Pan's Labyrinth in 3D with Guillermo del Toro

Academy Museum

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

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

PATHETIC FALLACY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

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

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

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

THE SWALLOW

Aero Theatre

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

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

CHAT PILE presents TEEN WITCH

Brain Dead Studios

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

In Mandarin with English subtitles.

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

FORMAT: DCP

SATURDAY AFTERNOON KUNG-FU THEATRE

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

Stephen King's IT

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

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

ERIE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Japan

KINKI

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

Los Feliz Theatre

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

New Beverly Cinema

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


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

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

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.




Glow Big Youth Open Mic

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

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

Sliding scale $5-15, no one turned away for lack of funds

8pm




North Star Sessions

Scribble

**Screenwriter**: Michael De Luca

**Producer**: Sandy King

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

In the Mouth of Madness

Vidiots

Resident Evil 35mm

Appofeniacs

Häxan

Vista Theatre

River of No Return

Hunt for the Wilderpeople with Taika Waititi

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Before STRANGER THINGS combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with DONNIE DARKO. Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium. Described by its director as “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE as told by Philip K. Dick,” DONNIE DARKO stars Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross and Noah Wyle.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Lakeshore

COUNTRY: USA

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Richard Kelly, actor James Duval and special guests 25th Anniversary

DONNIE DARKO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is due for resurrection. And one young director is more than up to the task. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear and delirium.

FORMAT: VHS

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: USA/Canada

Beyond Fest 2026 World Premiere of VHS Edition

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA on VHS

Oklahoma Sludge Metal Legends CHAT PILE currate a handful of films at Brain Dead Studios with the band inperson for an intro and meet and greet. Don&#8217;t miss TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990):

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

CHAT PILE presents TO SLEEP WITH ANGER

Oklahoma Sludge Metal Legends CHAT PILE currate a handful of films at Brain Dead Studios with the band inperson for an intro and meet and greet prior to the film. Don&#8217;t miss BABY BOY (2001):

The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can&#8217;t seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.

CHAT PILE presents BABY BOY

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*In Spanish with English subtitles.*

An Academy Award–winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, PAN’S LABYRINTH encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro. Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi López), a sadistic captain in General Francisco Franco’s army, hunts down Republican guerrillas refusing to give up the fight. The violent reality in which Ofelia lives merges seamlessly with her fantastical interior world when she meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child’s imagination and threatening the innocence of youth.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Cineverse

COUNTRY: Spain/Mexico

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro North American Premiere of 4K Restoration 20th Anniversary

PAN'S LABYRINTH

Directors Village

What is AIDS, now? 
Or is it which AIDS? 
What is the now of AIDS and art? 
Or is it the why of art & AIDS? 
Which AIDS. Why art. Now. 
Ask it again. It won’t hold still.Artist and AIDS activist **Julie Tolentino** and artist and trans theorist **Eva Hayward** ask these questions — through art, through writing, through an open conversation about the unquestionable. Opening with artworks and readings from both Tolentino and Hayward, they tangle with the invitation to share image and language side by side. Hate (erotic) and void (deselection) are some of their keywords. To further decipher these terms, the artists reflect on their own responses to invitations surrounding AIDS and aesthetics, including terms such as ruination and archive. 

Hosted by ICA LA and as a conclusion to the inaugural year of the [Artist-in-Residence](https://www.theicala.org/en/residencies/air) (AIR) Program, this evening will be introduced and engaged by UCLA English professor and Performance Studies scholar, **Summer Kim Lee**.

Know AIDS Now

ICA LA

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When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.
Sean Hogan continues his hypnotizing exploration of the uncanny, after scaring us witless with TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST with this hybrid documentary fiction film that takes genre tropes and turns them upside down to craft something unique and singular. As a filmmaker who understands the nuance of a fright impeccably well, Hogan here delves deep into the modern world, exploring what happens when the malevolent ancient entities encounter digital highways. Full of emotion and unease powerful enough to fuel an entire cinema, THE DARK GETS IN is exceptional storytelling designed to make you sleep with the lights on.

FOMRAT: DCP

COUNTRY: UK

Beyond Fest 2026 Q&A with filmmaker Sean Hogan World Premiere

THE DARK GETS IN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A Deaf backpacker finds himself hunted by something not human in the depths of the Black Forest, with all his friends already dead. His escape will lead him to a cabin with a farmer who speaks no English. Now the men must decide if each is a threat or a help and also contend with the thing beyond the door, which will stop at nothing to destroy them.
Britt Falardeau’s exquisite debut is a real display of filmmaking skill and verve – eschewing any spoken dialogue for different modes of visual storytelling and conjuring an environment of dread and wonder, she is paired with two extraordinary actors – Harold Foxx and Daniel Novick – who both deliver exceptional performances. Beyond just an exercise in horror, HINTER is a truly sublime piece of cinema that also displays an extraordinary heart.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

HINTER

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

From Dusk Till Dawn

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

**Producers**: James Cameron

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

*Stay Hungry, Pumping Iron, Kindergarten Cop*

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

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

**Screenwriter**: Rafael Manuel

**Producers**: Jeremy Chua,  Alex Polunin,  Bianca Balbuena,  Bradley Liew,  Nadia Turincev, Omar El Kadi,  Rafael Manuel

Join us in the microcinema for one of the best films of the year and a masterwork of international cinema &#8211; Rafael Manuel&#8217;s phenomenally composed deadpan social satire *Filipiñana*. With jaw-dropping shot composition, immaculate color coding, a biting and satiric wit, and a slow deliberateness that builds to a shocking ending, this is a dazzler on another level with class consciousness to boot. If Ruben Ostlund and Wes Anderson had a Filipino baby, it still wouldn&#8217;t be as good as *Filipiñana*! Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see this stunner on a big screen!

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the verdant horizon. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds sampling its luxuries as members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the club president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the club’s doting and subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca (Teroy Guzman). The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

Filipiñana

**Screenwriter**: Stephen King

**Producer**: Richard P. Rubinstein

Horror titans Stephen King and George Romero team up for the ultimate 80s horror anthology just in time to give you the creeps for the whole month of October! Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate&#8217;s occupant, and a plague of cockroaches. With a dynamo cast, fabulous practical effects, chills, laughs, *and* Stephen King in his most *viral* acting role, there&#8217;s a reason *Creepshow* has remained a Halloween staple for nearly 45 years!

**Picks from the Video Store**

George Romero is best remembered for his zombies, but try out these other horror bangers from his director&#8217;s section!

*Knightriders, Martin, Season of the Witch*

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

Creepshow

**Producers**: Claire Edelman,  Brydie O&#8217;Connor,  Elijah Stevens

Join us in the microcinema to rediscover the immense legacy of groundbreaking lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer through Brydie O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s phenomenal and award-winning portrait, *Barbara Forever!*

*Barbara Forever* explores the films, archive, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories, personal and societal. Through her own images and words, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosystems around her – through the feminist and queer movements in 1970s San Francisco, the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s, the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and culture in the 2000s. 

Driven by her canon of over eighty films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials – hundreds of hours of footage, personal photographs and ephemera, and extensive audio interviews – *Barbara Forever* tells Barbara Hammer’s story through her own voice and visual perspective, making her the expert on her life, vision, and motivations. 

Barbara Hammer’s films break taboos around female sexuality, aging, illness, and queer love, often using her own body as a site of exploration and political power. Through the course of the film, she shows us that the personal is not only political, the personal is historical. Looking to Barbara Hammer as one of the first filmmakers to put a full lesbian life on screen that wasn’t there before, her work becomes a blueprint for a new generation of queer and radical artists to write their own histories into existence. This exploration of both Barbara Hammer’s life, work, archive, and her ongoing legacy provides an urgent, necessary story of queer life, feminist history, and American cinema.

Barbara Forever

**Screenwriter:** Yeon Sang-ho

**Producer:** Lee Dong-ha

One of the most well-rounded of all zombie flicks, *Train to Busan* is a genre-bending high-octane undead thrill ride with a supersized heart, realistic characters, and a delicious spread of social commentary. When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival. This tasty treat is screening one night only, so get your fill while you can!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more obscure Korean Horror today on glorious physical media from our Asian Horror section!

*A Tale of Two Sisters, Phone, R-Point*

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

Train to Busan

**Screenwriter**: Walter Thompson-Hernández

**Producers**: Josh Peters,  Saba Zerehi,  Ben Stillman

Join us in the microcinema for Walter Thompson-Hernández&#8217;s breathtaking father-son story about imagination, family, and the grace we extend to the people we love. In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should &#8212; full of myth, wonder, and unwavering belief.

If I Go Will They Miss Me

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother 35mm

Curse of the Demon

Night of the Juggler

## L.A. premiere - cast & crew in attendance!

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Garchaster's Cornblade is about a girl living on a star planet who smokes VHS as a drug... she goes to Earth to be in Donald Farmer's movie so she can get inside a VHS tape to smoke herself. On the star planet, everyone uses recycled earth trash to turn their homes into carnivals...the rest is a bit complicated.

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Featuring a slew of cameos from the world of underground film, including David “The Rock” Nelson, Dylan Mars Greenberg, & Doug “DJ Douggpound” Lussenhop.

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**dir. Kasper Meltedhair, 2026***United States, digital projection*109 min

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## FRIDAY, 10/27:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

## Cast & crew in attendance!

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## $12 general admission.

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

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**‍***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.***

GARCHASTER'S CORNBLADE (2026) L.A. Premiere! pres. by Bloodsick Productions

WHAMMY!

Aliens in 70mm

Prince of Darkness in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Icelandic and English with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Documentary Films

COUNTRY: Iceland/USA

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

TIME AND WATER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

LEGEND

**Directed by Peter Watkins**

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

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

Sunday, October 11

1:00 PM
Brain Dead Studios

611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

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

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

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

*— Film at Lincoln Center*

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

*— Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader*

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

*— The New York Times*

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

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

Mezzanine presents: Edvard Munch

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

Onibaba

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

28 Days Later

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

Getty Supper Club: The Literary Gourmet

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

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

Sky Hopinka Presents ORPHEUS

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

Short Films from Sky Hopinka

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Canada/Hungary

BLUE HERON

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: WILLA

COUNTRY: USA

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

TAKE ME HOME

The Dark Crystal

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

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

Hocus Pocus

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

Dracula

Old Town Music Hall

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

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

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Tab Murphy

**Producer**: Igor Khait

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more adorable bears from our All Ages section!

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

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

Brother Bear

**Screenwriters**: Ivete Lucas,  Leah Marino

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

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

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

First They Came for My College

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

**Producer**: Ray Stark

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

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Tim Curry treasures on glorious physical media!

*The Worst Witch, Legend, Muppet Treasure Island*

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

Annie

**Screenwriter**: Melody C. Roscher

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

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

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

- Saturday, October 10 with Melody C. Roscher

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

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

Bird in Hand

**Screenwriters**: Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner

**Producers**: Christian Halsey Solomon, Chris Hanley, Edward R. Pressman

*I have to return some videotapes*&#8230; Patrick Bateman is your average 1980s Wall Street executive, from his expensive designer suits, to his dinner reservations, to his business card, to his well-educated beautiful fiance, all up to the penchant for mergers and acquisitions, or is it murders and executions? Adapted from Bret Easton Ellis&#8217; notorious novel, *American Psycho* continues to make you laugh and shriek in equal measures as it steers you through the disquieting mind as it unravels into madness. So turn up the Huey Lewis, don your Armani dinner jacket, and get ready to have a *psycho* good time!

American Psycho

**Screenwriter**: John Wilson

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

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

The History of Concrete

The Birds

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

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

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

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**dir. Sarah Minter, 1991***Mexico, digital projection*56 min

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Special thanks to Emiliano Rocha Minter & Steve Macfarlane.

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

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In German with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Germany

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

BERLIN HERO

The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him. 

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

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

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

Notorious

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

Days of Heaven

Double Feature Presentation!

 

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

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

 

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

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



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

Splendor in the Grass + Still Walking

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Vinegar Syndrome

COUNTRY: USA

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

Cinematic Void Presents DEMONWARP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

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

LADY IN THE WATER

The Town That Dreaded Sundown / The Evictors

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

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## L'Homme sur les quais (The Man by the Shore)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come witness that answer in theaters.

Elephant Gym: More Real Than Dreams

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

The Deer Hunter

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Chinuk Wawa with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Grasshopper Film

COUNTRY: USA

MAŁ̣NI - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE

Who Killed Teddy Bear? / In the Cut

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

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

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

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

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

THIS IS CRAZY! NAMI BENEFIT PERFORMANCE & AFTERPARTY DINNER

The Wallis

**Screenwriters**: Dave Franco, Joe Swanberg

**Producers**: Dave Franco,  Elizabeth Haggard,  Teddy Schwarzman,  Ben Stillman, Christopher Storer,  Joe Swanberg

Vidiots is dying to welcome writer/director **Dave Franco** and special guests for a long overdue theatrical screening of his sinister thriller ***The Rental***.

Before they grossed out America with their unique blend of romance and body horror in *Together*, husband and wife horrorphiles Dave Franco and Alison Brie brought us this taught and terrifying shocker. Released in the unfortunate year of 2020, this creepfest of a chamber piece was denied a theatrical release all together, so we&#8217;re giving you your first chance to see it big and loud! Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White and Sheila Vand star in this unnerving and sophisticated debut thriller from Dave Franco. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see this killer good time on a big screen with a crowd for the first time!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a getaway horror? Try out these deep (woods) cuts on DVD and Blu-Ray

*Let&#8217;s Scare Jessica to Death, Dead and Buried, Messiah of Evil*

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

The Rental

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, BIRD IN HAND follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometown to plan the wedding with her narcissistic hippie mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti). Bird also has a hidden agenda, one that leads her to her mother’s new neighbors, a misguided couple on a mission to ‘rebrand’ a plantation. Truth, lies and fantasy collide against that backdrop, leading to a surprising climax as tender as it is funny.

Roscher’s bitingly comic feature film debut weaves themes of race, belonging and family into Bird’s mercurial journey back to herself. James LeGros, Jeffrey Nordling and Annabelle Dexter-Jones co-star.

A Future of Film is Female release.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Future of Film is Female

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and screenwriter Melody C. Roscher and actors Alisha Wainright, Christine Lahti and Jeffrey Nordling. Moderated by Miriam Bale. ‘Women Wednesday’

BIRD IN HAND

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus – blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody. An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of CURE and TOKYO SONATA.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Film Movement

COUNTRY: Japan

‘You Can’t Stream That on Television’

BUMPKIN SOUP

El Cine presents Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña's nightmarish, surrealist fairy tale evoking the nation's traumatic past

THE WOLF HOUSE (La Casa Lobo) presented by El Cine

**Screenwriter**: Bernard Rose from a story by Clive Barker

**Producers**: Steve Golin, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Alan Poul

*Sweets for the sweet*&#8230;Undisputedly one of the best horror films of the 1990s (and arguably of all time), this creepy classic will still chill you to the bone. Let the hypnotic Philip Glass score draw you into a haunting and menacing nightmare about gentrification and systemic racism, perfectly helmed by Tony Todd&#8217;s iconic performance. Helen (Virginia Madsen) is a grad student on the hunt for the definitive scoop of a local urban legend for her thesis project. What she finds is a monster that preys on the projects and seduces her into his antebellum mythology. A pitch-perfect masterpiece of horror, say his name five times and join us for terror in Cabrini Green!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We miss Tony Todd! Take home more menacing delights from his killer career!

*Final Destination(s), The Rock, The Crow*

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

Candyman

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K. 

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

Preview Screening New 4K Restoration of Director’s Cut

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

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

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 9/17) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Jessica goes to the Connecticut countryside for some rest following her release from an institution where she has just recovered from a nervous breakdown. She arrives with her husband and friend, but the three find little relaxation. Instead, they become entangled in a creepy tale of the supernatural which involves murder, an attempted drowning, a séance, disappearing bodies, vampires and constant torment for Jessica. Her marriage is strained, she hears voices and she can’t escape the mental turbulence which haunts her – for there really is something after Jessica.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30pm ‘The Greg Proops Film Club’

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH

Supernatural / Terror Aboard

Mia Farrow descends into a dreamlike maze of grief and ghostly dread in this quietly haunting, long-overlooked ’70s horror gem.

FULL CIRCLE (aka THE HAUNTING OF JULIA, 1977)

**Screenwriter**: Joe Lo Truglio

**Producers**: Kara Baker,  Joe Lo Truglio,  Joe Mortimer

With writer/director **Joe Lo Truglio** in person for the October 15th screening!

Join us in the microcinema for Joe Lo Truglio&#8217;s nail-biting nightmare of the darkness that lurks in the woods and inside us. In his directorial debut feature, veteran comedian and actor Joe Lo Truglio displays his darker side with this satisfying slow burn of isolation, PTSD, and pyschosis. After a violent attack, a woman searches for strength in the solitude of a lookout job, but is overwhelmed by something darker. With a phenomenal cast and a slow and steadily unhinged descent into madness and feminine rage, culminating in a gory and hallucinatory climax, you won&#8217;t want to skip this trip to the nature&#8230;of revenge!

October 16th will be screening only without guests.

Outpost

**Screenwriter**: Michael Cristofer

**Producers**: Neil Canton, Peter Guber, Jon Peters

Have a hell of a good time with Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and of course Cher in this devilishly sexy comedy based on the John Updike novel. Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted — at a cost — when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives and promises to grant them supernatural powers even as he charms each of them with his own. Now that they have their own powers, it&#8217;s time to turn the tables on their sinister seducer. With an iconic cast, fiercely funny dialogue, and tons of witchy fun, you&#8217;ll want to gather up your coven and get ready for all the sexy and savage sorcery!

**Picks from the Video Store**

It&#8217;s time to Cher the love with these treasures on physical media!

*Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Good Times, Moonstruck*

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

The Witches of Eastwick

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Clockwork

COUNTRY: UK

In 1945, after the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government consults spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the souls&#8217; resentment and agony of the victims culminate together to revive the evil Onmyoji, Yasunori Kato. Only a young, psychically imbued priests&#8217; apprentice will dare fight the evil magician.

Tokyo: The Last War

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Pan's Labyrinth in 3D with Guillermo del Toro

7:30 PM

PATHETIC FALLACY

7:00 PM

THE SWALLOW

10:00 PM

CHAT PILE presents TEEN WITCH

7:30 PM

SATURDAY AFTERNOON KUNG-FU THEATRE

5:00 PM

Stephen King's IT

8:30 PM

ERIE

7:00 PM

KINKI

10:00 PM

“This Place is a Sh*thole,”

WELCOME TO G-TOWN,

10:00 PM

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

7:30 PM

Glow Big Youth Open Mic

5:00 PM

North Star Sessions

8:00 PM

In the Mouth of Madness

7:30 PM

Resident Evil 35mm

Appofeniacs

7:00 PM

Häxan

8:00 PM