The Hidden Room (aka Obsession)

Academy Museum

### **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

Aero Theatre

Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, when he realizes that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsychologists led by Dr. Lesh to help before it's too late.

Poltergeist

In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure.

The Goonies

Directed by Ridley Scott from an Oscar®-winning screenplay by Callie Khouri, "Thelma & Louise" has been hailed as one of the best road movies of all time! Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest. With a determined detective (Harvey Keitel) on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker (Brad Pitt) in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey.

Presented by Park Circus. THELMA & LOUISE has been digitally restored from a new 4K 16 bit scan, supervised by director Ridley Scott using the original negative. The film has been restored by The Criterion Collection with participation from MGM Studios and Park Circus

Thelma & Louise (4K Restoration)

Egyptian Theatre

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

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 5/21) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

Join us for after-hours walk-throughs of *Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials* and *SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection* led by curators **Pablo José Ramírez** and **Erin Christovale**, respectively, accompanied by drinks and appetizers on the Annenberg terrace. 

Swing by **LULU **or the **Hammer Store** before the tours for 10% off your purchases. 

This event is exclusive to Hammer members at the Immerse level ($250) and higher. 

[Become a member today](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership). 

If you would like to upgrade your membership, contact us at [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu) or 310-443-7050.
 
RSVP required; capacity is limited. Kindly reply by Friday, May 15 to 310-443-7050 or [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

Cocktails with a Curator

Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

From the *Los Angeles Times* and Pulitzer Prize-finalist **Rosanna Xia**, *Out of Plain Sight* is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. 

Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovers a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean—and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.

2024, Dir. Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia, DCP, color, 94 min. 

Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor **Elizabeth DeLoughrey**, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor **Rebeca Méndez**, and the film’s co-director, investigative journalist **Rosanna Xia**

Out of Plain Sight

Hammer Museum

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 *Star City*, followed by a conversation with creator, executive producer, and showrunner Ben Nedivi; creator, executive producer, and showrunner Matt Wolpert; and featured cast members Ruby Ashbourne-Serkis, Josef Davies, Solly McLeod, and Adam Nagaitis.

A bold new chapter inspired by the critically acclaimed space-race drama *For All Mankind*, *Star City* is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race—when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.

The series stars Rhys Ifans (*House of the Dragon*), Anna Maxwell Martin (*Motherland*), Agnes O’Casey (*Black Doves*), Alice Englert (*Bad Behaviour*), Solly McLeod (*House of the Dragon*), Adam Nagaitis (*The Terror*, *Chernobyl*), Ruby Ashbourne-Serkis (*I, Jack Wright*), Josef Davies (*Andor*) and Priya Kansara (*Polite Society*, *Bridgerton*). 

*Star City* is created by Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore. Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, as well as Andrew Chambliss and Steve Oster. *Star City* is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures Television.

*Star City *premieres globally with the first two episodes on Friday, May 29 on Apple TV, with new episodes every Friday. 

Watch the [official trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yAMs307W4)

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.**

Special Member Advance Screening: Apple TV's Star City and Post-Screening Conversation

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Donissan, a mediocre seminarist, haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission, mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners…until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette, who has just committed a mortal sin. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cohen Media Group

COUNTRY: France

‘Maurice Pialat: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 19, “Variations on Relations,” Dir. Jonathan Sanger, 47 Mins**

Pete and Catherine open the first puzzle box.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 20, “The Path to the Black Lodge,” Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal, 46 Mins**

Cooper convinces Annie to enter the Miss Twin Peaks contest.

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.

“Variations on Relations” and “The Path to the Black Lodge” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 19 and 20

Los Feliz Theatre

The Hallelujah Trail

New Beverly Cinema

Artistic polymath Adam Green presents an exploration of Harry Smith's esoteric artistic practices + a screening of Smith's landmark film!

Adam Green Explains Harry Smith + HEAVEN & EARTH MAGIC (1962)

Philosophical Research Society

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

Presented by Art Hang.

6-8pm

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




Art Night at Scribble!

Scribble

The Rip

Christine/Maximum Overdrive

Vista Theatre

Barton Fink in 35mm

Dersu Uzala in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, 1951, Dir. Vincente Minnelli, 115 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in this winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. When ex-GI Jerry Mulligan (Kelly) remains in Paris to pursue life as an artist, he is discovered by a wealthy patroness interested in more than his art. But Mulligan falls in love with a French shop girl (Caron) who is engaged to his best friend.​

FORMAT: DCP

**COVER GIRL, 1944, Dir. Charles Vidor, 107 Mins, Sony Pictures, USA**

Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire’s Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a ‘Cover Girl’ as a stepping-stone in her career. Rita Hayworth dresses and dances to songs from the beginning of the 20th century in relating their shared past history. Rusty lands on the cover of her grandmother’s former fiancé’s magazine (as a bride). She is pursued by Coudair’s pal, the wealthy theatrical producer, Noel Wheaton (Lee Bowman). He produces a lavish musical to star Rusty, surrounded by real cover girls of the mid 1940’s. Rita’s glowing, never more gorgeous as she runs down a huge spiral into the arms of dozens of men who seem clumsy next to her ethereal dancing. But her success threatens Danny McGuire, played by an energetic Gene Kelly. 

FORMAT: DCP

75th Anniversary of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS ‘It’s Showtime at the AC!’

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS / COVER GIRL

Join us for a celebratory Los Angeles screening of *Joshua Bailey’s*

**Stolen Kingdom.**

**Synopsis:**

*Stolen Kingdom* is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief,

scandal and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an

animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. The film features key

figures from the park&#8217;s underground community, each sharing their unique

stories.
As the narrative unfolds, early pranks and antics are shown to have inspired

more recent crimes, culminating in a true crime mystery. What begins as a tale

of friendship and passion ends with one lingering question:

**Who stole Buzzy?**

Stolen Kingdom

Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian&#8217;s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

Escape to Witch Mountain

Brain Dead Studios

Tragedy ignites a group of teens on a wild quest. Together, they navigate the adventure while confronting the darkness within themselves.

BETTER TOGETHER (2023)(PG-13) Fri 5/22: 7:30 pm; Sun 5/24: 3pm & 7:30pm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Canada/Hungary

BLUE HERON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*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

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’

FLOWING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Three months after a painful breakup, a Los Angeles based photographer drifts through Silver Lake’s creative chaos—dodging well-meaning friends, career pressures, and fleeting flings—as he navigates his way into the next chapter.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Circle Collective

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and actor Greg Vrotsos

SITUATIONS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and English with English subtitles.*

Swapping homes means swapping lives. In this Lubitschian romantic comedy of mistaken identities, misunderstandings, inverted roles, and motherly love, the free-spirited, straight-talking Béatrice (Juliette Binoche) trades her messy Parisian apartment with Henry (William Hurt), a buttoned-up New York shrink with a pristinely curated Fifth Avenue penthouse, a golden retriever, and a fiancée. Henry discovers on his return to New York that Béatrice is conducting therapy sessions with his neurotic patients. Intrigued, he pretends to be one of them and soon finds himself on the proverbial couch. As the transference and countertransference inevitably take hold, so too does their love. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Le Bureau Films

COUNTRY: France/Germany/Belgium

30th Anniversary ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

A COUCH IN NEW YORK

Django Unchained

**Screenwriter**: Ildikó Enyedi

**Producers**: Reinhard Brundig,  Mónika Mécs,  Nicolas Elghozi,  Meng Xie

At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass, the distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches, forming a nexus that connects three generations of students and teachers across time and space. In 2020, a visiting neuroscientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botanical consciousness. In 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by studying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Over time, each is transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature.

From Ildikó Enyedi, the director of Academy Award-nominated *On Body and Soul, *comes* Silent Friend*, an epic, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux and Venice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler, Enyedi crafts a thoughtful meditation on the essential question of what it means to be human.

Silent Friend

**Screenwriter**: Scott Rosenberg

**Producer**: Jerry Bruckheimer

Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with this high-flying banger with one of the best casts in an action blockbuster including a triumvirate of bad-asses Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, AND Danny Trejo. Nicolas Cage stars as  former US Army ranger Cameron Poe, newly paroled and sporting some glorious long hair, who is hitching a ride on home aboard the &#8220;Jailbird,&#8221; a prison transport flight taking the “worst of the worst” to a new super-prison. When the plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country, led by genius serial killer Cyrus &#8220;The Virus&#8221; Grissom (John Malkovich at his most Malkovich), Poe must find a way to stay undercover, stay alive, and keep the bunny in the box. This explosive action spectacular is the best kind of popcorn movie to watch big and loud with a crowd of Vidiots!

**Picks from the Video Store**

You know you can&#8217;t get enough Steve Buscemi! Take home deep cut treasures on glorious physical media tonight!

*Animal Factory, Trees Lounge, In the Soup*

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

Con Air

**Screenwriters**: Nick Kocher,  Brian McElhaney

**Producers**: Kelly McCormick,  David Leitch,  Aram Tertzakian,  Nick Spicer,  Guy Danella, Lee Kim

We want your Memorial Day weekend getaway to Vidiots to be a bloody good time, so we booked you a cabin in the woods to relax, unwind, and survive a half dozen murder plots! When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to kill the other. However, their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when strangers crash the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must soon figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.

Over Your Dead Body

**Screenwriter**: Roger Waters

**Producer**: Alan Marshall

*All in all you&#8217;re just another brick in the wall*. Penned by Pink Floyd&#8217;s own Roger Waters and directed by musical veteran Alan Parker, this psychedelic visual album is one of the most notorious rock musical movies ever. A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. With a mix of animation, gory imagery, war flashbacks, angst, drama, and an iconic soundtrack, this is a rock opera that needs to be heard through our killer speakers and seen on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Pink Floyd in concert and on these soundtracks tonight on DVD and Blu-Ray!

*More, La Vallee, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii*

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

Pink Floyd: The Wall on 35mm

Vidiots

Mank

The Man In The Moon

The Dark Knight

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

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

∆

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

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

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

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

2220 Arts + Archives

One Battle After Another in 70mm

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Hungarian with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Arbelos Films

COUNTRY: Hungary/Germany/Switzerland

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

SÁTÁNTANGÓ

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

Grey Gardens

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

Nadja

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Screening: *La Llorona*

Getty Center

Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

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

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

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

Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.

*Los Angeles Premiere of New Restoration*

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

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

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

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

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

Trailin’

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

*World Premiere of New Preservation*

With original commercials

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

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

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

*World Premiere of New Preservation*

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

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

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

Lela Swift: Television Director

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

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

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

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

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

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

The Unwanted

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

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

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

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

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

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

Eight Girls in a Boat

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

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

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

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

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

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

Pitfall

*World Premiere of New Restoration*

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

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

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

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

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

The Other Love

Ever wanted to build a synthesizer?

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

You’ll be learning with:

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

About Dogbotic:

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

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

YEARNING

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

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

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

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

THE BEACH Marathon

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE HOUSE BUNNY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY

Cinderella

Crimson Tide / Déjà Vu

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

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

7-9pm

FREE! Books available for purchase. 

Spring is Sprung!

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

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

The Sandlot

**Screenwriter**: Sophy Romvari

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

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

Blue Heron

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

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

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

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

The Python Hunt

**Screenwriters**: Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader

**Producer**: Tom Luddy, Mataichirô Yamamoto

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

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

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Cutthroat Island

First Blood/ Extreme Prejudice

Castle in the Sky in 35mm

The Asphalt Jungle in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE

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

The Piano Teacher

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

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

Cinematic Void Presents DEAD PRESIDENTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: Canada/UK

U.S. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’

SPIDER

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

We&#8217;re bringing the party back to the big screen to kick off June like rock stars! Join us for one of our favorite cinematic/musical experiences with a reprise of legendary Director Jonathan Demme’s ecstatic musical masterpiece Stop Making Sense. Filmed at the Hollywood Pantages Theater in December 1983, this fascinating piece of musical memorabilia showcases the Talking Heads boundless creativity and showmanship on stage and off. A one-of-a-kind experience, join Vidiots as we revel in 40 years of Vidiots and the 41st anniversary of this groundbreaking film, newly remastered in a stunning 4K presentation.

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Jonesing for more Demme? We&#8217;ve got a killer section for Jonathan Demme on our directors racks that includes these rarities!

*Crazy Mama, Who Am I This Time?, Swimming to Cambodia*, and make sure to check out his tasty episode of *Columbo &#8211; Murder Under Glass!*

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

Stop Making Sense

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**LA CÉRÉMONIE, 1995, Dir. Claude Chabrol, 111 Mins, Janus Films, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

FORMAT: DCP

**VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE, 1978, Dir. Claude Chabrol, 124 Mins, France/Canada**

*In French with English subtitles.*

The daughter of a respectable lower middle-class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

FORMAT: DCP

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

Q&A with actor Isabelle Huppert ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Isabelle Huppert: A Bleak Week Tribute’

LA CÉRÉMONIE / VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Warlpiri with English subtitles*

Samson and Delilah’s world is small-an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges. A winner of numerous international awards, SAMSON AND DELILAH marks the emergence of a major new talent in filmmaker Warwick Thornton. Offering a rare insight into the issues confronting the youth of a lost generation of Aborigines, it has since been hailed by critics as the one of the greatest films ever to come out of Australia.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Samuel Goldwyn Films

COUNTRY: Australia

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

Q&A with filmmaker Warwick Thornton ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Warwick Thornton: A Bleak Week Retrospective’

SAMSON AND DELILAH

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: Australia/France

### **ABOUT THE RESTORATION:**

*The new 4K UHD restoration was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. This new 4K restoration was made in the United States in Dolby Vision HDR 16-bit 4K from the original 35mm image negative scanned on Arriscan at the Fixafilm lab in Australia. Color grading was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and Stuart Dryburgh, with a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences used as a reference. The original 5.1 audio mix was remastered from the original 24-track digital.*

THE PIANO

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Lightstruck presents *A 16mm Experimental Film Restoration Celebration!*

For this program, Lightstruck is thrilled to present an eclectic assortment of 16mm experimental short films restored by the Academy Film Archive, featuring work by John Smith, Suzan Pitt, Robert Nelson, Chick Strand, James Otis, Janie Geiser, Julie Murray, Phil Solomon, Barbara Hammer, Chris Langdon, Mike Henderson, Gus Van Sant, Mike Jittlov, Thom Andersen, and Fred Worden. Mark Toscano (one half of Lightstruck) has had an intimate connection to the films selected in this program, having worked at the Academy Film Archive for more than 20 years developing and overseeing their experimental film collections. As the other half of Lightstruck (Zena Grey), I have also gained a close relationship and devotion to this incredibly diverse and vast collection of films.

The work of a film archive is complex and multifaceted, but one of the key purposes it embodies is to make its collections accessible, to ensure that films don’t merely sit untouched on vault shelves but also have the period capacity to be activated in cinema spaces for assembled audiences. Dipping into the 600+ films Mark has had the honor and pleasure of working on during his time at the Academy thus far, this program seeks to assemble some of our very favorite films from among so many special ones, representing a wide range of work spanning 1967 to 2004, all by artists who are dearly meaningful to Mark and me.

So this program is a celebration of sorts, focusing on a wide array of American experimental filmmaking, all screening in 16mm preservation prints, with one stray British film to kick things off: John Smith’s *The Girl Chewing Gum*, celebrating its 50th birthday this year. And as it’s a celebration, stick around after the show for some cake!

Notes by Zena Grey. Films picked by Mark Toscano. All films courtesy of the artists and all prints courtesy of and thanks to the Academy Film Archive, which is also where Mark was able to have the opportunity to restore them, with particular gratitude to Joe Lindner and Mike Pogorzelski for their support over so many years. Big additional thanks to all the collaborators from multiple film and sound labs, including Colorlab, Fotokem, Triage, Cinema Lab, Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Endpoint Audio, and SD Sound.

Lightstruck: A 16mm Experimental Film Restoration Celebration

Baby It’s You in 4K

Niagara

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game—a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: France/Germany

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

Q&A with actor Isabelle Huppert 10th Anniversary ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Isabelle Huppert: A Bleak Week Tribute’

ELLE

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Post-screening conversation with UCLA Design Media Arts Professor **Rebeca Méndez**,** **UCLA English Professor **Elizabeth DeLoughrey**, and investigative journalist **Rosanna Xia**

Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Beneath the glittering surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a world of ancient and ongoing kinship—and a hidden legacy of destruction. Guided by the cosmologies of the Tongva and Acjachemen peoples and the relation to the abalone, this immersive journey into the ocean depths confronts a half-century of chemical dumping off the coast of Catalina Island, asking us to renew relations with a mother ocean that has been exploited.

Created by artist **Rebeca Méndez**, *The Sea Around Us *is an immersive cinematic experience born from the shocking revelation that over 500,000 barrels of toxic chemicals—including the pesticide DDT+, acid sludge, and radioactive waste—were dumped into the ocean off Santa Catalina Island between 1947 and 1972, with disastrous implications for marine and human ecologies. Méndez's vision weaves together underwater footage, Indigenous knowledge systems and song, and poetic storytelling into a call to action for care and accountability to our source of life. The screening is followed by a conversation with Rebeca Méndez, artist and professor in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, Professor UCLA English Professor **Elizabeth DeLoughrey**, and investigative journalist **Rosanna Xia**.

The Sea Around Us

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When an Aboriginal child arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett) in 1940s Australia, the new boy’s presence disturbs a delicately balanced world in this story of tradition and the cost of survival.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Vertical Entertainment

COUNTRY: Australia

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

THE NEW BOY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

Miguel Littín’s now legendary debut feature is a crucial work of the New Chilean Cinema, a transformational movement that ushered an urgently realist and political imperative into Chilean filmmaking. Based on the true story of an impoverished drifter whose seemingly inexplicable cold-blooded murder of a widow and her five young children shocked the nation and set in motion a fierce debate about penal reform, JACKAL OF NAHUELTORO revisits the crime to ask penetrating questions about the class system and responsibility of the state towards its citizens. Following the tragic story of the killer’s difficult life as an abused orphan who never receives an education, the film convincingly insists on holding to task the sociocultural conditions that shaped a life lost to indolence, alcohol and dark forces and that can push one to commit the most heinous of crimes. 

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Chile

Curated in partnership with Cineteca de la Universidad de Chile ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’

JACKAL OF NAHUELTORO

**Screenwriters**: Katie Aselton, Mark Duplass

**Producer**: Emily A. Neumann

Vidiots welcomes back our beloved Founding Members and indie legends **Katie Aselton **and** Mark Duplass** for their latest collaboration, the honest and heartfelt ***Magic Hour***, followed by a conversation with Aselton, Duplass, and cast member **Daveed Diggs**!

Erin and Charlie escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. Co-written and produced by Katie Aselton, this bittersweet examination of modern marriage takes twists and turns in the stark and beautiful landscapes of Joshua Tree. Don&#8217;t miss this magical night with two icons of American Independent Cinema and a crowd full of movie-loving Vidiots!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Head out to the desert from your couch! Take home these sandy classics on physical media tonight!

*Rubin and Ed, Tremors, Tank Girl*

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

Magic Hour

Rambo III

All About Eve in 35mm with Lorraine Nicholson

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam’s relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defense. As a result, Sam becomes a wanted criminal for the murder of a white man, and is forced to flee with his wife across the deadly outback, through glorious but harsh desert country. A hunting party led by the local lawman Sergeant Fletcher is formed to track Sam down. But as the true details of the killing start to surface, the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Samuel Goldwyn Films

COUNTRY: Australia

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

SWEET COUNTRY

Director Gregg Araki's MYSTERIOUS SKIN, adapted from Scott Heim's acclaimed novel, is an intensely powerful chronicle of childhood innocence lost. The film features starmaking turns from Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, Looper, The Dark Knight Rises) and Brady Corbet (Thirteen) alongside outstanding performances from co-stars Michelle Trachtenberg (Eurotrip, Ice Princess), Mary Lynn Rajskub (TV's 24) and Academy Award® nominee Elizabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas). At the age of eight, Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now, ten years later, the two boys couldn't be more different. Neil is a charismatic but emotionally aloof male hustler while Brian is a nervous introvert obsessed with the idea that he has been abducted by a UFO. When the boys' parallel lives inevitably intersect, the pair unearth dark, repressed secrets on a harrowing and unforgettable journey of self-discovery.

Mysterious Skin

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A hapless man’s romantic obsession with his ex-wife draws him into a deadly caper in this definitive noir. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’

CRISS CROSS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Swedish with English subtitles.*

Shame was Bergman’s scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, where the civil war that drove them from the city soon catches up with them. Amid the chaos and confusion of the military struggle, vividly evoked by Sven Nykvist’s handheld camera work, the two are faced with uncomfortable moral choices. This film, which contains some of the greatest scenes in Bergman’s oeuvre, shows the devastating impact of war on defenseless individuals.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

SHAME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles. *

Following a global cataclysm, Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and her family set out for a safe haven at their holiday home. But, when they arrive, the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are immediately dashed by a violent tragedy, which serves as a lesson to take nothing for granted and expect the worst in this new, harsh landscape. Accompanied by a fierce young boy (Hakim Taleb), the family eventually reaches a train station with the prospect of escaping.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Strand Releasing

COUNTRY: France

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

Q&A with Isabelle Huppert ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Isabelle Huppert: A Bleak Week Tribute’

TIME OF THE WOLF

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

Aimed at an international audience—and indeed, it was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award, as well as Mexico’s entry in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival—MACARIO takes the form of a macabre fable about an impoverished peasant (Ignacio López Tarso) who is kind to a mysterious stranger on the Day of the Dead, and is rewarded with the power to heal the sick. Drawing on a novella by B. Traven (*The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*), Gavaldón and his cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa, create a rich pageant of folkloric imagery.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Mexico

Curated in partnership with Cineteca Universidad de Guadalajara ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’

MACARIO

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


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

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

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.

Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

**Screenwriter**: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Christian Hohoff

**Producer**: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Join us for Rainer Werner Fassbinder&#8217;s straggering queer tragedy of love, money, and loyalty lost. A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic of gay German cinema. Casting himself against type, the director himself  plays Fox,  a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. *Fox and His Friends* is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.

**Picks from the Video Store**

With a catalog of nearly 40 films, it&#8217;s hard to complete a Fassbinder-a-thon without a video store! Take home more masterpieces tonight!

*Querelle, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, In a Year with 13 Moons*

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

Fox and His Friends

Rambling Rose/ Music Box

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Belarusian, Russian and German with English subtitles. *

This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s JOAN OF ARC) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors who took eight years to approve its script, COME AND SEE is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Soviet Union

‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’

The Hidden Room (aka Obsession)

7:30 PM

A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE,

A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING,

7:30 PM

Poltergeist

12:30 PM

The Goonies

3:30 PM

Thelma & Louise (4K Restoration)

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 5/21) 7:30pm

7:30 PM

Cocktails with a Curator

6:00 PM

Out of Plain Sight

7:30 PM

Special Member Advance Screening: Apple TV's Star City and Post-Screening Conversation

7:00 PM

UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN

7:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 19 and 20

10:00 PM

The Hallelujah Trail

7:30 PM

Adam Green Explains Harry Smith + HEAVEN & EARTH MAGIC (1962)

7:30 PM

Art Night at Scribble!

6:00 PM

The Rip

Christine/Maximum Overdrive

8:00 PM