The Seven Year Itch

The George Stevens Lecture on Directing presents Giant in 4K

Vampires in 4K with Memoirs of an Invisible Man in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

William Friedkin directs one of the most horrifying movies ever made. When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl’s mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil–and that her daughter’s only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

THE EXORCIST

Aero Theatre

Selected by Sammy Harkham: &#8220;A movie to see if you love drugs or have a large collection of mad magazines or listen to 90s hard rock or jack off to Basil Wolverton drawings or jack off to Gumby jacking off or laugh at Will Elder’s chicken fat or rent movies if Screaming Mad George is in the credits or watch YouTube clips of old borscht belt comedians or only like Steve Johnson when he’s more coked out than usual or you think Randy Quaid is under appreciated or you just like watching kids falling out of airplanes, Freaked is for YOU.&#8221;

Freaked

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Riding the J-horror wave spawned by RINGU and AUDITION, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE is one of the key 2000s films from Japan that redefined horror’s cultural landscape. A social worker visits an elderly woman at her house. The woman appears deeply disturbed, but that’s nothing compared to the shapeless black void — also known as “Kayako” — that lurks in an upstairs hallway. Quiet, creepy, and with bursts of unexpected intensity, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE combines liminal spaces and creepypasta chills to rattle your skeleton. There’s nothing scarier than not knowing what’s scaring you.

Ju-on: The Grudge

Brain Dead Studios

Join us for a special screening of the 2025 documentary *Nova ’78*, that chronicles the 1978 Nova Convention centered on William S. Burroughs and New York’s downtown avant-garde. After the screening, artist Julia Heyward performs her electronic-vocal monologue from the now-legendary event. Heyward then joins director Aaron Brookner for a Q&A about the convention, the recovered archive, and bringing *Nova ’78* to the screen.

#### About the Film

Created from 44 rolls of recovered and newly discovered film footage shot by filmmaker Howard Brookner, *Nova ’78* plunges viewers into the legendary Nova Convention, a three-day gathering celebrating countercultural talisman William S. Burroughs. Organized by Sylvère Lotringer, James Grauerholz, and John Giorno, the 1978 convention gave form to something already in the air in downtown New York: the sense that the Beats’ anti-establishment experiments with language, performance, and media were a consequential inheritance of a younger avant-garde, including the emerging No Wave scene, who were confronting many of the same anxieties about humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.

That lineage comes vividly into view as Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg take the convention stage alongside Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Anne Waldman and others, capturing a moment when Beat culture, experimental performance, minimalist music, punk and No Wave were all brushing against one another.

*Nova ’78* also preserves the atmosphere of its tense era. Political upheaval, threats to civil liberties, environmental anxiety, and the specter of nuclear catastrophe surface throughout the film, giving urgency to the artists’ experiments with language, technology, performance, and mass media. Burroughs’s longstanding fascination with systems of communication and control resonates sharply with this unsettled late-1970s landscape, as a younger generation searches for new forms through which to respond.The film also features previously unseen footage of William S. Burroughs, filmed by Howard Brookner with a young Jim Jarmusch working as sound recordist, including material from a journey to Colorado.

Rather than explain that moment from a distance, directors Rodrigo Areias and Aaron Brookner—Howard Brookner’s nephew and steward of his archive—let the recovered footage unfold on its own terms, through shots of performances, conversations, audiences, and unexpected encounters. The result is a vivid portrait of an artistic community in motion, aware of its predecessors while already becoming a reference point for what came next.

#### About the Performance
For this special Getty presentation, artist Julia Heyward appears in person to perform her celebrated harmonizer-modified vocal monologue Keep Moving Buddy, debuted at the Nova Convention as part of a tuxedo-clad double act with Laurie Anderson. Heyward then joins director Aaron Brookner for a conversation.

Presented as part of Ever Present and in dialogue with the October 4 program [A Moveable Feast of No: No Wave Women with Adele Bertei][1], this event extends the series’ exploration of the histories, affinities, and artistic lineages surrounding No Wave.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/ever-present-moveable-feast-no-wave

Ever Present: NOVA ’78 — with Julia Heyward and Aaron Brookner

Getty Center

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles*

“I’ve had enough trouble with men without marrying any!” declares Clara Bow (whose own hectic love life was this film's inspiration) as she flees wannabe Paris grooms for the French Riviera where comic mayhem ensues amidst Art Deco sets. Unseen for decades due to rights issues and still unavailable on any platform, this super-rare pre-Code romp is “a rush of great fun, high spirits, and good humor from a bright ensemble cast, and particularly vivacious Bow” (Derek Winnert).

*Special thanks to David Stenn; and Margot Gerber, Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.*

Director: Frank Tuttle. Screenwriter: Henry Myers. With: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles.

Her Wedding Night

Hammer Museum

A screening of video art curated by American Motion Picture Company

[REDACTED] EMOTIONS: Video Screening

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below. After a naïve real estate agent succumbs to the will of Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), the two head to London where the vampire sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $7.65 at the box office! 95th Anniversary ‘Film by the Foot’

DRACULA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Decades before TOP GUN, there was WINGS, establishing atrial battle sequences that still rank among the best in motion picture history. Meticulously restored and featuring a dynamic soundtrack based on the original score, this timeless story of love and loss follows two men who go to war, and the girl they leave behind. The first Oscar winner for Best Picture, this grand spectacle from the early days of cinema features “It-girl” Clara Bow alongside Richard Arlen, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Gary Cooper in a legendary cameo appearance.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

WINGS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Polish with English subtitles.*

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an all-consuming search. Armed with self-built boats, drones and underwater cameras, he relentlessly scours the river’s depths. As months pass, while his own family struggles to live with the uncertainty of Chris’s disappearance, Daniel begins helping other families with missing loved ones find answers – and, at times, the closure that continues to elude him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: Poland/France

Q&A with filmmaker Michał Marczak Advance Screening

CLOSURE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Serbian with English subtitles.*

Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life with his wife Maria and six-year old son Petar in tumultuous Serbia, trying to make ends meet. A sudden call from his former colleague Layla will change everything. Aware of his financial problems, Layla introduces Milos to Vukmir – a mysterious, menacing and politically powerful figure in the pornographic business. A leading role in Vukmir’s production will provide financial support to Milos and his family for the rest of their lives. A contract insists on his absolute unawareness of a script they will shoot. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem devised by his employer, “the director” of his destiny. Vukmir and his cohorts will stop at nothing to complete his vision. In order to escape the living cinematic hell he’s put into, and save his family’s life, Milos will have to sacrifice everything – his pride, his morality, his sanity and maybe even his own life.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Unearthed Films

COUNTRY: Serbia

A SERBIAN FILM

Los Feliz Theatre

Aliens

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

From Dusk Till Dawn

New Beverly Cinema

Experience one of Australian horror’s great underknown classics —an eerie, dreamlike slow burn mystery that builds to an explosive finale!

NEXT OF KIN (1982)—A Slow Burn Pressure Cooker Ozploitation Horror Classic!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson

**Producers**: Stanley Kubrick, Robert Fryer

This Stephen King adaptation crawls with atmospheric dread from the opening scene to the closing credits, inhabiting a special place in the psyche of all those who have witnessed its bloody, psychotic mastery.  Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance, a down-on-his-luck writer who accepts a caretaker job at the historic Overlook Hotel. After packing up the wife and child, this family fraught with their own demons embarks on a journey of isolation, madness, and mystical mind games culminating in a terrifying fever dream. A quintessential horror from one of America&#8217;s greatest directors and one of our most popular novelists.

**Please Note**: The screening on October 23rd will be presented digitally, October 24th will be presented on 35mm film.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more Stephen King classics? These are some of our favorites!

*The Mist, Dolores Claiborne, Carrie*

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

The Shining

**Producers**: Alison Byrne Fields,  Josh Penn

With director **Sam Green** in conversation with **Dominic Willsdon**, Executive Director of IDA after the October 22nd screening!

Join us in the microcinema for an-all-too-human triumph of documentary filmmaking, Sam Greene&#8217;s profound and entertaining affirmation of life, The* Oldest Person in the World.  *Green creates a decade-long odyssey chronicling the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. As the title inevitably passes from one supercentenarian to the next, acclaimed filmmaker Sam Green traverses the globe to meet each new record holder, his personal fascination with what the title means becoming entangled with events and milestones in his own life. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.

The Oldest Person in the World

**Screenwriter**: Wes Craven

**Producer**: Robert Shaye

*One, two&#8230; Freddy&#8217;s coming for you!* The teenagers on Elm Street are having a hard time sleeping &#8211; some creep with knives for fingers keeps terrorizing them in their dreams. When her friends begin to die off one by one, Nancy Thompson has got to find a way to track the madman in her own nightmares in order to stop him once and for all in the waking world. Wes Craven&#8217;s original nightmare and the start of a monstrous 20-year franchise, this first installment of Freddy remains the most terrifying of the series and is considered one of the best horror movies of all time. So, get your hall pass and head down to the boiler room, because the man of your dreams is waiting for you!

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

A Nightmare on Elm Street

**Screenwriters**: Yeon Sang-ho,  Choe Gyu-seok

**Producers**: Hailey Yoomin Yang,  Sung Joon-ho

Our microcinema is going to the undead with horror master Yeon Sang-ho&#8217;s (*Train to Busan*) new Korean zombie thriller starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan. Professor Se-jeong (Jun) is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations. With new and fascinating ideas that bring the zombie genre into brilliant new territory of collective consciousness and mold networks, and the kind of action and pathos Yeon Sang-ho is best at, this is a no brainer for any horrorphile!

Colony

**Screenwriter**: Matthew Robbins, Guillermo del Toro

**Producers**: Ole Bornedal,  B.J. Rack

Don&#8217;t bug out &#8211; we&#8217;ve got the creature feature your Friday night has been missing &#8211; a Guillermo del Toro giant mutant cockroach movie starring Mira Sorvino and international superstar Giancarlo Giannini! After wiping out a massive population of disease-carrying cockroaches in Manhattan with a genetically engineered mutant cockroach breed, scientists discover they&#8217;ve created something much more deadly &#8211; an enormous breed of bug that can mimic the human form. If you&#8217;ve been waiting for the time to watch Oscar winners battle giant bugs on our big screen, your wait is over!

**Picks from the Video Store**

October&#8217;s a great month to visit our Del Toro director&#8217;s section for all your favorite Gothic gems on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K!

*Crimson Peak, Hellboy, Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth*

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

Mimic

**Screenwriter**: John Wilson

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

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

The History of Concrete

Vidiots

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

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

The Frighteners

Creepshow

Vista Theatre

## Gold Standard Productions presents a Halloween season screening of their debut feature horror film BLOOD BARN, released this year as a Screambox Exclusive. Cast and creators in person!

In the summer of 85', Josie, a camp counselor, gathers her six closest friends for a final weekend at her family's secluded barn before they part ways for college. As buried secrets from her family's past emerge, a malevolent spirit begins to possess each counselor, hell-bent on vengeance. Josie must confront her family's dark history to stop the bloodshed before sunrise, or become the next victim of the Blood Barn.

**dir. Gabriel Bernini, 2025**
*United States, digital projection*
74 min

**FRIDAY, 10/23 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

Filmmakers in person!

## $10 general admission.

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

BLOOD BARN (2025) w/ filmmakers in person!

WHAMMY!

LA Filmforum: The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

2220 Arts + Archives

Hotel Transylvania

Blade in 4K

Horror of Dracula in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

Films coming soon.

21st Annual Horrorthon Hosted by Corn Gorn, the Living God!

21st Annual Horrorthon

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

Monster House

“We are the freaks.” Black lipstick, Wicca, and Catholic school angst — THE CRAFT is CARRIE by way of CLUELESS. When troubled teen Sarah (Robin Tunney, EMPIRE RECORDS) transfers to a new high school in LA, she is quickly befriended by a trio rumored to be witches — Bonnie (Neve Campbell, SCREAM), Rochelle (Rachel True, NOWHERE), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk, AMERICAN HISTORY X). It is not long before the spells and curses cast by the budding coven take on a life of their own. Less content to rest on hijinks and popularity contests than its contemporaries, the script by FLATLINERS scribe, Peter Filardi, crafts a broody atmosphere as thick as its protagonist’s eyeliner and continues to resonate with girl gangs and misfits who’ve long outgrown the braces and rosary combo. Co-starring Skeet Ulrich (SCREAM) and Breckin Meyer (ROADTRIP).  **Screening in 35mm! **

The Craft

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are bitter rivals in an all out bitch-fest war. The elixir of youth won&#8217;t stand in either of their ways to beat each other, and Bruce Willis gets dragged along as a poor schmuck witness to it all, to boot.

Death Becomes Her

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Rosemary’s Baby

60 years after its first screening in Algiers, *The Battle of Algiers* has lost none of its political punch. Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. In France, however, it remained effectively banned for years. Its extraordinary political afterlife has been equally paradoxical: a film embraced by anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the world has also been studied by military and counterinsurgency strategists, including at the Pentagon during the Iraq War.

Starring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot entirely on location in Algiers in a strikingly realist, quasi-documentary style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs the pivotal 1957 Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Beginning with French paratroopers closing in on FLN militant Ali La Pointe, the film moves backward to trace his politicization and the escalating confrontation between the National Liberation Front and the French colonial state. Yet *The Battle of Algiers* is less the story of an individual revolutionary than of a people becoming a political subject.

Made shortly before the manifestos that would theorize “Third Cinema,” the film became one of its enduring touchstones: cinema conceived not simply as representation but as intervention. Its unsettling treatment of colonialism, revolutionary violence, torture and collective resistance continues to raise urgent questions about political violence, national liberation and the unfinished work of decolonization.

*Note written by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana.*

DCP. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Screenwriters: Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas. With: Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Yacef Saâdi.

The Battle of Algiers — 60th Anniversary

An animation screening hosted by Loose Frames featuring animations summited by the community

Loose Frames Rattled Fabrications: Animated Shorts Screening (10/24)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy sing and dance to the music of Cole Porter in this musical spectacular about the problems that arise when the wrong partner of a ballroom dance team lands a starring role on the Great White Way in BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940.

In a case of mistaken identity, King Shaw (Murphy) is cast to star on Broadway—resulting an inflated ego for Shaw and a big headache for the theatrical company. Rather than stand in his way, King’s much-more talented partner, Johnny Brett (Astaire), coaches Shaw for his starring role. But when King arrives late and drunk on opening night, the true star goes on stage–and triumphs.

Featuring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in a six-minute tap dance finale to Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine.”

FORMAT: Digital

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Fantasy, magic and fun are all brewed together in this legendary adventure. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron’s power will be invincible. The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team including the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron’s evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE BLACK CAULDRON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Venus on the Half-Shell,” 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 5 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*
Featuring Bona Tibertelli De Pisis’s excellent erotic graphic works – wife of writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont’s writings.

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

FORMAT: DCP

**THE BEAST, 1975, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 108 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Walerian Borowczyk’s most notorious film wildly re-works BEAUTY AND THE BEAST into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of “good taste.” Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, THE BEAST (aka LA BÊTE) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.

FORMAT: DCP

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

"Venus on the Half-Shell" / THE BEAST

The Cat and the Canary

Maniac Cop 2

1920 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • Introduction by Film Historian Randy Haberkamp • This is one of the cornerstones of horror and one of the most striking example of German Expressionism. If you’re interested in film history, this film is essential. It's eerie fun. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1982 • Introduced by "Horror Nerd" comedian Samantha Hale • A comfortable suburban home, a close-knit family, and then absolute supernatural mayhem: Poltergeist knows exactly how to hook an audience. Once the little girl says “They’re here,” the film keeps building in scale and intensity without losing its human center. Nominated for three Academy Awards. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Poltergeist

Old Town Music Hall

Director Linus O’Brien in person, presenting the electrifying doc on his father’s delicious, definitive cult classic creation—ROCKY HORROR!

STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR! + Q&A w/ Dir. Linus O'Brien!

**Screenwriters**: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel

**Producer**: Michelle Murdocca

Pack a bag, grab the family, and head to Vidiots for the vacation of your deathtime! Welcome to *Hotel Transylvania*, Dracula&#8217;s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis&#8217;s 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything! Bring your little monster-lovers for this super fun monster mash!

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

**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/ Producer**: James Bond III

One of the best films to be released on Troma&#8217;s label, James Bond III&#8217;s *Def by Temptation* is a smart, slick, and stylish tale of faith, temptation, and demons! Joel grew up in the church but has recently started questioning his beliefs. After sensing a supernatural presence from his deceased father, Joel becomes compelled to visit his cousin in New York. But shortly after arriving, they become embroiled in a series of mysterious homicides of local men, all of whom were last seen in the company of a mysterious and beautiful woman. Beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson and starring Kadeem Hardison and Samuel L. Jackson, this sole directorial effort from child actor James Bond III is a macabre, neon-tinged portrait of late 1980s Brooklyn. The movie blends supernatural horror and religious mysticism, punctuated by an electrifying hip hop and R&B soundtrack. Newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more bangers from Troma? Check out their section in Cult for more weird bloody fun!

*Bloodsucking Freaks, Christmas Evil, Touch me in the Morning*

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

Def by Temptation

Rodan

V/H/S/Mixtape

## A Punk Rock Blade Runner for Artists!!!

***Numbskull Revolution*** took nine long years to complete and witnessed the end of the 29-year marriage and creative partnership of Moritsugu and Davis. This grand finale is their most epic and fully-realized motion picture. Ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, it is - at its most base level - a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism.

***Numbskull Revolution*** premiered at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in February 2026 and has since screened - traveling roadshow style - at kick-ass theaters, cool high art repositories, and punk rock clubhouses in 25 cities in the USA, Australia, and Canada. It will be premiering soon in Europe and South America. **NO FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS! NO LEGIT DISTRIBUTION!**

"Amy Davis and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension."

- Paul Malcolm: Senior Public Programmer, UCLA Film & Television Archive/Hammer Museum

**dir. Jon Moritsugu, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
95 min

**SATURDAY, 10/24 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

Followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Jon Moritsugu!

## $10 general admission.

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********Jon Moritsugu** (*Mod Fuck Explosion, Fame Whore,* *Terminal USA, Scumrock)*, “The Godfather of Punk Cinema,” has returned from the near-dead with ******Numbskull Revolution******, his eighth feature! This collaboration with his now ex-wife, Amy Davis, marks the **OFFICIAL COMEBACK** for this Grammy-nominated Oscar Contender, who is arguably the world’s most uncompromising and extreme movie director. Numbskull Revolution, shot in 2017 in Santa Fe and Marfa, stars James Duval (“Frank the Bunny” from ***Donnie Darko***) and Amy Davis (as twin sisters).

## IG: @jon.moritsugu

## www.jonmoritsugu.com

*****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.***

NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2026) + Zoom Q&A w/ dir. Jon Moritsugu!

Bus Stop

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

The Last Princess (덕혜옹주)

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

Carol

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

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

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: UK/USA

Cinematic Void Presents EUREKA

**Screenwriters**: Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson

**Producers:** Barry Mendel, Paul Schiff

Vidiots is heading back to school with Wes Anderson&#8217;s beloved offbeat comedy and the cult of Max Fischer. Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is an overachieving teen and the star of his prestigious prep school (at least in his own mind). When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, Max quickly falls in love with her. After turning to the father of two of his schoolmates (Bill Murray) for advice on how to woo the teacher, his fury and ingenuity is unleashed when the father begins to woo her for himself. Featuring one of the great cinematic wars of petty ridiculousness, there&#8217;s never a bad time to watch Rushmore with your friends, or enemies!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more quirky coming of age classics tonight on DVD and Blu-Ray!

*Election, Submarine, The Slums of Beverly Hills*

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

Rushmore

Seven (Original 35mm Silver Retention Print)

On the seventh and a half floor of a nondescript office lies a door which invites curious travelers to do the impossible: see the world through the eyes of actor John Malkovich — for 15 minutes — before spitting them out on the New Jersey turnpike. But when a struggling puppeteer (John Cusack), his pet enthusiast wife (Cameron Diaz), and his office crush (Catherine Keener) begin to impose, their control over the life of the real Malkovich begins to turn the thespian into a bona fide head case. Starring the man himself, John Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich.

Being John Malkovich

From director and writer Marie Kreutzer (Corsage, Austria’s entry for the 95th Academy Awards), Gentle Monster tells the story of concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux), who has just relocated her family to a country house hoping to ease her husband Philip’s (Laurence Rupp) severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears their life apart. Trapped between the man she loves and the fear of what he may have done, Lucy must face the situation alone as her world unravels. With a cast that includes Jella Haase alongside the legendary, Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, Gentle Monster asks what we do when someone we love turns out to be someone we never really knew.

Gentle Monster

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

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

MY BROTHER'S KILLER

**Screenwriter**: Ross McElwee

**Producers**: Mark Meatto,  Ross McElwee

With a special introduction from non-fiction filmmaking legend **Ross McElwee** before both screenings!

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

Remake

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

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

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

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

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

DÉSIR

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

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

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 1

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

Les fantômes du hard Chapter 2

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

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

## $10 general admission.

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

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

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

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

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

Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) in 4K

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Oldboy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WG Pictures
COUNTRY: USA

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

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR

**Screenwriter**: Ajon Singh

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

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

Primetime

Viva Ingrid! with Journey to Italy presented by Isabella Rossellini

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

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

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

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

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

**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.

I Want Your Sex

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Blue Harbor Entertainment and Variance Films

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Giselle Bonilla and writer and producer Alex Heller ‘PROOF Film Festival 2026’ PROOF All-Access Badge holders get free access to this event! Not a badge holder? Check out badges for purchase here!

THE MUSICAL

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Cyprus/North Macedonia/United States

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MOTHERWITCH

**Screenwriter**: J. Davis

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

With cast and/or crew at every screening!

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

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

**Writer/ Producer**: Wong Kar-wai

Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of *Chungking Express *only to spin off on its own woozy axis, *Fallen Angels* plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man (Leon Lai Ming) looking to go straight; his business partner (Michelle Reis), who secretly yearns for him; and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more lush longing from Wong Kar-wai on Blu-Ray and DVD

*2046, In the Mood for Lover, Happy Together*

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

Fallen Angels

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

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

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

**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.

Obsession

These Long Shadows + Natchez

Now Instant Image Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## $12 general admission.

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

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

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

The Haunted Mansion

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (Rossellini visto da Rossellini)

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

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham&#8217;s criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

It’s a love story *“about a guy with seven sisters; with four blonde crazy brothers coming after him; about getting in tune and finding your music.” (Paul Thomas Anderson)* Intended as a small movie between epics MAGNOLIA and THERE WILL BE BLOOD, the big feelings contained in this little picture belie its original intent. Turning in the first “best performance of his career,” Adam Sandler is a maladapted man who copes with his loneliness by calling phone sex lines, ultimately leading to extortion, before meeting and falling in love with Lena (Emily Watson) and embarking on a wild plot to amass a million frequent-flyer miles by exploiting a pudding promo loophole. An absurdist romance, a dizzying, manic blur, deliberately disjointed… something a lot, like, love. Co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, and featuring a fittingly batty score by Jon Brion.  

**Screening in 35mm! **

Punch-Drunk Love

Two out-of-work actors &#8212; the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail &#8212; spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday &#8220;by mistake&#8221; at the country house of Withnail&#8217;s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Withnail & I

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Hardcore

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

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

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

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

Babette’s Feast

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

*In French with English subtitles.*

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

*In French with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

"A Private Collection" / IMMORAL TALES

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

The Little Mermaid

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

Citizen Kane

Commemorating 10 years since Cohen's passing w/ the U.S. theatrical premiere of long lost 1972 concert footage & rare childhood home movies

LEONARD COHEN: THE 'BIRD ON A WIRE' CONCERTS + Home Movies — U.S. Premiere!

**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 (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriter**: Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck

**Producer**: Darryl F Zanuck

**Vidiots** and the **Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society** are celebrating **100 Years of Route 66** with a special screening of John Ford&#8217;s classic Steinbeck adaptation *The Grapes of Wrath*.

We follow the Joad family, led by eldest son, Tom Joad (played by Henry Fonda) and matriarch, Ma Joad (played by Jane Darwell, who won an Academy Award for her performance) as they make the arduous journey from Oklahoma to California, seeking greater opportunities during the Great Depression. Along the way, they face discrimination, police brutality, and the trickle-down effects of corporate greed, ultimately leading Ma and Tom towards a new understanding of the American dream and workers&#8217; rights. This anticapitalist masterpiece is one of the most celebrated literary adaptations of the 20th century &#8211; don’t miss it!

The [**Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society**](http://www.eaglerockhistory.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing the history of the Eagle Rock Valley and its local landmarks. Established in 1961, the society protects a rich archive of historical images, regional stories, and old local newspapers to ensure the area&#8217;s heritage remains accessible to researchers, students, and residents.

**Historic Route 66** is more than just a paved highway—it represents a vital part of the American experience through its association with migration, commerce, and recreation. As one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System, it was officially established on November 11, 1926. The highway, which became one of the most iconic roadways in the country, stretches from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.

Route 66 served as a critical path for many migrating West, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the local economies of the communities it passed through, and in the 1950s, became a popular route for vacationers heading to the West Coast. It was also a major artery for transcontinental commerce. As businesses along the route flourished, communities rallied to preserve its legacy when it began to be bypassed by the growing Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eagle Rock’s celebration of Route 66 begins on October 19, 2026, with on Presentation by the Historical Society on Route 66 in Eagle Rock.  The celebration continues on  the second weekend of November 2026, with a community festival  hosted by the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce featuring  live music, food, a vintage car show, and a film festival presented by Vidiots Foundation.

The Grapes of Wrath

**Screenwriters**: Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol

**Producers**: Richard Abramson, Robert Shapiro, Paul Reubens

**Vidiots** and the **Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society** are celebrating **100 Years of Route 66** with a special screening of ***Pee-Wee&#8217;s Big Adventure***!

Hop on your bike and get ready for the most joyously wacky road trip of all time! For forty years, we&#8217;ve joined Pee-wee on his cross-country quest for his stolen bike. We&#8217;ve danced to &#8220;Tequila,&#8221; hitched a ride with Large Marge, and discovered that — **gasp* — *the Alamo has no basement. It&#8217;s a trip that some of us have taken countless times, but it never fails to delight with its perfect mix of imagination and glee, tempered with just the right amount of off-kilter, alt-comedy edge.

The [**Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society**](http://www.eaglerockhistory.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing the history of the Eagle Rock Valley and its local landmarks. Established in 1961, the society protects a rich archive of historical images, regional stories, and old local newspapers to ensure the area&#8217;s heritage remains accessible to researchers, students, and residents.

**Historic Route 66** is more than just a paved highway—it represents a vital part of the American experience through its association with migration, commerce, and recreation. As one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System, it was officially established on November 11, 1926. The highway, which became one of the most iconic roadways in the country, stretches from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.

Route 66 served as a critical path for many migrating West, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the local economies of the communities it passed through, and in the 1950s, became a popular route for vacationers heading to the West Coast. It was also a major artery for transcontinental commerce. As businesses along the route flourished, communities rallied to preserve its legacy when it began to be bypassed by the growing Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eagle Rock’s celebration of Route 66 begins on October 19, 2026, with on Presentation by the Historical Society on Route 66 in Eagle Rock.  The celebration continues on  the second weekend of November 2026, with a community festival  hosted by the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce featuring  live music, food, a vintage car show, and a film festival presented by Vidiots Foundation.

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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

**Screenwriter**: Alex Cox

**Producers**: Peter McCarthy, Jonathan Wacks

A down-and-out young punk (Emilio Estevez) gets a job working with a seasoned repo man (Harry Dean Stanton), but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted &#8217;64 Chevy. Musically adorned with a killer punk soundtrack, this offbeat and absurd slice of 80s East LA is one ride you won&#8217;t forget.

**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*

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Repo Man

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.

The Seven Year Itch

2:30 PM

The George Stevens Lecture on Directing presents Giant in 4K

7:00 PM

Vampires

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

7:30 PM

THE EXORCIST

7:30 PM

Freaked

6:00 PM

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

8:00 PM

Ju-on: The Grudge

10:15 PM

Ever Present: NOVA ’78 — with Julia Heyward and Aaron Brookner

7:00 PM

Her Wedding Night

7:30 PM

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8:00 PM

DRACULA

1:00 PM

WINGS

4:00 PM

CLOSURE

7:00 PM

A SERBIAN FILM

10:00 PM

Aliens

2:00 PM

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

7:30 PM

From Dusk Till Dawn

11:59 PM

NEXT OF KIN (1982)—A Slow Burn Pressure Cooker Ozploitation Horror Classic!

7:30 PM

The Shining

3:30 PM

The Oldest Person in the World

4:30 PM

A Nightmare on Elm Street

7:00 PM

Colony

7:20 PM

Mimic

9:45 PM

The History of Concrete

10:15 PM

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

3:00 PM

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

7:00 PM

The Frighteners

8:00 PM

Creepshow

11:30 PM

Blood Barn

8:00 PM