### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

Aero Theatre

An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?

A Face in the Crowd

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Klute

With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director's work.

Mala Noche

Egyptian Theatre

### ABOUT THE FILM:

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

‘Programmed by Mel Brooks: 100 Years at the Movies’

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘You Can’t Stream That On Television’

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Los Feliz Theatre

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

New Beverly Cinema

Whispers

Now Instant Image Hall

Art cinema meets eerie horror in this hypnotic ’70s cult classic—a somnambulant fever dream of seaside desolation and gathering dread.

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973) — A Hypnotic, Vibe-Drenched Cult Classic

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: John Wilson

**Producers**: John Wilson,  Clark Filio,  Shirel Kozak,  Allie Viti

One part documentary, one part camcorder video essay, and one part the driest yet funniest of comedies, John Wilson extends his unique genre-bending style from the small screen to the big with this magnificently absurd examination of the literal ground below our feet. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world&#8217;s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry. So crawl out from under that rock and hit the pavement to catch this singular feature that only John Wilson could have made!

The History of Concrete

**Screenwriters**: Martin Donovan, David Koepp

**Producers**: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey

Bring your best frenemies and get ready for Vidiots epic annual Halloween Shindig! We&#8217;ll be kicking off the night with extra spooky tunes and vibes before diving into the everlasting classic dark comedy ***Death Becomes Her***, followed by more Halloweenie revelry and plenty of spooky Vidiots fun. So, put on your costumes, bring your besties, and come for one killer party!

The quest for eternal youth is a bitch! National treasures Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as best frenemies who will stop at nothing to keep their youthful good looks and the love of Bruce Willis. When Isabella Rossellini offers up a magical immortality potion, the rivalry intensifies to deadly and devilishly funny heights. A marvelously twisted dark comedy that lives on forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We would die for Goldie Hawn! Take home more ridiculous classics from one of America&#8217;s funniest ladies!

*Private Benjamin, Housesitter, Overboard*

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

Death Becomes Her + Vidiots Halloween Party

**Screenwriter**: Joan Tewkesbury

**Producer**: Robert Altman

Part political thriller, part comedy, part musical, part whirling dervish, this kaleidoscopic symphony of celluloid could only be conducted by the maestro himself, Robert Altman. Dozens of characters&#8217; lives intersect in the bars, recording studios, music halls, hospitals, and airports of Music City, leading to a surprising and devastating climax. With overlapping soundtracks of dialogue, political rhetoric, and country music (written and performed by its stars including Karen Black and Ronee Blakley) and a cavalcade of fascinating characters that shoot for stardom, or fall from it, this film is a one-of-a-kind exercise in flawlessly-executed excess. Funny, cynical, and sonically enduring, you won&#8217;t want to miss a beat of *Nashville*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more physical media from maestro Altman tonight!

*A Wedding, California Split, The Long Goodbye*

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

Nashville

Vidiots

The Leech Woman

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

Vista Theatre

Over its history, the NYC-based non-profit a/v preservation group XFR Collective ([https://xfrcollective.org/](https://xfrcollective.org/)) has undertaken many projects, but none as ambitious as Alan W. Moore’s collection of nearly 900 tapes centered on the Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club. Active from 1986-2000, the collection includes works associated with Collaborative Projects, Inc. and Potato Wolf, many of which aired on public access Cable Channel D and other local venues. Now, after eight years of dedicated effort, this extensive collection of video tapes has been cataloged, digitized, and shipped to The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research for safe keeping.

XFR scoured the entire collection to find you the juiciest nuggets of experimental video. Come celebrate the completion of this massive project and watch some extremely rare and seriously underseen art videos from New York’s underground.

**TUESDAY, 10/20 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

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

Monday/Wednesday/Friday Club, pres. by TAPE & XFR Collective

WHAMMY!

The Seven Year Itch

An Evening of Short Films by Women Directors

Academy Museum

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

Maurice

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, QUERELLE finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.

Querelle

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative*

Ever a student of film theory, Ryusuke Hamaguchi credits his graduate work with Kiyoshi Kurosawa for challenging him to grapple with the essential contradiction of cinema: using a recording device to create fiction. Understanding this paradox, Hamaguchi has said, “is what directing is all about.” Curiously there’s a touch of Hirokazu Koreeda in this short about a film student making a documentary about people who knew her deceased sister, only to discover one of her subjects, a detached young man, can speak with her ghost. In Hamaguchi’s script and framing, the nature of the afterlife becomes enmeshed with the nature of cinema.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Nao Okabe, An Ogawa, Hyunri.

On the morning they’re supposed to get married, Seichi (Hikohiko Sugiyama) has woken up with a hangover from his bachelor party while Eiko (Aoba Kawa) wonders if now is the time to tell him about her affair. Meanwhile, across town, her ex-boyfriend, a nude model, decides he needs to stop the whole thing. As they each make their way to the event, Hamaguchi orchestrates an extended cross-cutting sequence that builds anticipation while building a multifaceted portrait of a generation at the crossroads between holding on to their ideals and surrendering to practicality.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Aoba Kawai. Hikohiko Sugiyama, Nao Okabe.

Heaven Is Still Far Away / I Love Thee for Good

Hammer Museum

A screening of four short documentary films about Amy Winehouse, The Raincoats, Deerhunter, and Belle and Sebastian

Amy Winehouse, The Raincoats, Deerhunter, Belle and Sebastian Doc Screening

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An arrogant, isolated investment banker is targeted by an enigmatic entertainment company, plunging into an escalating, reality-bending conspiracy orchestrated by his estranged brother to shatter his emotional detachment.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

THE GAME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Shocking, outrageous and poetic, JIGOKU (HELL, a.k.a. THE SINNERS OF HELL) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, JIGOKU, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

JIGOKU

For ticket holders for preceding Henson event only! A free-with-RSVP screening of 3 eps of Henson's fairy & folk tale television series!

PRIVATE RSVP for TINKERDEE TICKET HOLDERS! Jim Henson's THE STORYTELLER

Free. Bad artist welcome

Hosted by an art group based in Echo Park

BYOP: Bring Your Own Pen Drink & Draw!

Stories Books & Cafe

**Screenwriters**: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe

**Producers**: Rupert Harvey, Peter Heller, Lloyd Segan

Vidiots is *dying* to welcome back legendary director **Ernest R. Dickerson** for a special screening of his cult classic horror starring Snoop Dogg &#8211; ***Bones*** on glorious 35mm celluloid!

Snoop Dogg haunts the streets in Ernest R. Dickerson&#8217;s wildly entertaining mash-up of Blaxploitation and horror. Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood to its former glory with the help of the iconic Pam Grier. Grisly, gruesome, with just the right pinch of schlock, Ernest Dickerson&#8217;s *Bones* brings the horror to the hood.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more killer flicks from the great Ernest R. Dickerson on glorious physical media tonight!

*Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, Futuresport, Surviving the Game*

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

Bones on 35mm

Hocus Pocus/The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Invincible and Bee are low level criminals who spend their days selling bootleg VCDs (precursors to DVDs that were popular in Asia) at the mall. Their boss sends them on a routine job during which they accidentally kill a pedestrian. To keep their crime hidden, they decide the best place to hide the body is the mall. But, to their shock, the body they hit was infected by an extremely infectious bio-weapon that spreads to the mall’s patrons. What follows is an all night battle to stay alive while trapped in a neon-lit shopping center.

Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present an extremely rare screening of *Bio Zombie* directed by Wilson Yip (*Ip Man*, *Flash Point*)*.* This film is Hong Kong’s answer to *Dawn of the Dead* and is recommended for fans of *Idle Hands*, *Resident Evil*, and fluorescent frights.

Will you be able to survive a night in the mall?

**dir. Wilson Yip, 1998**
*Hong Kong, digital projection*
94 min

**WEDNESDAY, 10/21 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

BIO ZOMBIE (1998), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment

Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심) with Park Hae-il

Hansan: Rising Dragon (한산: 용의 출현) with Park Hae-il

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Neve Campbell leads an all-star cast in this iconic slasher thriller that launched the SCREAM franchise and breathed new life into the horror genre. After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sidney Prescott (Campbell) become the target of a masked killer. As the body count rises, Sidney and her friends turn to the “rules” of horror films to help navigate the real-life terror they’re living in. Also starring Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan and Drew Barrymore, buckle up for an irresistible killer ride!

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

SCREAM

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

An American Werewolf in London

Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who&#8217;s swimming in his building&#8217;s pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.

Under the Silver Lake

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

The Exorcist

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Joachim’s Dictionary,” 1965, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 9 Mins, France**

Based on a sparse, singular design by Laurence Demaria (Ligia Borowczyk), Joachim defines twenty six words each beginning with a different letter from the alphabet. As with “Grandma’s Encyclopedia,” Borowczyk offers a succession of visual definitions which suggest a doomed attempt at mastering the absurdities of the world. Frequently hilarious, Joachim’s Dictionary is Borowczyk at his most anarchic.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE, 1981, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 92 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

It’s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier, SUSPIRIA) and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro). The party is attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including Patrick Magee (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) in one of his final roles. When people are found assaulted and murdered on the manor grounds, it becomes clear that a maniac is disrupting the festivities. But who is he? And why does Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? This visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous story by surrealist icon Walerian Borowcyzk (THE BEAST) is crammed with imaginative and perverse touches.

FORMAT: DCP

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

"Joachim's Dictionary" / THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE

The Fly

The Beyond / Pieces

From Dusk Till Dawn

**Screenwriters**: Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson

**Producers**: Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi, Kathleen Gavin

Get in the spooky spirit with a trip to the delightful nightmare world of Halloween Town with Jack Skellington and his gruesome band of ghoulfriends. Tired of the monotony of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, has a plan to kidnap Santa Claus and turn Christmas creepy. But as the winter holiday approaches, Jack&#8217;s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans and bring back Christmas merriment. A stop-motion delight for everyone with extraordinary animation, iconic songs, and a whole world of creepy creatures to fall in love with!

**Picks from the Video Store******

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

*The Worst Witch, Something Wicked this way Comes, Casper***

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

The Nightmare Before Christmas

**Screenwriter**: Zach Cregger, Shay Hatten

**Producers**: Robert Kulzer,  Roy Lee,  Miri Yoon,  Carter Swan,  Asad Qizilbash

Have a bloody good time in our microcinema as Zach Cregger&#8217;s newest horror triumph takes over for Halloween Weekend! From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger *(Weapons, Barbarian)* comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the *Resident Evil* franchise. In an all-new story, ***Resident Evil*** follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

Resident Evil (2026)

**Screenwriters**: Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks from the novel by Alice Hoffman

**Producer**: Denise Di Novi

Witchcraft feels good in a place like this. Spend the night with two witchy sisters as they fight for love and their family lineage in this cinematic comfort food classic. Magic is in their family tree and these two sisters are about to take a crash course in sorcery when one of their boyfriends dies unexpectedly. Now they&#8217;ve got the police and an evil spirit on their tail, and they must stick together to come out on top. Initially panned by critics, audiences have been falling in love with this witchy fairy-tale for over 25 years. Bring your sis or your bestie and let this magical movie cast its spell on you!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more witchy women?

*Season of the Witch, Poison for the Fairies, Spellcaster*

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

Practical Magic

**Screenwriters**: Clay McLeod Chapman,  Glenn McQuaid

**Producers**: Brendan McCarthy,  John McDonnell,  Deirdre Levins,  Thomas Herberth, Florian Brüning

This campy queer horror film is a morbidly entertaining combination of classic Hollywood, gothic terror, and high-pitched melodrama, featuring a one-of-a-kind performance from Chris Colfer! The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him. Starring **Chris Colfer **(*Glee*) and **Alice Krige **(*Star Trek: The Next Generation*) and directed by **Glenn McQuaid **(*I Sell the Dead, V/H/S*). So, if you&#8217;ve been dying for a deadly dark comedy to end spooky season right, don&#8217;t decline your invitation to Grayson Manor!

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

**Screenwriter**: Daisuke Tengan from the novel by Ryu Murakami

**Producers**: Satoshi Fukushima, Akemi Suyama

Steering away from jump scares and cheap gore and into avenues of absolute torture and terror, Takashi Miike&#8217;s breakthrough nightmare is the kind of rare horror film that affects you viscerally and haunts you in your psyche. Juxtaposing the banality of daily life for a widower and his son with an intense level of brutality and nauseating imagery, Miike weaves an unforgettable masterpiece of the macabre. Not for the faint of heart, but simply a must-experience for any horror-phile, *Audition* is the kind of movie you never really recover from.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more great gore from one of the most prolific filmmakers in history from the Takashi Miike director&#8217;s section!

*The Happiness of the Katakuris, Ichi the Killer, Gozu*

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

Audition

Cujo

Trick 'r Treat

Ghouls, boos, gobthems, join us for a Halloween bash with popcorn, drinks, and a Halloween preshow videomix.

Here is a secret screening that will chill you.

Or make you lose sleep.

So put aside your guesses and trust us.

This screening is not to be missed.

We are proud to present one of our favorite All Hallows' Eve season classics.

A cult classic from another nation with a rich history of haunting.

To know it is to love it but perhaps you’ve never seen it with a crowd before.

Can you live with yourself if you miss it?

Haha just kidding but we promise you a great found footage treat.

**dir. ?????????????, 19??**
*?????????, digital projection*
?? min

**FRIDAY, 10/30 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

A Secret Hollywood Entertainment Screening

The Witches

30th Anniversary of The Craft

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Paranormal researcher Richard Johnson leads a team of clairvoyants (Julie Harris, Claire Bloom) to determine if the notorious, bad karma-filled Hill House is truly haunted. What he doesn’t bargain for is intensely neurotic Harris developing an unhealthy sensitivity to the mansion’s evil-charged atmosphere. Based on Shirley Jackson’s novel *The Haunting of Hill House*, this is one of the all-time classics of the genre.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: UK

THE HAUNTING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces a frightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a poltergeist. Late one night, 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set… At first, the spirits that invade the Freeling’s home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) turn to an exorcist (Zelda Rubinstein) in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg.​

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

POLTERGEIST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The Freelings&#8217; suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the &#8216;other side&#8217;. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

Poltergeist

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

Obsession

As legend has it, the malevolent ghost of La Llorona wanders along waterways searching for her two children who have drowned (either by her hand or by the hands of others) and seeks to avenge the man who has abused and abandoned her. She is an ominous figure whose apparition is preceded by the sound of her laments. Those who hear her cries are marked for death. In Jayro Bustamante’s film, these cries are intertwined with calls for social justice and solidarity within Indigenous communities.

DCP. Director: Jayro Bustamante. Screenwriters: Jayro Bustamante, Gustavo Matheu. With: María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kénefic.

In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s apocalyptic ghost fiction, *Kaïro*, the technologization of contemporary life leads to the collapse of human relations and communication, and the loss of a shared history. A classic of techno-horror cinema, exemplary of Japanese cinema’s reinvention of the *Kaidan* or spirit story genre, *Kaïro* remains one of the most memorable evocations of modern technologies of communication as spectral conduits. Feeding on the growing uncertainty between touch and vision, the film stands as a transitional cinematic experiment, between so-called digital dematerialization and the eventuality of spectral forms of corporeality.

DCP. Director/screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With: Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki.

La Llorona / Pulse

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Deborah Kerr brilliantly plays a repressed governess convinced that ghosts haunt the mansion and grounds of her innocent young charges (Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin). Jack Clayton’s gothic psychological thriller was inspired by Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” and adapted with the help of Truman Capote.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK

THE INNOCENTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star with Bruce Willis in Robert Zemeckis’ outrageously entertaining comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life… and death. Isabella Rossellini is a beautiful enchantress who changes their lives—and deaths—forever in this hilarious dark comedy with ground-breaking special effects.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

DEATH BECOMES HER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After years of slumber, the legendary vampire has awakened and found acceptance in a tattooed, pierced and black-clad world. He’s a rock star. And his awesome goth-riffed sound has echoed around the globe…and stirred to life the fearsome Mother of All Vampires (Aaliyah, in her final film role).

Based on *The Vampire Chronicles* by Anne Rice, whose work previously came to the screen in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

At 16, Justine is a brilliant, promising student and a strict vegetarian. But when she starts veterinary school, she quickly encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time and faces the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self emerges.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Beetlejuice

Homicidal / Mr. Sardonicus

Halloween: H20

1925 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Robert York on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduced by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • In this original silent version of “Phantom” Lon Chaney's performance evokes both terror and sadness, even in the early scenes when only his shadow is shown. There is nothing like the original! • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Phantom of the Opera

Old Town Music Hall

Vidiots invites you and all your little witches and goblins to our annual **“Unscary” Halloween**,** **a free, all-ages, sensory-friendly Halloween-themed community event.

We&#8217;ll bring the **pumpkins** for carving and decorating, and we&#8217;ll have Vidiots-style **trick-or-treating**, tons of **tasty treats** for kiddos and grown-ups alike, a **free screening** of not-so-spooky All-Ages shorts, A special puppetty visit from our besties at **Bob Baker Marionette Theater**, a costume parade for the littles, and cauldrons full of magic and merriment. You just bring your Halloween spirit!

**11am &#8211; 12:00pm ** &#8211; Doors open and pumpkin carving begins in the video store!

**12:00pm** **&#8211; 12:30pm**&#8211; Costume Parade and Eagle Theatre trick-or-treating!

**1:00pm** &#8211; All-Ages Halloweenie short films in the Eagle!

Please RSVP above. As this is a free event, seating for the screening will be first-come first-serve and not guaranteed, but everyone is welcome in the rest of the venue for an Unscary good time!

**Sensory-friendly features:**

Gentle lighting and un-scary images, Reduced volume, Reserved, distanced seating options for puppet show and screening, Designated rest and quieter space in our intimate Microcinema

Vidiots Annual “Unscary” Halloween

**Screenwriters**: William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley

**Producers**: Carl Laemmle Jr.

Openly queer film director James Whale&#8217;s gothic masterpiece weaves the artistic style of German Expressionism, a distinctly camp sensibility, and a story of otherness that resonates throughout history. One of the greatest artistic triumphs of the Universal monster empire, this all-time classic features electric performances by Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester. Bleak and beautiful, this may be your grandmother&#8217;s monster movie, but it&#8217;s still fresh and iconic enough to be yours too!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Boris tonight for one creepy weekend!

*The Haunted Strangler, Targets, Black Sabbath*

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

Bride of Frankenstein

**Screenwriters**: Debra Hill, John Carpenter

**Producers**: Debra Hill, John Carpenter

It wouldn&#8217;t be Halloween without a visit from Michael Myers &#8211; the monster that made the holiday &#8211; stalking our big screen with terror! The original horror classic still startles over 45 years after its release. The small town of Haddonfield is under attack from an escaped murderer stalking the alleys and sidewalks of the idyllic burg. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is just a studious teenager, planning on spending her All Hallow&#8217;s Eve carving pumpkins with her babysitting charge. When the killer begins to hound her and her friends, she&#8217;s got to discover the family secrets that led to this bloody rampage and escape his evil wrath. Also starring Donald Pleasance as Dr. Loomis, P.J. Soles, and *Real Housewife of Beverly Hills* Kyle Richards. Spend your Samhain with Vidiots and John Carpenter with the slasher that started it all!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Halloweenie classics on killer physical media!

*Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Trick or Treat, Something Wicked this way Comes*

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

Halloween

**Screenwriters**: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper

**Producer**: Tobe Hooper

52 years ago Tobe Hooper set a new high-water mark for horror with this brutal and gruesome exercise in terror, and few films since have matched its levels of visceral torture. After running out of gas, five friends end up hunted by a hulking monster with a human-skin mask and a whirring chainsaw. One of the most influential horror films of all time, and a truly terrifying experience, this low-budget nightmare is an opera of carnage.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Tobe Hooper classic horror films tonight!

*Lifeforce, Salem&#8217;s Lot, The Funhouse*

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

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Bride of Frankenstein

Tales from the Archives

Hell Houses are a distinctly American phenomenon which began in 1990 just outside of Dallas, Texas at the Trinity Assembly of God Church. The original Hell House was conceived as a modern-day fire-and-brimstone sermon. Today, this religious ceremony of sorts is replete with actors, extensive lighting equipment and full audio-visual tech crews.

Inside the Hell House, tour guides dressed as demons take visitors from room to room to view depictions of school massacres, date rape, AIDS-related deaths, fatal drunk driving crashes, and botched abortions. With full access to the behind-the-scenes action, HELL HOUSE follows the process from the first script meeting until the last of the 10,000 visitors passes through the Hell House doors. The movie gives a verite window into the whole process of creating this over-the-top sermon, while showing an intimate portrait of the people who fervently believe its message. Shot on 16mm film and featuring a score by Bubba and Matthew Kadane, formerly of the band Bedhead.

**dir. George Ratliff, 2001**
*United States, digital projection*
85 min

**SATURDAY, 10/31 · 1:30P DOORS · 2:00P SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

HELL HOUSE (2001)

LA Filmforum: Francisco Romero – Local Reconstructions

2220 Arts + Archives

Gosford Park in 35mm

Eungyo (은교) with Park Hae-il

F. W. Murnau’s Faust at 100 with a live score by Julianna Barwick

While the white sheet has become an icon of the returning dead, it also stands in the place of projection. The sheet, stretched like a translucent canvas, is a reminder of the first public exhibitions where shadowy figures suddenly appeared on or behind its surface. The screen, like the sheet, becomes the membrane through and onto which the figure of the ghost takes shape, confounding our ability to distinguish the figure (the ghost-as-sheet) from the ground (the screen-as-sheet). But while the sheet may serve as the connective tissue between a living audience and the dead, the image or shadows that congregate on screen stir up trouble for the living. Tonight’s films explore the convergence of touch (or the inability to touch) with the ghostly and our changing relationship with the past and the dead.—*Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Martine Beugnet*

Over a 12-year span (2004–2016), Marusya Syroechkovskaya documented her relationship with Kimi, the young man who became her friend, companion and husband. While documentary practice became the filmmaker’s lifeline, Kimi, like so many young Russians growing up under an increasingly autocratic regime, was caught in a spiral of self-destruction and drug addiction. The film’s subtitle, *a message from a silenced generation*, signals the refusal to provide any closure that would exorcise ghosts and free oneself from the past. Instead, the filmmaker creates a space where a dead friend returns to tell a story that is also the story of a lost generation.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Marusya Syroechkovskaya. With: Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Kirill Morev.

*A Ghost Story* is unusual in its use of the now dated, shrouded ghost, featuring Casey Affleck donning a plain white sheet with two black holes in lieu of eyes. While a deceptively simple narrative — a man (known only as C) dies and returns to haunt the house he lived in with his wife (M, played by Rooney Mara) — the film’s poignancy stems from its account of loss and grief, the cohabitation of death and life epitomized by the sharing of a mundane household object, and the sheet that hides and reveals live, inanimate and absent bodies.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: David Lowery. With: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara.

How to Save a Dead Friend / A Ghost Story

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cary Grant stars as the one sane member of a charmingly lunatic family in director Frank Capra’s classic comedy, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE.

When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discovers that, among many other acts of charity, the two genteel ladies help lonely old men die happy…by feeding them a wonderful meal before poisoning them.

Now, Mortimer desperately wants to protect the two serial murderers he loves, stop them from killing anyone else and keep his bride from discovering how deranged his family really is. Based on the hit Broadway play by Joseph Kesselring, the stellar cast also includes Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Sam Wasson There will be a book signing with Sam Wasson for his book, Frank Capra: A Life, following the screening at the Los Feliz 3 in partnership with Skylight Books. ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Sam Wasson Presents ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves that she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor’s respect.

4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm Composite Fine Grain, 35mm Nitrate Composite Print, and 35mm Nitrate Combine Track provided by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration services conducted by StudioPost, A NBCUniversal Company.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by NBCUniversal Restoration & Preservation Manager Jen Hashida New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’ ‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

THE WILD PARTY

**Screenwriter**: Ross McElwee

**Producers**: Mark Meatto,  Ross McElwee

With a special introduction from non-fiction filmmaking legend **Ross McElwee** at the Sunday, November 1st screening!

Join us in the microcinema for one of the most profound documentary experiences of the year, legendary game-changing documentarian Ross McElwee&#8217;s beautifully heartbreaking triumph *Remake*. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. His son Adrian grew up inside those films, and eventually began experimenting with the camera himself. When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough *Sherman&#8217;s March* into a work of fiction, twenty-year-old Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction and dies from a fentanyl overdose, leaving behind hours of personal video footage. Retracing Adrian’s final years, McElwee reckons with what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame. As he reflects on a lifetime behind the camera, Ross’s own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish takes on new significance. An ever-expanding hall of mirrors built from decades of home movies, *Remake* is both McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, and to let him go.

Remake

**Screenwriters**: Emilio Carballido, Roberto Galvadón

**Producer**: Armando Orive Alba

Vidiots is celebrating **Día de los Muertos** with a special screening of the haunting Mexican masterpiece ***Macario***.

A rich folk-tale fantasy deeply entrenched in the folklore of Día de los Muertos, *Macario* is a haunting gem of Mexican and world cinema with stunning visuals and a dark mysticism. Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death who each ask for a piece of his dinner. From who will he accept the bargain, and what price will he have to pay? The first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award, this supernatural drama is not to be missed on the big screen.

Macario was restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Fundación Televisa at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Filmoteca UNAM and in association with Televisa S. de R.L. de C.V.  Funding was provided by the Golden Globe Foundation, a generous supporter of Vidiots Foundation.

**Día de los Muertos** 

Join us on October 25th for more Día de los Muertos revelry including face painting, crafts, and more fun from 11:00am – 2:00pm. For more information click [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/).

**Picks From the Video Store:**

Quieres más cine Mexicano? Check out these treasures from our video store:

*Poison for the Fairies, Cabeza de Vaca, Alucarda*

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

Macario

Bus Stop

Arrival: A Conversation with Denis Villeneuve and Dr. Nina Beguš

The Last Princess (덕혜옹주)

In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) come to light.

Carol

France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love. 

Winner of a coveted Cannes prize and one of the best reviewed films of the year, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE solidifies Céline Sciamma as one of the most exciting filmmakers working in the world today. Noémie and Adèle Haenel turn the subtle act of looking into a dangerous, engrossing thrill, crafting the most breathtaking and elegant performances of the year. To watch Marianne and Héloïse fall in love is to see love itself invented onscreen. With contemporary themes in period dress, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is one of the greatest love stories ever told.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Gene Hackman, Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer and Theresa Russell are the all-star players in the strange tale, set in the Canadian Wilderness, about a gold prospector who, after a gold strike, moves to a Carribbean island where his reward will be misery and paranoia and pursuit by killers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: UK/USA

Cinematic Void Presents EUREKA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In West Hollywood, a gay adult performer’s brutal murder went cold for decades. When filmmakers began documenting his story, the community’s involvement led to shocking discoveries through vintage footage linking suspects to the crime.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Rachel Mason and Dion Labriola, former Circus of Books owner Karen Mason and subject Clark Williams

MY BROTHER'S KILLER

It's election night, feeling naughty? Then come join TAPE for an erotic night of experimental cinema! To kick off a month's long installation of Julie Orlick's *The One Person Cinema*, the program will feature parts one and two of the gay, French archival S&M film *Les fantômes du hard* in the microcinema. Blending shot-on-video smut with diaristic reflection, Lazare Lazarus unearths gay porn archives from Marseilles' legendary BDSM bar Le Mineshaft. Activating the archives of its founder, Lazare unearths a complex history of hardcore gay sex and the ghosts its left behind.

PLUS, don't miss your chance to see Orlick's erotic short **DÉSIR**, looping in **The One Person Cinema**. The installation explores a long distance relationship with taboo BDSM dynamics, voyeurism, performance, vulnerability, and projection (literally and figuratively). The work incorporates elements of 16mm experimental film, theater, sculpture, and public space for someone to be alone in, forcing one to view the film with no disturbances. While in the space, the audience member can be viewed from the outside while also being in a secret fantasy world. The One Person Cinema is a small 5’ x 3’ x 6’ room purposely built to premiere DÉSIR, equipped with headphones, a theater chair, carpet, and a viewing hole from the outside with a two-way mirror.

Huge thanks to Graham Akins, the lab technician in the UCLA sculpture department, for all of his help and generosity.

Looping film inside for *ONE NIGHT ONLY* Come early, or stay late ;)

## 18+ Adults only. ID checked at the door.

DÉSIR

Paris/Los Angeles / Black and White 16mm to digital / 2023 - 2026 / 3min 36sec

Starring Shelbie Dimond, Rose Minham and A. Nonynous Dick.

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 1

Lazare Lazarus | 2023 | France | 35’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 2

Lazare Lazarus | 2024 | France | 24’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

**TUESDAY, 11/3 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

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

Les fantômes du hard (2023-24) and DÉSIR (2026), pres. by TAPE (18+)

My Dad Is 100 Years Old with Rome, Open City presented by Isabella Rossellini

Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ultra-wealthy NYC teenager Balthy makes dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he’s communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WG Pictures
COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Oscar Boyson, actor Asa Butterfield and producer and actor Jaeden Martell

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR

**Screenwriter**: Ajon Singh

**Producers**: Robert Pattinson,  Brighton McCloskey,  Lars Knudsen,  Ari Aster, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones,  Fred Berger,  William Iannaccone

In 2006, *To Catch a Predator* host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Primetime

Viva Ingrid! with Journey to Italy presented by Isabella Rossellini

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

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

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

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

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

General admission tickets go on sale Monday, October 19 at 11 a.m.

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. 

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

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

I Want Your Sex

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Blue Harbor Entertainment and Variance Films

COUNTRY: USA

‘PROOF Film Festival 2026’ PROOF All-Access Badge holders get free access to this event! Not a badge holder? Check out badges for purchase here!

THE MUSICAL

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Cyprus/North Macedonia/United States

MOTHERWITCH

**Screenwriter**: J. Davis

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

With cast and/or crew at every screening!

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

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

**Screenwriter**: Kobo Abe

**Producers**: Kiichi Ichikawa,  Tadashi Oono

One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, *Woman in the Dunes* (*Suna no onna*) was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday life as a Sisyphean struggle—an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.

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

Woman in the Dunes on 35mm

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

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

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

General admission tickets go on sale Monday, October 19 at 11 a.m.

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. 

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

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

These Long Shadows + Natchez

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

Roy del Espacio (1983) — LA Premiere! co-presented by Trash-Mex!

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

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

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

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

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

## $12 general admission.

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

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

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

The Haunted Mansion

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (Rossellini visto da Rossellini)

Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta) in 35mm

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum*

Just as every memorable dinner harmonizes textures and flavors to create something more than the sum of its parts — of the type that feels like “a kind of love affair” — so too does Danish director Gabriel Axel’s *Babette’s Feast*. A dash of piety, a splash of romance, a hint of heartache, a touch of splendor, and generous portions of human frailty and desire all come together in Axel’s framing, Henning Kristiansen’s cinematography and the delicate performances of its outstanding cast to make you fall in love with the movies and dining, all over again. We’re pleased to present this Academy Award-winning classic of the culinary screen to mark the fifth anniversary of Lulu at the Hammer Museum.

*Programmed and note written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm.*

Director: Gabriel Axel. Screenwriter: Gabriel Axel, Annemarie Aaes. With: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel.

Babette’s Feast

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“A Private Collection,” 1973, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 14 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk’s own collection of vintage erotica. “A Private Collection” marks the turning-point between Borowczyk’s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

FORMAT: DCP

**IMMORAL TALES, 1974, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 126 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

The first explicitly erotic feature from the notorious director of THE BEAST, IMMORAL TALES presents a veritable calvacade of depravity in four stories. Structured in reverse chronological order as if to suggest the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilization, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzsébet Báthory, or present-day teenagers, IMMORAL TALES would transform Walerian Borowczyk’s image from brilliant but obscure avant-garde artist to one of Europe’s most confrontational filmmakers when it came to trampling on sexual taboos.

FORMAT: DCP

"A Private Collection" / IMMORAL TALES

1989 • This is the film that helped kick off Disney’s modern animation run, and you can feel the confidence in the music and the storytelling. It won two Oscars, one for the score and one for “Under the Sea,” and the songs still play like hits because they were built like Broadway numbers. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

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1941 • Introduction by Author Harlan Lebo • Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner for its screenplay, this is one film that’s worth seeing on a big screen.   • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

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