River of No Return

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: France/Germany/Latvia

MINOTAUR

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish and English with English subtitles.*

CAMPEÓN GABACHO is a film full of humorous punches, telling the story of Liborio, an endearing and mischievous young man and Mexican migrant looking for a better life in the United States. Through fists, love and his words, he becomes a hero in an unknown land, facing the cultural walls and prejudices that threaten all his hopes.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Mexico

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Jonás Cuarón. Moderated by Eugenio Derbez. West Coast Premiere

CAMPEÓN GABACHO

Aero Theatre

Oklahoma Sludge Metal Legends CHAT PILE curate a handful of films at Brain Dead Studios starting first with a classic LA post apocalyptic thriller 1996&#8217;s ESCAPE FROM LA

CHAT PILE Presents: Escape from L.A.

Brain Dead Studios

V/H/S/MIXTAPE cranks the franchise's signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess, transform, and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter, and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares.



Featuring all-new segments from legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, hip-hop icon RZA, visionary director David Moreau, and acclaimed filmmaker Renee Zhan, the la

V/H/S/Mixtape

In RIVER, when three estranged siblings reunite in their hometown after the death of their father, they set out to scatter his ashes at his favorite spot on a remote river. But when their boat breaks down, the trip devolves into a waking nightmare. Stranded miles from help with no cell service, they soon realize they’re being stalked by a faceless killer who has emerged from the woods. To survive the night, the siblings must put their long-standing grudges aside and fight together against a ruthless, almost mythic terror.

River

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ten has just been released from prison and must register as a sex offender – but a broken-down van and encounters with many obstacles in the form of other LA residents will test his resolve and force us to ask ourselves if anyone can ever be forgiven.
Perhaps the most daring and risky film in the program, TEN WILL is Max DeFalco’s feature debut and a statement of intent as bold and daring as that of Sean Baker or the Safdie brothers – unravelling at a breakneck speed with an incredible array of interesting and unusual characters (a lot of them cast right off the streets of the city!), this is a film designed to make you uncomfortable, to make you squirm and yet somehow retain some of the most humane beats any story can hope for.
Please be warned – viewer discretion is definitely advised.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Max DeFalco Special Screening

TEN WILL

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When overenthusiastic artist Matt’s engagement proposition is turned down, his whole world collapses – unable to deal with the downfall, he moves into a sailboat and starts sorting through his home movie videos, encountering a younger version of himself that begins to confirm his worst fears: that he may be a loser, all told through a droll, incisive voiceover.
Fans of John Wilson and Nathan Fielder, take note: there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Matt Barats. Mining the tradition of uneasy humour with moments of genuine self-reflection, ANCHORS AWEIGH is a laugh-out-loud funny essay film that can change beats on the spin of a dime with an excruciating level of skill that requires someone with a really keen sense to manage.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Matt Barats West Coast Premiere

ANCHORS AWEIGH

Los Feliz Theatre

Minnie and Moskowitz / Once Around

New Beverly Cinema

Pete Ohs and Sean Baker in Conversation

Love And Work

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriters**: James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.

**Producers**: James Cameron

One bad-ass mother of a sequel! The Governator is back and this time, he&#8217;s the good robot, sent from the future to protect John and Sarah Connor (Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton) from an even deadlier terminator unit through the malls, warehouses, and dry riverbeds of early &#8217;90s Los Angeles. A riotous good time for all, with pioneering special effects, and a timely message on Artificial Intelligence gone deadly, don&#8217;t miss this all-time banger on our big screen in glorious celluloid!

**Please Note:** Wednesday&#8217;s Screening will be on 35mm, Friday&#8217;s Screening will be presented digitally.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got all the Arnold you could want &#8211; he&#8217;s even got his own section to take home the bangers and the deep cuts!

*Stay Hungry, Pumping Iron, Kindergarten Cop*

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

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Vidiots

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back/Bulldog's Bride

Resident Evil 35mm

Vista Theatre

Pan's Labyrinth in 3D with Guillermo del Toro

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

PATHETIC FALLACY follows a young widower to a new-age mountain town in search of cosmic answers and a chance to heal. When he arrives, he instead finds an outlandish murderer and a forest of demonic spirits who offer a horrific bargain: the power to cheat death at a nightmarish cost.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer and actor Jessica Rothe West Coast Premiere

PATHETIC FALLACY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

If you go down to the woods today… Get the gang together, grab a few beers and go off the beaten track – what better way to spend the summer break? You know it’s not going to end well.

But our carefree young twenty-somethings Ziggy (Grace Van Dien), Rich, Katie, Kimberly and Fitz don’t know that. They have the whole summer, and their whole lives, ahead of them. And so they cross a barbed wire fence to go camping and lake swimming off-grid in unexplored forest – what could possibly go wrong…

Pretty soon they lose their way, tempers flare and the friends realize how completely alone they are. What’s more: the forest, under the spell of some strange animus, is starting to come alive around them. Even the ground seems to have its own will, opening and swallowing whole anything and anyone who dares step foot upon it. Every trembling step could be their last.

From the Producers who brought you 47 METERS DOWN and FALL, and filmmakers Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, THE SWALLOW is an entertaining riot from start to finish – an ingenious, innovative spin on the survival thriller, and a visceral, skin-crawling feast for genre hounds.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmakers Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer West Coast Premiere

THE SWALLOW

Oklahoma Sludge Metal Legends CHAT PILE currate a handful of films at Brain Dead Studios followed up with our 2nd film TEEN WITCH (1989):

Louise is not very popular at her highschool. Then she learns that she&#8217;s descended from the witches of Salem and has inherited their powers. At first she uses them to get back at the girls and teachers who teased her and to win the heart of the handsome footballer&#8217;s captain. But soon she has doubts if it&#8217;s right to &#8216;cheat&#8217; her way to popularity.

CHAT PILE presents TEEN WITCH

SATURDAY AFTERNOON KUNG-FU THEATRE ‘BORN INVINCIBLE’, 2026, Dir. RZA, 40 Mins, USA

A widowed mother trains her two sons in a mysterious martial art form to protect their village.

FORMAT: DCP

ABOUT THE FILM:
MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE, 1976, Dir. Jimmy Wang Yu, 93 Mins, Severin Films, Hong Kong

In Mandarin with English subtitles.

A blind martial arts master seeks revenge using a deadly weapon capable of decapitating opponents from a distance, hunting down the fighters responsible for his students’ deaths.

FORMAT: DCP

SATURDAY AFTERNOON KUNG-FU THEATRE

IT rises from dank, dark places. IT preys on children. IT knows exactly what scares you–and IT never goes away. A sinister force lurks menacingly behind the warm visage of Pennywise the Clown (Tim Curry), who awakens every thirty years to terrorize the small New England town of Derry, altering reality to animate victim’s greatest fears in Stephen King’s chilling IT. Somehow, seven children defeat the evil incarnation. But now, three decades later, the savage menace resurrects. And the seven victors return as adults to again fight a horrifying battle between good and evil–where personal demons may be lethal–in the spine-tingling miniseries STEPHEN KING’S IT.​

Stephen King's IT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Siblings Stella and Oscar return to their Pennsylvania hometown to investigate their sister Iris’ unexplained death following a mysterious rise in suicides within the county.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Alison-Eve Hammersley, actors Carly Stewart and Grant Crater, co-writer J. Batzli, producer George Henry Horton and producer and specialty character designer Matt Gossen World Premiere

ERIE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“This Place is a Sh*thole,” 2025, Dir. Will Wightman, 4 Mins, UK**
The chaos and grime of communal living spiral into something both horrifying and hilariously relatable.

FORMAT: DCP

**WELCOME TO G-TOWN, 2026, Dirs. Nathan & Ben McQuaid, 85 Mins, UK**
Bill, along with his two best friends, is struggling to make sense of life post-graduation. Unable to find a job, he applies for any opportunity that might be a breakthrough – which is exactly how he ends up attending a job interview at a very strange office that seems to be populated by weird characters. Soon, the trio realizes that aliens have indeed landed in Glasgow and the only thing in their nefarious way is their gang of friends and one slightly unhinged conspiracy theorist.
Channeling the manic energy of early Jackson (especially BAD TASTE) but with a particular, unique Scottish streak, WELCOME TO G-TOWN is a no-budget statement of purpose devised and delivered by the very young McQuaid Brothers. If you’re a fan of DIY cinema of the most inventive kind, the twins have got a treat for you in this wicked, singular genre-defying beauty of a movie.

FORMAT: DCP

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmakers Nathan McQuaid and Ben McQuaid and producer Dylan Antscherl North American Premiere of WELCOME TO G-TOWN

"This Place Is A Sh*thole" / WELCOME TO G-TOWN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

The vanishing of an editor of an occult magazine sets in motion an investigation by a freelance writer and a colleague – soon they will be mired in a mystery that engulfs the Kinki region: missing children, hysteria, hauntings and much, much more.
Director Koji Shiraishi defined what true fear was with his entry into the found-footage-documentary scene with NOROI and he comes back this year with this new entry that is designed with a single purpose in mind: to terrify the audience beyond belief and then some. Trust me when I say that once KINKI ends, darkness will seem like a much more terrifying place than it did before the screening – see it with a friend and make sure you don’t walk together.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Japan

KINKI

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

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


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

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

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.




Glow Big Youth Open Mic

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

This months featured artists are Nikki Fish, Arcadia Bay, and Trinity Mei.

8pm




North Star Sessions

Scribble

**Screenwriter**: Michael De Luca

**Producer**: Sandy King

Join Vidiots in remembering the great **Sam Neill** with an especially twisted screening of John Carpenter&#8217;s meta-horror classic ***In The Mouth of Madness!***

*Do you read Sutter Cane?* One of horror master John Carpenter&#8217;s best films outside of the 1980s, this prophetic Lovecraftian mind-bender is a nightmarish mystery that draws you into parallel universes of horror. Sam Neill plays an officious insurance investigator who is brought in to investigate the strange disappearance of Sutter Cane, the country&#8217;s most popular horror author. As he digs into the mystery, he discovers that Cane&#8217;s writing is causing a literary psychosis that&#8217;s spreading to all who read his twisted tales and destroying humanity and even reality. A film made to be seen in a theater (to enhance its metaness), *In the Mouth of Madness* is one of the best horror films on the 1990s and a perfect vehicle to show off both Carpenter and Neill&#8217;s ranges!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home even more Sam Neill classics from our video collection!

*Until the End of the World, Event Horizon, My Brilliant Career*

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

In the Mouth of Madness

Appofeniacs

Häxan

The Little Vampire in 35mm

Get on the Bus 30th Anniversary Screening in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Debonaire hoofer Fred Astaire and the graceful Ginger Rogers star in this Oscar-nominated musical comedy about a woman who mistakenly thinks her best friend’s husband is in love with her. Considered by many to be the dancing duo’s best film, it features a classic Irving Berlin score, including “Cheek to Cheek” and the title song. Look for a young Lucille Ball as a florist shop clerk!

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

TOP HAT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The Man With No Name and Tuco are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while the Man With No Name learns the identity of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Sentenza, they cross the desert, each of the desperadoes knowing part of the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: Italy

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**WALKER, Dir. Alex Cox, 1987, 95 Mins., Universal, USA/Mexico**

*In English and Spanish with English subtitles.*

The life of American lawyer and journalist William Walker, who named himself president of Nicaragua during the 1850s.

FORMAT: 35mm

**EL PATRULLERO, Dir. Alex Cox, 1991, 104 Mins., Kino Lorber, Mexico**

*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

REPO MAN director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a department rife with corruption.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Alex Cox, actors Dick Rude and Zander Schloss, producer Lorenzo O’Brien and gaffer Greg ‘Alex Cox: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

WALKER / EL PATRULLERO

When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren&#8217;t the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it&#8217;s up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterious happenings.

Scooby-Doo

Teppei and Kamiya, two average joes working in the electronic services industry, stumble upon the intergalactic bounty-hunter Ilia, and her partner, the artificial intelligence named Bob. Both men are accidentally transported to the Zone, a virtual reality in which Bob has trapped Ilia&#8217;s latest prey, a biological weapon named Zeiram. The Earth natives must both survive the experience and help Ilia capture Zeiram before the Zone disappears around them.

Zëiram

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

Serial Mom

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Akira

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

Saturday October 10th at Gardena Cinema - 3rd Annual Universal Monster-Thon! See all your favorite Universal Monsters on the big screen!

3rd ANNUAL UNIVERSAL MONSTER-THON, Hosted by @horrorbiznessmovies

Gardena Cinema

Experience *Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images* before the exhibition opens to the public.

All members are welcome to bring up to four guests at any time between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to enjoy the members-only exhibition preview. Coffee and tea provided.

This event is exclusive to Hammer members. [Become a member today](/support/membership).

Kindly RSVP to [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Ticketing: **RSVP for free by emailing [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu). 
**Parking:** Parking is available at the museum at a flat rate of $9.

Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images Member Preview

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Created by and for Los Angeles–based independent filmmakers, RSFF is a non-competitive festival that brings bold, distinctive work to the big screen—and brings the people behind it into the community. Across four days, filmmakers and audiences gather to discover new voices, pack theaters and build the relationships that sustain creative lives in Los Angeles.

From October 7–10, RSFF presents 19 short films and three features at the Egyptian Theatre and Los Feliz 3.

This year’s program was shaped by a committee of alumni filmmakers, industry professionals and experienced programmers, including Festival Directors Page Brady, Nir Liebenthal, Noah Morse, Jeremy Roth-Rose and Dylan Trupiano; filmmaker and RSFF alum Calleen Koh; documentary filmmaker Aurora Brachman; producer Nuer Taqa; programmer Lily Bolton; Unapologetic Projects Creative Executive Kyle Bowles; Book of Shadows producer and executive Nix Santos; and Imani Davis on behalf of the American Cinematheque.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Blush,” 2025, Dir. Ana Chavez, 14 Min, Singapore**

*In English, and Portuguese with English subtitles.*

Amidst the humidity of a bustling city-island, a group of teenagers navigates friendship, first love, and the messiness of growing up. “Blush” is an improvisational portrait of youth in Singapore — drawn from the real lives of its cast, and shaped by the moments between.

FORMAT: DCP

**VALENTINA, 2025, Dir. Tatti Ribiero, 78 Min, USA**

*In English, and Spanish with English subtitles.*

A series of bureaucratic mishaps plagues Valentina as she tries to tackle a simple to-do list at the El Paso-Juarez border.

VALENTINA has played at and won awards at film festivals including the Austin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival. Filmmaker Tatti Ribeiro won the Someone to Watch Award, which is given to an exceptional emerging director, at the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Q&A with director Tatti Ribiero hosted by SHOTDECK ‘LA’s Rich and Successful Film Fest 2026’

VALENTINA / "Blush"

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In German and Japanese with English Subtitles.*

Young Stefan ‘Buschi’ Busch (Detlefsen) lives in an assisted group home in Cologne, where his structured daily routine leaves little room for surprises. Nevertheless, he longs for change. Setting out on his own in an unexpected act of self-determination, Buschi seizes the chance to leave an organized outing and casually joins a Japanese tour group. Having lived his entire life without speaking, Buschi discovers new ways to express himself and connect with others on this unusual trip. Along the way, a tentative, silent friendship develops between Buschi and the Japanese traveler Hideo Kitamura (Kanji), a man on his own personal journey. As this extraordinary road trip unfolds across Germany, Switzerland, and Japan, a bond develops between these unlikely friends that transcends words. Stuber, Kuppel, and Yamato’s screenplay provides the perfect roadmap for award-winning performances by Kanji and Detlefsen in this most unlikely of off-beat road movies.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Germany/Switzerland

West Coast Premiere ‘German Currents 2026’

THE FROG AND THE WATER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian, German and South Tyrolean dialect with English subtitles.*

Alto Adige/Südtirol/South Tyrol, 1961. A series of separatist bomb attacks shakes the northern Italian region with a German-speaking minority. Paul (Prenn), a farmer’s son and free spirit, dreams of escaping his little village to study painting in Munich. When his hardliner older brother, Anton (Rupp), is exposed as one of the bombers and is forced to flee, he leaves the farm, his wife Anna (Schwarz) and young son Thomas (Carli) behind. Reluctantly, Paul stays to support the family, but as ethnic tensions and police repression in the village grow, he is drawn into a downward spiral of violence and toxic masculinity. As events spin out of control, Paul must choose between his dream and standing up against his brother. In

his feature debut, director Michael Kofler delivers a powerful portrayal of the events surrounding the so-called “Night of Fire” in South Tyrol, highlighting the thin line between conviction and radicalization.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Germany/Italy/Austria

Q&A with filmmaker Michael Kofler L.A. Premiere ‘German Currents 2026’

A LAND WITHIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Superstars George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger face off as the coolest–and the cruelest–villain to ever stalk Gotham City comes after its courageous caped crusaders, Batman & Robin. When the evil Mr. Freeze (Schwarzenegger) teams up with toxic Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) to freeze Gotham City and destroy its residents, the end appears near for superheroes Batman (George Clooney) and Robin (Chris O’Donnell). But with the arrival of Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), the dynamic duo becomes a transcendent trio in this fourth episode of the blockbuster theatrical series.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros

COUNTRY: USA

BATMAN & ROBIN

Cartoon Club

The Dark Crystal

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors / The Blob

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death

*Please note: entry to both the screening and launch party is ticketed for the general public and free RSVP for LARB members. Seating for the screening & reading is limited. Please email [membership@lareviewofbooks.org](mailto:membership@lareviewofbooks.org) with any questions about the member ticket discount.*

*Guests who were unable to either purchase an online ticket to the screening, or make an online reservation may add their names to the standby list upon arrival. Online tickets will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime; at that time, any unclaimed seats will be released to those in the standby list on a first-come, first-served basis.*

*All screening attendees are welcome to attend the launch party at no additional charge. *

*All tickets purchased solely for the launch party will be honored pending capacity limits.*

LARB: Scene Launch Party

1931 • IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • Introduction by Film Archivist Alejandra Espasande • This is the Spanish-language version Universal filmed on the same sets as the better-known English one, using a different cast and director. It has a different rhythm because it runs longer and plays certain scenes more fully. It’s a genuinely fun alternate masterpiece!  • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Drácula

1976 • This is one of the rare horror films that the Academy took seriously, with Oscar nominations for both Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Brian De Palma directs it with real style, but what sticks is how personal it feels, like a nightmare version of high school that people instantly recognize. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Carrie

Old Town Music Hall

**Screenwriter**: John August

**Producers**: Tim Burton, Allison Abbate

Re-animate your weekend with Tim Burton&#8217;s adorably oddball animated send-off to horror, with enough goofs and gaffs for the whole family. Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is a science nerd and outsider at school, but he does have one good friend: his dog, Sparky. But then, tragedy strikes, and Sparky shuffles off this mortal coil. Victor is heartbroken, but his science teacher (Martin Landau) gives him an idea of how to jolt old Sparky back to life. The experiment is successful, and all goes well, until Victor&#8217;s fellow students steal his secret and use it to resurrect other dead animals — with monstrous consequences.

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

Frankenweenie

**Screenwriters**: Vernon Zimmerman, Robin Menken

**Producer**: Alana H. Lambros, Rafael Eisenman

*Top That!* Behold the magic, the music, the hairspray, the tutus, and the rap battles of this camptastic spectacle of 80s awesomeness! Louise is a teenage nerd with dreams of popularity, romance, and style that always seem to elude her. But when she happens upon the witch Madame Serena (played by *Poltergeist*&#8216;s Zelda Rubinstein), she discovers she&#8217;s about to come into her magical powers upon her 16th birthday. But even as all her dreams come true, she&#8217;s finding out that magic isn&#8217;t always enchanting. Sing along to such bizarro songs as *I Like Boys, Top That*, and *Most Popular Girl* as this campy and over-the-top musicalamity casts its spell on you.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more 80s musicals on glorious physical media!

*The Apple, Fast Forward, Xanadu*

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

Teen Witch

**Screenwriter**: Melody C. Roscher

**Producers**: Craig Shilowich,  Alexander Schepsman,  Danielle Massie,  Cody Ryder, Sam Bisbee,  Saba Zerehi

Writer/Director **Melody C. Roscher** in person at all screenings!

- Friday, October 9  with Melody C. Roscher and Alisha Wainwright, moderated by Raven Jackson

- Saturday, October 10 with Melody C. Roscher

- Sunday, October 11 &#8211; Introduction by Melody C. Roscher

Join us in the microcinema for Melody Roscher&#8217;s bitingly comic feature film debut that weaves themes of race, belonging, and family into a mercurial journey.  Bird returns home to visit her mom in search of the perfect wedding venue after a surprise engagement to her longtime boyfriend, but much to everyone&#8217;s surprise, she is actually on the hunt for something else. Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, *Bird in Hand* follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometown to plan the wedding with her narcissistic hippie mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti). Bird also has a hidden agenda, one that leads her to her mother&#8217;s new neighbors, a misguided couple on a mission to &#8216;rebrand&#8217; a plantation. Truth, lies, and fantasy collide against that backdrop, leading to a surprising climax as tender as it is funny. James LeGros, Jeffrey Nordling, and Annabelle Dexter-Jones co-star.

Bird in Hand

**Screenwriters**: Ivete Lucas,  Leah Marino

**Producers**: Holly Herrick,  Harry W. Hanbury,  Patrick Bresnan,  Zackary Drucker

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stages a coup at New College, the state’s beloved public honors college, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in an unprecedented nationwide assault on academic freedom and diversity. 

*First They Came for My College* tells the inside story of the right-wing campaign to &#8220;reconquer&#8221; higher education in America. New College of Florida was the first public college to be transformed by a political coup &#8211; a blueprint for our new era of unprecedented censorship and political interference in academia. By embedding with the student newspaper, an outspoken professor, and students from all sides of the political spectrum, this verité feature reveals a microcosm of America&#8217;s culture wars and serves as an essential document for students today grappling with their moment in history.

First They Came for My College

**Screenwriter**: Jonathan Lynn

**Producer**: Debra Hill

Vidiots remembers the iconic legacy of the great **Tim Curry** with a special screening of the mirthful murder mystery ***Clue***!

It’s the dinner party to die for! Everyone’s favorite murder mystery board game comes to life with the comedic talents of hilarious heavyweights Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Colleen Camp, Leslie Ann Warren and Christopher Lloyd.   Six *colorful* dinner guests gather at the mansion of their host and blackmailer, Mr. Boddy — who ends up dead after his secret is exposed. With a killer among them, the guests and Boddy’s chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises. Laugh along as you see who did in whom with what in which room!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Tim Curry treasures on glorious physical media!

*The Worst Witch, Times Square, Stephen King&#8217;s It*

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

Clue

**Screenwriter**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

**Producers**: Ken Inoue, Seiji Okuda, Shun Shimizu, Atsuyuki Shimoda, Hiroshi Yamamoto

One of the greatest, most gripping achievements in Japanese horror, and a dark mirror for our terminally online world. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s shattering masterpiece from 2001 is beyond liminality, beyond dimension, giving us a despair and isolation decades ahead of its time while still rooting itself in the sound design and dread of David Lynch, along with the emotional high notes of Bernard Hermann’s scores for Hitchcock.

At the turn of the millennium, a group of young people in Tokyo experience an increasing number of missing co-worker, technological breakdown and a mysterious website which asks: &#8220;Do you want to meet a ghost?&#8221; After the sudden deaths of several friends, three strangers explore a city that grows more empty by the day, and attempt to solve what lies within a forbidden room in an abandoned construction site, mysteriously sealed shut with red packing tape.

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

Pulse

**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

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

What is it? We can't say. All we can tell you it's peak **NU METAL** with an aesthetic and soundtrack to bring you back to the days of wallet chain, big shoe, piercing, spiky hair, Y2K glory.

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**‍***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.***

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Aliens in 70mm

Prince of Darkness in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Icelandic and English with English subtitles.*

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Documentary Films

COUNTRY: Iceland/USA

Q&A with filmmaker Sara Dosa and producer Shane Boris Special Screening + free popcorn and soda courtesy of National Geographic Documentary Films

TIME AND WATER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

LEGEND, from director Ridley Scott, is a visually stunning fantasy-adventure in which pure good and evil battle to the death amidst spectacular surroundings. Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story stars Tom Cruise as a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily (Mia Sara) and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

LEGEND

**Directed by Peter Watkins**

*1976, 174 mins, Norway/Sweden, 35mm*

**35mm collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive**

Sunday, October 11

1:00 PM
Brain Dead Studios

611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

**“A work of genius.” — Ingmar Bergman**

We are thrilled to present a rare 35mm screening of the theatrical version of Peter Watkins’ masterpiece, one of the greatest films about art and art-making, in tribute to the late filmmaker (1935-2025). Known for its highly original style, Watkins’ biopic of the great Norwegian artist uses the tropes of a documentary film—direct-to-camera interviews, contrapuntal voice-over and vérité zooms—while employing non-professional actors, creating an utterly modern exploration of Munch’s ascension into the art world of the late 19th century.

**“Peter Watkins’s three-hour magnum opus is less a portrait of the great Norwegian painter Edvard Munch than it is an exposure of the artist’s frayed inner life.** Indelible images of the painter’s childhood occur and recur; ecstatic moments of human connection punctuate long stretches of boredom, loneliness, and frustration; aesthetic debates within Munch’s Berlin intellectual circle, which included the playwright August Strindberg, unravel at length. The result is an artist biopic—complete with dry voiceover narration—that moves with the logic of a free verse poem or a stream-of-consciousness novel. On one level, *Edvard Munch* is an exhaustive portrait of a particularly fervent moment in European politics and culture. On another, it’s a painfully intimate study of an individual with a particularly acute sense for, as one character in the film puts it, ‘the mysterious anguish of life’—and the cathartic anguish of art.”

*— Film at Lincoln Center*

**“This 1976 study of the tortured expressionist painter is obsessively detailed (and meticulously researched), but through Watkins’s jittery, subjective montage, it retains a life and madness of its own.”**

*— Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader*

**“A moving, complex, beautifully felt portrait of the great Norwegian artist.”**

*— The New York Times*

*In Norwegian, Swedish, German, Danish and English with English subtitles.*

Flyer by Ellie Sunlight Moon. Special thanks to Todd Wiener and Steven Hill (UCLA Film & Television Archive) and Darrell Brett.

Mezzanine presents: Edvard Munch

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can&#8217;t steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Onibaba

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs &#8212; and it&#8217;s absolutely impossible to contain.

28 Days Later

Join us for a special evening celebrating book clubs. Initially emerging from religious study groups and European literary salons, book clubs originated in the 17th and 18th centuries as rebellious, intellectual spaces. These gatherings provided a vital forum for education, discussion, and social change—particularly for women and marginalized groups who were excluded from universities. 

Join Helen Bui, founder of Silverlake Reading Club and Jessica Strand, senior director of Programming and Strategic Engagement at the Library Foundation, Los Angeles, to explore the history of book clubs and reading groups, tracing their origins as intellectual, and often subversive, forums for conversation, learning, and community. They will reflect on the ways reading, gathering, and sharing knowledge has evolved into a contemporary practice of connection and cultural exchange, inspiring new ways of imagining the future.

Following the discussion, guests will enjoy a three-course dinner inspired by recipes from *The Literary Gourmet* (Linda Wolfe, 1985). Each course will be paired with a live reading performed by Interact Theatre Company, bringing the literary works behind the menu to life in a unique multisensory experience.

**Menu** \
Gluten free and vegetarian options available. Menu is subject to change.

Appetizer: Vegetable Salad from *Forbidden Fruit* (Guy de Maupassant, 1880) \
Sausages from *She Stoops to Conquer* (Oliver Goldsmith, 1773)

Entree: Boeuf en Daube from *To the Lighthouse* (Virginia Woolf, 1927) \
English muffins from *The Importance of Being Ernest* (Oscar Wilde, 1895)

Dessert: Wedding cake, apple tarts, and custard from *Emma* (Jane Austen, 1815)


This event is part of the Getty Research Institute’s [Tastemakers series][1], featuring communal gatherings inspired by cookbooks from the Getty Library. 


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/tastemakers/

Getty Supper Club: The Literary Gourmet

Getty Center

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Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead, through Cocteau’s famous mirrored portal. *Orpheus*’s peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling represent the legendary Cocteau at the height of his powers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

Introduction by filmmaker Sky Hopinka In partnership with Vidiots Supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation ‘Here and Elsewhere: Films from Sky Hopinka’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Sky Hopinka Presents ORPHEUS

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Kunįkaga Remember Red Banks, Kunįkaga Remembers the Welcoming Song,” 2014, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 9 Mins, USA**

The video traverses the history and the memory of a place shared by both the Ho-Chunk and settler: Red Banks, a Ho-Chunk village site near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European in what is now called Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. Each serve as representations of personal and shared history, as well as of practices and processes of remembrance.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Fainting Spells,” 2018, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 11 Mins, USA**

Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant – used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Kicking the Clouds,” 2021, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 16 Mins, USA**

This film is a reflection on descendants and ancestors, guided by a 50-year-old audio recording of my grandmother learning the Pechanga language from her mother. After being given this tape by my mother, I interviewed her and asked about it, and recorded her ruminations on their lives and her own. The footage is of our chosen home in Whatcom County, Washington, where my family still lives, far from our homelands in Southern California, yet a home nonetheless.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Dislocation Blues,” 2017, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 17 Mins, USA**

An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Shaawan Francis Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry Running Wild describes what his camp is like, and what he hopes it will become.

FORMAT: DCP

**“When you’re lost in the rain,” 2018, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 5 Mins, USA**

In this video, drawing from Bob Dylan’s song “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” layers of experiences circling loss and longing are overlaid between images of landscapes and movement. In the song by Dylan, a stranger’s listlessness and exhaustion are woven through and around Juarez, Mexico, and so too in this video are these stories woven around colonial discontent and uncertainty as they move through an uneasy negotiation with the strangeness of the American pioneer spirit. 

FORMAT: DCP

**“Jáaji Approx,” 2015, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 8 Mins, USA**

Logging and approximating a relationship between audio recordings of my father and videos gathered of the landscapes we have both separately traversed. The initial distance between the logger and the recordings, of recollections and of songs, new and traditional, narrows while the images become an expanding semblance of filial affect. Jáaji is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary,” 2017, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 13 Mins, USA**

“The individual is not an autonomous, solitary object but a thing of uncertain extent, with ambiguous boundaries. So too is matter, which loses much of its allure the moment it is reduced to an object, shorn of its viscosity, pressure and density. Both subject and matter resist their reduction into objects. Everything is interconnected and intertwined.” -Kengo Kuma

The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” – such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole, chinuk wawa. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Lore,” 2019, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 10 Mins, USA**

Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this film stemming from Hollis Frampton’s “Nostalgia.”  The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, a not too distant ruin, with traces of nostalgia articulated in terms of lore; knowledge and memory passed down and shared not from wistful loss, but as a pastiche of rumination, reproduction and creation.

FORMAT: DCP

**“I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become,” 2016, Dir. Sky Hopinka, 12 Mins, USA**

An elegy to Diane Burns on the shapes of mortality and being, and the forms the transcendent spirit takes while descending upon landscapes of life and death. A place for new mythologies to syncopate with deterritorialized movement and song, reifying old routes of reincarnation. Where resignation gives hope for another opportunity, another form, for a return to the vicissitudes of the living and all their refractions.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Sky Hopinka In partnership with Vidiots Supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation ‘Here and Elsewhere: Films from Sky Hopinka’

Short Films from Sky Hopinka

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In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Canada/Hungary

BLUE HERON

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The American Cinematheque is thrilled to announce a limited engagement of TAKE ME HOME, Liz Sargent’s feature length version of the 2024 PROOF Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner. From an award-winning short film to a world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival with the feature is an inspirational journey, and we wish the team the best as they bring this moving film around the world.

Anna (Anna Sargent, making her acting debut), a middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. Alongside her sister Emily (Ali Ahn) and her father (Victor Slezak), they must confront challenging questions about the future, but Anna remains determined to build a life where all of them can thrive.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WILLA

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction and pre-screening Q&A with filmmaker Liz Sargent Limited Engagement

TAKE ME HOME

1993 • Special Guest: The film's Production Designer, William Sandell • This one didn’t start as a “classic,” but it earned its place the old-fashioned way: people kept watching it every Halloween until it became a tradition. The three leads are the whole show, and they clearly know it, which is why the comedy works even when things get silly. It’s bright, quick, and very rewatchable! • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Hocus Pocus

1931 • This is the performance that defined Dracula for generations. The early sound-era filmmaking gives it a spooky stillness that actually helps the mood, like the castle air itself has gone cold. This film is a key “first wave” title that kicked off Universal’s monster era. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Dracula

Horror master George A. Romero’s underseen, woozy feminist psychodrama of ’70s suburban discontent, witchcraft, and occult liberation.

George A. Romero's SEASON OF THE WITCH (1972)

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Tab Murphy

**Producer**: Igor Khait

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another&#8217;s footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more adorable bears from our All Ages section!

*Paddington, The Yogi Bear Show, The Country Bears*

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

Brother Bear

**Screenwriters**: Carol Sobieski from the stage play by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan and the comic strip by Harold Gray

**Producer**: Ray Stark

Vidiots remembers the great **Tim Curry** with a special screening of the musical bonanza ***Annie*** for Tim Curry lovers of all ages!

*You love money and power and capitalism? You know they&#8217;re never going to love you back. *Annie is the luckiest orphan in all of America. Plucked from the nightmarish orphanage run by man-crazy lush Miss Hannigan (in a perfectly out-of-pitch performance by Carol Burnett) and thrust into unimaginable wealth by millionaire Daddy Warbucks, Annie melts the capitalist&#8217;s heart, but still longs for her birth parents. Warbucks offers a reward to locate them, which brings out many money-hungry frauds including imposters Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters. Join us as we sing and cheer along and bet your bottom dollar that you&#8217;ll have a blast at this classic musical!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Tim Curry treasures on glorious physical media!

*The Worst Witch, Legend, Muppet Treasure Island*

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

Annie

**NADIE ES INOCENTE** is a hybrid fictionalized documentary of the youth gang Mierdas Punks, who play themselves. It follows reformed punk “Kara” as he takes the train from Ciudad Neza back to the main city to leave his former life behind. Shot on Betacam over a few years, and incorporating and repurposing 16mm concert footage from Minter’s collaboration with Gregorio Rocha SABADO DE MIERDA, the film is both a document of and dramatized collaboration with Minter’s subjects.

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**ALMA PUNK** shares some similarity with the former, partially improvised and using non-actors, this time exploring the ins-and-outs of Mexico City’s punk scene. Following a young riot grrl as she moves north to Tijuana and eventually towards the United States. Once again challenging the form and rules of docudrama, we get a glimpse of pre-NAFTA and post 1985 earthquake Mexico.

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**dir. Sarah Minter, 1986***Mexico, digital projection*55 min

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**‍***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.***

2 from Sarah Minter: NADIE ES INOCENTE (1986) + ALMA PUNK (1991)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In German with English subtitles.*

Berlin, 2019: The 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall is approaching, but former East German Railway worker “Micha” Hartung (Hübner) is focused on saving his failing video store, not on the past. When tabloid journalist Landmann (Ullrich) uncovers a report from the Stasi archives linking Micha to a mass escape of GDR citizens via the city’s Friedrichstraße Station in 1984, he moves to secure the rights to the story. Denying his role at first, Micha bends the facts, confirming the report in exchange for the cash royalty.  Suddenly, Micha is a media sensation. After Paula (Paul), who was a child on that train, sees Micha on TV, she travels to thank him. Upon meeting, Paula thinks she’s found her “Berlin Hero,” and Micha has found the woman of his dreams. Still, it is only a matter of time before the web of lies and half-truths unravels, jeopardizing the couple’s happiness and the country’s understanding of the past. Based on Maxim Leo’s eponymous novel, featuring an extraordinary cast including Charly Hübner, Leonie Benesch, Thorsten Merten, Becker himself, and his long-time ensemble, Christiana Paul, Jürgen Vogel, and Daniel Brühl, Wolfgang Becker’s final film is a heart-warming, honest comedy about the nature of truth. 

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Germany

Closing Film U.S. Premiere Pre-screening drink reception ‘German Currents 2026’

BERLIN HERO

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. 

Actor Chris Colfer (*Glee*) will join for a post-screening Q&A.

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Notorious

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Days of Heaven

Double Feature Presentation!

 

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961, Elia Kazan, 124 minutes) 

Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star as two teenaged lovers in 1928 Kansas whose internal conflicts over intimacy and sex--learned from overbearing parents--thwart their hopes for happiness in this heart-wrenching romantic drama. 

 

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STILL WALKING (2008, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 114 min.) 

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.



Splendor in the Grass will screen first, followed by a 15 minute intermission, then Still Walking.

Splendor in the Grass + Still Walking

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There will be a Vinegar Syndrome Pop-up Shop in the lobby before and after the screening.

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A wickedly ridiculous ‘80s precursor to THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, this gorefest throws in a busload of creature-feature comforts: hulking Sasquatches, ghoulish zombies, bloody sacrifices and alien overlords. A group of vacationing teens get way more than just a fun-filled few days in the wilderness as their cabin is besieged first by a feral Bigfoot, followed by a shotgun-toting George Kennedy (COOL HAND LUKE, THE NAKED GUN) and an even bigger, grosser monster-mash surprise. Based on an original story by prolific SFX artist John Carl Buechler and directed by Emmett Alston (NEW YEAR’S EVIL), DEMONWARP is packed with gratuitous nudity, head-ripping action and the will to thoroughly entertain!

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Vinegar Syndrome

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Emmett Alston and producer Richard Albert New 4K Restoration Co-presented by Vinegar Syndrome and Scream Screen ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents DEMONWARP

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Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

Co-presented by Beyond Fest ‘Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan’

LADY IN THE WATER

The Town That Dreaded Sundown / The Evictors

Presented by the UCI Third Cinema Now Collective, a collaboration between Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Margaux Fitoussi, and Felix Jean-Louis of the University of California, Irvine. The film series highlights the work of filmmakers from across the Global South and creates a forum for genuine encounters between the UC Irvine community, greater Los Angeles, and filmmakers from around the world. Each screening contextualizes regional cinematic voices and facilitates an extended talkback discussion, centering regional voices as they speak back to American audiences at this pivotal historical juncture.

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The parents of Sarah, 8 years old had to run away from the Haïti of the Duvaliers. The father, a discredited officer, trusted Sarah and her two sisters to their grandmother. For a time, secure away from Janvier’s revenge, a violent person dedicated to the new power, Sarah creates a world of her own, full of fantasies, of mysteries and rituals. 30 years later, the pictures of those years intermingle, nightmares recalling a man on the quays that put an end to her childhood.

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**dir. Raoul Peck, 1993***Haiti, digital projection*106 min

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**‍***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.***

L'HOMME SUR LES QUAIS (1993), pres. by UCI Third Cinema Now Collective

Elephant Gym successfully completed a world tour spanning 60 cities across 23 countries. However, behind this achievement lay an unseen crisis of disbandment, along with hidden conflicts and struggles. What does it truly mean to be a band? The film was first screened in October 2025 at the Kaohsiung Film Festival, one of Taiwan’s leading film festivals, and will also be shown in theaters in both Japan and Taiwan.

While their world tour across 23 countries and 60 cities was a major success, the film reveals the untold story behind it—including a looming breakup crisis during its preparation, as well as the band’s internal conflicts and struggles.

“If your dreams were to become reality, what price would you be willing to pay?“

Elephant Gym, an instrumental band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has been creating indie music since its formation in 2012. Their sound blends complex rhythms with irregular time signatures and sophisticated melodies. In Taiwan, their avant-garde musical style often raised the question: who would even listen to this?

In 2024, they embarked on a world tour covering 23 countries and 60 shows, including three performances in the Philippines. They captivated audiences worldwide and firmly established their presence.Yet behind the glamorous stage, there were deep struggles. Between guitarist Tell Chang and bassist KT Chang—who are siblings—there were conflicts between family ties and band dynamics. Drummer Chia-Chin Tu had to make the difficult decision to leave another band.

And just before the world tour, the band faced a crisis that nearly led to their breakup—filled with unseen pain and clashes.

Still, they chose to believe in their music and in their bond, and continued moving forward.

From a niche genre to the global stage, Elephant Gym asks through their musical journey: What is a band made of people with different backgrounds? What does it mean for people to connect?

Between dreams and reality, they found their own “truth.”

Come witness that answer in theaters.

Elephant Gym: More Real Than Dreams

There had been remarkably few films made about the Vietnam War when The Deer Hunter began filming in 1977. Michael Cimino had only one previous directorial credit (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), but the filmmaker was given unusual leeway to create a three-hour-plus epic, with equal weight given to its study of small-town American life and to the brutality and horror of war. The film won five Oscars including Best Picture, Directing, and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken’s intense performance. The film also marked the last screen appearance of 1970s cinema legend John Cazale.	

The Deer Hunter

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*In English and Chinuk Wawa with English subtitles.*

A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, MAŁ̣NI – TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world and something much deeper inside. At its center are Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier, who take separate paths contemplating their afterlife, rebirth and death. Probing questions about humanity’s place on earth and other worlds, Sky Hopinka’s film will have audiences thinking (and dreaming) about it long after.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Grasshopper Film

COUNTRY: USA

MAŁ̣NI - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE

Who Killed Teddy Bear? / In the Cut

**Starring Marisa Tomei, Sanaa Lathan, Dylan McDermott, Rosanna Arquette, Rudy Pankow --with more to come!**

_This Is Crazy!_, a series of original monologues written and directed by V (formerly Eve Ensler), is a bold new theatrical production exploring mental illness through raw, personal storytelling. Produced by Ruth-Ann Huvane and Tony Montenieri, the production captures the emotional and social complexities of the human experience while challenging stigma and inspiring greater understanding.

Premiering in Los Angeles for one night only, _This Is Crazy!_ aims to spark a national conversation about mental health through the power of storytelling.

The Benefit Performance and Afterparty Dinner honor the life of Chris Huvane, whose story reminds us how vital it is to ensure that individuals and families have access to understanding, support, and compassionate care.

All proceeds to benefit NAMI, NAMI California and NAMI Westside Los Angeles

River of No Return

2:30 PM

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

7:30 PM

MINOTAUR

7:00 PM

CAMPEÓN GABACHO

9:45 PM

CHAT PILE Presents: Escape from L.A.

7:30 PM

V/H/S/Mixtape

7:00 PM

River

10:00 PM

TEN WILL

7:00 PM

ANCHORS AWEIGH

10:00 PM

Minnie and Moskowitz

Once Around

7:30 PM

Pete Ohs and Sean Baker in Conversation

7:00 PM

Love And Work

8:30 PM

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

7:30 PM

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back/Bulldog's Bride

2:00 PM

Resident Evil 35mm