Filmforum 50: Barbara T. Smith - The 21st Century Odyssey

2220 Arts + Archives

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Snow White wins the hearts of the Seven Dwarfs and triumphs over an evil Queen in the film that launched Disney’s animation legacy.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Rare 35mm print ‘The Fun-Sized, Family-Friendly, Faintly Frightening Films’

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

### **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

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

Aero Theatre

35mm can be beautiful, but 16mm is *personal*. And when it’s a marathon of IB Technicolor 16mm prints, it’s both! Join Secret Sixteen founder Mike Williamson, Josh Miller (Killer Movies) and Bret Berg (Museum of Home Video) for a 12-hour sensorial feast of shockingly saturated colors and bloody night terrors — all screened from Secret Sixteen’s siqq collection of this wonderous format.

With enough decades, any print says bye-bye to its color except for the literal magic of Technicolor. This ancient occult art used 3x the amount of film to conjure 3x the joy in seeing unreal amounts of hues…the kind of shades that physically can’t be created today, as the company discontinued its dark arts in ’75.

**Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen.** What we can say is this six-film marathon is soaking in cursed body parts, heavyweight character actors, even heavier cloaks, liminal libraries and haunting hallways, sweaty demonology, boosted bustiers, gorgeous lighting, the walls closing in, wealthy reprobates, moody golems, boundless beliefs, hammy histrionics, masked murderers, meek mod psychopaths, rural isolation, “I killed your friend” vibes, danger, paranoia, bite marks, high fashion and quite a few instances of eye-popping palates matching a 4D printing process to give you an unparalleled moment in time. A pigment of your imagination.

SECRET SIXTEEN: TECHNICOLOR TERRORS

Brain Dead Studios

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

It’s understandable if, at the end of *Like Nothing Happened*, one finds oneself in agreement with the title. Four college students, old friends and new acquaintances, spend an afternoon at a racetrack and then go their separate ways. Loose and grainy, it looks and feels like a sketch but shot at a time when writer-director-actor Ryusuke Hamaguchi says he was interested in “how to arrange the gazes of characters,” there’s a lot working under the surface. Structured around the kind of conversational set pieces that would become hallmarks of Hamaguchi’s later films, including an extended Dadaist recitation of dictionary definitions on a train, *Like Nothing Happened *feels very much like where it all began.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm *

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tomo Matsui, Hideyuki Okamoto.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's graduate thesis film at Tokyo University of the Arts, *Passion* prefigures the more complex and assured *Happy Hour* as a seemingly tight-knit group of friends and lovers falls apart as they navigate the transition to the next phases of their lives. Here, like Hamaguchi himself at the time, the carefully class-coded characters are younger, just entering careers, marriage and parenthood — or else grasping for ways to put them off. The capriciousness of desire emerges as a force and an excuse in a series of high-wire dialogue scenes as Hamaguchi explores the ethics of coupling and camerawork alike.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm *

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With: Aoba Kawai, Ryuta Okamoto, Kiyohiko Shibukawa.

Like Nothing Happened / Passion

Hammer Museum

CLUE at The Million Dollar Theatre Based on the classic board game, CLUE turns a mysterious dinner party into a fast paced comedy of secrets, suspects, and surprise twists. Starring Tim Curry and an all-star ensemble cast, this cult favorite will be even more fun on the big screen at the historic Million Dollar Theatre! Murder has never been so much fun. Based on the classic board game, CLUE brings together an all-star cast including Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and Eileen Brennan for a wildly entertaining night of mystery and chaos. When six strangers gather at a remote mansion for a dinner party, secrets spill out, bodies begin to fall, and everyone becomes a suspect. Make Last…Remains your new Halloween tradition for a horrifyingly good time! Family-friendly costumes are encouraged. Who will you be? Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, or one of the many unforgettable characters from CLUE? Be sure to check our costume guidelines below. CLUE (1985) Saturday, October 17, 1 p.m. The Million Dollar Theatre Rated PG Color/Digital 1 hr. 34 mins. $15 Member Tickets – June 6-30 with code LASTREMAINS $20 Member Tickets – Starting July 1 $25 General Public Tickets – On sale August 26 $10 Youth (17 and under) Tickets – On sale August 26 Discounts are available for groups of 12 or more. Contact us at ainshishian@laconservancy.org. Stay in your seat after the screening for a FREE Q&A about the historic Million Dollar Theatre. The films in this series are presented as originally created during a different time period and may contain negative attitudes, language, and depictions of people and/or cultures. The Los Angeles Conservancy does not condone these representations. The Million Dollar Theatre is located at 307 S. Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90013. Parking is available at various rates in surface lots near theatres. We also encourage you to explore using public transportation to Last Remaining Seats screenings. The Broadway theatres are conveniently located near the Pershing Square Station at Fifth and Hill Streets, the Historic Broadway Station at 2nd Street and Broadway, and the 7th Steet Metro Center Station. For details on how to take the Metro Rail or buses to Last Remaining Seats, visit metro.net. The Million Dollar Theatre has limited wheelchair accessibility. The restrooms in the theatre are not wheelchair accessible, but some are available at Grand Central Market (located next to the theatre). No assisted listening devices are available. Tickets are general seating unless you are a sponsor or Cornerstone member at the Granite level or above. Please arrive early to get the best seat selection. L.A. Conservancy members will receive priority entry into the theatres. Doors open one hour before showtime for members and forty-five (45) minutes before showtime for the general public. Not a member yet? Join today for only $50 a year to ensure you get priority entry. No refunds or exchanges. If you cannot attend the screening, we will gratefully accept your purchase as a tax-deductible donation if you notify us at (213) 623-2489. Tickets are also transferable. CLICK HERE to see a list of frequently asked questions about our signature series of classic films in historic theatres. Major funding for the Los Angeles Conservancy’s educational programs is provided by the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.

CLUE at The Million Dollar Theatre

THE SHINING at The Million Dollar Theatre A masterwork of psychological horror, THE SHINING follows a family isolated in a remote hotel where reality begins to fracture, and terror takes hold. Starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and directed by Stanley Kubrick, this landmark film is even more unforgettable on the big screen at the historic Million Dollar Theatre. Some places never let you leave. Based on the novel by Stephen King, THE SHINING was directed by Stanley Kubrick in what is considered one of the most impactful psychological horror films. When a writer takes a winter caretaker job at the isolated Overlook Hotel, the silence of the mountains gives way to growing dread and unraveling sanity. Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd, THE SHINING continues to captivate audiences with its unforgettable performances, stunning visuals, and chilling atmosphere. Whether you’re experiencing it for the first time or returning to uncover new layers of its mystery, this is a film that lingers long after the final scene. THE SHINING is not just a great film, it has been a pop-culture touchstone for more than forty years. Join us for this full-scale cinematic experience! Costumes are encouraged. Be sure to check our costume guidelines below. THE SHINING (1980) Saturday, October 17, 7 p.m. The Million Dollar Theatre Rated R Color/Digital 2 hr. 26 mins. Members must be logged in to their account to access discounted tickets. $15 Member Tickets – June 6-30 with code LASTREMAINS $20 Member Tickets – Starting July 1 $25 General Public Tickets – On sale August 26 $10 Youth (17 and under) Tickets – On sale August 26 Discounts are available for groups of 12 or more. Contact us at ainshishian@laconservancy.org. Stay in your seat after the screening for a FREE Q&A about the historic Million Dollar Theatre. The films in this series are presented as originally created during a different time period and may contain negative attitudes, language, and depictions of people and/or cultures. The Los Angeles Conservancy does not condone these representations. The Million Dollar Theatre is located at 307 S. Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90013. Parking is available at various rates in surface lots near theatres. We also encourage you to explore using public transportation to Last Remaining Seats screenings. The Broadway theatres are conveniently located near the Pershing Square Station at Fifth and Hill Streets, the Historic Broadway Station at 2nd Street and Broadway, and the 7th Steet Metro Center Station. For details on how to take the Metro Rail or buses to Last Remaining Seats, visit metro.net. The Million Dollar Theatre has limited wheelchair accessibility. The restrooms in the theatre are not wheelchair accessible, but some are available at Grand Central Market (located next to the theatre). No assisted listening devices are available. Tickets are general seating unless you are a sponsor or Cornerstone member at the Granite level or above. Please arrive early to get the best seat selection. L.A. Conservancy members will receive priority entry into the theatres. Doors open one hour before showtime for members and forty-five (45) minutes before showtime for the general public. Not a member yet? Join today for only $50 a year to ensure you get priority entry. No refunds or exchanges. If you cannot attend the screening, we will gratefully accept your purchase as a tax-deductible donation if you notify us at (213) 623-2489. Tickets are also transferable. CLICK HERE to see a list of frequently asked questions about our signature series of classic films in historic theatres. Major funding for the Los Angeles Conservancy’s educational programs is provided by the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.

THE SHINING at The Million Dollar Theatre

LA Conservancy

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

SPANNING TIME is a cinephilic love letter to the humble photobooth, drawing on one hundred years of cinema from around the world to illustrate the machine’s enduring and universal power both to freeze time and to transcend it. Created by film archivist and photobooth historian Brian Meacham, the film tells the story of these beloved machines, from their public debut in 1926, at the dawn of film’s sound era, to their return to popularity for a new generation a century later. Photobooths and cinema have grown up in parallel, and from silent comedies of the 1920s to American indies of the 1990s, from Hong Kong action to the French New Wave, the film illustrates the quiet power these machines have held for generations of friends, lovers, travelers, spies, convicts, exhibitionists and anyone else who needed a quick portrait in the pre-selfie era. Through this encyclopedic collage made of selections from more than 150 films, both familiar and obscure, the versatile photobooth provides a space for privacy in public, creates lasting memories and becomes an unlikely hideout, time machine, even death chamber. Draw the curtain, raise the stool, insert a quarter and smile!

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

SPANNING TIME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson stars as “the devil” opposite three witches played by superstar actresses Susan Sarandon, Academy Award winner Cher and Michelle Pfieffer in this offbeat thriller with a comic twist. In the quaint New England town of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie yearn to meet the man of their dreams. One rainy night, the women each express an overpowering need for just one dynamic male capable of challenging their liberated spirits, a man who could become their inspiration, their joy, their… everything. But take care with what you dream, for your dream may come true… as it does for the Witches of Eastwick.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

This festive event supports **Silverlake Shorts,** a monthly short-film screening series championing independent filmmakers and animators in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the event will also support the work of **Saturday Morning Cartoons United**™, a Los Angeles 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to celebrating legacy cartoons and strengthening local communities through shared cultural experiences.

### **ABOUT THE SHORTS:**

**“Parrots,” 2023, Dir. Jennifer Nie, 6 Mins, USA**

“Parrots” is a 6 minute slice-of-life short film about two girls growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, language and the mundane moments that don’t feel big when they happen, but end up defining a big part of who we become. As they observe and repeat things they don’t yet understand, they live and grow in a world more connected than they realize.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Arnold Escapes from Church,” 1988, Dir. Craig Bartlett, 2 Mins, USA**

Our favorite football head Arnold goes to church and daydreams about the 23rd Psalm.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**“Pilot Episode,” 1996, Dirs. Craig Barlett and Tuck Tucker, 11 Mins**

Arnold accidentally knocks out a bully named Harold during a baseball game, and Harold gives Arnold 24 hours to live before he beats him to a pulp.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Stoop Kid,” 1996, Dirs. Kelly James, Larry Leichliter and Jamie Mitchell, 11 Mins**

When Arnold finds out that Stoop Kid is afraid to leave his stoop, he feels sorry for him and decides to help him overcome his fear.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Arnold’s Halloween,” 1997, Dir. Jamie Mitchell, 22 Mins**

Arnold and Gerald team up to carry out the ultimate Halloween prank, by deliberately faking a news radio broadcast of an alien invasion, causing widespread panic throughout town not seen since Orson Welles inadvertently did so in 1938!

FORMAT: DCP

**“Haunted Train,” 1996, Dirs. Larry Leichliter, Jamie Mitchell and Juli Murphy, 11 Mins**

On a boring summer night, Grandpa tries to liven things up by telling a story about haunted Train Number 25.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**HEY ARNOLD!, 1996, Nickelodeon, USA**

Created by Craig Bartlett, HEY ARNOLD! premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996 and quickly became one of the defining animated series of its generation. Set in the fictional urban neighborhood of Hillwood, the series followed fourth-grader Arnold Shortman and his friends, family and neighbors as they navigated childhood, friendship, school and growing up. Known for its distinctive visual style, memorable characters, heartfelt storytelling and acclaimed music by composer Jim Lang, HEY ARNOLD! balanced humor with surprisingly thoughtful stories about family, identity, friendship and life in the city. From Arnold and Gerald to Helga, Phoebe, Harold, Rhonda, and the unforgettable residents of the Sunset Arms boarding house, the series created a world that felt both imaginative and deeply relatable.

Originally airing for five seasons, HEY ARNOLD! became a lasting part of Nickelodeon’s legacy and continues to inspire a devoted fanbase decades after its debut. In 2026, fans are celebrating 30 years of HEY ARNOLD! and the enduring heart, humor, music and characters that made Hillwood feel like home.

Panel with creator Craig Bartlett, composer Jim Lang, and actors Anndi McAfee, Justin Shenkarow and Olivia Hack. Special appearance by actor Lane Toran. Moderated by Andre Meadows. Special introduction featuring live music by composer Jim Lang 30th Anniversary Celebration Costume Contest! Co-presented by Silverlake Shorts and Saturday Morning Cartoons United

Hey Arnold!: A Spooktacular 30th Anniversary Screening

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A heartless industrialist has an evil plan: to level Arnold’s neighborhood and build a huge shopping mall. With time running out, someone needs to save the day. And that someone is Arnold.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by screenwriter and series creator Craig Bartlett Co-presented by Silverlake Shorts and Saturday Morning Cartoons United

HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE

Los Feliz Theatre

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Masque of the Red Death / House of Usher

The Butterfly Effect

New Beverly Cinema

*Please note: entry to the screening & reading is ticketed for the general public and free for LARB members. LARB Members can enter their Member Code upon checkout. *

*Seating for the screening & reading is extremely limited. Guests who were unable to purchase an online ticket may add their names to the standby list for the screening & reading upon arrival. Online tickets will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime; at that time, any unclaimed seats will be released for in-store purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. All Sales Final. *

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

LARB: Scene Screening & Reading

Click here for tickets to the attend LARB: Scene Launch Party after the screening.

LARB: Scene Launch Party

Now Instant Image Hall

1922 - Silent • Live Accompaniment by Randy Woltz on the Mighty Wurlitzer • This is silent horror at its purest. And the behind-the-scenes story is amazing: it was made without permission as a Dracula film, and a court later ordered the prints destroyed. It survived against the odds. Actor Max Schreck’s makeup is one of the most enduring and memorable designs in horror. • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Nosferatu

Old Town Music Hall

**Screenwriters**: Arthur Rankin Jr.,  Len Korobkin,  Harvey Kurtzman

**Producers**: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Get ready for the wildest, cutest, stop-motion spooky soiree ever made when all your favorite monsters (and even a pint-sized Peter Lorre) get together to sing, dance, and get groovy in this Rankin and Bass animated classic! If you&#8217;ve been looking for the kiddo gateway to all the classic horror monsters, look no further than this adorable animated shindig from the people that animated all our favorite holidays! When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein&#8217;s title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands! Bring your little monster lovers, or your stop-motion stan besties for the party of the season!

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got a Rankin and Bass section for all the cutest animated holidays and more!

*The Daydreamer, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Here Comes Peter Cottontail*

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

Mad Monster Party?

**Screenwriter**: Steve Tesich

**Producer**: Peter Yates

Get on your bikes and ride down to Vidiots for this coming-of-age classic on two wheels with a special pre-screening conversation with the legendary **Paul Dooley**!

Join us for Peter Yates&#8217; keenly observed character study and underdog teen triumph. Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends&#8217; and parents&#8217; annoyance. With affectionate characterization, a remarkable cast, and an un-clichéd underdog story for everyone, *Breaking Away* remains an effortless classic of 1970s cinema!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more Paul Dooley tonight &#8211; no bicycle needed!

*Strange Brew, Waiting for Guffman, A Perfect Couple*

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

Breaking Away

**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

**Screenwriter**: David Cronenberg

**Producer**: Claude Héroux

We&#8217;re celebrating **Video Store Day** with horror maestro David Cronenberg&#8217;s VCR-centric classic ***Videodrome***!

*Long Live the New Flesh! * The master of body horror, David Cronenberg brings us one of his most viscerally disturbing treatises on voyeurism, sleaze, and the pursuit of the deepest of underground entertainment. As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon *Videodrome*, a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. After his girlfriend (Blondie&#8217;s Debbie Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind *Videodrome* and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought. So pop a tape in your abdomen and get ready for Video Store Day at Vidiots!

Vidiots celebrates **International Video Store Day** with a whole day reveling in the glory of physical media and the communal need for public access to video rental stores! We will have specials in the video store, an enormous physical media sale, and a special screening of David Cronenberg&#8217;s ***Videodrome***, all to relive a magical time when there was a video store in every neighborhood!

From 11:00am &#8211; 4:00pm our Microcinema will be packed to the rafters with tons of VHS, DVDs, Blu-Rays and even Laserdiscs for sale at bargain prices!

Videodrome

**Screenwriters**: Izou Hashimoto,  Katsuhiro Ohtomo

**Producers**: Shunzo Kato,  Ryôhei Suzuki

Iconic and game-changing, *Akira* is the definitive anime masterpiece! Katsuhiro Otomo&#8217;s landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future. *Akira*&#8216;s arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for future generations of ground-breaking movies.

July, 1988— World War III breaks loose. Then, in 2019, in megalopolis Tokyo&#8230;

As the leader of a group of young robust delinquents, Kaneda spent his nights tearing through the urban wastes, racing his motorbike against rival groups. One night while riding with his gang, his friend Tetsuo suddenly encounters a strange boy― the product of human experimentation— and is injured in the ensuing crash. Shortly thereafter, a military squadron appears on the scene to take the boy and Tetsuo away to an army research facility. Determined to free Tetsuo from capture, Kaneda sneaks into the army research lab. However, a regimen of extreme experimental procedures has awakened a new power in his friend, and now he is consumed by madness…

Akira

**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

Vidiots

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

V/H/S/Halloween

Vista Theatre

Come celebrate VIDEO STORE DAY with a special screening of DEAD MEDIA!

The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won’t die. “Dead Media is an exciting homage to great horror, cult classics, and the bygone era of DVD bonus features.” – Twin Cities Geek

*DEAD MEDIA* is a horror love letter to physical media, obsessive collectors, and the ghosts lurking inside our outdated technologies.

**dir. Joseph Scrimshaw, 2025**
*United States, digital projectio*n
99 min

**SATURDAY, 10/17 · 3:30P DOORS · 4:00P SCREENING**

Writer/Director Joseph Scrimshaw and stars James Urbaniak & Jessica Fenton in person, with a Q&A moderated by Ken Napzok.

## $10 general admission.

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

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

DEAD MEDIA (2025) w/ special guests! Pres. by Antenna Releasing

WHAMMY!

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**MARIE ANTOINETTE, 2006, Dir. Sofia Coppola, 123 Mins, MUBI, France/Japan**

Oscar winner Sofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of France’s legendary teenage queen MARIE ANTOINETTE. Betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the naïve Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) at the age of 14, she is thrown into the opulent French court which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Alone, without guidance, and adrift in a dangerous world, the young Marie Antoinette rebels against the isolated atmosphere at Versailles and, in the process, becomes France’s most misunderstood monarch.

FORMAT: DCP

**MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, 2026, Dir. Eleanor Coppola, 86 Mins, MUBI, USA**

Eleanor Coppola turns her camera on her daughter, Sofia, as she shoots MARIE ANTOINETTE. Catching every detail of the behind-the-scenes and on-set action, Eleanor captures the feat of Sofia’s directing a landmark film aged 34, and muses on what it means for a mother to watch her daughter at work.

FORMAT: DCP

Introduction by actor Molly Shannon Advance screening of MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE

MARIE ANTOINETTE / MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE

October 18 · 6pm–10pm at Brain Dead Studios.

50/50 Horror is a one-night international short film festival dedicated to platforming and connecting the next generation of horror talent.

Past editions have brought together filmmakers and industry guests from CAA, UTA, WME, A24, Blumhouse, Monkeypaw and more.

Each ticket includes entry + food + popcorn & soda.

Parking is limited and Uber/Lyft is recommended.

50/50 HORROR

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

The most unexpected work in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s early oeuvre, *The Depths* is a queer thriller that circles around the tenuous relationship between an artist and his muse. Bae-hwan (Kim Min-jun) is a sought-after Korean fashion photographer in Japan for the wedding of a college friend, Gilsu (Soji Arai), reduced to shooting softcore porn. It’s in Gilsu’s studio that Bae-hwan becomes fascinated with Ryu (Hoshi Ishida), a cocky escort one step ahead of his pimp after a VIP client dies in his company. The film’s gritty urban scene contrasts sharply with the stable middle-class environs that are Hamaguchi’s usual milieu but he acquits himself well on unfamiliar territory in a film that feels like a possible path not chosen.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kota Oura. With: Kim Min-jun, Hoshi Ishida, Soji Arai.

The river coursing through the city where Chihiro (Shota Sometani) has come to live with his older brother after the death of their parents provides director Ryusuke Hamaguchi ample opportunity for ominous metaphors in this unnerving study of adolescent estrangement. “One day, everything down there will surge up,” says Chihiro’s brother (Kiyohiko Shibukawa). Sullen and withdrawn, Chihiro loses himself in a modern dance class (led by Japanese choreographer Osamu Jareo) in which he and Naoyo (Hoshi Ishida) rehearse intricate movements around one another but never touch. Expression without connection becomes the catalyst for the violent emotional surge that transforms this into Hamaguchi’s *River’s Edge*. That it ends with “To be continued” suggests the film was intended as a rehearsal itself for something more.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriter: Tomoyuki Takahashi. With: Shota Sometani, Kiyohiko Shibukawa**, **Hoshi Ishida**. **

The Depths / Touching the Skin of Eeriness

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The simple, heartbreaking story of a man (Ernest Borgnine) who’s given up on the whole dating scene. His younger siblings are all married, and his mother is bugging him to find a nice Italian girl, but he’s had enough rejection. And then, wonder of wonders, one night he meets Clara (Betsy Blair), a plain and plain-spoken chemistry teacher, and they hit it off. But his mother, for all her nagging, is suddenly afraid of being left alone, and tries to persuade Marty that Clara’s not the girl for him. Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay and Delbert Mann’s subtle direction capture perfectly the yawning loneliness of Marty’s bachelor life: hanging out in bars with buddies, the awkward phone calls to girls who’d rather not hear from him, the disappointment of crushed dreams and the daring it takes to develop new hope.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by American Cinematheque Archivist Sara Greenfield First film to win the Palm d’Or. One of only four films to ever win both the Palm d’Or and Best Picture. ‘Sunday Print Edition’

MARTY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Unpredictable and quite special, this off-the-chain semi-sequel to WILD AT HEART stars Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem and James Gandolfini in the wildest movie of any of their respective careers. Directed by Spanish provocateur Álex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST, ACCION MUTANTE), PERDITA’s nightmare splatter universe lingers in your imagination in an equal but different way than Lynch’s signature style.

Here, Perez reimagines Isabella Rossellini’s melancholic character into a tightly-coiled woman on the edge — one in love with an even crazier Bardem, who’s casually into blood rituals, bank/grave-robbing, extortion and wholesale slaughter. Gandolfini is just awesome as the bumbling FBI agent on their trail. This thing rocks.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: Spain

Q&A with author and screenwriter Barry Gifford ‘Barry Gifford: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ 4K Restoration by Severin Films

PERDITA DURANGO

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“My Last Martini,” 2025, Dir. Rob Christopher, 14 Mins, USA**

One evening at an elegant cocktail lounge, a frustrated writer is joined by a mysterious woman who drifts over from the next booth, looking for a good listener.

FORMAT: DCP

**ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO, 2020, Dir. Rob Christopher, 75 Mins, USA**

Hailed as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly,” poet, author and screenwriter Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the Sailor and Lula novels that inspired David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART. Featuring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor, ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO brilliantly brings to life Gifford’s autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker and screenwriter Rob Christopher, screenwriter Barry Gifford and producer John Otterbacher There will be a screening of filmmaker Rob Christopher’s 2025 short, “My Last Martini,” before the film. ‘Barry Gifford: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures: 
God Killing Himself.
Mother Earth.
Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone
The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth.
God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino

COUNTRY: USA

Limited Engagement New 4K Restoration Official Beyond Fest 2026 Selection Restoration personally supervised by filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Restored from the original 16mm negative and optical soundtrack. It was scanned and restored in 4K, and final grading was done at filmscan & more in Munich, Germany.

BEGOTTEN

1974 • Introduction by Film Archivist Stan Taffel • Filmmaker Mel Brooks delivers a loving, laugh-out-loud tribute to classic horror in one of the funniest comedies of all time. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white with vintage-style sets, this is a pitch-perfect parody of Universal’s Frankenstein films.  • Show begins with spooky music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Young Frankenstein

**Screenwriter**: Robert Malcolm Young

**Producer**: Jerome Courtland

Aliens! Kid-psychics! Black Cats! And Puppets! Come see the magically witchy movie that made Kim Richards a star! Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary psychic powers and the cutest black cat. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian&#8217;s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Can they escape the clutches of the evil capitalists and use their powers for good? Bring your little spellcasters to this fantastical adventure for your whole family or coven!

**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.

Escape to Witch Mountain

**Starring**: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer

*D&#8217;oh!* Spooky season just got more animated as **Vidiots** and our friends at **Stonecutters LA** are saluting one of the longest running Halloweenie television legacies ever &#8211; the brilliantly whacked-out *Treehouse of Horror* from *The Simpsons*. Join us as we screen **clips** from some of the best segments of its 30+ year run, host **trivia** for the Simpsons geek in your life (with prizes!), and chat with some special **surprise guests** from the *Simpsons* extended family! Come dressed as your favorite four fingered *Simpsons* character, there will be a **costume contest** as well as a **raffle**. Don&#8217;t miss this one of a kind afternoon of trivia, treats, tricks, and your favorite dysfunctional cartoon family!

All ticket sales and event proceeds directly benefit Vidiots Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

A Tribute to Treehouse of Horror

**Screenwriter**: William Peter Blatty

**Producer**: William Peter Blatty

Grab your crucifix and hold your loved ones close as Vidiots delves into the depths of demonic horror on glorious celluloid!  Linda Blair shot her way into the stuff of cinematic legend as 12-year-old Regan MacNeil in this twisted, horrifying classic &#8211; considered by many to be the scariest film of all time. Young Regan begins to adopt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith. A blood-curdling masterwork from the late great William Friedkin, *The Exorcist* is ready to possess you once again!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want to bring home more creepy kids? Try out these deep cuts from our horror and cult sections!

*The Possession* (2012), *Kiss Daddy Goodbye, The Visitor*

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

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The Exorcist on 35mm

**Screenwriters**: Alex Huston Fischer,  Eleanor Wilson

**KCRW**, **Vidiots**, and **Black Bear Pictures** invite you to a special advance screening of ***Wicker*** followed by a conversation with directors **Alex Huston Fischer** and **Eleanor Wilson**, and cast members **Olivia Colman**, **Alexander Skarsgård**, and **Elizabeth Debicki** moderated by Vidiots&#8217; Executive Director, **Maggie Mackay**.

An audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention, *Wicker* tells the wholly original love story of an ostracized fisherwoman (Colman) who commissions a husband to be made by the local basketmaker (Dinklage). When her wicker husband (Skarsgård) proves more spectacular than she ever imagined, his soulful spirit and unique prowess awaken something inside her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination, and upheaval that threatens the very fabric of village life.

Doors will Open at 6:30pm, Screening will start at 7:30pm.

Guests must RSVP to attend. For more information and to RSVP click [here](https://events.humanitix.com/kcrw-partner-screening-wicker).

Please note that this screening is first-come-first-served, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry. As we are hoping to accommodate as many people as possible, all free screenings are overbooked to account for no-shows. We recommend an early to on-time arrival, we may not be able to accommodate late entries.

Wicker

## Part of the 2026 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, presented by One Institute.

Angel's Body Temperature (天使の体温, 2001) opens on Aketo, a 20-year-old Tokyo college student with a lover, Hiroshi, who lives in Kyoto. They ache. They wander. When a young woman named Harumi drifts into Aketo's orbit and into his apartment, the film wallows in nostalgia and alienation. Shot on digital video with a grainy, restless texture - like a relic too quickly-forgotten on VHS.

Directed by Akihiro Suzuki, Angel's Body Temperature belongs to a body of Japanese queer cinema from the late 1990s and early 2000s that has remained almost entirely invisible to Western audiences - a lost chapter of New Queer Cinema unfolding parallel to the movement's celebrated American and European counterparts. Suzuki's film shares that era's preoccupation with young men adrift in cities. Outside of directing, Suzuki notably programmed New Queer Cinema for Japan and even co-produced Latin Boys Go to Hell.

The screening will be introduced by Dakota Noot, who contributed a commentary track to the film's recent North American Blu-ray release from Kani Releasing. A Q&A will follow, along with a virtual interview with director Akihiro Suzuki, offering rare direct access to a filmmaker whose work is only now finding the audience it deserves.

**dir. Akihiro Suzuki, 2001**
*Japan, digital projection*
82 min

**Sunday, 10/18 · 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)*.

**Dakota Noot** is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He uses drawings, paintings, and installations to create animal-human hybrids that explore rural yet fantastical, queer identities. Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, he continues to show in both North Dakota and Los Angeles, including solo and two-person shows at Highways Performance Space, MuzeuMM, and PØST. Noot has exhibited in group shows at Charlie James Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Torrance Art Museum and “Queer Biennial: What if Utopia?” at LAST Projects. His series of cutout drawing-installations have been shown at Art in Odd Places, LA Freewaves, Cerritos College Art Gallery, and Otis College. Noot has been featured in Hi-Fructose magazine. Outside of art-making, Noot has a dedication to pinku-eiga (pink film). He co-hosts a podcast on pink film, titled Two in the Pinku. Noot is currently writing a book a gay pinku (barazoku). He has contributed booklet essays, video essays, and audio commentaries to Vinegar Syndrome, Klubb Super 8, and 88 Films.

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Angel's Body Temperature (2001) pres. by One Institute

### THE BERLIN SERIES on 16mm by Julie O.

A collection of four short films by Julie O., all shot in Berlin in 2018: *DAS IST KUNST* (2 min), *Trauer Natur* (3 min), *Pustra* (2 min), and *my masterpiece* (4 min).

**Total Runtime: 11 mins**

### THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)

A hypnotist, a somnambulist, and a string of mysterious murders collide in Robert Wiene’s landmark of German Expressionism. With its wildly distorted sets, painted shadows, and warped sense of space, *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* helped establish a visual language that would influence horror and cinema for decades to come.

**Presented with a live score.**

### MUSICIANS

#### SEAN CIMINO

Sean Cimino is a Los Angeles–based artist, composer, songwriter, and producer working with guitar, granular processing, and modular synthesis. His work explores repetition, texture, and atmosphere, treating sound as both a physical and spatial medium. For 14 years, he performed and recorded with Grammy-nominated Foster the People, contributing guitar, synthesizer, and programming across the band’s records from *Torches* through *Paradise State of Mind*, with credits in songwriting and additional production. He is also a co-founder of the post-punk project Peel, whose music has appeared in Céline campaigns, HBO’s *I Love LA*, and EA Sports FIFA.

#### ADAM TAYLOR

Adam Taylor is the twice Emmy-nominated composer of *The Handmaid’s Tale* (Hulu), *The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (Netflix), *Black Cake* (Hulu), *The Right Stuff* (Disney+ produced by Leonardo DiCaprio), and critically acclaimed films including *Before I Fall*, *Riff Raff* starring Bill Murray, and *August Osage County*. He is currently scoring *The Testaments* for Hulu, and will start the upcoming season, and is currently completing the second season of *Presumed Innocent* (Apple).

#### TYLER CHESTER

Tyler Chester is a Grammy Award–winning producer, session musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and studio owner. His production credits include Madison Cunningham, NIKI, Sara Bareilles, Margaret Glaspy, Sara Watkins, Jon Foreman, and others. He has toured with Jackson Browne, Blake Mills, Sara Watkins, Andrew Bird, George Ezra, and Margaret Glaspy, and has appeared on records by artists including Iron & Wine, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Andrew Bird, Amy Helm, Julian Lage, and Christina Aguilera.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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

Possible Love

Two down on their luck jazz musicians find themselves out of a job and on the run after the police raid the speakeasy they perform in and they inadvertently stumble upon a gang war. With no money and nowhere to hide, a gig with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators at a Florida beach resort seems like the perfect getaway. There’s just one problem: the Syncopators are an all-female band, and Joe and Jerry aren’t women - yet.

Armed with some dodgy wigs and wobbly falsettos, Joe and Jerry manage to join the Syncopators, where they meet Sugar Kane: a hooch-swilling, ukulele-playing knockout with a soft spot for badboy saxophone players. Barely able to believe their good fortune, things start to go off the rails for the pair when they begin to attract unwanted attention from lecherous millionaires and some familiar faces show up at their hotel for a gathering of the country’s most dangerous criminals.

Some Like It Hot

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join the American Cinematheque and WIF for a specially curated night of spooky short films from women directors, as well as a Q&A with the filmmakers.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Fry Day,” Dir. Laura Moss, 15 min**

**“Kindred Spirit,” Dir. Caroline Lindy, 18 min**

**“Go to Bed, Raymond,” Dir. Nikki Taylor Roberts, 7 min**

**“Following,” Dir. Briana Pozner, 13 min**

**“Whatever You Desire,” Dir. Eon Song, 13 min**

**“Nightmare of La Lechuza,” Dir. Lainnie Contreras Felán, 6 min**

Q&A with filmmakers Co-Presented by Women in Film

WIF x AC Spooky Shorts Night

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

JIGOKU

The Others / The Orphanage

One of the most singular horror films of the ’70s—a hypnotic, haunting descent into unstable reality, creeping dread, and the supernatural.

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) — A Classic of Supernatural Madness!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Dario Argento, Bernardino Zapponi

**Producer**: Salvatore Argento

Get on your boogie shoes and join us for a night of sick tunes and even sicker horror when we crank up the Italo-Disco and slaughter the big screen with Dario Argento&#8217;s gore-giously demented masterpiece *Deep Red*. With **DJ Sindri** bumpin&#8217; Italo-Disco tunes before and after the screening/screaming!

Anticipating the eerie magic of *Suspiria, Deep Red* finds Dario Argento and creative partner Daria Nicolodi presenting a simple, Christmas-set slasher. At least, that’s what it appears to be. But within two minutes, it’s obvious that there’s nothing “simple” about* Deep Red* at all. With this movie, Argento perfected the classy, ultra-violent sub-genre that would come to be known as giallo—and also perfected playing audiences like a fiddle. This includes Goblin’s soundtrack, which is a spook-a-delic prog-rock masterpiece that beautifully complements the movie’s dreamy mood.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Make it an Italo-Horror Halloween with these killer flicks!

*The Church, Bay of Blood, Phenomena*

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

Italo-Disco Horror Night – Argento’s Deep Red

Castle of The Living Dead

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

Road to Perdition in 35mm

Academy Museum

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Possession

Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity - from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho’s oppressive struggles, mirror South Korea’s traumatic political history during the late 20th century.

An official selection of the Directors' Fortnight selection in Cannes and winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, PEPPERMINT CANDY is a powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema that elegizes a generation of marginalized people with “quiet, heartbreaking power” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Peppermint Candy

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

Secret Sunshine

Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Mija begins to study poetry writing at the local cultural center. At first she finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world, but then, when Jong-wook is mired in a shocking scandal, Mija taps into newfound depths of disappointment and pain.

Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong's POETRY is a “tour de force” that presents an “extraordinary vision of human empathy” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Poetry

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A group of scientists on the hunt for fossilized evidence of aquatic creatures in the Amazon get more than they bargained for when a mysterious “Gill-man” starts terrorizing the expedition. While the men chase after this strange new discovery, the beautiful Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams) in thrown into grave peril.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Alan Rode and editor Mitch Danton, son of actor Julie Adams In celebration of Julie Adams’ 100th birthday

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 3D

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

You’re in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches—Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy—return from 17th-century Salem after they’re accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters. It’s a night full of zany fun and comic chaos once the tricky 300-year-old trio set out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth…but first they must get their act together and outwit three kids and a talking cat. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

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

HOCUS POCUS

Author Gary D. Rhodes in-person, exploring his compendium of 70s/80s fact-or-fiction docs + a rare screening of EXP TV's epic film collage!

WEIRDUMENTARY Celebration + EXP TV's BIZARRE ENCOUNTERS... Screening!

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

Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts

**Screenwriters**: John Fawcett,  Karen Walton

**Producers**: Karen Lee Hall,  Steven Hoban

A teen horror for the true weirdos &#8211; *Ginger Snap*s is not only one of the best werewolf films of the new millennium, it&#8217;s also one of its best Coming-of-Age classics as well!  Ginger and Brigitte have always been outcasts, and proud of it. After an attack by a vicious lycanthropic animal, Ginger&#8217;s really starting to change &#8211; for the weirder. Now, she&#8217;s more confident than ever; owning her sexuality even while hiding her newly acquired fur and claws. As Ginger&#8217;s transformation gets more alarming &#8211; and deadly &#8211; Brigitte has to find a way to save her sister and herself. Smart, funny, cool, and gross, don&#8217;t miss this toothy terror with a crowd on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a coming-of-age Teen Terror? Try out these killer deep cuts!

*Teeth, Raw, Der Fan*

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

Ginger Snaps

Invasion of the Body Snatchers/Monolith Monsters

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

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

KWAIDAN

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

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

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

O.V.A. Night

Followed by a conversation with director **Dave Green**, voice actor **Eric Bauza**, and producer **Chris DeFaria**

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

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

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

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

General admission tickets go on sale Monday, October 19 at 11 a.m.

**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](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership)

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

Coyote vs. Acme

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

AVITAL ASH WORKSHOPS HER SUICIDE NOTE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

The Beyond / Pieces

**Screenwriter**: John Landis

**Producer**: George Folsey Jr.

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more deep cut lycanthropy on physical media tonight!

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

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

An American Werewolf in London

The Mummy's Shroud

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

SCREAM

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

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

Under the Silver Lake

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

The Exorcist

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

*In French with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

The Fly

From Dusk Till Dawn

**Screenwriters**: Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson

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

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

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

Bring home more spooky cuties for the kiddos!

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

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

The Nightmare Before Christmas

**Screenwriter**: Zach Cregger, Shay Hatten

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

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

Resident Evil (2026)

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

**Producer**: Denise Di Novi

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more witchy women?

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

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

Practical Magic

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

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

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

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

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

**Producers**: Satoshi Fukushima, Akemi Suyama

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Audition

Cujo

Trick 'r Treat

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

Here is a secret screening that will chill you.

Or make you lose sleep.

So put aside your guesses and trust us.

This screening is not to be missed.

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

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

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

Can you live with yourself if you miss it?

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

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

## $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.***

A Secret Hollywood Entertainment Screening

The Witches

30th Anniversary of The Craft

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Paranormal researcher Richard Johnson leads a team of clairvoyants (Julie Harris, Claire Bloom) to determine if the notorious, bad karma-filled Hill House is truly haunted. What he doesn’t bargain for is intensely neurotic Harris developing an unhealthy sensitivity to the mansion’s evil-charged atmosphere. Based on Shirley Jackson’s novel *The Haunting of Hill House*, this is one of the all-time classics of the genre.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: UK

THE HAUNTING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces a frightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a poltergeist. Late one night, 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set… At first, the spirits that invade the Freeling’s home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) turn to an exorcist (Zelda Rubinstein) in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg.​

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

POLTERGEIST

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The Freelings&#8217; suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the &#8216;other side&#8217;. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

Poltergeist

You’ve heard the whispers. You’ve seen the hype. Now experience the horror phenomenon that has audiences obsessed. Come see what everyone is talking about&#8230;or come back because you love this movie more than anything in the whole f***ing world!

Obsession

As legend has it, the malevolent ghost of La Llorona wanders along waterways searching for her two children who have drowned (either by her hand or by the hands of others) and seeks to avenge the man who has abused and abandoned her. She is an ominous figure whose apparition is preceded by the sound of her laments. Those who hear her cries are marked for death. In Jayro Bustamante’s film, these cries are intertwined with calls for social justice and solidarity within Indigenous communities.

DCP. Director: Jayro Bustamante. Screenwriters: Jayro Bustamante, Gustavo Matheu. With: María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kénefic.

In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s apocalyptic ghost fiction, *Kaïro*, the technologization of contemporary life leads to the collapse of human relations and communication, and the loss of a shared history. A classic of techno-horror cinema, exemplary of Japanese cinema’s reinvention of the *Kaidan* or spirit story genre, *Kaïro* remains one of the most memorable evocations of modern technologies of communication as spectral conduits. Feeding on the growing uncertainty between touch and vision, the film stands as a transitional cinematic experiment, between so-called digital dematerialization and the eventuality of spectral forms of corporeality.

DCP. Director/screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With: Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki.

La Llorona / Pulse

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Deborah Kerr brilliantly plays a repressed governess convinced that ghosts haunt the mansion and grounds of her innocent young charges (Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin). Jack Clayton’s gothic psychological thriller was inspired by Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” and adapted with the help of Truman Capote.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK

‘You Can’t Stream That On Television’

THE INNOCENTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star with Bruce Willis in Robert Zemeckis’ outrageously entertaining comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life… and death. Isabella Rossellini is a beautiful enchantress who changes their lives—and deaths—forever in this hilarious dark comedy with ground-breaking special effects.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

DEATH BECOMES HER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

After years of slumber, the legendary vampire has awakened and found acceptance in a tattooed, pierced and black-clad world. He’s a rock star. And his awesome goth-riffed sound has echoed around the globe…and stirred to life the fearsome Mother of All Vampires (Aaliyah, in her final film role).

Based on *The Vampire Chronicles* by Anne Rice, whose work previously came to the screen in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

At 16, Justine is a brilliant, promising student and a strict vegetarian. But when she starts veterinary school, she quickly encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time and faces the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self emerges.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: France/Belgium

Filmforum 50: Barbara T. Smith - The 21st Century Odyssey

1:00 PM

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

2:00 PM

KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS

SECRET SIXTEEN: TECHNICOLOR TERRORS

2:00 PM

Like Nothing Happened

Passion

7:30 PM

CLUE at The Million Dollar Theatre

1:00 PM

THE SHINING at The Million Dollar Theatre

7:00 PM

SPANNING TIME

1:00 PM

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

4:00 PM

Hey Arnold!: A Spooktacular 30th Anniversary Screening

7:00 PM

HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE

10:00 PM

Something Wicked This Way Comes

2:00 PM

The Masque of the Red Death

House of Usher

6:30 PM

The Butterfly Effect

11:59 PM

LARB: Scene Screening & Reading

7:00 PM

LARB: Scene Launch Party

8:00 PM

Nosferatu

Mad Monster Party?

1:00 PM

Breaking Away

4:00 PM

The History of Concrete

6:30 PM

Videodrome

7:00 PM

Akira

9:30 PM

Outpost

9:45 PM

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

10:00 AM

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

V/H/S/Halloween

8:00 PM

Dead Media

4:00 PM