The Servant in 4K

Yojimbo (Yojinbo) in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Episode 1, “Blatant, Not Subtle,” Dir. Bassam Tariq, 25 Mins**

Shah blows the audition of a lifetime. Desperate times call for desperate measures… but at what cost?

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 2, “To Troll, To Provoke,” Dir. Bassam Tariq, 27 Mins**

Shah has another shot at greatness. Time to prove to the world he has what it takes.

FORMAT: DCP

**Episode 3, “House or Home,” Dir. Bassam Tariq, 27 Mins**

It’s Eid. Shah needs to shut out all the noise and drama… and focus on family.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**BAIT, 2026, Amazon Studios, UK**

From Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed comes BAIT, a comedy about Shah Latif, a struggling actor. His last chance to hit it big comes in the form of an audition of a lifetime. We follow him over the course of four wild days as his life spirals out of control and his family, ex-lover and the entire world weigh in on whether he is the right man for the job.

Q&A with creator, co-showrunner, executive producer and actor Riz Ahmed

BAIT

Aero Theatre

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

Phase IV

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

Starship Troopers

Brain Dead Studios

Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.

LACMA members are invited to join FILM at LACMA for a special advance screening of *Widow's Bay*, followed by a conversation with director, producer Hiro Murai, executive producer Katie Dippold, and featured cast Matthew Rhys and Stephen Root.

Widow’s Bay is a quaint island town 40 miles off the coast of New England. But something lurks beneath the surface. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling community. There’s no Wi-Fi, spotty cellular reception, and he must contend with superstitious locals who believe their island is cursed. He wants these people to respect him. They don’t. They think he is soft and cowardly. And he is. But Loftis is determined to build a better future for his teenage son and turn the island into a tourist destination. Miraculously, he succeeds: tourists are finally coming. Unfortunately, the locals were right. After decades of calm, the old stories that seemed too ludicrous to be true, start happening again. *Widow’s Bay* blends genuine horror with character-driven comedy.

New episodes stream weekly on Apple TV+.

Watch the [official trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmc2RYm6PUE)

You will receive a link to view the episodes on the event date.

**This screening is hosted by Slipstream, a LACMA-approved third-party screening platform. If you have not previously registered with Slipstream, you will be asked to provide a valid email address and set a password to create an account.**

Members-Only Advance Screening—Widow's Bay and Post Screening Conversation

LACMA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Romanian with English subtitles.*

When Orsolya oversees the eviction of a local elderly man in Cluj, Transylvania, the unintended consequences come to shatter her and her understanding of her place in society. Spiraling into an existential crisis, she traverses the city, meeting with various people in her life – her husband, an old friend, her former student, a priest – to consider and reconcile her place in an increasingly maddening modern world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: Romania

KONTINENTAL '25

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*“THE JOURNEY was born directly out of a collapsed project in 1982, when I tried to organize another antinuclear war film, to be funded by Central TV in England, and working with a number of peace groups across the UK. I felt that THE WAR GAME was out-of-date, and I was concerned about the escalating nuclear arms race, that was allied to the US foreign policy of a nuclear war that would be limited to Europe. My idea was to create a series of scenes, again depicting the consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain, on a larger scale than THE WAR GAME, that would allow citizens across Britain to express their concerns via their involvement in the production of this project. However, Central TV withdrew its funding, on the grounds that the budget was becoming too large, and the project collapsed. After rethinking the scale of the project into a more global film dealing with the general silence on the burgeoning nuclear arms race, I appealed for funding to a number of international TV channels. Without exception, every TV channel that I contacted refused, even though I was only requesting support for filming an ultra low-cost segment in each country, where I would ask local people what they knew and felt about the world arms race. *

*“During the time while I had no funding from the professional sector, I happened to be showing THE WAR GAME to the world’s oldest peace movement association, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (SPAS), in Stockholm. In May 1983, during its 100th anniversary congress, SPAS unanimously decided to support fund-raising for a new film about the nuclear threat. Based in Stockholm, and with initial funding from SPAS, I immediately began to involve the network of friends and acquaintances that I had acquired over many years of travelling and lecturing, to build an international fund-raising drive for the new film, and to start research in those parts of the world where I would organize local productions groups for the actual filming.*

*“The film’s core concept started to emerge: I would visit families or groups of people in various countries, and interview them to find out what they knew about the state and consequences of the world arms race, and the effects of nuclear weapons. The interviews would also focus on the role that mass media and educational systems played in shaping a world view, and on the knowledge that these people had – or did not have – vis-à-vis these subjects.” – Peter Watkins*

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: New Zealand/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/Italy/Japan/Sweden/UK/Germany

‘Peter Watkins: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE JOURNEY Parts 1-4

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Uprising in Jazak,” 1973, Dir. Želimir Žilnik, 18 Mins, Yugoslavia**

*In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.*

People from the Jazak village in Fruška Gora Mountain show how they fought undercover against the occupation forces during the WWII. They speak about the dramatic events – of how they helped to hide partisans and how young people joined partisan units in Bosnia. We listen to people’s recollections on the arrests, persecution and tortures. In the last quarter of the film, the participants speak about the events that took place in the autumn of 1944, when the village was liberated and when Russians passed through their area. They remember the joy and great expectations because of the oncoming freedom and socialism.

FORMAT: DCP

**TITO AMONG THE SERBS FOR THE SECOND TIME 1994, Dir. Želimir Žilnik, 43 Mins, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia**

*In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.*

Belgrade 1994, a man in Marshal Tito’s original uniform appears in different parts of the city. Instantly, groups of people flock around him and get involved in passionate discussions. Almost all of them accept to play the game, complain about the old times in Yugoslavia and blame Tito for everything.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Želimir ŽilnikŽelimir Žilnik: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ is supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

"Uprising in Jazak" / TITO AMONG THE SERBS FOR A SECOND TIME

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

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

Cooper gets ready to leave Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

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

Andrew Packard resurfaces.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

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

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

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

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

Los Feliz Theatre

Training Day / Narc

Reservoir Dogs

New Beverly Cinema

Now Instant presents the Los Angeles Premiere of *There&#8217;ll Likely be Michael Jackson Vigils Throughout the Night *with an introduction from Marcus Batto.

There’ll Likely be Michael Jackson Vigils Throughout the Night

Now Instant Image Hall

**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau

**Producers**: Éric Altmayer,  Nicolas Altmayer

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

Alpha

**Screenwriter:** Norio Osada

**Producer:** Kikumaru Okuda

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

Lady Snowblood

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

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

**Picks from the Video Store**

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

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

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

The Big Lebowski

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

**Producer**: Kwok-fai Yeung

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

Shaolin Soccer

**Screenwriter**: Jon Moritsugu

**Producers**: Jacques Paisner

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

Numbskull Revolution

Vidiots

Normal

Torchy Gets Her Man/Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Batman Begins

Vista Theatre

The Wind Rises

A Man for All Seasons in 4K

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

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and Arabic with English subtitles.*

One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS by Gillo Pontecorvo vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy/Algeria

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 301, Dir. Max Winkler, 53 Mins**

On a remote Wisconsin farm, troubled loner Ed Gein’s twisted bond with his domineering mother triggers a terrifying descent into madness.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY, 2025, Netflix, USA**

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s groundbreaking anthology series returns with its third, most harrowing installment yet. MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY tells the story of how one simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin became history’s most singular ghoul. He revealed to the world the most horrific truth of all — that monsters aren’t born, they’re made… by us.

Q&A with executive producer and actor Charlie Hunnam, co-creator, writer, director and executive producer Ian Brennan, director and executive producer Max Winkler, cinematographer Michael Bauman, head of makeup Corey Castellano, production designer Matthew Flood Ferguson and editor Adam Penn, ACE

MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY

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

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

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

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

Mermaid

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

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

Getty Center

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

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

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

Harmony and Hustle: The Five Heartbeats

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

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

SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Black Film,” 1971, Dir. Želimir Žilnik, 14 Mins, Yugoslavia**

*In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.*

One night, Žilnik picks up a group of homeless men from the streets of Novi Sad and takes them home. While they enjoy themselves in his home, the filmmaker tries to “solve the problem of the homeless” carrying along a film camera as a witness. He speaks to social workers, ordinary people. He even addresses policemen. They all close their eyes in front of the “problem.”

FORMAT: DCP

**EARLY WORKS, 1969, Dir. Želimir Žilnik, 87 Mins, Yugoslavia**

*In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.*

In an allegoric manner, EARLY WORKS recounts a story of young people who took part in student demonstrations in June 1968 in Belgrade. Three young men and a girl, Yugoslava, defy the petit-bourgeois routine of everyday life. Wishing to “change the world,” inspired by the writings of young Karl Marx, they go to the country and to factories to “wake up people’s consciousness,” to encourage them in their fight for emancipation and life worth living. Being in field they face primitivism and squalor, but they show their own limits, weaknesses, incapacity and jealousy. They get arrested. Frustrated because the planned revolution has not been realized, the three young men decide to eliminate Yugoslava, who is the witness of their impotence. They shoot her, cover her with the party flag, burn her body and a dark pillar of smoke going up into the sky is the only thing that remains of the intended revolution.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Želimir Žilnik ‘Želimir Žilnik: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ is supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

"Black Film" / EARLY WORKS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

THE TRAVEL COMPANION follows Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, who enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Oscillosope Laboratories

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis and actors Tristan Turner and Anthony Oberbeck L.A. Premiere

THE TRAVEL COMPANION

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Inventory,” 1975, Dir. Želimir Žilnik, 9 Mins, Germany**

*In German with English subtitles.*

Tenants of one old building in the centre of Münich are featured in this film: most of them are foreigners who work in Germany as “guest workers” (Yugoslavs, Italians, Turks, Greeks etc.). In their mother tongue, each of them tells who he or she is, and briefly talks about their major worries, new hopes and plans for the future.

FORMAT: DCP

**MARBLE ASS, 1995, Dir. Želimir Žilnik, 87 Mins, Yugoslavia**

*In Serbian with English subtitles.*

Merlyn has been pacifying the Balkans, turning tricks with countless Serbian guys. Merlyn is a lighting rod sheltering Belgrade, calming violent nighthawks, swanky big spenders, miserable loners and horny young studs, taking on the charge that would otherwise befall little girls, unprotected mothers and helpless old women. Combined with guns, this unbridled energy would eventually lead to bloodshed. Merlyn cools the boiling blood of violent Dinarides and enriches it with love. Johnny comes home to Belgrade, from the war. His motives are apparently similar, he also wants to cool the boiling blood, but he does it by letting it through the holes in the human body, which he makes with bullets or knives. This film is a treatise on the different methods of resolving conflicts, resorted to by Merlyn and Johnny.

FORMAT: DCP

‘Želimir Žilnik: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ is supported by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

"Inventory" / MARBLE ASS

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Shadow of the Vampire

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

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

Philosophical Research Society

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

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

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

For Whose Entertainment

REDCAT

**Screenwriters**: Dean DeBlois, Christopher Sanders

**Producer**: Clark Spencer

*Ohana means family. *Bring your little loved ones, and your fluffy adopted alien experiment to this tropical charmer. When Lilo adopts what she thinks is a puppy, she comes to discover she&#8217;s really welcomed a chaotic experiment from another planet. Created to create chaos in cities throughout the world, Stitch learns about family and friendship in a Hawaiian paradise. Hop on your surfboard, crank up the Elvis tunes, and catch a wave to this perennial delight.

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

Lilo & Stitch

**Screenwriter**: Daniel Mainwaring

**Producer**: Walter Wanger

The pod people are coming! The pod people are coming! Watch out for the alien invasion of this science fiction classic! In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others&#8217; dismissive denials, Dr. Bennell, his former girlfriend Becky (Dana Wynter) and his friend Jack (King Donovan) soon discover that the patients&#8217; suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates, grown from plant-like pods, is taking over the small town.

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

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

**Screenwriter**: Jie Du

**Producers**: Lili Chen,  Jie Du,  Kazuo Fukui

With a special introduction from **Carson Lund** (writer/director of *Eephus*)!

A haunting tale of youthful love and loss set along the dramatic Japan seaside, a mysterious ring found inside a fish connects two couples across time, place and the lines between the living and the dead.

In a quiet small town in rural Japan, Aoki, a cook, and Sugamoto, a pet shop worker, find comfort in their daily routine, sharing lunch together in the park. Their peaceful lives as young lovers shift when Sugamoto discovers a ring inside a fish and gifts it to Mochida in an awkward proposition.

Meanwhile, in a distant seaside village, innkeeper Mochida takes over an old small hotel, where the memory of Rin, a guest of the inn, lingers in eerie silence. When Sugamoto visits the inn, the past and present begin to dissolve into one another. Mochida, sensing an ominous pattern, follows her movements, unraveling a delicate tale where love, loss, and unseen forces intertwine. As the past seeps into the present, the boundaries between memory and reality blur, leaving behind a lingering question—was it love that endured, or something else entirely?

The Height of the Coconut Trees

**Screenwriters**: David Newman,  Robert Benton,  Robert Towne

**Producer**: Warren Beatty

The film had helped bring down the Hayes Code, Arthur Penn&#8217;s iconic crime classic was an incendiary piece of cinema in the late 1960s and remains one of the defining films of the genre thanks in part to legendary style and performances from Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, and Gene Hackman. In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. Too violent for the censors in Hollywood but nevertheless an international sensation that garnered 10 Oscar nominations, *Bonnie and Clyde* helped prove that the American public was ready to do away with an antiquated morality and embrace sex and violence on the big screen once again! Bring your partner in crime for one killer night of cinema!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Faye Dunaway is such an icon, take home some of her best unsung work tonight!

*The Eyes of Laura Mars, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Network, Barfly*

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

Bonnie and Clyde

**Screenwriters**: Allen DeBevoise,  Charles Parker,  Gerald Scaife

**Producers**: Allen DeBevoise,  David Zito

You have been challenged to a dance off! Dust off your 80s fits, because Vidiots is ready to hit the streets with Turbo, Ozone, and all the flyest breakdancing moves of 1984 in this quintessential 80s cult classic! Kelly has had it with the stuffy world of professional dance, but she can&#8217;t give up her passion. When she meets two street dancers who&#8217;ve got the freshest pops, locks, and head spins on the West Coast, all three team up, share moves and get ready to take the dance-off by storm!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home all the Hip Hop cult classics of the 1980s!

*Wild Style, Beat Street, Rappin&#8217;, Delivery Boys*

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

Breakin’

Libeled Lady

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness, this English-dubbed reedit of the first two films in the classic Japanese *chanbara* series LONE WOLF AND CUB is a giddily entertaining, mesmerisingly gory classic of East-meets-West grindhouse mayhem. Following the murder of his wife at the hands of an evil shogun, an avenging ronin (Tomisaburo Wakayama) roams the countryside with his young son—and the boy’s sword-shooting baby carriage—in tow, dispatching ninja assassins with steely resolve in operatically stylized flurries of hallucinatory violence. With its pulsing synth soundtrack and delirious action set pieces—kinetically edited whirlwinds of flashing blades, spurting blood, and severed limbs—SHOGUN ASSASSIN proved an instant cult favorite that has bubbled its way up from the underground to the mainstream thanks to its influence on artists ranging from the Wu-Tang Clan to Quentin Tarantino.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan/USA

Co-presented by 36 Cinema Special thanks to Harry Guerro for the print ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents SHOGUN ASSASSIN

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English and Polish with English subtitles.*

A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany (Charli XCX) and her soon-to-be fiancé, Rob (Will Madden) in Warsaw, Poland. Bethany takes the explosive event as a sign to ditch her baggage, reunite with childhood friend Nel (Lena Góra) and traipse across lofts, clubs and back alleys, all the while becoming entangled in an emotional web that challenges her sense of self.

From American maverick Pete Ohs, who wrote, directed, edited, photographed and produced this dizzyingly charming European postcard, comes ERUPCJA, a delightful anti-romantic comedy about the pains and pleasures of being in love.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 1-2 Special

COUNTRY: USA/Poland

ERUPCJA

RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate

Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered absurdity as Netflix Is a Joke Fest presents a special screening of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!—the film that redefined the spoof comedy genre and cemented Lt. Frank Drebin as an all-time cult hero.

Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered absurdity as Netflix Is a Joke Fest presents a special screening of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!—the film that redefined the spoof comedy genre and cemented Lt. Frank Drebin as an all-time cult hero.


The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad!

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 15, “Slaves and Masters,” Dir. Diane Keaton, 46 Mins**

Earle sends a “message” to Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 16, “The Condemned Woman,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Albert reveals that it was Josie who shot Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

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

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

“Slaves and Masters” and “The Condemned Woman” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 15 and 16

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love and survival in the age of late capitalism. Amid the consumerist wonderland of a shopping mall, a cadre of store employees bounce in and out of one another’s arms in a cycle of breakups, makeups, misunderstandings and reunions, their romantic roundelay punctuated by imaginatively stylized production numbers. Working with frequent star Delphine Seyrig and a remarkable team of writers—who between them penned everything from JULES AND JIM to DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN—Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with piercing variations on her signature themes, including a startlingly moving reflection on Jewish resilience and the legacy of the Holocaust.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Belgium/France/Switzerland

40th Anniversary ‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

GOLDEN EIGHTIES

Seven in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

David Attenborough draws on a lifetime of experience to reveal Earth’s most spectacular underwater habitats, showing that we’re in the greatest age of Ocean discovery and highlighting its vital importance. While exposing the Ocean’s biggest challenges, Attenborough’s message is one of hope: the opportunity for marine life recovery on an unprecedented scale is within reach .

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: National Geographic Documentary Films

COUNTRY: UK

Q&A with filmmaker Keith Scholey Tote bag giveaway courtesy of National Geographic Official ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2026’ Selection Happy Birthday, David Attenborough!

OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Join drawings curator Stephanie Schrader and Getty's sustainability director Camille Kirk for a behind-the-scenes experience in the private study room of Getty's drawings collection. Look closely and hear about works that depict nature and flowers in celebration of Mother Earth and Mother's Day. 

A Bouquet of Drawings

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Greek with English subtitles.*

In its irreverent use of (new) Nouvelle Vague, musical, melodrama and nature documentary, ATTENBERG symbolically visualizes a change in generation and perspective as a father and daughter gently negotiate their individual rites of passage. The film follows a visionary architect who has come home to die in the vanishing industrial town that is his legacy to his daughter. Meanwhile, his daughter (played by Ariane Labed, in a performance that won her the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival) is exploring the mysteries of kissing with her girlfriend, and the beyond with a visiting engineer. Tsangari’s film—with a soundtrack featuring Françoise Hardy and Suicide—is poised between sincerity and hilarity, tradition and experimentation.

DISTRIBUTOR: Strand Releasing

COUNTRY: Greece

Q&A with filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari. Moderated by Carson Lund. Part of “Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari,” a retrospective of the Greek director’s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots and the Los Feliz 3

ATTENBERG

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Greek with English subtitles.*

Six men set out on the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht, and before long, male bonding and one-upmanship give way to a loosely defined yet hotly contested competition to determine which of them is “the best in general.” As the games and trials grow more elaborate and absurd—everything is up for judgment, from sleeping positions to cholesterol levels to furniture-assembly skills—insecurities emerge and power relations shift. As in her breakthrough ATTENBERG, Athina Rachel Tsangari balances anthropological precision with a wry and wholly original sense of humor. Impeccably staged, crisply photographed and buoyed by eclectic soundtrack choices (Petula Clark, Mark Lanegan), this maritime psychodrama becomes both funnier and richer in its implications as it progresses. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Strand Releasing

COUNTRY: Greece

Q&A with filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari Part of “Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari,” a retrospective of the Greek director’s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots and the Los Feliz 3

CHEVALIER

We are here tonight! This is me!

I think I did it again.

Are you getting this?

It’s an honor to be drawn by you.

I think I might cry.

Do you ever get lonely in there?

I think you look really cute with your hair that short.

Makes me regret my haircut that I just got.

Good Modeling Picture!!

**Screenwriter**: Anthony Weintraub from the manga by Taiyō Matsumoto

**Producers**: Masao Teshima, Ayao Ueda, Fumio Ueda, Eiichi Kamagata

An animated action adventure and manga-based marvel! Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

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

Tekkonkinkreet

We&#8217;re cranking up the Elmo 16CL projector for another round of obscure 16mm rarities, this time all from the late 1940s through the early 1960s with a slate of social engineering films designed to create model citizens and healthy adults. From strangers with candy to high school dropouts, to puberty&#8217;s pitfalls and civic responsibility, these largely forgotten gems are laughably out-of-date and teeming with an antiquated morality you can only find in yesteryear. Films include ***The Dangerous Stranger*** (1949) the stranger danger film that started it all from the king of the scare film Sid Davis, ***The Dropout** *(1962) for the ne&#8217;er-do-wells, ***Molly Grows Up*** (1953) menstrutainment at its finest, ***The Meaning of Adolescence*** (1953) to guide you through those awkward years, ***Responsibility*** (1953) from Herk Harvey &#8211; the director of *Carnival of Souls*, and the incredibly rare NFBC global responsibility primer ***Our Town is the World***  (1950s, Canada), plus more celluloid rarities and a surprise pre-show for the early birds! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm: Mid-Century Social Guidance Classics

Join us for a screening of *Of Color and Ink*, a documentary about the remarkable journey of artist Chang Dai-chien (1899–1983), China’s foremost painter of the 20th century. Director Weimin Zhang documents her 12-year journey to unravel the mysteries and controversies surrounding Chang’s decades of exile in South America, Europe, and the United States. In the 1940s, Chang spent a formative period in Dunhuang, studying and copying the ancient Mogao Cave murals— [the subject of a 2016 Getty Research Institute exhibition][1]—which inspired renewed public interest in the murals and refined Chang’s techniques. *Of Color and Ink* offers an illuminating, revelatory, and entertaining exploration of one of the most influential giants of 20th-century art.

The film will be followed by a conversation with director and producer Weimin Zhang, writer Carl Nagin, director of the Chang Dai-chien Research Center Yudan Zhang, and USC professor Meiling Cheng.

After the screening, join us for a reception sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council.

DIRECTED, PRODUCED and EDITED BY: Weimin Zhang. 102 minutes, 2024. Chinese with English subtitles.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][2] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.

誠邀您參加紀錄片《萬里千尋》（Of Color and Ink）的放映及研討會。本片講述了從東方走向西方的藝術家張大千（1899–1983）的非凡人生歷程。作為20世紀中國最重要的畫家之一，張大千曾被譽為「五百年來第一人」 以及「東方的畢加索」。

導演張偉民歷時十二年，影片深入挖掘大量珍貴的歷史活動影像與文獻資料，真實呈現張大千鮮為人知的海外藝術生涯， 極具文獻價值。20世紀40年代，張大千曾在敦煌度過一段重要時期，潛心研究並臨摹莫高窟壁畫——這一主題亦成為2016年蓋蒂研究所展覽的焦點——不僅重新激發了世人對敦煌壁畫的關注，也進一步錘鍊並昇華了他的藝術技法。

透過創新的影像語言與視覺風格，《萬里千尋》通過對歷史影像的深入挖掘與分析，以及大量實地調研與紀錄拍攝，生動刻畫了一位東方藝術家對中國傳統文化理念的堅守與傳播，使當代觀眾得以感受這位具有全球影響力的藝術家的心路歷程。

放映結束後，將舉行映後對談。出席嘉賓包括導演兼製片人張偉民、作家 Carl Nagin、四川博物院張大千研究中心主任張玉丹，以及主持人——南加州大學戲劇批評研究教授鄭美玲。

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][3] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][4] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/cave_temples_dunhuang/index.html
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *Of Color and Ink*

Join us to celebrate the opening of a new art exhibition featuring the experimental and esoteric work of Harry Smith!

Brain Drawings: The Art of Harry Smith - Exhibition Opening Reception

Every 1st Thursday of the month 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 free 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.

8pm

North Star Sessions

Scribble

**Screenwriter**: François Ozon from the novel by Albert Camus

**Producer**: François Ozon

Nihilism has never looked so good as in François Ozon&#8217;s stunning and sensual adaptation of Albert Camus&#8217;s existential classic. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny from all corners for his failure to perform his grief. This reputation for otherworldly detachment follows Meursault back toAlgiers, where his tentative romance with Marie (Rebecca Marder) and his indifference to professional advancement frustrate those around him. As Meursault gets swept up in a cycle of escalating reprisals among his neighbors, tensions come to a head when he murders an Arab man on the beach. A Frenchman may offer many defenses for shooting an Arab in Algeria, but Meursault’s refusal of excuse or remorse shakes colonial society to its core. Photographed in sterling, sensuous black-and-white, François Ozon’s new take on Albert Camus’s classic novel of existentialist ennui is a landmark of adaptation, simultaneously faithful to the text and dedicated to discovering fresh perspectives in the margins.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

The Stranger

**Screenwriter**: David Cronenberg

**Producers**: David Cronenberg, András Hámori, Robert Lantos

One of David Cronenberg’s most prophetic and thrilling achievements!   Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Defoe, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm and Christopher Eccleston all collide in this epic take on the gaming era – one as important to Y2K as *Videodrome* is to the ‘80s.   The film’s many layers of sci-fi excellence feel ripped from the pages of Phillip K. Dick and William Burroughs.

In the terrifying near-future, game designer Allegra Geller (Leigh) and her mousy publicist (Law) disappear down the VR rabbit hole to fend off deadly assassins and repair her controversial game “eXistenZ” from the inside.  Cronenberg brilliantly gives this world the feel of video game cutscenes with a psychosexual edge: electronic umbilical cords, *Total Recall-*style reality shattering and other kinks.

*New 4K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Cronenberg is one of the all-time masters of horror, take home more morbid masterpieces tonight!

*Dead Ringers, Crash, Videodrome*

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

eXistenZ

Red Beard (Akahige) in 35mm

Once Upon a Time in China with Jet Li

Commune with the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees, in a living work of art created by Robert Irwin.  Experience the wonder of the spring garden through the eyes of an artist in this 45-minute tour led by Getty Horticulturist Jackie Flor. 

National Public Gardens Day

THE JOURNEY Parts 9-12

Michele O&#8217;Marah and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer join Now Instant for a special presentation of O&#8217;Marah&#8217;s 2012 *Blow Me!*, followed by a conversation between the two.

Blow Me!

**Screenwriter**: Joel Alfonso Vargas

**Producer**: Paolo Maria Pedullà

In a tight-knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg &#8220;nutcracker&#8221; cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature, teaming up with discovery talent Collado and Checo, to deliver a raw and deeply authentic look at life in The Bronx. With humor and grit, Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn.

Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

Mezzanine presents VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi), a film by Agnes Varda. 1985, France, 105m, DCP.

Followed by a conversation with writer Megan O’Grady and Carolina A. Miranda.

On occasion of the release of her new book, *How It Feels to Be Alive*, we are thrilled to have celebrated art critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in person to present Agnès Varda’s masterpiece, starring Sandrine Bonnaire as a young female hitchhiker wandering aimlessly through the unearthly winter landscape of southern France.

Special thanks to Thora Siemsen and Brian Belovarac (Janus Films).

**Megan O’Grady** is a critic and essayist whose writing draws from history, memoir, and the lyric essay. Her magazine and newspaper journalism on contemporary art and literature are often extensions of larger inquiries into representation and identity, explored through immersive reading and looking. The personal and social contexts of art and the way in which it negotiates cultural conversations over time are ongoing preoccupations. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, where she created the Culture Therapist column, her work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Vogue, where she was once a contributing editor. Her book, How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) considers the influence of books and art on our attention and imagination, their rippling impact on our self-conception and the way we move in the world.

**Carolina A. Miranda** is a writer in Los Angeles who covers the intersection of design and visual culture with politics and society. Until 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she reported on subjects such as museums and race, architecture and the pandemic, and the ways in which communities are rethinking the nature of monuments. She has produced stories for the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, Artnews, Alta Journal and Fresh Air, and is a regular contributor for public radio station KCRW. She was a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism and a recipient of the 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She is currently at work on a book about culture and authoritarianism in Chile.

Mezzanine: Agnès Varda's VAGABOND w/ Megan O'Grady

2220 Arts + Archives

Ponyo

Grand Guignol Silent Shorts

Bearing Witness: 10 Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

Join us for a special Earth Day celebration featuring ecological artist and herbalist Paige Emery, which will include a talk and brunch inspired by historical cookbooks from the Getty Library collection.

While visitors enjoy select recipes, Paige will be joined in conversation with Melissa Goldstein—founder and editor of *Mother Tongue* magazine—to explore rituals of remembering the earth. Together, they will reflect on how art, healing practices, and ecological thought can reconnect us to ancestral memory and inspire more just and embodied futures. 

Following the talk, Emery will perform a sound piece in the Getty Central Garden, weaving together the healing arts and critical ecology, ecopoetics and socio-environmental practice, inviting us to imagine deeper relationships with the natural world.

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

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][2] for more free programs.


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

Tastemakers: Earth Mother with Paige Emery

Intro to Leatherworking

While making a small accessories pouch, learn the basics of working with leather. This will cover different types of leather, terms and tools for working with chrome tanned pieces. This is a hands class on with sharp tools and Sharpies and is intended for beginners 14 years and older. Leave the class with a new appreciation for leather and take home a small finished pouch and a pattern to make more if you fall in love with the craft!

For more work by C&J Goods visit...

[http://www.candjgoods.com](http://www.candjgoods.com/)

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (5/9)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

REPAST

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

Human Highway

Jaromil Jireš’s mesmerizingly dreamlike Czech New Wave fantasy—a lush, surreal tale of transformation, enchantment, & dark fairytale wonder

Jaromil Jireš’s VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970)

Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is an installation that responds in real time to Earth’s internal rumblings – an artificial ecosystem with pre-digital sensibility. In *RedSkyFalls*, the mountainous landscape of a computer desktop serves as a habitat for aquatic plants and small luminous organisms with an animal intuition, the *Réplicas*, nestled inside the grooves of aluminium plates. Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is on view at the Portugal Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from **May 9 to November 22**, and is curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau.

Built from a calibrated mix of animal parts drawn from a dark cauldron, each *Réplica* borrows its vital pulse from the beat of a heart in a fly’s leg, the wave of a fish larva’s tail, and the quiver of a rat’s whisker. This patchwork of movement engraves onto the metal plate a linear fossil, a path where light generates a figure that continuously fulfills its hollow-graphic fate.

From **May 9-July 5,** REDCAT hosts a reproduction of one of the *Réplicas* of *RedSkyFalls*. In Los Angeles, as in Venice, the piece reacts to live seismic activity worldwide. Other *Réplicas* will be installed in San Francisco, California (CCA Wattis Institute); Lima, Peru (Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI); and Lisbon, Portugal (Galeria Zé dos Bois). The piece is installed in highly seismic geographies, where it responds to tectonic events with higher synchronicity, building an extended relational infrastructure. 

[More about *RedSkyFalls*](http://www.redskyfalls.com) by Alexandre Estrela at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

RedSkyFalls (Réplica): 61st La Biennale di Venezia – Portuguese Pavilion

**Producers**: Diane Ademu-John,  Carl Deal,  Tia Lessin,  Karen Ranucci,  Caren Spruch, Tony Tabatznik

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the *Democracy Now!* newsroom. In *Steal This Story, Please!*, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. *Steal This Story, Please!* is a gripping account of the trailblazing journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show *Democracy Now!*, Goodman amplifies stories and voices too often silenced by commercial media.

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (*Trouble the Water, Citizen Koch, The Janes*) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a media landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press and on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, *Steal This Story, Please!* is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press stops challenging power?

Steal This Story, Please!

**Screenwriters**: Jules Feiffer, E.C. Segar

**Producer**: Robert Evans

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome stars and comedic legends **Paul Dooley **and** Donovan Scott** for a post screening conversation! 

Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall exude overpowering charm in Robert Altman&#8217;s endearing tribute to the original Fleischer Brothers spinach-scarfing sailor man. Popeye goes searching for his father but washes ashore after a storm and winds up meeting his beloved Olive Oyl. But Olive&#8217;s fiancé, Bluto isn&#8217;t going to step aside without a fight. A delightful and quirky manic musical fantasy world from one of the great masters of American cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Robert Altman was one of the best directors to ever live! Take home some of his many masterpieces tonight!

*3 Women, California Split, Nashville* (and dozens more!)

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

Popeye

**Screenwriter**: Hiroshi Takahashi

**Producer**: Nobuhiro Iizuka

Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry outcarry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, *Serpent’s Path* is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart.

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

Serpent’s Path

Terms of Endearment in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**FLOWING, 1956, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 116 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Three super-stars lead a great cast: head-of-the-geisha-house Isuzu Yamada looks on the bright side, while daughter Hideko Takamine works that sewing machine. But quietly observing maid Kinuyo Tanaka is the only one who actually realizes the inevitable end of their world in a harsh post-war Tokyo.

FORMAT: 35mm

**MOTHER, 1952, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 98 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on a children’s essay adapted by famed Japanese screenwriter Yoko Mizuki in her first work for Naruse, Mother stars the legendary actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka as a beleaguered working class matron, whose self-sacrificing efforts to maintain her family during Tokyo’s postwar reconstruction make her a paragon of maternal virtue in the eyes of her teenage daughter Toshiko (Kyoko Kagawa). Toshiko idealizes her mother and the value system she embodies, a naive perspective that pleasantly lifts what in fact unfurls as a bitterly sad, episodic tale of slow-burn economic emmiseration. Anticipating the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien in its ironically sentimental vision of Confucian dissolution, Naruse’s film is a melodramatic tearjerker for the ages.

FORMAT: 35mm

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

FLOWING / MOTHER

Screening of Fuck My Son! with special Mother&#8217;s Day Q+A

Synopsis: An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan&#8217;s joyfully disgusting comic book.

Current Q&A confirmed:

Todd Rohal (Writer/Director)

Johnny Ryan (Comic Book Writer)

Tipper Newton (Actress)

Robert Longstreet (Actor)

Steve Little (Actor)

Johnny Ryan&#8217;s Biological Mother

Tipper Newton&#8217;s Biological Mother

Fuck My Son!

Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present the LA premiere of Doris Wishman’s final movie: *Dildo Heaven*, unreleased and unseen since its festival debut in 2002. This special Mother’s Day tribute will feature a conversation with filmmakers and former Wishman crew members Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon and Elizabeth Pauker, director of the forthcoming documentary *AKA Doris Wishman*. The feature will be preceded by Ascher’s 2020 short film *Doris Wishman Directs A Music Video*.

Roommates Lisa, Beth, and Tess are three young women who each share the same goal of hooking up with their respective male bosses. While their attempts at seduction get off to a rough start, their peeping tom neighbor Billy spends his days spying through keyholes and trying to get a piece of the action. Will these roommates finally make it with their managers? And what about Billy?

Octogenarian filmmaker and “Queen of Sexploitation” Doris Wishman was working at a sex shop in Miami in the early 90s when she met experimental musician Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A.), spurring a full-blown career revival that saw her honored at film festivals around the world and featured on HBO’s *Real Sex* and *Late Night with Conan O’Brien*. Intended to be her comeback movie, Dildo Heaven premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival just months before her passing in 2002 and then was never officially widely released until now. A charming shot-on-video sex comedy that defies all description–and surely the only movie by a senior citizen to feature an original rap theme song–*Dildo Heaven* (also known as *Desperate Desires*) is a fitting swan song for one of the most beloved cult filmmakers of all time.

Dildo Heaven

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In this four-time Oscar nominated film (including Best Picture), Jason Robards stars as a nonconformist who is forced to find a conventional job.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Chandler Levack ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Chandler Levack Presents A THOUSAND CLOWNS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s indie music scene in 2011. Based in part on Chandler Levack’s own young adulthood prior to becoming a professional music critic and filmmaker, the film stars Barbie Ferreira as Grace Pine, a young woman who moves to Montreal, Quebec, with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill but instead becomes romantically involved with Archi (Devon Bostick) and Chevy (Stanley Simons), two members of the aspiring indie rock band Bone Patrol, and takes a job as the band’s publicist.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sumerian Pictures

COUNTRY: Canada

MILE END KICKS

The seriously spaced-out masterwork that's a psychedelic see-it-to-believe it experience! Plus a primo selection of sci-fi animated shorts!

Helmut Herbst's THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS + Spaced-Out Shorts!

**Screenwriter**: Ernest Lehman

**Producer**: Robert Wise

The hills are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews in this much-beloved musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein and versatile film director Robert Wise. In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home. The winner of 5 Academy Awards, this celebrated musical is ready to warm your heart all over again. So dress your family in matching lederhosen and get ready to get swept away in the magic, music, and warmth of *The Sound of Music*.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Robert Wise classics from his director&#8217;s section tonight!

*I Want to Live!, The Andromeda Strain, West Wide Story*

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

The Sound of Music Sing Along

**Screenwriter**: Catherine Johnson

**Producers**: Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman

Calling all Dancing Queens! Spend your Mother&#8217;s Day with Vidiots and the mother of all jukebox musicals! You&#8217;ll want to Gimme gimme gimme this joyous musical jam-packed with the rousing tunes of everyone&#8217;s favorite Swedish quartet &#8211; ABBA. National treasure Meryl Streep plays an independent, single mother an hotelier on a luscious and scenic Greek island. As her daughter (Amanda Seyfried) prepares for her wedding day, she sets about to find her biological father by reaching out to three of her mother&#8217;s former lovers. So get ready for an entertaining musical vacation you&#8217;ll want to sing along to from start to triumphant finish!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Mother&#8217;s Day recommendations? Take home these entertaining heart-warmers to share with your family!

*Steel Magnolias, Akeelah and the Bee, Mermaids*

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

Mamma Mia! on 35mm

The Wages of Fear in 4K

Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku) in 35mm

Advance Screening, Q&A, and Live Performance

Join Rostam for the Los Angeles premiere of American Stories: A Concert Film, featuring 8 songs from both the new album and Rostam’s catalog, in anticipation of his upcoming album American Stories (out May 15). The 34-minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with Rostam and director Antony Muse and an intimate live performance from Rostam.

The Servant in 4K

2:30 PM

Yojimbo (Yojinbo) in 35mm

7:30 PM

BAIT

7:30 PM

Phase IV

7:00 PM

Starship Troopers

9:15 PM

Members-Only Advance Screening—Widow's Bay and Post Screening Conversation

7:00 PM

KONTINENTAL '25

1:00 PM

THE JOURNEY Parts 1-4

3:30 PM

“Uprising in Jazak,”

TITO AMONG THE SERBS FOR THE SECOND TIME

7:00 PM

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

10:00 PM

Training Day

Narc

6:00 PM

Reservoir Dogs

11:59 PM

There’ll Likely be Michael Jackson Vigils Throughout the Night

Alpha

Lady Snowblood

4:00 PM

The Big Lebowski

7:00 PM

Shaolin Soccer

9:45 PM

Numbskull Revolution

10:15 PM

Normal

Torchy Gets Her Man/Torchy Blane in Chinatown

7:30 PM

Batman Begins

11:30 PM