LA Festival of Movies presents *With Hasan in Gaza*, by director Kamal Aljafari. 108 minutes, Palestine, 2025.

Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. This footage is now a testament to a place and time that no longer exists.

LA Festival of Movies: With Hasan in Gaza

LA Festival of Movies presents *After Dreaming*, by director Christine Haroutounian. 105 minutes, Armenia/USA/Mexico, 2025.

North American Premiere. Co-presented by the Armenian Film Society. Q&A with writer/director Christine Haroutounian.

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*Armenia, before peace yet after war. A soldier is asked to take a girl on a road trip to keep her father's death a secret from her.*

The debut feature by Armenian-American filmmaker Christine Haroutounian is a marvel of transcendental style, a trance-inducing portrait of contemporary Armenia that evokes the the elliptical and hallucinatory films of Claire Denis and Carlos Reygadas (an executive producer) while defiantly creating its own grammar. In the aftermath of an unnamed war, a soldier (Davit Beybutyan) is sent by a family to take their daughter (Veronika Poghosyan) under his wing, while withholding the news that her father has been mistakenly killed. Traveling on the road, the couple are intimately drawn to each other as they drift through the war-torn landscape. Never resorting to easy metaphors, Haroutounian's film feels both intuitive and ritualistic in the depiction of a culture, culminating in a mesmerizing extended wedding sequence that is a work of pure cinema. -MG

In Armenian with English subtitles.

Prior Screenings: 2025 Berlin International Film Festival (Forum)

LA Festival of Movies: After Dreaming

The LA Festival of Movies arrives in its third year, with many screenigns and events across three days at 2220 Arts. Full lineup, festival pass details and ticket prices to be announced in early 2026.

LA Festival of Movies 2026

LA Festival of Movies presents *In the Glow of Darkness*, by director Tucker Bennett. 80 minutes, USA, 2025.

West Coast Premiere.

Intersecting stories unfold in the cyberpunk city of San Zokyo, where a young hacker takes on the corporation behind Meme, a drug that mines users' psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads.

LA Festival of Movies: In the Glow of Darkness

LA Festival of Movies presents *Maddie's Secret*, by director John Early. 98 minutes, USA, 2025.

Encore screening!

A beautiful food influencer’s perfect life unravels when her rising fame awakens an adolescent struggle with an eating disorder.

LA Festival of Movies: Maddie's Secret

2220 Arts + Archives

The Housemaid

Stray Dog (Nora inu) in 35mm

Academy Museum

A brutal act of war leaves a young boy orphaned and enslaved, condemned to years of relentless labor on the Wheel of Pain. Forged through suffering and discipline, Conan emerges from captivity as a formidable warrior, driven by a singular purpose: vengeance.

What follows is a mythic tale of steel, sorcery, and survival—where vengeance and destiny collide.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Conan the Barbarian

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller and Elizabeth Bougerol

7:15pm | **THE MAN I LOVE**

8:51pm | Intermission

9:01pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

9:11pm | **NORA PRENTISS**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THE MAN I LOVE, 1947, Dir. Raoul Walsh, 96 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

Originally released January 11, 1947

As flinty chanteuse Petey Brown, Ida Lupino is at the apex of her big-screen glamour, offering a radiantly romantic vision of the post-WWII American woman—able to settle everyone’s hash but her own. A coast-to-coast road trip through a world of atmospheric nightclubs, tenements, and backlot streets, this majestic melodrama is part noir, part soap opera, and pure Hollywood magic. Reportedly, the film’s mix of music, romance, and noir inspired Martin Scorsese to make NEW YORK, NEW YORK. This was Lupino’s third film with director Walsh, and, despite the high heels and form-fitting lamé gowns, Ida is every bit as tough as she was in THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT and HIGH SIERRA, her first two films with Walsh. Featuring an array of classic songs, including “Why Was I Born?” and the Gershwin melody “The Man I Love,” Lupino’s singing voice for the film was dubbed by American contralto Peg La Centra, wife of actor Paul Stewart, a NOIR CITY favorite.

FORMAT: 35mm

**NORA PRENTISS, 1947, Dir. Vincent Sherman, 111 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Originally released February 21, 1947

San Francisco physician Richard Talbot (Kent Smith) falls hard for nightclub singer Nora Prentiss (Ann Sheridan), but she cuts off their budding romance when she learns the smitten sawbones is married. Not to be deterred, the doc devises an outlandishly noirish scheme to reunite with Nora under a new identity. Need we say that tragic consequences ensue? This pitch-black melodrama was tailored by Warner Bros. for oft-suspended star Sheridan, the studio’s “Oomph Girl,” who had turned down the lead role in 1945’s MILDRED PIERCE allowing Joan Crawford to snag an Oscar and a career comeback. Sold as a romantic “woman’s picture,” the film is really focused on the doctor’s terminal case of *amour fou*, which spirals into one of the darkest and most daring plot twists in the genre. Director Vincent Sherman elicits career-best performances from both Smith and Sheridan, while the quintessentially noir tone is supplied by legendary DP James Wong Howe. A neglected classic!

FORMAT: DCP

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

THE MAN I LOVE / NORA PRENTISS

Egyptian Theatre

Marking the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Silvia Ribelles de la Vega, a scholar and historian at The Packard Humanities Institute, presents a program featuring seldom-seen views of the war, drawn from the Hearst Metrotone News collection.

The preservation of and access to the collection have been made possible only through the incredible efforts of The Packard Humanities Institute, in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, to expand access to one of the most significant newsreel archives of the 20th century. This collection of 27 million feet of newsreels includes approximately 288 reels of film related to the Spanish Civil War.

At the time, newsreels — short-form, theatrically exhibited news stories — were often the only moving image records of unfolding events available to international audiences. Hearst cameramen covered the conflict extensively and, remarkably, filmed from both sides of the war. Ribelles’ presentation will move chronologically from 1936 to 1939 and feature not only edited newsreels but also selections from longer, previously unseen footage.

Describing the Hearst Metrotone News collection as “a gem for any researcher,” Ribelles highlights the opportunities this newly accessible material offers to scholars and history enthusiasts alike. Drawing on production records, maps and related archival documents, she will examine how the newsreels were filmed, edited and circulated, and how studying them today can surface overlooked histories and reshape our understanding of the Spanish Civil War.

90 years after a conflict that tore a nation apart, these newsreels stand as vital audiovisual evidence and as a testament to the enduring impact of making archival collections accessible to all.

The Archive is grateful to The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) for its role as the driving force in the project to share the Hearst Metrotone News Collection for research, study and public access. To explore more than 20,000 news stories preserved and made accessible by PHI, including unedited materials featured in this program, [visit newsreels.net](https://newsreels.net/).

On Saturday, April 11, join our partners at the Instituto Cervantes Los Ángeles for an [afternoon of Spanish cinema](https://cultura.cervantes.es/losangeles/en-US/espagne-1936/188844), featuring *Espagne 1936 *(also known as *Espagne 1937* or *Loyal Spain Under Arms*), a seminal documentary about the Spanish Civil War, recently restored by Mexican film restorer and colorist Benjamín Fernández. Introduction by Spanish film historian Silvia Ribelles.

The Hearst Metrotone News Collection and the Spanish Civil War

Hammer Museum

GAG! returns to Heavy Manners for another iteration of their screening series. GAG! Presents... VIDEO3. As a way to highlight video artists and blur the line between video art and cinema, GAG! brings together a select group of artists and filmmakers to screen pieces that are intended for the exhibition space. Simultaneously, VIDEO3 reimagines films intended for theaters within the context of video art. This screening allows audiences to approach these practices in a new light. Fine art [+](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gag-presents-video3-tickets-1985030046304?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true) film = VIDEO3 ◡̈

*GAG! is an interdisciplinary art collective based in Los Angeles. GAG! (Gallery Attendants&#x27; Gallery) seeks to make us play, disrupt, react, and respond to the contemporary art world.*

GAG! presents VIDEO3

Heavy Manners Library

The Old Fashioned Way / Misbehaving Ladies

Reservoir Dogs

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriters**: S.S. Rajamouli, Sai Madhav Burra

**Producers**: D.V.V. Danayya

Can&#8217;t stop! Won&#8217;t Stop! The biggest film of the decade has become a Vidiots tradition! *RRR* is an exhilarating, action-packed spectacular, starring two of India&#8217;s biggest superstars, N.T Rama Rao Jr., aka Jr NTR and Ram Charan. Set in the 1920s before their fight for India’s independence began, *RRR* imagines a fictional meeting between two real-life freedom fighters who helped lead India’s fight for independence from the British Raj.

With staggeringly choreographed action sequences, an all-timer of a musical number, and a powerful story, *RRR* is pure cinematic joy from start to finish. Audiences across the world have been won over, and trust us — If you haven&#8217;t seen this on a big screen, you haven&#8217;t really seen it, and if you have, you know why we sell out every single screening!

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

**Screenwriters**: Aidan Zamiri, Bertie Brandes from an original idea by Charli xcx

**Producers**: David Hinojosa,  Charli xcx

The microcinema is getting pumped for a Brat Spring with Charli xcx&#8217;s self-parodying mockumentary *The Moment*. A rising pop sensation navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.

The Moment

**Screenwriter:** Norio Osada

**Producer:** Kikumaru Okuda

Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning *Lady Snowblood.* A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s *Kill Bill* saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Meiko Kaji is one of the most elegantly bad-ass ladies of cinema, check out her section in Martial Arts for more kick-ass gems!

*Delinquent Girl Boss, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, Blind Woman&#8217;s Curse*

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

Lady Snowblood

**Screenwriters**: Walter Tevis,  Richard Price

**Producers**: Irving Axelrod,  Barbara De Fina

Scorsese, Newman, and Cruise hit the pool hall for this sequel to *The Hustler &#8211; *25 years on &#8211; with incredible cinematography from the legendary Michael Ballhaus and a killer soundtrack from Robbie Robertson of *The Band*. &#8220;Fast Eddie&#8221; Felson (Paul Newman reprising his Oscar-winning role) is back on the beat &#8211; after years of laying low, he&#8217;s ready to get back in the pool hall and start hustling again, this time with a young protegé Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). When the two part ways over Lauria&#8217;s flashy, showboating ways, they are destined to come face to face in a game of winner take all! So grab your pool cues and get ready to win with *The Hustler* all over again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Paul Newman tonight with these classics on physical media!

*The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Rachel, Rachel, Sometimes a Great Notion*

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

The Color of Money

**Screenwriters**: Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

**Producers**: Taylor Hess,  Jesse Miller,  Michael Almereyda,  Courtney Stephens

Filmmaker **Courtney Stephens** in person Saturday &#8211; with a Q+A after the 4:30pm show and an introduction before the 7:30pm show!

The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russell’s *Altered States* and Mike Nichols’s *The Day of the Dolphin*. 

Directors Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.

“An illuminating work of cultural archaeology”

&#8220;*Earth Coincidence* paints Lilly as a 20th-century polymath, a one-of-a-kind maverick&#8220;

—THE FILM STAGE

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

**Screenwriters**: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady

**Producers**: Trey Parker, Matt Stone

The kids from Colorado take on censorship and Satan in this subversive animated ode to obscenities! In this feature film based on the hit animated series, the third-graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance (Matt Stone) and Phillip (Trey Parker), and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy becomes a call to war with Canada, and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row &#8212; with only the kids left to save them. Obscene, offensive, and outrageous &#8211; the perfect film to fire up your Friday Night!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more obscene animation? Cartoons aren&#8217;t just for kids!

*Fritz the Cat, Allegro non Troppo, Heavy Metal*

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

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

**Screenwriters**: Parker Bennett, Ed Solomon, Terry Runte

**Producers**: Jake Eberts,  Roland Joffé

Grab the controller for your Super Nintendo and get ready to get weird in this bizarro tale of two plumbers on a quest to save the world from projectile-throwing 8bit dinosaurs! It&#8217;s not a game anymore as Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. Now these mustached blue-collar heroes are the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa (Dennis m*therf$&ing Hopper!).

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a whole section devoted to video game adaptations! Take home these bangers tonight!

*Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken*

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

Super Mario Bros.

Vidiots

The Drama

Phantom Killer/Blonde Comet

Car Wash

Vista Theatre

LA Festival of Movies presents *Shades of Silk (Ombres de soie)*, by director Mary Stephen. 62 minutes, France/Canada, 1978. West Coast Premiere of the new 4K restoration.

Preceded by *Dreams of Passion* by Aarin Burch. 4 min. USA, 1989/2026.

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*Ombres de soie (Shades of Silk)* is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.

*Dreams of Passion* is a sensual exploration of the essence of self and of the intimacy of desire between two Black women as communicated through movement, dance, and imagination.

LA Festival of Movies: Shades of Silk (Ombres de soie)

LA Festival of Movies presents *Isaiah’s Phone*, by director Frédéric Da. 70 minutes, USA, 2025.

Los Angeles Premiere. Q&A with director Frédéric Da, moderated by filmmaker Tyler Taormina.

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*A socially awkward high school student films himself as he blunders through attempts to make friends, spiraling into a dark place where his only close relationship is with his phone.*

An utterly contemporary L.A. high school movie, Frédéric Da's defiantly handcrafted sophomore feature—shot entirely on an iPhone—is a disarmingly authentic, slippery and devastating portrait of teenage angst. Made with an impressive array of nonprofessional actors and shot on location at a campus in Los Angeles, the film follows Isaiah (Isaiah Brody) who films himself on an iPhone as he experiences the daily indignities of being in high school. With the feel of a raw found-footage documentary, the rigor of its conceptual gambit makes it a mesmerizing experience, and a marvel of resourceful filmmaking. -MG

*Please note: this film contains disturbing images of teen violence. Viewer discretion is advised.*

LA Festival of Movies: Isaiah’s Phone

LA Festival of Movies presents *Selegna sol*, by director Anouk Moyaux. 50 minutes, France, 2025.

West Coast Premiere. Co-presented by El Cine.

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After several years' absence, Gibran, a 37-year-old Mexican-American, returns to Los Angeles with the goal of saving up to purchase land in Tecate, the village where he was born in Mexico. As he organizes his departure, he rediscovers the emotional and historical ties that bind him to the United States.

LA Festival of Movies: Selegna sol

LA Festival of Movies presents *Drinking and Driving*, by directors Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank. 106 minutes, Canada, 2026.

World Premiere!

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Early twenties Iris (Jillian Frank) and Palmer (Avalon Fast) never left their hometown. They work at the same restaurant, share the same bed, and both have a habit of drinking and driving. They run into Levi (Ethan Hawksworth), a guy they used to know. They spend time with him and his cousin, Phoenix (Henri Gillespi), in cars, backyards, and other people's bedrooms. When Levi shares a dream he had with Iris things change between the four of them. The reality of the summer becomes faded, the parties die. The four end in a field of unified confusion.

LA Festival of Movies: Drinking and Driving

For LAFM's first-ever L.A.-based filmmaker narrative shorts program, we’ve invited the fearless local screening series Presidium Overactive to present a series of adventurous premieres: films that take a variety of cockeyed perspectives on shattered dreams, seductive cults, and the nagging sensation of self-doubt.

Six short films, all Los Angeles, West Coast or World premieres.

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*Code Rouge* (dir. Alex Pabaricus, China/France/USA | 26m)

A Chinese bodybuilder's spiritual crisis takes a surreal turn when his imaginary best friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger, takes him on a journey toward self-acceptance. West Coast premiere.

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*Going Sane* (dir. Joey Izzo, USA | 15m)

A 1970s Los Angeles therapy collective rises with utopian promise before devolving into a business-minded cult built on control and abuse. Los Angeles premiere.

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*Hollis* (dir. Conor Scheinberg, USA | 12m)

After leaving New York City behind, Hollis checks into a quiet roadside motel where she meets Adam, a young male escort she's hired. As the night unfolds, Hollis guides Adam through an unsettling, intimate experiment that blurs emotional and psychological boundaries. But just as she returns to her routine, a sudden, senseless act of violence shatters the illusion of control she tried to reclaim. World premiere.

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*Potato Potato* (dir. Josh Locy, USA | 14m)

When Cynthia writes a letter to the baby growing inside her about her hopes for their future, the baby writes back.. Los Angeles premiere.

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*Shadow Daddy* (dir. Andrew Theodore Balasia, USA | 8m)

When a mysterious dream sparks an unexpected conversation, a boyfriend and girlfriend spiral into revealing the insecurities lurking beneath their relationship. World premiere.

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*A Stable Marriage* (dir. Josephine Decker, USA | 8m)

A woman's sexual fantasy is fulfilled -- with surprising ramifications. Comment end. West Coast premiere.

LA Festival of Movies: PRESIDIUM OVERACTIVE (shorts program)

Spirited Away

The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku) in 35mm

Zodiac with David Fincher and Bong Joon Ho

Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Legend

Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he&#8217;s tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won&#8217;t be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

The Lord of the Rings

After the death of his mother, the evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers some long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother&#8217;s throne, assembles an army and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Blackwolf&#8217;s gentle twin brother, the bearded and sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf&#8217;s plans for world domination &#8212; even if it means destroying his own flesh and blood.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Wizards

A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Dragonslayer

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

**Official sign-ups for limited capacity Fantasy Fest programming are NOW OPEN, available exclusively to Fantasy Fest ticket holders.**

Revisit the ticket purchase page to select your event add-ons [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnGB13-2FPZsg2Ca3dBlgUCo0iXmBmqT3zj9RsoD0PghmXcQLM9QElbE61mhEgW9YUU1qogb2a1hC6iRqadg0agSnM-3DX7g5_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sRC-2BqXgg4Y0Oma8spR4wQiAGH9KJ6TlhLAWCLcEIufoQDVKmiSoED5OtdaU1FkSJo-2F6bXuW3fQ7d1LofIRGccjJobvmj6JVNVKb2KIIKinnfdOppzHa4GGi0Yk22pha18WLHjvIdOQIbmWf6QxVwUycgeRJAl-2FV22xtx7bf2SdKwyj2G0sMJRilcOy49QvBuf).

Each attendee must complete their own sign-ups. If you&#8217;ve purchased multiple tickets under one order, learn more about transferring tickets [HERE](https://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=u001.lcJDxyArbPA-2B64HjWLDCnCcOBqLjj51jDWmqKPG-2FxdwaEzNdwucrJELWVlfSaWk8iBu7CuxdRn0tasYxVNk1Aet-2FfMCpj7LsTEI9IbZFlkP28wmxP4rUwYl0F2KM-2FOsG55448xQoAn4Y-2FztkwOG4-2BWumwteWfzKCKEiJKC0jGJxmdZpPTJQi7ffLP0GzAzdSxMya_MpYSO1q0I4c12adV2ewcxd3WT-2BVdkh9-2FyhI7OJVw8QMENkysbS5tipdhIodb5QuUMJU4zLhMCL1hKVdaGzqJVmy4gQHh8HP7Qv-2BCSS9dfvwzzf3BRDwW7kL7ONAXXqHHvLmNBD6nZhSw7xhM-2BsKyLKZK-2ByfuxaIKBZEUWYPzZbl7wPChHjrBMQTk1C-2B6xfjMahaKy-2BFhBG-2F0OBg0TG36K90tnURoE6fRn1WsbDlwg35Tv5LdHqEqSGl82eJg4JNsPeEBaY180Ufxy-2FknEyX13RP7VhTNCcsvy4vQhy8P5nMEyzHCEygpIx8eKJY-2FnYQ-2BT6zB3ohvDldQZ1bwWrac1aYmJWIULb-2FGMbbsxn9jU1xeD3amwUdKr9s6aQlLFThTlc31vos-2FCpyMLQGG5L93tiNbsFe1uk1CAOsXcWGY20cfJY6bDMMTYJj5uZT-2BsK7sKW8GXtjkyUxq9uT4zQU8pZrb-2Bm-2BGcgANOEalQMGXY33UFSHx7P-2FlKSm1RGrwUu-2B0YUWAhqFA-2BWR7aKFbj9ZxHDBkkG4hWaY-2B5TOwG-2Fh5vkhuob36F9idXPiUXiswWIH1nFBTQNsdT-2BoN8g0MXKzYxCjx4ZE6tzPcS7UeZ9dxv2HHCGYPfhPFvrKq0Lefr6zl).

A limited standby line will be available to the public. Admission is free, but not guaranteed. Priority will be given to Movie Club Members, then first come, first served.

Heavy Metal

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

11:00am | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson

12:00pm | Introduction by actor Elliott Gould and Eddie Muller

12:10pm | **THE LONG GOODBYE**

2:02pm | Q&A with actor Elliott Gould. Moderated by Eddie Muller.

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released March 7, 1973

Philip Marlowe wakes up from a twenty-year nap to find that Los Angeles has only gotten screwier in his absence. The private detective gets a postmodern update with THE LONG GOODBYE, a rambling adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel. There are some crucial changes made by screenwriter Leigh Brackett, but to get hung up on the machinations of the plot is to miss the point entirely. Sure, Marlowe wants to solve the case, but there are stretches where he seems more interested in cat-food brands or making sure the goons tailing him don’t get lost. The film is so committed to its irreverent worldview that you become invested in these tangents, too. Elliott Gould redefines “cool” as Marlowe, and director Robert Altman has so much fun playing with noir clichés that he works in over a dozen versions of the hardboiled theme song.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor Elliott Gould. Moderated by Eddie Muller. Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2026’

THE LONG GOODBYE

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

4:00pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

4:10pm | **SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Originally released June 27, 1957

A box-office disaster upon original release, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is now considered one of best films of the 1950s—as well as the definitive cinematic statement on the dangers of media corruption. Burt Lancaster seethes through a thinly-veiled portrait of powerful New York gossip columnist Walter Winchell as J.J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis gives perhaps his finest performance as the two-faced, sycophantic press agent Sidney Falco. Some of the most dyspeptic dialogue in screen history is spewed courtesy of writers Lehman and Odets, all complemented by James Wong Howe’s *cinéma vérité* camerawork and a brassy, propulsive score by Elmer Bernstein. Keep your eyes and ears open as put-upon jazz cat Martin Milner sits in with the legendary Chico Hamilton Quintet (Paul Horn, flute; Fred Katz, cello; John Pisano, guitar; Carson Smith, bass; Chico Hamilton, drums). Co-starring Susan Harrison, Emile Meyer, and Barbara Nichols (“What am I, a bowl of fruit? A tangerine that peels in a minute?”) J. J. Hunsecker said it best, “I love this dirty town!”

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

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

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

7:00pm | Live musical performance by singer Elizabeth Bougerol

7:05pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

7:15pm |** KING CREOLE**

9:11pm | Intermission

9:21pm | Introduction by Alan K. Rode

9:31pm |** YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN**

*Start times are approximate.*

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**KING CREOLE, 1958, Dir. Michael Curtiz, 116 Mins, Paramount Pictures, USA**

Originally released July 2, 1958

Elvis Presley is the headstrong teen who can sing. Walter Matthau is the crime boss who wants to own him. The dance between these two makes up the central conflict of KING CREOLE, Elvis’ last film before he joined the U.S. Army. Elvis gets plenty of opportunities to show his moves onscreen, but the real delight here comes from watching a seemingly generic Presley vehicle take all the wrong turns and wind up stranded in NOIR CITY. Management troubles would become all too real for Elvis by the 1960s, but even without this real-life parallel, the rock-and-roll star delivers the acting performance of his career. Featuring stylish direction by Michael Curtiz and a spirited turn by Carolyn Jones as the woman caught between the warring show-biz factions.

FORMAT: DCP

**YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, 1950, Dir. Michael Curtiz, 112 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Originally released February 9, 1950

Dorothy Baker’s novel, inspired by the life of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, gets a full-blown Hollywood treatment veering far from the truth while telling an engrossing musical tale. Star-crossed jazzman Rick Martin (Kirk Douglas) lives for his music, but his arrogance (and alcohol) threaten to ruin him. Doris Day is the loyal singer whose love is unrequited, and Lauren Bacall is the woman he craves but can’t comprehend. (For 1950s Hollywood, Bacall’s character is as “out” as a lesbian could be.) Carl Foreman’s script takes a few daring turns for a musical drama of the era, bolstered by Michael Curtiz’ dazzling direction, stunning camerawork by Ted McCord, and especially Rick’s horn solos provided by musical advisor Harry James. Adding depth and soul are the fantastic supporting performances by Hoagy Carmichael (an actual compadre of Beiderbecke) and Juano Hernandez as Rick’s mentor.

FORMAT: DCP

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

KING CREOLE / YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

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RICAHRD FLEISCHER DOUBLE FEATURE  5 hr. 13 min.
 
Richard Fleischer was a versatile American film director known for helming nearly 50 films across many genres, including the sci-fi classics, the film noir and epics. The son of animation pioneer Max Fleischer, he began his career at RKO in the 1940s, and his work spanned from low-budget thrillers to big-budget spectacles, making him a popular and prolific director throughout Hollywood's Golden Age and the New Wave era. Today’s event will be 20,000 LEGUES UNDER RTHE SEA and COMPULSION. In person is Ricahrd’s granddaughter Claire and a Q&A moderated by Tim Williams of TV Guide.
 
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER HE SEA, The oceans during the late 1800s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler, Ned Land, join a US expedition which attempts to unravel the mystery.
 
COMPULSION, In 1924 Chicago, Artie Strauss and Judd Steiner are friends and fellow law students who both come from wealthy backgrounds. They have few true friends as they believe all their contemporaries are intellectually inferior. Within their relationship, Artie is the dominant and Judd the submissive who says he will do whatever Artie tells him. Although Judd acts intellectually arrogant to others, he also shows signs of weakness and reticence most evident to Artie. Part of their goal in life is to experience how it feels to do everything. As such, they plot to commit what they consider the perfect crime - a kidnapping and murder - not only so that they can experience the sense of killing for killing's sake, but also taunt the law with the knowledge of it and their superiority after the fact. They believe their crime is above the law. Their murder of young Paulie Kessler is not so perfect, with evidence at the scene uncovered by one of their law school colleagues, Sid Brooks, who also works for the Globe newspaper. As Artie and Judd try to manipulate their way out of how the evidence may implicate them, their manipulation ultimately backfires and they are charged with the murder. The most famed trial lawyer in town, Jonathan Wilk, is hired to defend the pair despite his atheism being against the families' sensibilities. Jonathan, renowned for his ability to manipulate juries, has to decide how best to defend his clients in the overwhelming face of evidence against them. The testimony of Ruth Evans, Sid's girlfriend, may have some impact on the trial's outcome.

RICHARD FLEISCHER DOUBLE FEATUR

Fine Arts Theatre

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

A world-renowned K-Pop girl group balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.

K-POP DEMON HUNTERS Sing Along (2025)(PG) Sat 4/11@12:00pm

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.

BREAKIN' (1984)(PG) Thu 4/9: 7:30 pm & Sat 4/11: 7:30 pm

Gardena Cinema

This program is a continuation of *Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Student Activism at UCLA**,* which celebrates the radical filmmaking legacy of UCLA’s affirmative action initiative, the Ethno-Communications Program (1969–1973). This iteration honors Ethno-Communications alumnus Robert A. Nakamura (1936–2025), who taught film at UCLA for over 30 years and was widely known as the “godfather of Asian American media.” A co-founder of the pioneering media organization Visual Communications, Nakamura co-directed a milestone feature-length film made by and about Asian Pacific Americans, *Hito Hata: Raise the Banner* (1980). Shaped by his internment at age six in the prison camp Manzanar during World War II, he transformed personal history into landmark films that helped change how Asian Americans are seen on-screen. 

*Series programmed by Associate Professor Josslyn Luckett, NYU Cinema Studies, and Public Programmer Beandrea July. Notes written by Beandrea July.**
*

***Special thanks to our community partners**: [Platform UCLA](https://www.instagram.com/platformucla/), [UCLA Alumni Association](https://alumni.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Asian American Studies Department](https://asianam.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Department of History](https://history.ucla.edu/), [UCLA Japanese Student Association](https://www.instagram.com/ucla.jsa/), [UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television](https://www.tft.ucla.edu/)*

Shot with a three-person crew of fellow UCLA Ethno-Communications student filmmakers, including Betty Chen, *Manzanar* is a lyrical, intimate documentary in which Robert A. Nakamura, a Nisei, reflects on his internment at age six and its enduring impact. Returning to the desolate site of Manzanar — one of 10 camps where Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned during World War II — Nakamura grapples with fragmented recollections of family, community and loss. As the film meditates on the lasting psychological impacts of internment, it also explores what it takes to face the unhealed wounds of the past and reclaim one’s identity.

Director: Robert A. Nakamura.

This short traces how the former Manzanar WWII concentration camp has been reclaimed by subsequent generations of Japanese Americans as a site of remembrance, resistance and intergenerational solidarity. Blending never-before-seen archival footage with a contemporary sensibility, the film follows the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage as it takes on renewed meaning in a post-9/11 world. Though produced by his parents, Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura, director Tadashi Nakamura steps confidently out of their shadow through a hip-hop–inflected score and music by Yellow Pearl, whose fusion of folk, blues, soul and jazz energized a new generation of Asian American youth.

Director/Editor: Tadashi Nakamura.

A landmark documentary of Japanese American community memory and resilience, Robert A. Nakamura’s Ethno-Communications M.F.A. thesis film (UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television ’75) recounts the stories of three intertwined Issei lives — a fisherman, a gardener and a pioneering farm family. Weaving personal memory and collective history, Nakamura includes his own father, a gardener, who recalls bicycling to work with a lawnmower tied to his back. The short is also a foundational work of Visual Communications, the trailblazing Asian American media collective Nakamura co-founded in 1970 with Duane Kubo, Alan Ohashi and Eddie Wong.

Director: Robert Nakamura.

“How do you repay someone who has given you everything? This film became my answer.”—Tadashi Nakamura

Inspired by *Wataridori: Birds of Passage*, Tadashi Nakamura documents his father’s life and legacy in a profound act of love. As Parkinson’s disease shapes the elder Nakamura’s titular third act, the film confronts the psychic costs of Japanese internment and assimilation, and the ways imagemaking and familial togetherness became forms of resistance. Shot over seven years, the documentary premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Tadashi Nakamura. With: Robert Nakamura, Karen L. Ishizuka.

Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Celebrating the Legacy of Robert A. Nakamura

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Sundays for Ryotaro and Fumiko have become routine: he reads the paper, she knits; he complains that his stomach hurts, she readies his medicine; she suggests things to do, he decides to stay home; he yawns, she yawns. They have no children and live in a suburb outside of Tokyo, surrounded by gossipy neighbors. One particular afternoon, the community gains two new residents, Nenkichi and his nonconformist wife Hinako. As the two couples come to know each other, upcoming layoffs in Ryotaro’s company trigger what could very well be the end of his marriage to Fumiko. He wishes to return to the country. She wishes to stay near Tokyo and find employment of her own. He opposes the idea of his wife working. Despite being married for some time, they still do not understand each other. Pretty soon, it becomes clear the possibility of separation is looming over them…

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

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

SUDDEN RAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

BEETLEJUICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

First, I guess you need to know something about them—the beautiful ones. The flawless four. Everyone wanted to be them. You know ’em. They went to your school, too. First, there’s Courtney “Satan-in-heels” Shayne (Rose McGowan) and her pawn, the dense but dangerous Marcie Fox (Julie Benz), a legend in her own little mind. Then there’s angelic Julie Freedman (Rebecca Gayheart), doomed to be popular because of her pretty face, and lastly, the teen dream herself, Elizabeth Purr. When an ordinary kidnapping prank leaves the future prom queen dead (accidentally gagged with a jaw-breaker), a deadly sweet prank leads to cover-up makeover in this edgy and unpredictable comedy. But there will be no mercy as prom night arrives, bringing this spirited tale to its cruel tiara-dropping conclusion.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

JAWBREAKER

Los Feliz Theatre

Cartoon Club

Animal Crackers

Heart to Heart

Tenebrae

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Tôru Hara

Join us on the Catbus for one of cinema&#8217;s most magical and beloved experiences that no one of any age can deny. While certainly not the first film to come out of Studio Ghibli, *My Neighbor Totoro* is often considered to be the studio and director Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated masterpiece. A touching story about two sisters who befriend the wood spirits in rural Japan, *My Neighbor Totoro* is an endearing fable centered on childhood wonder, family, imagination, and the importance of taking care of nature. It’s almost as if the film was made specifically to overwhelm the viewer with good vibes, and it’s hard not to fall in love with this lush, magical world of trolls wearing leaf hats and a bus that’s also a cat. There’s a reason Totoro has become the mascot of Studio Ghibli, and one of the cuddliest-looking creatures in animation history. 

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home tons of treasures from Studio Ghibli on DVD and Blu-Ray tonight!

*When Marnie Was There, Panda! Go Panda!, Lupin III*

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

My Neighbor Totoro (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriters**: Charles Brackett,  Billy Wilder,  Walter Reisch

**Producer**: Ernst Lubitsch

These comrades are ready to pawn the crown jewels and steal your heart in Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s universally beloved comedy, featuring the legendary Greta Garbo&#8217;s only comedic role! The great Garbo plays a no-nonsense diplomat of the Soviet Union who arrives in Paris to ensure the sale of jewels seized during the Russian Revolution. Meanwhile, carefree bachelor Count Leon d&#8217;Algout (Melvyn Douglas) attempts to intercept the valuables on behalf of their former owner, the Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire). Despite their conflicting allegiances, the icy Ninotchka soon warms to Leon&#8217;s charms, reluctantly going against her better judgment. When diplomatic forces threaten to tear them apart, will the find a place in the world where their love can grow? An international charmer with the masterful hand of Ernst Lubitsch and the magnificent charisma of one of the greatest actresses of all time, it&#8217;s time to fall in love with this classic all over again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Garbo in your life? Take home these treasures on physical media tonight!

*Grand Hotel, The Saga of Gosta Berling, Mata Hari*

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

Ninotchka

**Screenwriters**: Avery Corman,  Robert Benton

**Producer**: Stanley R. Jaffe

This sensitive, heartrending drama is both one of the most popular films of the 1970s and arguably the definitive Hollywood movie about an era of skyrocketing divorce. Dustin Hoffman plays Ted Kramer, a workaholic ad man who’s shell-shocked when he comes home one day to find his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) about to leave him and their seven-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) in order to find herself. Ted slowly learns how to take care of household tasks and emotionally care for his son, but his world is turned upside down again when Joanna returns to claim custody of Billy, triggering a bitter court battle. Winner of five Oscars — including Best Picture, Best Actor for Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actress for Streep (the first wins for both performers) — *Kramer vs. Kramer* remains a deeply moving, achingly human look at divorce and its messy aftermath.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more movies about life after divorce? You won&#8217;t want to break up with these classics!

*War of the Roses, Irreconcilable Differences, An Unmarried Woman*

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

Kramer vs. Kramer

**Writer/Producer**: John Waters

Feeling down about the possibility that Santa won’t bring you Cha-Cha heels for Christmas this year? Never fear, delinquent Dawn Davenport (Divine) is here to live out the bizarre and beautiful life of crime you can only fantasize about. *Female Trouble* is yet another John Waters classic, a grotesque examination of the female condition and cycles of violence presented through the flashy and trashy lens of the Pope of Filth. There’s a reason Waters himself considers this his favorite of his early work, and why Mink Stole has named Taffy Davenport as her favorite role in Dreamland. *&#8220;Hey, spare me your morals!&#8221;* and give yourself over to violence and perversion.

Female Trouble

Pinocchio

Penrod and Sam/The Panther's Claw

The Servant in 4K

We Direct Music Videos is thrilled to present Volume 9 of The Directors Series. This time, we are showcasing the work of Devonté Hynes, also known as Blood Orange, a multi-faceted musician and visual artist who, in his self-directed videos, has developed a gorgeous and highly personal visual universe to accompany his musical output. Devonté has also directed work for Beck and Mykki Blanco, and composed the scores for films like Palo Alto, Queen & Slim, Passing, Mainstream, Master Gardener, and the upcoming The Invite. Join us for a program of music videos selected by Devonté Hynes, alongside a career-spanning discussion about the relationship between music and moving images.

The Directors Series is a celebration of the artistry of music videos and those who make them. As the music video continues to change and mutate in unknowable directions, we want to take stock of the directors and art we love, presenting hand-picked collections of videos in a format rare to the music video: theatrically, with a live audience, and with the filmmakers on hand to discuss their work.

We Direct Music Videos Vol. #9 - Devonté Hynes

On a harrowing weekend canoe trip, four city men pit their nerve and muscle against the churning white waters of a wild Georgia river, and the three who are "delivered" from the heart-pounding experience come to realize that "nobody ever beats a river." Based on the novel by James Dickey.

Deliverance

Additional Language: Pawnee

Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Oscar®-winning performance in Academy Award® winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s cinematic masterpiece. Inspired by true events and winner of three Oscars®, THE REVENANT follows the story of legendary explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) on his quest for survival and justice. After a brutal bear attack, Glass is left for dead by a treacherous member of his hunting team (Tom Hardy). Against extraordinary odds and enduring unimaginable grief, Glass battles a relentless winter in uncharted terrain. This epic adventure captures the extraordinary power of the human spirit in an immersive and visceral experience unlike anything before.

The Revenant

A corporate troubleshooter survives a plane crash to spend five years seeking out an existence on a deserted island before returning to civilization with an altered view of his old life and values.

Cast Away

Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man (Redford) wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his mariner's intuition and a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.

All Is Lost

**Please note: This screening has been rescheduled to Monday, April 20. We apologize for any inconvenience.**

Robert Townsend pens a soulful love letter to Black popular music in this film loosely inspired by Motown-era vocal groups. It follows a fictional quintet from 1960s chart success through industry exploitation, infighting and addiction.

Here Eddie Murphy stands at the center of the Black Pack as Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, who leaves royal luxury for Queens, New York, in search of love on his own terms. The most commercially successful Black comedy feature of its era, this blockbuster is also a case study in power and authorship, as Murphy gives a tour de force performance of multiple characters and earns a “story by” credit. Ultimately, the film shows how box office clout enabled Black cultural specificity while embedding sharp critiques of race, class and respectability within mainstream studio comedy.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: John Landis. Screenwriter: David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein. With: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones.

The Cultural Politics of Eddie Murphy: Coming to America

Detective Kitty O’Day / Bowery Champs

**Screenwriter**: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie

**Producers**: Grace Glowicki,  Ben Petrie,  Yona Strauss

Presented in **Stink-O-Vision** on Sunday April 19th and Monday 4/20!

Join us in the microcinema for the funniest, stinkiest horror comedy of the year &#8211; Grace Glowicki&#8217;s supremely absurd, magnificently DIY, and laugh-so-hard-it-hurts *Dead Lover*. A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. A painfully funny and odiferous low-budget masterpiece of gonzo proportions, this inventive gut-buster is one of the funniest, weirdest films you&#8217;ve ever seen AND smelled!

Dead Lover

Join us on 4/20 for a program of eye-popping and head-scratching shorts, clips, trailers, and very special TV episodes on 35mm, 16mm, VHS, and DVD, culled from our video store collection as well as our film collection. We will be projecting live on four different physical media formats to maximize brain-meltage. From unhinged 35mm trailers, to insane experimental animation, to the most bonkers clips we can pull from the bottom of the barrel of the VHS era, this is one night your eyeballs may never recover from. Psychedelic, funny, weird, and wacky, all celebrating the glory of physical media, you&#8217;ll have a trip whether you&#8217;re high or not!

Physical Media Mind-Melters

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5 Card Stud / Rough Night in Jericho

**Screenwriters**: Dario Argento, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci

**Producer**: Bino Cicogna

We&#8217;re heading to the Wild West for one of the best Spaghetti Westerns of all time from the great Sergio Leone with a script co-written by Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, a score by Ennio Morricone, and an all-star cast including Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale! There&#8217;s a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land&#8217;s owner, McBain (Frank Wolff), but Frank kills him instead and pins it on a known bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a mysterious gunslinger with a score to settle (Charles Bronson) and McBain&#8217;s new wife, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), arrive in town.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a Spaghetti Western section with so many rough and tumble bangers! Check it out tonight!

*Adios, Sabata, Four of the Apocalypse, The Great Silence*, ALL the *Djangos*!

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

Once Upon a Time in the West

Bowery Champs/Gas House Kids Go West

The Warriors

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won&#8217;t give up without a fight.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

In 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, a wagon train of three families hires mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert. Over the coming days, lost in the heat, the settlers face hunger, thirst and a lack of faith in each person’s instincts for survival.

Meek's Cutoff

This unique series is hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm and film at 8pm.

Tonight's show: LADY FROM SHANGHAI Michael O'Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister's yacht, sailing to San Francisco. They pick up Grisby, Bannister's law partner, en route. Bannister has a wife, Elsa, who seems to like Michael much better than she likes her husband. After they dock in Sausalito, Michael goes along with Grisby's weird plan to fake his (Grisby's) murder so he can disappear untailed. He wants the $5000 Grisby has offered, so he can run off with Elsa. But Grisby turns up actually murdered, and Michael gets blamed for it. Somebody set him up, but it is not clear who or how. Bannister (the actual murderer?) defends Michael in court

LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Join us in the library at the Philosophical Research Society for an acoustic Earth Day Concert with Allie Crow Buckley!

Allie Crow Buckley Acoustic Earth Day Concert

Philosophical Research Society

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary and luminous filmmaker **Lucrecia Martel** for a very special evening featuring her newest documentary film ***Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)*** followed by a conversation about the film.

Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (ZAMA, THE HEADLESS WOMAN) takes a sweeping approach to this tragic true story, triangulating the murder trial of three men, the lives of activist Chocobar and his fellow Chuchagasta people, and the centuries-old, colonialist legacy of land and property theft across Latin America.

This screening will be followed by a conversation with **Lucrecia Martel **and Director of Photography **Ernesto de Carvalho**. Join us after at 9:30pm for a screening of her mesmerizing mystery [*The Headless Woman*](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/the-headless-woman/) preceded by an introduction by Martel.

An Evening with Lucrecia Martel: Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)

**Screenwriter**: Lucrecia Martel

**Producers**: Agustín Almodóvar,  Pedro Almodóvar,  Tilde Corsi,  Verónica Cura

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary and luminous filmmaker **Lucrecia Martel** for a very special evening featuring the new 4K Restoration of her mesmerizing mystery *The Headless Woman*.

A bourgeois middle-aged dentist named Veronica (MARIA ONETTO) drives alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something.  Immediately she becomes disoriented, unmoored from her identity and reality, like a sleepwalker who’s actually awake.  As the week go on, she becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone: a young boy whose body is found in a roadside canal.  Veronica tries to piece together what happened while her husband systematically erases her tracks.  A chilling parable about a woman in shock, Lucrecia Martel’s third feature explores the intricacies of class and the role of women in a male-dominated society.

This screening will be preceded by an introduction by **Lucrecia Martel**. Join us at 6:30pm for a screening of her newest film *[Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/our-land-nuestra-tierra/)* which will be followed by a conversation with Martel.

**About the Restoration:******

Restoration carried out from the 4K scan of the original 35 mm camera negative, a first-generation internegative, and the original digital sound mix. Reference elements included a duplicate negative and a vintage 35 mm release print. The process included digital cleaning to remove the imperfections of time and color correction to restore the original brightness, contrast, and chromatic values. Effects created in the digital intermediate were preserved.

Restoration produced by Rei Pictures, with the support of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Additional support and organization by Strand Releasing USA. Carried out at Cubic Restoration in Buenos Aires. Color grading was led by Gustavo Biazzi, under the consultation of cinematographer Bárbara Álvarez; digital image restoration by Margarita Moscoso; sound work by Federico Esquerro; and mastering by Julián Giulianelli. The project was coordinated by Fernando Madedo, and the entire process was supervised by director Lucrecia Martel.

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

An Evening with Lucrecia Martel: The Headless Woman

Hold That Line/Mr. Hex

The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi toride no san-akunin) in 35mm

Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging one-hour program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio. Selections include Dylan’s first film soundtrack for 1961’s “Autopsy on Operation Abolition;” a devastating solo rendition of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” from the 1963 TV special “Folk Songs and More Folk Songs;” a rollicking 1976 take on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” with Joan Baez; a gospel-infused “Blowin’ in the Wind;” an apocalyptically rocking “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” with Dylan backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; loving tributes to Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many

more treasures.



Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening

discussion.



The Bob Dylan Center opened in Tulsa, OK in May 2022 as the permanent home of the Bob Dylan Archive. The mission of the Center is to inspire and celebrate fearless creativity by exploring the music and artistry of the Nobel Prize–winning singer-songwriter as a catalyst for personal expression and cultural change.

Films from the Bob Dylan Center

Training Day / Narc

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Now Instant Image Hall

A mask-required completely free community event!

Bring up to 20 clothing items to swap and stick around for karaoke. Bringing items is not required for entry!

5:30-11pm

Covid Safe Swap

Scribble

Spook Busters/Ghost Chasers

Yojimbo (Yojinbo) in 35mm

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Phase IV

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico&#8217;s military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as &#8220;the Bugs.&#8221;

Starship Troopers

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 10, “****Dispute Between Brothers,” Dir. Tina Rathborne, 47 Mins**

Cooper gets ready to leave Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 11, “****Masked Ball****,” Dir. Duwayne Dunham, 47 Mins**

Andrew Packard resurfaces.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

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

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

“Dispute Between Brothers” and “Masked Ball” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau

**Producers**: Éric Altmayer,  Nicolas Altmayer

Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau&#8217;s brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director&#8217;s most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst. Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. As a mysterious virus spreads to pandemic proportions (with mind-blowing special effects), and a mysterious junky uncle comes to stay with them, Alpha must learn to navigate the nightmares of school, home, and health as her family&#8217;s ghosts haunt her present and future. Ducournau continues to prove herself to be one of world cinema&#8217;s most exciting voices &#8211; effortlessly elevating genre filmmaking to a transcendent experience &#8211; a slow burn through a dark dreamscape of plagues, puberty, and addiction.

Alpha

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

The Dude abides in the Coen Brothers&#8217; quintessential Los Angeles stoner noir. Mistaken identity and a urine-covered rug drags aging hippie slacker The Dude (Jeff Bridges) into a surreal and menacing world of shady philanthropists, German nihilists, porn producers, bowling competitions, and a kidnapping plot that never was. Paying homage to Hollywood legends like Busby Berkeley and Robert Altman, the Coens bring us their best in a nod to the Los Angeles they love and a comedy nobody can deny.

**Picks from the Video Store**

The Coens have their own directors&#8217; shelf of masterpieces for you to take home, including these absolute bangers:

*The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Burn Before Reading*

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

The Big Lebowski

**Screenwriters**: Stephen Chow,  Kan-Cheung Tsang,  Lee Lik-Chi,  Min Hun Fung

**Producer**: Kwok-fai Yeung

All his life, an ordinary young man (Stephen Chow) has been treated like dirt. Still, he&#8217;s never given up believing that all the world&#8217;s problems could be solved with a little kung fu. So he&#8217;s teaming up with a band of misfits &#8211; six friends who were kung fu masters in their youth &#8211; to form a soccer team that only he believes has a chance to win a $1 million grand prize. Together, they&#8217;re going to apply their hidden talents to a whole new game &#8212; and soccer will never be the same.

Shaolin Soccer

**Screenwriter**: Jon Moritsugu

**Producers**: Jacques Paisner

Are you ready to get skullf*&ed Vidiots?!? Lose your mind over the newest film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema &#8211; Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis. Is it a movie? Is it a hallucination? You decide as satire and deconstruction collide in the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos. *Fuck Art* with us in the microcinema as we delve into Shitsville USA and a contest between the world&#8217;s greatest art stars that includes video store drug trips, poisonous art displays, and artistic malaise to the hilt. As unhinged and insane as anything you&#8217;ve seen in the last decade, this one-of-a-kind specimen of strange is a cinematic acid trip to the max!

Numbskull Revolution

Torchy Gets Her Man/Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Batman Begins

The Wind Rises

A Man for All Seasons in 4K

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) in 35mm

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Doug is an awkward Florida drug addict. Divorced and alone, he shares custody of his young daughter with his ex. Doug&#8217;s reeling from losing his job at a local strip club, where he takes care of the fish in the aquarium. Things are beyond bleak &#8211; so Doug zips his boat out into the Gulf to end the pain of his reality. But at his lowest point, he discovers an injured Mermaid creature clinging to life. For Doug, it&#8217;s a sign from the Universe &#8211; so he brings her home, gives her shelter in his tub and begins to nurse her back to health. He even names her Destiny. As their rapport blossoms, word of his secret gets out and he is forced to protect his new friend by any means necessary.

Stick around after for a Q&A with director Tyler Cornack!

Mermaid

Tuesday–Friday, Sunday 10am–6:30pmSaturday 10am–9pmMonday Closed

Sounds of LA: Woven Verses: Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat in Concert

Getty Center

The only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy, this film, set in 1930s Harlem, imagines a world of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops.

Robert Townsend pens a soulful love letter to Black popular music in this film loosely inspired by Motown-era vocal groups. Following a fictional quintet from 1960s chart success through industry exploitation, infighting and addiction, the film delivers a clear-eyed critique of a business that profits from Black genius while denying Black ownership. Featuring a pop-history–rich script by Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans and a pitch-perfect ensemble performance, this story bridges generations of Black artistry and cinema as it beautifully reveals the spiritual power of brotherhood and Black music.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: Robert Townsend. Screenwriters: Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans. With: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, John Canada Terrell, Harold Nicholas, Diahann Carroll.

Harmony and Hustle: The Five Heartbeats

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

The Ogatas are an upper-class postwar Japanese family in which everyone has become trapped in a passionless marriage. The parents, Shingo and Yasuko, coexist without even pretending to love one another. Their daughter, Fusako, was married off against her will, and has since become estranged from her husband. Meanwhile, the marriage between the son, Shuichi, and his wife, Kikuko, begins to disintegrate. Instead of returning home, Shuichi opts to spend most of his evenings downing alcohol and, it is soon confirmed, seeing another woman. Shingo sets out in an effort to mend his son’s marriage, in an effort to save the happiness of his rueful daughter-in-law.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Shadow of the Vampire

Join us for the closing reception of In Every Flower The Face Of God, an exhibition of new mixed media work by Brian Merriam

In Every Flower the Face of God - Closing Reception & Zine Release

For the first time since its creation in 1979, *For Whose Entertainment *by renowned filmmaker, artist, and educator Ben Caldwell has its first public screening.

The film is a critique of Black comedians and their work, in which Caldwell asks who Black comedians are trying to appeal to and entertain most: Black audiences or white audiences? Through the use of appropriated footage and collage, the filmmaker deconstructs Blackness in entertainment in the 1960s and 1970s. *For Whose Entertainment* brings together important figures in Black film and scholarship, including documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne and cinema scholar Teshome Gabriel, to discuss issues around Black representation in film and television. Caldwell’s film oeuvre and life’s work is built around psychic healing for Black people, a self-mandate formed after serving as a soldier in the Vietnam War.

There will be a post-screening conversation with Ben Caldwell, film programmer Jheanelle Brown, and scholar and multimedia/film producer Robeson Taj Frazier.

LA Festival of Movies: With Hasan in Gaza

2:00 PM

LA Festival of Movies: After Dreaming

4:30 PM

LA Festival of Movies 2026

5:00 PM

LA Festival of Movies: In the Glow of Darkness

7:15 PM

LA Festival of Movies: Maddie's Secret

9:30 PM

The Housemaid

2:30 PM

Stray Dog (Nora inu) in 35mm

7:30 PM

Conan the Barbarian

9:30 PM

THE MAN I LOVE,

NORA PRENTISS,

7:00 PM

The Hearst Metrotone News Collection and the Spanish Civil War

7:30 PM

GAG! presents VIDEO3

7:00 PM

The Old Fashioned Way

Misbehaving Ladies

7:00 PM

Reservoir Dogs

11:59 PM

RRR

3:00 PM

The Moment

Lady Snowblood

7:00 PM

The Color of Money

7:00 PM

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

7:30 PM

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

9:45 PM

Super Mario Bros.

9:45 PM

The Drama

Phantom Killer/Blonde Comet

7:30 PM

Car Wash

11:59 PM