Ghost in the Shell

The Host (괴물) in 35mm

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**THE FRIEND, 2024, Dir. David Siegel and Scott McGehee, 123 Mins, Bleecker Street, USA**

Based on the bestselling novel, writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) leaves her his beloved 150 lb. Great Dane. The regal yet intractable beast, named Apollo, immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life in this story of healing, love, and friendship.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE DEEP END, 2001, Dir. David Siegel and Scott McGehee, 101 Mins, Disney, USA**

When a woman’s (Tilda Swinton) eldest son’s lover washes up on the beachfront in front of their house, she does the only thing an unflinchingly devoted mother could: she hides the body to protect her son. Now unexpectedly, in the aftermath of this desperate act, emerges Alek Spera (Goran Visnjic), who knows about the death and the secret life of her son. But what begins as a riveting cat-and-mouse game soon turns into a haunting love story with self-sacrifice at its center.

FORMAT: 35mm

Q&A with filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee. Plus special canine guest Bing (Apollo) in-person. Advance Screening!

THE FRIEND / THE DEEP END

Aero Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

To everyone’s surprise, “Jane the Brain,” flunks her final college class and retreats to her Michigan hometown by the lake. Her parents, sister, townie friends, and an old high school crush soften the burden of failure, and it’s not long before this misstep feels more like an opportunity at one last care-free summer vacation. She rekindles a friendship with her neighbor, Amber, a single mother with a difficult toddler, and utilizes her skills as a linguistics student–including American Sign Language–to help Amber connect with her son. Despite her best efforts, however, Jane can’t keep the real reason that caused her academic disruption bottled up. She struggles with imposter syndrome, and her PTSD boils over. With the support of those around her, Jane unravels herself and starts the never-ending process of healing.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Buffalo 8

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Anna Baumgarten and actors Libe Barer and Chelsea Alden Please note, if you purchased a ticket to the DISFLUENCY screening on Thu. Jan 16 which was postponed, your ticket will remain valid for this event

DISFLUENCY

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In English, Spanish and French with English subtitles.*

In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in New York City where he meets Jack, a college age pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia

COUNTRY: USA/UK/Italy/Mexico

PET SHOP DAYS

Los Feliz Theatre

Blue Collar / American Gigolo

New Beverly Cinema

Derek Jarman's visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it!

Derek Jarman's WITTGENSTEIN (1993)

Philosophical Research Society

Join animator and labor activist, Stephanie Delazeri for an exciting talk covering the often hidden history of unions, strikes, and labor disputes between animation workers and studios, meant for animation workers and animation fans alike.

The talk aims to help empower, educate and help animation workers, as well as any artists working in the entertainment field to not only mentally protect themselves from harmful labor practices but actively fight back against the exploitation so prevalent in the field today.

6pm

$10

Tickets available  here

The History of Labor in the Animation Industry

Scribble

Eagle Private Rental

**Los Angeles Festival of Movies Opening Night**


*A film crew working for an edgy media company travels to Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong country. As the crew collaborates with locals to fabricate a trend, unexpected connections blossom while a pervasive health crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.*

Argentine-Spanish artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman continues to hone her wry, unsparing comic sensibility in this fresh-faced ensemble comedy of Americans abroad. Set loose in rural Argentina, a ne'er-do-well team of gonzo journalists (Chloe Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Joe Apollonio and Ulman) pursue a dead-end lead on a viral video star while mingling with the locals in increasingly absurd situations. Ever attuned to the grift of cultural exports, Ulman’s loose and sexy romp at times feels like a bizarre romantic comedy, with furtive hookups and anarchic GoPro flights of fancy that resemble skateboarding videos–but key to its charming, semi-improvised feel is its ensemble cast, including newcomer Camila del Campo as a lusty, criminally bored local looking to get off.

**Screenwriter**: Amalia Ulman

**Producers**: Alex Hughes, Riccardo Maddalosso, Eugene Kotlyarenko

**The Los Angeles Festival of Movies** (presented by MUBI and Mezzanine) will redefine Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. Running April 4-7, 2024, we will showcase a curated selection of high-profile narrative and documentary film premieres, talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and a party each night, at three exciting new venues on the east side of Los Angeles. LAFM will be the nexus for this city’s robust community to gather, and take advantage of a burgeoning audience for independent film.

Click [here](https://lafestivalofmovies.org/) for more information about the **Los Angeles Festival of Movies** and to purchase tickets.

West Coast Premiere with director Amalia Ulman in person


Los Angeles Festival of Movies Opening Night – Magic Farm

**Screenwriter**: Bong Joon-ho from the novel by Edward Ashton

**Producers**: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bong Joon-ho, Choi Dooho

Join us in our microcinema for the new dystopian science fiction satire from one of our favorite directors &#8211; the monumental Bong Joon-ho. From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of *Parasite*, Bong Joon-ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, *Mickey 17*. The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Mickey 17

Vidiots

Grindhouse

Bulldog Drummond Escapes/Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Vista Theatre

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archive from actress and filmmaker Callie Hernandez's actual late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.

A deeply personal and lovingly crafted Berkshires-set mystery, Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’ entrancing docu-fiction follows Carrie (Hernandez in a Locarno award-winning performance), a young woman who inherits a mysterious patent for an experimental healing device after the unexpected death of her father. As she grapples with the emotional and logistical aftermath of his passing, Carrie meets various eccentric characters (played by non-professional actors and filmmakers, including Joe Swanberg and Caveh Zahedi) who knew her father and reveal more to her about his alternative, somewhat conspiratorial ideas. Shot on gritty Super 16mm and weaving archival footage of Hernandez’s real-life father into its fictional narrative, Invention playfully interrogates the mythologies we create about our loved ones after they leave us.

US Premiere with co-writer/director Courtney Stephens and co-writer/actor Callie Hernandez in person.

Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Invention

Drifting through an ethereal Monaco during the eerie, emptied-out limbo of the Christmas holidays, a diffident young sex worker named Afine goes about his rounds with seeming indifference, while gradually forming a strange, tentative bond with preadolescent Julia, whose parents, Chinese real estate developers, have left her in the charge of her Serbian babysitter Vesna.

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Paris-based independent filmmaker Virgil Vernier’s new film is a mesmerizing, sharply observed portrait of sex work in a hyper-commodified world. It’s Christmas in glittering Monaco, and a sex worker (Zakaria Bouti) typically spends his holidays alone amid servicing the ultra-wealthy clients; but this year, he decides to stay in town to spend his off-hours with a Serbian babysitter (Mina Gajovic) and her young charge (Victoire Song). With exemplary work from non-professional actors, Vernier depicts the purgatory of the gig economy with an uncanny, relaxed style and an infectious warmth and sweetness.

French with English subtitles.

West Coast Premiere with director Virgil Vernier and producer Jean de Forêts in person.

Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Cent Mille Milliards (100,000,000,000,000)

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.

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A rising talent of Canadian indie cinema, Grace Glowicki—co-writer, director, producer, and star of her sophomore feature—fashions this defiantly oddball and inspired, gorgeously lensed take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a handcrafted lo-fi wonder that plays like a Monty Python sketch but looks like a Raúl Ruiz film. A lonely gravedigger (Glowicki) falls head-over-heels in love with an aristocrat (co-writer Ben Petrie), whose untimely death leads to a series of increasingly debauched experiments in reanimation. Shot on luminous 16mm by Rhayne Vermette, Dead Lover’s combination of physical humor, glowingly artificial set design, and unapologetically kinky situations make it a living, breathing work of high camp.

West Coast Premiere with co-writer/actor Ben Petrie, actor Leah Doz, and producer Yona Strauss in person.

LA Festival of Movies - Dead Lover

2220 Arts + Archives

Kanchenjungha is Satyajit Ray’s first original screenplay and his first film in color. Indranath Roy (Chhabi Biswas), a domineering patriarch, is determined that his daughter Monisha marry an affluent man of his choice. Over long walks and conversations in this slow, contemplative film, independent-minded Monisha is hesitant about her prospective suitor, due to her budding relationship with working-class man Ashoke and her sister’s failed marriage. The play of light and color reflects shifting moods, as the promise of a sunny day is lost to darkening clouds and lowering mist, bringing with it ugly revelations, confusion, and doubt—all set amid majestic views of Mount Kanchenjungha. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Satyajit Ray. WITH: Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee, Pahari Sanyal, Anil Chatterjee. 1962. 102 min. India. Color. Bengali. Not rated. DCP.  Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.   Explore our current  and browse the archive.  Theater accessibility accommodations available upon request. Learn more about our . 

Kanchenjungha in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

A live concert designed as a soundtrack to a montage of silent films by George Méliès (1861 – 1938) considered to be one of the inventors of cinematography. It is the musical brainchild of Jean-François Alcoléa who has created a magical show where a multi-layered, evocative and intricate score complements and interprets the otherwise silent films. A trio of virtuoso musicians are almost a show in themselves, as they conjure music from an extraordinary array of instruments: basics like piano, percussion and guitar; fantastic oddities like the aquaphone (ocean harp), theremin and melodica; and mundane objects like stemware, circular saws, and even plastic take-out lids. The mesmerizing score and panoply of unexpected sound expertly evokes the technical wizardry, hilarity, and stream of invention bequeathed to cinema by Méliès.

This multimedia production, showcasing 12 films, blends live performance with stunning visuals, offering an emotional journey through early cinema. The inventiveness of the musicians and imagery mirrors Méliès’ boundless imagination, creating a unique experience where both music and film work in perfect harmony to reimagine cinema’s early years.

*A multimedia creation by Jean-François Alcoléa. *

### **THE FILMS:**

“Introduction” (documentary based on archival material)

“Le cauchemar” (“A Nightmare”)

“Un homme de têtes” (“The Four Troublesome Heads”)

“Voyage à travers l’impossible” (“The Impossible Voyage”)

“La visite sous-marine du Maine” (“Divers at Work on the Wreck of the ‘Maine'”)

“Le voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants” (“The Lilliputians and the Giants”)

“Panorama pris d’un train en marche” (“Panorama from Top of a Moving Train”)

“Les nouvelles luttes extravagantes” (“Fat and Lean Wrestling Match”)

“Le merveilleux éventail vivant” (“The Marvelous Living Fan”)

“L’équilibre impossible” (“An Impossible Balancing Feat”)

“Le royaume des fées” (“The Kingdom of Fairies”)

“Nain et géant” (“The Dwarf and the Giant”)

A live concert designed designed by Jean-François Alcoléa as a soundtrack to a montage of silent films by George Méliès

Georges Méliès Live Movie-Concert - Right in the Eye

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

A Serious Man

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jeff Goldblum: &#8220;I love Robert Altman’s work. Life may be a one way street &#8211; but it don’t worry me&#8220;

Nashville

Brain Dead Studios

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Rodeo,” 1969, Dir. Carroll Ballard, 20 Mins, USA**

This twenty-minute documentary from 1969 follows champion bull rider Larry Mahan as he competes in the 1968 National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City.

FORMAT: DCP

**THE BLACK STALLION, 1979, Dir. Carroll Ballard, 118 Mins, Park Circus, USA**

Teri Garr and Mickey Rooney star in this heartwarming adventure about a boy who forges a special friendship with a wild stallion after both are shipwrecked on a deserted island.

FORMAT: DCP

Q&A with filmmaker Carroll Ballard Program begins with short film “Rodeo” ‘Carroll Ballard: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

THE BLACK STALLION

Egyptian Theatre

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

A high-school boy cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. Cameron pays a mysterious boy to charm Kat.

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)(PG13)(Fri. 4/4-Sun. 4/6) 2:30p 5p 7:30p

Gardena Cinema

David Lynch Tribute: On the Air Marathon

Hammer Museum

Join us for a screening of three short documentary films about Mike Kelley, Agnes Martin, and Philip Guston.

***Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World,*** **2003 (56m)**

***Art21: Mike Kelley,*** **2005 (14m)**

***Philip Guston: A Life Lived,*** **1982 (59m)**

Mike Kelley, Agnes Martin, and Philip Guston Documentary Shorts Screening

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

GRASSLAND is a topical and riveting social justice drama about the criminal justice system and marijuana incarceration rates. The narrative film, which is led by Mía Maestro, Quincy Isaiah, Jeff Kober and Ravi Cabot-Conyers, is set in 2008 and explores both the economic recession and the inequities of incarceration rates of the era. The story follows Leo, an inquisitive and sensitive Latino boy (Cabot-Conyers), who puts his single mother’s (Maestro) illegal marijuana business at risk when he befriends the new neighbors, a young white boy and his police officer grandfather (Kober).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Gravitas Ventures

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Sam Friedman and Will Bermudez, actors Mia Maestro, Jeff Kober, Ravi Cabot-Conyers and Sean Convery, producers David Goldblum and Adam Edery and composer Zach Nicita

GRASSLAND

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

A director’s wife leaves him. He pursues another woman who also departs. This inspires a movie idea about women’s relationships. He searches for an actress to star in the film and his life.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy/France

‘Michelangelo Antonioni: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN

Brazil

Donnie Darko

Kill Bill: Volume 2

**Screenwriter**: Colin Higgins

**Producer**: Charles B. Mulvehill, Colin Higgins

The oddest romantic comedy ever made! Hal Ashby&#8217;s pitch-perfect dark comedy remains a hilariously morbid triumph even 50 years after its release. Bud Cort stars as the titular Harold, a rich and disaffected young man with a penchant for phony suicides and antagonizing his mother. The singular Ruth Gordon illuminates the screen and the world as Maude, an aging Holocaust survivor who finds pleasure in the strangest of places. An unlikely friendship forms and transforms both of them forever. Featuring a killer soundtrack by Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens).  Initially a box-office bomb, this enduring cult classic has been added to the *National Film Registry* by the Library of Congress and is listed in AFI&#8217;s top *100 Funniest Movies of All-Time*.

Harold and Maude

**Screenwriters**:  Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

**Producers**: Wes Anderson, Barry Mendel, Scott Rudin

An exquisitely quirky and poignant ensemble piece of a family of brilliant losers, *The Royal Tenenbaums* cemented Wes Anderson&#8217;s signature style into the cinematic firmament. With amazing performances from the whole family including Gene Hackman and Angelica Huston, a perfectly crafted aesthetic, and an ultra-hip soundtrack, this is the dysfunctional family reunion only Wes Anderson could orchestrate so perfectly.

One of the greatest actors and artists to ever do it, Gene Hackman’s impact on cinema is immeasurable, and we are endlessly grateful for the unforgettable performances he gave us. Winner of two Academy Awards and four Golden Globes, he came to acting late but left an indelible mark on the cinematic landscape for eternity.

The Royal Tenenbaums

**Producer**: Jeremy Workman

Producer/Director **Jeremy Workman** in person Monday, April 7th!

Grab a hot dog in the food court and join us in the *Secret Mall Apartment* &#8211; one of the most entertaining and inspiring documentaries of the year! In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even secretly constructed a brick wall with a locking door, smuggling in over 2 tons of cinderblock. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all its inhabitants – a personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, and finally, a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man! Deeply inspiring, unexpectedly moving, and endlessly entertaining, *Secret Mall Apartment* is an incredible tribute to artistic disrupters and exploring the boundaries of what art can be.

Secret Mall Apartment

**Screenwriters**: Walter Hill, David Shaber, Sol Yurick

**Producer**: Lawrence Gordon

*Warriors, come out to Plaaaaaay!* Run for your life with the Warriors, a Coney Island gang falsely accused of the assassination of Cyrus &#8211; a gang leader with a plan to unify all the New York City gangs into an unstoppable force.  With the local radio station blasting their information along with the funkiest of tunes, every hyper-stylized gang in town is out the get the Warriors, including the Baseball Furies, the Orphans, and the Lizzies. Can they make it back to Coney Island safe? Can they clear their name and nail the real assassins? Will Michael Beck from *Xanadu* fall in love along the way? You&#8217;ll just have to throw on your leather vest and ride the subway down to Vidiots with your gang to find out in Walter Hill&#8217;s ultimate cult classic!

The Warriors

Bad Day at Black Rock

Purple Rain

Nobody's Fool in 35mm

**ABOUT THE FILM:**

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’ and ‘Transcendental Appointments’

KOYAANISQATSI

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join Host and Executive Producer Jeff Probst for a deep dive into the unparalleled legacy and influence of the show that changed the landscape of reality television forever.  Nearly 25 years since SURVIVOR first premiered, the groundbreaking reality series continues to evolve.  Through clips and conversation, we will celebrate the show’s evolution, explore its cultural impact, and reflect on how it has shaped not only the genre but also the very fabric of television storytelling.  The trailblazing reality series, airs Wednesdays at 8:00 PM, on CBS, and also available to stream on Paramount+.

Panel discussion with host Jeff Probst and special guests! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

Tribute to SURVIVOR: An Evening with Jeff Probst

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

The Big Chill

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the Kobayashis&#8217; house begins to crumble, so does the sanity of its inhabitants. Father Katsuhiko takes it upon himself to keep them from the asylum… at any cost.

The Crazy Family

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The American Cinematheque and NFL Films are thrilled to honor over 60 years of the organization’s extensive and influential sports film and television coverage at the Egyptian Theatre on Sunday April 13, 2025. Featuring a panel of surprise guests, we will walk through the organization’s evolution from early highlight reels, Fantastic Finishes, iconic moments and developments, all-access coverage, Hard Knocks and the exciting new future of one of the longest, most awarded and prolific sports film and television production companies at the intersection of sports documentation, film, art and entertainment.

Panel discussion with surprise guests ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

NFL Films: A Documentary Dynasty

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Directed by Errol Morris, CHAOS: THE MANSON MURDERS untangles a web of conspiracy involving the CIA, LSD, Jack Ruby, the Manson Family, and Vincent Bugliosi, casting doubt on the official story of the 1960s’ most infamous killing spree.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Errol Morris ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’ and ‘Errol Morris: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

CHAOS: THE MANSON MURDERS

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**“Sandy Passage,” 2015, Dir. Alexander Buono and Rhys Thomas, 22 Mins, Broadway Video, USA**

An in depth look at the daily lives of two aging socialites and their crumbling estate.

FORMAT: DCP

**“Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee,” 2015, Dir. Alexander Buono and Rhys Thomas, 44 Mins, Broadway Video, USA**

A documentary charting the rise and fall of soft rock’s seminal band, the Blue Jean Committee.

FORMAT: DCP

Panel with creators, actors and writers Bill Hader and Fred Armisen, creator and director Rhys Thomas, director Alex Buono and writer Micah Gardner 10th Anniversary! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

DOCUMENTARY NOW!

A man is thought to be insane due to his insistence that his best friend is an invisible, humanoid rabbit, but he may be wiser than we think

HARVEY (1950)(Approved)(Sun. 4/13) 2:30p, 6:00p & 8:30p

Earth

Japanese Paper Films

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In February 1971, one month after the revelations of the My Lai massacre, a public inquiry into war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam was held at a Howard Johnson motel in Detroit. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War organization launched the “Winter Soldier Investigation,” wherein over 125 veterans spoke of atrocities they had witnessed and committed. Though the event was attended by press, almost nothing was reported to the American public…until the release of this brutal, pivotal documentary that marked a turning point in America’s anti-war movement. Pieced together by the Winterfilm Collective, WINTER SOLDIER is a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the grief and humanity of U.S. soldiers that makes for an unforgettable experience.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA

World Premiere of 4K Restoration! WINTER SOLDIER has been restored from a director’s original 16mm print held at the Academy Film Archive. Scanned to 4K and restored at CineSolutions in Santa Clarita, California in 2024. ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

WINTER SOLDIER

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Errol Morris ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025,’ ‘Errol Morris: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ and ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Errol Morris Presents PSYCHO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Filmed over 15 years, this epic three-part documentary by Kazuo Hara chronicles the history of struggle for a community in southern Japan suffering from “Minamata disease” — a debilitating neurological disease caused by methylmercury poisoning from the consumption of fish contaminated by industrial wastewater — as they continue the decades-long battle for legal recognition and reparations from the government. Both a deeply humanizing portrait of resilience and a comprehensive history of one of the worst pollution-related tragedies in human history, Minamata Mandala gives voice to the many survivors, care providers, researchers, and supporters tirelessly fighting for visibility.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Grasshopper Film

COUNTRY: Japan

Q&A with filmmaker Kazuo Hara West Coast Premiere ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’ and ‘Kazuo Hara: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

MINAMATA MANDALA

House of Wax

After Hours / Desperately Seeking Susan

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Old Town Music Hall

Join us for a night of collective catharsis, a primal scream in the form of an audience participation-based punk show!

7:30pm

12$

Tickets available  here

Emergency Punk Show

**Screenwriter**: Bill Kelly

**Producers**: Barry Sonnenfeld, Barry Josephson

Step out of the fairy tale and into the Big Apple with this beloved Disney live-action/animation hybrid. When a beautiful princess is banished from her animated fairy tale world and into the streets of Manhattan, she&#8217;s got to find enchantment and a happily-ever-after in this strange and chaotic new world. When a kindly lawyer comes to her aid, she&#8217;s got to wonder if the prince she has waiting for her is the happy ending she&#8217;s always imagined. This delightful musical magical fantasy is the epitome of the enchanting joy that Disney is capable of, even as they poke fun at themselves.

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

Enchanted

**Screenwriter**: Joel Oliansky

**Producer**: Clint Eastwood

Director Clint Eastwood, a noted jazz aficionado, directs this heartfelt study of pioneering bop saxophonist Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker). Moving forward and backward through Parker&#8217;s brief life before his death of a heroin overdose at age 34, the film foregrounds the saxophonist&#8217;s difficult relationship with his wife, Chan Parker (Diane Venora), but also features lengthy scenes of Parker improvising on stage, lit with the neon and cigarette smoke of vintage jazz clubs.

Bird

Horse Feathers

STUCK ON VHS: Watched (1974)

WHAMMY!

Blade Runner: The Final Cut in 4K

Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의개) in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

With unprecedented access and candid interviews, part one of NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET takes us on an intimate journey with some of Hollywood’s most extraordinary leading Black men as they shine a light on the joys and challenges of being a Black actor, share breakthrough moments, discuss blueprints for success and honor legends, while recognizing the next generation’s enormous potential.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Apple TV+

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker and executive producer Reginald Hudlin ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET: PART ONE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Produced in collaboration with the Green Lawn—a group of activists with cerebral palsy who work to raise awareness of the condition—GOODBYE CP blends jagged, shot-on-the-fly footage of the members’ seemingly Sisyphean struggle to take their message to the streets with raw, sometimes confrontational interviews in which they reveal the torment of living in a society cruelly indifferent to their existence. In making his subjects active participants in the film’s creation—a practice he would continue throughout his career—Hara powerfully asserts the humanity and agency of those who have long been denied both.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

Q&A with filmmaker Kazuo Hara ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’ and ‘Kazuo Hara: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

GOODBYE CP

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French and Japanese with English subtitles. *

A.K. is both a making-of documentary showing the filmmaking process of one of cinema’s finest practitioners, Akira Kurosawa, as he completes his most epic film and a meditation on the nature of film itself.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: France/Japan

40th Anniversary! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

A.K.

The Dragon, the Hero / The New South Hand Blows and North Kick Blows

“barrunto” is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to a bodily unrest, an omen or a forecast sensed via signals present in the environment (such as when rain is forecast through aches and pains or when ants emerge anticipating an earthquake). “barrunto” is a way of thinking with surface and subconscious, underfoot and underground. Emilia Beatriz’s film is a speculative narrative informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed; in sites of displacement, nuclear contamination, and military occupation from Scotland to Puerto Rico; from the bottom of the ocean all the way to the planet Uranus; using digital, archival, and 16mm film hand-processed in “grief tea.”

_Presented in English, Caribe Spanish, and Scots Gaelic with English subtitles._ 


WEST COAST PREMIERE. The program includes a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Emilia Beatriz and film programmer Jheanelle Brown.

barrunto -  Emilia Beatriz

Redcat

**Screenwriter**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

**Producers**: Tetsuya Ikeda, Satoshi Kanno, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa, Atsuyuki Shimoda

Co-Presented by Community Programming Partner **The Cinegogue**

Unravel the mysteries of Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s hypnotic thriller. A detective begins to investigate a series of shocking murders that all bear the same modus operandi, but are performed by different unwitting killers. What he finds is a nightmare of psychic mesmerism and a dangerous game with an evil force in the guise of an amnesiac. Obtuse and unsettling, *Cure* does not give you easy answers, but leaves you pondering its unnerving dread long after viewing.

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

Cure

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

With unprecedented access and candid interviews, part two of NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET takes us on an intimate journey with some of Hollywood’s most extraordinary leading Black women as they shine a light on the joys and challenges of being a Black actor, share breakthrough moments, discuss blueprints for success and honor legends, while recognizing the next generation’s enormous potential.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Apple TV+

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Shola Lynch ‘This is Not A Fiction’

NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET: PART TWO

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely personal documentary as a way to both maintain a connection to the woman he still cared for and to make sense of their complex relationship. Granted at times shockingly intimate access to Miyuki’s personal life, Hara follows her wayward journey toward liberation as she explores her sexuality with both men and women, becomes pregnant and raises a family as a single mother, and grows increasingly disenchanted with the constraints of traditional social structures.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In May 2020, a ragtag group of roughly 60 insurrectionists led by American mercenaries attempted to infiltrate Venezuela by boat to overthrow the regime of Nicolás Maduro. Dubbed Operation Gideon, it was a tragicomedy that failed. The film pitch would be “Rambo meets Fyre Fest” only that doesn’t begin to cover the multiple layers of this documentary. The narrative echoes decades of covert US interventions in Latin America, only this time fashioned in the Trump era.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: USA/Canada

L.A. Premiere! ‘This Is Not a Fiction’

MEN OF WAR

Angels with Dirty Faces / They Made Me a Criminal

Join writer and filmmaker Naz Riahi for the first session of Scribble Reads with Naz, a (mostly) monthly book club, on April 15. 

Together we'll discuss Han Kang's extraordinary novel, The Vegetarian. You can order a copy  here . All are welcome.

Sign up  here !
Sliding scale $15-25: all proceeds go to support Scribble's sliding scale mental health services. NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. If you are not able to donate, you can just show up.

Scribble Reads with Naz

The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty 35mm

2220 Arts presents *The Audition Tapes* (world-premiere!). Director Aimee Goguen in-person.

starring: Amia Yokoyama, Beth Goguen, Brittany Hall, Hanna Hur, Hayden Dunham, Isabelle Albuquerque, Jeanetta Rich, Kate Hall, Kayla Ephros, Kelly Cloud, Margaret Haines, Nour Mobarak, Olivia Taussig, P Staff, Rollin Hunt, Rachelle Sawatsky, Serene B.loin, Sid Solomon, Sloan Glanzberg, Suzy Mae, Sydney Acosta, Taralyn Thomas, Tom Rees, Zackary Drucker, Zan Robertson, Zori Swanegan and more.

The Audition Tapes is a new feature-length film by Aimee Goguen, “starring exceptionally talented, glamorous non-actors auditioning for a movie that does not exist.” A Los Angeles ballad.

Aimee Goguen's THE AUDITION TAPES (World Premiere)

Central Station (Central do Brasil) in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE RESTORATION:**

*KILLER OF SHEEP has been digitally restored to 4K and remastered by UCLA Film & Television Archive, Milestone Films, and the Criterion Collection. Picture Restoration: Illuminate Hollywood. Photochemical Film Preservation: Film Technology Company. Sound Mix and Restoration: John Polito of Audio Mechanics and Larry Blake. Audio Transfers: DJ Audio, Endpoint Audio Labs. Music Rights: Chris Robertson, Global ImageWorks and Milestone Films. Restoration supervised by Ross Lipman and Jillian Borders in consultation with Charles Burnett. *

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Burnett’s films focus on everyday life in black communities in a manner rarely in American cinema — combining lyrical elements with a starkly neorealist, documentary-style approach that chronicles the unfolding story with depth and riveting simplicity. In KILLER OF SHEEP, Stan, employed at a slaughterhouse, is suffering from the emotional side effects of his bloody occupation to such a degree that his entire life unhinges. Burnett once said of the film, “[Stan’s] real problems lie within the family, trying to make that work and be a human being. You don’t necessarily win battles; you survive.”

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by archivist Jill Borders and Q&A with filmmaker Charles Burnett L.A. Premiere of New 4K Restoration Co-presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

KILLER OF SHEEP

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.

California Split

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

TO CATCH A PREDATOR was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a surprising exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker David Osit West Coast Premiere! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

PREDATORS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*German and English with English subtitles.*

Austrian astronomer Karl is at a crossroads in his life and work. He finds his physicist wife growing distant and his job being reshaped by environmental crises as thoughts about science, fascism, and his grandson’s future spin above his head. After attending a conference in Greece, Karl decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a dark enough sky to reconnect with the stars. Abandoned at a remote mountain trail, he ascends and waits for darkness to fall.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Grasshopper Film

COUNTRY: Austria/USA

L.A. Premiere! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome **Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory** for a special evening of conversation and film shorts including Susu LaRoche&#8217;s new documentary, video footage of a live performance at The Church, and a special secret screening of a highly influential film.

Director **Susu Laroche **presents a behind the scenes glimpse into the making of **Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory’s** album and the band’s origin in this short documentary playing Wednesday, April 16 at Vidiots. The recording took place at Eurythmics’ former studio, The Church in London, and was a collaborative effort between band members and producer Marta Salogni. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is comprised of Sharon Van Etten (Lead Vocals, Guitar), Jorge Balbi (Drums, Machines), Devra Hoff (Bass, Vocals) and Teeny Lieberson (Synth, Piano, Guitar, Vocals). 

The documentary will be followed by a screening of live footage of the band performing in the Church &#8211; filmed during their session &#8211; and then a brief conversation with **Sharon Van Etten** and drummer, **Jorge Balbi**.  After a brief intermission, an influential film selected by **Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory**, will be screened.

An Evening with Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

All My Sons

Lightstruck presents *Tales of the Dumpster Kid* by Ula Stöckl & Edgar Reitz.

“In form and content possibly the most original German avant-garde work of the seventies…” (Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art)

Between 1969-1971, Ula Stöckl (*The Cat Has Nine Lives*) and Edgar Reitz (*Heimat*) produced one of the most engaging and iconoclastic film projects of the New German Cinema, completely rejecting the standards and tropes of a contemporary film landscape already in extreme flux. With proto-punk spirit and dark, sardonic humor, the filmmakers dramatize the daringly absurd adventures of a Kübelkind (“Dumpster Kid”, played by the perfect Kristine de Loup), whose unpredictable meanderings through various narrative vignettes represents a radical feminist odyssey of chilling social commentary and outrageous satire.

Through its various episodes (ranging in length from one minute to nearly a half-hour), Tales of the Dumpster Kid resolutely maintains its simple yet striking visual style, while cavalierly raiding and reshaping a whole host of narrative genres – musical, comedy, family drama, gangster, horror, erotic, fairy tale, and even The Three Musketeers – each one of them repurposed to the filmmakers’ ends with an incisive yet dada spirit. Alternately audacious, hilarious, disturbing, and unexpectedly moving, Stöckl and Reitz’s project is the cinematic embodiment of righteous contrarianism.

The Dumpster Kid was born from the filmmakers’ mutual dissatisfaction with the established, arbitrary guidelines of getting films made and seen, “because in 1969 we had no desire to make another ninety-minute film that would get no distribution.” Instead, they completely rewrote the rules of what could comprise contemporary cinema, conceiving of a massive, evolving project devoted to the titular character who functioned as a stand-in not only for the artists’ own defiance, but for the oppressed and outraged women still demanding radical change at the end of the sixties. Made on a limited scale in an immensely playful spirit, the filmmakers also consciously populated the films with their friends; in one case this meant a 28-year-old Werner Herzog delivering one of his creepiest performances as a soft-spoken sadist.

Of a projected 64 episodes, 22 were actually produced, running well over three hours in total. For this program, befitting the playful and intentional anti-structure of the project, Lightstruck will provide a menu of film choices, and the audience will determine which episodes are seen, in which order, on the night of the program. The evening will run no more than 120 minutes, meaning it will be up to you to determine what we see at the show!

This program contains adult material.

*Geschichten vom Kübelkind* (*Tales of the Dumpser Kid*) (1969-71)

Directed by Ula Stöckl & Edgar Reitz

Starring Kristine de Loup

Program curated by Zena Grey, Mark Toscano, and you. Notes by Mark Toscano. Thanks to Gesa Knolle and Arsenal Distribution.

Lightstruck: TALES OF THE DUMPSTER KID

House of Flying Daggers in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Closing night of the festival features the Season 3 return of the critically acclaimed HBO Original documentary series 100 FOOT WAVE with an L.A. Premiere and Q&A to follow on April 17.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: MAX Original

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A to follow L.A. Premiere of Season 3! Closing Night! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

100 FOOT WAVE

Summer just got a lot shorter for 19 year old Raphael Tinski. It&#8217;s 2007 and the peak of emo-culture is in full swing. Raphael just got arrested by a psychotic cop. Raphael just fell in love with a girl at community service. Raphael might get blown up by nukes.

Rats!

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Catherine Coulson is an international cult sensation in the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks. 25 years later her lifelong friend David Lynch announces its return for a new season. Within weeks Catherine is diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Can she live long enough to play the iconic Log Lady one last time?

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Richard Green, Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost and producer Sabrina Sutherland L.A. Premiere! Closing Night! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 3/20) 7:30pm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An essay film about the mysteries of consciousness and communication channeled through neurophysiologist and “psychonaut” John C. Lilly, a daring experimenter with dolphins and psychedelics. Lilly’s motto — “My body is my laboratory” — carried him into realms of radical self-investigation, while his research also helped bring dolphins and whales into the collective dreamlife of the 20th century.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Michael Almereyda West Coast Premiere! Closing Night! ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Spanish with English subtitles*

Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Grasshopper Films

COUNTRY: Spain

Advance Screening ‘This Is Not a Fiction 2025’

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE

Short Cuts

Robert Downey's wacky weirdo Western religious allegory!  A one of a kind oddity that you must see to believe...or attempt to explain!

The Terminator

2:00 PM

The Host

7:30 PM

THE FRIEND,

THE DEEP END,

7:30 PM

DISFLUENCY

7:00 PM

PET SHOP DAYS

10:00 PM

Blue Collar

American Gigolo

7:30 PM

Derek Jarman's WITTGENSTEIN (1993)

7:30 PM

The History of Labor in the Animation Industry

6:00 PM

Eagle Private Rental

5:00 PM

Magic Farm

7:00 PM

Mickey 17

7:30 PM

Grindhouse

Bulldog Drummond Escapes/Bulldog Drummond's Peril

7:30 PM