### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson), a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett) and Zissou’s estranged wife (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure-comedy.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, 2006, Dir. Christopher Guest, 86 Mins, Warner Bros., USA**

Debut feature director Jay Berman (Christopher Guest), steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film Home for Purim, an intimate period drama about a Jewish family’s turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch’s favorite holiday. When Internet-generated rumors begin circulating that three of Purim’s stars–faded luminary Marilyn Hack (Catherine O’Hara), journeyman actor and former hot dog pitchman Victor Allan Miller (Harry Shearer) and ingenue Callie Webb (Parker Posey)–may be perpetrating Award-worthy performances, a rumble of excitement rattles the cast. Meanwhile, Purim’s screenwriters, Lane Iverson (Michael McKean) and Philip Koontz (Bob Balaban) grow steadily more horrified as they watch the first film adaptation of their work diverge from their original story. As the hopeful Purim team careens toward the end of production and the upcoming Award season, tenuous relationships and brittle dreams play out in unexpected ways.

FORMAT: DCP

**A MIGHTY WIND, 2003, Dir. Christopher Guest, 91 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.

FORMAT: 35mm

20th Anniversary of FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ‘Starring Catherine O’Hara’

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION / A MIGHTY WIND

Aero Theatre

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Breathless

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic &#8220;games&#8221; with one another for their own amusement.

Funny Games

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

On the eve of the Academy Awards, join the Oscar nominated costume designers for an intimate conversation and insights into their creative process.

Panel with costume designers Miyako Bellizzi, Ruth E. Carter, Kate Hawley, Deborah L. Scott and Malgosia Turzanska Presented by UCLA TFT’s David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, in partnership with American Cinematheque.

Sketch to Screen Panel

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The Art Directors Guild will be presenting its 20th celebration of the art of Production Design at the Egyptian Theatre.

Panel with production designers Tamara Deverell, Fiona Crombie, Jack Fisk, Florencia Martin and Hannah Beachler and set decorators Shane Vieau, Alice Felton, Adam Willis, Anthony Carlino and Monique Champagne Sponsored by Variety

The Art of Production Design Panel

Egyptian Theatre

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

Selected Shorts: Virtue & Vice

Getty Center

*New director’s cut*

Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (*Winter’s Bone*), *Conbody vs Everybody* follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned?

Director: Debra Granik With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher.

As Conbody’s profile rises with increased media attention, Coss works to find investors and secure a permanent space.

DCP.

Conbody trainer Shane hits a setback and Coss and the team pitch in to help. 

DCP.

Syretta starts as a trainer at Conbody after her recent return home from prison. Coss supports his younger brother’s first run for City Council.

DCP.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

Conbody vs Everybody: Episodes 1–3

*North American premiere of new director’s cut
*

Each year, 650,000 people are released from prison in the U.S., only to confront stigma and systemic exclusion. Directed by Debra Granik (*Winter’s Bone*), *Conbody vs Everybody* follows Coss Marte, a former drug dealer turned fitness entrepreneur, and his community of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers as they build a gym — and a life — on their own terms. Spanning eight years, the five-part docuseries captures their humor, grit and moral clarity amid gentrification and the pandemic, asking one of the most urgent moral questions of our time: after someone serves their sentence, why do we keep them imprisoned?

Director: Debra Granik. With: Coss Marte, Syretta Wright, Derek Drescher.

Coss celebrates five years home from prison. The team changes locations and new trainers join the team. Coss grows increasingly frustrated with reluctant investors. Includes an appearance by late actor Michael K. Williams.

DCP.

Coss and the CONBODY team navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests as they take hold in New York City. Coss’ brother takes another run at City Council. Coss and his girlfriend Roxie take a step forward together.

DCP.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

Conbody vs Everybody: Episodes 4–5

Hammer Museum

“What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” edited by Udo Kittelmann, is a sweeping odyssey into the depths of human experience, unfolding through film and video. Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the U.S., this audiovisual poem experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling.

Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines. It dissolves the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.

“What a Wonderful World” presents a wide range of groundbreaking works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, or Lu Yang, alongside cinematic milestones by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. Together, these works form a panoramic and layered portrait of humanity and history across 120 years: altogether ironic, sincere, critical and compassionate.

“What a Wonderful World” will unfold as an explorative journey, a cinematic mystery tour, a soul-stirring experience. It invites visitors to confront the secrets and fragilities of humanity while holding up a mirror to the state of the world today.

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

Julia Stoschek Foundation at the Variety Arts Theater

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on the short story “The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa” by Yasunari Kawabata (winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature), director Mikio Naruse’s first sound film vibrantly captures the social fabric of Asakusa, Japan’s largest entertainment district at the time, with musical flair and tenderness. Inspired by the visual storytelling of the silent film era, Naruse builds tension with nuanced sound design and inventive camerawork, vividly tracing the sisters’ distinct emotional arcs. A poignant exploration of women’s roles and lives in 1930s Japan, THREE SISTERS WITH MAIDEN HEARTS is a heartfelt portrait of three siblings choosing survival, sacrifice and the bonds that hold them together.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

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

THREE SISTERS WITH MAIDEN HEARTS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

“Who are…you?”

Mima Kirigoe, a former pop idol, makes a bold transition into acting, taking on a role in a drama that includes a disturbing assault scene, and even releasing a provocative nude photo book. Her dramatic reinvention grabs public attention, but also provokes unease among her fans, her manager and even herself as she struggles with the rapid shift from her days as a pop idol. As a stalker begins to shadow her, a screenwriter and a photographer are murdered one after another. “Did I kill them?” Mima begins to wonder if a split personality is gradually taking over, just like the character that she plays in the drama. Then “the other Mima” the pop idol who was supposed to have “graduated,” appears in front of her…

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

COUNTRY: Japan

PERFECT BLUE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Robert Duvall’s Oscar-winning performance dominates this study of Mac Sledge, a hard-drinking country singer whose latest binge has left him stranded at a remote and run-down Texas motel owned by a young widow whose joys in life are her young son and singing in her church choir. Penniless, Mac offers to work “a couple of days” to pay his bill, a stay that’s extended indefinitely when the two fall in love.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

TENDER MERCIES

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of a beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. Also starring Bella Heathcote, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Christina Hendricks and Desmond Harrington.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon Studios

COUNTRY: USA

‘Watch Local: Living Large at the Paramour Estate’

THE NEON DEMON

Los Feliz Theatre

The Decameron

Expose Me, Lovely

New Beverly Cinema

Reynaldo Rivera joins Now Instant to present the Los Angeles premiere of his debut feature, *Fistful of Love*.

This ticketed presentation and post-screening conversation will be followed by a free public reception and slideshow celebrating the launch of *Propiedad Privada, *Rivera&#8217;s latest publication, released by Semiotext(e).

Screening: 6pm

Reception: 8pm

Fistful of Love + Propiedad Privada

Now Instant Image Hall

Join us as we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of David Byrne's affectionate mosaic of the extraordinariness of ordinariness!

David Byrne's TRUE STORIES (1986) — 40th Anniversary!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Robert Gordon from the novels by Daniel Handler

**Producers**: Albie Hecht,  Laurie MacDonald,  Walter F. Parkes

Vidiots remembers the remarkable warmth, talent, and gifts of the legendary **Catherine O’Hara **with a special screening of *Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events*

A delightfully gothic adventure for your budding bookworms from the book series by Daniel Handler, with wit, whimsy, and delectable art direction and costuming! Three unfortunate orphan siblings are sent to live with an eccentric and scheming relative whose only interest is their inheritance. As the children try to escape his dastardly clutches, he dons a number of ridiculous disguises to fool them back into the fold. Nominated four 4 Academy Awards and winner of Best Makeup with an incredible cast including Catherine O&#8217;Hara, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, and of course shapeshifter Jim Carrey, this stylish romp is ready for our big screen!

**Remembering Catherine O’Hara**

Catherine O’Hara, our scene stealing, impossibly funny, impeccably comically timed, deeply human, perfectly wigged icon, we will miss you so. Thank you for making us laugh til we cried and lighting up generations of artists to seize art and life with a vigor only you could inspire. We’ll be celebrating you in our video store and on our big screen always.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to bring more Catherine O’Hara brilliance home? Check out some of these delights on physical media:

*After Hours, SCTV, Waiting for Guffman*

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

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

**Screenwriter**: Michel Franco

**Producers**: Michel Franco,  Alexander Rodnyansky,  Eréndira Núñez Larios

Join us in the microcinema for Michel Franco&#8217;s shocking new tense and sensual provocation starring Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández. A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he crosses the US-Mexico border and lands a starring role in the local ballet company, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together as well as her comfortable and privileged existence. Sexy, timely, and sobering, this disquieting gem will take you on a ride of emotions from lust to disgust with an ending that will haunt you for days.

Dreams

**Screenwriters**: Matt Johnson,  Jay McCarrol

**Producers**: Matt Greyson,  Matthew Miller

The microcinema is heading back to the year 2008 for the funniest Canadian lo-fi indie buddy time travel comedy of the year! When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Laugh out loud funny, inventive, and magnificently DIY, you&#8217;ll never stop thanking the Canadian government for supporting independent film!

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

**Screenwriters**: Collier Young, Ida Lupino

**Producer**: Collier Young

A taut and unnerving true crime classic from Ida Lupino. Roughly based on the killing spree of Billy Cook, this harrowing film follows two friends &#8211; Roy and Gilbert &#8211; who unknowingly pick up a sadistic serial killer on the lam off the side of the road who terrorizes them day and night in his attempt to evade justice for his previous slayings. William Talman as the sicko with a gun (and a permanently open eye) is truly a terrifying presence, bringing a visceral dread to the film, and to your nightmares shortly thereafter. The first film noir directed by a woman, *The Hitch-Hiker* is an unsettling treasure of 1950s cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more Ida Lupino gems? See her in front of and behind the camera in these classics:

*The Bigamist, Outrage, Columbo: Short Fuse + Swan Song, Twilight Zone: The 16mm Shrine (*star*) + The Masks (*director*)*

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

The Hitch-Hiker

**Screenwriters**: Christopher Guest,  Eugene Levy

**Producer**: Karen Murphy

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome back our neighbor, screen legend **John Michael Higgins** for a special screening of *A Mighty Wind* in remembrance of the remarkable **Catherine O&#8217;Hara, **followed by a conversation with Higgins!

*Hey, wha&#8217; happened?* We&#8217;re getting folksy AND getting the bands back together for Christopher Guest&#8217;s third hilarious mockumentary/musical, *A Mighty Wind* starring a dozen of the funniest people on the planet. Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor. With all the *Spinal Tap* band members as their alternate personas as *The Folksmen*, Catherine O&#8217;Hara and Eugene Levy as *Mitch and Mickey*, the doomed ex-lovers, and the *New Main Street Singers* who worship colors, it&#8217;s a cavalcade of washed up talent all ready for the stage again after all these years. The songs themselves range from authentic and beautiful, to historically grim, to downright hilarious and toe tapping, while the story has more bittersweet and human moments than its predecessors while never skimping on the laughs. Get your tickets for the comeback concert of the year &#8211; while they still last!

**Remembering Catherine O’Hara**

Catherine O’Hara, our scene stealing, impossibly funny, impeccably comically timed, deeply human, perfectly wigged icon, we will miss you so. Thank you for making us laugh til we cried and lighting up generations of artists to seize art and life with a vigor only you could inspire. We’ll be celebrating you in our video store and on our big screen always.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to bring more Catherine O’Hara brilliance home? Check out some of these delights on physical media:

*After Hours, SCTV, Waiting for Guffman*

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

A Mighty Wind on 35mm

Vidiots invites you back for more archival celluloid weirdness with a one-of-a-kind night of eye-popping, mind-bending, surreal, and hallucinatory 16mm short films culled from the incredible archives of **Smokehouse Films**.  From the 1920s through the 1970s, these are some of the most visually arresting films ever made including Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s seminal masterpiece ***Un Chien Andalou***, as well as works by Hans Richter, Jan Svankmajer, Jan Lenica, Ladisla Starevich, Man Ray, and more! Trust us, your eyeballs will never be the same!

Featuring:

***Un Chien Andalou*** (“*The Andalusian Dog*”, B+W, 1928)

Made in France by the brilliant Spanish director Luis Buñuel and the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. *Un Chien Andalou* is one of the best-known surrealist films of the avant-garde movement of the 1920s. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes that attempt to shock the viewer’s inner psyche. Its opening scene is one of the most famous in cinema history.

***Le Retour a la Raison*** (B+W, 1923)

A lush and hypnotic experimental film in which white specks and shapes gyrate over a black background, a light-striped torso, and a spinning egg crate &#8211; It consists of animated textures, rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse. One of the first Dadaist films and the first film made by Man Ray when he relocated to Paris.

**About John Cannizzaro and Smokehouse Films**

John Cannizzaro is a filmmaker whose works rotate between stop-motion animation and experimental films &#8211; often with an ethnographic element to them. As an archivist, his large collection of 16mm film prints center mainly around those very topics; ethnography, experimental works and stop motion animation.

Surreal 16mm from the Archives of Smokehouse Films

**Screenwriter**: David Loughery

**Producer**: Will Packer

Are you ready to fight to the death with Beyoncé in the boots with the fur? The catfight&#8217;s just getting started in this slick and satisfying thriller of lust, loyalty, and pining after Idris Alba! Things couldn&#8217;t be better for Derek Charles. He&#8217;s just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon. However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa, a temporary worker at Derek&#8217;s office. Lisa begins to stalk Derek, jeopardizing all he holds dear. You&#8217;ve seen the plot before, but you have never seen it with the ultimate Ali Larter/Beyoncé duel that set the world on fire!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Remember when Beyoncé was everywhere in Hollywood? You can take home all her starring roles tonight on physical media!

*Austin Powers: Goldmember, Cadillac Records, Carmen: A Hip Hopera***

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

Obsessed

Vidiots

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Project Hail Mary - 70mm Early Access

Night Moves/The Drowning Pool

The Warriors

Vista Theatre

Lightstruck presents Ulrike Ottinger’s *TAIGA: A Journey to Northern Mongolia*. 501 minutes, English subtitles. 12 noon start time, with two breaks. The film will conclude at approximately 10pm.

Snacks, coffee and tea will be provided, as well as some dinner at the evening break, for a suggested donation.

Digital restoration courtesy of Arsenal with thanks to Carsten Zimmer, Reinhild Feldhaus, and especially Ulrike Ottinger.

∆

“Taiga is an experience that causes us to think about why we live as we do, what it is to be human, and what is important in life.” (Roger Ebert)

Lightstruck is extremely excited to present a truly epic cinematic experience, as we screen Ulrike Ottinger’s nearly 8.5-hour, immersive documentary *Taiga* (1992) in a special all-day screening.

Known for her meticulously crafted experimental narrative films infusing political radicalism with a rich, surrealist opulence, German artist Ulrike Ottinger has also produced a singular body of memorable nonfiction work, though perhaps none so monumental – and mesmerizingly beautiful – as *Taiga*.

During an extended period spent in Northern Mongolia through multiple seasons, Ottinger approached ethnography in a radically different way, rejecting authoritative narrativizing or presumptuous didacticism. The extended length of the film reflects Ottinger’s larger impulse and approach in this project: to spend time – unadulterated, attentive time – with the Northern Mongolians she had befriended, and to enable their own distinctive approach to time and space in everyday life dictate the scale and pace of the film.

Over ten parts and 38 chapters, we see a seance, two weddings, preparation of foods, wrestling contests, music performances, storytelling sessions, and countless other events large and small, yet all equally defining the overall year-to-year and day-to-day experiences of nomadic life in the Darkhad Valley of Northern Mongolia. The film succeeds so brilliantly in part because of the unapologetically and earnestly fascinated gaze with which Ottinger documents what she sees, and the clear love for and engagement with people that the filmmaking reflects.

“I tried to explain my wish, which was to record a way of life that no longer exists in the place where I’ve come from, in order to show the document to the people back home, who are very interested in the nomadic ways. At first this puzzled them, but then they thought, Yes, indeed, we too would be interested to know how your people live…” (Ulrike Ottinger)

Lightstruck: Ulrike Ottinger’s TAIGA (1991/92)

Lightstruck is thrilled to invite you to celebrate the origins of the experimental film community in a 16mm matinee program to complement the big Hollywood to-do later in the day – one show a twisted funhouse mirror vision of the other (but which is which??)

A luminous cinema icon unto himself, Jonas Mekas pioneered a distinctive form of hyper-present 16mm diaristic filmmaking, capturing the resolutely anecdotal with engaging, earthly poetry. But he was also inarguably one of the leading lights of the avant-garde, determined to foment and connect a global independent film community that he saw as utterly crucial to the potential, power, and humanity of the medium.

His feature *Birth of a Nation* radically appropriates a title inextricably linked to cinema history (yet tainted by its own corrupt vision), instead repositioning the phrase to describe and celebrate the myriad brilliant constellations of Mekas’s beloved film community. Utilizing his characteristic handheld camera, quick cutting, and an unparalleled eye for the touchingly mundane, Mekas creates a vital moving image album of filmmakers and assorted film friends that reveals these myths and legends of the avant-garde in all their anecdotal mortality.

Vastly more than a guessing game of who’s who in experimental film (there’s Will Hindle!), the film represents an incredibly rich emotional bridge between the vitality of these people at their moments of capture, and the assembly of this footage by Mekas into a collective portrait at a time (1996) when many were already gone, and their original contexts resolutely in the past. Seeing the film another 30 years further on, it packs an unexpected emotional wallop, as we are welcomed with inviting arms into the throng of a living, breathing community that – at least in its unique idiom and fragile temporality – has essentially disappeared. And yet, thanks to film itself, it still lives and breathes, and our local/global experimental film community is in part an ongoing tribute to the hundreds of folks in this film, who made independent movies and watched them together in independent spaces, just like us.

“We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are Cinema.” (Jonas Mekas)

PROGRAM: *Birth of a Nation* (1996) by Jonas Mekas. 16mm, bw & color, sound, 80 minutes.

Program by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. 16mm print from Film-makers’ Cooperative (which was co-founded by Jonas Mekas).

Lightstruck: Jonas Mekas’s BIRTH OF A NATION (1996)

2220 Arts + Archives

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A teenager with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby’s cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse, and attends funerals, where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core, Maude lives exactly as she pleases, with avid collecting and nude modeling among her many pursuits. To the disgust of Harold’s relatives and the befuddlement of Harold’s shrink, Harold falls in love with her. As lilting Cat Stevens tunes play on the soundtrack, Maude teaches Harold a valuable lesson about making the most of his time on earth.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

HAROLD AND MAUDE

“Like Van Gogh, Fleischer Studios, Robert Crumb, YELLOW SUBMARINE and the abstract-thought section of Pixar’s INSIDE OUT smooshed into a great lysergic cake.” – The Guardian

A superlative animated musical discovery! Touching on a wide range of styles from 1920s Art Deco to 1960s Psychedelia and 1970s Roxy Music-style decadence, BUBBLE BATH is a hypercolored yet relatable Eastern European avant-garde opera about dating problems. This irresistible experience charts the romance between medical student Anikó (a more curvaceous post-modern Betty Boop) and shop window decorator / stoned hippie alleycat Zsolt: both unsure of their attraction to each other, the choices they’ve made and what life has in store for them.

Bubble Bath

&#8220;Rude in the way the truth is rude &#8212; only funnier. The movie seduces with its humor, all the while presenting a realized vision of a harsh, absurd world.&#8221;

— Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Reese Witherspoon as potty-mouthed white trash Vanessa Lutz is among her most underrated roles. In this modern take on Little Red Riding Hood, Kiefer Sutherland plays the not subtly named Bob Wolverton, a serial killer who meets his match in Vanessa, a fifteen year old on her way to her grandmother’s after her parents are both arrested. Bob picks her up hitchhiking, gains her trust and then reveals himself &#8211; but Vanessa is sharp and quick, shooting him and leaving him for dead. Trouble is, he doesn’t die, and instead she finds herself on trial. Can this bad behaving juvenile delinquent win against a well-respected school counselor? You better believe she won’t go down without a fight! Written and directed by Matthew Bright, best known as the screenwriter for FORBIDDEN ZONE, FREEWAY is impressive and often hilarious with a great support cast including Brooke Shields, Amanda Plummer and Dan Hedaya. (Cristina Cacciopo)

Freeway

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

This incomparable story of crime and redemption from the French master Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out. A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, PICKPOCKET is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

PICKPOCKET

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I, 1944, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 103 Mins, Janus Films, Soviet Union**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

FORMAT: 35mm

**IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II, 1956, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 88 Mins, Janus Films, Soviet Union**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

FORMAT: 35mm

Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, IVAN THE TERRIBLE charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detected the portrait in the second film, with its summary executions and secret police, and promptly banned it.

IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I & PART II

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

New York’s Upper West Side takes center stage in this NYC alt-romcom hangout from maverick writer/director Henry Jaglom. Karen Black embodies Zee, a middle-aged woman abandoned by her husband. Wandering the streets of Manhattan and endlessly muttering to herself, she serendipitously meets Eli (Michael Emil) at a sidewalk cafe A topsy-turvy romance ensues as they go to concerts and movies, fight and make love, and traverse city streets filled with real-life pedestrians. Filmed entirely within 20 blocks of the Museum of Natural History, Jaglom’s New York is rounded out with turns by Frances Fisher, Orson Welles and a true to form Larry David.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Hope Runs High

COUNTRY: USA

New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE?

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

The Maiku Hama Trilogy kicks things off in *akushon* black-and-white with THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE, set among the immigrant communities of a multi-cultural Yokohama. When Maiku accidentally saves a Taiwanese immigrant named Yang during a mahjong parlour brawl, he becomes embroiled in a tale of two brothers at the heart of an underground pan-Asian mafia on the brink of war.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Japan

West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration The Maiku Hama Trilogy: Part 1 ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE

Forbidden Letters  / The Night Before

Forbidden Letters

Suzuki's dreamlike and hypnotic meditation on fascination, fixation, and memory!

Seijun Suzuki's TAISHŌ TRILOGY:  ZIGEUNERWEISEN (1980)

Vidiots invites you to don your red carpet best and join us for a big-screen viewing of Hollywood’s most glamorous and award-winning night. Behold the iconic fashion, see the musical acts, cry at the acceptance speeches, and cheer as your favorites win big. We’ll have fun raffles during commercial breaks, cheeky bingo, and lots of photo ops on our pink carpet, hosted by drag performer **Anya Body**. Join us for an unforgettable time and share the magic of movie-making’s biggest night with your fellow Vidiots. Black tie attire encouraged, not required.

Doors will open/ Pink Carpet will begin at **2:00pm** with the Televised Pre-Show on the big screen!

The awards show will begin at **4:00pm**

Submit your ballots before **4:05pm** to be eligible for prizes!

This evening is a fundraiser for the Vidiots Foundation and ticket prices are suggested donations – no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

All paid tickets will come with reserved seating, free tickets will be first-come first-served.

###### This event is not sponsored by or affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Vidiots Presents: That Awards Show

*THE BIBLE AS CECIL B. DEMILLE NEVER FILMED IT!*

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The stories of Adam and Eve, David and Bathsheba, and Sampson and Delilah are given a subversively erotic twist in this bawdy softcore epic from acclaimed Boys in the Sand filmmaker Wakefield Poole.

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Featuring a memorable comedic performance from The Devil in Miss Jones star Georgina Spelvin as Bathsheba, Wakefield Poole’s Bible! is a loving tribute to the women of the Good Book and to Old Hollywood silent cinema. 2K restoration.

(Muscle Distribution)

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**dir. Wakefield Poole, 1973***United States, digital projection*83 min, 1.33:1

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Due to the nature of the material, this screening is ages 18+ only.

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## Sunday, 3/157:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING$10 general admission, $9 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

Wakefield Poole's Bible! (1973)

WHAMMY!

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 4, “Laura’s Secret Diary,” Dir. Todd Holland, 46 Mins**

Agent Cooper gets a strange request to save a life.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 5, “The Orchids Curse,” Dir. Graeme Clifford, 47 Mins**

Agent Cooper and Truman lead a raid on One-Eyed Jacks.

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.

“Laura’s Secret Diary” and “The Orchids Curse” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 4 & 5

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

In 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d’état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Atoms & Void

COUNTRY: Netherlands

Q&A with filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa L.A. Premiere ‘Sergei Loznitsa: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

THE TRIAL

Henry & June

Join us as we celebrate Manly P. Hall's birthday with recollections from Stephan Hoeller, an esteemed lecturer at PRS since the 1970s

Manly P. Hall: Prophet of Consciousness, a talk with Stephan Hoeller

Project Hail Mary 70mm

Brute Force/Criss-Cross

Hollywood Entertainment and Philosophical Research Society's 7th House are honored to present the inimitable Bud Cort’s sole feature as director, co-writer, and star: *Ted & Venus*. With an introduction by Bridey Elliott!

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Dedicated with love to the memories of his Harold and Maude collaborators Ruth Gordon, Hal Ashby, and Colin Higgins, *Ted & Venus* is a subversive spiritual sequel and a hilariously strange Venice Beach love (and obsession) letter set to the music of Swamp Dogg.

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A demented twist on the romcom, the film reframes cinema’s lovestruck obsessives for what many of them are: deluded stalkers. When Ted (a poet, played by Cort) falls for his social worker, Linda (Kim Adams), he pursues her relentlessly…

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With an ethereal cast including Carol Kane, Gena Rowlands, James Brolin, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Andrea Martin, Cassandra Peterson, Dr. Timothy Leary, + more!

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Ted and Venus will be preceded by Bridey Elliott’s short film *Affections* (2016) co-starring Bud Cort.

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**dir. Bud Cort, 1991***United States, digital projection*100 min

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## Tuesday, 3/247:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING$12 general admission, $11 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

TED & VENUS (1991), pres. by Hollywood Entertainment & 7th House

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**MY JOY, 2010, Dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 128 Mins, Kino Lorber, Ukraine/Netherlands/Germany/France**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

Truck driver Georgy (Viktor Nemets) sets out on a provincial Russian highway for a routine delivery, but after a series of chance encounters his journey spirals out of control. A roadside police check, a talkative war veteran, and a too-young prostitute lead him to a village from which there appears to be no way out where the locals struggle to survive a tough, elemental world, and the past holds a vise-like grip over their everyday lives. Caught in a merciless dead end, Georgy’s unexpected fate is the crux of Loznitsa’s unique and original feature debut.

FORMAT: DCP

**DONBASS, 2018, Dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 122 Mins, Film Movement, Ukraine**

*In Russian, Ukrainian and English with English subtitles.*

In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news?

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa ‘Sergei Loznitsa: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

MY JOY / DONBASS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A cam girl navigates a toxic client relationship while reconnecting with her estranged, dying father, exploring complex relationships and family dynamics.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and actor Katarina Zhu ‘Women Wednesday 2026’

BUNNYLOVR

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join us for a night of debut shorts from women directors! The Women Wednesday Night of Shorts features impressive debut short films from local up-and-coming filmmakers and a Q&A.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

*Full lineup to be announced!*

‘Women Wednesday 2026’ Guests and full lineup to be announced!

Women Wednesday Night of Shorts Part 2

A.S. Hamrah joins fellow Writer and Film Critic Sandi Tan to discuss film criticism and Hamrah&#8217;s two new books *Algorithm of the Night* and *Last Week in End Times Cinema.*

Last Week in End Times Cinema, Algorithm of the Night

**Screenwriter**: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

**Producers**: Cattleya Paosrijeroen,  Soros Sukhum

Join us in the microcinema for Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke&#8217;s dark comedy fable of romance, melancholy, and consumerism. March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by a ghost that appeared after a worker’s death shut down their factory, his family reject their unconventional human-ghost relationship. Trying to convince them of their love, Nat offers to cleanse the factory. To become a useful ghost, she must first get rid of the useless ones.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

A Useful Ghost

The Caine Mutiny

FILM DIARY NYC is a biennial festival of experimental, autobiographical films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker. The 4th edition, *Go to the Mountains and Pray*,  features 170 new works by a diverse array of artists from across the world. The Los Angeles Satellite program at Whammy offers a one-night screening of 8 films that represent the range of the festival programming: from the formally experimental to the observational; from auto-fiction to home movie archives; from found footage and new media to 16mm and analogue film techniques.

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Tourniquet

Marceline Chevako, USA, 8 Min

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I Would’ve Been Happy

Jordan Wong, USA, 9 Min

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Piñata Prayers

Daniel Larios, El Salvador / USA, 24 Min

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Looking For You Looking For Me

Wes Weisbaum, USA, 5 Min

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typhoon diary 风球日记

Helix Zhang, USA, 6 Min

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Magic Mountain

Valentina Rosset, Brazil, 7 Min

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Padre Nuestro

Emanuel Christopher Castro, USA, 15 Min

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Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth

Laura Ohio, USA / Canada, 24 Min

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“An organization unparalleled in our current moment within the New York film world.”

- Devon Narine-Singh, filmmaker, educator (CU Boulder)

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“A community of artists committed to cutting through the bullshit, excited to use any and all media to increase our understanding & create authentic connection.”

- Julie Perini, filmmaker, educator (Portland State University)

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“This festival is what real artistic community can look and feel like, and these filmmakers give me hope for the future of art on screen”

- Ife Olujobi, filmmaker, writer

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“Exciting ideas...Very much in the spirit of the kind of film community that my father helped to foster and support.”

- Sebastian Mekas

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## Total Runtime: 98 Min

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## Wednesday, 3/257:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

## Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers present, led by writer Chris Shields.

## ‍$10 general admission, $8 for Whammy! members

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

FILM DIARY 4: GO TO THE MOUNTAINS AND PRAY

Lightstruck is elated to present two full evenings of rarely screened animated shorts from one of the most significant centers of experimental animation production and creativity in the history of the medium: Poland. Spanning the early 1960s to the late 1980s, these two programs (March 26 and April 16) will showcase an incredibly eclectic selection focusing on little-known masterworks and deep-cut revelations, all screening in recent restorations.

Poland has an extraordinary animation history marked by radical experimentation in technique and texture, investigating dark and complex themes inspired by social critique and surrealist visions alike. Spanning stop motion, cutout, cel, paint on glass, and hand-drawn approaches, these programs extend to include exceptional techniques such as Zbig Rybczyński’s hyper-complex optical printing, Piotr Dumała’s exquisite renderings on plaster slabs, and Julian Antonisz’s unhinged cameraless animation produced on ingenious, visionary devices of his own making. A morbid and uneasy humor often punctuates these works, which pulse with rich, emotional, and dramatic narratives and themes matched only by the exceptional imagination and talents of their authors.

We selected the films for these programs with an emphasis on shorts not generally available on home media, and spanning a particularly diverse array of styles, aesthetics, techniques, and sensibilities. Widely celebrated artists like Rybczyński, Antonisz, Ryszard Czekała, and Jerzy Kucia will be represented by lesser known (but magnificent) offerings, while deeply memorable obscurities from Jacek Kasprzycki, Zofia Oraczewska, Ryszard Antoniszczak, and Ewa Bibańska will further illuminate Poland’s incredible spectrum of animation genius.

Programs by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. Films courtesy of Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (+ thanks to Stanisław Bardadin) and Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (+ thanks to Adrian Smykowski and Julia Bachman).

Polish Animation #1: Flames in Dark Places (1962-74)

Margit and her older sister Katla flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter with Johan and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery.

The Juniper Tree

### **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: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Daniel Kraus Book signing with Daniel Kraus for his new book, Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at the Los Feliz 3, in partnership with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Filipino with English subtitles.*

A coming-of-age story of college student Joey, who’s lost all sense of direction. His only inspiration is music, but he has yet to finish writing a song. His life changes when he meets Ana and his world is suddenly turned upside-down.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: ABS-CBN Film Productions

COUNTRY: Philippines

MOMENTS IN A STOLEN DREAM

Amuck! /

The Los Angeles premiere of the restoration of Robert Bresson&#8217;s *The Devil, Probably* is presented with an introduction from Writer and Film Critic A.S. Hamrah.

The Devil, Probably

Join Titmouse for the **20th anniversary of 5 Second Day** at the LA premiere of their annual **5 Second Day… Night!!!** animation showcase, featuring a special introduction from studio co-founder **Chris Prynoski**.

This special anniversary edition will feature a unique, uncensored compilation of brand new short-form cartoons created by Titmouse animators and creative staff as part of the studio’s long-running *5 Second Day* tradition, alongside a curated selection of standout shorts from the past 20 years of the event, giving audiences a rare chance to revisit some of the weirdest, wildest, and most unforgettable cartoons from two decades of *5 Second Day*.

**About 5 Second Day: **

An annual tradition where Titmouse shuts down production for 24 hours across its Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, and Paris studio locations, giving its artists a fully paid day to unleash their most quirky, beautiful, bizarre, and laugh-out-loud ideas. 

For more information, [https://5secondday.com](https://5secondday.com)

Titmouse Presents: 5 Second Day… Night!!!

The Snow Woman/The Haunted Castle

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Georgian with English captions.*

Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing embedded in the landscape like clues. Her father, Irakli (David Koberidze), picks up her scent in the ochre foliage and communal soccer fields she documented for her last assignment. His search-and-rescue trip defies her wishes not to be followed. With a disembodied voice in his passenger seat, he embarks on a winding pastoral picaresque, marked by the recurring gaggles of adolescents, wild dogs, and oral histories he encounters along the way. Undulating between impressionistic reverie and subversive detective story, Irakli’s near-fruitless search invites us to see—with renewed eyes—the quotidian elements which constitute both cinema and life.

Shot with a pixelated W595 Sony Ericsson phone camera, DRY LEAF stands as a palpable salvo on cinematic degrowth. While director Alexandre Koberidze teeters on the edge of a formal gimmick to challenge technological tyranny, his characters swim against the false currents of modern life. Taking an audacious leap of faith after his breakthrough WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? and harkening back to his low-res debut LET THE SUMMER NEVER COME AGAIN, Koberidze reignites the threadbare wonders of cinematic language in spectacular, big-screen fashion.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Georgia/Germany

Q&A with filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze and composer Giorgi Koberidze L.A. Premiere

DRY LEAF

**Please note**: This screening takes place at the Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Total runtime: 74 min.

This was the film that set everything in motion. *Schmeerguntz*, coined after Gunvor Nelson’s father’s nonsense word for “sandwich” (*smörgås* in Swedish), is a hilarious, grotesque and grave attack on the public ideal of the American housewife. Critic Ernest Callenbach wrote in excitement that “A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface deserves to have such films as *Schmeerguntz* shown everywhere.”—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson, Dorothy Wiley.

*My Name is Oona* was Nelson’s final breakthrough on the American avant-garde film scene. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona.” The latter is edited into an expressive rhythmical structure that accompanies the visual structure of the film that plunges into the experience of a child where both bliss and fear reign. As so often in Nelson’s oeuvre, there is a female subtext too: it is male voices that execute their authority upon Oona, whereas as a girl she is still equal to boys of her own age.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University.* 

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Fog Pumas* is the second film that Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley shot together. It received one of the grand prizes at the Knokke Experimental Film Festival, EXPRMTL, in 1967-68. The film is a hilarious, liberating exploration of absurd imagery and situations in which Nelson and Wiley also make fun of some classical avant-garde film techniques. It is an empowering film, made in the spirit of exploring the potentialities of filmmaking and insisting upon having fun while doing it.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Moons Pool* marks a new path in Gunvor Nelson’s filmmaking in which she develops her interest in creating a weave of movements and superimpositions. The film that is mostly shot underwater, in a pool, begins with footage of water and a close-up of Nelson from which we move to her body immersed in water in a bathtub. Another transition occurs to a pool with male and female naked bodies swimming underwater. The latter part of the film is almost totally liberated from speech, and has a dreamlike, complex soundtrack consisting of sounds of waves, voices, water and music woven together into a seamless web of sounds.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Movement begins and ends with snowflakes, fleeting, floating, whirling and dancing in constant restlessness. Sudden changes in direction, composition, background, density, color and contrast interrupt the perpetual flow.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Off-site: Gunvor Nelson Tribute II: Moons Pool

Join us for a night of music featuring solo performances by Dustin Wong, thunderwerld, Randy Randall, and strangejane.

Dustin Wong, thunderwerld, Randy Randall, strangejane

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, and English with English subtitles.*

The UK’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards and recipient of the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes, Akinola Davies Jr.’s MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father-son bonds. Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, the film follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. Brothers and collaborators Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies bring us a groundbreaking feature debut – centering an award-winning performance by Sopé Dìrísù (SLOW HORSES, GANGS OF LONDON) – that reveals the profound depths of what families leave unspoken.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: UK/Nigeria

MY FATHER'S SHADOW

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Yellow Veil Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Addison Heimann and actors Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jordan Gavaris and Marlene Forte L.A. Premiere

TOUCH ME

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Taking much of its inspiration from Homer’s* The Odyssey*, this Coen brothers comedy stars George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson as escaped convicts in Depression-era Mississippi. On a wild goose chase for loot from a previous crime, the trio encounter bluesmen, bank robbers, Bible thumpers and politicos, and become unlikely hitmakers as the “Soggy Bottom Boys” (in real life, the film’s bluegrass-filled soundtrack topped charts and won three Grammys). Costarring John Goodman.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: UK/USA/France

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

True Romance

Before his untimely death, William Pope.L was commissioned to make a new work for MONUMENTS. Though this never came to fruition, Pope.L’s 2012 film *Reenactor* engages with the Lost Cause leisure activity of battlefield re-enactments. In celebration of his life, The Brick is pleased to present two nights of Pope.L video works in partnership with Now Instant.

*Please note: seating is limited. Doors open thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served. **This film is non-narrative and attendees are invited to come and go as they please.*

The Videos William Pope.L

The world premiere of an original program that explores Henson's formally inventive and philosophically probing early works!

JIM HENSON: EXPERIMENTS IN VISUAL THINKING feat. THE CUBE — World Premiere!

**Screenwriter**: Harry Lighton

**Producers**: Lee Groombridge,  Ed Guiney,  Andrew Lowe,  Emma Norton

Come for Alexander Skarsgård as a leather daddy, stay for the romance, laughter, and humanism of Harry Lighton&#8217;s sweet and kinky dom com! Colin, a timid man is swept off his feet when Ray, an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. It&#8217;s got all the biker orgies and back alley b.j.s you would hope for, but it&#8217;s also truly a wonderfully universal triumph of warmth and humor for anyone &#8211; not just those in the kink community.

Pillion

**Screenwriter**: Albert Brooks

**Producer**: Michael Grillo

Join us in the afterlife for Albert Brooks&#8217; imaginative and hilarious take on life and love after death. After a sudden death, Daniel Miller, an unexceptional and hapless ad exec, ends up in a way station between life and ascendancy to a higher journey into the Universe. In this bureaucratic limbo, the newly deceased are treated to free buffets but unencumbered by calories, but also judged for their life on earth, a pressure the nebbishy Miller is not comfortable undertaking. When he meets Julia, a remarkable woman with a ticket to the next stage, he finally starts to feel alive for the first time. But is it enough to seal their fate into the universe, or will he be destined to return to Earth a loser again?

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more life after death? Be the afterlife of the party with these gems

*After Life, A Matter of Life and Death, I Am a Ghost*

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

Defending Your Life

**Screenwriter:** Kaneto Shindō

**Producer:** Toshio Konya

A chilling and atmospheric slow burn from Kaneto Shindō, this dark and ghostly nightmare will sink into your subconscious with striking black and white cinematography, a frenetic sensuality, and a viscerally unnerving tone. In the wind-swept marshes of medieval Japan, a land ravaged by war and famine, two women wait for the return of their son and husband from the war as they exist by slaughtering samurai for their belongings. As word of their loved one&#8217;s demise in the war, the return of an enticing neighbor, and the mask of a demon threaten to plunge them all into a horrifying fate.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more 60s Japanese Horror? Visit our Asian Horror section for these creepfests and more!

*Jigoku, Blind Beast, Kuroneko, The Face of Another*

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

Onibaba

Rio Bravo

Super Fly

Acropolis Cinema screens *Falling Leaves* (Otar Iosseliani, 1968), in a new 4K restoration presented by Alexandre Koberidze.

Saturdays's event will feature an introduction and post-screening Q&A with *Dry Leaf* director Alexandre Koberidze and composer Giorgi Koberidze.

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First screened at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, *Falling Leaves* tells the story of Nico, a technician starting out at a state-run wine collective. While his friend Otar adapts seamlessly, Nico refuses to pretend that bad wine can be bottled. He also falls for Otar’s girl. Iosseliani offers up poignant observations about the clash of generations, factory life, and romance in this witty and moral tale of an individual’s resistance to oppression.

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Otar Iosseliani is one of Georgia’s most admired filmmakers who died two months before his 90th birthday in December 2023. His unconventional storytelling, anarchic style and underlying anti-authoritarianism did not suit the Soviet authorities and by 1982 Iosseliani had moved to Paris. His self-described “abstract comedies” explore human absurdity, observing behaviour rather than following a cohesive narrative. He didn’t like "intrusive" close-ups and his unique shooting style with complex movement of people, animals and objects led Ronald Bergan, writing in the Guardian, to describe him as the “true heir to Renoir, Tati and Buñuel.” (Institut français du Royaume-Uni)

TRT: 91 min

In person: Alexandre and Giorgi Koberidze

Alexandre Koberidze presents Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani, 1968)

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THE GODFATHER, 1972, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 175 Mins., Paramount, USA**

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone’s family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puxo’s best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Cann and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.

FORMAT: 35mm

**THE GODFATHER PART II, 1974, Francis Ford Coppola, 200 Mins., Paramount, USA**

This brilliant companion piece to the original THE GODFATHER continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Reassembling many of the talents who helped make THE GODFATHER, Coppola has produced a movie of staggering magnitude and vision, and undeniably the best sequel ever made. Robert De Niro won an Oscar; the film received six Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1974.

FORMAT: 35mm

THE GODFATHER / THE GODFATHER PART II

A double feature celebrating 1990s Shot-On-Video surreal horror, pairing Charles Pinion’s cult Cinema of Transgression landmark *Red Spirit Lake* with *Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory*, a meta mumblegore nightmare from Brewce Longo of Blood Sick Productions. Both directors will be in attendance, followed by a Q&A hosted by Annie Rose Malamet of Girls, Guts, & Giallo.

### Red Spirit Lake (1993)

*Run Time:* 69 minutes

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist seeking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow-covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt’s estate.

A warped meditation on *The Old Dark House*, *Red Spirit Lake* erupts into a delirious storm of UFO abductions, witchcraft, frank nudity, castration, fatal fistings, slaughterous saunas, and psychotic surrealism. A cacophony of subversive hyper-violence and salacious sexual chaos unfolds against picturesque winter vistas, featuring performances by Cinema of Transgression icons Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Tommy Turner, alongside an insurgent soundtrack with music by Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, and The Lunachicks.

[TRAILER](https://youtu.be/1BCnVc3-Rt4)

### Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory (2025)

*Run Time:* 91 minutes

Vick and Tarstar are shooting their latest trash-horror epic, *Scarecrowed*, with a cast and crew of punks, drug addicts, fetish models, and dumpster divers. As extra-hairy relationship drama, homelessness, vanishing funds, and quitting collaborators threaten to derail the production, the duo remains committed to telling their story.

Set within a deranged consumer fantasy, *Scarecrow Factory* asks a simple question: with the right bucket, can you too buy your own hair-cutting scarecrow made by the animatronic Goo Guys? A Blood Sick mumblegore nightmare by Brewce Longo and Kasper Meltedhair, the film features Erin Caywood, Nicole Elyse, Janice.Click, and SOV legends Hugh Gallagher and Tina Krause.

Charles Pinion and Brewce Longo are currently in preproduction on an upcoming collaborative feature, *Thousand Eyes*. Directed by Pinion and produced by Longo, the film will shoot in Philadelphia in May 2026 and will feature a mix of regular Blood Sick players alongside classic SOV figures.

Red Spirit Lake + Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

What if that date you thought would never end didn’t? When an uptown New Yorker innocently meets a downtown girl, he’s uncontrollably drawn into a vortex of wild, malevolent and paranoid adventures After Hours. Paul Hackett’s (Griffin Dunne) terrible night happens in the SoHo area of downtown Manhattan when he goes to keep a date with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Nothing in his humdrum life as a word processor has prepared him for his surreal encounters with Marcy; her far-out artist roommate Kiki (Linda Fiorentino); cocktail waitress Julie (Teri Garr); ice cream vendor Gail (Catherine O’Hara); and June (Verna Bloom), who lives in the basement of a nightclub. Now, Paul longs only for the safety of his upper-East Side apartment … but will he ever make it home?

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

AFTER HOURS

*Light Years Expanding* is a further elaboration of *Light Years*, Gunvor Nelson’s journey into the Swedish landscape in which she blends animation with live-action. Whereas movement was one of the prime characteristics of *Light Years*, *Light Years Expanding* revolves more around the image-work, foreshadowing her last and most complicated collage film *Natural Features*.—*Professor* *John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

“I was enormously impressed and bowled over by the beauty and artistry. It is one of the few films that I have ever seen that gave me the same feeling that I get when I see painting that I really respond to on a gut/heart level. The images are very powerful. The poetry and the subtlety of the content too. The editing/rhythms all seemed perfect. The sound track kept disappearing from consciousness (exactly right), but never stopped working with the pictures. Masterpiece.”—*filmmaker* *Robert Nelson*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

*Field Study #2 *develops further Nelson’s painterly animation aesthetics. This time the imagery is not created by a recording camera after which they are reworked, but instead the images and sounds appear out of their own world. The soundtrack consists of animal sounds and a serious male voice reciting names of animals in Latin. It is a hilarious work that makes fun of the educational film and our expectations upon the film screen to constitute a window to an outer world.* Field Study #2* urges one to look and listen while emphasizing the comic and absurd, the latter a trait that runs through so much of Gunvor Nelson’s filmmaking and which was the impetus for her to start filming with Dorothy Wiley in the ’60s. The film ends with a thank you to Dorothy Wiley.—*Professor John Sundholm, Stockholm University*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

“In *Natural Features*, Gunvor Nelson mingles hundreds of still images with 3-D objects and ‘real’ images photographed through glass layerings into a free-associative and playfully bizarre form of animation. Perhaps no film has more successfully blended an evident passion for painting with a sensitivity to filmmaking such as lush pigments alternate with and punctuate the different photographic layerings.”—*curator* *Steve Anker*

Director: Gunvor Nelson.

Gunvor Nelson Tribute III: Light Years Expanding

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Human Resources

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A WANDERER’S NOTEBOOK traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid) and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

A WANDERER'S NOTEBOOK

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Georgian with English subtitles.*

An enchanting love story suffused with magic, this amiably ambling fable is fit-to-burst with hope and wonder. Alexandre Koberidze’s generous ode to romance wanders the sun-dappled streets of Georgia’s ancient Kutaisi with open arms, inviting its inhabitants—and their mysteries—into a warm embrace.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MUBI

COUNTRY: Georgia/Germany

Q&A with filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze and composer Giorgi Koberidze ’Alexandre Koberidze: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

The Hot Box / Terminal Island

Behind the Green Door

The Brick is pleased to present two nights of Pope.L video works in partnership with Now Instant.

*Program to be announced.*

*Please note: seating is limited. Doors open thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served.*

The acclaimed collaborative artist duo Gibson + Recoder present the Los Angeles premiere of their most recent expanded cinema project, *The Changeover System: A Projection Performance Installation (2023–2025). *An ambitious live multi-projection based on Gibson + Recoder’s 20 years of experimentation with the projection of 35mm celluloid, *The Changeover System* repurposes film projectors from within the concealed projection booth in a practice they refer to as “prepared projection,” calling attention to the creative agency of the screening room itself.

*The Changeover System* was developed in close collaboration with sound artist Richard Garet. Whereas Gibson + Recoder disappear into the projection booth, Garet performs within the theater, amidst the audience, using amplified EMF emissions, modified audiocassettes, malfunctioning tape players, interactive circuit boards, sonification of light, and computer processing.

There will be a post-screening conversation with artists Gibson, Recoder, Garet and film programmer Jheanelle Brown.

*Please note: This program contains strobe and flashing lights.*

The Changeover System: A Projection Performance Installation

REDCAT

**Screenwriters**: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses, Frank Oz

**Producers**: David Lazer

The gang is headed to Broadway in this toe-tapping installment of everyone&#8217;s favorite bunch of puppets. After they graduate college Kermie, Fozzie, Piggie and the rest of the gang want to take their musical review all the way to the Great White Way. Kermit heads out to find a producer and ends up slinging hash in a diner before a head injury and amnesia that lead him to big frog business. Will Kermit remember his friends in time for the show or end up a Wall Street Big Wig? Jam-packed with humor, thrills, puppets, toe-tapping tunes, and a slew of celebrity cameos from Gregory Hines to Joan Rivers, Elliot Gould, Brook Shields, and Liza Minelli, this is one Muppet adventure with Big Apple appeal!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Jim Henson magic? We&#8217;ve got a section jam packed with every *Fraggle*, every *Muppet*, tons of *Sesame Street* and these deep cuts:

*The Storyteller, Mirrormask, Emmett Otter&#8217;s Jugband Christmas*

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

The Muppets Take Manhattan

**Screenwriter**: Sooni Taraporevala

**Producer**: Mira Nair

A kaleidoscopic portrait of Bombay’s teeming street life, Mira Nair’s first narrative feature, *Salaam Bombay!, *combines a documentary-like sense of place with a poignant exploration of everyday resilience. After the young Krishna (Shafiq Syed) is cast out by his family, he makes his way to the city, where he encounters love, friendship, and tragedy in the face of extreme poverty. Drawing compellingly naturalistic performances from a cast consisting largely of children she met on the streets, Nair creates an intimate human drama that is by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming, an ode to childhood that overflows with colorful urban chaos and a deep compassion for those who live on society’s margins.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Mira Nair tonight &#8211; she&#8217;s got her own director&#8217;s section!

*Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, Hysterical Blindness*

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

Salaam Bombay!

**Screenwriter**: Cate Shortland

**Producer**: Anthony Anderson

Following a reckless encounter with her mother’s boyfriend, teenage Heidi is forced to flee home and restart her life, finding refuge at a motel in the icy ski town of Jindabyne. There, she lands a job at a petrol station, befriends her warm co-worker Bianca, and meets Joe, a young man grappling with his own emotional baggage. As Heidi and Joe pursue a shaky relationship and search for normalcy against a bleak winter backdrop, they must confront their vices, feelings of isolation, and need for love and belonging. Cate Shortland’s stunning feature debut is a “frank and visceral film that at the same time exudes an unexpected innocence” (Los Angeles Times). Featuring early performances from Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington, sheds light on the complexity of growing up and the quiet ache of loneliness.

*Somersault* has been restored by Piccolo Films from the original 35mm master negative and final mix master audio components. Restoration by Ray Argall in consultation with Anthony Anderson, Robert Humphreys, Sam Patty and Cate Shortland.

THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

3:00 PM

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION,

A MIGHTY WIND,

7:30 PM

Breathless

5:30 PM

Funny Games

8:00 PM

Sketch to Screen Panel

9:30 AM

The Art of Production Design Panel

1:00 PM

Selected Shorts: Virtue & Vice

12:00 PM

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

1:00 PM

Episode 4

Episode 5

7:30 PM

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

5:00 PM

THREE SISTERS WITH MAIDEN HEARTS

1:00 PM

PERFECT BLUE

4:00 PM

TENDER MERCIES

7:00 PM

THE NEON DEMON

10:00 PM

The Decameron

7:30 PM

Expose Me, Lovely

11:59 PM

Fistful of Love + Propiedad Privada

6:00 PM

David Byrne's TRUE STORIES (1986) — 40th Anniversary!

7:00 PM

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

1:00 PM

Dreams

1:15 PM

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

4:00 PM

The Hitch-Hiker

4:30 PM

A Mighty Wind on 35mm

7:00 PM

Surreal 16mm from the Archives of Smokehouse Films

Obsessed

9:45 PM

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

10:00 AM

Project Hail Mary - 70mm Early Access

7:00 PM

Night Moves/The Drowning Pool

7:30 PM

The Warriors

11:59 PM