italy

7:30 PM

WOMEN IN LOVE

7:30 PM

O.V.A. Night – Vol. III

8:00 PM

Gentle Monster

I Want Your Sex

7:30 PM

THE MUSICAL

6:30 PM

IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME

9:30 PM

MOTHERWITCH

9:30 PM

Double Harness

Peter Ibbetson

7:30 PM

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

7:00 PM

Fallen Angels

7:30 PM

Buddy

7:30 PM

Hardcore/Joe

8:00 PM