Lightstruck presents *Jordan Belson: Knowledge Beyond Words pgm II.*

On June 25 and July 9, Lightstruck is honored to present two evenings devoted to one of cinema's unparalleled visionaries – Jordan Belson – an artist and filmmaker whose singular body of work has justifiably been the subject of devoted contemplation and ecstatic appreciation for over six decades. Belson's films defy concrete description, which is part of their deep and personal appeal, hinting as they do at "a knowledge that is beyond words", as Belson once told writer and curator Raymond Foye (to whom we are greatly indebted for being able to present these programs). While his earliest films embodied more familiar aspects of mid-century non-objective visual art, the early 1960s marked a radical shift into intensely mystical and elusive imagery – achieved largely through Belson's own remarkable photographic techniques – to give miraculous form to the innermost regions of imagination and consciousness.

Our second program devoted to the films of Jordan Belson spans his career up to the early 1970s, with a selection of ever-evolving and -expanding techniques of singularly mystical expression, most films screening on recently struck 16mm prints, courtesy of the Belson estate and Raymond Foye. Inspired by relationships to the worlds of Non-Objective art, jazz, meditation, and encounters with West Coast artist friends such as Harry Smith and James Whitney, Belson was consistently exploring and discovering new methods and mediums of visualization that engage with a level of consciousness which feels thrilling and otherworldly, yet somehow deeply familiar. In the late 1950s, through his planetarium “Vortex Concerts” in collaboration with sound artist Henry Jacobs, Belson amplified his vision with complex multimedia light shows which helped define the concept of “expanded cinema” and greatly influenced his filmmaking techniques. In the late 1960s, he began exploring the medium of video, synthesizing multilayered contemplations in such films as Cosmos. In 1974, Belson would team up with video artist, musician, and polymediast, Stephen Beck, to produce one of the ultimate visionary fusions of film and video in Cycles, which will conclude the evening in a glorious 16mm print.

The films screening in this program are: Bop Scotch (1952), Mandala (1952), Séance (1959), Re-Entry (1964), Momentum (1968), Cosmos (1969), Light (1973), Union (1975, by Stephen Beck), and Cycles (1974, by Jordan Belson & Stephen Beck).

Huge thanks to (and all films courtesy of) Raymond Foye and the Jordan Belson estate, with additional thanks to Stephen Beck and Electronic Arts Intermix for providing Union. Notes and program by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano.

Lightstruck: Jordan Belson – Knowledge Beyond Words (II)

2220 Arts + Archives

Princess Mononoke in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) is a mentally unstable WWII veteran whose search for purpose is complicated when he forms a profound yet explosive bond with author Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the leader of a mysterious philosophical movement known as “the Cause.” Driven by astonishing performances, this deep character study is also a visually stunning exploration of religion, power and social structures.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate

COUNTRY: USA

THE MASTER in 70mm

Aero Theatre

**In Person: James N. Kienitz Wilkins**

In a tragicomedy about millennials turning forty, *The Misconceived* continues the journey of Tyler from *The Plagiarists* (2019). *The Misconceived* is a 3D-rendered feature film about home renovation that doubles as an acidic and comic treatise on the working conditions of the contemporary creative class.

Starring John Magary, Jesse Wakeman, Jess Barbagallo, J. Dixon Byrne, and Callie Hernandez.

#### Director&#8217;s Statement

*The Misconceived* is a tragicomedy about millennials turning forty, which follows a struggling yet entitled white American male found throughout the annals of indie film who apprehends his likely cultural irrelevance during the Biden era.

The film utilizes experimental 3D-rendered processes entirely within a video game engine, utilizing motion capture, facial recognition, voice performance, and a vast library of stock media. *The Misconceived* takes full advantage of the new ability to shoot in virtual worlds and a marketplace of 3D architectural and character models to create an uncanny mirror to contemporary society (notably, not using generative AI).

In many ways, the movie is an argument for and against its right to exist.

Acropolis: The Misconceived

Brain Dead Studios

**1PM** France vs. Morocco

Watch the Quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup live at the Hammer—on big screens, with friends and fellow fanatics, in an indoor/outdoor setting where art and sport come together. Between matches, explore our free exhibitions, shop the store, or grab a bite at our restaurant. Drinks available for purchase at the bar. Outside food and non-alcoholic beverages are allowed.

Doors and bar open one hour prior to kickoff. Admission is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

[Let us know you're coming!](https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_9rrzd0)

World Cup Watch Party

Hammer Museum

The Future: A Photography Group Show

Opening Thursday, July 9th, 2026

7-10pm

The grand opening of our new location will coincide with the opening of our next month long exhibition, a photo group show co-curated with Alexandra Skye and Jane Shin entitled **The Future**! Join us for the opening on July 9th! Full line up of exhibitors coming soon

The Future: A Photography Group Show

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In French, Farsi, and German with English subtitles. *

Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power — forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Classics

COUNTRY: France/Iran/USA

Introduction by filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour In remembrance of Marjane Satrapi

PERSEPOLIS

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 7, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 57 Mins, Paramount, USA**

There’s a body all right.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 8, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 58 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Gotta light?

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 7 & 8

Los Feliz Theatre

Risky Business / Miracle Mile

New Beverly Cinema

A very special evening with founding members of the revolutionary East LA art collective, feat. the world premiere of their long lost film!

An ASCO Evening — feat. the World Premiere of SEÑOR TERESHKOVA (1974-75)!

Philosophical Research Society

A documentary film screening of Lightworkers, followed by a Q&A with Charley Lang and Director Bobby Roth.

6:30pm

suggested donation of $10 at the door

NOTAFLOF

Lightworkers: a Documentary Film Screening

Scribble

**Screenwriter**: Na Hong-jin

**Producers**: Suh Dong Hyun, Ho Sung Kim

Co-presented by **GYOPO, KALH,** and **Luaka Bop,** the record label founded by David Byrne. The screening will be followed by a conversation with **Jang Young-gyu**, the film’s composer and founder of the award-winning Korean psych-pop band **Leenalchi**.

Korean director Na Hong-jin delivers the ultimate supernatural horror experience in *The Wailing*, where sinister mystery meets surreal diabolism. A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

**[Leenalchi](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYUZajOt90M/)**, will be playing their first ever show in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 11, at [The Getty](https://www.getty.edu/calendar/off-the-405-leenalchi/). 

*“Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.”* – Brian Eno 

For music and more background on Leenalchi, please go [here](https://luakabop.lnk.to/leenalchi).

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

The Wailing

Vidiots

The Invite

Murder, My Sweet/The Dark Corner

Vista Theatre

Blow Out in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent into the past to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her teen son John (Edward Furlong) from a new advanced model cyborg T-1000 (Robert Patrick) in a bid to stop a future war between humans and the intelligent machine SkyNet.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

35th Anniversary ‘Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest 2026’

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY in 70mm

**12PM** Spain vs. Belgium

Watch the Quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup live at the Hammer—on big screens, with friends and fellow fanatics, in an indoor/outdoor setting where art and sport come together. Between matches, explore our free exhibitions, shop the store, or grab a bite at our restaurant. Drinks available for purchase at the bar. Outside food and non-alcoholic beverages are allowed.

Doors and bar open one hour prior to kickoff. Admission is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

[Let us know you're coming!](https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_n88vng)

Comics O&#x27;Clock is a comics reading featuring live readings by local cartoonists hosted by Mikey Heller. This event will be pay what you want, with donations going to Heavy Manners Library.

Featuring:

Quinne Larsen ([https://www.instagram.com/quinnecl/](https://www.instagram.com/quinnecl/))

Sam Saenee ([https://www.instagram.com/samsaenee/](https://www.instagram.com/samsaenee/))

D.M. Woods ([https://www.instagram.com/moldazor/](https://www.instagram.com/moldazor/))

Anna Latzer ([https://www.instagram.com/annalobsterland/](https://www.instagram.com/annalobsterland/))

Stephen "Teeben" Lee ([https://www.instagram.com/teeben_art](https://www.instagram.com/teeben_art))

Steph Rizo ([https://www.instagram.com/steph_rizo/](https://www.instagram.com/steph_rizo/))

Evan Palmer ([https://www.instagram.com/evantickles/](https://www.instagram.com/evantickles/))

Liyao Liao ([https://www.instagram.com/liyao_art/](https://www.instagram.com/liyao_art/))

Comics O'Clock: A Comic Reading (7/10)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**DEKALOG: SEVEN, 1988, Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 57 Mins, Janus Films, Poland**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.

FORMAT: DCP

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

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.

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.

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

DEKALOG: SEVEN & EIGHT

### **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

ROSE OF NEVADA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.

COUNTRY: Mexico

FORMAT: 35mm

Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

Medellin, 1987. A group of teen outcasts steals a news camera to document every detail of their dangerous lives. The first feature from acclaimed photographer and Bad Bunny music video director Stillz redefines the found footage genre as a haunting, poignant coming-of-age story with a disturbing twist. Set to an awe-inspiring score by Arca and produced by Harmony Korine’s collective EDGLRD, the film taps into the anxieties of a youth culture from the margins of history yearning to be understood. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: Colombia/USA

BARRIO TRISTE

Jackie Brown

Now Instant and [Acropolis Cinema](https://www.acropoliscinema.com/) present James N. Kienitz Wilkins latest, *The Misconceived*, followed by a conversation between Kienitz Wilkins and Jordan Cronk.

The Misconceived

Now Instant Image Hall

Cassavetes' warmest, most hilarious, and most tender film—a gleefully ragged rom-com that doubles as a vivid snapshot of 70s LA!

John Cassavetes' MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (1971)

**Screenwriter**: Na Hong-jin

**Producers**: Suh Dong Hyun, Ho Sung Kim

Co-presented by **GYOPO, KALH,** and **Luaka Bop,** the record label founded by David Byrne. The screening will be followed by a conversation with **Jang Young-gyu**, the film’s composer and founder of the award-winning Korean psych-pop band **Leenalchi**.

Korean director Na Hong-jin delivers the ultimate supernatural horror experience in *The Wailing*, where sinister mystery meets surreal diabolism. A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

**[Leenalchi](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYUZajOt90M/)**, will be playing their first ever show in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 11, at [The Getty](https://www.getty.edu/calendar/off-the-405-leenalchi/). 

*“Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.”* – Brian Eno 

For music and more background on Leenalchi, please go [here](https://luakabop.lnk.to/leenalchi).

Second screening added (screening only) Friday, July 10th

**Screenwriter**: John Early

**Producers**: Harris Mayersohn,  John Early,  Luca Intili

*Maddie&#8217;s Secret* is comedian, writer, and actor John Early&#8217;s critically acclaimed directorial debut starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company. While her life seems picturesque &#8212; complete with an adoring husband (Eric Rahill), ride-or-die best friend (Kate Berlant) and a cupboard full of woman-owned ethically-sourced chili crisp to boot &#8212; mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. A pitch-perfect blend of satire, melodrama, daring tonal shifts and intimate performances, the film marks a bold new voice in contemporary cinema.

Maddie’s Secret

**Screenwriters**: Jonathan Levine,  Peter Rader,  David Twohy

**Producers**: Charles Gordon,  John Davis,  Kevin Costner

The most expensive movie ever made at the time of its release, *Waterworld* puts every dollar up on the screen with stunning production design, incredible practical effects, and awe-inspiring stunts that look even better today when most movies just rely on CGI. Kevin Costner stars as an unnamed mariner in an post-apocalyptic world where the icecaps have melted, forcing everyone to live on the high seas. When he encounters a young girl (Tina Majorino) with a tattoo map that could lead to dry land, the mariner must protect her from a pirate gang led by Dennis Hopper. This exciting action thriller is absolutely worth a second look — there’s a reason it inspired a long-running stunt spectacular at Universal Studios!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more dystopian science fiction? We&#8217;ve got you covered with these bangers and more!

*Logan&#8217;s Run, Dead End Drive In, Starship Troopers*

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

Waterworld

**Screenwriters**: Len Blum,  Daniel Goldberg,  Cornelius Cole,  Dan O&#8217;Bannon

**Producer**: Ivan Reitman

One of the most bad ass animated films of all time, this science fiction adventure will take you on one hell of a trip &#8211; to the far reaches of the galaxy and beyond! Adventures from deep space to futuristic New York, and beyond. Each world and story is dominated by the presence of the Loch&#8217;nar &#8212; the sum of all evils manifest as a glowing green sphere whose power infects all times, all galaxies, all dimensions. To some, it appears as treasure, a green jewel they must possess. Others worship it as a god. Few escape it. Even in death and through death its powers continue. From war to war and world to world it seems invincible.

Heavy Metal

Dances With Wolves

Demon Witch Child/Cathy's Curse

Hollywood 90028

Fantômas Episodes 1-5

25th Anniversary of Spy Kids with Robert Rodriguez, plus a performance by The Rodriguez Family SPY BAND

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space&#8230; until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for &#8220;historical documents&#8221; and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

Galaxy Quest

The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren&#8217;t the only ones hunting him.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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

Join us Sunday July 19th at Gardena Cinema for MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, JASON TAKES MANHATTAN, SHORTS HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD & a Reception!

FILMMAKER FACE-OFF: BROADWAY vs. SUNSET w/ Ryan Lambert & Liz Wiest!

Gardena Cinema

Match starts at 12PM

Watch the Final of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup live at the Hammer—on big screens, with friends and fellow fanatics, in an indoor/outdoor setting where art and sport come together. Between matches, explore our free exhibitions, shop the store, or grab a bite at our restaurant. Drinks available for purchase at the bar. Outside food and non-alcoholic beverages are allowed.

Admission is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

**11AM** Doors open, onsite bar open
**12PM** Kickoff

[Let us know you're coming!](https://rsvp.zkipster.com/_3773v3)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In director William A. Wellman’s engrossing drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, and Clark Gable, a nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets. Lora Hart is an ambitious student nurse whose first assignment after graduation is tending to a couple of deathly ill little girls. Despite their posh surroundings, the girls are apparently suffering from malnutrition; their mother, Mrs. Ritchey, is a heavy drinker; and the girls’ physician is a society quack. Lora soon realizes that the doctor is deliberately starving the children to death in order to gain access to their trust fund, and that Mrs. Ritchey is kept in line by Nick, a black-clad gangster posing as the family chauffeur.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. 

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Georgia Bernstein and actor Cemre Paksoy 95th Anniversary ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Georgia Bernstein and Cemre Paksoy Present NIGHT NURSE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

New 4K Restoration 30th Anniversary ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

CITIZEN RUTH

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“The Bakery Girl of Monceau,” 1963, Dir. Éric Rohmer, 23 Mins, Janus Films, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Simple, delicate, and jazzy, the first of the “Moral Tales” shows the stirrings of what would become the Rohmer style: unfussy naturalistic shooting, ironic first-person voice-over, and the image of the “unknowable” woman. A law student (played by producer and future director Barbet Schroeder) with a roving eye and a large appetite stuffs himself full of sugar cookies and pastries daily in order to garner the attentions of the pretty brunette who works in a quaint Paris bakery. But is he truly interested, or is she just a sweet diversion?

FORMAT: DCP

**SUZANNE’S CAREER, 1963, Dir. Éric Rohmer, 55 Mins, Janus Films, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when ladies’ man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly with disapproval and jealousy. With its ragged black-and-white 16 mm photography and strong sense of 1960s Paris, Rohmer’s second “Moral Tale” is a wonderfully evocative portrait of youthful naiveté and the complicated bonds of friendship and romance.

FORMAT: DCP

"The Bakery Girl of Monceau" / SUZANNE'S CAREER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school in the mid-sixties, the brilliant yet volatile Solanas survived in New York City as a destitute artist, sex worker, and panhandler, soon striking up a friendship with Warhol superstar Candy Darling that brought her briefly into the orbit of the world’s premier pop artist. With vivid, hallucinatory attention to historical detail, Harron captures the explosive cross-pollination of New York’s political and artistic countercultures as well as the creativity, snobbery, and decadence at the heart of the legendary Factory. Anchored by pitch-perfect performances—and featuring a blistering score by John Cale as well as covers of sixties hits by some of the nineties’ most iconic bands (R.E.M., Wilco)—I SHOT ANDY WARHOL is an incisive portrait of a rebel without an outlet and the soon-to-be-lost generation she came to define.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

I SHOT ANDY WARHOL

A Goofy Movie

The Big Parade

**Screenwriter**: David Reynolds

**Producer**: Randy Fullmer

Get in the groove with this llama-rrific animated comedy with an all-star cast of voice talent including Eartha Kitt and John Goodman. Kuzco is a self-centered emperor who summons Pacha from a village and to tell him that his home will be destroyed to make room for Kuzco&#8217;s new summer home. Kuzco&#8217;s advisor, Yzma, tries to poison Kuzco and accidentally turns him into a llama, who accidentally ends up in Pacha&#8217;s village. Pacha offers to help Kuzco if he doesn&#8217;t destroy his house, and so they form an unlikely partnership. Fast-paced fluffy fun for all!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more fun for you and your little movie-lovers!

*Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, The Daydreamer, Bill and Coo*

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

The Emperor’s New Groove

**Producers**: Paige Bethmann,  Judd Ehrlich,  Jessica Epstein

Editor **Eric F. Martin** in person!

*Remaining Native* is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather&#8217;s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.

Ku Stevens (17) is the solo runner at his high school with no coach. Living on the Yerington Paiute reservation in Northwest Nevada he needs more to be seen by his dream school, the University of Oregon. 

As Ku trains, unreconciled emotions unearth the memory of his great-grandfather, Frank Quinn. At 8 years old, Frank ran 50 miles across the desert to escape an Indian boarding school. Frank’s story becomes interwoven with Ku’s journey to run a collegiate qualifying time.

Will Ku outrun his history or will he learn to run in parallel with it to achieve his dreams?

[The Popcorn List](http://thepopcornlist.com) is an annual survey of acclaimed feature films recommended by film festival programmers across North America &#8211; that are not yet available in wide release. 

Founded in 2024, The Popcorn List is a discovery and visibility initiative to amplify independent films that deserve to be seen more widely, highlight the discovery nature of film festivals and the craft of film curation, and respect audience’s desire for story-driven movies.

The Popcorn List: Remaining Native

**Screenwriter**: Paul Osborn from the novel by John Steinbeck

**Producer**: Elia Kazan

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by John Steinbeck (and even more loosely adapted from the Biblical story of Cain and Abel), this searing period drama from director Elia Kazan explores the fissures in a dysfunctional family. In 1910s California, wayward son Cal (James Dean) struggles to prove his worth to his deeply religious father Adam (Raymond Massey) and live up to the example of his better-loved brother Aron (Richard Davalos). But Cal’s good intentions are complicated by a shocking secret about his supposedly deceased mother, their farm’s economic decline, and the looming shadow of World War I. Dean’s electrifying performance here is still hailed as one of the greatest in film history — this was the last movie of his released before his tragic death at 24, and it earned him a posthumous Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more John Steinbeck films tonight!

*Of Mice and Men* (1939 + 1992), *Lifeboat, The Grapes of Wrath*, and see the man himself introduce *O Henry&#8217;s Full House*

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

East of Eden

**Screenwriter**: Jacy Mairs

**Producers**: Karlee Boon,  Cameron Holly Dexter,  Jacy Mairs

*Trash Baby* is an indie drama that celebrates the kids who grew up amidst white trash culture in the early 2000’s. The film follows Stevie (12), during yet another sweltering summer spent in Pine Park. After an unexpected run-in with the resident cool girl next door, Stevie strikes an unlikely friendship with wild, not-so-child, Edie. 

Swirling in a new world of puberty, boys, and drinking, Stevie is convinced it is time to leave childhood behind in exchange for new friends and a world she has long romanticized. 

That is until the reality of her new found idol’s life which contains fractured experiences of motherhood, corrupted innocence, and a world of violence starts to bleed into the frame. Soon Stevie must decide if she is truly ready to let innocence go or embrace childhood while it lasts. 

[The Popcorn List](http://thepopcornlist.com) is an annual survey of acclaimed feature films recommended by film festival programmers across North America &#8211; that are not yet available in wide release. 

Founded in 2024, The Popcorn List is a discovery and visibility initiative to amplify independent films that deserve to be seen more widely, highlight the discovery nature of film festivals and the craft of film curation, and respect audience’s desire for story-driven movies.

The Popcorn List: Trash Baby

**Screenwriters**: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi

**Producer**: Claudio Argento

One of the most beautiful horror films of all time, Dario Argento&#8217;s stunning shocker is one gorgeous nightmare. One dark night, an American dancer arrives at a baroque European ballet academy, where she is greeted with students fleeing in a panic, secretive headmistresses and a series of murders and supernatural occurrences that grow increasingly gruesome. Eventually she discovers to her horror—and our frightful delight—that the school holds terrifying secrets within its walls. Almost impossibly stylized and highly influential (David Lynch, Nicolas Winding Refn and Guillermo del Toro are all big fans), *Suspiria* is a classic of contemporary horror, a Technicolor fever dream of stunning imagery that has recently been digitally restored to its full nightmarish glory.

Suspiria

**Screenwriter**: Annapurna Sriram

**Producer**: Timothy Petryni

Director **Annapurna Sriram **and Producer** Tim Petryn** in person!

Part-time sex worker, full-time chaos magnet, AP is convinced that the universe has it out for her… and she might be right. In Fucktoys — the wild, unfiltered debut from writer/director/star **Annapurna Sriram** — AP seeks a cosmic reset after a swampy tarot reading (courtesy **Big Freedia**) tells her she needs $1,000 and a sacrificial lamb to lift her curse. Armed with neither, she sets off on a bizarre quest with her kindred spirit Danni (**Sadie Scott**) through Trashtown, USA — a dystopian, neon-drenched sprawl of assorted oddballs, Tom of Finland cops, and strip clubs galore. 

Channeling the cinematic stylings of French New Wave, cross-pollinated with the rebellious vibe of 90s-era Gregg Araki, *Fucktoys* is rude, crude, unhinged, girlypop middle finger to filmic convention. The film features a spunky and beloved cast that includes *13 Reasons Why’*s **Brandon Flynn**, *The Comeback’*s **Damian Young**, and a knockout performance by* Heated Rivarly’s ***François Arnaud**. Sriram’s *Fucktoys *took home the **Grand Jury Award **at **NewFest**, **Special Jury Award** at both the **SXSW** & **Fantasia**, and has won a slew of other jury and audience awards since. 

[The Popcorn List](http://thepopcornlist.com) is an annual survey of acclaimed feature films recommended by film festival programmers across North America &#8211; that are not yet available in wide release. 

Founded in 2024, The Popcorn List is a discovery and visibility initiative to amplify independent films that deserve to be seen more widely, highlight the discovery nature of film festivals and the craft of film curation, and respect audience’s desire for story-driven movies.

The Popcorn List: Fucktoys

The Odyssey (70mm)

Spirited Away in 35mm

Le Cercle Rouge in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In the early 1900s, Miranda (Anne Lambert) attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine’s Day, the school’s typically strict headmistress (Rachel Roberts) treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It’s not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers (Vivean Gray) have disappeared mysteriously.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Australia

Cinematic Void Presents PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack (Matt Dillon) through 5 incidents and are introduced to the murders that define Jack’s development as a serial killer.

We experience the story from Jack’s point of view. He views each murder as an artwork in itself, even though his dysfunction gives him problems in the outside world. Despite the fact that the final and inevitable police intervention is drawing ever near (which both provokes and puts pressure on Jack) he is – contrary to all logic – set on taking greater and greater chances. The goal is the ultimate artwork: A collection of all his killings manifested in a House that he builds.

Along the way we experience Jack’s descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge – a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and in-depth explanations of, for Jack, dangerous and difficult maneuvers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Independent Film Company

COUNTRY: Denmark/France/Germany/Sweden

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

The Women  / Dinner at Eight

**Screenwriter**: Louis Venosta

**Producer**: Rupert Hitzig

Get the glow! Comedy, romance, music, and kung fu collide in this cult classic directed by the great Michael Schultz and produced by Motown Productions. Prince protegé Vanity co-stars with black-belt martial artist Taimak in a Harlem-based odyssey set to the backdrop of Motown&#8217;s hottest stars like Stevie Wonder, DeBarge, and Willie Hutch. As 80s as it gets with glowing ninja masters and a killer soundtrack, this killer kung-futastic thrill ride is best experienced big and loud with a crowd of Vidiots!

**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 Last Dragon (1985)

**Screenwriters/Producers**: Haifaa Al-Mansour,  Brad Niemann

Evil hides best in plain sight. Uncover the truth in *Unidentified*, a gripping Saudi murder mystery from acclaimed filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour (*Wadjda*). Sparked by the discovery of the lifeless body of a teenage girl in the desert; When no one claims the body, Noelle Al Saffan, a newly divorced, true crime aficionado who recently lost a child of her own, gets obsessively involved. Despite a ticking clock that seemingly guarantees the girl’s senseless death will be discarded as a cold case, Noelle is determined to identify the body and uncover the truth. She slowly unravels a mystery entangled within a traditional society in transition, where women are learning to create more space for themselves and to take control of their own destinies.

Unidentified

**Screenwriters**: Bigas Luna,  Cuca Canals,  Quim Monzó

**Producer**: Andrés Vicente Gómez

Open wide for Bigas Luna&#8217;s tasty erotic romp with breakout roles for Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. The pleasures of sex and food entwine to outrageous effect in this wickedly seductive, darkly surreal romance. A teenage Penélope Cruz makes a memorable film debut as Silvia, a worker in a small-town underwear factory who strikes up a relationship with the boss’s son (Jordi Mollà)—much to the horror of his mother, Conchita (Stefania Sandrelli). Determined to break up the affair, Conchita enlists Raul (Javier Bardem), a studly pork-delivery man and wannabe bullfighter, to seduce Silvia—only to fall for the hunky ham guy herself. A sensorial and sensual feast of food, fun, and sex, come swoon with us!

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

Jamón Jamón

Join us for a special Getting Real 2026 screening event featuring Taiwan Academy's two award-winning documentary shorts, *Island in Between* and *Colour Ideology Sampling.mov*.

Not every border is a line. Some are a color, a silence, an identity that refuses to settle.

This special screening brings together two award-winning documentary shorts that dwell in the space between, the grey that no map, no flag, and no color chart can fully account for. In *Island in Between* (2023), Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 96th Academy Awards, director S. Leo Chiang weaves the geopolitical tension of Kinmen, a Taiwanese island just two miles from mainland China, with his own personal reckoning. Having grown up in the United States, Chiang reflects on a life shaped by Taiwan, China, and America, finding in this suspended island a mirror for his own ambivalent sense of belonging.

*Colour Ideology Sampling.mov* (2024), by directors Chan Cheuk-sze and Kathy Wong, finds that same unresolvedness in the political life of color itself. Winner of Best Documentary Short at the 61st Golden Horse Awards and the Jury Award at TIDF 2026, the film deconstructs how hues become ideology, tracing the symbolism of Hong Kong yellow and Taiwan green, and how identity always exceeds the shades we are handed.

Together, these films ask us to resist the comfort of clear edges. To stay in the grey. To look carefully at what lives in between.

~

*Sponsored by Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles*

The Grey Between: Island in Between + Colour Ideology Sampling.mov

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Part 11, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 57 Mins, Paramount, USA**

There’s fire where you are going.

FORMAT: DCP

**Part 12, 2017, Dir. David Lynch, 54 Mins, Paramount, USA**

Let’s rock.

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 11 & 12

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, WEEKEND is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society reverting to savagery and—according to the credits—the end of cinema itself.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

WEEKEND

Join us for an exploration of the cinematic ark of pioneering filmmaker, transmedia artist, & KAOS Network founder Ben Caldwell!

Emancipate the Image: Revisiting the Cinematic Ark of BEN CALDWELL

**Screenwriter**: Arthur Laurents from the play by Patrick Hamilton

**Producers**: Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock

Loosely inspired by the &#8220;crime of the century,&#8221; the brutal thrill-killing of Bobby Franks by Leopold and Loeb, Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s *Rope* is both a true crime and reclaimed Queer classic. Two friends attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner for the family of a classmate they strangled to death. Shot as one take (although craftily stitched together from 4 long takes) the taut terror commences in real-time. While the characters in the original play were explicitly homosexual, censorship in 1940s Hollywood only allowed for gay subtext and coding.

**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.

Rope

Get your eyes and ears ready for our latest 16mm installment of celluloid obscurities ***Rare Notes***, a program ranging from the 1920s &#8211; 1970s of offbeat musical masterpieces, curiosities, and cartoons. From blues and jazz to funk and prog rock, this smorgasbord of sounds will move you and get you moving! Featuring a rare **Elvis Presley** television performance from the 1950s, incredibly entertaining Soundies from **Fats Waller, Cab Calloway,** and others, the only film featuring tragic blues legend **Bessie Smith**, the haunting ***St. Louis Blues*** (1929), nearly forgotten footage of **The Georgia Sea Island Singers**, a mesmeric excerpt from the extraordinary mini doc ***Blind Gary Davis***, and very sweaty performance footage of **Little Richard**. Plus, **Electric Light Orchestra** performs a medley on TV from 1974 (and Jeff Lynne&#8217;s hair does not disappoint!), a special visit from the ***Monkees***, more animated musical surprises, and a musicational pre-show for the early birds. Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm – Rare Notes

**Screenwriter**: Ingmar Bergman

**Producers**: Lars-Owe Carlberg, Ingmar Bergman

This existential wail of a drama from Ingmar Bergman concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, *Cries and Whispers* (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography of Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders between reality and nightmare, tranquillity and terror.

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

Cries and Whispers

The Guilty/Roses Are Red

Rotations presents *Aloïse* (1975) by Liliane de Kermadec (115m, French with English ST), starring Isabelle Huppert + Delphine Seyrig. Preceded by *Colors Folly* (1986), by Abraham Ségal (12m, in English).

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One of a handful of female outsider artists to earn praise from the early exponents of art brut, Aloïse Corbaz—born in modest circumstances in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1886; institutionalized as a schizophrenic in 1918; and kept under psychiatric observation until her death in 1964—is portrayed here by two of the premiere European actresses of their respective generations: Isabelle Huppert, who plays Corbaz as a ruminative, searching young woman, and Delphine Seyrig, astonishingly committed as the elder artist.

Newly restored by Cinémathèque Française and produced by Paul Vecchiali, de Kermadec’s sophomore feature is an ideal introduction to an unjustly forgotten giant of post–New Wave French cinema. In the same year of the release of *Aloïse*, de Kermadec would serve as one of the producers on Seyrig and Chantal Akerman’s *Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles*.

Restored in 4K by TF1 Studio, La Cinémathèque française and Cinémathèque suisse at Hiventy and Transperfect laboratories, from the original negatives. With thanks to Several Futures.

~

Accompanied by *Colors Folly* (1986), Abraham Ségal

12m, in English

An archival gem: Delphine Seyrig and visionary painter Mary Barnes talk together about the “madness” of Aloïse Corbaz and its experiential links to pictorial expression. With thanks to The Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center, a feminist audio-visual archive founded in 1982 by Delphine Seyrig, Ioana Wieder, and Carole Roussopoulos.

~

A resident member of 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, Rotations is an occasional film series focused on feminist practitioners and their collaborators. Founded late 2021.

Rotations: Aloïse + Colors Folly

Downhill Racer in 35mm

*Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 2014, 35mm, 148 min.*

It starts as it always does: a woman. When Doc Sportello’s former old lady (Katherine Waterson) shows up with a loony story — a billionaire boyfriend, his ex-wife, and the plot to kidnap and banish said billionaire to an asylum — the private dick can’t say no. Now, it may be trouble or the thick layer of weed surrounding Paul Thomas Anderson’s perpetually stoned P.I. (Joaquin Phoenix), but something is certainly amiss in la-la land and soon Doc is stumbling through a parade of freaks and squares (but mostly freaks). Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation defies all neat explanations, instead choosing to fully submit to the heady buzz of Thomas Pynchon’s pot-fueled paranoia. From a cop-cum-chocolate banana fetishist (Josh Brolin) to Owen Wilson’s surf-jazz saxophonist, the film is one wild, wild trek through a cast of characters as majestic as the hills. Submit to its freakbeat. **Screening in 35mm! **

Inherent Vice

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From the true story about a Brooklyn bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day comes a gripping, funny Oscar-winning movie capturing star Al Pacino and director Sidney Lumet at the top of their game. A desperate and crazed man, with the help of an accomplice (John Cazale), takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by film historian and author Rachel Walther Book signing with Rachel Walther for her book, Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Skylight Books.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on an American farm.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

CUJO

Winchester ’73 / Man Without a Star

**Screenwriters**: Neil Landau, Tara Ison

**Producers**: Robert F. Newmyer, Brian Reilly, Jeffery Silver

*I&#8217;m right on top of that Rose!* It&#8217;s the box-office bomb that became an all-time Cult Classic. Cristina Applegate stars as Sue Ellen Crandell, a teenager who is eagerly awaiting her mother&#8217;s summer-long absence for a season of fun in the sun. But when the babysitter abruptly dies and her siblings run wild, she&#8217;s got more problems than a sunburn, she&#8217;s got to join the rat race to keep them all mom-free. Grunion runs, clown dogs, drag queens, and the ultimate 90&#8217;s fashion show are just some of the delights of this timeless teen classic. So bring your friends or siblings for some summer fun, because as you&#8217;ll soon know *The Dishes are Done!*

**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.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Cape Fear (1962) in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Arabic with English subtitles.*

After a tyrant kills a tribesman, Essam avenges him, rescues Dalal and conceals his identity. Exposed but undeterred, he rallies warriors, defeats the tyrant and rises to power, marrying Dalal.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

New Restoration ‘Youssef Chahine: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE DEVIL OF THE DESERT

**Screenwriter**: Luis Valdez from his own stage play

**Producer**: Peter Burrell

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary **Luis Valdez** for a special screening of ***Zoot Suit***, his memorable musical rendition of LA Chicano history starring Edward James Olmos.

Part fact and part fiction, *Zoot Suit* is the film version of Luis Valdez&#8217;s critically acclaimed play (and the first Chicano play on Broadway), based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends. With iconic costumes, riveting real-life drama, and dazzling musical numbers, you won&#8217;t want to miss this slice of Chicano-Angeleno history on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got tons of treasures from Edward James Olmos&#8217; incredible career!

*Blade Runner, American Me, Stand and Deliver*

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

Zoot Suit

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Cape Fear (1991) in 35mm

### COMPUTER CHESS

**35mm print from the Chicago Film Society, with Andrew Bujalski in person!**

#### Preceded By

### sitrep

*Director:* Blair Barnes

*Release Year:* 2026  |

*Country:* U.S.  |

*Run Time:* 17 mins  |

*Format:* DCP
**Los Angeles premiere with Blair Barnes in person!**

We are excited to have filmmaker Andrew Bujalski and L.A.-based artist Blair Barnes in conversation following a short-and-feature pairing of *SITREP* and *COMPUTER CHESS*, the latter screening from a 35mm archival print. Both films were shot on the Sony AVC 3260, an analog tube video camera developed in the early 1970s which has a strangely beautiful black-and-white aesthetic, its shallow focus occasionally disrupted by blooms and smears of errant light. The filmmakers will discuss their distinctive approaches and inspirations behind using this idiosyncratic camera following the screening.

**Special thanks to Malkah Manuel (Lunette Films) and Julian Antos (Chicago Film Society).**

#### From Blair Barnes

“COMPUTER CHESS was released in 2013, after being filmed entirely on three Sony AVC 3260’s which were custom-fitted with an extra BNC outlet to make a stable, recorded image possible. Ultimately, one of the 3260’s was the main workhorse, as the 2:1 signal in the other two were less reliable. [DoP] Matthias Grunsky would describe the camera as having a “…transcendental character,” which endures as a representation of the Sony AVC 3250. SITREP, which will be making its debut in 2026, uses the 3250 as its foremost camera, with the Sony FX6 as the digital intermediary. Filmed almost entirely inside of an abandoned dialysis center, the project makes work of worldbuilding through encompassing tape loops and mismatches in frequency and frame rate to produce varied flicker lines, whereas COMPUTER CHESS transforms a murky hotel into uncanny chess tournament sprawl. Beyond Bujalski’s precision in nailing the period, the 3260 itself is an apt co-conspirator in slipping the piece into an idiosyncratic otherworld.

“The common denominator is the ⅔ inch tube. The evident draw is in the utility of the tube camera, and it is also in how these projects use inverse methods to speak to time, whether as a phonetic marker in *sitrep*, or an approximation of period in *COMPUTER CHESS*. There is also chronological resonance with the 1969 AVC 3260 being used in 2013, and its successor, the 1974 AVC 3250 being used in 2025.” – Blair Barnes

Mezzanine: COMPUTER CHESS + SITREP

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

The King of Comedy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two frauds seeking a woman’s heir cross paths with another couple planning a kidnapping scheme.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

FAMILY PLOT

Misery / Dead Calm

**Screenwriter**: John Hodge from the novel by Irvine Welsh

**Producer**: Andrew Macdonald

Join us for the 30th Anniversary of this addictive cult classic, newly restored in 4K! Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero for our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, *Trainspotting* is the story of Mark and his so-called friends &#8211; a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed, seemingly inevitably, towards self-destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate &#8211; but then again, does he really want to &#8216;choose life&#8217;?

**Picks from the Video Store**

Who doesn&#8217;t want to take home Ewan McGregor tonight?

*Shallow Grave, Velvet Goldmine, Beginners*

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

Trainspotting

**Screenwriter**: Adrian Chiarella

**Producers**: Samantha Jennings,  Kristina Ceyton,  Hannah Ngo

Young love can be a monster in this sizzling queer Australian slow-burn horror. Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other. A mesmerizing and unnerving supernatural interpretation of conversion therapy, this is not only one of the best horror films of the year, it&#8217;s also one of the best love stories. Unique and disquieting with atmospheric dread in surround, don&#8217;t miss this summer scorcher in our microcinema.

Leviticus

**Screenwriters**: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks

**Producer**: Michael Gruskoff

We&#8217;re electrifying the ab(by)- normal and *Putting on the Ritz* with this unbelievably hilarious spoof on the classic tale of reanimation and misunderstanding. Gene Wilder plays the neurosurgeon descendent of the mythical Dr. Frankenstein. After stumbling on his original plans, the young Dr. Frankenstein (pronounced fronkenshteen) attempts to play God once again and bring a corpse back from the dead. With some of the funniest lines in cinema history and brilliant performances from Wilder, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Teri Garr, *Young Frankenstein* remains one of Mel Brooks&#8217; greatest triumphs.

Young Frankenstein

**Screenwriter:** Mark Protosevich

**Producer: **Julio Caro, Eric McLeod

This is her&#8230;inside the mind of a serial killer.  As icon Jennifer Lopez embarks on her newest tour after the release of her new film &#8211; Vidiots goes back a few years to highlight one of her most enjoyable roles. Jenny from the Block plays a psychotherapist who uses a new experimental technique to journey inside a comatose serial killer with the hopes of saving his latest victim. A knock-out thriller with mind-bending visuals, you&#8217;ll sink into the surreality of Tarsem Singh&#8217;s disturbingly visionary work.

The Cell

**Producers**: David Alvarado, Lauren DeFilippo, Everett Katigbak, Amanda Pollak

Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with *Zoot Suit *and* La Bamba*, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.

An auteur emerges from America’s underclass: from migrant farmworker to revolutionary artist, Luis Valdez changed American culture. In the 1960s, his *El Teatro Campesino* performed on flatbed trucks and helped mobilize workers to win the first farmworker union contract. His *Zoot Suit *was the first Chicano play on Broadway. Despite critical rejection that killed the show, he persevered, creating *La Bamba*—a breakout blockbuster that authentically depicted Mexican-American life to the world. Now in its 60th year, *El Teatro* continues to be a beacon for Latino/a creators. This is the story of an artist who gave voice to the overlooked and opened pathways for generations.

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Fight Without Jingi

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia&#8217;s 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.

The Act of Killing

A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.

A Chinese Ghost Story

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who&#8217;s working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

Hard Boiled

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles. *

Naruse harbored a special affection for this rural farce starring the great comic actor Kamatari Fujiwara, familiar to American audiences as the cravenly cynical peasant Manzo in Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI. As written by Naruse himself, Hyoroku (Fujiwara), a lowly member of a backwoods kabuki troupe, brings buffoonish pomposity to his role as the front legs of the act’s puppet horse. When a drunken patron falls on the horse’s head, the company replaces it with the real McCoy, unceremoniously demoting Hyoroku and his sidekick Senpei to stable boys. Tinged with nostalgia for a pre-modern popular art and vanishing provincial folkways, Naruse’s film conjures a timeless aura as if to ward off the distant reality of war.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

35mm print courtesy of National Film Archive of Japan Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

TRAVELLING ACTORS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Arabic with English subtitles.*

A hard-hitting commentary on class struggle and machismo set amid the dockyards of Alexandria in the immediate aftermath of Egypt’s 1952 revolution, this feverish social-realist melodrama stars the great Omar Sharif in one of his earliest film roles. He delivers an intense performance as Ragab, a sailor who must leave behind his beloved Hamidah (Faten Hamama, at the time Sharif’s real-life wife) for a long voyage at sea. When he returns after three years and discovers that she has taken up with the wealthy Mamdouh (the heartthrob Ahmed Ramzy), the volatile Ragab fights to win her back.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Egypt

DARK WATERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The twisted love story of a teenager and his obsessively jealous 1958 Plymouth Fury.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Repertory

COUNTRY: USA

CHRISTINE

Back to the Future

Dazed and Confused

Vintage Los Angeles' Alison Martino presents the legendarily long-lost, now restored Italian arthouse portrait of mid-century LA!

Franco Rossi's SMOG (1962) — hosted by Alison Martino

For the FIRST time since the famed Bolshoi Theatre Violin Ensemble toured America in the 1960s, the art of 14 violin virtuosi sounding as ONE will be heard live again. In a classical-romantic-pop program “Canzoni d'amore e di vita” (“Songs of Love & Life”), _iPalpiti_’s virtuoso violinists will play beloved vignettes by great composers, _showcasing unison and virtuosity_ – qualities for which _iPalpiti_, under Schmieder’s direction, has long been praised.

Concert will conclude with a Salute to America’s 250th!  

29th season of “world-class” iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates brings another great week in summer classical cultural life of Los Angeles!

Prize-winning laureates from 18 Countries – illustrious alumni and new discoveries – arrive for a week’s residence in Beverly Hills, July 20 – 26, from Belarus, Ireland, Lithuania, China, Korea, Japan, Ecuador, Norway, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, Poland, Russia, Azerbaijan, Estonia and the USA.

The iPalpiti Festival “has become one of the highlights – in some years, the highlight – of the summer here.” —R. Ginell, American Record Guide

iPalpiti \[ee-PAHL-pit-tee\] is Italian for the “heartbeat.”

VIOLINIPALPITI

The Wallis

**Screenwriter**: Elaine May

**Producers**: Howard Koch, Joseph Manduke, Hillard Elkins

The legendary Elaine May pulls triple duty as writer, director, and star of this wonderfully wry dark comedy of greed, love, plants, and plotting murder. Walter Matthau stars as Henry Graham, a trust fund baby who&#8217;s overspent his fortune into non-existence. Rather than work for a living, he decides to find a suggestible heiress to marry and murder. Awkward horticulturalist Henrietta Lowell (played by May herself) seems like the perfect mark, but maybe she&#8217;s more endearing with her penchant for cheap wine and generosity than he planned for.

A New Leaf

**Screenwriters**: David O. Russell, John Ridley

**Producers**: Charles Roven,  Edward L. McDonnell,  Paul Junger Witt

George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube star in David O. Russell&#8217;s biting satire on American foreign policy that remains even more relevant today! At the tail end of the Gulf War, a small band of American soldiers in Iraq seek adventure and fortune in attempting to steal a huge cache of gold hidden somewhere in the desert. Along the way, they are confronted by heroic challenges and newfound discoveries that take them to places they could never have imagined. If you like your action laced with international heists, incendiary humor, and a killer cast, don&#8217;t miss this banger on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more war films with a sense of humor?

*M*A*S*H*, Full Metal Jacket, Good Morning Vietnam*

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

Three Kings on 35mm

**Screenwriter:** Dan O&#8217;Bannon

**Producers:** Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill

If you&#8217;re like us, you could definitely use some Ellen Ripley in your life right now, and we&#8217;re ready to give you what you need! Experience the terror with the first chilling chapter of the *Alien* saga, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout performance as the eternally bad-ass Ripley. When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a mysterious life form that breeds within human hosts. The acid-blooded extraterrestrial proves to be the ultimate adversary as crew members battle to stay alive and prevent the deadly creature from reaching Earth. No one can hear you scream in space, but we certainly will at Vidiots. 

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, Closed Captioning, Descriptive Audio &#8211; please see the box office for devices.

Lightstruck: Jordan Belson – Knowledge Beyond Words (II)

8:00 PM

Princess Mononoke in 35mm

2:30 PM

THE MASTER in 70mm

7:00 PM

Acropolis: The Misconceived

8:00 PM

World Cup Watch Party

12:00 PM

The Future: A Photography Group Show

7:00 PM

PERSEPOLIS

7:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 7 & 8

10:00 PM

Risky Business

Miracle Mile

7:30 PM

An ASCO Evening — feat. the World Premiere of SEÑOR TERESHKOVA (1974-75)!

7:30 PM

Lightworkers: a Documentary Film Screening

6:30 PM

The Wailing

7:30 PM

The Invite

Murder, My Sweet/The Dark Corner

8:00 PM