Mezzanine presents REMOVAL OF THE EYE, directed by Prashanth Kamalakanthan and Artemis Shaw.

2025, U.S., 92m.

L.A. premiere screening, followed by a Q&A with actor-writer-directors Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan.

"Funny and personal... a manic mix of post-millennial humor and urban-romantic anxiety." -Film Comment

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The brilliant husband-and-wife-duo of Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan (of LAFM 2024 selection NEW STRAINS) bring new dimensions to the home-movie with their hilarious sophomore feature, a punch-drunk exploration of the anxieties and rituals of new parenthood.

Set in a high-rise apartment, Ph.D student Kallia and fledgling-rapper Ram (Shaw and Kamalakanthan) endure sleepless nights with their newborn baby, while Kallia’s mother (who lives one floor below) looks to end their problems with a Greek rite of passage: to exorcise their family from the evil eye. With a Cassavetes-like inclination to turn the camera on themselves and their loved ones—including their actual baby and parents—Shaw and Kamalakanthan’s fearless, intimate comedy establishes them among the freshest and most inventive young American filmmakers working today.

Official Selection: 2024 Rotterdam International Film Festival, New/Next Film Festival

Special thanks to Andrew Adair (Cinema Conservancy).

Mezzanine: Removal of the Eye (2025)

2220 Arts + Archives

The Wizard of Oz in 4K

Bramayugam

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: Norway/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/UK

Q&A with filmmaker Joachim Trier and actor Stellan Skarsgård ‘Stellan Skarsgård: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Aero Theatre

Robert Grainer, an average man living in extraordinary times, worked as a day laborer in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century. Battered by the death of his family, he struggles to adjust to this new environment.

Train Dreams

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation

Frankenstein

Egyptian Theatre

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

Grieving hairdresser Justice travels from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.

POETIC JUSTICE (1993)(R) Thu 2/12: 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

“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:**

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Amazon Studios

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor and producer Timothée Chalamet. Moderated by Elle Fanning. ‘TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET LIVE: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

BEAUTIFUL BOY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME, a defining work of the year, is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by actor and producer Timothée Chalamet ‘TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET LIVE: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

MARTY SUPREME

Los Feliz Theatre

Pretty Maids All In A Row / High School Girl

New Beverly Cinema

Just in time for Valentine's Day, a rare theatrical screening of selections from 5 decades of Wendy Clarke's monumental video project!

Wendy Clarke's LOVE TAPES – Rare Screening of the Monumental Video Project!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Alexi Wasser

**Producers**: Alexi Wasser,  Rebekah Sherman-Myntti,  KJ Rothweiler

The Vidiots microcinema is about to get a little filthy and absolutely absurd when we welcome writer/director/producer/star **Alexi Wasser** for two special screenings of her ridiculous sex comedy *Messy*.

Burned out on the rom com onslaught of Valentine&#8217;s? We&#8217;ve got the raunchy antidote for you &#8211; Alexi Wasser&#8217;s nympho-manic romp of sex, love, and delusion in the city! Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer. Laugh out loud funny, *Messy* made John Waters&#8217; list of favorite films of the year (2024). Ditch your date and bring all your besties for Wasser&#8217;s debut cult classic in the making!

Conversation with **Alexi Wasser** to follow the screening, moderated by **Cazzie David** on Thursday and **Karley Sciortino** on Friday!

Messy

**Screenwriters**: Christopher Landon,  Phillip Murphy,  Michael Kennedy

**Producers**: Christopher Landon,  Greg Gilreath,  Adam Hendricks

Vidiots is terrified to welcome Director and Founding Member **Josh Ruben** for a special screening of the bloodiest rom com ever &#8211; *Heart Eyes, *followed by a conversation with Ruben and Writer **Michael Kennedy,** Actors **Jordana Brewster** (Detective Jeanine Shaw) and **Gigi Zumbado** (Monica), and Mask Designer **Tony Gardner.**

If you&#8217;re looking for a romantic date movie that&#8217;s soaked in buckets of blood, have we got the screening for your Valentine&#8217;s Day countdown! When the &#8220;Heart Eyes Killer&#8221; strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine&#8217;s Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives. A deliriously fun mash up of rom coms and slashers, this gorerrific love story has got something for everyone!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more Valentine&#8217;s horror? Check out these bangers from our video rental collection!

*My Bloody Valentine, Cupid, Trouble Every Day*

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

Heart Eyes

Vidiots

Sinners (70mm)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Vista Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick’s lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, *The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.*. Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry (O’Neal) seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He changes his name and marries an aristocrat (Berenson) for her wealth, but the acceptance he seeks finally eludes him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: UK/USA

BARRY LYNDON

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

The Wailing

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

Possession

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart is at his best as a hardboiled sleuth in this ’40s film noir classic. In one of his most exciting roles, the inimitable Bogie plays Rip Murdock, an ex-G.I. trying to find out who framed his pal Johnny for murder—and then rubbed him out! Tracing his war buddy’s shadowy past leads Rip to Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott), who was once Johnny’s sweetheart. Now she’s a chanteuse in a nightclub run by a brutal gangster, Martinelli (Morris Carnovsky). Rip gets a taste of the beautiful blonde’s seductive charms and soon finds himself ensnared in a twisted web of deceit and danger. Is Coral an innocent thrush—or is she a predatory siren leading Bogie to the DEAD RECKONING?

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by Alan K. Rode Print from the collection of the Library of Congress ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

DEAD RECKONING on Nitrate

A San Francisco poet fearing commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.

SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER (1993)(PG-13)(Fri 2/13) 5:30pm 7:30pm 9:30pm

A man watches as his neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, changes around him. Houses are sold and torn down, neighbors move away. Refusing to change with it, he invites documentarian Ignacio Agüero into his home, sharing his hobbies and personal history with the camera. Meanwhile, life continues, bringing changes within his own family — the passage of time never ceasing. Ignacio Agüero, one of Chile’s most acclaimed documentarians, made his early films during the Pinochet dictatorship. *Under Construction* captures a post-Pinochet Chile at the turn of the century, as the people of Santiago reflect on their country’s history through architecture, anecdotes and visions of the future.

DCP. Director: Ignacio Agüero.

Before his feature film debut Rebels of the Neon God (1992), Tsai Ming-liang had a brief career directing made-for-television films. Give Me a Home is one of these early works, offering glimpses of Tsai’s distinctive, lingering cinematic style soon to emerge in full definition. His television work often centered on the struggles of Taipei’s working class, as seen here. Set in 1990s Taipei, the film follows a young unhoused family whose breadwinner builds houses for others. Filming in both public and private spaces, Tsai reveals the lives of those living in the shadows, without a shelter of their own.

DCP. Director: Tsai Ming-liang. Screenwriters: Tsai Ming-liang, Li Zongyu. With: Lung Chang, Ling-Ling Hsia.

*—Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo*

Under Construction (or the place where I was born no longer exists) / Give Me a Home

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel FANTASTIC PLANET, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France/Czechoslovakia

Get your ticket for just $6.48 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

FANTASTIC PLANET

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“He Who Awaits Dead Men’s Shoes Dies Barefoot,” 1970, Dir. João César Monteiro, 35 Mins, The Cinema Guild, Portugal**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

Monteiro’s first fiction film — and masterpiece — “He Who Awaits Dead Men’s Shoes Dies Barefoot” shows an auteur inspired by the French New Wave (specifically Jean-Luc Godard) and introduces an alter-ego who would reappear in Monteiro’s João de Deus trilogy: Lívio, a young, broken-hearted aspiring artist (and beggar) whose dreams and innocence are violated by a country “that is a bottomless pit, an asshole one can’t escape from.” This poetic yet pessimistic letter to a nation suffocated by a decades-old fascist regime was banned, and remained unseen until Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution.

FORMAT: DCP

**WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS SWORD?, 1975, Dir. João César Monteiro, 65 Mins, The Cinema Guild, Portugal**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

In WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS SWORD?, Monteiro shows NATO forces and US aircraft carriers in Lisbon and compares them to the awakening of Nosferatu, a new villain hungry for fresh blood, while intertwining footage of US Navy sailors cruising Lisbon’s decadent nightlife (one of its prostitutes offers Monteiro an account of her routine), workers protesting pro-capitalist maneuvers, and statements from anticolonial African activists with a satirical restaging of a medieval Lusitanian hero (director Margarida Gil) who defended the country’s soul against foreign invaders.

FORMAT: DCP

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restorations ‘João César Monteiro: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

"He Who Awaits Dead Men's Shoes Dies Barefoot" / WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS SWORD?

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A true motion picture phenomenon, this triumphant story was nominated for nine 1997 Oscars—winning Oscars for Robin Williams and the writing team of Matt Damon & Ben Affleck. The most brilliant mind at America’s top university isn’t a student…he’s the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting (Damon) is a headstrong, working-class genius who’s failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will’s last chance is a psychology professor (Williams), who might be the only man who can reach him.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with actor Stellan Skarsgård. Moderated by Gus Van Sant. ‘Stellan Skarsgård: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

GOOD WILL HUNTING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Norwegian and Serbian with English subtitles.*

Introverted and hard-working snowplow driver Nils has just been named “Citizen of the Year,” when he receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Disbelieving the official report, Nils soon uncovers evidence of the young man’s murder – a victim in a turf war between the local crime boss, known as “The Count,” and his Serbian rivals. Armed with heavy machinery and a good dose of beginner’s luck, Nils embarks upon a quest for revenge that soon escalates into a full-blown underworld gang war, with the body count spiraling ever higher and higher.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Magnolia Pictures

COUNTRY: Norway/Sweden/Denmark

Introduction by actor Stellan Skarsgård ‘Stellan Skarsgård: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

Actor and filmmaker Frank Mosley joins Now Instant to present a program of his directorial work from from 2011-2023.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Mosley, moderated by Sarah Fensom.

An Evening with Frank Mosley

Now Instant Image Hall

A screening of Jacques Demy's fantasy musical classic DONKEY SKIN (1970) & fairytale themed, French Pop soundtracked costume dance party!

LA FÊTE D'AMOUR!: DONKEY SKIN (1970) + Fairytale French Pop Dance Party!

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Toshio Suzuki

Hayao Miyazaki weaves his enchanted spell over this exceptionally beautiful dream of an animated film. When a young milliner Sophie is transformed into an old crone by an evil and jealous witch, she must team up with a wizard named Howl to put an end to the devastating torment of the Witch of Waste. An astonishing feat of imagination, craftsmanship, fantasy, and beauty, it&#8217;s a magical experience you can share with the whole family, or all your witchy friends.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Can’t get enough Studio Ghibli? We’ve got you and your little ones covered with these gems and more!

*My Neighbors the Yamadas, Porco Rosso, Whisper of the Heart*

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

Howl’s Moving Castle (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriter**: Yuichiro Kido from the the light novel byHiroshi Sakurazaka

**Producers**: Yukinori Nakamura,  Eiko Tanaka

Calling all anime-heads! Join us in the microcinema for the new explosive animated science fiction mind-bender *All You Need is Kill!* Set in the year 20XX, this eye-popping anime follows the story of Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman volunteering to help rebuild Japan after the mysterious appearance of a massive alien flower known as “Darol.” When Darol unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions

All You Need is Kill

**Screenwriters**: Nora Ephron,  David S. Ward,  Jeff Arch

**Producer**: Gary Foster

We&#8217;re continuing the Rob Reiner lovefest with one of his most lovable acting roles in Nora Ephron&#8217;s essential rom com *Sleepless in Seattle, *just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day!

What if your happily ever after was someone you never met? Nora Ephron sets the stage for star-crossed romance in one of the most successful romance films of all time. Still grieving the death of his mother, but worried for his father, a young boy calls in to a radio talk show to find his dad a date. Now, half a country away, reporter Annie Reed finds herself falling for a man she&#8217;s never met. Bring your boo or your besties and meet us on the top of the Empire State Building (AKA the Eagle Theatre) on Valentine&#8217;s Eve for this feel good helping of cinematic comfort food!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Rob Reiner acting roles? Take home more Rob tonight!

*The Wolf of Wall Street, This is Spinal Tap, Postcards from the Edge, Throw Momma from the Train*

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

Sleepless in Seattle

**Screenwriter**: Todd Solondz

**Producers**: Ted Hope,  Christine Vachon

One of the darkest entries into one of America&#8217;s bleakest and funniest auteur Todd Solondz&#8217;s twisted body of work, *Happiness* is a subversive masterpiece of feel-bad filmmaking. A remarkable and controversial ensemble piece centering on a family of three adult sisters &#8211; the soccer mom, the successful poet, and the aimless dreamer &#8211; all with their own orbits of longing and depravity. Containing some of the most envelope-pushing subject matter committed to celluloid, this is not easy viewing, but Solondz&#8217;s deadpan dark humor keeps you laughing and cringing throughout, up to its absolutely unforgettable ending. Definitely disturbing, but masterfully acted and sardonically crafted, this is dark comedy at its darkest and funniest.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Looking for more dark comedy? Try out these twisted triumphs tonight!

*Pretty Poison, Where&#8217;s Poppa?, Little Murders, Sightseers*

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

Happiness

**Screenwriters**: Barney Cohen, Martin Kitrosser, Ron Kurz, Victor Miller, Carol Watson

**Producers**: Frank Mancuso Jr.

Join Vidiots on our favorite sporadic holiday with arguably the most fun excursion to Camp Crystal Lake, *Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter*. By far from the last chapter in the book of Jason Voorhees, this page of the slasher&#8217;s story (also known as *Friday the 13th IV*) includes an oddly compelling performance by Corey Feldman, some absurd dancing from Crispin Glover, and a mini-me Jason, in addition to copious amounts of blood, guts, and gore! Head out to the lake and we&#8217;ll see you at cabin 4!

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Friday The 13th

Play It Again, Sam

More information at: https://slamdance.com/festival/

Slamdance 2026

Sound of Metal

Contact in 35mm

Amores Perros in 4K with Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

Daisies

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Solaris

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

One of David Lean’s rare leanings into comedy, BLITHE SPIRIT is the classic adaptation of Noel Coward’s smash-hit theater piece starring Rex Harrison (MY FAIR LADY) as a novelist who cheekily invites spirit medium Margaret Rutherford (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST) to his house for a séance, hoping the experience will help inspire his current book project. Things go haywire, though, when she summons the spirit of Harrison’s deceased first wife…a severe inconvenience for his current second wife! With Technicolor panache and effective Forties special effects, BLITHE SPIRIT will thaw the cold heart of any cinema cynic.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: UK

Print courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

BLITHE SPIRIT on Nitrate

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The glorious epic style of Cecil B. DeMille is exemplified in this story of the Bible’s legendary strongman and the woman who seduces, then betrays him. Victor Mature is the classic Samson, muscular and fearless in his barehanded battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, his struggle with a giant, and the spectacular Old Testament climax where he pulls down the pagan temple. The enormous cast and the splendor of the production adds to the spectacle. And Delilah, the irresistible lady with the scissors, is brought to seductive life by lovely Hedy Lamarr.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

Print from the collection of the Library of Congress ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’

SAMSON AND DELILAH on Nitrate

Movie theater chain established in 1938 showcasing the latest independent, foreign & art films.

IN PERSON Cinematographer Kees Van Oostrum, Writer/Director Ron Maxwell and other guests to be announced.                                                                          The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels

GETTYSBURG

Fine Arts Theatre

During the Greek Civil War fought between 1946-1949, childhood itself became a frontline in the clash between government and rebel forces. Under the guise of offering protection and education, the Greek government enticed parents to surrender their children to a system of Childcare Cities that served as indoctrination mills that oftentimes alienated their wards from their own families. In her riveting, visually striking adaptation of the memoir of Greek writer Giannis Atzakas, writer-director Eleni Alexandrakis tells the searing story of Atzakas and his experience growing up in these harsh institutions all the while unable to shake the memory of his rebel father and his longing for — and aversion to — a reunion.

DCP. Director: Eleni Alexandrakis. Screenwriters: Eleni Alexandrakis, Panagiotis Evangelidis. With: Philippos Milikas , Marios-Konstantinos Gatetzas, Konstantinos Athanassakis, Aineias Tsamatis, Agni Stroubouli, Evi Saoulidou. 

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

Giannis in the Cities

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.

To celebrate the opening of LACMA’s exhibition [*SUEÑO PERRO: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu*](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/sueno-perro-film-installation-alejandro-g-inarritu), marking the 25th anniversary of *Amores Perros* (2000), Iñárritu’s landmark Academy Award–nominated film, please join us for a screening and conversation with Iñárritu and LACMA director Michael Govan.

Iñárritu's feature directorial debut, *Amores Perros* tells three unsettling tales linked by a car accident, involving dog fighting, an injured model, and a hired killer. Experience the anniversary celebration with a new meticulous 4K restoration, supervised by Criterion Collection, Estudio Mexico Films, and Altavista Films.

**This event is currently sold out. Additional tickets may be released on this page at 9 am on the day of the event. Standby tickets also will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.**

Amores Perros Screening and Conversation with Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Michael Govan

LACMA

Through the Looking Glass  / Bacchanale  / Bonus SECRET Third Movie

*Off-Platform* brings together Alice Scope, Alice Bucknell, and Lou Fauroux for a focused screening and conversation on life inside god-mode infrastructures and the queer refusals that move through them.

Fauroux’s post-internet mythologies meet Scope’s work on affective AI environments and Bucknell’s planetary simulations, framing a moment in which the platform era and the fantasy of total control—over the planet, over death, over love—are visibly cracking. The evening centers on two works: Fauroux’s *WhatRemains, Genesis*, a 2048 fiction of digital immortality and power, and Bucknell’s *Ground Truthing* (2026 premiere), a simulation film examining how satellites, GPS, digital Earth twins, and long-range climate models shape our understanding of the planet’s future.

***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.***

Off-Platform

A beautiful new restoration of Grigori Kromanov's bizarre & haunting, Estonian sci-fi mystery, based on a novel by the authors of "Stalker"!

DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (1979) – New 4K Restoration!

**Screenwriter**: Michael Almereyda

**Producers**: Mary Sweeney,  Amy Hobby

With a special introduction from writer/director **Michael Almereyda** before Saturday&#8217;s screening!

Join us in the microcinema for the new restoration of Michael Almereyda&#8217;s gorgeous vampiric slow burn *Nadja*. Merging elements from *Dracula&#8217;s Daughter* (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel *Nadja* (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim&#8217;s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch. Breathtaking, ethereal, and magnificently ponderous, this undead indie treasure is a timeless unsung genre triumph.

**Restoration Info ******

The original Director’s Cut of NADJA was digitally restored by Arbelos and Grasshopper Film from the only extant element, the 35mm answer print—the version of the film that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994, three minutes longer than the commercial release. Laboratory services by OCN Labs, Five Seventy Films, Ben Gilbert Films, David Ferron and Blackhawk Films. Special thanks to Michael Almereyda and Absurda.

Nadja

**Screenwriters**: Louise Peter,  Mascha Schilinski

**Producers**: Lucas Schmidt,  Lasse Scharpen

Join us in the microcinema for the utterly gorgeous bleak beauty of Mascha Schilinski’s meditative and transcendent *Sound of Falling*. Fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory with exquisite painterly cinematography and expertly disquieting sound design. 

This Cannes Jury Prize-winning masterpiece tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.

Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

*“It knocks you off your feet and then sweeps you up again”* &#8211; The New Yorker

*“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance”* &#8211; Deadline

*★★★★ “Marvelously tells a century’s worth of women’s stories by weaving together the psychological, the physical, and even the spiritual”* &#8211; Observer

Sound of Falling

**Screenwriter**: James Baldwin

**Producers**: Rémi Grellety,  Raoul Peck,  Hébert Peck

One of the most important documentaries of the century, Raoul Peck&#8217;s fiery and provocative portrait of not only trailblazing author and activist James Baldwin, but America&#8217;s history of race relations is even more vital and prescient today. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, &#8220;Remember This House.&#8221; The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin&#8217;s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, drawing on footage of Baldwin as well as archival snapshots of America through the Black lens. A powerful and essential watch at anytime, don&#8217;t miss your chance feel the resonance in community!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more essential Black documentaries? Take home these and so many more!

*Portrait of Jason, Eyes on the Prize, What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library*

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

I Am Not Your Negro

Fast Company

Moulin Rouge! in 35mm

A boy seeks revenge for his father's murder but loses an arm rescuing the swordsmith's daughter and learns swordsmanship with a broken sword

THE BLADE (1995)(R)(Mon 2/23) 7:30pm by Big Bad Film Fest

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Brewster McCloud lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings he’s designing—encouraged by a mysterious woman who may be his guardian angel.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents BREWSTER MCCLOUD

The Girl From Starship Venus / Flesh Gordon

Acropolis Cinema presents *Evidence* (Dir. Lee Anne Schmitt, 2025).

Screening to be followed by a Q&A with Schmitt and director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg, Harvest)

Poisoned water, damaged earth, and elevated cancer rates: environmental clean-up sites are one of the legacies left behind by the American chemical and munitions manufacturer “Olin Corporation”. Its other legacy was the John M. Olin Foundation, which donated millions to pushing a conservative agenda from the 1970s to the early 2000s. As a by-product or direct effort, the Olin Corporation and other conservative think tanks have had a deep and unsettling impact on American politics, family values, and women’s health.

Working again the field of the 16mm New Left essay film, Lee Anne Schmitt connects an array of topics, books, and objects to reflect on the rise of the new conservative movement and the effects of dark money on American politics and culture. In easily her most personal film to date—as her father worked for Olin —she considers these values and their implications after becoming a mother. In the face of appalling attacks on women’s biological rights and the current dominance of the Republican party, *Evidence* is a sobering primer on the state of America today. (Berlinale)

TRT: 71 min

In person: Lee Anne Schmitt and Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: Lee Anne Schmitt's Evidence

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

Screening: Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot with Barbara McCullough

Los Angeles Rebellion pioneer and filmmaker Barbara McCullough’s documentary *Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot* is a poetic meditation on the life of Los Angeles jazz musician, composer and community activist, Horace Tapscott (1934–1999). Screened in conjunction with the Getty’s exhibition [Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–85][1], the film—four decades in the making—is a loving portrait of Tapscott, Black Los Angeles, and musical history. After the screening, McCullough will be joined on stage in conversation with Kristin Juarez, senior research specialist for the [African American Art History Initiative][2] at the Getty Research Institute. 

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][3] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories, as well as the series [Black Visions: Film as Archive][4]. In addition, Barbara McCullough is featured in the Getty Research Institute’s [oral histories collection][5] as related to the 2008 program [Modern Art in Los Angeles: African American Avant-Gardes, 1965–1990][6]. 

DIRECTED BY: Barbara McCullough. PRODUCED BY: Barbara McCullough and Chephren Rasika. EDITED BY: Scott Brock. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Johnny Simmons, Al Santana, Charles Burnett, Bernard Nicola. 16mm to HD, color, sound, 72 minutes, 2017.

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][7] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][8] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/black-arts-movement/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/projects/african-american-art-history-initiative/
  [3]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/event_series.html
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/black-visions-film-as-archive/
  [5]: https://www.getty.edu/research/special_collections/oral_histories/index.html#video
  [6]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/african_am_avant_gardes/index.html
  [7]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [8]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot* with Barbara McCullough

The exhibition *Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985* shows how an incredible range of artists and activists used photography as a tool for social change. Meet some of the featured artists and special guests in the gallery to hear about the work in their own words.

Afterwards at 6:30pm, attend a screening of the documentary *Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot* followed by a conversation with the director, Barbara McCullough, in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium. 

Learn more and register for free film tickets under the Related section below. 

Artist Open House: *Photography and the Black Arts Movement*

Getty Center

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 7, “Realization Time,” Dir. Caleb Deschanel, 46 Mins**

Audrey cons her way into working at the perfume counter where Laura worked and discovers that it’s being used as a recruitment post for One Eyed Jack’s. James, Donna and Maddy plan to lure Jacoby away from his office.

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.

“Realization Time” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 7

Paranoia / The Sweet Body of Deborah

Visionary Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's gentle and hypnagogic meditation on sleep, memory, and the unseen world.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (2015)

**Producers**: Jessica Hargrave,  Ryan White,  Tig Notaro,  Stef Willen

Join us in the microcinema for Ryan White&#8217;s poignant Academy Award nominated documentary *Come See Me in the Good Light.* An emotional and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Come See Me in the Good Light

**Screenwriter**: Mike Leigh

**Producer**: Simon Channing Williams

Nominated for five Oscars — including Best Picture — this incisive and engaging comedy-drama from writer-director Mike Leigh explores the difficulties of human connection and the cost of burying painful truths. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Hortense, a black doctor working in London, who decides to seek out her biological mother and is stunned to learn that she’s a working-class white woman named Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). Hortense tentatively reaches out to learn the truth about her parentage, but Cynthia’s own life is a disaster — she has a difficult relationship with her other daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook), and is mostly estranged from her more successful brother (Timothy Spall) and his snobbish wife (Phyllis Logan). One of the great triumphs of ‘90s indie cinema, *Secrets & Lies* serves as a fascinating example of Leigh’s unique filmmaking style, in which characters and scenes are honed over a process of months of improvisation to capture something powerfully authentic.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Want to do a Mike Leigh deep dive? His director&#8217;s section is stocked to the brim with delight &#8211; from the goofy to the profound!

*Naked, Life is Sweet, Nuts in May*

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

Secrets & Lies

Red River/To Have and Have Not

Don't Look Back

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Atropia

Widely regarded as the greatest motion picture ever made, Citizen Kane tops the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time. Orson Welles' groundbreaking 1941 debut remains a towering achievement in cinema – innovative, daring, and endlessly influential. STUDENTS FREE with valid ID.

This unique screening will be hosted by filmmaker Stanley Sheff, who worked closely with Welles as a collaborator, editor, and un-credited co-director on his unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show. Sheff will share stories from their professional collaboration and personal friendship, giving audiences a rare first-hand glimpse into the private world of Orson Welles.

    Conversations about Citizen Kane and its lasting impact
    Inside stories from the unsold TV pilot The Orson Welles Show
    Personal memories that reveal Welles' humor, charm, and presence

CITIZEN KANE

An evening w/ filmmaker Hazel Hill McCarthy III & artist Alejandro García Contreras, featuring two fascinating & vibrant ethnographic docs!

BIGHT OF THE TWIN (2016) feat. Genesis P-Orridge + VIA CRUXIS (2024)

**Screenwriters**: Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr., Raquel Villavicencio, Mike De Leon

**Producers**: Simon C. Ongpin, Charo Santos-Concio

Vidiots and community partners [A Bunch of Savages](https://www.abunchofsavages.com/about) remember the life and legacy of filmmaker **Mike de Leon** with an ultra-rare screening of his sinister masterpiece *Kisapmata*.

Considered one of the greatest Filipino films of all time, this psychological true-crime horror from Mike de Leon is an unnerving masterpiece from one of the greats of Filipino cinema. When Newlyweds Mila and Dadong are coerced into moving back in with her family, all the secrets that have been stifled for years begin to come to light, ending in an explosive climax. Eternally shocking, and increasingly rare, don&#8217;t miss your only chance to see this masterpiece on the big screen!

**A Bunch of Savages** is a creative collective in Los Angeles, California. We are unapologetically Filipino-American with a knack for premium multifaceted storytelling in the arts. Toss your KPIs out the window because we have one bonafide intention &#8211; To do cool sh*t that matters. If anyone asks, we’re a collective of dreamers, filmmakers, writers, and creatives with a commitment to empowering the next generation of artists. Our name comes from a phrase used to describe the Filipinos in 1899 by then Gov. Theodore Roosevelt.

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

Kisapmata (In the Wink of an Eye)

I, Madman

**Shadow Kitchen presents ‘Mixtape’ at Whammy!** - A program of short narrative, non-fiction, experimental and music video works by the collective of artists that make up the programming body of Shadow Kitchen. Featuring works by Anderson Matthew, Alex the Brown, Trevor Byrne, Sue Ding, Elenie Chung, Norbert Shieh, Maya E. Rudolph, Sean Huntley, and Tempe Hale. Filmmakers in attendance.

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These nine Los Angeles based filmmakers move across California to China, Norway and Argentina in an evening program that examines intimacy and spectacle, consciousness and catharsis, memory and dreams.

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Elenie Chung’s *Citric Acid* traces the slow fracture of an artistic bond under the pressure of competition, unfolding with quiet tension and striking subtlety. Tempe Hale’s *Pick Up the Stick* explores sibling intimacy through road trip footage and improvisation, while Maya E. Rudolph’s *ICEBERG* captures the emotional dissonance of youth caught between music, family obligation, and the ache of first love in a hazy Beijing summer.

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Several works interrogate how private lives are entangled with broader systems of power, history, and spectacle. Norbert Shieh’s essay film *Two Miles East* revisits a military jet crash to meditate on suburban life, militarization, and the myth of paradise. Alex the Brown’s *Apologia* reframes public apologies by powerful figures through analog video manipulation, exposing the hollow choreography of accountability, while Sue Ding’s *A Spectacle of Her Appetites* uses found footage to explore an emotional spectrum of appetite.

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Threaded throughout the program is an interest in how memory is recorded, distorted, and performed. Trevor Byrne’s *Indelible Laughter* excavates male camaraderie through humor as both bonding ritual and mask. Sean Huntley’s *Lapse* destabilizes perception through horror and photography, while Anderson Matthew and Satira’s *Madre de los Descalzos* reinterprets an Argentinian folkloric figure through a queer lens, in a fever-dream convergence of music video as experimental film.

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

MIXTAPE, pres. by Shadow Kitchen

WHAMMY!

Join us for a celebratory Los Angeles screening of *Joshua Bailey’s*

**Stolen Kingdom**, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Including an opening preview of *Cosmo Brusa Zappellini’s* experimental

doc-short **Even Now**.

**Synopsis:**

*Stolen Kingdom* is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief,

scandal and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading to the theft of an

animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. The film features key

figures from the park&#8217;s underground community, each sharing their unique

stories.
As the narrative unfolds, early pranks and antics are shown to have inspired

more recent crimes, culminating in a true crime mystery. What begins as a tale

of friendship and passion ends with one lingering question:

**Who stole Buzzy?**

Stolen Kingdom

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

Author Quatoyiah Murry's new project, with a haunting occult chiller & guests esoteric scholar William Kiesel and mythologist Maryam Sayad!

A DARK SONG (2016) presented by Quatoyiah Murry and Enlighted Artists!

**Screenwriter**: Rick Famuyiwa

**Producers**: Nina Yang Bongiovi,  Forest Whitaker

Hop on your bike and join us for a special free community screening of Rick Famuyiwa&#8217;s hilarious coming-of-age modern classic *Dope*. Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself. So, join the party with A$AP Rocky, Zoë Kravitz, and Shameik Moore for an LA story that everyone who grew up a nerd can relate to!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more local coming-of-age films? We&#8217;ve got these gems from our own backyard!

*The Slums of Beverly Hills, Boyz in the Hood, Mi Vida Loca*

**Please note** that this screening is first-come-first-served, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry. As we are hoping to accommodate as many people as possible, all free screenings are overbooked to account for no-shows. We recommend an early to on-time arrival, we may not be able to accommodate late entries. RSVPs will be limited to four tickets per order. Please note that any RSVPs exceeding four tickets will not be honored at check in.

Dope

Force of Evil/Body and Soul

Interstellar in 70mm

Silents Synced brings us two more fantastic silent movies synced to modern music by R.E.M. and Pearl Jam.

A WOMAN OF THE WORLD (2026/1925)(NR) & SHERLOCK JR. (2025/1924)

Abraham Polonsky, the writer of *Body and Soul*, said, “All films that are about crime are about capitalism.” In the 1940s, the House Un-American Activities Committee and studio executives conspired to create a blacklist barring hundreds of film artists suspected of communist sympathies, like Polonsky, from employment, upending countless lives. In Red Hollywood, Thom Andersen and Noël Burch reassess the blacklist’s legacy by reassembling footage from over 50 films made by blacklisted artists. These films, once dismissed as minor, are reconsidered as thoughtful attempts to tackle social and political issues in ways that Hollywood wouldn’t attempt again for decades.*—Public Programs Assistant Noah Brockman*

DCP. Directors/Screenwriters: Thom Andersen, Noël Burch. With: Billy Woodberry (narration).

George Coulouris stars as a Nazi commander who, seeing the writing on the wall for the Third Reich, disperses his officers incognito around liberated Europe to begin sowing seeds of discontent anew. As he assures them: “In our hands, hate can be turned into the most potent of weapons.” Settling himself in a Belgian town under Allied control, he works to undermine fledgling reconstruction efforts by playing on local antagonisms and resentment. A study of fascist rhetorical and propaganda tactics in the guise of a thriller, *The Master Race* was directed by Herbert J. Biberman who co-wrote the script with Anne Froelich and Rowland Leigh, with Biberman and Froelich both blacklisted just a few years later.*—Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm*

Director: Herbert J. Biberman. Screenwriters: Herbert J. Biberman, Anne Froelich, Rowland Leigh. With: George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen.

Red Hollywood / The Master Race

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, SAFETY LAST! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $6.57 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

SAFETY LAST

World premiere of new 4K restoration of an operatic, cinematic tour de force, w/ vignettes by some of the world's most acclaimed directors!

ARIA (1987) — WORLD PREMIERE of New 4K Restoration!

**Screenwriter**: Jack Hill

**Producer**: Robert Papazian

Get ready to watch the baddest ass bitch to ever grace the silver screen &#8211; the one and only Pam Grier &#8211; go undercover as a sex worker to avenge her smack-addicted sister in Jack Hill&#8217;s explosive Blaxploitation classic *Coffy*. Grier plays Coffy, a nurse who has had enough of the pimps and pushers that have taken over her neighborhood and gotten her sister addicted to heroin. Posing as a sex worker, Coffy&#8217;s a one-woman crusade to rid the world of the baddest of the bad. Stylish, violent, and oh so satisfying, this is one bad-ass flick you need to watch on the big screen with a crowd!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Can&#8217;t get enough Pam Grier? We&#8217;ve got dozens from her incredible 5 decade career.

*Foxy Brown, Holy Smoke, Jackie Brown*

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

Coffy

**Screenwriters**: Weird Al Yankovic,  Jay Levey

**Producers**: John W. Hyde,  Gene Kirkwood

Grab the remote and turn the channel to *UHF*, the one film to properly showcase the idiotic brilliance of Weird Al, and one of the strangest comedies of the 1980s (which is saying a lot for the 80s!) When his uncle hands George Newman (Weird Al) the keys to his flailing UHF (look it up youngsters!) station, George starts to nix the reruns and start making ridiculous and subversive content that finally brings in an audience. But a rival TV executive isn&#8217;t taking the success well and vows to bring down Newman and all his new programming. It&#8217;s goofy, it&#8217;s stupid, it&#8217;s beyond hilarious, it&#8217;s everything you would expect from a Weird Al movie and so much more!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

1989 was a crazy year for film? Check out these 1989 bangers from our video rental collection!

*Teen Witch, Heathers, Weekend at Bernie&#8217;s*

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

Thunder Road

Little Shop of Horrors

Discos Rolas presents a special 50th anniversary screening of *Chulas Fronteras* (1976), newly restored in 4K and paired with the short *Del Mero Corazón* (1979).

A performance by corrido singer-songwriter Gallo Armado (Monterrey, MX) will precede the screenings, and following them, filmmaker Maureen Gosling (editor of *Chulas Fronteras* and co-director of *Del Mero Corazón*) and Juan Antonio Cuéllar (longtime archivist of Arhoolie Records’ Frontera Collection) will join moderator Alexandra Lippman (Discos Rolas and Pomona College) for a discussion of the two films. The talk will be followed by DJ sets by Sonido Sabotaje (Monterrey, MX), Trucha Soul (Austin), and Sonido Sapo (LA).

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Directed by Les Blank and Chris Strachwitz, *Chulas Fronteras (Beautiful Borders)* celebrates the famed Mexican-American musicians of the borderlands, the migrant farming communities from which they come, the strong family bonds of Tejanos, and the social protest ethos inscribed in their music. From joyous, lively dance tunes to soulful, political work songs, musica norteña fuses traditional Mexican harmonies with central European dancehall rhythms. The film brims with tender affection for its subjects, the vitality of their marvelous music, and the generosity of spirit that they show in the face of hardship. *Del Mero Corazón (Straight from the Heart)*, directed by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, is a lyrical journey through the heart of Chicano culture as reflected in the love songs of the conjunto tejano and musica norteña traditions. The film was constructed from outtakes from *Chulas Fronteras* and additional footage shot in California.

Chulas Fronteras + Del Mero Corazón (Screenings + DJs)

Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

Glimmers and Ghosts: The Cinema of Tomonari Nishikawa

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors&#8217; lost kingdom.

Son of the White Mare

After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.

Diary for My Children

A rising pop sensation navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.

The Moment

Originally staged by the East West Players, pioneering author [Wakako Yamauchi](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/obituaries/wakako-yamauchi-dead.html)’s adaptation of her award-winning play, “And the Soul Shall Dance,” for KCET’s *Hollywood Television Theatre* is a poetic, haunting drama that reveals the hardships Japanese Americans faced during the Great Depression. Set in California’s Imperial Valley, Yamauchi's moving work explores the lives of two farming families as they struggle to make ends meet and assimilate in a so-called land of opportunity defined by systemic racism.

Yamauchi’s teleplay unfolds through the eyes of a sensitive girl, Masako (Denice Kumagai), who bears witness to the challenges facing her loving parents (Pat Li, Sab Shimono) and the unraveling lives of a neighboring couple, Emiko (Haunani Minn) and Oka (Yuki Shimoda). Abused by her husband from an arranged marriage, Emiko dreams of a return to Japan to reclaim her past life, far from an inhospitable America. Her profound journey represents an indelible requiem for generations of Issei and Nisei beyond the play’s setting of the 1930s, with Yamauchi herself unjustly incarcerated as a teen at the concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Poston, Arizona, during World War II.

Before the screening in the lobby, beginning at 6:30 p.m., UCLA Library Audiovisual Project Conservator Maile Chung will display archival materials related to the [East West Players from UCLA Library Special Collections](https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1489n74f).

*Programmed and notes written by John H. Mitchell Television Curator Mark Quigley.*

DCP. PBS. Production: KCET, Community Television of Southern California. Produced for the stage by East West Players. Executive Producer: Norman Lloyd. Director: Paul Stanley. Writer: Wakako Yamauchi. With: Denice Kumagai, Pat Li, Haunani Minn, Sab Shimono, Yuki Shimoda, Diane Takei. Special thanks to PBS SoCal, Gerry Bryant, Patrick Yew.

Hollywood Television Theatre: Wakako Yamauchi's “And the Soul Shall Dance”

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

In his last film, shot shortly before his death, Monteiro plays João Vuvu, a Chaplinesque retired widower who spends his days riding his neighborhood bus and conversing with old and new acquaintances in the streets of Lisbon. In his austere, elegant apartment, the light is both welcoming and seductive while playful exchanges on lust and desire occur with different women who bless a routine of poetic solitude, antifascist anthems, and the mysteries of spiritual pleasure. The film’s famous final shot—a reflection of the director’s eye—shows, like few others, that cinema, in reflecting the unseen and unutterable, is where life meets death.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal/France

L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘João César Monteiro: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

Mezzanine: Removal of the Eye (2025)

8:00 PM

The Wizard of Oz in 4K

2:30 PM

Bramayugam

7:30 PM

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

7:00 PM

Train Dreams

7:00 PM

Frankenstein

10:05 PM

POETIC JUSTICE (1993)(R) Thu 2/12: 7:30pm

7:30 PM

What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem

5:00 PM

BEAUTIFUL BOY

7:00 PM

MARTY SUPREME

10:00 PM

Pretty Maids All In A Row

High School Girl

7:30 PM

Wendy Clarke's LOVE TAPES – Rare Screening of the Monumental Video Project!

7:30 PM

Messy

7:00 PM

Heart Eyes

7:30 PM

Sinners (70mm)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

8:00 PM