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

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

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

KWAIDAN

Aero Theatre

Brain Dead Studios presents O.V.A. Night, a surprise screening of obscure anime rarely seen on the big screen.

O.V.A. (Original Video Animation) emerged in Japan during the home video boom of the 1980s. Released directly to home video, OVAs gave animators the freedom to work outside the usual restrictions of television and theatrical releases, opening the door to stranger stories, bigger ideas, and imagery that could never have made it onto TV. The result was some of the most ambitious, violent, experimental, and downright bizarre anime of the era.

Many of these titles have never been properly restored or given a theatrical release, and we think they deserve to be played big, played loud, and seen with a crowd.

O.V.A. Night – Vol. II

Brain Dead Studios

Four strangers' paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.

Possible Love

Egyptian Theatre

Followed by a conversation with director **Dave Green** and producer **Chris DeFaria**

The midcentury modern aesthetic of Chuck Jones's streamlined Roadrunner cartoons (b. 1949) is fruitfully transported to a 21st century context of rampant legalism and corporate hegemony. Taking off from a clever 1990 *New Yorker* piece by Ian Frazier, director Dave Green (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows*) executes the most satisfying blend of live action and animation since Robert Zemeckis’s 1988 *Who Framed Roger Rabbit*.

The pristine desert landscapes of the cartoons have given way to a dingy, cluttered southwestern strip mall culture. Once an incurable techno-optimist, Jones’s Wile E. Coyote has finally grown disillusioned with the utopian promises of the Acme Corporation. Enlisting the aid of a personal injury lawyer (Will Forte), he files a product liability complaint that threatens to expose massive corporate malfeasance. The screenplay, by the versatile Samy Burch (*May December*, *Late Fame*) introduces some nicely understated pathos as Wile E., the ultimate lone wolf, discovers the pleasures of friendship. The animation was directed by Keith Roberts; Eric Bauza voices Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, and Foghorn Leghorn. Completed in 2023 and shelved by Warner Bros., the film reached theaters in 2026 through Ketchup Entertainment. 

2026. USA. Directed by Dave Green. Screenplay by Samy Burch, James Gunn, Jeremy Slater. With Will Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena. DCP courtesy Ketchup Entertainment. 103 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Coyote vs. Acme

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ever since she was a baby and her birth mother took her own life, Avital Ash has felt summoned to the other side. But she’d hate to be called a copycat, plus, who wants to turn into their mother? Ash’s critically acclaimed solo show was filmed live at The Elysian Theater in Los Angeles and explores depression, growing up an Orthodox Jew, queer identity and generational Holocaust trauma, all while being hilarious. The results are an irreverent show where Avital expertly bounces from black humor to jokes so stupid you almost miss the gospel in them.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with performer Avital Ash Sneak Preview Co-presented by FutureHome

AVITAL ASH WORKSHOPS HER SUICIDE NOTE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez and Morticia plan a celebration to wake the dead.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Fun-Sized, Family-Friendly, Faintly Frightening Films’

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Los Feliz Theatre

The Beyond / Pieces

New Beverly Cinema

Vidiots invites you back for more celluloid strangeness with *Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts*, a ghostly night of obscure, rare, goofy, and haunting short films and cartoons all on 16mm celluloid. From the 1930s through the 1980s, this beyond-rare collection of esoteric spookiness features devilish cartoons, obscure and demonic literary adaptations, antique movie monsters, horrifying vintage trailers, and our annual reprise of the infamous educational short *Halloween Safety* &#8211; it&#8217;s sure to be a one-of-a-kind night of witches, demons, ghosts, razorblades in apples, and creeps galore! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts

**Screenwriter**: John Landis

**Producer**: George Folsey Jr.

John Landis is in his primest form, seamlessly blending horror and comedy in this remarkably witty tale of horrific metamorphosis. Set on the moody moors of so many a classic horror tale, two American tourists are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists, now one is dead and one is changing&#8230; into something horrifying. Surreal visions, incredible practical special effects, and a grim sense of humor still keep this classic as fresh as it was 45 years ago! Don&#8217;t miss your. chance to see one of the most iconic transformation scenes in cinema on our big screen to see every human-made detail!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more deep cut lycanthropy on physical media tonight!

*Curse of the Werewolf, The Paul Naschy Collection, The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf*

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

An American Werewolf in London

Vidiots

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

The Mummy's Shroud

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

SCREAM

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

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

Under the Silver Lake

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

The Exorcist

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

JIGOKU

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

‘You Can’t Stream That On Television’

HAPPINESS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find the homes, businesses and exteriors where the show will be filmed. Driving around the city’s different neighborhoods, she enters the private spaces of strangers to photograph their cozy apartments and eclectic shops, stepping into the fabric of their lives while trying to satisfy the demands of her erratic employers. Over a day filled with these encounters, Sofia witnesses moments of curiosity, vulnerability and quiet tension until her work takes a sudden, personal turn. Drawing from her own experience as a location scout, writer-director Paula González-Nasser captures the poetry and costs of being a young creative. Her celebrated directorial debut, THE SCOUT crafts a contemplative exploration of urban disconnection, following one woman’s journey through other people’s worlds as she struggles to find her own.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Greenwich Entertainment

COUNTRY: USA

THE SCOUT

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

*In French with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

The Fly

From Dusk Till Dawn

**Screenwriters**: Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson

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

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

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

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

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

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

The Nightmare Before Christmas

**Screenwriter**: Zach Cregger, Shay Hatten

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

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

Resident Evil (2026)

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

**Producer**: Denise Di Novi

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more witchy women?

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

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

Practical Magic

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

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

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

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

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

**Producers**: Satoshi Fukushima, Akemi Suyama

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Audition

Seven (Original 35mm Silver Retention Print)

Cujo

Trick 'r Treat

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

Here is a secret screening that will chill you.

Or make you lose sleep.

So put aside your guesses and trust us.

This screening is not to be missed.

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

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

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

Can you live with yourself if you miss it?

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

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

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

## $10 general admission.

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

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

A Secret Hollywood Entertainment Screening

WHAMMY!

Chicago in 35mm

Waikiki Brothers (와이키키 브라더스)

All time noir hits hard on the Los Angeles streets with incredible sunglasses. Murder is a tough business, and guess what! nothing goes well. A milestone film, get into it.

Double Indemnity

For those who prefer their “dark” and “broody” with a side of milk and cookies, BRICK is the first  neo-noir whodunit from writer-director and KNIVES OUT mastermind, Rian Johnson. Joseph Gordon Levitt is Brendan Frye, a loner and high-school Sam Spade, who knows all the angles but can’t make sense of the picture when his ex-girlfriend is found dead. In his search for the truth, he’ll wind his way through cliques he previously avoided to trade barbs with cheerleaders who give a “D” for danger on the way to uncover the mysterious “Pin.” Featuring a veritable who’s who of ‘00s Hollywood, including Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Emilie de Ravin and Megan Goode, BRICK is as much a hard-boiled pulp homage as it is a BUGSY MALONE for the “Forever 21&#8221;-set.

Brick

Bill Pullman can hardly believe when creepo Robert Blake prank calls him at home&#8230; and  then he turns into some other guy while sitting in a jail cell&#8230; What? Marilyn Manson is here too. Amazing late &#8217;90s Lynch weirdness at his sleaziest.

Lost Highway

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

An astronaut stranded on Mars must rely upon his ingenuity to survive and arrange a potential rescue. Celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day!

THE MARTIAN (2015)(PG-13) Sun 11/8: 5:00 pm Presented by Science on Screen

Gardena Cinema

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

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s first bona fide masterpiece and one of the best films of the 21st century, *Happy Hour* emerged from a workshop in 2013 with non-professional actors — some of whom ended up in the final film. Proof positive of the effectiveness of Hamaguchi’s improvisational, communal working method to this point in his career, there’s never a slack moment in its runtime of just over five hours as the group of women friends at its center navigate middle-age. Indeed, as Hamaguchi elevates his recurring themes of transition and change to sociological levels he seems to sharpen the drama’s intimacy and intensity.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi. With: Sachie Tanaka, Maiko Mihara, Hazuki Kikuchi.

*Special thanks to our community partner: [JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles](https://www.japanhousela.com/)*

Happy Hour

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Rigby Reardon is the private eyes of private eyes. He’s tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker, has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead him to the “Carlotta Lists.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by musician and record producer Simon Raymonde Co-presented by KCRW ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Simon Raymonde Presents DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn’t know.

4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm Nitrate Original Negative provided by the Library of Congress. Restoration services conducted by StudioPost, A NBCUniversal Company.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

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

HER WEDDING NIGHT

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

Lorraine Broughton is MI6’s most lethal assassin and the crown jewel of her Majesty’s secret intelligence service. When she’s sent on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spy craft, sensuality and savagery she has to deliver a priceless dossier and stay alive in a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA/Hungary

‘David Leitch: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

ATOMIC BLONDE

Remember the Titans

What’s Up, Doc?

LA Loft Movie Club returns to PRS for their final 2026 screening— a festival of imaginative, rapidly produced one minute films!

LA LOFT MOVIE CLUB presents "FORAGISMS"  — A One Minute Movie Festival!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: J. Davis

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

With cast and/or crew at every screening!

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

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

**Screenwriter**: Daniel Mainwaring

**Producer**: Warren Duff

Get ready for some Noir in November with Jacques Tourneur&#8217;s double crossing classic! The quiet life of small-town gas station owner Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is interrupted when a figure from his shady past, small-time crook Joe Stephanos (Paul Valentine), recognizes him. Stephanos&#8217; boss, crooked gambler Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas), had hired Jeff to track down Kathie Moffat (Jane Greer), a girlfriend who shot Whit and made off with $40,000 of his. Jeff and Kathie fell in love, but she left him to go back to Sterling, who now wants Jeff to settle a few old scores.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got hundreds of noir classics on Blu-ray and DVD including these gems:

*Gilda, Leave her to Heaven, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers*

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

Out of the Past

**Screenwriter**: Ajon Singh

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

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

Primetime

Desert Gold

Beau Geste

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

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

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

**SUNDAY, 11/8 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING · Cast & crew in attendance with Q&A**

## $12 general admission.

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

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MORBID WEEKEND (2026) West Coast Premiere, Night 2!

Some Like It Hot in 4K

Moss (이끼)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ecological suspense tale about a strange biological imbalance creating super intelligent ants which attack a scientific installation in the Arizona desert.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: UK/USA

New 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive of the original theatrical release and DCP of the alternate ending created for the Archive’s collection, with thanks to Paramount Pictures and Jennifer Bass ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents PHASE IV

Destiny / Flesh and Fantasy

An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.

CYBERCON: Robot Carnival

When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae relocates down south to her late husband’s hometown of Miryang. Despite her efforts to settle down, in this unfamiliar and much too normal place, she finds that she can’t quite fit in. Helping her out is Kim Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome bachelor, who owns a car repair shop. Life plods on. However, fate takes a vicious turn when Shin-ae loses her son in the most horrific way a mother could imagine. She turns to Christianity to relieve the pain in her heart, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Gong-ju is kept cloistered in a cheap apartment by her brother, whose only concern is the government assistance she receives. Over a series of clandestine meetings, the two begin an improbable relationship that defies the judgment and cruelty of the world around them.

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director and Best Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's OASIS is a “brave film” that “shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Oasis

BURNING is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people in his orbit: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers the romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun), a wealthy and sophisticated young man she returns from a trip with. However, when Jongsu learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Haemi suddenly disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount, culminating in a stunning finale.

Burning

The Getaway  / Charley Varrick

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producers**: Augustín Almodóvar, Michel Rubin

One of maestro Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s most-complicated and lauded masterpieces, this exquisitely shot meditation on loyalty and obsession earned Almodóvar the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for best Foreign Language Film. With a breathtaking and controversial mix of movement and stillness, murky morality, and outrageously envelope-pushing imagery and subject matter- Almodóvar creates a world with sympathy for monsters, oversized genitalia, and Pina Bausch performances no one should miss on the big screen. Two men (Benigno and Marco) almost meet while watching a dance performance (of German icon Pina Bausch no less), but their lives are irrevocably entwined by fate. They meet later at a private clinic where Benigno is the caregiver for Alicia, a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma. Marco is there to visit his girlfriend, Lydia, a famous matador, also rendered motionless. As the men wage vigil over the women they love, the story unfolds in flashback and flash-forward as the lives of the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward a shocking conclusion.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more masterpieces from the always fabulous Pedro Almodóvar tonight!

*Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In*

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

Talk to Her on 35mm

War for the Planet of the Apes

Netflix’s critically acclaimed limited series EAST OF EDEN, a fresh adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece from Zoe Kazan, features a formidable cast led by Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh as the indelible antihero Cathy Ames and explores the multigenerational saga of the Trask family (including Christopher Abbott as Adam and Mike Faist as Charles). The series arrives over 70 years after the 1955 film adaptation starring James Dean — directed by Elia Kazan, Zoe’s grandfather — focused solely on the book’s final section.

East of Eden Double Feature

**Screenwriter**: Allison Anders

**Producers**: Daniel Hassid,  Ruth Charny

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome cinema legends **Alison Anders** and **Illeana Douglas, **plus music supervisor **Karyn Rachtman**, and music producer** Larry Klein** for a special 30th Anniversary Screening of ***Grace of my Heart***!

A marvelously meandering musical excursion through the hitmakers of the New York City music scene of the 1950s and 1960s, Alison Anders&#8217; *Grace of my Heart* hits all the right notes, with a vibrant beat all its own. Illeana Douglas shines as Denise Waverly, a Philadelphia teen with stars in her eyes set to make it big in the Big Apple. While her own stardom withers early on, a slick producer recognizes her talent in songwriting and sets her off on a different path, crafting the hits behind the biggest stars of the day. After decades in the shadows &#8211; from the Doo Wop era to Rock n&#8217; Roll and into the swingin&#8217; 60s &#8211; she finally finds her time to shine. A fun and frenetic view of the male-dominated music scene and the tenacity of one woman to make her own way, this charmer is as fresh as it was 30 years ago.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our Allison Anders director&#8217;s section and take home more treasures on physical media!

*Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, Border Radio*

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

Grace of My Heart

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 1985 animated classic *Angel’s Egg*, featuring a live score performed on stage by Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulwax, Cavalera).

CYBERCON: Iggor Cavalera Live Score to Angels Egg (1985)

Followed by a conversation with directors **Phil Lord** & **Christopher Miller**

Going above and beyond for humanity is not what Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) signed up for. More content to hide in a classroom teaching high school science, Grace is thrust quite unwilling into space as Earth’s last hope for survival. Guided by a no-nonsense terrestrial leader in the form of Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller in a show-stopping performance) and an exuberant extra-terrestrial partner in the form of Rocky (brilliantly performed and voiced by James Ortiz), our hero will discover if he has what it takes to save himself–and the rest of us in the process. Directed with wit and wonder by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on the bestseller by Andy Weir.

2026. USA. Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. Screenplay by Drew Goddard, Andy Weird. With Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz. DCP courtesy Amazon MGM Studios. 156 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Project Hail Mary

JOAN is a nonprofit art space for exhibitions, performances, screenings, and discursive events in Downtown Los Angeles.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Tonalli, 2021. Image courtesy of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

Chapter Three

Now Instant Image Hall

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Thursday, November 12, 2026

7pm | 55-minute screening

JOAN and Now Instant Image Hall presents a selection of experimental films by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, an anonymous film collective founded in Tehuacán, Mexico, in 2012.

Emerging amid widespread protests against the Mexican government during the later years of the “War on Drugs,” the collective developed a radical audiovisual language in response to a period of political upheaval that marked a turning point for many in Mexico. Through psychedelic colors, layered analog film, and rhythmic soundscapes, their films preserve the memory of those affected by mass violence, from protesters and the disappeared to the dead.

For Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, anonymity is a political strategy that challenges the artist-centered logic of neoliberalism, which privileges individual authorship and intention in the production and interpretation of art. By working collectively, the group resists the notion of the singular artist as the primary source of meaning and value. Their commitment to collective authorship carries particular weight in Mexico, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, where reporting on organized crime and political corruption is often met with state retaliation.

The selected films draw on key moments in Mexican history, from Aztec mythology to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and the 2014 forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa student teachers. These historical references intersect with contemporary protests that bring enduring histories of violence into public consciousness. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos describes its aesthetic approach as “shamanic materialism,” combining expired film stock, found footage, color inversion, and organic materials that alter the surface of celluloid. The resulting images create a disorienting, trance-like experience that jolts the senses. Through these layered compositions, the collective exhumes fragments of collective memory that remain largely absent from mainstream television and commercial cinema.

Screening at Now Instant Image Hall

939 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012

For tickets and more information, visit Now Instant Image Hall.

El Nido del Sol2021, 5 min.

Drawing on ancient Aztec mythology, El Nido del Sol references Xólotl, the canine deity; Huitzilin, the hummingbird; and Xóchitl, the flower. Vivid, saturated images of flowers blend into one another, accompanied by rhythmic drumming. Translating to The Nest of the Sun, the title evokes the spiritual interconnectedness of celestial beings and the natural world in Indigenous Mexican cosmologies.

Batalla2017, 4 min.

A tribute to Aldo Gutiérrez Solano, a student at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College who was among those attacked by police on September 26, 2014. That night, students traveling in buses in Iguala, Guerrero, were attacked while preparing to travel to Mexico City for the annual commemoration of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. Forty-three students were forcibly disappeared, while Gutiérrez Solano survived a gunshot wound to the head that left him in a persistent vegetative state. Investigations have implicated local police, organized crime, and members of the Mexican military in the events surrounding the attacks and disappearances.

Altazor2019, 3 min.

An audiovisual tribute to Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s 1931 avant-garde poem Altazor. The poem follows a cosmic aviator in free fall through time, space, and infinity, exploring the limits of language and the nature of human existence.

Tonalli2021, 16 min.

Drawing on the ancient Nahuatl concept of tonalli, understood as the vital energy that animates living beings, the film alludes to the Day of the Dead and its roots to Indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations. Two heads, one a skull and the other a clay figure, fade in and out of view, each surrounded by flowers.

Aria 682023, 4 min.

Aria 68 revisits the historical trauma and recurring cyclices of violence surrounding the Tlatelolco student massacre, which took place in Mexico City on October 2, 1968. A recurring subject in the collective’s filmography, the massacre forms the basis for this “shamanic composition,” an intense audiovisual reflection on the enduring legacies of state violence in contemporary Mexico.

Notes for a Deja Vu2020, 22 min.

Scenes of contemporary protests unfold through freeway tunnels and the streets of downtown Mexico City, where demonstrators carry banners and images, including depictions of the Virgin Mary, flyers of missing women, and slogans commemorating the Tlatelolco Massacre. The footage is accompanied by the voice of poet, filmmaker, and artist Jonas Mekas, who reflects on the fragmented nature of memory.

Curated by Nahui Garcia, Associate Curator at JOAN.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

JOAN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Gavotte,” 1967, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 12 Mins, Friends of Walerian Borowczyk, France**

Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion.

FORMAT: DCP

**LULU, 1980, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 95 Mis, Studio TF1, France**

*In French with English Subtitles.*

The story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack “the Ripper.”

FORMAT: DCP

World Premiere of New 4K Restoration of LULU Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"Gavotte" / LULU

Now Instant Image Hall

****DEATH WISH CLUB (1984) is a film that was repackaged many times for the home video market, desperately trying and failing to find an audience (also known as *Gretta*, also known as *Carnival of Fools*, also known as *Erskine Caldwell's Gretta, a*lso known as *The Dark Side to Love)*. However it's mostly known in a heavily edited down short form as *The Case of Gretta Connors*, a part of the NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR horror anthology, which is unfortunate as its full 90 minute version must be seen to be believed!

Directed by John Carr, written by controversial Oscar-winning screenwriter Philip Yordan (!), and based very loosely on the 1955 Erskine Caldwell novel *Gretta,* the full cut of DEATH WISH CLUB unfolds a story that at no point will you know what comes next.

Rich misanthrope George Youngmeyer (J. Martin Sellers) meets the eccentric Gretta (the incredible Meridith Haze in her only known role) working at the carnival, stuffs a few hundred dollar bills down her shirt and takes her home. Gretta wants to be "a star" so Youngmeyer introduces her to the world of pornography. After seeing one of her films in his dorm, college student Glenn Marshall (Rick Barnes) becomes infatuated with the actress, and follows the clues from the adult store where the film was rented, to the production company that produced the picture, eventually finding himself face to face with Gretta, who is playing the piano pantsless at the shady "Club Manhattan". Glenn is sucked into a dangerous triad, and what follows becomes more incredulous from one moment to the next, including getting caught up in the titular "Death Wish Club".

Gender swapping, seances, giant bug POV shots, demolition balls, electric chairs, karate, and so much more await you in DEATH WISH CLUB.

**dir. John Carr, 1984**
*United States, digital projection*
90 min

**THURSDAY, 11/12 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

DEATH WISH CLUB (1984)

Black Fire with Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth&#8217;s cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

CYBERCON: Peow Studio Book Launch & Exhibition W/ Zimmerit Panel + Godzilla: Final Wars

Followed by a conversation with writer-director **Ryûsuke Hamaguchi**

Based on an exchange of letters between philosopher Makiko Miyano and medical anthropologist Maho Isono, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi beautifully depicts the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of Marie-Lou, a French nursing home director and caregiver, and Mari, a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer. As they spend time together after a performance of one of Mari’s plays and at the nursing home where Marie-Lou implements a new program of radical empathy for the patients' bodies and souls against skeptical colleagues, both connect over longing, sentimental aspirations, and the sociopolitical strains that have driven their life choices and shaped their communities. *All of a Sudden* isn’t just a fascinating look into our era’s anxieties and injustices but a moving testimony to the power of human empathy in an era that may make you think there is none.

2026. France/Japan/Germany/Belgium. Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Screenplay by Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; based on the book by Maho Isono, Makiko Miyano. With Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyôzô Nagatsuka. DCP courtesy NEON. In French, Japanese; English subtitles. 196 min.

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

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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

All of a Sudden

Snatch

The Burning / Madman

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

Join us for the world premiere of a new documentary on Stephan Hoeller followed by Q&A with special guest Gary Lachman

THE BISHOP OF HOLLYWOOD, the life and legacy of Dr. Stephan Hoeller

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producers**: Yoshio Sasaki, Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of *Spirited Away*, and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above the scenic port towns of the Mediterranean. *Porco Rosso* follows the titular former fighter pilot turned bounty hunter as he pursues bands of sky pirates across the Adriatic Sea. After a mysterious curse leaves him with the face of a pig, Rosso embraces a life of relative obscurity. When an American hotshot pilot named Curtis threatens to take him down, Rosso is forced to join forces with his former flame, the sultry lounge singer Gina, and an aspiring aerospace engineer, Fio, for one final battle. Miyazaki&#8217;s mid-career tour de force retains Studio Ghibli’s signature whimsy while simultaneously offering a sobering meditation on anti-fascism and the traumas of war.

Porco Rosso (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

Sexy, smart, and smoldering, this shocking neo-noir shot the Coen brothers into the upper echelons of filmmakers right off the bat. Far beyond your average freshman fare, the Coen Brothers debut film *Blood Simple* is stylish, brutal, and tinged with that signature Coen wit. The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more menace from the best brothers in the biz!

*Miller&#8217;s Crossing, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men*

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

Blood Simple

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

**Producer**: Tom Fox

The most fun you&#8217;ll ever have with the undead! A gang of Punks and New Wave ne&#8217;er-do-wells get trapped in a cemetery as the dead begin to rise and start to crash their party. And these aren&#8217;t your average zombies. They can talk, reason, and even make jokes, but make no mistake — they are still out for your brains. A total blast from start to finish, this monster bash features killer special effects, a rockin&#8217; soundtrack, and one of scream queen Linnea Quigley&#8217;s most iconic moments. You&#8217;d be a ghoul to miss it!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more 80s classics with the Queen Linnea Quigley!

*Night of the Demons, Silent Night Deadly Night, Savage Streets*

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

The Return of the Living Dead

Lady Terminator

Frankenweenie in 35mm

Jealousy Is My Middle Name (질투는 나의 힘)  in 35mm

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 2003 animated classic Interstella 5555, featuring a live DJ score performed by SOSUPERSAM and Kyle Ng.

Feel free to get out of your seat and dance with us!

CYBERCON: SOSUPERSAM & Kyle Ng Live Score to Interstella 5555 (2003)

A clandestine group of scientists are conducting brutal experiments on human test subjects in an attempt to unlock psychic powers. An assault of industrial noise, sensory deprivation, and grotesque body horror, *Rubber&#8217;s Lover (1996)* is often considered an unofficial prequel to Fukui’s *964 PINOCCHIO (1991)*, expanding on its obsessions with technology, bodily transformation, and the limits of human consciousness.

CYBERCON: Rubber’s Lover

Every space hosts the accumulation of time and is thus a repository of memory, one that is active and dynamic.

Jean Khalil Chamoun’s *Women Beyond Borders* (2004) and Theo Panagopoulos’ *The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessin*g (2024) were made two decades apart, but together they foster an ongoing conversation at the intersection of identity, memory and place across Lebanon and Palestine.

Though distinct in form, the films consider the relationship between people’s lived environments and their individual and collective identities. The films navigate through spaces both historically and presently marked by displacement, violence and resilience. Both offer meditations and testimonies on how these spaces can inhabit a people’s memories, linger into their present realities and influence their futures.

Rather than attempting to unearth a singular tradition, this program amplifies an ongoing cinematic conversation across Lebanon and Palestine that is rooted in intertwined histories of occupation and resistance. This conversation is an urgent one to hold today in light of the ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon and historic Palestine that continues to target complete ecosystems. This systematic surge of destruction and harm affects far beyond the physical; it seeks to fracture memory, sever a people’s sense of being and belonging, and jeopardize social relations that places sustain. The moving image as a tool presents an opportunity to forge an alternative place of memory work, one capable of preserving spatial memory, making visible the forms of erasure, and imagining continuities that exceed the violence of occupation and its imposed restriction on bodies and space.

*Programmed by UCLA Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Aciah Abdulsater and Archive Research and Public Access Coordinator Nicole Ucedo. Notes and concept by Aciah Abdulsater.*

Filmmaker and researcher Theo Panagopoulos’ essay-style documentary assembles recently rediscovered archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, filmed in the 1930s and ’40s by a Scottish missionary during the British Mandate. Panagopoulos decides to reclaim the footage. In reframing the images with new sound and captions he questions the role of image-making as both a tool of witnessing and a perpetrator of violence, when covering the relationships between people and land. 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Theo Panagopoulos.

In a feature-length documentary, filmmaker Jean Khalil Chamoun follows the story of Kifah Afifi, a Palestinian refugee, Sabra and Shatila massacre survivor, and ex-abductee at the infamous Khiam detention center in then-occupied southern Lebanon. The film explores questions of womanhood and women’s relationship to community and space. By following Kifah’s recollection of her time in detainment, her struggles and what anchored her hope, the film sheds light onto women who defied societal, historical and political boundaries.

Digital media. Director/Screenwriter: Jean Khalil Chamoun.

Borders That Flower: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / Women Beyond Borders

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on two mangas by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Benzo.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

Q&A with filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past? Hold on to your seat for an explosive and intriguing thrill ride you’ll want to experience again and again.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles 20th Anniversary ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

DÉJÀ VU

In Session invites visitors to engage with readings, film/video and writing activities that relate to current exhibitions and are meant to generate self-reflection and group discussion.

This In Session will focus on Larry Johnson, who currently has work on view in In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA. Capacity is limited to 15 people. In Session is organized by MOCA Education.

A contemporary innovator of Pop, LA-based artist Larry Johnson makes photographs that look nothing like photographs. In his witty, incisive, cartoon-like proto-photos, Johnson appropriates the images and aesthetics of TV and movie animation, graphic design, commercial illustration, and advertising to deconstruct the terms of American culture’s self-presentation.

In Session: Larry Johnson

MOCA Grand Avenue

Kung Fu Panda

Ratatouille

The Last Picture Show

The Jerk

For more than a decade, University of Virginia colleagues Kevin Jerome Everson, Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts, and Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Edward Stettinius Professor of History, have collaborated on *Black Fire*, an ongoing body of work devoted to the history and experience of Black life at UVA in Charlottesville. The project grew out of Harold’s research into the political and cultural history of African American students and faculty at the university and her discovery of a fragmentary archive. Together, Harold and Everson began using this archival material as a point of departure, making images where images were absent and bringing Harold’s research into conversation with Everson’s approach to performance, duration, and gesture.

The selection presented here moves between histories of student organizing and institutional change, athletics, gospel, recreation, and the forms of social and cultural exchange that took place within and around the university.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A and conversation with Everson and Harold.

Special thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, K.J. Relth-Miller, and the Academy Museum.

Films appear courtesy of the filmmakers and Picture Palace Pictures. All films directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold.

Black Fire

1948  • A hurricane, a hotel full of uneasy people, Humphrey Bogart facing off with Edward G. Robinson — Key Largo hardly needs more to get your attention. Directed by John Huston, it was the fourth and final screen pairing of Bogart and Bacall.  • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Key Largo

1971 • Introduction by Screenwriter Larry Karazewski • Screenwriter Larry Karazewski (Ed Wood, Big Eyes) joins us to introduce this wonderfully quirky film. The film was directed by Hal Ashby, who had a gift for making odd, deeply human films. Over time, it has become a beloved cult favorite. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Harold and Maude

Old Town Music Hall

The LA premiere of the new kaleidoscopic retelling of the Orpheus myth, blending 16mm photography, stop-motion, and handmade illusions!

Virgilio Villoresi’s ORFEO (2025) — Los Angeles Premiere!

**Screenwriters**: Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson

**Producer**: Roy Conli

Disney meets Marvel in this thrilling and charming tale of robotic friendship and fighting for what&#8217;s right. A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. So join us in San Fransokyo with your family and inflatable friends.

Big Hero 6

**Screenwriter**: Budd Schulberg

**Producer**: Sam Spiegel

Vidiots remembers the iconic screen goddess **Eva Marie Saint!**

*I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let&#8217;s face it.* You might know that iconic quote, and you might be aware that Marlon Brando’s performance in this movie was a game-changer in film history, helping to popularize the more naturalistic style known as Method acting. But don’t let that overshadow the film itself, a masterpiece that earned eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and remains just as powerful 70 years later. Brando plays Terry Malloy, a longshoreman and former boxer who grows to resent the mobsters who control his local union. And in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint is luminous as Terry’s love interest, who acts as his conscience and inspires him to take a stand and fight back &#8211; no matter what the cost.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more treasures from Eva Marie Saint&#8217;s iconic career!

*Grand Prix, The Sandpiper, Vertigo*

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

On the Waterfront

**Writer:** John Hughes

**Producers:** John Hughes, Lauren Shuler Donner

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for this all-time teen classic of high school romance, jealousy, resourcefulness, and classism. Molly Ringwald plays Andie, a creative outcast from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a rich kid (80&#8217;s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy) and ends up causing rifts in both their worlds. This sweet and stylish romance features incredible performances from the entire cast including Annie Potts as the fashionista record store owner, Jon Cryer as the Otis Redding lip-syncing obsessed best friend, James Spader as the vilest of the upper crust, and of course Vidiots favorite Harry Dean Stanton as her single father.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Celebrate 100 Years of Harry Dean Stanton with some of these gems from his section:

*Two Lane Blacktop, Straight Time, Red Dawn*

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

Pretty in Pink

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

We&#8217;re bringing the party back to the big screen to kick off our birthday weekend like rock stars! Join us for one of our favorite cinematic/musical experiences with a reprise of legendary Director Jonathan Demme’s ecstatic musical masterpiece Stop Making Sense. Filmed at the Hollywood Pantages Theater in December 1983, this fascinating piece of musical memorabilia showcases the Talking Heads boundless creativity and showmanship on stage and off. A one-of-a-kind experience, join Vidiots as we revel in 41 years of Vidiots and the 42nd anniversary of this groundbreaking film, newly remastered in a stunning 4K presentation.

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Jonesing for more Demme? We&#8217;ve got a killer section for Jonathan Demme on our directors racks that includes these rarities!

*Crazy Mama, Who Am I This Time?, Swimming to Cambodia*, and make sure to check out his tasty episode of *Columbo &#8211; Murder Under Glass!*

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

Stop Making Sense

The Westerner

3-D SPACE and Hollywood Entertainment invite you to a very special rare 3D screening of *Charlie Victor Romeo*, a uniquely disquieting performance film created entirely from the "black box" transcripts of real-life airline emergencies.

These short and poignant vignettes of real-life peril are by turns distressing and quotidian- an anthology of last words and deeds whose specificity and urgency are made extraordinarily vivid by the stereoscopic intimacy.

"When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong? Derived entirely from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts of six major airline incidents and accidents, Charlie Victor Romeo puts the audience inside the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, offering a fascinating portrait of the psychology of crisis and a person’s will to live to the last second." - Dekanalog

“[This] chilling and groundbreaking production stretches the boundaries of film, theatre, and the traditional documentary with this stereoscopic 3-D film of a stage play that recreates transcripts word for word. CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO transports film audiences into the best seats of the theatre and delivers the intensity and gut-wrenching emotion of these emergencies via the unique approach of live performance.” - Shari Frilot, senior programmer Sundance Film Festival & New Frontier

"The scariest airplane movie ever!" - John Waters

"A radical film." - Agnes Varda

"One of the most terrifying films I have ever seen." - A.O. Scott, *New York Times*

"The experience is, to put it mildly, a nail-biter" - John Defore, *The Hollywood Reporter*

**dirs. Karlyn Michelson, Patrick Daniels & Robert Berger, 2013**
*United States, digital projection*
80 min
[https://charlievictorromeo.com/](https://charlievictorromeo.com/)

**SATURDAY, 11/14 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

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

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

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

7:30 PM

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

7:30 PM

KWAIDAN

7:30 PM

O.V.A. Night – Vol. II

8:00 PM

Possible Love

Coyote vs. Acme

7:30 PM

AVITAL ASH WORKSHOPS HER SUICIDE NOTE

7:00 PM

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

10:00 PM

The Beyond

Pieces

7:30 PM

Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts

7:00 PM

An American Werewolf in London

7:30 PM

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

3:00 PM

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

7:00 PM

The Mummy's Shroud

8:00 PM