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)

2220 Arts + Archives

10th Anniversary of Spa Night

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA/UK

Ultra rare screening! Last screened in L.A. in 1998 ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’

BATMAN in 70mm

Aero Theatre

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.

Brain Dead Studios

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

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

PRIVILEGE

### **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

Los Feliz Theatre

One Battle After Another

New Beverly Cinema

A rare screening 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

Philosophical Research Society

**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

Vidiots

Disclosure Day (70mm)

Happiness

Vista Theatre

Only Yesterday

The Seven Year Itch with Kim Morgan

The Parallax View

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Often misunderstood, Malcolm X was one of the leading forces of the United States’ Civil Rights Movement. He inspired many—and frightened many—but is destined to be remembered as one of the greatest men of his era. This riveting biography directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington in an Academy Award-nominated performance reveals the man at the center of a storm of change.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

MALCOLM X in 70mm

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rich Spirit

COUNTRY: USA

Co-presented by The African American Film Critics Association Juneteenth Screening

BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

John Waters’ off-kilter riff on Douglas Sirk was his first film in 35mm and one of his best satires on family values. Waters regular Divine plays Francine Fishpaw, a housewife driven to alcoholism by her philandering husband, promiscuous daughter and foot-fetishist son. Her shot at redemption comes in the form of an unlikely romance with Todd Tomorrow (ex-teen idol Tab Hunter), the slick owner of an art-house drive-in.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘Melo-drama Queens: MADDIE’S SECRET Inspirations’

POLYESTER

Inglourious Basterds

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

THE FILMS OF SAUL & ELAINE BASS —Night 1: Short Films feat. WHY MAN CREATES

**Screenwriters**: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris

**Producers**: Doug Mitchell, George Miller, P.J. Voeten

One of the best films of 2015 and winner of six Academy Awards, George Miller’s reboot of the *Mad Max* series is as thrillingly imaginative as the previous installments. This time around, Tom Hardy’s Max is along for the ride as Charlize Theron’s badass Imperator Furiosa flees the forces of a brutish warlord through a primitive, post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. Taking the form of an epic, breathlessly inventive chase sequence, *Mad Max**: Fury Road* is a nigh-operatic spectacle of anarchic action and vehicular carnage that never takes its foot off the gas!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more bad-ass Aussie adventures? Head down under with these deep cuts!

*Dead End Drive-In, Razorback, Stone*

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

Mad Max: Fury Road

**Screenwriters**: Michael Tolkin,  Henry Bean

**Producers**: Pierre David,  Henry Bean

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome actor/director/legend **Bill Duke** for a special screening of his neon-soaked neo-noir ***Deep Cover*!**

We are going undercover with Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum in Bill Duke&#8217;s slick crime thriller set in the underbelly of early 90s Los Angeles. Fishburne plays Russell Stevens, an undercover LAPD officer determined to infiltrate the cartel of LA&#8217;s biggest drug kingpin, played by none other than Jeff Goldblum, in one of his most menacing roles. Stevens has to walk the line between criminal and cop as he plunges into ever darker territory to keep his cover and bring down the operation. Smart and stylish with a killer early 90s hip hop soundtrack and incredible performances by Fishburne and Goldblum, this sizzling slice of neo-noir will pull you deep under its sinister spell!

Screening followed by a conversation with Bill Duke. And the fun doesn&#8217;t stop there! Join us for [*Predator*](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/predator/) with Bill Duke and Richard Chaves on Sunday the 21st.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got decades of Bill Duke deep cuts you can take home tonight on Blu-Ray and DVD!

*Street of No Return, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Car Wash*

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

A Weekend with Bill Duke: Deep Cover

**Screenwriter**: Angela Robinson

**Producers**: Jasmine Kosovic,  Andrea Sperling

Everyone&#8217;s favorite teen girl secret agent squad movie finally comes to Vidiots&#8217; big screen in all its queer and girl power glory! A quartet of girls from a prep high school are recruited by a secret paramilitary academy to conduct cloak-and-dagger missions, all while maintaining their Discipline, Energy, Beauty, and Strength! This campy cult classic is the gayest sendoff to *Charlie&#8217;s Angels* the cinema world has produced! So grab your squad and get ready for a campy kick-ass queer time!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Searching for more Sapphic cinema? Take home these queer classics tonight!

*But I&#8217;m a Cheerleader, Desert Hearts, Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love*

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

D.E.B.S.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Dirty Looks presents *Three Bewildered People in the Night*, the first (unreleased) film by Gregg Araki.

Gregg Araki, *Three Bewildered People in the Night*, 92min., B&W 16mm on HD digital video, 1987

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Gregg Araki’s first, unreleased feature is a moody chamber drama about friendship, apathy and sexual fluidity. David (Mark Howell) is a performance artist, navigating the poseur factions of the L.A. underground, with his video artist gal pal, Alicia (Darcy Marta), and her photographer boyfriend, Craig (John Lacques). They tramp the urban wasteland at night, from arcade to diner to another sad club scene, and soon sparks fly between the boys, too. Araki’s early debt to Jean Luc Godard is palpable in this aching black and white movie that moves like a Smiths song. HD 16mm scan by Outfest Legacy Project, courtesy of Strand Releasing.

Dirty Looks: Gregg Araki's Three Bewildered People in the Night

All That Money Can Buy (The Devil and Daniel Webster)

Let’s Make Love

Frenzy with Guillermo del Toro

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Director Stanley Kubrick’s awesome epic is one of the most visually stunning films ever produced in 70mm. Kirk Douglas stars as the gladiator who leads his fellow slaves in a revolt against Rome, while co-stars Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin and Nina Foch get swept into the firestorm. Brilliantly scripted by writer Dalton Trumbo (whose hiring by producer Douglas helped shatter the blacklist), with Oscar-winning photography by Russell Metty.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

SPARTACUS in 70mm

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James Stewart and Kim Novak star in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece thriller about an acrophobic detective hired to shadow a friend’s mysterious and suicidal wife.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

VERTIGO in 70mm

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Ikiru

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut&#8217;s alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine&#8217;s father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers&#8217; seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Stolen Kisses

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 6+

Dazzling, hand-painted watercolor animation brings Gabrielle Vincent’s Belgian children’s books to life in this Oscar-nominated gem. In a world sharply divided by fear between bears, who live above, and mice, who live below, an unlikely bond blooms between a grumpy, music-loving bear and a spirited little mouse with big dreams. Mutual need brings them together but a shared love of creativity and fun connects them in a story about how friendship can change the world.

(2012, Dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner. DCP, color, 80 min.)

Family Flicks: Ernest & Celestine

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

Dazzling, hand-painted watercolor animation brings Gabrielle Vincent’s Belgian children’s books to life in this Oscar-nominated gem. In a world sharply divided by fear between bears, who live above, and mice, who live below, an unlikely bond blooms between a grumpy, music-loving bear and a spirited little mouse with big dreams. Mutual need brings them together but a shared love of creativity and fun connects them in a story about how friendship can change the world.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner. Screenwriters: Daniel Pennac, Gabrielle Vincent. With: Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall.

Ernest & Celestine

*Legacy* is the story of Bissie Hapgood, a woman unraveling under the pressures of a vapid and materialistic society consumed with dinner-plate settings, soap operas and sexual frustration. The material originated as a one-woman show in 1973, written and performed by Joan Hotchkis, a versatile talent celebrated for her roles on television series including *The Odd Couple *and *The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts*. Karen Arthur, a first-time filmmaker, saw Hotchkis on stage and convinced the actor to adapt the screenplay and star in the film. Independently produced and financed, *Legacy*, like its peers *Wanda* (1970) and *A **Woman Under the Influence *(1974), confounds 1970s Hollywood’s expectations with the introduction of a new kind of cinematic woman. Bissie stuns audiences with her honesty that is confrontational, yet heartfelt and a vulnerability that is never sentimental and always surprising.

*Legacy* features an exceptional crew at the start of what would become a set of accomplished careers. Arthur, who would go on to direct *The Mafu Cage* (1978) and become a prolific television director, winning an Emmy Award for *Cagney & Lacey*, collaborated with cinematographer John Bailey (*Ordinary People*, 1980, *In the Line of Fire*, 1993) and editor Carol Littleton (*E.T.*, 1982, *The Manchurian Candidate*, 2004).

*Note written by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler.*

Special thanks to our community partners: [American Film Institute](https://www.afi.com/), ***[Women In Media](https://womennmedia.com/)***, [UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center](https://csw.ucla.edu/) 

Director/Producer: Karen Arthur. Screenwriter: Joan Hotchkis. With: Joan Hotchkis.

Legacy

Hammer Museum

Join us for a night of music featuring performances by Escape-ism, Tunde Adebimpe, Smooth Jas (solo), and Mo0d, the last show at our 1200 N Alvarado address!

Escape-ism, Tunde Adebimpe, Smooth Jas (solo), Mo0d

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

*“We are now moving through a very bleak period in human history – where the conjunction of Post Modernist cynicism (eliminating humanistic and critical thinking in the education system), sheer greed engendered by the consumer society sweeping many people under its wing, human, economic and environmental catastrophe in the form of globalization, massively increased suffering and exploitation of the people of the so-called Third World, as well as the mind-numbing conformity and standardization caused by the systematic audiovisualization of the planet have synergistically created a world where ethics, morality, human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) are considered “old fashioned.” Where excess and economic exploitation have become the norm – to be taught even to children. In such a world as this, what happened in Paris in the spring of 1871 represented (and still represents) the idea of commitment to a struggle for a better world, and of the need for some form of collective social Utopia – which WE now need as desperately as dying people need plasma. The notion of a film showing this commitment was thus born.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: France

LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**DEKALOG: FIVE, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 60 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind

FORMAT: DCP

**DEKALOG: SIX, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 61 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.

FORMAT: DCP

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**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.

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

DEKALOG: FIVE & SIX

Silverado

The Passenger

A dreamy and lyrical meditation on language, memory, myth, and what human life might become beyond the ruins of the contemporary world

Ben Rivers's MARE'S NEST (2025) — LA Premiere!

The US theatrical premiere of the beautiful restoration of a long-buried gem of Estonian cinema — a vibrant celebration of childhood wonder

COLOURFUL DREAMS (1974) — US Premiere of Gorgeous New Restoration!

Berk and Bourgeois present: a 60th anniversary celebration of Revolver and Pet Sounds!

LA's finest singer/songwriters join forces to celebrate the birthdays of Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson by performing two of their classic works in their entirety.

Doors at 7pm

$12 in adv / $15 at the door

Advance tickets available  here !

Revolver and Pet Sounds

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Roger Allers,  Ron Clements, and John Musker from the story by Hans Christian Anderson

**Producers**: Howard Ashman,  John Musker

*Darling it&#8217;s better down where it&#8217;s wetter! *Vidiots is headed under the sea for a sing-along of titan proportions with one of the most beloved Disney movies of the 1980s. Get ready to belt it out to your favorite tunes like &#8220;Part of Your World&#8221; &#8220;Poor Unfortunate Souls&#8221; and the Oscar-winning &#8220;Under the Sea&#8221; with your underwater friends like Ariel and Sebastian, and your underwater enemies like the evil sea witch Ursula &#8211; originally fashioned after drag superstar Divine. This eternal fairytale is as enchanting 35 years later as it ever was, so dive in with us to an ocean of musical fun!

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

The Little Mermaid Sing-Along

**Screenwriter**: Ryuya Suzuki

**Producer**: Kenji Iwaisawa

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, *Jinsei* (meaning “life” in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.

Jinsei

**Screenwriter**: Shinobu Hashimoto

**Producer**: Tatsuo Hosoya

Director Masaki Kobayashi delivers a samurai movie like no other with this provocative drama, which dares to examine the dire consequences of blindly obeying authority. In 17th-century Japan, masterless samurai Tsugumo Hanshiro (Tatsuya Nakadai) asks the powerful Iyi clan if he can commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of their estate, but clan elder Saito (Rentaro Mikuni) suspects he’s just another beggar looking for money. When Saito forces him to go through with the ceremony, Tsugomo tells the clan the shocking story of how the heartlessness of the samurai code destroyed his life. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, *Harakiri* is a timeless meditation on the difficulty of holding on to one’s humanity in the face of a cruel and unjust system.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our massive Samurai section to take home tons of bad-ass action!

The Complete *Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, Sword of Doom, Chushingura*

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

Harakiri

**Producers**: Andrew Renzi,  Nick Boak,  Kyzza Terrazas,  Santiago Maza,  Sabrina Coulston, Colin Cadarette,  Travis Gutiérrez Senger

With Director **Travis Gutiérrez Senger** at the Sunday, June 28th screening!

From executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna *ASCO: Without Permission* challenges the limits of documentary conventions to tell the story of a revolutionary Chicano art group who turned 1970s LA into their defiant canvas. Merging activism with radical artmaking, ASCO challenged the established order of Hollywood, museums, and media and are now considered amongst the 20th century&#8217;s most significant artists. Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger mirrors their boundary-breaking spirit through a groundbreaking approach, weaving nonfiction, and fiction together with a new generation of artists. The result is more than a profile &#8212; it&#8217;s a reimagining of what&#8217;s possible in art and cinema, celebrating iconoclasts who were decades ahead of their time.

ASCO: Without Permission

**Producers**: Ro Haber,  Caryn Capotosto

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome filmmaker **Ro Haber** along with comedy icons **Julia Sweeney **and** Harper Steele** for an extra special screening of the massively entertaining, endearing, and thought-provoking documentary ***We Are Pat***!

*We Are Pat* explores the evolution of gender identity and comedy from the ‘90s to the present day through the lens of the iconic *Saturday Night Live* sketch, *It’s Pat*. The film examines Pat’s origins as a joke rooted in the cultural anxiety of the ‘90s around gender while drawing striking parallels to today’s culture wars around transness and queerness. Trans and non-binary comedians and culture-makers reimagine and rewrite the original Pat sketches, using camp and humor to reclaim and re-envision an iconic character in American comedy. The film explores humor as both a tool of oppression and a radical force for change. Beyond comedy, *We Are Pat* raises complex questions: How does art age? What responsibility does a creator have as cultural values evolve? Can we reclaim narratives that once mocked us, transforming pain into laughter, visibility, and ultimately, our own creations? With the laugh, cry, cheer trifecta, this magnificent documentary will give you all the feels!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more fabulous queer documentaries on DVD tonight!

*Wigstock: The Movie, The Joy of Life, Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community*

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

We Are Pat

We&#8217;re cranking up the 16mm projector for another program of celluloid rarities and in honor of Pride month, we&#8217;re going queer as f@$k with ***Sweet****** 16mm: Revolutionary Queer Cinema* &#8211; **a program of groundbreaking and jaw-dropping short films from the 1930s &#8211; 1970s that not only challenged the norms of gender and sexuality but of form and fluidity of filmmaking, including works by Jean Genet, Barbara Hammer, Coni Beeson, James Sibley Watson, and more! Films include Jean Genet&#8217;s ***Un Chant D&#8217;Amour ***(1950), full of homoerotic visual poetry, Barbara Hammer&#8217;s ***Dyketactics ***(1974), a super fun romp of Sapphic delights, Coni Beeson&#8217;s gorgeous ***Holding*** (1971) merging the erotic with experimental cinema, and James Sibley Watson&#8217;s pre-code breathtaking expressionistic ***Lot in Sodom ***(1933). With a few special surprises, and a secret pre-show for the early birds. Everything screened on 16mm film featuring prints generously on loan from Smokehouse Films and [Canyon Cinema.](https://canyoncinema.com)

Sweet 16mm: Revolutionary Queer Cinema

The Wild Party

The Invite

**Screening Starts**: LAST  HERE AT 2514 SUNSET BLVD!

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What if *The Evil Dead* was reimagined as a forgotten, mid-level horror paperback that you found at a thriftstore for 25 cents? That’s sort of the vibe of *Forever Evil*. Punching above its weight, this ambitious 1987 Texas horror epic combines heavy metal album cover special effects, off-brand Lovecraft mythos, and a novelesque plot into something uncannily familiar–it’s a film you feel you’ve seen even when watching it for the first time.

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Is it too long? For some. Is it too boring? Maybe for the weak of heart. Does it feel birthed from some greater cosmic video store consciousness directly on to a VHS tape? Yes. Hence it’s the perfect movie to send the Whammy! Analog Media faithful onto bigger and better things!

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Join crap lovers and film critics, Sarah Fensom and Chris Shields, for a glimpse of low-budget nirvana in a film that teaches you to never trust a real estate agent. There will be trivia, prizes, and maybe even an original song!

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All hail Yog Kothag!

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**dir. Roger Evans, 1987***United States, VHS projection*107 min

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## SUNDAY, 6/287:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

$10 general admission. Sign in to your membership at checkout for member discounts. Don't have a membership? Get one [here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership).

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

FOREVER EVIL (1987) on VHS! [last screening at 2514 Sunset!]

WHAMMY!

Whisper of the Heart

The Hitch-Hiker

Shakespeare&#8217;s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After a rollercoaster crash at a California amusement park, safety inspector Harry Calder (George Segal) soon realizes a psychopath is sabotaging rides across to country to black mail the multinational corporations that own the parks. Now Calder must figure out which park the mad bomber is targeting on the Fourth of July. Originally presented in Sensurround and part of Universal Pictures disaster film cycle including the likes of EARTHQUAKE, ROLLERCOASTER features a solid cast including Timothy Bottoms, Susan Strasberg, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and the band SPARKS in a show stopping live performance at Magic Mountain.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents ROLLERCOASTER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Egyptian Arabic with English subtitles.*

A small peasant village’s struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

New Restoration ‘Youssef Chahine: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE LAND

Born to Kill / The Set-Up

Now Instant and [Rotations](https://rotations-la.net/) present a special screening of Caroline Golum’s *Revelations of Divine Love*, accompanied by Ioanna Filippopoulou’s *Three Mystics*, followed by a post-screening conversation with actress Tessa Strain and Molly Lambert.

Revelations of Divine Love

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriters**: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.

**Producer**: Charles Brackett

*I&#8217;m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille*. One of Hollywood&#8217;s most enduring classics, Billy Wilder&#8217;s *Sunset Boulevard *stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who thinks he can squeeze an aging and forgotten silent star (the glorious Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond), but learns he&#8217;s getting much more than he bargained for. Wryly funny, with memorable performances and endlessly quotable dialogue, there&#8217;s a reason this film is widely regarded as the best movie about Hollywood ever made. Don your turban and cigarette holder and spend your New Year&#8217;s Eve with Vidiots and Norma Desmond!

**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.

Sunset Boulevard

**Screenwriter**: Robert Alan Arthur, Bob Fosse

**Producer**: Robert Alan Arthur

It&#8217;s Showtime Folks! Bob Fosse only made a handful of films (in between revolutionizing the world of dance), and while all are impressive, none deliver as much razzle-dazzle as this seminal semi-autobiographical masterpiece. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of his craft as one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him &#8211; his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going. Winner of the Palme d&#8217;Or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 9 Academy Awards, *All That Jazz* is a musical like no other and a cinematic triumph on every level.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Fosse tonight, from brutal true crime to cheeky musicals &#8211; there&#8217;s no bad film from Bob Fosse!

*Star 80, Lenny, Sweet Charity*

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

All That Jazz

Acropolis Cinema presents *Escape* (Dir. Masao Adachi, 2025).

A contemporary of Nagisa Ōshima and Kōji Wakamatsu, Masao Adachi has spent more than six decades as a revolutionary figure on both cinematic and political stages. These personal histories are brilliantly distilled in his biopic of Japanese terrorist Satoshi Kirishima, who, as one of the country’s most wanted men, successfully evaded capture for nearly 50 years before revealing his true identity on his deathbed. Kirishima’s remarkable, often troubling life—from anarchist activities to a new existence under an assumed name, all the while driven by guilt for failing to fulfill his vocation—is told through a dazzling mix of archival footage, staged recreations, and outright fantasy that allows Adachi to trace a history of resistance and terror in Japan. The performances from Kanji Furutachi and Rairu Sugita convey lifetimes of idealism and regret (NYFF, Film at Lincoln Center)

Acropolis Cinema: Masao Adachi's Escape (2025)

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 5, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 58 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Case files.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 6, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 58 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Don’t die.

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 5 & 6

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Web,” 1956, Dir. Peter Watkins, 20 Mins, UK**

A reconstruction of the Allied landing in occupied France during the Second World War.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE GLADIATORS, 1968, Dir. Peter Watkins, 105 Mins, Sweden**

*In English, Cantonese, French, German and Swedish with English subtitles.*

*“The growing professional isolation which followed the banning of THE WAR GAME, as well as the vicious critical attacks on PRIVILEGE made me rather inclined to leave the UK. I was finally able to do so, and began what became permanent exile from my own country, when I was approached by Sandrews in Stockholm. Sandrews was a major cinema distributor and at that time a production company (they were producing two films by Susan Sontag); they had just premiered THE WAR GAME in Stockholm, and offered to produce any film I chose to make. Nicholas Gosling, a young writer, joined me in developing a script for what became my second feature film. THE GLADIATORS is a bleak satire set in the near future, in which the major powers of the world, East and West, aligned and non-aligned, recognize the possibility of a major world war within our lifetime, and try to forestall it by channeling man’s aggressive instincts in a more controllable manner. They do this by forming an International Commission along the lines of the United Nations, dedicated to fighting a series of contests between teams of selected soldiers from each country. These competitions, which can be fought to the death, are called ‘Peace Games’, and are broadcast on global television via satellite – complete with sponsors and commercials. The film follows Game 256, which is being ‘played’ in the International Peace Game Centre near Stockholm, under the controlling eye of a highly sophisticated computer, hired out to the International Commission by the (neutral) Swedish Army. The international group of officers watching Game 256 decide to eliminate a man and a woman from opposing teams who reach out to each other, because they decide that such forms of communication would be the gravest threat of all to the stability of the existing world-system.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

"The Web" / THE GLADIATORS

**Screenwriter:** Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon from the short story by Stephen King

**Producers: **Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, Andrew Scheinman

Bring your gang for Rob Reiner&#8217;s beloved tale of friendship adapted from the short story by Stephen King. In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends — sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O&#8217;Connell) — are in search of a missing teenager&#8217;s body. Wanting to be heroes in each other&#8217;s and their hometown&#8217;s eyes, they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. They sneak smokes, tell tall tales, cuss &#8217;cause it&#8217;s cool, and band together when the going gets tough. When they encounter the town&#8217;s knife-wielding hoods who are also after the body, the boys discover a strength they never knew they had. One of the most enduring childhood films of the 1980s, this classic never gets old!

**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.

Stand by Me (1986)

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producers**: Agustín Almodóvar,  Pedro Almodóvar

Weaving stories within stories, fictions within truths, and layers upon layers, this meta masterpiece from maestro Almodóvar is an essential and torturous melodrama of young queer love, clerical overreach, gender transformation, and the creative transformation from fact to fiction.  Gael García Bernal stars in this mind and gender-bending cine-novela as a trans drag performer out to reunite with her old flame from her Catholic school days and sell him on a film that looks a lot like her life. But blackmail, double crosses, and secret identities and histories drag everyone into a web of power, seduction, and making a film within a film. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see this masterpiece on glorious celluloid!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Our Almodóvar section has it all &#8211; from his dark comedies, to his psycho-sexual thrillers, to his tangled melodramas! Try these masterful deep cuts!

*Dark Habits, Matador, Pepi, Luci, Bom Y Otras Chicas del Monton*

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

Bad Education on 35mm

Galaxy Quest in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper. After Roger Thornhill, an innocent man, is mistaken for a wanted fugitive he is pursued across North America by a pair of espionage agents trying to kill him, as well as by police who suspect him of murder.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

NORTH BY NORTHWEST in 70mm

### **ABOUT THE EVENT: **

*In Swedish with English subtitles.*

When a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

West Coast Theatrical Premiere of New Restoration ‘Bo Widerberg: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE MAN ON THE ROOF

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador,” 1991, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 4 Mins, Amnesty International, France/Belgium/Switzerland**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Commissioned by Amnesty International for its TV program Ecrire contre l’oubli (Write Against Oblivion), Akerman’s contribution in the form of a poem is dedicated to Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, an El Salvadorian trade unionist and mother of three, murdered by the US-backed junta. Deneuve emerges from the calm of a Parisian night to deliver a heartfelt plea for remembrance of Febe Elisabeth’s too short life. Sonia Wieder-Atherton’s cello weeps appropriately.

FORMAT: DCP

**FROM THE OTHER SIDE, 2012, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 99 Mins, Icarus Films, Belgium**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

With her unmistakable style Chantal Akerman explores the border between the United States and Mexico.

For years immigrants passed through San Diego, but cutting-edge technologies have helped stem the flow of illegal immigration there. This leaves only the mountains and deserts of Arizona for those desperate enough to try their luck. And it is here that Akerman shifts her focus, between Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona and the desert in between.

FORMAT: DCP

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

“For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador” / FROM THE OTHER SIDE

**Screenwriters**: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

**Producer**: Joel Silver

Lily and Lana Wachowski’s ground-breaking science fiction parable set the standard for both action movies and Science Fiction films for years to come with its innovative visuals and one-of-a-kind fight choreography. Set in the 22nd century, *The Matrix* tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers that now rule the earth. So, take your blue pills and join us for some futuristic fun.

**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 Matrix (1999)

Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller narrates this cinematic adaptation of Robert Macfarlane&#8217;s bestselling book, *Underland*. The documentary voyages into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes to explore the world beneath our feet. One not of fear and darkness, but rather of knowledge and wonder that can be found nowhere else. Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside several ‘astronauts of the underworld’ into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe. *Underland* dives deep into the Earth to present a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on this fragile surface.

&#8220;*Underland* serves to draw the viewer completely into the compelling, unnerving, alluring void.&#8221;

—SCREEN

&#8220;An immersive sensory experience, complete with ethereal cinematography and intricate sound design, to take you into worlds unknown.&#8221;

—MOVEABLE FEST

&#8220;Robert Petit&#8217;s thrilling, unnerving documentary plays like a sprawling epic about the scope of human existence.&#8221;

—OBSERVER

&#8220;[&#8230;] It is at once [a] sensorial, philosophical experiences to be had, preferably in a darkened theater.&#8221;

—ScreenAnarchy

&#8220;*Underland* isn&#8217;t merely notable for its ability to capture abject darkness&#8230;but for its stellar soundscape that whirrs, drones, hums and echoes, almost replicating the sensitivity one&#8217;s ears achieve when the light suddenly vanishes.&#8221;

—FILMMAKER MAGAZINE

Underland

**Screenwriters**: Lee Hall, Tom Hooper from the stage play by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the book by T.S. Elliot

**Producers**: Debra Hayward,  Tim Bevan,  Eric Fellner

*Meow*! You are cordially invited to the feline ball to end it all when Vidiots goes full Jellicle with a special screening of the all-star furry film meowiscal bonanza *Cats*!  No one thought this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical could ever make the leap to the big screen, but thanks to CGI fur suits, and a cast that includes Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, and Jason Derulo, the world has been gifted the magic of one of the most outlandishly surreal head trips in cinema. You know the songs, you know the actors, you know the composers, but are you ready to roll down our furry pink carpet and experience this cinematic spectacle the way it was meant to be seen &#8211; Big and Loud and with a Crowd, because *jellicles can and jellicles DO!*

Doors will open at 6:00pm and there will be feline delights before and after the screening with **live DJ sets**, **themed libations** and plenty of warm fuzzy Vidiots meowgic throughout the evening. Come dressed to impress &#8211; whether that&#8217;s your best ballgown or your best Rum Tum Tugger bodysuit, we will have a **costume contest** after the screening!

Cats + Vidiots’ Jellicle Ball

Some Like It Hot in 4K

Tokyo Drifter

### **ABOUT THE FILM**

LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane (Alana Haim) and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written and directed by heralded filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, this potent coming-of-age drama tracks the treacherous navigation of first love. Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Tom Waits and Benny Safdi also star.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

LICORICE PIZZA in 70mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Arabic with English subtitles.*

During a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, finds himself obsessed with Amir, the leading man in one of his movies, and Nadia, a woman he desires to work with.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

New 4K Restoration ‘Youssef Chahine: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

ALEXANDRIA AGAIN AND FOREVER

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

This months featured artists are Carolyn Kendrick, Bailey Drew, and Daniel Bordonaro.

8pm

North Star Sessions

**Screenwriters**: Jean-Luc Godard, from the novel *Fool&#8217;s Gold* by Dolores Hitchens

One of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s most charming crime capers, cinema doesn&#8217;t get much cooler than this laissez-faire dalliance with love, danger, friendship, and amateur criminality. Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile (the iconic Anna Karina at her most adorably luminous). The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory &#8212; which could be just what they want. With a soundtrack from Michel Legrand and an infectious nonchalance, this is fizzy French fun at its best!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Anna Karina tonight &#8211; she&#8217;s a lovely sight to behold!

*Bread and Chocolate, The Nun, Chinese Roulette*

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

Band of Outsiders

Mezzanine presents LOVE LETTER, directed by Shunji Iwai (1995, Japan, 117m, digital).

L.A. premiere of a brand-new 4K restoration.

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The debut feature from the great Japanese filmmaker Shunji Iwai (ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU) is a ‘90s romantic drama par excellence, featuring real-life J-pop idol Miho Nakayama in a dual role. Set among the picturesque, snowy vistas of Hokkaidō, the film follows Hiroko (Nakayama), a young widow whose fiancé Itsuki died tragically two years ago. On a whim, she sends a letter to his childhood address, and is surprised to receive a response from a female Itsuki (Nakayama), who just so happens to be her fiancé’s former classmate. Their continued exchanges stir up childhood memories and revelations, as the two women deepen their relationship and come to terms with adulthood. Shot by Iwai’s longtime cinematographer Noboru Shinoda, the film’s sumptuous widescreen photography and warm sentimentality is a paean to the heyday of 1990s arthouse cinema.

A Film Movement release. Special thanks to Erin Farrell (Film Movement).

“Iwai tapped into the dreams and lives of Japan’s youth with his lyrical meditations on the hardships of young adulthood, capturing pivotal and unforgettable moments of life. Balancing popular entertainment with arthouse predilection, Iwai’s exhilarating takes on the youth film provided a much-needed voice for the younger generation, offering delicate portraits of adolescence, ripe with poetic yearnings of grief, friendship and young love. Iwai’s sumptuous visual style coupled with his affecting and underground appeal opened a world of new possibilities in the ’90s cinescape—marking him as one of the most accomplished and unique filmmakers of his generation.” -Japan Society

“This yearning quality is this tremendously moving film’s greatest strength, a humanity that makes LOVE LETTER resonate decades later.” -The Brooklyn Rail

Mezzanine: Shunji Iwai's Love Letter

The Misfits in 4K

Sorcerer

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

With 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, director Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking in this classic science fiction masterpiece. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into unchartered realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: UK/USA

‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’ The American Cinematheque’s own pristine 70mm archival print!

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 70mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Writer Preston Sturges famously offered the script of this classic comedy to his studio for $1 – with the proviso that he be attached to direct. This potent satire about the rise of Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) under the tutelage of a corrupt political boss (Akim Tamiroff) earned Sturges an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and jumpstarted the most celebrated span in Sturges’ career in the early 1940s, which solidified his status as one of the greatest directors of comedy.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $7.38 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

THE GREAT MCGINTY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A revenge-of-nature film in which thousands of swamp critters attack a wheelchair-bound, Deep South plantation owner and his family on his birthday, the 4th of July. Does the fact that he’s been destroying the bayou wildlife around him have anything to do with it?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents FROGS

A double feature of Varda's deeply intertwined  companion films, capturing early 80's LA with intimacy, humanity and wonder

Agnès Varda in LA: DOCUMENTEUR (1981) + MUR MURS (1981)

**Screenwriters**: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon

**Producer**: Jim Morris

Never has a robot had such pathos than in this beloved high-tech animation! The last robot on earth has spent 700 years picking up trash when a scanner robot named EVE suddenly interrupts his endless solitude. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet&#8217;s future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile a smitten WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen. Considered one of the best animated films ever made, and winner of the Best Animated Feature Oscar, this intergalactic Pixar darling is best seen with your little space cadets on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bringing home more robotic fun for the kiddos tonight!

*Short Circuit (1+2), Iron Giant, Robot Dreams*

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

WALL·E

**Screenwriters**: Shinobu Hashimoto,  Ryûzô Kikushima,  Akira Kurosawa,  Hideo Oguni from William Shakespeare&#8217;s *Macbeth*

**Producers**: Akira Kurosawa, Sojiro Motoki

A vivid, visceral adaptation of *Macbeth*, Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s Shakespearean tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. *Throne of Blood* fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Our Akira Kurosawa section is stacked with tons of masterpieces on Blu-Ray and DVD, including:

*Ran, Kagemusha, Yojimbo*

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

Throne of Blood

**Screenwriters**: Dean Devlin,  Roland Emmerich

**Producer**: Dean Devlin

Who doesn&#8217;t want to celebrate America&#8217;s 250th birthday by watching the White House explode on our big screen! All salute President Bill Pullman and join us for a very patriotic screening of this action-packed science fiction blockbuster! Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world&#8217;s major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. Can Jeff Goldblum &#8211; once again typecast as the subtly sexy scientist &#8211; come up with a solution that can thwart these intergalactic invaders, and can President Bill Pullman lead the US to universal dominance? Pull up your spaceship to join the most explosive indoor 4th of July party this summer!

Independence Day

**Screenwriter**: Mark Jenkin

**Producer**: Denzil Monk

Prepare yourself for a hypnotic analog time machine of a filmgoing experience with Mark Jenkin&#8217;s otherworldly 16mm science fiction artifact *Rose of Nevada*.  In a small fishing village, a mysterious boat returns 30 years after vanishing into the vastness of the ocean. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew, and trapped in this other time, unable to return to their own lives in the future. Like a long-form extra existential *Twilight Zone* shot on gorgeous 16mm film with perfectly unnerving sound design, *Rose of Nevada* looks and feels like the time-traversing vessel of its story. In a world of 4K digital imagery, take a step back and appreciate the ultra-saturated 4:3 beauty of 16mm film as you marvel at the disquieting magic of this timeless and ageless masterpiece.

Rose of Nevada

**Screenwriters**: Stewart Raffill,  Gary Brockette

**Producer**: Diane Kirman

Directed by Stewart Raffill (*Mac and Me, The Ice Pirates*), *Tammy and the T-Rex* is a love story as old as time. This post-*Jurassic* jam stars Denise Richards and the late Paul Walker in an unprecedented mishmash of rom-com tropes and R-rated horror thrills. When Paul is mauled by the local zoo’s toothier residents, his love affair with Denise doesn’t cease—even after his brain is transplanted into an ancient animatronic predator. Originally filmed as a gorefest with impressive splatter by SFX guru John Carl Buechler, *Tammy* was cut to PG-13, funneled straight-to-video, and inexplicably marketed as a “kids’ film.” Thanks to the intrepid efforts of top-notch archival pals Vinegar Syndrome, this gonzo gem is fully restored!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more &#8220;kids&#8221; movies that are definitely not for kids?!?

*The Garbage Pail Kids, The Peanut Butter Solution, Howard the Duck*

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

Tammy and the T-Rex

Jaws

The Great Muppet Caper in 4K

Jaws in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released on June 20, 1975, JAWS, based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, became the first true summer blockbuster and a cultural tsunami. It shattered every record to become the highest-grossing film of the year, earning a nomination for Best Picture and winning three Academy Awards, including one for John Williams’ iconic musical score. Five decades later, JAWS has become inexorable from global film culture, has inspired multiple generations of filmmakers and remains one of the most thrilling, terrifying and unforgettable films of all time.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

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

8:00 PM

10th Anniversary of Spa Night

7:30 PM

BATMAN in 70mm

7:00 PM

STRIKING (Screening) starring Ovrkast.

7:00 PM

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 6/18) 7:30pm

7:30 PM

PRIVILEGE

7:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1 & 2

10:00 PM

One Battle After Another

7:30 PM

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

7:00 PM

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

7:30 PM

Disclosure Day (70mm)

Happiness

8:00 PM