Castle in the Sky in 35mm

All About Eve in 35mm with Lorraine Nicholson

Academy Museum

### **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.*

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

SWEET COUNTRY

Aero Theatre

Come experience a screening of Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol and Production Team's Commentary Track over the film for the real fedora heads

With intro by So You Did A Thing Podcast's Zed Cutsinger

Synopsis: Matt and Jay's plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, resulting in them accidentally travelling back to the year 2008.

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie The Commentary Track Screening

Brain Dead Studios

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

Egyptian Theatre

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 four episodes of Acorn TV's record breaking new murder mystery series, *You're Killing Me*, followed by a conversation with executive producer and featured cast Brooke Shields, creator and executive producer Robin Bernheim, featured cast Amalia Williamson and Tom Cavanagh.

In the quaint New England town of Founders' Cove, a bestselling novelist (Brooke Shields, *When Calls the Heart*), forms an unlikely alliance with an aspiring writer and true-crime podcaster (Amalia Williamson, *Sullivan's Crossing*), to find the killer of a close friend. As more murders pile up, the pair of amateur sleuths clash with a local police detective (Tom Cavanagh, *The Flash*).

Watch the [official trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yAHMpe1guU)

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.**

Exclusive Member Screening: You're Killing Me and Post-Screening Conversation

LACMA

### **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

Introduction by Robert Abele ‘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

Introduction by author Alonso Duralde ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’

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 actor 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

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

MACARIO

Los Feliz Theatre

Blonde Ransom / The Crime of the Century

New Beverly Cinema

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


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

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

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.

Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

Scribble

**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

**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 on 35mm

Vidiots

Rambling Rose/ Music Box

Chaplin

Vista Theatre

### **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

Introduction by film critic Tim Grierson ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’

COME AND SEE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

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

Q&A with filmmaker Ari Aster. Moderated by Joshua Rothkopf. ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’ and ‘Ari Aster: A Bleak Week Retrospective’

EDDINGTON

INNER WAVE

SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK

SCREENING + Q&A

@ BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS

Merch available in the patio

Inner Wave - See You When I Get Back Screening + Q&A

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*Farhang Short Film Festival 2nd prize winner*

A visually striking story of a small town tragedy, *Abraham* follows a local policeman who stumbles into a family secret while investigating the murder of a young man whose body is found in a cave outside the city. 

DCP. Directors/Screenwriters: Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini. With: Hamid Pour Azari, Sajad Afsharian, Safoora Khoshtinat.

Winner of the audience-voted Sean Connery Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, *Mortician *is set in Canada where a schlubby émigré, Mojtaba (Nima Sadr), performs Islamic ritual washing of the dead as a cultural service of the Iranian government. When he loses his job he wonders how he’ll continue to send money to his family back home until an enigmatic, exiled pop star (Gola), an outspoken opponent of the regime, hires him to help her with one last public protest. The oddest of couples, they find common ground amidst the cold Canadian winter until their secret is exposed in writer-director Abdolreza Kahani’s slow-burn thriller. 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Abdolreza Kahani. With: Nima Sadr, Gola, Pouya Razavi.

Mortician

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Swedish with English subtitles.*

A salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family’s women as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow with the abuser’s kids.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

U.S. Premiere of New Restoration 40th Anniversary ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’ and ‘Bo Widerberg: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE SERPENT'S WAY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

Standing tall alongside classic coming-of-age films like SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE and THE 400 BLOWS, MISUNDERSTOOD is a beautiful and heartfelt exploration of the trials of life through the eyes of parents and children. John, having recently lost his wife, chooses to inform his oldest son, Andrew, but requests that he not tell Milo, his sickly younger brother. Forced to take a brave face, Andrew struggles with his impossible burden as Milo grows weaker and John’s grief blinds him to the plights of his son. With its incredible child performances and exquisite direction, MISUNDERSTOOD is a powerful rumination on family crisis and the painful weight of held secrets.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: Italy

Introduction by Caleb Hammond 60th Anniversary ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 5’

MISUNDERSTOOD

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, Makoto, a school girl, Kozue, and her older brother, Naoki. Suffering from trauma, Makoto disappears. The children withdraw in silence. Two years later, their mother has divorced and their father dies at the wheel of his car. They now live alone in the family house. Makoto returns to town and takes up household with the children, who are soon joined by their cousin, Akihiko, a student on vacation from college. The body of a murdered woman is discovered on the river bank; and the police suspect Makoto. Soon after, he buys an old bus; fits it with beds; and invites the three young people to leave on a trip.

COUNTRY: Japan

Introduction by film critic Ryan Swen ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’

EUREKA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

An old man pays a woman to live with him as if she were his wife, until one day he discovers that she’s sleeping with his son.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Argentina

Curated in partnership with Caligari, Argentina ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 5’

PALO Y HUESO

Inglourious Basterds


Attention, students. The bell’s ringing, so grab your seat and don’t get caught in the hallway without a pass. Class is officially in session.

  

Step inside the halls of Willard R. Abbott Elementary for a one-night-only Live Read celebrating the heart, humor, and hustle of everyone’s favorite Philadelphia public school. Join Janine, Gregory, Ava, Melissa, Jacob, Barbara, and Mr. Johnson as they navigate another unforgettable school year where the resources may be limited, but the dedication and chaos are limitless.

  

Our cast of special guests will perform two standout episodes from Season 5 of **Abbott Elementary**, bringing the show’s signature mockumentary style and sharp comedy to the stage.

  

Created by and starring Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary premiered in 2021 to widespread acclaim, earning 30 Primetime Emmy nominations and four wins, including Lead Actress for Brunson.

  

_Special thanks to ABC Entertainment for making this event possible._

  

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$40 for Wallis Subscribers and Film Independent Members  
$50 for General Public

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SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY: For our most current safety protocols and requirements, please click [here](http://thewallis.org/safety).

LIVE READ: ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

The Wallis

**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**: Amanda Kramer

**Producers**: Jacob Agger,  Miranda Bailey,  Sarah Winshall,  Natalie Whalen,  Jake Agger

With filmmaker **Amanda Kramer** in person on Saturday, June 6th!

Our microcinema is about to get strange with Amanda Kramer&#8217;s latest absurd and surreal vision of material and interpersonal desires as a woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair. Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If only she could be someone’s favorite thing. When she and the chair swap forms, Camille learns that she is better liked as an inanimate object than she was as a person: her mother (Betty Buckley) finds her to be a better listener, and her best friends (Samantha Mathis and Robin Tunney) enjoy a newfound, friction-free rapport. As the chair, Camille is unable to speak or move and winds up in the hands of Olivier (Mamoudou Athie), a minimalist bachelor who gradually becomes romantically fixated on his elegant new possession. Narrated by Melanie Griffith, this modern fable celebrates the messiness of female interiority with deadpan humor, surrealist flourishes, and interpretative dance numbers. An absurdist spin on the body-swap comedy, *By Design* is a bold new work from singular filmmaker Amanda Kramer.

By Design

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producers**: Ethan Coen,  Graham Place

With a special introduction by Founding Member **Noah Segan**, writer/director of John Turturro&#8217;s latest film *The Only Living Pickpocket in New York!*

One of the darkest of Joel and Ethan Coen&#8217;s catalogue of brilliant dark comedies, *Barton Fink* is one of the best and strangest retellings of the classic era of Hollywood with monumental performances by John Turturro and John Goodman. Barton Fink is a young New York playwright with a bright future in bleak drama on the Great White Way, when his agent lands him a deal in Hollywood. Adrift in a world of wheelers and dealers, Barton strikes up an acquaintance with his neighbor at his tenement hotel and learns the dark truths of his favorite author and the real way Hollywood works behind the scenes. With some of the best sound design in the history of cinema, remarkable period set design, and a magnificent balance of unnerving bleakness and humor, *Barton Fink* ranks amongst the Coen&#8217;s greatest achievements.

**Picks from the Video Store**

There&#8217;s so much to love about John Turturro! Take home decades worth of stellar performances like these deep cuts tonight!

*Fear X, The Source, Monkeybone*

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

Barton Fink on 35mm

**Screenwriter**: Robert Rodriguez

**Producers**: Robert Rodriguez, Bill Borden

Antonio Banderas and Robert Rodriguez team up again for an action film like no other! Rodriguez goes balls to the wall with his playful mixture of B-movie elements, beautiful badass stars, and a cacophony of vengeful violence. This time around, El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his best friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, the Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves a trail of blood of his own.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home these deep cut Banderas bangers tonight!

*Matador, The House of the Spirits, Femme Fatale*

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

Desperado

Join us in the microcinema for a double dose of horror shorts sure to unnerve and mystify: Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s newly released NFT ***Chime*** and Renee Zhan&#8217;s lauded ***Shé (Snake)***.

***Chime***

**Director**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa **Runtime**: 45 min. **Language**: Japanese with English subtitles

A masterclass in escalating dread and shocking violence, *Chime *reaffirms Kiyoshi Kurosawa as one of modern horror’s most innovative and unpredictable visionaries. During a class, culinary instructor Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka) witnesses the suicide of a young student (Seiichi Kohinata), driven to insanity by what he claims is a chiming sound that controls his mind. Soon, Matsuoka begins hearing it, too, and descends into a mental abyss that warps his perception of reality and gives vent to his darkest impulses. Expertly blending psychological portraiture and hallucinatory mystery, Kurosawa offers a chilling depiction of madness that interrogates the very stability of our everyday existence, with the director’s patented creeping tracking shots and complex sound design fashioning an immersively terrifying and unnerving cinematic experience.

Screening with:

***Shé (Snake)***

**Director**: Renee Zhan **Runtime**: 15 min. **Language**: English and Mandarin

Fei, a 16 year old British-Chinese girl, is the top violinist in an elite youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place, Fei’s anxieties and internalized racism grow to take monstrous physical form. They whisper to her, urging her to be the best, no matter the cost.

Chime and Shé (Snake)

Basic Instinct

Lock Up

The Doors

Los Angeles Filmforum, EZTV, and Hollywood Entertainment present Filmforum 50, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey, with co-director Barbara T. Smith in conversation with Michael J. Masucci.

The film’s two chapters will be presented with a short intermission featuring international snacks from some of the countries visited in the film.

Program notes and complete info at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/

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*The 21st Century Odyssey* is a video travelogue through love, liberatory technology, social and personal mythology, and the pleasures and rigors of making life into art told in part through the pixelated beauty of the videophone. Though rarely screened, it is a rich and resonant chapter in the legendary Barbara T. Smith’s careerlong experiments with machine innovation. Her partnership with Kate Johnson and EZTV documents an epic befitting their shared goals of evolving and synthesizing video art and performance art’s past and future. The film’s patient veneration of the quotidian alongside the grand coupled with the ache of long-term romantic longing re-embodies the interpretive act of translating this two-year-plus durational performance project into its video form.

The film sees Smith from 1991 through 1993 sending photo messages to her lover, physician Roy Walford, while he is sealed inside the Biosphere 2 and serving as its resident physician. Highlighting the newly-available and newly-aesthetically-permeable availability of transmissions via broadcast and teleconference by the Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, the film spans four continents and even the subject’s college reunion. Smith and Johnson’s resulting document of a durational performance is a stirring and strange tale of Smith as Odysseus. Unlike her inspiration, she can reach her (doctor) Penelope via semi-frequent messages. But the resulting tensions of their avant-garde and at-times intangible communication creates new permeations of distance-via-intimacy that are being newly defined as they happen, resonating profoundly in the world that these pioneers created for us. This is documentary as video art, love as performance piece, and a must-see for admirers of Smith, Johnson, and EZTV.

Special thanks to Mara McCarthy and The Box.

Filmforum 50: Barbara T. Smith - The 21st Century Odyssey

2220 Arts + Archives

Bend It Like Beckham in 35mm

Shaolin Soccer in 35mm

Offside in 35mm

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as &#8220;The Filthiest Person Alive&#8221;.

Pink Flamingos

**Introduced by screenwriter Bruce Wagner**

**Presented by Mezzanine & The Big One**

**Sunday, June 14**

Brain Dead Studios

611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
**Doors:** 7:30pm

**Film:** 8:00pm

We are thrilled to present a special screening of David Cronenberg’s pitch-black Hollywood satire—a portrait of Los Angeles as an inferno of narcissism, greed and sexual perversity—whose polarizing reception upon release has led to its contemporary reappraisal as a modern camp classic.

This event is presented with *The Big One*, a print-exclusive literary magazine featuring emergent and established Los Angeles writers. Issue No. 4, “Wellness & Reinvention,” features an interview with novelist, screenwriter, and producer Bruce Wagner, and will be sold at the event.

Wagner’s darkly comedic depictions of the intersections of fame, desire, desperation, and metaphysics draw from his own experiences living in Los Angeles, delivering transgressive, surreal, and sometimes cynical narratives. He is a conduit of Hollywood lore, having gone from chauffeuring stars as a local limo driver himself to portray Robert Pattinson portraying the limo driver in *MAPS TO THE STARS*, a screenplay Wagner wrote twenty-three years prior to its release. He sat down with *The Big One* to discuss Los Angeles literature, his legacy, and the film:

“It was something I wrote out of utter exasperation… I wrote MAPS TO THE STARS when I felt stillborn. I felt that everything had died, in essence, so I wrote something like a dream journal. I wrote something that I felt would be impossible to make into a film. Not that it wasn’t cinematic, but that it didn&#8217;t cohere or imitate or feel remotely compatible with Hollywood movies and even as an independent or a foreign film.” – Bruce Wagner

Special thanks to Johanna Stone and Gabrielle Sones (*The Big One*) and Darrell Brett.

“This is *MULHOLLAND DRIVE* for perverts.” – Ivy Wolk

“A vicious masterpiece.” – Daniel Goldhaber

Maps to the Stars with Bruce Wagner

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*Cinema-ye Azad*, or Free Cinema, was an underground movement of filmmakers in Iran that began in 1969, with the explicit aim of creating a fully independent cinema opposed to the mainstream “Filmfarsi” in both form and content, methods and ideals. Where the better-known, contemporaneous Iranian New Wave predominantly consisted of foreign-educated, Tehran-based middle-class filmmakers, *Cinema-ye Azad *consisted of self-taught filmmakers, sharing resources and knowledge with one another to bring the possibility of cultural production to disadvantaged provinces. At its height, *Cinema-ye Azad* boasted hundreds of active members, a critical magazine and festivals around the country, but the dream was short-lived as the movement ceased activities after the revolution. Its works, however, are being rediscovered thanks to the dedication of curators and archivists in London and Iran. As part of this year's UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema, the Archive is pleased to present two screenings highlighting the films of two key *Cinema-ye Azad* figures, Nasib Nasibi and Behnam Jafari. 

*Program curated by **Arta Barzanji and Shaghayegh Raoufi with research and archival support from Hadi Alipanah. Film notes written by Hadi Alipanah, Arta Barzanji and Shaghayegh Raoufi.*

Every day, a young man plays his trumpet from the top of a half-finished building while facing the city. Ambiguous happenings around him suggest the outlines of what may lurk below the peaceful surface of society.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Nematollah Gorji, Ahmad Amini, Hassan Seifi.

This satirical collage of Iranian cinema stages a confrontation between the ethos of the commercial “Filmfarsi” and the artistic ambitions of the New Wave cinema. In a direct reference to *Cinema-ye Azad*, the film ends with the arrest and exile of young amateur filmmakers from professional cinema.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Khosrow Haritash, Said Oveissi, Zari Khoshkam.

This film follows the restless lives of two young pickpockets through the labyrinth of seedy streets and shadowy alleyways, in a world where every day ends in triumph or ruin.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Davood Teymouri, Naser Tarighat, Ghazal Irandoust.

A social portrait of two young lovers that reflects the larger prejudices of society.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Farhad pour Azam, Shirin Jannesari, Behrouz Razavi.

In his cinematic debut, Saeed Poursamimi plays a former inmate who frees a genie from a bottle. After thousands of years of captivity in the bottle, the genie finds himself in a world that has been completely transformed by its people’s beliefs. The two embark on a bitter journey to find the remnants of the forgotten magical realm. Director Behnam Jafari uses stark visuals and provocative metaphors to explore the impossibility of relying on traditional myths in the face of a new world.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Behnam Jafari. With: Saeed Poursamimi, Hamid Taati, Mohammad Poursattar.

Cinema-ye Azad: Behnam Jafari

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Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons.

During the height of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, a busload of Iranian college students returning to the U.S. after a field trip in Canada are thrown into political and legal limbo when they’re refused entry at the border. A ripped-from-the-headlines urgency drives writer-director Parviz Sayyad’s *Checkpoint* as the students split along factional lines in their struggle to reclaim their rights and dignity. Executive producer Mary Apick also leads a committed ensemble cast that never loses sight of the fragile, individual humanity ever at risk amid grand ideological clashes.

Director/Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad. With: Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Parviz Sayyad.

This provocative film stars Mary Apick as a young woman who is drawn to a mysterious suitor haunting the dead-end street where she lives, only to discover that he is not what he seems and she and her family may be in danger. A giant of Iranian cinema, writer-director Parviz Sayyad rose to fame as the star of the commercial *Samad* film and television series before producing some of the key works of the Iranian New Wave, including films by Sohrab Shahid Saless, Ebrahim Golestan and Dariush Mehrjui. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, *Dead End* plays with themes of voyeurism and surveillance in a society on the verge of radical transformation. 

DCP. Director: Parviz Sayyad. Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad, Houshang Baharlou. With: Mary Apick, Parviz Bahador, Apick Yousefian.

Checkpoint / Dead End

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Danish and Swedish with English subtitles.*

Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker (Pia Degermark) and a lieutenant (Tommy Berggren) with a wife and children forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation. With its painterly, sun-dappled images and indelible use of Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21, this 1960s art-house sensation is the most ravishing expression of Widerberg’s recurring theme of the tension between individual freedom and social responsibility.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

L.A. Theatrical Premiere of 2K Restoration ‘Bo Widerberg: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

ELVIRA MADIGAN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**DEKALOG: ONE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 56 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.

FORMAT: DCP

**DEKALOG: TWO, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 59 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Dorota is in love with two men: her gravely ill husband, Andrzej, and a fellow musician who is the father of her unborn child. Andrzej’s doctor, himself no stranger to loss, is Dorota’s downstairs neighbor; she implores him to swear to a prognosis for her husband, and in doing so puts a very serious decision into his hands.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

**DEKALOG, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Janus Films, Poland**

This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the twentieth century’s greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, DEKALOG focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, DEKALOG arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives.

Introduction by film critic, educator and scholar Doug Cummings Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘Krzysztof Kieślowski: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DEKALOG: ONE & TWO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Upon its 1984 premiere at the height of global nuclear tension, THREADS shocked the entirety of the BBC’s viewership. Months later, it became the most-watched cable program in American history. Exactingly directed by Mick Jackson (VOLCANO) from a screenplay by Barry Hines (Ken Loach’s KES), this graphic docudrama depicts the unraveling of society after the working-class city of Sheffield, UK undergoes nuclear attack. With talk of nuclear conflict back in the news, the time is now for audiences with fortitude to experience and absorb this shattering vision on the big screen.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: UK

Brand-new 4K Restoration by Severin Films

THREADS

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Third Man

Join Julia Voss and Daniel Birnbaum in a talk discussing Hilma af Klint as a lens to examine Wassily Kandinsky and more.

Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future ONLINE EVENT!

The LA premiere of the new restoration of the wonderful TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK + a cult gem starring fellow Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn!

TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK (LA Premiere!) + SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS!

Philosophical Research Society

A group of former child stars reunites to perform at a fan convention where mysterious products promising confidence, popularity, and belonging begin appearing everywhere. As backstage tensions rise and old insecurities resurface, the masks they wear begin to slip, forcing the performers to confront who they are both onstage and off.

Created by The Miracle Project, _Unmasked_ is an original theatrical production featuring neurodivergent, neurotypical, disabled, and nondisabled artists ages 5–65. Blending comedy, original music, live performance, and film, the production brings together performers from across The Miracle Project’s programs in a bold exploration of identity, performance, and self-acceptance.

_Unmasked_ will be presented in two performances on Sunday, June 14. Both performances feature the same core storyline while highlighting different members of The Miracle Project community through unique sketches, musical numbers, and performance pieces. Audience members are encouraged to attend both shows for the full experience and can join us for a cast celebration and community gathering between performances. Discounted ticket packages are available for attendees purchasing tickets to both performances.

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**ABOUT THE MIRACLE PROJECT**

The Miracle Project is a fully inclusive theater, film, and expressive arts organization that supports neurodivergent, disabled, and nondisabled individuals in developing communication, social, and creative skills through collaborative artistic experiences. Programs serve participants of diverse communication styles, support needs, and experience levels, including individuals who are minimally speaking or nonspeaking.

In addition to in-person programming in Los Angeles, The Miracle Project offers virtual classes that connect participants from across the country through collaborative theater, music, film, and improvisation projects.

Learn more at [The Miracle Project](https://www.themiracleproject.org/)

_Support for_ Unmasked _is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts._

THE MIRACLE PROJECT: UNMASKED

**Screenwriters**: Michael J. Wilson,  Michael Berg,  Peter Ackerman

**Producer**: Lori Foote

Get ready for some prehisterical fun as we head back in time with this icy animated classic with a motley crew of sub-zero heroes. Twenty-thousand years ago, Earth was a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the Ice Age. To avoid a terrible frostbite, the planet&#8217;s majestic creatures &#8211; and a few small, slothful ones &#8211; begin migrating south. The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat. Bundle up in your coziest winter clothes and get ready to head back in time for tons of frosty fun!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home tons of obscure kiddo classics tonight on DVD and Blu-Ray!

*The Point, The Pagemaster, Cloak and Dagger*

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

Ice Age

**Screenwriter**: Boots Riley

**Producers**: Aaron Ryder,  Andrew Swett,  Allison Rose Carter,  Jon Read,  Boots Riley

Get your eyeballs and brain ready for maximum explosiveness as Boots Riley&#8217;s newest inventive, hilarious, surreal, stylish, stop-motion-sprinkled, and utterly singular masterpiece hits our microcinema in all its dazzling propagandistic glory! The fashion, the fun, the gonzo satire &#8211; it&#8217;s the wildest ride in cinema this year and an absolute revelation for those of us who have been craving the return of originality to filmmaking. Keke Palmer heads a crew of professional fashion boosters out to resell expensive clothes at a discount, but when a fashion maven (Demi Moore at her bitchy best) vows to take them down, and an unexpected guest with a magical gadget appears &#8211; their quest begins to turn global. Boots Riley solidifies his place among America&#8217;s most inventive auteurs with yet another brilliantly bonkers but perennially relevant capitalist critique that will keep you laughing, gagging (at the FASHION), and cheering throughout.

I Love Boosters

**Screenwriters**: Kit Hesketh-Harvey,  James Ivory from the novel by E.M. Forster

**Producer**: Ismael Merchant

Come swoon with us as Hugh Grant grapples with his homosexuality in Edwardian England in Merchant and Ivory&#8217;s dreamy adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel. Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, *Maurice* is a story of coming to terms with one&#8217;s sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for the unspeakable vice of the Greeks, Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice, however, struggles with his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his undeniable urges. But while staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice is seduced by the affectionate and yearning servant Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), an event that brings about profound changes in Maurice&#8217;s life and outlook.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more remarkable masterpieces from Merchant and Ivory!

*I Know Where I&#8217;m Going, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death*

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

Maurice

**Screenwriters**: Ícaro Martins, José Antonio Garcia

Get your kicks in the microcinema with the coolest queer punk Brazilian soccer sex romp you&#8217;ve never seen! São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.

Banned shortly after its premiere at the 1983 São Paulo International Film Festival and never released outside of Brazil until now, Ícaro Martins and José Antonio Garcia’s *Onda Nova: Gayvotas Football Club* is a defiantly queer and gleefully anarchic sex comedy that still packs a subversive punch (or kick?) all these years later. Join us to rediscover your new favorite swingin&#8217; raunchy rockin&#8217; sports movie!

Onda Nova

**Screenwriter:** Jim Jarmusch

**Producers:** Richard Guay, Jim Jarmusch

Co-Presented by **Synth History**!

This eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller finds director Jim Jarmusch combining his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code even as chaos and violence spiral around him. Featuring moody cinematography by the great Robby Müller, a mesmerizing score by the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and a host of colorful character actors (including a memorably stone-faced Henry Silva), *Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai* plays like a pop-culture-sampling cinematic mixtape built around a one-of-a-kind tragic hero.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home ALL the Jim Jarmusch you can watch on Blu-Ray and DVD &#8211; We&#8217;ve got them all!

*Stranger Than Paradise, Mystery Train, Limits of Control*

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

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Disclosure Day

***Miss Video 4 You*** is an alternative video distribution network. For every 10 videos Miss Video receives, she compiles the videos onto a single USB. She then makes 10 copies of this USB for distribution to each contributor. The USB is mailed back to all contributors. This is how the *videochainletter* is created, a term from the past, when feminist activists and video artists would share local news and short films using VHS tapes and snail mail. **Third Transmission** is MV4u's third video chainletter. With each iteration of these video compilations, we aim to showcase work from different generations, localities, and styles. Works shown in the Third Transmission span nearly 50 years, connecting 10 artists across 10 towns, 2 oceans, 3 countries. It has its own voice and tone that make it stand out from the previous chain letters, and we look forward to the new direction that future iterations will take from here.

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## Program:

*************‍****Babylon* (2023 Berlin, Germany) by **Alicia Nieto‍***The Great Path to a Foreign Body* (2026 São Paulo, Brazil) by ***Lau Mota‍****Snooping* (Richmond, USA) by **Lenny Farinholt‍***Who Do You Think You Are* (1986 Saunderstown, USA) by **Mary Filippo**‍*Prelude* (2025 New York, USA) by **Paulina Jamieson‍***Another Great Day* (1980, New York, USA) by **Ruth Peyser‍***Embryonic* (2023 Ann Arbor, Michigan) by **Jackie Blue‍***Shifting Borders* (2025 Middletown, USA) by **Tess Usher & Frances Mitchler‍***Los Angeles Movie* (2025 Los Angeles, USA) by **Ankha Cros-Roig‍**The Red 70s (2015 Cedar Rapids, USA) by **Derek Caterwaul**

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## SUNDAY, 6/147:30P DOORS8:00P SCREENING

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$12 general admission, $11 for members.

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

Miss Video 4 U

WHAMMY!

Only Yesterday

The French Connection in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire (Victoria Rowell) wanders into Barb’s establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison), who is now Cora’s husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Salem Horror Film Fest founder and film lecturer Kay Lynch 30th Anniversary ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents BARB WIRE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Swedish with English subtitles.*

*“In 1974, Sveriges Radio in Stockholm invited members of the Swedish public to submit teleplay scripts dealing with the “future.” One of the scripts selected was by Bo Melander, a noted journalist working for The Gothenburg Times. I accepted to direct the play when it was chosen for production, and in January 1975 Bo and I worked on developing the script, deciding to concentrate on the nuclear reactor issue which was becoming a major political concern in Sweden in 1974. THE TRAP is set in the underground living quarters of a scientist working at an international nuclear waste station near the west coast of Sweden. It is the end of 1999, and the TV in the oppressive living room inhabited by John (the scientist), his wife, Margereta, and their son Peter, is proclaiming optimistic statements about the promise of the New Millennium. John’s brother Bertil, accompanied by young Bo, the son of a third brother – imprisoned by the Swedish authorities for ‘antisocial’ activities – arrives at the waste site to celebrate the new century; they are first seen via monitor screens – making their slow progress through the security checks. Their visit with John and his family is tense and soon breaks down. Bertil holds a political position completely opposed to that of his establishment brother, denounces the consumerist society which has led to the need for all the nuclear waste embedded in the nearby rocks, and argues bitterly with John, telling him that he and his colleagues are like caged rats, trapped within the confines of a system they defend blindly. Too angry to stay on, Bertil takes Bo and attempts to leave, but is arrested at a security checkpoint. Margareta watches the security guards grab a protesting Bo, and asks her husband, “What kind of life is this we’re living?” Meanwhile, on the Swedish television channel, a Minister of State expresses his belief that, ‘The century to come will be a century for humanity, filled with humanity.'” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Sweden

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE TRAP

The Death of Robin Hood

**Screenwriters**: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy

**Producer**: Karen Murphy

Hey teens! Join us for the first Movie Den of the season with a  special screening of the howlingly hilarious mockumentary *Best in Show*. Christopher Guest and an incredible ensemble of the funniest people on earth are ready to improv their way to a blue ribbon in this furry comedy phenomenon. From start to finish, you&#8217;ll bark with laughter as an eccentric blend of dog owners from across the country gear up to compete at the Mayflower Dog Show.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

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

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

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

Best in Show

You’ve heard the whispers. You’ve seen the hype. Now experience the horror phenomenon that has audiences obsessed. Come see what everyone is talking about&#8230;or come back because you love this movie more than anything in the whole f***ing world!

Obsession

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 1, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 60 Mins, Paramount, USA**

My log has a message for you.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 2, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 54 Mins, Paramount, USA**

The stars turn and a time presents itself.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, 2017, Paramount, USA**

Directed entirely by David Lynch, this 18-part limited event series picks up 25 years after the residents of a quaint northwestern American town were stunned when their homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, was shockingly murdered. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is written and executive produced by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and is executive produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland.

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1 & 2

### **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

Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Roman Holiday

**Screenwriter**: Takehiko Inoue

**Producer**: Toshiyuki Matsui

Get on the court with this dynamic and inspiring animated sports story that scores both visually and emotionally.

Shohoku’s “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota has been following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player.

Addicted to the sport from a young age, and now in his second year of high school, Ryota and his teammates must face the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

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

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

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

The First Slam Dunk

**Screenwriters**: Harry Dodge, Silas Howard

**Producers**: Silas Howard,  Harry Dodge,  Steak House

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome filmmakers **Silas Howard, Harry Dodge, **and **Steak House** for a special 25th Anniversary screening of their trailblazing trans and butch buddy comedy ***By Hook or By Crook***! Conversation moderated by filmmaker **Vera Drew**!

Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, *By Hook or By Crook* is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome, gender-bending, small town dreamer with a nagging messiah complex. Emotionally defeated after the death of his father, Shy heads to the big city to sink himself into a &#8220;life of crime.&#8221; He is quickly distracted by Valentine, a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for her birthmother. The two freaky grifters join forces and learn the true meaning of &#8220;poise under pressure&#8221; in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted, anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust and redemption.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more phenomenal trans cinema tonight on fabulous physical media!

*Funeral Parade of Roses, Women in Revolt, Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean*

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

By Hook or by Crook

Bound

Aardman Animations Celebration

A treasure chest of narrative fragments, *The Decay of Fiction* lacks the itinerary and “instructions for use” that automatically comes with a linear story. The shards of its many implied plotlines are the fruit of O’Neill’s all-encompassing sense of form, which for better or worse is conceptual rather than technical or material. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, *The Chicago Reader*, May 30, 2003,

https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2023/03/ghosts-of-hollywood/

***Skies***  | 9 min  | 35mm transferred to digital  |World Premiere

We&#8217;ll also premiere Pat&#8217;s new film, *Skies*, composed of excerpts from his 35mm film timelapse documentation of the skies above the western United States landscape. This minimalist piece is a collaboration with the composers Thollem McDonas and Terry Riley, performing a vocal duet as the soundtrack.

“I am interested in exploring the boundaries of believability. The narrative tradition insists that, no matter how fantastic the story, its surface must be seamless. By contrast, I call attention to the artifice, all the staged aspects, and allow the well-worn stories to slip over and through one another. The film’s intention could be described as wanting to take stories off the screen and into the imagination. I like to work within the gaps between reality and story, to look at what is going on around the story, its context, and to make that a part of my conversation with the audience.” – Pat O’Neill

**Tickets:** $15 general, $10 students/seniors (purchased at door), free for Filmforum members.

The Decay of Fiction

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

This unique series is hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm and film at 8pm.

Tonight's show:TOUCH OF EVILMexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on th

TOUCH OF EVIL

Fine Arts Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: UK

Q&A with filmmaker Mark Jenkin Advance Screening

ROSE OF NEVADA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: UK

ENYS MEN

**Screenwriters**: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald

**Producer**: Bernard Maurice

Join Monsieur Hulot in Paris in this breathtaking comedy masterpiece. *“A film that comes from another planet, where they make films differently.”* So sayeth legendary French auteur Francois Truffaut about *PlayTime*, a movie that looks and feels like nothing else you’ve ever seen before. Director Jacques Tati spent a small fortune constructing an artificial city to shoot in (the set was big enough to require its own power plant!), all for a surreal comedy about a lonely Everyman (Tati himself) wandering around a bizarre, modernist metropolis he can’t quite comprehend. You’ll want to see this on the big screen so you can take in every detail of Tati’s unforgettable masterpiece, one of the greatest movies ever made about the absurdity of modern life.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative generously supported by **Golden Globe Foundation.******

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

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

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

PlayTime

**Screenwriter**: Leah McKendrick

**Producers**: Todd Black,  Becky Sanderman,  Jason Blumenthal,  Steve Tisch, David J. Bloomfield

**KCRW**,** Vidiots**, and** Netflix **invite you to a special advance screening of ***Voicemails for Isabelle ***followed by a conversation with director **Leah McKendrick** and actress **Zoey Deutch**.

Jill copes with her sister’s death by leaving her voicemails chronicling her chaotic life in San Francisco. When the number is unknowingly reassigned, an elusive Austin real estate agent begins receiving the hilariously confessional messages.

Doors will Open at 6:30pm, Screening will start at 7:30pm, with conversation to follow.

Guests must RSVP to attend. For more information and to RSVP click [here](https://events.humanitix.com/kcrw-partner-screening-voicemails-for-isabelle).

Please note that this screening is first-come-first-served, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry. As we are hoping to accommodate as many people as possible, all free screenings are overbooked to account for no-shows. We recommend an early to on-time arrival, we may not be able to accommodate late entries.

Voicemails for Isabelle

Beginners

Acropolis Cinema presents *An Injury to All* (Dir. Travis Wilkerson, 2026). World premiere sneak preview of a new work in progress, presented as a singular live documentary!

Total runtime: 90 min. In person: Travis Wilkerson.

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*An Injury to All* is both the prequel to *An Injury to One* (2001) and its urgent postscript. It traces the life of I.W.W. Organizer Frank Little before his arrival and infamous murder in Butte, Montana. Following his peripatetic, restless journey from his childhood in Oklahoma to his astonishing rise as a visionary organizer criss-crossing the American West, struggling for immigrant rights, for militant labor, for free speech and always and forever against the social catastrophe of war—his is a singular and irreplaceable story of American resistance and the inspiring vision of a different kind of world. Most of all, it restores his incompatible life—rather than the horror of his eventual death—to the place it always deserved to be. A ferocious antidote to the present moment and conscious riposte to the 250th anniversary of the USA.

Acropolis Cinema: Travis Wilkerson's An Injury to All (2026)

10th Anniversary of Spa Night

Exclusive screening of "STRIKING" a film by Khufu Najee.

Doors 7PM.

RSVP required. Entry is first come, first served. A standby line will be available.

STRIKING (Screening) starring Ovrkast.

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. 6/18) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*“In 1966, following the collapse of a film which I hoped to develop with Albert Finney’s production company, on the 1916 Easter uprising in Dublin, I was approached by John Heyman, a British artists’ agent, to make a film based on an original screenplay by Johnny Speight, which dealt with the influence of Steven Shorter, a pop star in the 1960s. American novelist Norman Bognor and I adapted the script, which we retitled PRIVILEGE, to emphasize the significance of Steven Shorter as an allegory for the manner in which national states, working via religion, the mass media, sports, Popular Culture, etc., divert a potential political challenge by young people. In case this theme appears exaggerated, it is important to keep in mind that it was set in the ‘swinging Britain’ of the 1960s, and was prescient of the way that Popular Culture and the media in the US commercialized the anti-war and counter-culture movement in that country as well. PRIVILEGE also ominously predicted what was to happen in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain of the 1980s – especially during the period of the Falkland Islands War.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures

COUNTRY: UK

PRIVILEGE

One Battle After Another

The world theatrical premiere of the restoration of a fascinating and singular 70s artifact of California's new age movement.

THE PYRAMID (1976) presented by Analog Outlaw and Enlighted Artists

**Screenwriters**: Kevin McDonald,  Mark McKinney,  Scott Thompson,  Bruce McCulloch, Norm Hiscock

**Producer**: Lorne Michaels

Vidiots is tickled pink to welcome comedy legend ***Scott Thompson*** for a special 30th Anniversary screening of the comedy cult classic ***Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.***

Your serotonin is about to shoot through the roof when everyone&#8217;s favorite Canadian sketch comedy troupe takes on Big Pharma in this ridiculously demented laugh riot. In a rush to launch a new anti-depressant onto the market, a shifty pharmaceutical company fast-tracks a scientist&#8217;s breakthrough pill Gleemonex that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it&#8217;s successful, it has unfortunate side effects that the company is all too willing to hide to protect their profit margins! Like any true cult classic, this brilliantly bonkers social satire opened to an underwhelming reception, but over the last 30 years an ever-growing cult of *Candyphiles* have recognized the forward-thinking brilliance of the *Kids* and their gender-bending, consumerist-skewering, oddball-extravaganza that is *Brain Candy*!

**Picks from the Video Store**

You can take home every last episode of *The Kids in the Hall *on DVD tonight, as well as these absurd specials!

*The Kids in the Hall: Same Guys, New Dresses, The Kids in the Hall: Tour of Duty, The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town*

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

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Happiness

The Seven Year Itch with Kim Morgan

The Parallax View in 4K

An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

Killer of Sheep

It&#8217;s a hot one on a summer day in Brooklyn as the pizzas get delivered, ice is used for foreplay and boomboxes play on. Hyper-colourful, righteously angry and showcasing Spike Lee at peak power, this one rides the tightrope of human emotion/drama and political indignation. Good soundtrack too.

Do the Right Thing

Join us for day of riso printing! Come by and participate in this quick turnaround open riso studio. Beginners and experiences artists can bring a simple photograph or design, or make something on the spot, and have us print it on our riso with a quick turnaround time. We will have supplies to make drawings, collages, or print an existing image. This session will be limited to one color or two color designs. We will print 20 copies of each design. To print extra copies, feel free to pay a small material fee.

1-Hour Risograph Printing (6/19)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Having built his career as both an actor and director of silent cinema with comedic short films starring his wildly popular Little Tramp character, Charles Chaplin confounded audiences when he followed up his first feature, The Kid, with a serious melodrama—sans the Tramp! A major departure from his previous output, A WOMAN OF PARIS centers around the title character (frequent Chaplin Studios actor Edna Purviance), who is betrayed by her lover and then cast aside by her would-be fiancé (Adolphe Menjou). Applauded by the press but rejected by the public, then pulled from distribution by Chaplin himself, A WOMAN OF PARIS, with its influential, understated acting and deft storytelling, now stands as one of Chaplin’s greatest directorial achievements.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $7.02 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

A WOMAN OF PARIS

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Le Jour Ou…,” 1997, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 7 Mins, Chantal Akerman Foundation, Switzerland**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Chantal Akerman ruminates on the future of cinema from her bed.

FORMAT: DCP

**MAKING OF TOMORROW WE MOVE, 2004, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 80 Mins, Chantal Akerman Foundation, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the production of TOMORROW WE MOVE: makeup and costume tests, script readings, scene blocking and rehearsals and on-set interviews with Aurore Clément and Sylvie Testud, her lead actresses, as well as Akerman herself.

FORMAT: DCP

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

“Le Jour Ou…” / MAKING OF TOMORROW WE MOVE

The first night of a rare, momentous 2-evening retrospective of the Basses' remarkable short films, feat. beautiful archival 16mm prints!

Castle in the Sky in 35mm

2:30 PM

All About Eve in 35mm with Lorraine Nicholson

7:30 PM

SWEET COUNTRY

7:30 PM

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie The Commentary Track Screening

7:00 PM

Mysterious Skin

7:00 PM

Exclusive Member Screening: You're Killing Me and Post-Screening Conversation

7:00 PM

CRISS CROSS

1:00 PM

SHAME

4:00 PM

TIME OF THE WOLF

7:00 PM

MACARIO

10:00 PM

Blonde Ransom

The Crime of the Century

7:30 PM

Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

5:00 PM

Blue Heron

7:00 PM

Fox and His Friends on 35mm

7:30 PM

Rambling Rose/ Music Box

7:00 PM

Chaplin

8:00 PM