### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and Japanese with English subtitles.*

A new restoration of one of the classics of cinema, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR depicts a brief affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in the rebuilt and thriving Hiroshima of 1959. The couple’s bliss is slowly eroded by the unavoidable memories of the war and atomic mass destruction.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: France/Japan

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Aero Theatre

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

Shadow Kitchen returns to Coaxial Arts in March with a program highlighting the work of documentarian Aurora Brachman! Aurora is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director, producer, and cinematographer, named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. A graduate of the Stanford MFA program in documentary (currently living in LA), Aurora’s work shines a patient light on intimate relationships particularly in the lives of queer people and people of color. In this month’s Shadow Kitchen we will have the pleasure of watching all of Aurora’s work to date. It will be a special night dedicated to the trajectory and evolution of a visionary artist in our community and the artist will be present after the screening to discuss her process.

Shadow Kitchen #57: Aurora Brachman

Coaxial

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

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 3/19) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (3/19)

Heavy Manners Library

“What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” edited by Udo Kittelmann, is a sweeping odyssey into the depths of human experience, unfolding through film and video. Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the U.S., this audiovisual poem experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.

Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines. It dissolves the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.

“What a Wonderful World” presents a wide range of groundbreaking works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, or Lu Yang, alongside cinematic milestones by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. Together, these works form a panoramic and layered portrait of humanity and history across 120 years: altogether ironic, sincere, critical and compassionate.

“What a Wonderful World” will unfold as an explorative journey, a cinematic mystery tour, a soul-stirring experience. It invites visitors to confront the secrets and fragilities of humanity while holding up a mirror to the state of the world today.

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

Julia Stoschek Foundation at the Variety Arts Theater

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, and English with English subtitles.*

The UK’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards and recipient of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, Akinola Davies Jr.’s MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father-son bonds. Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, the film follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. Brothers and collaborators Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies bring us a groundbreaking feature debut – centering an award-winning performance by Sopé Dìrísù (SLOW HORSES, GANGS OF LONDON) – that reveals the profound depths of what families leave unspoken.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: UK/Nigeria

MY FATHER'S SHADOW

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 2, “Coma,” Dir. David Lynch, 46 Mins**

Agent Cooper learns that his former partner has escaped from a mental institution.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 3, “The Man Behind The Glass,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Donna finds a diary that belonged to Laura Palmer.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Coma” and “The Man Behind The Glass” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 2 & 3

Los Feliz Theatre

Fellini’s Casanova

New Beverly Cinema

Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.

Tycoon

Now Instant Image Hall

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

Presented by Sunday Scaries Art Club.

6-8pm

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

Art Night at Scribble

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Thomas Lee Wright,  Barry Michael Cooper

**Producers**: George Jackson,  David McHenry

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary multi-hyphenate **Mario Van Peebles** for a special screening of his directorial debut film *New Jack City* followed by a conversation with **Van Peebles** and **Santi Elijah Holley, **the author of *An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created, *and a forthcoming book on Melvin Van Peebles and independent Black cinema.

Mario Van Peebles remixes the blaxploitation genre for the 1990s in this gritty gangster flick. The Cash Money Brothers with kingpin Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) at their helm run the steets and drug trade of New York City. Two hard-nosed NYPD officers (Ice-T and Judd Nelson) have got to go undercover to bring down the pushers and save the streets of Harlem from the crack epidemic. An electric debut that helped usher in the urban gangster wave of the 1990s, with a killer soundtrack, and tons of cameos from Fab Five Freddy, Flava Flav, Eek-a-Mouse, and Keith Sweat, to name a few, *New Jack City* is an intoxicating crime classic, best enjoyed big and loud!

Come early for an all vinyl DJ set from **DJ Jéli!**

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

New Jack City

Vidiots

Porgy and Bess

Phantom of Liberty/Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

American Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is assigned to track down and kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reportedly massacred hundreds of innocent people and set up his own fiefdom in the jungle. Willard and his crew encounter strange sights and people on their surreal journey into the heart of darkness.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Heralded by several critics as one of the best films of the 21st century, Anderson’s eight-time Oscar-nominated oil epic is a true cinematic masterpiece. Featuring brilliant co-stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, the film depicts the brutal, bloody founding of his American oil empire, and is a soaring historical drama that both employs and ingeniously transcends the conventions of epic cinema – shocking and thrilling viewers at every turn. An enthralling exploration of greed, capitalism and violence, this opus thrives as a visually mesmerizing study of an ironfisted oil baron and the developing American frontier he reigns over.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Egyptian Theatre

“What do I get out of this?” asks Andy Griffith’s “Lonesome” Rhodes of Patricia Neal’s radio producer touring an Arkansas jail for local musical talent. In his rise to fame and influence, Rhodes’ narcissistic motivation remains the same throughout *A Face in the Crowd*, no matter what Everyman platitudes people project on him. Radio gets him started but television is the new medium that vaults him to the pinnacle of political power. With McCarthyism still in the air, director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg pitch a darker take on populism than Frank Capra’s in *Meet Doe Joe*, but they still share a faith in the American public’s natural resistance to authoritarian appeals that, for all the film’s prophetic bone fides, feels naive in retrospect.*—Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Elia Kazan. Screenwriter: Budd Schulberg. With: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa. 

*35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.*

A Face in the Crowd

Hammer Museum

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!**

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (3/20)

Join us for a night of music featuring solo performances by Bedbug, Charlie Havenick, and Parker Tozier.

Bedbug, Charlie Havenick, Parker Tozier

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

This incomparable story of crime and redemption from the French master Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out. A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, PICKPOCKET is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

Get your ticket for just $6.84 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

PICKPOCKET

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Nobody knows who murdered Miles Archer. But what Archer’s partner, Private Eye Sam Spade, *does* know is that Archer was killed while investigating the disappearance of a priceless statue. Now Spade has three mysterious clients who want him to find it at any cost.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

THE MALTESE FALCON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Superstar Janet Jackson makes her stunning film debut in director John Singleton’s (BOYZ N THE HOOD) street-smart love story, POETIC JUSTICE. A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice (Jackson) and Lucky (Tupac Shakur) have only one thing in common: they can’t stand each other. But as their friends Lesha and Chicago (Regina King and Joe Torry) fight and make up in the back of the van, Justice and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together. After a surprising detour toward romance, the two travelers are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they’d left behind. Featuring the music of Naughty by Nature and Tony! Toni! Tone! and the poetry of Maya Angelou, POETIC JUSTICE is every bit as intense, original and unforgettable as BOYZ N THE HOOD.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

POETIC JUSTICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

In THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST, now in vibrant colour, Maiku Hama returns in a dashing convertible that is promptly repossessed. Taking on odd jobs like looking for lost dogs, Hama’s search leads him to a past he thought he’d left behind as the port city’s most legendary stripper returns and gangs vie for the control of the waterfront.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Japan

West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration The Maiku Hama Trilogy: Part 2

THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST

True Romance

Rio de Janeiro, 1964. After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid’s room. The day before, the maid had quit. In the room, G.H. faces a huge cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against beings it treats as subordinate. Facing the insect, G.H. descends into an existential Via Crucis. This experience leads to the loss of her identity and makes her question all conventions that imprison females to this day. Based on a novel by Clarice Lispector.

The Passion According to G.H.

Celebrate Bud Cort with a radiant 16mm print of the tender, subversive classic a life-affirming meditation on fully living & truly loving

Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) on Beautiful 16mm!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

**Producers**: Cattleya Paosrijeroen,  Soros Sukhum

Join us in the microcinema for Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke&#8217;s dark comedy fable of romance, melancholy, and consumerism. March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

A Useful Ghost

**Screenwriter**: Joseph Minion

**Producers**: Robert F. Colesberry, Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson

Celebrating the life and career of the remarkable **Catherine O&#8217;Hara**!

How bad can one night get? Prepare yourself for a one-of-a-kind experience with *After Hours*, a dark comedy that somehow combines big laughs and a suffocating, terrifying mood of pure dread thanks to Martin Scorsese’s live-wire direction. Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) is an ordinary cubicle drone in New York City whose life takes an unexpected turn when he ventures to SoHo for a hot date with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Unfortunately for Paul, what seems at first like a simple trip to a different neighborhood soon becomes a demented odyssey. This insanely hilarious nightmare comedy has EVERYTHING. First dates with Wizard of Oz-themed sex talk. Horrifying burn stories. Punk clubs with Kafka-esque bouncers. Cheech and Chong as art burglars. And that thing where the late, great Catherine O&#8217;Hara reminds us how hysterically weird she could be by playing an ice-cream-truck driver leading a vengeful mob!

**Remembering Catherine O’Hara**

Catherine O’Hara, our scene stealing, impossibly funny, impeccably comically timed, deeply human, perfectly wigged icon, we will miss you so. Thank you for making us laugh til we cried and lighting up generations of artists to seize art and life with a vigor only you could inspire. We’ll be celebrating you in our video store and on our big screen always.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to bring more Catherine O’Hara brilliance home? Check out some of these delights on physical media:

*Beetlejuice, SCTV, Waiting for Guffman*

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

After Hours

**Screenwriter**: David Lynch

**Producer**: Fred C. Caruso

David Lynch&#8217;s seductive suburban masterpiece still sizzles with surreal menace.  Kyle MacLachlan is Jeffrey &#8211; your everyday college boy back home for a summer with the folks in an idyllic enclave of upper middle-class America. A gruesome discovery in a field leads him into a nightmare world right behind the white picket fences. With signature Lynchian style and phenomenal performances from Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, and Laura Dern, it’s the kind of nightmare you won’t want to wake up from.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our David Lynch director&#8217;s section for all of the maestro&#8217;s masterpieces including:

*Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, Eraserhead*

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

Blue Velvet

**Screenwriter + Producer**: John Boorman

Vidiots is amped to welcome **Kumail Nanjiani **and** Emily V. Gordon** for a screening of John Boorman&#8217;s speedo-clad sci-fi cult classic *Zardoz*!

Strap on your red speedo and your ammunition holster, comb your mustache AND your ponytail and get ready to head into the far future with John Boorman&#8217;s science fiction epic *Zardoz*! With giant stone heads that vomit rifles to penis-hating immortals that hold all the world&#8217;s knowledge, to one of the most iconic wardrobe choices in cinema history, *Zardoz* continues to deliver the goods, one God-Wizard at a time!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Craving more strange sci fi? Check out these bangers from our video rental collection!

*Looker, Liquid Sky, The Final Programme***

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

Zardoz

**Screenwriters**: Meera Menon,  Paul Gleason

**Producers**: Erica Fishman,  Joe Camerota,  Luke Patton,  Meera Menon,  Paul Gleason

Join us in the microcinema for a tasty new zom com from Meera Menon. Set in the not-so-distant future, a young podcaster, Vinita (Kiran Deol), struggles to maintain her dwindling audience amidst the zombie apocalypse. To make matters worse, the zombies are beginning to mutate and become more powerful. So, when her ex-boyfriend shows up with an orphaned baby, it becomes all that much more important that Vinita and her family do what it takes to survive.

Didn’t Die

Project Hail Mary 70mm

Silent Movie/Where's Poppa

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Frank and Eleanor Perry’s brilliant 1969 film LAST SUMMER has long been considered a lost classic – never released on DVD or Blu-ray and unseen in its controversial original form for over forty years. A boundary pushing teen film briefly slapped with an X rating, it opened to ecstatic reviews and garnered an Oscar nomination for actress Catherine Burns. Last seen at the Cinematheque in a cobbled together censored 16mm print, the new restoration is a revelation. Based on Evan Hunter’s bestselling novel staring Richard Thomas and Bruce Davison as teenage boys aimlessly spending the summer at the beach on Fire Island, N.Y. They fall under the spell of Barbara Hershey’s beautiful Sandy and the trio push each other into acts of cruelty against wallflower Cathy Burns. LAST SUMMER received four stars from critic Roger Ebert and this is a screening not to be missed.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actors Barbara Hershey and Bruce Davison. Moderated by Larry Karaszewski. World Premiere of New Restoration of Theatrical Version

LAST SUMMER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Motion Picture Story), MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is considered one of Capra’s, Stewart’s and Columbia’s finest films.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures Repertory

COUNTRY: USA

New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

Free screening! First come first serve.

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

The Fly

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

It is a tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and fly off into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki, she embarks on her new journey with her sarcastic black cat, Jiji, landing the next morning in a seaside town, where her unique skills make her an instant sensation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Swedish and Latin with English subtitles.*

Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning, THE SEVENTH SEAL was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art-house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Sweden

THE SEVENTH SEAL

***Special thanks to our community partners**: [Black Film Allegiance](https://www.bfallegiance.com/), [Black Film Space](https://www.blackfilmspace.com/), [Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center](https://bherc.org/), [In the Cut](https://inthecutla.org/), [Platform UCLA](https://www.instagram.com/platformucla/), [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television](https://www.tft.ucla.edu/)*

When a Black middle-class family in South Los Angeles is visited by a mysterious old friend from the South (Danny Glover), his presence casts a spell over the previously calm household. As the inscrutable Harry, Glover flickers between menace and charm, using his commanding presence to dominate the frame. A singular work that explores how Southern folkloric traditions traveled north during the Great Migration, this intimate drama subtly announces director Charles Burnett’s mastery of his craft. In 2017, the film was named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, and in 2026 was named one of the [best 101 films about L.A.](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/list/best-los-angeles-movies#p=to-sleep-with-anger-1990) by the *Los Angeles Times*.*—author Ashley Clark and Public Programmer Beandrea July *

Director/Screenwriter: Charles Burnett. With: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph.

To Sleep With Anger

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Korean with English subtitles.*

A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn’t show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment, heads to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment. The next day goes very much like the last; Seongjun meets the actress, has drinks with friends, and falls for woman who looks remarkably like his ex-girlfriend. Each new day plays out like a flimsy copy of the previous one, but only Seongjun knows why.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: South Korea

Introduction by filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze ‘Alexandre Koberidze: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Alexandre Koberidze Presents THE DAY HE ARRIVES

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

His new assignment seems routine: protecting a star witness for an important trial. But before the night is out, the witness lies dying and cool, and no-nonsense Detective Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) won’t rest until the shooters and the kingpin pulling their strings are nailed. From opening shot to closing shoot-out, BULLITT crackles with authenticity: San Francisco locations, crisp dialogue and to-the-letter police, hospital and morgue procedures. An Oscar winner for Best Film Editing, this razor-edged 1968 thriller features one of cinema history’s most memorable car chases. Buckle up and brace for unbeatable action.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 4:30pm ‘The Greg Proops Film Club’

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents BULLITT

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Hebrew with English subtitles.*

A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&A. Told over the course of one day, the film depicts Y as he battles against the loss of freedom in his country and the fear of losing his mother. Nadav Lapid wrote the film soon after the death of his own mother, who worked as an editor on many of his works. It offers a sharp critique of the censorship, hypocrisy, and violence instigated by Israel and repressive governments everywhere. The fact that it was produced, largely funded, and highly acclaimed in its home country highlights the complexities of a national cinema that refuses to be muzzled, born of the divisions of society itself.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Israel/France/Germany

Q&A with filmmaker Nadav Lapid ‘Nadav Lapid: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

AHED'S KNEE

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In French and Hebrew with English subtitles.*

Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale, the latest from Nadav Lapid features a dynamic lead performance from newcomer Tom Mercier, whose feral intensity practically bursts out of the frame. Mercier plays Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees becoming French as his only hope for salvation. Step one is to replace his language. From now on, he will not utter a single word of Hebrew and his dictionary becomes his constant companion. His work at the Israeli embassy is a burden, but studying for his naturalization test also has its pitfalls. And the young French couple he befriends has some rather strange ideas about how to help him. Based on writer-director Nadav Lapid’s own experiences, SYNONYMS explores the challenges of putting down roots in a new place. Yoav’s attempts to find himself awaken past demons and open up an existential abyss in this tragicomic puzzle that wisely knows how to keep its secrets.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: France/Israel/Germany

Introduction by filmmaker Nadav Lapid ‘Nadav Lapid: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

SYNONYMS

The Hot Box / Terminal Island

Suzuki's mesmeric, elegiac, and lyrical meditation on art, longing, and the restless currents of desire!

Seijun Suzuki's TAISHŌ TRILOGY:  YUMEJI (1991)

**Screenwriters**: Roald Dahl, Ken Hughes from the novel by Ian Fleming

**Producer**: Albert R. Broccoli

We&#8217;re soaring away in a flying car, and we saved you and your little ones the shotgun seat! The always magical Dick Van Dyke stars as a pie-in-the-sky inventor in this delightful musical romp. When he finally invents something useful &#8211; a flying car &#8211; he&#8217;s got to contend with an evil dictator who wants to steal the car for his own nefarious needs. Now his two kids and a lovely young woman are setting off for vehicular adventures in the sky! With a script from beloved children&#8217;s author Roald Dahl based on a book from *James Bond*&#8216;s Ian Fleming, and featuring lively songs, incredible set pieces, and a nostalgic joy throughout &#8211; this is one high-flying musical adventure that still bangs!

The screening will feature a 15 minute intermission.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got more great Roald Dahl classics to share with your littles on physical media tonight!

*The BFG, Matilda, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory*

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

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

**Screenwriters**: Matt Johnson,  Jay McCarrol

**Producers**: Matt Greyson,  Matthew Miller

The microcinema is heading back to the year 2008 for the funniest Canadian lo-fi indie buddy time travel comedy of the year! When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Laugh out loud funny, inventive, and magnificently DIY, you&#8217;ll never stop thanking the Canadian government for supporting independent film!

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

**Writer + Producer**: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A beautifully human film from German master Rainer Werner Fassbinder, *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* explores loneliness, prejudice, and human connection through the unlikely romance between an elderly cleaning woman and a younger Moroccan immigrant. Inspired by Douglas Sirk&#8217;s *All That Heaven Allows*, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture. Profound, funny, and rapturously human, now is your chance to watch this masterpiece of world cinema on the big screen in glorious celluloid!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Our Fassbinder director&#8217;s section is stocked with dozens of his extraordinary films!

*Fox and his Friends, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, In a Year with 13 Moons*

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

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul on 35mm

**Screenwriter**: Cate Shortland

**Producer**: Anthony Anderson

Following a reckless encounter with her mother’s boyfriend, teenage Heidi is forced to flee home and restart her life, finding refuge at a motel in the icy ski town of Jindabyne. There, she lands a job at a petrol station, befriends her warm co-worker Bianca, and meets Joe, a young man grappling with his own emotional baggage. As Heidi and Joe pursue a shaky relationship and search for normalcy against a bleak winter backdrop, they must confront their vices, feelings of isolation, and need for love and belonging. Cate Shortland’s stunning feature debut is a “frank and visceral film that at the same time exudes an unexpected innocence” (Los Angeles Times). Featuring early performances from Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington, sheds light on the complexity of growing up and the quiet ache of loneliness.

*Somersault* has been restored by Piccolo Films from the original 35mm master negative and final mix master audio components. Restoration by Ray Argall in consultation with Anthony Anderson, Robert Humphreys, Sam Patty and Cate Shortland.

Somersault

**Screenwriter**: Mary Agnes Donoghue

**Producers**: Margaret South,  Bette Midler,  Bonnie Bruckheimer

Break out the tissues, we&#8217;re heading for a storm of feelings with Garry Marshall&#8217;s beloved tale of friendship, music, and heartache starring The Divine Miss M herself! A tearjerker about the bonds of friendship throughout life&#8217;s ups and downs, no one is leaving this theater with dry eyes. The kind of movie that critics dismissed as schmaltz while nearly 40 years of audiences beg to differ, this is cinematic comfort food at its best! Bring your lifelong bestie and let them know they&#8217;re *the wind beneath your wings*!

**Picks from the Video Store**

You know you want more Midler! Take home these gems (and more) tonight!

*Big Business, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune*

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

Beaches

**Screenwriter**: Harry Lighton

**Producers**: Lee Groombridge,  Ed Guiney,  Andrew Lowe,  Emma Norton

Come for Alexander Skarsgård as a leather daddy, stay for the romance, laughter, and humanism of Harry Lighton&#8217;s sweet and kinky dom com! Colin, a timid man is swept off his feet when Ray, an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. It&#8217;s got all the biker orgies and back alley b.j.s you would hope for, but it&#8217;s also truly a wonderfully universal triumph of warmth and humor for anyone &#8211; not just those in the kink community.

Pillion

Who Done It?

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**YES, 2026, Dir. Nadav Lapid, 150 Mins, Kino Lorber, France/Israel/Cyprus/Germany**

*In Hebrew, English and Russian with English subtitles.*

One of international cinema’s most fearless and provocative filmmakers, Nadav Lapid has long been an outspoken critic of his birth country’s government policies, channeling a lifetime of fury and frustration into vital films like SYNONYMS and AHED’S KNEE that brim with righteous anger, spite and shame. In YES, Lapid once again takes vigorous critical aim at the Israeli government with a new approach: submission. In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem. Feverishly whirling between moments of satire, sincerity and complete submission, YES is a visceral, blistering indictment of modern Israel, and an essential addition to post-October 7 cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

**POLICEMAN, 2011, Dir. Nadav Lapid, 105 Mins, Laila Films, Israel**

*In Hebrew with English subtitles.*

Yaron, an elite special operations squad leader, is the spiritual leader and alpha male among his peers, a small, highly trained team that is part of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Anti-Terrorism unit. Like a band of brothers, these men work, play, laugh, and cry together. They are true patriots; they love their country, their families, and each other. Yaron is ambitious and energetic, but a cyclone of emotions consumes him. His wife is expecting their first child, and the failing health of a team member weighs on his soul as the men contend with an unforgivable accident resulting from a miscalculation during a recent rescue mission, and the price that must be paid as a result of this.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Nadav Lapid Advance Screening ‘Nadav Lapid: An American Cinematheque Retrospective‘

YES / POLICEMAN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK/USA

Introduction by actor and fitness instructor Angie Shriner ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 4, “Laura’s Secret Diary,” Dir. Todd Holland, 46 Mins**

Agent Cooper gets a strange request to save a life.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 5, “The Orchids Curse,” Dir. Graeme Clifford, 47 Mins**

Agent Cooper and Truman lead a raid on One-Eyed Jacks.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Laura’s Secret Diary” and “The Orchids Curse” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 4 & 5

Last Tango in Paris

**Screenwriters**: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde

**Producer**: Howard Hawks

One of the most hilarious films of all time, this classic screwball comedy from Howard Hawks starring screen icons Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant will leave you growling for more! David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby. Leave your wildcats at home, but run to the theater to laugh your tail off!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative presented by Vidiots 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.

Bringing Up Baby

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 6, “Demons,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Donna tries to convince Truman that Harold Smith has Laura’s secret diary.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 7, “Lonely Souls,” Dir. David Lynch, 47 Mins**

Cooper and the One-Armed Man inspect guests at the Great Northern.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Demons” and “Lonely Souls” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 6 & 7

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Hebrew with English subtitles.*

Nadav Lapid’s THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER is the story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular protagonist, Nira, discovers that her young student, Yoav, has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, she slowly and progressively becomes interested in cultivating the boy’s gift. But when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his family in an attempt to protect his talent before he passes from boyhood to adolescence, and his purity is lost.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Israel/France

THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

**Screenwriter**: Sean Wang

**Producers**: Carlos López Estrada,  Josh Peters,  Valerie Bush,  Sean Wang

On the cusp of high school, Chris Wang, a.k.a Wang Wang, is spending an aimless summer in his quiet Northern California hometown of Fremont. His mom, Chungsing, is the only person who sees and loves Dìdi (the affectionate term in Mandarin meaning “little brother”) for who he really is. Chris can’t stand it when she looks at him with the loving gaze of an immigrant mother whose greatest pride and most animated dreams rest in her child. He’s too busy watching skate videos on YouTube and scouring the Myspace page of his crush, Madi. When Chris, wielding the power of a well-deployed Paramore t-shirt and A Walk to Remember reference, finds a way to get close to Madi, he suddenly seems to be figuring things out.

But Dìdi (弟弟) isn’t the story of a teenage boy getting the girl. In Sean Wang’s telling, Chris doesn’t exactly come of age as much as trip and stumble his way through an endless teenage summer — and perhaps find a way to log off AIM and see his mother for the first time.

**Movie Den** is a community initiative presented by Vidiots 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.

Dìdi (弟弟)

**Screenwriters**: Ted Allan,  John Cassavetes

**Producers**: Yoram Globus,  Menahem Golan

The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls who reunite after years apart. Exhilarating and risky, mixing sober realism with surreal flourishes, *Love Streams* is a remarkable film that comes at the viewer in a torrent of beautiful, erratic feeling. This inquiry into the nature of love in all its forms was Cassavetes’s last truly personal work.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Gena Rowlands treasures tonight on DVD and Blu-ray!

*The Neon Bible, Columbo: Playback (S4 D3), Hysterical Blindness*

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

Love Streams

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

RUSHMORE

A fascinating, cross-country exploration of the array of paths that fragments of the Berlin Wall have taken across the USA.

Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez's THE AMERICAN SECTOR (2020)

**Screenwriters**: Jymn Magon, Chris Matheson, Brian Pimental

**Producer**: Dan Rounds

Head out on a road trip of goofing proportions in this very 90s animated dad joke! An endearing modern-day story about how the lovable Goof bonds with his teenage son Max on a hilarious cross-country road trip. En route to the ol&#8217; fishing hole, they find themselves up to their floppy ears in misadventure! A movie for the goofball in all of us!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative presented by Vidiots 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.

A Goofy Movie

**Screenwriter:** Ingmar Bergman

**Producer:** Allan Ekelund

Ingmar Bergman&#8217;s iconic and sublime parable of humanity&#8217;s search to cheat the inevitability of death. When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. Stunning, philosophical, and groundbreaking, this existential essential requires big-screen viewing!

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

The Seventh Seal

**Screenwriter**: Paul Attanasio from the memoirs of Dick Goodwin

**Producers**: Robert Redford,  Michael Jacobs,  Julian Krainin,  Michael Nozik

Go behind the scandal that rocked television and the world with Robert Redford&#8217;s true-life story of the scam of the mid-century! John Turturro is magnificent as Queens-born Herbie Stempel becomes an unlikely hero after winning on America&#8217;s beloved game show, &#8220;Twenty One.&#8221; When the network decides to bring in a more telegenic contestant, the WASP-ish Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), Stempel decides to take the show down with him, announcing that the game is rigged. Now the show has got to answer for its misdeeds and a congressional investigator is brought it to discover the truth behind America&#8217;s favorite game. Engrossing from start to finish, with incredible performances from Turturro and Fienes, this Oscar-nominated winner is the real deal &#8211; no lie!

**Remembering Robert Redford**

Robert Redford&#8217;s legacy is not only in the films he made, but in the way he lived &#8211; committed to the power of human and earthly connection, to truth, storytelling, and showing us that championing artists and sharing stories is pivotal to a healthy, open society.  Off screen, he championed the environment, independent voices, and the radical idea that stories can change the world. All who love and make movies are forever indebted to Redford and the path he forged. We&#8217;ll remain ever mindful of his constant message that storytelling is activism and that movies are a powerful force for hope.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Robert Redford? We’ve got tons, including these gems!

*The Electric Horseman, Downhill Racer, A Bridge Too Far*

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

Quiz Show

Like a pod of dolphins leaping harmoniously through the waves, the SoCal tour of ***JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE*** arrives April 2–5 through a collaboration between **Oscilloscope**, **Brain Dead Studios**, **7th House**, **Philosophical Research Society, **and **Ojai Playhouse****.**

Directed by **Michael Almereyda** and **Courtney Stephens**, this new documentary explores the life and work of the daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly, a scientist who dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. Lilly’s motto, “My body is my laboratory,” guided his pioneering and controversial research into the intelligence and language of dolphins and whales, as well as his explorations of psychedelics and sensory deprivation.

Alongside the documentary, 7th House and Brain Dead present two films shaped by his work: Mike Nichols’s DAY OF THE DOLPHIN (Saturday, 4/4 at Brain Dead Studios) and Ken Russell’s ALTERED STATES (Sunday, 4/5 at The Philosophical Research Society). Together, these films chart the strange and fascinating cultural wake of Lilly’s quest to understand the mind, the ocean, and the hidden systems that might connect them both.

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Thursday, April 2nd starting at 7PM, come out to Film & Fabric: Volume 8, the latest installment of the Short Film Screening Series hosted by Julian Vargas, now held at Coaxial Arts. This month we've got a thrilling/experimental/absurd lineup of films made by some of the most compelling Filmmakers in town. Our lineup features Films by: Guadalupe Arellanes, Jack Schurman, Finn Disharoon, Ian Riedel & Eamonn Wilcox, Sam Mandich, Julian Vargas, and a very special MYSTERY FILMMAKER.

Film&Fabric: Come for the movies, stay for the interstitial clips, leave with new friends.

@filmandfabric @jjjjjuliann

Sam Mandich (@sammymandich)
Guadalupe Arellanes (@gwadalinaaa)
Jack Schurman (@jackschurman)
Ian Riedel (@ianriedel_)
Eamonn Wilcox (@_unknownballers)
Finn Disharoon (@finn_dish)
Ryan Luis Fuller (@gh0sttaste)

Film & Fabric: Volume 8

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/2)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Rohmer, best known as the doyen of French naturalism, veered about as far as you could get from his signature style with this adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century Arthurian romance *Perceval, the Story of the Grail*, in which Fabrice Luchini’s Perceval crosses a deliberately artificial landscape of cardboard castles and fiberglass rivers, all built in the Epinay Studios near Paris, in search of the Cup of Christ, his journey periodically described by a singing chorus.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Les Films du Losange

COUNTRY: France/Italy/West Germany

PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and French with English subtitles.*

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She takes the chamber play to its ultimate form: it is almost entirely chamber. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possible in this place and whether filming is a realistic option. Akerman does not film here with any intentions defined in advance. She wants to be as open and blank as possible to ensure that things take their own course.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Icarus Films

COUNTRY: Belgium/France

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DOWN THERE

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


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

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

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.




Big Glow: Youth Open Mic

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

This month will be showcasing Cogito, Amanda on the Moon, and Eva Luna Smith. 

8pm




North Star Sessions

**Screenwriters**: Katie Silberman,  Emily Halpern,  Sarah Haskins,  Susanna Fogel

**Producers**: Megan Ellison,  Jessica Elbaum,  Katie Silberman,  Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld

Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high school peers. But on the eve of graduation, the best friends suddenly realize that they may have missed out on the special moments of their teenage years. Determined to make up for lost time, the girls decide to cram four years of not-to-be missed fun into one night &#8212; a chaotic adventure that no amount of book smarts could prepare them for.

Booksmart

**Screenwriters**: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers

**Producers**: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Maurice Sendak, John B. Carls, Vincent Landay

Let your imagination run away with this innovative and breathtaking adaptation of the beloved Maurice Sendak book from the visionary mind of Spike Jonze. Max is a chaotic little boy in a wold suit, a 9-year-old destructive force acting out for his loneliness and familial strife. After an argument, he boards a boat and sails to an island of enormous talking beasts. Convincing them he has magical powers, Max becomes their king and they set out together to play rumpus, build forts, and discover secret hideaways. It&#8217;s a beautiful and artistic rendition of the power of the childhood imagination.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for deep cut Spike Jonze? We&#8217;ve got that AND all the hits!

*Yeah Right!, Tell Them Anything You Want, Work of Director Spike Jonze*

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

Where the Wild Things Are

**Producers**: Mel Stuart, Larry Shaw

Remembering the life and legacy of **Reverend Jesse Jackson**.

One of the most electrifying music documentaries ever, the eternally funky *Wattstax* is part concert-film and part powerful document of the historic Watts neighborhood of 50 years ago. Known as &#8220;The Black Woodstock&#8221; Wattstax was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to commemorate the seven-year anniversary of the Watts riots. Organized by legendary Stax Records, this monumental concert includes performances from soul superstars Isaac Hayes, The Staples Sisters, Carla and Rufus Thomas, The Bar-Kays and more, with speeches from Jesse Jackson and Melvin Van Peebles, and a comedy set from Richard Pryor. So join us as we get funk-adelic and blast this groovy classic on our killer speakers!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Soul and Funk performances to take home?

*Don&#8217;t Forget the Motor City, Back to Stax, Marvin Gaye: The Real Thing*

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

Wattstax

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Entrenched in the devastating reality of postwar Japan, Naruse’s masterpiece adapts Fumiko Hayashi’s final completed novel to trace the lives of two repatriated lovers reunited in the ruins of a defeated nation. The wartime affair of Tomioka, a married Forestry Ministry officer (Masayuki Mori) and typist Yukiko (Hideko Takamine) continues in the postwar rubble, but their bleak existence pales against the faraway romance that took place in French Indochina. Reluctant to leave his wife, the lecherous Tomioka comes and goes at his leisure to visit Yukiko, who clings to him desperately, propping up the vestiges of their long-lost passion over the course of years. Takamine’s heartbreaking performance is perhaps her finest hour, a role of sheer emotional magnitude that bears an agonizing love, drawn from the fading memory of what once was.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

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

FLOATING CLOUDS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Laura Ellis

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode

7:15pm | **BLACK ANGEL**

8:36pm | Intermission

8:46pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

8:56pm | **BLUES IN THE NIGHT**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**BLACK ANGEL, 1946, Dir. Roy William Neill, 81 Mins, Universal Pictures, USA**

Originally released August 2, 1946

Kirk Bennett is sentenced to die for the murder of gorgeous actress Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), but his wife (June Vincent) won’t give up trying to prove his innocence. She desperately enlists the aid of Marty Blair (Dan Duryea), a pickled pianist on the skids who happens to be the victim’s husband! The amateur sleuths go undercover as a performing duo, tracing clues to a ritzy Sunset Strip nightclub run by shady operator Marko (Peter Lorre). Bringing extra heat is Broderick Crawford as a dogged LAPD police captain. As usual in Woolrich stories, things aren’t what they seem—leading to one of the writer’s most memorable and unexpected climaxes. Known for his smarmy, villainous turns in many films of the period, here Duryea had his first role as a leading man in one of the era’s best adaptations of a novel by Cornell Woolrich, the undisputed master of noir fiction. Featuring fantastic art direction by Martin Obzina and inventive camerawork by Paul Ivano.

FORMAT: 35mm

**BLUES IN THE NIGHT, 1941, Dir. Anatole Litvak, 92 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

Originally released November 15, 1941

The first noir film to delve into the jazz world, BLUES IN THE NIGHT details the rise and inevitable fall of a St. Louis band. They land their big break when they get booked at a New Jersey nightclub, but the band’s leader, played by Richard Whorf, falls under the spell of the club’s *femme fatale* owner. It doesn’t take long for the other members to sour, setting off a chain reaction of jealousy, betrayal, and, eventually, murder. The supporting cast is superb, made up of familiar noir faces like Jack Carson, Howard Da Silva and Lloyd Nolan, while the screenplay by Robert Rossen makes good on the lyrics of the tragic, Oscar-nominated title song. Future director Elia Kazan has his biggest movie role as the band’s clarinetist.

FORMAT: 35mm

Live musical performance by singer Laura Ellis and the Nick Rossi Trio Introductions by Eddie Muller, Alan K. Rode and Nick Rossi ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

BLACK ANGEL / BLUES IN THE NIGHT

In the most commercially successful Black comedy feature of its era, Eddie Murphy stands at the center of the Black Pack as Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, who leaves royal luxury for Queens, New York, in search of love on his own terms.

Robert Townsend’s audacious directorial debut remains a razor-sharp satire of Hollywood’s degrading and limited roles for Black actors. Townsend stars as Bobby Taylor, an aspiring actor pressured to erase himself to fit an “Eddie Murphy type” while auditioning for an outlandish Blaxploitation knockoff. A foundational text of the Black Pack collective, the independently produced film insists on comedy as social critique — using satire not as escapism, but as a strategy to expose industry gatekeeping, reclaim authorship and speak truth to power.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: Robert Townsend. Screenwriters: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend. With: Robert Townsend, Anne-Marie Johnson, Helen Martin.

Comedy as Resistance: Hollywood Shuffle

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

**Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (4/3)

Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens' fascinating experimental doc about the psychonautic scientist who tried to communicate with dolphins

JOHN LILLY & THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (2025)

**Screenwriters**: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

**Producer**: Stanley Kubrick

Vidiots invites you to go off the rails with Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s unhinged dark comedy triumph. With a pitch-black satirical humor, and three phenomenal performances from the legendary Peter Sellers, *Dr. Strangelove* is often considered one of the best films ever made. After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. Frenetic, chillingly hilarious, and perenially apropos to any epoch, it&#8217;s time to revel in this fascinating masterpiece all over again!

**Movie Den** is a community initiative presented by Vidiots 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.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

**Screenwriters**: Melvyn Bragg, Norman Jewison, Tim Rice

**Producers**: Norman Jewison, Robert Stigwood

*What&#8217;s the buzz, tell me what&#8217;s a happenin&#8217;! *You know you can&#8217;t resist the most divine of Rock Operas from the pen of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the direction of dearly departed Norman Jewison. Follow Jesus and his disciples in his last days as a theater troupe acts out (and sings) the final days of the Christian savior, from meetings with Pontius Pilate, to the Last Supper, and beyond. The biblical musical spectacle that lives forever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a Rock Opera? Try out these off-the-wall options!

*Phantom of the Paradise, The Apple, Shock Treatment, Listzomania*

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

Jesus Christ Superstar

**Screenwriter**: Georgi M. Unkovski

**Producers**: Ivan Unkovski,  Ivana Shekutkoska,  Katarina Prpic

Join us in the microcinema for Georgi M. Unkovski&#8217;s delightful coming-of-age triumph for the pink sheep in every family! 15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else. Winner of both an audience and jury award at Sundance, this international charmer (that features an actual pink sheep!) has a rhythm all its own.

DJ Ahmet

**Screenwriters**: Tsui Hark, Koan Hui

**Producer**: Tsui Hark

Adopted by a renowned swordsmith, a young man discovers that his biological father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs afoul of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront Lung.

The Blade

In celebration of their collaborative, two-venue run of Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens’ JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE, 7th House and Brain Dead are thrilled to co-present Mike Nichols’s THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN (1973).&#8221;

*DAY OF THE DOLPHIN* imagines a world where the boundary between human and animal intelligence begins to dissolve. When a team of researchers successfully teaches dolphins to communicate in English, their breakthrough attracts the attention of powerful forces eager to weaponize the discovery.

The film draws direct inspiration from the pioneering work of Dr. John C. Lilly, whose real-life research into dolphin intelligence and communication captivated both the scientific community and the public imagination in the 1960s and ’70s. Lilly believed that dolphins possessed complex language and consciousness, and his experiments attempted to bridge the gap between species.

Released at the height of that cultural fascination, *DAY OF THE DOLPHIN* transforms Lilly’s radical ideas into a tense political thriller about the ethics of science, the limits of communication, and what might happen if we finally succeeded in speaking with another intelligent species. Presented alongside *JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE*, the film offers a fascinating glimpse into how Lilly’s extraordinary research rippled into popular culture.

The Day of the Dolphin

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11:00am | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson. Book signing with Steven C. Smith for his new book, *Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema*.

12:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and author Steven C. Smith

12:10pm | **HANGOVER SQUARE**

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Originally released February 7th, 1945

In this Edwardian noir, George Sanders is a Scotland Yard psychologist and Laird Cregar (in his final role) is a distinguished composer who moonlights as a serial killer. Linda Darnell steals the show as a conniving singer with a grisly sendoff. Bernard Herrmann’s “Concerto Macabre,” centerpiece of the film’s climax, is one of the most thrilling works composed for the cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson Introduction by Eddie Muller and author Steven C. Smith Book signing with Steven C. Smith for his new book, Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema, prior to the screening at 11:00am at the Egyptian Theatre, in partnership with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop. ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

HANGOVER SQUARE

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3:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson

4:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

4:10pm | **ANATOMY OF A MURDER**

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### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released July 1, 1959

One of the best courtroom movies ever made. James Stewart plays an Upper Peninsula of Michigan lawyer drawn out of retirement to represent an Army Lieutenant charged with murder. The Lieutenant admits to the crime despite having no memory of committing it, and Stewart’s character is given the unenviable task of mounting an “irresistible impulse” defense. The contrast between the scandal and the wholesome, small-town setting in which it’s discussed is perfectly realized by director Otto Preminger. The director constantly pushed the boundaries of what could be depicted onscreen, and ANATOMY OF A MURDER represents the platonic ideal in terms of blending entertainment with social commentary. Stewart earned a fifth and final Oscar nomination for his work here, but he’s given stiff competition from George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara and jazz luminary Duke Ellington, who also composed the score.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson Introduction by Alan K. Rode ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026′

ANATOMY OF A MURDER

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6:00pm | Doors open & Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio

7:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi

7:10pm | **THE YELLOW CANARY**

8:43pm | Q&A with actor Pat Boone. Moderated by Eddie Muller.

9:23pm | **THE CRIMSON CANARY**

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**THE YELLOW CANARY, 1963, Dir. Buzz Kulik, 93 Mins, USA**

Originally released May 15, 1963

Wait a minute—where’d this come from? A late-cycle film noir with a script by Rod Serling, from a novel by Whit (TOUCH OF EVIL) Masterson? Starring *Pat Boone* as an egomaniacal pop crooner whose only child is kidnapped for a king’s ransom? With Barbara Eden as his wife? And Jack Klugman the investigating cop? With a wall-to-wall jazz-pop score by Kenyon Hopkins? And a supporting cast that’s a Who’s Who of sixties favorites: Steve Forrest, Jesse White, Harold Gould, Milton Seltzer, Jeff Corey, Joe Turkel . . . Be here at the Egyptian Theatre as the Film Noir Foundation resurrects this pop culture obscurity in a brand-new digital restoration —**with star Pat Boone in person!** One of the first features on the résumé of veteran TV-director Buzz Kulik (PLAYHOUSE 90, TWILIGHT ZONE, WARNING SHOT, BRIAN’S SONG).

FORMAT: DCP

**THE CRIMSON CANARY, 1945, Dir. John Hoffman, 64 Mins, Universal Pictures, USA**

Originally released November 9, 1945

THE CRIMSON CANARY boasts two things that make B-movies so much fun: a great premise and a short runtime. A trumpet player gets locked up after the lead singer of his band gets whacked. The trumpeter’s fiancée sets out to find the real killer with help from a jazz-loving detective. The film’s Black-led musical numbers have little to do with its plot, which made them easier to cut for Southern censors, but they make up several of the film’s best moments. Coleman Hawkins rips through spirited renditions of “Rifftide” and “Hollywood Stampede,” while blues/folk legend Josh White brings down the house with his signature tune “One Meatball.” Featuring a memorably nasty performance by Claudia Drake (DETOUR) as the murdered singer.

FORMAT: 35mm

Q&A with actor Pat Boone. Moderated by Eddie Muller. Live musical performance by the Nick Rossi Trio Introduction by Eddie Muller and Nick Rossi THE YELLOW CANARY World Premiere of New Digital Restoration by Film Noir Foundation and Cinema Preservation Alliance ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

7:30 PM

Shadow Kitchen #57: Aurora Brachman

7:30 PM

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 3/19) 7:30pm

7:30 PM

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (3/19)

4:00 PM

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

5:00 PM

MY FATHER'S SHADOW

7:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 2 & 3

10:00 PM

Fellini’s Casanova

7:30 PM

Tycoon

Art Night at Scribble

6:00 PM

New Jack City

7:30 PM

Porgy and Bess

7:00 PM

Phantom of Liberty/Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois

7:30 PM