### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

William Friedkin’s visually stunning film follows small-time crook Roy Scheider from Brooklyn to the sweltering jungles of South America, where he lands a job hauling nitroglycerine with hard-luck losers Bruno Cremer and Francisco Rabal. Rather than simply remake Henri-Georges Clouzot’s famed THE WAGES OF FEAR, Friedkin re-imagines the story as a bleak, cosmic vision of man vs. nature, climaxing in the mind-bending image of Scheider and crew literally pushing a loaded truck across a spindly rope bridge.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

### **ABOUT THE RESTORATION:**

*This 2025 4K digital restoration was undertaken by the Criterion Collection, from a scan of the 35mm original camera negative. *

*An original 35mm print was used for color reference. The sound was sourced from the original 35mm 2.0 Surround mix. *

*Digital Picture Restoration: Resillion, Los Angeles*

SORCERER

Aero Theatre

In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late-night horror movie marathons.

But when he begins playing *OBEX*, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech but high-stakes analog hellscape, as the line between reality and game begins to blur.

Audacious and uncanny, writer-director **Albert Birney**’s *OBEX* is a delightfully skewed lo-fi fantasy. Shot in striking black and white, this surreally nostalgic nightmare revisits the dawn of personal computing to reflect on the loneliness of our always-online present day.

Stick around after the screening for an in person Q&A with the director!

OBEX

Brain Dead Studios

A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.

Left-Handed Girl

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting his past and present with his devoted manager Ron. Poignant and humor-filled, pitched at the intersection of regrets and glories.

Jay Kelly

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.

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

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 1/15) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Guests will have the chance to receive a limited-edition LEFT-HANDED GIRL t-shirt.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles.*

A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and maintain the family unity. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” generations of family secrets begin to unravel.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA/UK/France/Taiwan

Q&A with editor, co-writer and producer Sean Baker Popcorn and soda courtesy of Netflix Taiwan’s Official Oscar Submission, Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film

LEFT-HANDED GIRL in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 1, “Northwest Passage,” Dir. David Lynch, 94 Mins**

The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic.

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.

“Northwest Passage” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 1

Los Feliz Theatre

The Long Goodbye / Night Moves

New Beverly Cinema

A brilliantly funny, tender & vibrant shape-shifting animated doc where family memories and Indigenous stories collide with everyday chaos!

ENDLESS COOKIE  (2025)— A Totally Unique New Animated Documentary!

Philosophical Research Society

An evening of wildly innovative, genre-bending writing with Carmen Maria Machado. Machado is a fiction writer and memoirist whose signature blend of horror writing, sci-fi, fantasy, and psychological realism has worked to transform our contemporary literary landscape. In 2018, *The New York Times* listed Machado’s *Her Body and Other Parties* as a member of “The New Vanguard,” one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Machado’s acclaimed memoir, *In the Dream House* (2019), mixes styles and breaks conventions to tell the tale of an abusive relationship, and was hailed as “breathlessly inventive” by *The New Yorker*. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize.

Unknown Event

REDCAT

**Screenwriter**: Jim Jarmusch

**Producers**: Joshua Astrachan,  Charles Gillibert,  Carter Logan,  Atilla Salih Yücer

If you missed our incredible night with iconic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and his new low key family charmer, you&#8217;ve got another chance to catch this wintry triptych in our microcinema. Join the awkward family visit with three stories of siblings, parents, and icy relations. Travel from New Jersey to Dublin to Paris as Jarmusch muses on the bonds that hold us together and the walls and secrets that keep us apart. Absorbingly chill without drama, conflict, or sex, but plenty of laughs, relatable and beautiful moments, and the beyond brilliant casting choice of Cate Blanchett as Charlotte Rampling&#8217;s daughter, Jim Jarmusch adds another stylish and understated entry into his perennially cool oeuvre.

Father Mother Sister Brother

**Screenwriters**: Dan O&#8217;Bannon, Jon Povill, Gary Goldman from the story by Philip K. Dick

**Producers**: Buzz Feitshans, Ronald Shusett

Co-presented by community programming partners **ACE** and featuring a conversation with editor **Frank Urioste**

*Get ready for a surprise!* The mighty Paul Verhoeven&#8217;s adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story is the kind of endlessly entertaining and subversive content that only gets more prescient as the years go by. Construction worker Douglas Quaid (The Governator) has a beautiful wife, a lovely house, but at night he dreams of Mars and an enigmatic brunette. While undergoing a virtual vacation, something goes wrong and throws him into a high-stakes adventure with an entire planet at stake. But is it just the implanted memories, or is it all too real? A thrilling, violent, and mind-bending science fiction classic with the incomparable talents of Arnold Schwarzenegger and a smorgasbord of brilliantly crafted practical effects, *Total Recall* is still one of the most entertaining films ever.

**About ACE** ([American Cinema Editors](https://americancinemaeditors.org/about-ace/))

American Cinema Editors is an honorary society celebrating excellence within the art of motion picture editing. Our objective is to advance the prestige and dignity of the editing profession by elevating recognition for our creative contributions, promoting mutual respect among our peers, supporting diversity and inclusion, and endeavoring to be ambassadors for our unique art.

Total Recall

Vidiots

No Other Choice

Cluny Brown/Trouble in Paradise

Vista Theatre

Holiday Inn

The VVitch

Academy Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who experiences a close encounter of the first kind – witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. Meanwhile, government agents have close encounters of the second kind – discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in an unusual place. Roy and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind – contact.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

The American Cinematheque’s personal newly struck 70mm print of Director’s Cut

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND in 70mm

50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander.

Robot Jox

In a filthy-perfect future, cabbie action hero shmuck Bruce Willis meet-cutes the saviour of planet earth (Milla Jovovich, naturally) who crashes into his back seat. Colourful, sexy and stupid adventures ensue as a fiery trash comet of evil brings imminent destruction.

The Fifth Element

### **SPONSORS**

Thank you to our sponsors The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation, Dell Technologies, and Kodak.

### **ABOUT THE EVENT**

The Tribute to the Crafts honors those who are at the very heart of filmmaking and have exhibited extraordinary work behind the camera, over the past year. This special evening will celebrate excellence across 13 categories, recognizing every major craft that shapes the best in film. Honorees were selected by a prestigious jury of journalists, film historians and cinephiles representing the most respected outlets across the country. The audience will include members of AMPAS, BAFTA, Critics Choice, and all major guilds—ACE, CSA, ASC, SCL, MPSE, CAS, CDG, Property Masters Guild—as well as industry executives and press.

5th Annual Tribute to the Crafts This event is open to American Cinematheque Marquee and Movie Palace Members Only, or by special invitation. Please RSVP by Tuesday, January 13th.

Tribute to the Crafts

Rock-band-reject Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school and turns his class into a rock band.

SCHOOL OF ROCK (2003)(PG-13)(Fri 1/16) 7:30p (3rd Friday is Y2K FRIDAY)

The Story of a Small Town

Hammer Museum

Join us for an evening of poetry featuring writers Mara Rothbard, Janira Hernandez, Erin Taylor, Jaklin Romine, Lillian Doyel, Molly Lambert, Paru Francis, Raven, and Andra Knox.

This reading will also include a fundraiser with tons of prizes to benefit Heavy Manners Library!

An Evening of Poetry (1/16)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Zatoichi triumphs at a village wrestling match, much to the chagrin of his yakuza opponents. The defeated gang members pay a hotheaded ronin to take out the masseur; unbeknownst to them, the hired assassin is married to a former flame of Zatoichi’s, further complicating matters.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

Get your ticket for just $7.74 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

ZATOICHI THE FUGITIVE

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

In 1974, acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist’s life to his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day’s activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the elegant and intimate new piece from filmmaker Ira Sachs (PASSAGES) — a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre — that is both a masterful portrait of a time & place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

PETER HUJAR'S DAY

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Mandarin with English subtitles.*

In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT), RESURRECTION conjures vast and ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: China/France

Limited Engagement Official Beyond Fest 2025 Selection

RESURRECTION

Blue Velvet

The Breakfast Club / Pump Up the Volume

Death Proof

Celebrating Lynch's earliest experiments w/ "moving paintings – but with sound," feat. his early short films and monumental debut feature!

MOVING PAINTINGS—WITH SOUND: Early Short Films of DAVID LYNCH + ERASERHEAD

**Screenwriters**: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch from the play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison

**Producer**: Hal B. Wallis

*Play it Again, Sam*. The high-water mark of cinematic romance, Michael Curtiz&#8217;s *Casablanca* is an indelible classic. Bogey and Ingrid Bergman singe the screen with their palpable chemistry in this wartime tale of star-crossed lovers, political secrets, and anti-Nazi patriotism. In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Bring your boo or your bestie for a lovelorn vacation to *Casablanca*.

Casablanca

**Screenwriter**: Guillermo del Toro

**Producers**: Arthur Gorson,  Bertha Navarro

With a special introduction by associate editor **Paul O&#8217;Bryan**!

We&#8217;re in for a killer night with Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s dark fantasy debut. Nobody loves or understands movie monsters more than Guillermo del Toro, and in his debut film he gave us his skin-crawling take on the most enduring monster of them all: the vampire. Antique dealer Jesús (Federico Luppi) comes across a centuries-old contraption that inserts a needle into his skin and injects him with something terrible, and he soon feels like a young man again. But he’s tormented by cravings for blood that threaten his close relationship with his granddaughter Aurora (Tamara Shanath), and he’s targeted by an unscrupulous businessman (Claudio Brook) and his enforcer (del Toro regular Ron Perlman) who want the device to achieve immortality. Del Toro takes these familiar elements and weaves them into something that feels thrillingly new and achingly melancholy, like you’re seeing the vampire movie for the first time.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Hungry more Mexican horror? Check out these killer flicks from our video rental collection!

*Alucarda, Poison for the Fairies, We Are What We Are*

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

Cronos

**Screenwriter**: Rajee Samarasinghe

**Producers**: Maggie Corona-Goldstein,  Solomon Turner,  DaManuel Richardson,  Tabs Breese, Rajee Samarasinghe

Join us in the microcinema for Rajee Samarasinghe&#8217;s visually astonishing, deeply moving, and haunting masterpiece of visionary world cinema with director **Rajee Samarasinghe in conversation** after the screening. If you are looking for a cinema experience like no other, one that blends lyricism, documentary, the supernatural, and mesmerizing visuals, do your eyeballs a favor and don&#8217;t skip this unforgettable triumph of film.

Fusing allegorical magic realism and investigative documentary and made collaboratively with impacted locals clandestinely in a region still occupied by the military, this film is a lyrical examination of these missing persons through 26 years of civil war in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka ranks among the highest in the number of enforced disappearances in the world and most of the disappeared are Tamils. The nonfiction elements in this film are structured by a fictional narrative thread which tells the surreal tale of a mother who loses her son to a supernatural entity plaguing her community—a nod to the actual disappearances in the region.

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

**Screenwriters**: Marcell Jankovics,  Laszlo Gyorgy

One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, *Son of the White Mare* is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-*Yellow Submarine*, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-seven dragons in its roots; to combat these monsters, a dazzling white mare goddess gives birth to three heroes – Treeshaker and his brothers – who embark on an epic journey to save the universe. Directed by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (famed for his 1974 Oscar-nominated short *Sisyphus*), *Son of the White Mare* has been restored in 4K using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian National Film Institute – Film Archive.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Craving more mind-bending animation? Check out these hallucinatory masterpieces:

*Fantastic Planet, Allegro Non Troppo, Belladonna of Sadness*

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

Son of the White Mare

**Producers**: Carole Chassaing,  Sébastien Andres,  Alice Lemaire

The microcinema is about to pop off with explosive, explicit chaos with front-row seats to the creative brilliance, audacious showmanship, and soft heart of one of the most provocative artists of our time. For the past 17 years, Marie Losier has captured the dynamic and provocative essence of Peaches, the trailblazing feminist queer icon. This intimate portrait offers a deep dive into the life of an inspiring, taboo-shattering artist. Discover Peaches’ electrifying concerts, her close bond with her sister and how her boundless energy, fearless exploration on and off stage has transformed every phase of her life into a captivating work of art.

Peaches Goes Bananas

High Anxiety

Night of the Juggler

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in 70mm

Inland Empire in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice (Milland) discovers his rich wife, Margot (Kelly) is having an affair with handsome American Mark Hallidy (Cummings), he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected, deadly twist, Tony improvises – implicating Margot for first degree murder in this classic spellbinder.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

COUNTRY: USA

DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Mandarin with English subtitles.*

Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, KAILI BLUES, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot that plunges its protagonist—and us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. China’s biggest arthouse hit of all time, the film took in more than $40 million dollars in its opening weekend at the domestic box office.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: China/France

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 3D

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…

Irma Vep

François Truffaut’s tender and tragic early short *Les Mistons* screens before the main feature, followed by *Shoot the Piano Player*. Both films will be presented on **35mm**.

**Les Mistons (1957)**

**Director:** François Truffaut    **Runtime:** 18 min    **Format:** 35mm    **Year:** 1957

A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the boyfriend catches one of them spying, he punishes him harshly. In retaliation, the boys attempt to make the girl doubt her boyfriend&#8217;s love.

**Shoot the Piano Player (1960)**

**Director:** François Truffaut    **Runtime:** 92 min    **Format:** 35mm    **Year:** 1960

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie&#8217;s brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie&#8217;s help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape.

Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers — drawing him back into a past he tried to leave behind.

Les Mistons & Shoot the Piano Player

The Eastwood offers two versatile spaces for theatrical productions, film screenings, dance performances, and more: the 99-seat Eastwood Mainstage and the intimate, 40 seat Oxford Underground blackbox. Both spaces come equipped for various productions, catering to artists and audiences of all levels.

Two strangers find themselves trapped in a liminal space with no idea how they got there, where they came from or what lies ahead.

Written by Hope Lauren Starring Samuel Garnett & Hope Lauren

Directed by Claire Berger

#### About the Show

Clown Sh*t!

Eastwood Performing Arts Center

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

The American Cinematheque is thrilled to welcome Walter Murch in-person for a masterclass, providing insight into his groundbreaking approach to immersive film editing and sound-mixing, prior to the screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s **APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT**.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

American Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is assigned to track down and kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reportedly massacred hundreds of innocent people and set up his own fiefdom in the jungle. Willard and his crew encounter strange sights and people on their surreal journey into the heart of darkness.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

Masterclass with Walter Murch prior to the film ‘Walter Murch: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

Masterclass / APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT

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

Second Sunday 70mm PLUS series                                                                       It's 1913, and the "traditional" American West is dying. Amongst the inhabitants of this dying era are a gang known as "the wild bunch." After a failed railroad office robbery, the gang heads to Mexico to do one last job. Seeing their times and lives drifting away in the 20th century, the gang takes the job and ends up in a brutally violent last stand against their enemies deemed to be corrupt, in a small Mexican town ruled by a ruthless general

WILD BUNCH

Fine Arts Theatre

Two-time Academy Award nominee filmmaker and animator Don Hertzfeldt personally selects animation shorts that inspired him to animate.

DON HERTZFELDT PRESENTS ANIMATION MIXTAPE (2025)(Sun 1/25) 3pm 5pm 7pm 9pm

Meet John Doe / The Mortal Storm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour THE HUMAN CONDITION (NINGEN NO JOKEN), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji (handsome Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.

In remembrance of Tatsuya Nakadai ‘Sunday Print Edition’

THE HUMAN CONDITION 3: A SOLDIER'S PRAYER

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Hôtel des Acacias,” 1982, Dir. Yves Hanchar, Pierre Charles Rochette, François Vanderveken, Isabelle Willems, under the direction of Chantal Akerman & Michèle Blondeel, 43 Mins, Chantal Akerman Foundation, Belgium**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel, everyone is looking for love.

FORMAT: DCP

**PORTRAIT D’UNE JEUNE FILLE DE LA FIN DES ANNÉES 60 À BRUXELLES, 1994, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 61 Mins, Chantal Akerman Foundation, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A semi-autobiographical look at a young woman, like the director herself, growing up in Belgium in the heady era of the late 1960s.

FORMAT: DCP

‘Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

"Hôtel des Acacias" / PORTRAIT D'UNE JEUNE FILLE DE LA FIN DES ANNÉES 60 À BRUXELLES

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Ayumi (Reiko Kataoka) juggles between her work as a call-girl and a life with a boyfriend unable to get into college. Soon, she meets Rei (Sawa Suzuki), a seasoned dominatrix aspiring to become a theatre actor, who spends her free time rehearsing with a troupe that blurring the line between the stage and the bedroom. At the terminus of the Japanese Bubble era, brilliantly evoked here by neon-lit streets and chic interiors, both women bring us into their nocturnal orbit: a life dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure, camaraderie and the joys of hanging out in the thriving, horny districts of Shinjuku and Shibuya.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kani Releasing

COUNTRY: Japan

L.A. Premiere of New Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

A NEW LOVE IN TOKYO

Fantasia

Jackass: The Movie / Jackass Number Two

Buttercut Short Film Program

Presented by Studio Norte + Off the Picture Pictures

Buttercut

Now Instant Image Hall

An evening of pioneering experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s dance films in celebration of Karen Pearlman’s new book on her work!

EMBODIED FILMMAKING: 8 FILMS BY SHIRLEY CLARKE + Book Launch & Discussion!

**Screenwriters**: John Kamps,  Arne Olsen

**Producer**: Suzanne Todd

*Go Go Power Rangers!* Put on your spandex bodysuit and get ready to rumble with ridiculous monsters in the first feature film installment of this small-screen martial-arts camp phenomenon. The teenage superheroes are caught without their mentor and their powers as a giant egg is mysteriously cracked open revealing and oozy monster that threatens everything in the galaxy with it&#8217;s evil goo. Can the rangers take on this sticky foe, even without their battle robots? Don&#8217;t miss your chance to watch the battle on the big screen with your bestie or little karate master.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more 90s family friendly action?

*Super Mario Brothers, 3 Ninjas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*

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

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

**Screenwriters**: Eskil Vogt,  Joachim Trier

**Producers**: Maria Ekerhovd,  Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

Now with a bonus post-screening video conversation with the cast!

Join us in the microcinema for Joachim Trier&#8217;s Cannes Grand Prix-winning masterpiece *Sentimental Value*. 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.

Sentimental Value

**Screenwriter**: John Cassavetes

**Producer**: Sam Shaw

Gena Rowlands gives an electrifying, unforgettable performance in this searing drama, which was written and directed by her husband and close collaborator, John Cassavetes. Rowlands plays Mabel, mother to three young children and wife to Nick (Peter Falk), who practically acts like a child himself. As Mabel tries to deal with the stresses of her everyday life, it becomes clear that something is wrong with her, which leads Nick to commit her to a mental institution. But is she truly mad, or just dealing with the chaos swirling all around her? A landmark in the history of independent film, *A Woman Under the Influence* has inspired generations of filmmakers with its volcanic intensity and improvisatory style.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Craving more Gena Rowlands? Take home these delights tonight.**

*The Neon Bible, Tempest, Night on Earth*

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

A Woman Under the Influence

**Screenwriter**: Kristen Stewart from the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch

**Producers**: Maggie Mclean,  Dylan Meyer,  Michael A. Pruss,  Rebecca Feuer,  Charles Gillibert, Yulia Zayceva,  Max Pavlov,  Svetlana Punte,  Kristen Stewart,  Andy Mingo, Ridley Scott

Oscar-nominated actor Kristen Stewart makes her feature directorial debut with *The Chronology of Water*, an unflinching portrait of womanhood, survival, and artistry at the fragmented crossroads of memory and memoir, adapted from the book of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch. Imogen Poots stars as Lidia, a young woman who finds escape from an abusive home through competitive swimming in the 1980s. After her athletic dreams are derailed, she navigates love, loss, addiction, sexuality, and her own self-destructive impulses while discovering her voice, and healing, through the transformative act of writing.

The Chronology of Water

Son of Flubber

Our quarterly VHS vendor fair returns, Sunday, Jan. 25th!

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## VENDORS TBA

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## SUNDAY, 1/25Noon to 4pFree admission!

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Our VHS SWAP happens every 3 months, on the last Sunday of the month.

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See you there!

JANUARY VHS SWAP!

WHAMMY!

Gypsy in 35mm

Wild at Heart in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Wealthy housewife and children’s author Cathryn (Susannah York) receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests mockingly to her that her husband Hugh (René Auberjonois) is having an affair. Cathryn’s husband comes home, finding her in complete disarray. Hugh attempts to comfort her, but then he is gone, and she sees a different man who is behaving as if he were her husband. She screams in horror and backs away, only to see her vision of the figure revert to her husband.

Hugh attributes her outburst to stress and her budding pregnancy. He decides to take a vacation to the countryside at an isolated cottage. But as she dwells there, Cathryn delves into darker delusions as the stranger returns, and she finds it difficult to determine what is reality and what is in her mind.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Handmade Films

COUNTRY: UK/USA

Presented by special arrangement with Handmade Films Vintage 35mm print! ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents IMAGES

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Cartuna

COUNTRY: USA

FUCK MY SON!

Monkey Shines / Link

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Independent Film Company

COUNTRY: Canada/Ireland

Q&A with filmmaker Corin Hardy and actors Sophie Nélisse and Dafne Keen. Moderated by Perri Nemiroff. West Coast Premiere

WHISTLE

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 3, “Zen, Or The Skill To Catch A Killer,” Dir. David Lynch, 47 Mins**

Ben Horne’s brother, Jerry, arrives in Twin Peaks; together they travel to One Eyed Jack’s and meet with the madam, Blackie O’Reilly. Audrey leaves a clue for Cooper. Deputy Hawk finds a bloody towel near the crime scene.

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.

“Zen, Or The Skill To Catch A Killer” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 3

Dr. Strangelove / Being There

**Screenwriter**: Kleber Mendonça Filho

**Producers**: Emilie Lesclaux,  Kleber Mendonça Filho,  Wagner Moura,  Brent Travers

Join us in the microcinema for Kleber Mendonça Filho&#8217;s latest Cannes-winning masterpiece, the harrowing Brazilian political thriller *The Secret Agent*. Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho teams up with renowned actor Wagner Moura &#8211; giving an extraordinary, career-defining performance &#8211; to craft a thrillingly unpredictable, playfully shape-shifting epic steeped in history even as it feels remarkably contemporary, paying affectionate tribute to the movies of Filho’s youth while unfolding against the backdrop of political turmoil and palpable danger.

Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship&#8217;s political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers, from ghosts of the past and from the ruthless, mischievously militant spirit of Brazil in 1977. In the midst of these mounting threats, Marcelo, with the help of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country&#8217;s growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his young son.

The Secret Agent

**Screenwriter/Producer**: Wong Kar-wai

An exquisitely torturous queer romance from the magnificent Wong Kar-wai, starring two of Hong Kong&#8217;s dreamiest leading men &#8211; Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, *Happy Together* is a breathtaking and heartbreaking portrait of the passions and breakdowns of a tumultuous love affair. Wondrously raw and endlessly stylish, with cinematography from the masterful Christopher Doyle that fluctuates between rich saturation to monochromatic, this masterpiece triumphs in aesthetics and emotional resonance. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to languor in this delirious romance.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Love tortured romance? We are infatuated with these gems:

*The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Bad Timing, The Law of Desire*

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

Happy Together

Safe in Hell/Wild Boys of the Road

Nineteen Eighty-Four in 4K

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.

Wolf

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Based on the beloved memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and marking the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER is a raw and unflinching portrait of survival, sexuality and self-invention. The film traces Lidia’s life from her earliest memories in the Pacific Northwest, as a promising swimmer, through fractured relationships, near-motherhood, addiction and encounters with artistic heroes. Told as a fluid memory wash, the story transforms trauma into art, embodying Yuknavitch’s defiant voice that made her work a modern cult classic. It is not only a chronicle of a woman becoming a writer, but a visceral journey through the wreckage and resilience of a life lived against the grain.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Forge

COUNTRY: France/Latvia/UK/USA

THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER

**Screenwriter**: Satyajit Ray from the short story by Rabindranath Tagore

**Producer**: R.D. Bansal

Get lost in the exquisite vibes of Satyajit Ray&#8217;s delicately textured masterpiece of a woman&#8217;s creative and romantic longings in nineteenth century India. Charulata is the lonely wife of a determined and absent husband, momentarily lit up artistically and amorously by a visit from a relative of her husband. Based on a short story by the great Rabindranath Tagore, *Charulata* is an intricate tapestry of textures; a graceful tale of a marriage in turmoil and a woman taking the first steps toward finding her own voice.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Love Satyajit Ray as much as we do? Check out these soft-spoken masterpieces in his director&#8217;s section.

*The Chess Players, The Music Room, The Apu Trilogy*

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

Charulata

The Mask of Dimitrios

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Imaginary Witness with The Great Dictator

Members at the Immerse level and above ($250+) are invited to join our curators for exclusive walk-throughs of *Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70*.

This event is exclusive to Hammer Immerse members and higher. If you would like to upgrade your membership, email [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu) or call 310-443-7050. RSVP required; capacity is limited.

[Become a member today](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership).

RSVP required; capacity is limited. Kindly reply by Friday, January 23 to 310-443-7050 or [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

Coffee with a Curator: Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Blight / Aquarius

Newly restored under-seen masterpiece of India’s Parallel Cinema movement —a colorful folktale that lyrically unites myth, nature, & wonder!

Aravindan Govindan's KUMMATTY (1979) – A Vibrantly Restored Masterpiece!

Daisies/Loves of a Blonde

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home with George Takei

*Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1995, DCP, 99. In Cantonese with English subtitles. *

In this B-side to CHUNGKING EXPRESS, Hong Kong is a neon fever dream; a rush of lights illuminating the broken hearts of its inhabitants; the lives of a contract killer (Leon Lai) and his lovelorn partner (Michelle Reis), a drifter in search of her ex-boyfriend, and a mute ex-con (Takeshi Kaneshiro) cross paths in its streets. A cool nocturnal reverie; aglow fluorescent with urban anxieties and longing; characterized by an exhilarating, go-for-broke panache typifying Wong Kar Wai’s ‘90 style.

Fallen Angels

Xenia, Ohio is a small town that has never recovered from a tornado hit. Nihilistic teenage dreams and boredom coalesce as visually stunning vignettes exposing the often surreal underbelly of Shitsville, USA.

Gummo

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The Marx Bros.’ zaniest film finds Groucho as the fun-loving Professor Wagstaf, president of Huxley College. He attempts to help his son finally graduate after 12 years by arranging to “buy” professional football players for an upcoming game against rival Darwin University. But the plan takes an unexpected twist when a bootlegger and a dogcatcher are mistaken for the athletes and accidentally hired instead.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Get your ticket for just $6.12 at the box office! ‘Film by the Foot’

HORSE FEATHERS

Bronson / Only God Forgives

Screenings and Readings presented by JOAN, Rotations & Alexis Kyle Mitchell

Films by Peter Weiss, Jacqui Duckworth, Julie Dash, Mary Helena Clark, Barbara Hammer, Sarah Ballard, Yelena Gluzman, Onyeka Igwe, Margaret Raspé, and more.

Readings by Danielle Carr, Amelia Bande, and others to be announced.

Curated together by Rotations’ Corina Copp, JOAN’s Suzy Halajian, and artist Alexis Kyle Mitchell, this two-night screening and reading program commemorates the final days of Mitchell’s exhibition *The Goal of Our Health*, on view at JOAN through January 31. *Events for a Moving Body* brings together films and readings that think with the body as a site of knowledge, relation, and struggle. Spanning archival and contemporary experimental, ethnographic, and transnational queer, feminist and artist cinema practices, these works reflect on athleticism, performance, hysteria, spirit, and human–animal ecologies; extending Mitchell’s inquiry into how embodied knowledge resists the limits imposed on bodies by medical, economic, social, and ideological structures.

Mitchell’s JOAN exhibition marks the Los Angeles premiere of her 2024 feature-length film *The Treasury of Human Inheritance*, which explores the idea of inheritance as a genetic, political, and spiritual set of relations; and includes newly commissioned works that unearth a history and aesthetics of fascist and eugenicist logics and practices. In dialogue, *Events for a Moving Body* constellates transtemporal moving images that bring into view the body in its sensorial labors—Jacqui Duckworth, Julie Dash, Peter Weiss, Margaret Raspé—with anachronistic works by artists Onyeka Igwe, Yelena Gluzman, Sarah Ballard, and Mary Helena Clark, among others, that immerse us newly.

How have bodies historically navigated constraint through collectivity, ritual, repetition, and shared forms of attention? Invited poets and scholars Danielle Carr, Amelia Bande, and others will read in and around the film-work, together proposing the body as something not merely acted upon. Instead, histories are embodied, memory flows multidirectionally, and new forms emerge for health, care, and desire outside capitalist and imperialist frameworks.

Events for a Moving Body

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

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (2015)

**Screenwriters**: Satoshi Kon,  Sadayuki Murai

**Producer**: Taro Maki

We&#8217;re rolling out the red carpet for *Millenium Actress,* visionary anime director Satoshi Kon&#8217;s brilliant meditation on filmmaking, memories, and mystery. Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life&#8230; but also his own.

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

Millennium Actress

**Screenwriter**: Kate Lanier from the autobiography *I, Tina* by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder

**Producers**: Doug Chapin,  Barry Krost

Meet us at the Nutbush City Limits for the most diva-tastic biopic of the 1990s! Angela Bassett, in an Oscar-nominated role steps into the shoes of one of the most ferocious soul singers of all time &#8211; the iconic Tina Turner. From her early days in the church choir in Tennessee to her abusive relationship with musical partner, husband, and mentor Ike Turner, to her empowering exit and successful solo career, you&#8217;ll see the triumph, heartbreak, and resilience of one of the biggest divas ever. Sing along, cheer along, and cry along with this powerful musical epic and a crowd of Tina stans and Vidiots!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Love Soul Music? Check out these bops in our Music Docs

*Don&#8217;t Forget the Motor City, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Wattstax*

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

What’s Love Got to Do with It

**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.

Lost in America

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Solo: A Star Wars Story

The Ghost and the Darkness in 35mm

The Wicker Man in 4K

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

Barry Lyndon

The Stringer

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

In the final chapter of Monteiro’s João de Deus trilogy, his alter ego receives an envoy from God in military clothes, who make him a millionaire. Expelled from society due to his crimes, João de Deus goes from rags to riches and finds a natural home for his hedonism in a new palace and revamped social status. He quickly runs out of luck, however, after falling for a woman who awakens his worst impulses, leading him to another conviction and a final meeting with an old friend who speaks the word of God, leading to a chance at redemption that, in a nod to Robert Bresson’s PICKPOCKET (1959), may finally unite him with an unforgiving cosmos.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal

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

SORCERER

7:30 PM

OBEX

7:30 PM

Left-Handed Girl

12:45 PM

Jay Kelly

3:30 PM

Train Dreams

7:00 PM

Frankenstein

10:05 PM

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 1/15) 7:30pm

7:30 PM

LEFT-HANDED GIRL in 35mm

7:30 PM

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 1

10:15 PM

The Long Goodbye

Night Moves

7:30 PM

ENDLESS COOKIE (2025)— A Totally Unique New Animated Documentary!

7:30 PM

Unknown Event

8:00 PM

Father Mother Sister Brother

7:00 PM

Total Recall

7:30 PM

No Other Choice

Cluny Brown/Trouble in Paradise

7:30 PM