Mezzanine presents *Comfort and Joy*, directed by Bill Forsyth (1984, Scotland, 106m). Introduced by actor Colin Burgess and filmmaker Alec Moeller.

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We are excited to ring in the new year with master Scottish humanist Bill Forsyth’s warmly lovesick winter comedy. Forsyth’s underseen followup to LOCAL HERO follows Glasgow morning-radio host Alan "Dicky" Bird (Bill Paterson) who comes home on Christmas Eve to learn that his girlfriend (Eleanor David) is leaving him. Stifling his depression, Alan is determined to become a documentary journalist, when he witnesses a raid on an ice-cream truck that brings him into a turf war between two rival Italian dairy vendors. Forsyth’s midlife-crisis comedy is filled with soulful performances and offbeat grace notes, and deserves to be appreciated as another gem in his impeccable 1980s run.

“A glorious Christmas movie as well as a glorious movie in its own right….It's that rarest of beasts, a truly serious comedy.” -The Guardian

“\[Forsyth\] has made a specialty out of characters who are as real as you and me, and nicer than me… This is a wonderful movie.” -Roger Ebert

Mezzanine: Bill Forsyth’s Comfort and Joy

2220 Arts + Archives

Stormy Weather in 4K

Deliverance

Academy Museum

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Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists and remarkable camera work all contribute to this spellbinding, time-honored film noir written, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder. The subject of great controversy and scandal upon its initial release, THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI shocked audiences by presenting Hayworth with her flaming red hair cut short and dyed champagne blonde.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Pictures

COUNTRY: USA

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

Aero Theatre

In a dystopian near-future Japan, law and order is enforced by a brutal paramilitary police unit known as the Kerberos Panzer Cops, aka ‘Watchdogs of Hell’, equipped with heavy weaponry and reinforced body armor called “Protect Gear.” However, when their extreme methods spark public outcry, the government moves to dismantle the unit. Disobeying orders to disband, a trio of officers stage a rebellion—but only one, Koichi Todome (Shigeru Chiba), escapes. 

Three years later, Koichi returns to Tokyo after living in exile, carrying a mysterious suitcase. He seeks to reunite with his former comrades and uncover the truth behind the crackdown, but he soon finds himself in a surreal and dreamlike city—a shadow of its former self, filled with strange characters, elusive memories, and Kafkaesque absurdity. As reality begins to unravel, Koichi descends deeper into paranoia, unable to tell friend from foe, truth from illusion. 

A philosophical blend of film noir, political allegory, and existential mystery, The Red Spectacles is a visually striking black comedy that meditates on justice, memory, and the cost of loyalty. It also serves as Mamoru Oshii’s foray into live-action filmmaking and his first feature installment in the Kerberos Saga.

The Red Spectacles

Brain Dead Studios

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

This month marks the last Sundance in Park City. Last year, Slamdance did the same. Who knows, maybe next year Cannes will leave France!

Times are changing fast - and with increased competition, new exhibition models, and existential questions around financing, there’s no better time to discuss the future of the Film Festival as an institution.

Just two days before we bring the party to Mormon country one last time, we’ll be joined by a panel of active and veteran programmers to look under the hood of the festival system and prognosticate about where it might be going.

Panel:
Kiva Reardon - Former Lead TIFF Programmer
Summre Garber - Former Slamdance Programmer
Darol Olu Kae - Former ARRAY Programmer
Paul Sbrizzi - Mammoth Lakes FF Programming Director

We’re also collaborating with Slamdance for this event, and screening three of the shorts they exhibited in their first LA-based festival as part of their “Made in LA” program!
 
A reminder that Slamdance is once again here in LA baby! Feb 19-25.
Festival passes are only $50. Films to be announced!

Shadow Kitchen #55: The State Of The Festival

Coaxial

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

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

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to “come in from the cold” to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre’s best-selling novel provides the basis for this breathtaking thriller of espionage, intrigue, crosses and double crosses. First-rate performances from the entire cast are matched by a tension-packed and brilliantly-plotted screenplay, with masterful direction from Martin Ritt (HUD, SOUNDER).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: UK

Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30pm ‘The Greg Proops Film Club’

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A girl unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. Starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving and John Travolta.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: USA

CARRIE

Los Feliz Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire / The Fugitive Kind

New Beverly Cinema

**Screenwriters**: Bi Gan,  Zhao Xiaohui

**Producers**: Zuolong Shan,  Yang Lele,  Charles Gillibert

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. 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 remarkable triumph that pushes the boundaries of the imagination and cinema.

Resurrection

**Screenwriter**: Robert Downey Sr.,

**Producers**: Robert Downey Sr.,  Henri Pachard

An unforgettable masterpiece of late-’60s counterculture, Robert Downey Sr.’s *Putney Swope* remains a vital provocation on race, pop culture, consumerism, and America at large. Putney Swope, the only African-American exec at his firm, is unexpectedly elected its president and turns the industry on its ear through a series of outrageous, taboo-busting TV commercials (strewn throughout the film like comedic landmines.) As Swope becomes the Generalissimo of Madison Avenue, Downey takes no prisoners and skewers the entire political spectrum. Essential viewing for any cinephile, don&#8217;t miss this underground masterpiece restored on the big screen!

Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more late 60s anarchy? Give these weirdos a whirl!

*Wild in the Streets, Mr. Freedom, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*

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

Putney Swope

Vidiots

M*A*S*H

No Other Choice

Vista Theatre

Frequently throughout the year we will be highlighting a few titles that are considered to be "stuck" on VHS, with no physical releases since the format (discounting VHS transfers on DVDs, etc.) for various reasons, i.e. legal ownership disputes, music licensing issues, or perhaps just perceived lack of interest.

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Kicking things off for 2026 comes IMAGE OF THE BEAST, the third installment in a series of proto-LEFT BEHIND style Christian apocalyptic fantasy movies from filmmaker Donald W. Thompson and Mark IV Pictures out of Des Moines, Iowa. Preaches the good word via guillotine decapitations, a truck smashing through a house, a giant locust monster, lots of stock footage, and quite possibly predicts an A.I. Antichrist?

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From the back of the box:

"IMAGE OF THE BEAST depicts the awesome story of the mid-years of the Great Tribulation foretold in biblical prophecy. The anti-Christ establishes a one-world government, while a small band of fugitives struggles to survive amid spectacular and terrifying judgements."

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**dir. Donald W. Thompson, 1981***United States, VHS projection*93 min

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## WEDNESDAY, 1/217:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

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Specially priced $5/$4 tickets for this series!

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

STUCK ON VHS: Image of the Beast (1981)

WHAMMY!

Lightstruck presents F*red Worden: A Cinema of Pure Energy.* Featuring live sound accompaniment to Worden’s 16mm film *One* (1998) by Elaine Carey!

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For their first event of 2026, Lightstruck is extremely excited to present a double feature of programs from one of their very favorite artists and individuals, Fred Worden. Since 1970, Worden has produced a wide range of experimental filmmaking in the purest sense of that term - his work engages in deeply thoughtful, endlessly exploratory investigations into the ecstatic adventure of primal perception and optical phenomena that are unique (elemental, even) to motion pictures. Probing the thrillingly audacious adventure of sight with his keen and playful sensibility, Worden has produced a career’s worth of magical filmmaking that, in his words, “tries hard to up the ante on the notion that film is a visual rather than literary art and that seeing as a perceptual process precedes and models thought.”

Longtime friend Ken Jacobs once stated that Worden’s work “loosens the brains good”, and we're not sure we can top that description. Many of Worden’s films thrive in a vast and cosmic space of pure experience, and beyond language, which makes them exceedingly hard to describe. But for any enthusiast of the fundamentals of cinema and the absolutely, irreducibly elemental psychedelia (if you will) of visual perception, Worden’s films are crucial documents. Our two-program overview of Worden’s world will consist of diverse 16mm and digital works produced over a nearly forty year career of lovingly nudging eyeballs and brains toward vistas of the infinite, and including his 1998 16mm film One, in which Worden manages to extrapolate a 20-minute-long cosmos from literally one frame of source imagery.

RIYL: Ken Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, abstraction, optical printing, monochrome psychedelia, hypnagogic cinema, complete transformation of objective reality

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Please note these programs contain multiple films with stroboscopic flicker.

Program 1 will begin at 7:30pm. Program 2 will begin at 9:15pm. One ticket is good for both!

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Programs by Mark Toscano and Zena Grey. Notes by Mark Toscano. 16mm prints and digital files courtesy of Fred Worden and Monique Ernst. Big thanks and big love to Fred, Monique, and Fred’s entire family.

Lightstruck: Fred Worden - A Cinema of Pure Energy

You Won’t Be Alone

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo’s masterful use of Technicolor transforms JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, Fellini’s first color feature, into a kaleidoscope of dreams, spirits, and memories. Giulietta Masina plays a betrayed wife whose inability to come to terms with reality leads her along a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy/France

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (1/22)

Heavy Manners Library

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

This subversively poetic, scandalously perverse sexual comedy earned João César Monteiro a Silver Lion at the 1995 Venice Film Festival. The unofficial sequel to RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE brings João de Deus (Monteiro) back as the assistant manager of a Lisbon ice cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute (a sublime Manuela de Freitas), where the young employees awaken his depraved impulses. GOD’S COMEDY is staggering in its celestial use of natural light and exquisite dialog, and disturbing for the repulsive behavior of a character who sees heaven and hell in all living things and refuses to obey a corrupt social contract and its clerical bodies, yet ultimately epitomizes its sins. Through João de Deus’s combination of sacred (he is enraptured by Camões, Wagner and Haydn) and the profane (he keeps a personal bible of pubic hair, and Queen Victoria’s is its most prized entry), Monteiro exposes the amoral perversity of being alive in a nefarious, cruel world.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal

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

GOD'S COMEDY

### **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

Q&A with filmmaker Todd Rohal, author Johnny Ryan, and actors Tipper Newton, Robert Longstreet and Steve Little Limited Engagement Official Beyond Fest 2025 Selection

FUCK MY SON!

The Ugly Stepsister

**Producers**: Albert Maysles, David Maysles

*The relatives didn&#8217;t know that they were dealing with a staunch character. S.T.A.U.N.C.H.* Join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of one of the most intriguing documentaries ever made, the Maysles Brothers&#8217; iconic *Grey Gardens.* Decades before reality TV, there was only cinema verité, and David and Albert Maysles led the charge in America with glimpses at real life through their omnipresent lens. Get a peak behind the hedges at one of the Hamptons&#8217; most notorious residences, the home of reclusive mother and daughter Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the black sheep of the Kennedy clan. Co-dependent hoarders, with raccoons for friends, and a penchant to belt out a tune or tell a tale of high society in the 1940s, these two women and their interplay create one of the most enduring portrait films in the history of cinema. Outspoken, iconoclastic, and utterly iconic, the Beales will entertain you from start to finish.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Craving more intriguing personality docs? We&#8217;ve got you covered!

*Crazy Love, Louie Bluie, Portrait of Jason*

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

Grey Gardens

I Shot Jesse James/The Baron of Arizona

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 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

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Clown Sh*t!

Eastwood Performing Arts Center

The Stringer

Hammer Museum

### **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

GOD'S WEDDING

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An enigmatic man of fast cars and few words, the Driver (Ryan O’Neal) excels at maneuvering getaway vehicles through the tightest of spots, making him quite in demand in criminal circles. His skill and notoriety, however, infuriate the Detective (Bruce Dern), who becomes obsessed with taking the Driver down. Luckily for the speed-loving anti-hero, the Player (Isabelle Adjani), a gorgeous and resourceful woman, is around to help him elude the Detective.

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

THE DRIVER

Batman Begins

Bronson / Only God Forgives

Office Space

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

Now Instant Image Hall

A very special evening of rarely screened beautiful experimental short films  – a chance to experience the wisdom of Watts on screen!

The Zen of Alan & Elda: The Films of Alan Watts & Elda Hartley

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriter**: Ryan Coogler

**Producers**: Ryan Coogler,  Sev Ohanian,  Zinzi Coogler

*“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”*  It&#8217;s a night from hell at the new juke joint in town and Ryan Coogler serves up a gorgeous feast of bloodlust in his brilliant genre-bending triumph with not one, but two Michael B. Jordans. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Smoky, sexy, and exhilarating with gorgeous blood-soaked period detail, you can&#8217;t ever get enough *Sinners* in the theater!

Sinners

**Screenwriters**: I.A.L. Diamond, M. Logan, Robert Thoeren, Billy Wilder

**Produce**r: Billy Wilder

Join the fun with Billy Wilder&#8217;s audacious and raucous comedy classic! Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings &#8211; such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor. Effervescent, delightful, and rolling on the floor funny, this is one comedy that never drags!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our Billy Wilder director&#8217;s section and these treasures from the master tonight!

*Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Double Indemnity*

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

Some Like It Hot

**Screenwriter**: Diane Thomas

**Producer**: Michael Douglas

Set off for romance, comedy, and adventure in this beloved 80s classic from Robert Zemeckis! Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she&#8217;ll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle. Now she&#8217;s got to rely on a brash adventurer to get her out of danger, but she&#8217;s got to watch her step so she doesn&#8217;t fall in love!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Can&#8217;t get enough Kathleen Turner? Neither can we! Take home these classics tonight:

*Serial Mom, Crimes of Passion, Body Heat*

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

Romancing the Stone

**Screenwriters**: Juliano Dornelles,  Kleber Mendonça Filho

**Producers**: Saïd Ben Saïd,  Emilie Lesclaux,  Michel Merkt

Join us in celebrating one of the most unique faces, voices, and personalities in cinema, the late great **Udo Kier** with a screening of the twisted political allegory *Bacurau*.

Your Saturday night just got a lot more insane with this chaotic, unhinged, blood-soaked Brazilian oddity. A few years from now&#8230; Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Udo? We’ve got you covered with literally dozens of films from the iconic actor to take home tonight!

*Flesh for Frankenstein, Seduction: A Cruel Woman, My Own Private Idaho, The Kingdom, Feardotcom, and dozens more!*

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

Bacurau

Million Dollar Legs

All That Money Can Buy/The Angel On My Shoulder

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Exploring History through One Night in Miami...

The Towering Inferno in 35mm

The Edge with The Grey

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Hitchcock creates a masterful psychological thriller about a compulsive liar and thief (Tippi Hedren), who winds up marrying the very man (Sean Connery) she attempts to rob. When a terrible accident pushes her over the edge, her husband struggles to help her face her demons as the plot races to an inescapable conclusion.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

MARNIE

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

During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.

UNTOUCHABLES

Fine Arts Theatre

The Secret Life of Pets

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive

Recommended for ages 7+

When two squabbling pet dogs end up outside their comfortable home they have to band together to stave off a gang of abandoned pets on a mission against the humans who've done them wrong. A star-studded cast voices the animated critters in this fast-paced adventure. (2016, Dir. Chris Renaud, DCP, color, 86 min.)

Family Flicks: The Secret Life of Pets

Rear Entrance

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Tōru (Takeshi Itô) is a jobless drifter who spends his days following random strangers in a futile search for companionship. But when he’s hired by a doctor to track his mysterious wife’s (Kiyomi Itô) daily activities, he slowly begins to piece together the disturbing motive behind her movements. As the two grow increasingly aware of the other’s presence, violent desires that blur the lines between intimacy and blood ritual begin to erupt within them. A modern-day vampire story filtered through legendary filmmaker Hisayasu Satō’s usual themes of urban malaise and voyeurism, LOVE – ZERO = INFINITY is as oddly romantic as it is unsettling.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Muscle Distribution

COUNTRY: Japan

World Premiere of New Restoration No one under 18 admitted. ‘Pinku Nightmares: Four by Hisayasu Satō’ and ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY

**Screenwriter**: Michel Ocelot

Let French animation legend Michel Ocelot&#8217;s stunning African folktale cast its spell on you. This animated marvel exquisitely recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou born in an African village in which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse. Kirikou sets out on a quest to free his village of the curse and find out the secret of why Karaba is so wicked. *Kirikou* depicts a precocious newborn infant who battles ignorance, and so-called evil, with endearing perseverance. This film speaks to the child within us all who yearns to express and defend the best in others and ourselves. *Kirikou*&#8216;s stunning visuals are accented by a traditional music soundtrack by African music giant Youssou N&#8217;Dour of Senegal.

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Want more animated masterpieces from Michel Ocelot? You can take home these gems tonight!

*Tales of the Night, Princes and Princesses, Kirikou and the Wild Beasts*

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

Kirikou and the Sorceress

**Screenwriter**: Preston Sturges

**Producer**: Paul Jones

*&#8220;**They say a moonlit deck is a woman&#8217;s business office.&#8221;* Get ready to swoon with Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck at her most beguiling in Preston Sturges magnificent romantic screwball classic. A con turns to love with the crooked Jean sets her sights on a wealthy bachelor, who brushes the gold-digger aside. But with love and revenge on her mind, she plays the part of an aristocrat to win him back. Stanwyck is at her absolute screwball best, delivering line after line of perfectly thrown shade and wit. If you&#8217;re in the mood for romance or just a thousand laughs, you can&#8217;t go wrong with this beyond hilarious masterpiece.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Do you love Barbara Stanwyck as much as us? We&#8217;ve got dozens to take home tonight!

*The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Baby Face, The Mad Miss Manton *and so many more!

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

The Lady Eve

**Screenwriters**: Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney

**Producer**: Richard Pryor

We&#8217;ve got front row seats to one of the most legendary comedy performances filmed right in our backyard &#8211; Richard Pryor&#8217;s epically hilarious show at none other than the Hollywood Palladium, fresh off a transformative trip to Africa and battling cocaine addiction. Older, wiser and funnier than ever, the venerable comic tells outrageous jokes and a number of moving stories about his personal past &#8212; including one about a life-changing trip to Africa. Pryor&#8217;s trenchant social commentary touches on an array of subjects, from prison and mobsters to hospitals and cocaine. Filmed by legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, this laugh riot captures all the comedy brilliance from one of the world&#8217;s funniest men ever!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Craving more iconic comedy performances? We&#8217;ve got a whole section for that including these gut-busters

*The Lenny Bruce Performance Film, Queens of Comedy, Margaret Cho: I&#8217;m the One that I Want, Bill Hicks: Sane Man*

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

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 4K

The Right Stuff in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Written, directed, scored, and edited by John Carpenter two years prior to HALLOWEEN, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 combines the template of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with the spirit of RIO BRAVO to forge a movie like no other. The story follows a group of police offers (including the mighty Austin Stoker) and convicts as they join forces inside a soon-to-be-closed L.A. police station. The reason? They must defend themselves against Street Thunder, a vicious gang who have taken a blood oath to kill someone trapped inside the precinct. Combining gritty action with arthouse style, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 features powerful Cinemascope compositions, a pulsing synth score, and an immersive mood that only Carpenter can deliver.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

**Screenwriters**: László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr

**Producers**: Martin Hagemann, Juliette Lepoutre, Marie-Pierre Macia, Gábor Téni, Ruth Waldburger

Join us in celebrating the visionary life and work of Béla Tarr with a screening of his hypnotic masterpiece *The Turin Horse*.

A haunting poetic parable, Hungarian master Béla Tarr&#8217;s final film is a bleakly beautiful meditation on Earthly elements and the human soul. Tarr plays on the existentialism of Friedrich Nietzche by drawing him into this slow moving and beautifully shot story of a poor cab driver, his daughter, and a horse that has given up the will to work. As a windstorm rages, all four characters are thrown into a grim reality that sweeps them into a spiral of despair. Immaculately photographed in Tarr&#8217;s renowned long takes, *The Turin Horse* is the final statement from a master filmmaker.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need more Béla Tarr to watch at home? Check out his director&#8217;s section for these and more.

*Damnation, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Prefab People*

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

The Turin Horse

or

#### About the Show

### Seven performers, two easels, one stage. THIS or THAT: a rambunctious choose-your-own sketch adventure where the audience decides what they see! Pick between two sketches at a time by yelling “This” or “That” and enjoy the fast-paced chaos of performers heeding to your choice. Once a sketch is performed, two new sketches are up for selection, and the fun continues to be decided by you, the all-powerful audience! 30 sketches enter. Only 15 survive… You decide.

### There is a parking garage located at:

### 1110 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029

### 5301 Sierra Vista Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029

THIS OR THAT

### **ABOUT THE EPISODE:**

**Episode 4, “Rest in Pain,” Dir. Tina Rathborne, 47 Mins**

Cooper meets with Audrey, who confesses to leaving him the note about One Eyed Jack’s. Cooper tells Truman he can’t remember who the killer was in his dream, but insists the dream is a code to solving the crime.

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.

“Rest in Pain” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 1, Ep. 4

Hello, Dolly! in 4K

In conjunction with the exhibition *[Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes](https://www.theicala.org/en/exhibitions/468-sandra-vasquez-de-la-horra-the-awake-volcanoes)*, join us for an evening of Chile in Los Angeles with a screening of the newly released documentary ***I Write Your Name / Escribo Tu Nombre*** by **Brogan de Paor** and **Julie Thompson** about the LA-based Chilean artist and muralist **Francisco Letelier**.

Deeply informed by his close connections to Chile’s unfolding history, Francisco is the son of Orlando Letelier, who was minister of Defense in Salvador Allende’s Chilean government in 1973. Imprisoned, tortured, and then exiled to Washington, D.C., Orlando was murdered by the Augusto Pinochet government in 1976 in Sheridan Circle when Francisco was 16. As an artist based in Venice, California, Francisco is an important member of the local and national Chilean community. His work celebrates his country’s traditions of political muralism and serves as both a form of memory and an act of resistance.

I Write Your Name / Escribo Tu Nombrewith Francisco Letelier

ICA LA

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian and English with English subtitles.*

A retired professor and art lover leads a solitary life in his abode in Rome. Countess Bianca Brumonti insists on renting a floor of his mansion. He agrees in exchange for a unique painting that he wants for his collection. The arrival of the countess’ eccentric family turns his quiet life upside down. Silvana Mangano and Helmut Berger star alongside Burt Lancaster in the roles of Bianca and her young lover – central characters in this family possessing rather unusual moral values. In the film, the professor succumbs to the charms of Konrad Huebel, despite his vulgar nature. A strange relationship – based on desire and domination – comes to exist between them. For some, this fictitious couple is a metaphor for the relationship that was formed between Luchino Visconti and Helmut Berger.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Italy/France

CONVERSATION PIECE

**Screenwriters**: Albert Magnoli, William Blinn

**Producers**: Robert Cavallo, Steven Fargnoli, Joseph Ruffalo

Come early for a big screen Prince pre-show from our found footage besties at **Museum of Home Video**!

*This is what it sounds like&#8230; When Doves Cry. * Feel the electricity of the inimitable maestro Prince as he plies his charisma, unbelievable stage presence, and musical genius into a modern musical of epic 80s proportions. A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But another musician, Morris, looks to steal the Kid&#8217;s spotlight &#8212; and his girl. So purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, grab your girl group members, and boogie on down to Vidiots to bask in this musical majesty.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Prince bangers from our video rental collection!

*Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge, Prince: The Hits Collection*

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

Purple Rain

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (2/5)

Every 1st Thursday, starting Feb. 5th we’ll be hosting a music open mic night for kids and teens.


Our intention is to create a supportive and joyful space where young people can come together, share their love of music, practice performing regularly, make mistakes, try again & grow!

All performers must be under 18 & guardians must be present. 

5pm - 7pm

No cover charge

Please email info@scribblecommunity.com with any questions.

Glow Big: Youth Open Mic

North Star Sessions is a free showcase that strives to be a safe and inclusive place for artists and music lovers in the LA music scene. We will highlight the work of 3 musicians, and have an open mic draw between sets.

8pm

North Star Sessions

Scribble

Never Mind the Happy: An Evening with Marc Shaiman and Bette Midler

Crawl with Rogue

The Getty Research Institute hosts the 8th annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, moderated panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

**Participants**

Anahit Galstyan, University of California, Santa Barbara \
Andrea Jung-An Liu, University of California, Berkeley \
Bermet Nishanova, University of California, Irvine \
Dejan Vasić, Stanford University \
Evelyn Char, University of California, Santa Cruz  \
Johnnie Chatman, University of California, San Diego \
Lily Allen, University of California, Riverside \
Margot Yale, University of Southern California \
Thomas Duncan, University of California, Los Angeles

**Schedule**

**9:45am Welcome and Introduction** \
Andrew Perchuk, Getty Research Institute \
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute

**10am Session I**

 - At the Seams: The Labor Politics of Home Sewing in Elizabeth
   Catlett’s *The Black Woman*

Margot Yale, University of Southern California \
Introduced by: Suzanne Hudson, University of Southern California

 - Subject to Revision: Portraiture and Transness in Andy Warhol’s *Little Red Books*

Thomas Duncan, University of California, Los Angeles \
Introduced by: George Baker, University of California, Los Angeles

 - Carolee Schneemann’s *Interior Scroll*—Fifty Years On

Dejan Vasić, Stanford University  \
Introduced by: Richard Meyer, Stanford University

**11:30am Session I Discussion** \
Moderator: Kristin Juarez, Getty Research Institute

**12pm Lunch Break**

**1:30pm Session II**

 - Ecological Erosions of Monuments: Ruin Aesthetics, Intentional and
   Unintentional

Andrea Jung-An Liu, University of California, Berkeley \
Introduced by: Gregory Levine, University of California, Berkeley

 - A Palimpsest of Nature—Traversing a Social History of Landscape
   Photography in the American West

Johnnie Chatman, University of California, San Diego \
Introduced by: Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego

 - Hideo Date, Nihonga, and the Transpacific, Asian American Roots of
   L.A. Pacific Modernism

Lily Allen, University of California, Riverside \
Introduced by: Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside

**3pm Session II Discussion** \
Moderator: Miguel de Baca, Getty Foundation

**3:30pm Afternoon Coffee Break**

**4pm Session III**

 - The Haptic Image: Illusion and Authenticity in Medieval Textiles of
   Central Asia, Iran, and India (9th–13th c.)

Bermet Nishanova, University of California, Irvine \
Introduced by: Matthew Canepa, University of California, Irvine

 - Fragrant Boundaries: Funerary Censing and the Architecture of Coexistence in Medieval Ahlat

Anahit Galstyan, University of California, Santa Barbara \
Introduced by: Heather Badamo, University of California, Santa Barbara

 - Drifting Close: Minor Intimacies & Liminal Moments in Lu Yu-jui’s *Squid Jigger Fishing Boat*

Evelyn Char, University of California, Santa Cruz \
Introduced by: Nicole Furtado, University of California, Santa Cruz

**5:30pm Session III Discussion** \
Moderator: Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute

**6pm Public Reception**

Organized by \
Getty Research Institute \
Stanford University \
University of California, Berkeley \
University of California, Irvine \
University of California, Los Angeles \
University of California, Riverside \
University of California, San Diego \
University of California, Santa Barbara \
University of California, Santa Cruz \
University of Southern California

The symposium will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][2] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][3] for more free programs.

  [1]: https://media.getty.edu/Text/85bf55c3-cc0f-51f0-b6f6-37896a8247dc.pdf
  [2]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [3]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Getty Graduate Symposium 2026

Getty Center

Always for Pleasure / Yum, Yum, Yum!: A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!**

Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (2/6)

Comics O&#x27;Clock is a comics reading featuring live readings by local cartoonists hosted by Mikey Heller. This event will be pay what you want, with donations going to Heavy Manners Library.

Featuring:

Nathan Bulmer ([https://www.instagram.com/natemorebikes/](https://www.instagram.com/natemorebikes/))

Trevor Alixopulos ([https://www.instagram.com/clubtrev/](https://www.instagram.com/clubtrev/))

Sonja Von Marensdorff ([https://www.instagram.com/sonja_von_m/](https://www.instagram.com/sonja_von_m/))

Demi Naito ([https://www.instagram.com/pagesbydemi/](https://www.instagram.com/pagesbydemi/))

Coco Fox ([https://www.instagram.com/cocofoxcomics/](https://www.instagram.com/cocofoxcomics/))

Woody Fu ([https://www.instagram.com/woodyfu/](https://www.instagram.com/woodyfu/))

ared D. Weiss ([https://www.instagram.com/jdweiss25/](https://www.instagram.com/jdweiss25/))

Alex Siple ([https://www.instagram.com/alexsipleart/](https://www.instagram.com/alexsipleart/))

Comics O'Clock: A Comic Reading (2/6)

The gorgeous new restoration of Michael Almereyda's work of ethereally cool 90s arthouse vampire cinema — produced by David Lynch!

NADJA (1994) — New 4K Restoration!

Sinners (70mm)

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith in 4K

His House

**2 p.m.–5 p.m.**

Jon Moritsugu, The Godfather of Punk Cinema, defined the trashy, rough-hewn DIY aesthetic of 1990s underground filmmaking in scorched earth sendups of the nuclear family, teen angst, hero worship and even the pretension of underground filmmakers. Now, Moritsugu, three-time Best Feature award winner at the New York Underground Film Festival (*Scumrock*, *Fame Whore*, *Mod Fuck Explosion*) and recipient of the Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, wants to share his low-budget production secrets with you! In this free, afternoon seminar in advance of the [world theatrical premiere](https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/numbskull-revolution-2026-02-07/) of his most recent release *Numbskull Revolution*, Moritsugu will walk you through everything you need to know to lob cinematic bombs into the cultural gears from conception to exhibition in this special interactive talk. For even more inspiration, members of the UCLA Library Punk Collective will be on hand to share information about its holdings.

**Free admission. [Reservation required](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-a-movie-punx-diy-filmmaking-master-class-with-jon-moritsugu-tickets-1980487649874?aff=oddtdtcreator).**

**Please note: This event takes place in the Charles E. Young Research Library Conference Room on the UCLA campus ([view Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/YmFZQ76FUXDVCgts9)).**

Make a Movie, Punx! DIY Filmmaking Master Class With Jon Moritsugu

Numbskull Revolution

Intro to Leatherworking

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

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

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

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (2/7)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Portuguese with English subtitles.*

For Maria de Medeiros’s first film role, in which she disguises herself as a male knight to live and love freely without the interference of a dangerous suitor, João César Monteiro created a theatrical representation of medieval life, complete with mythical creatures and painted and front-projected backdrops. Taking inspiration from the story of Bluebeard and Portuguese fables, SILVESTRE is a radical take on the historical film, and one of the best examples in Portuguese cinema of the confluence between reality and fantasy. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the film established Monteiro as one of the most original voices of his generation.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild

COUNTRY: Portugal

SILVESTRE

Join us for an evening of short films curated by PRS Contributing Artist Senon Williams in the Auditorium!

Rituals: An Evening of Short Films by Senon Williams and more

Free Repair Fair at Scribble

Bring your household items to be repaired for free! Volunteer to help repair items for your fellow community members!

2-5pm

Sign up  here .

Free Repair Fair

**Screenwriter**: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, John Musker

**Producer**: Peter Del Vecho

Disney turns an old fairy tale on its amphibious head in its final cell animation classic. In the French Quarter of the Big Easy, Tiana is a waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams of being a restaurant owner. A spellbound frog approaches her, hoping to reverse his stature back into that of a prince, but the magic spell works the other way and turns Tiana into a frog. A beautifully rendered film full of old Disney charm, you&#8217;ll want to bring your little prince, princess, or amphibian down for a piece of the magic.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Craving more animated royalty? Take home cartoon monarchy from around the world!

*Princes and Princesses, The Tale of Princess Kayuga, The Adventures of Prince Achmed*

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

The Princess and the Frog

**Screenwriters**: Yasujirō Ozu, Kôgo Noda

**Producer**: Masaichi Nagata

Yasujirō Ozu takes his exquisitely composed slice of life mastery to the seaside in a reimagining of his 1934 film *A Story of Floating Weeds* &#8211; with one of the director&#8217;s few forays into color. With an elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. Tender, comic, understated and remarkably beautiful in its composition and cinematography, leave the world behind and lose yourself in this international classic.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more Ozu tonight &#8211; he&#8217;s got a dedicated shelf in our directors section!

*Good Morning, Tokyo Story, Equinox Flower*

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

Floating Weeds

**Screenwriters**: Steven Zaillian, Mark Jacobson

**Producers**: Brian Grazer,  Dan Griffin

Screen legends Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott in this powerful, true crime epic. Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem&#8217;s chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas&#8217;s multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary showdown. Based loosely on Frank Lucas&#8217; real life and crimes, this gritty, superbly acted crime classic is more than a shoot &#8217;em up, it&#8217;s a deftly constructed character drama as well as a compelling gangster flick &#8211; don&#8217;t miss it on the big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Need to take home more Ridley Scott? He&#8217;s got a huge director&#8217;s section with every one of his films!**

*Thelma and Louise, Alien, Blade Runner* and so many more!

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

American Gangster

**Screenwriters**: Steven Paul,  Anthony Foutz

**Producer**: Steven Paul

Vidiots welcomes **John Stamos** and uber-fan **Johnny Knoxville** for a rare 40th Anniversary screening of the bonkers &#8217;80s action spectacular *Never Too Young to Die*.

What do you get when you pit John Stamos and Vanity against an evil intersex Gene Simmons, and throw in Freddy Krueger and James Bond just for fun? The absolutely unhinged 80s camptastic action bonanza *Never Too Young to Die*. John Stamos plays a high school gymnast who&#8217;s forced to avenge his father&#8217;s death against an evil gang leader played by KISS frontman Gene Simmons. Now he&#8217;s heading into a dangerous underground world of espionage with only Prince-protégé and Playboy model Vanity by his side. The perfect unhinged 80s popcorn flick to watch with a bunch of rowdy Vidiots!

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Want more insane 80s action? Check out our Cult section for these and more camptaculars!

*Class of 1984, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Solarbabies*

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

Never Too Young to Die

In conjunction with legendary guitarist Fred Frith's performance at 2220 on Saturday, Feb 7, we present a Sunday Feb 8 matinee screening of the delightful musical film *Step Across the Border*. Fred Frith in attendance!

LA Filmforum and Black Editions co-present, with an additional short film about harpist Shelley Burgon, Fred's collaborator and co-performer on Saturday night.

∆

*Step Across the Border* (1990), 90 min TRT, directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel

A note from the filmmakers:

*In **Step Across the Border** two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music, our work, too, was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night, responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do, for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive...*

*Do you know a white rabbit who, playing trumpet, circles the world on his flying carpet?*

*Maybe you have met him somewhere already, in Zurich, London, Leipzig, Tokyo or New York. That at least was about the route we took and what resulted from it was the black-and-white wink of an eye at the symphonic connection between subways, storms and electric guitars.*

*An American critic wrote: 'Fred Frith's music makes your jaw drop, your feet dance, and your neighbours move.'*

*Also starring: several telephones, puddles, scarecrows, saxophones, orchestrated cities and motors.*

*A music film.*

Fred Frith: Step Across the Border

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 4K

Onibaba in 35mm

Solaris

*20th anniversary screening*

Shot on mini-DV in the occupied West Bank, Cherien Dabis’ debut follows eleven-year-old Mariam’s determined quest to buy a birthday cake — a simple act complicated by life under occupation. As critic Marya E. Gates writes, the short “packs an emotional wallop that pushes you to reconsider everything.” Poignant then and even more urgent now, *Make a Wish* launched Dabis’ career after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and being screened at festivals worldwide.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Cherien Dabis. With: Mayar Rantisse, Lone Khilleh, Iman Aoun.

Filmed in both North and South Korea, *Homes Apart* follows one man’s emotional journey to reunite with his sister decades after the Korean War divided their family. Through intimate encounters and candid interviews, directors Christine Choy and J.T. Takagi trace the human cost of political separation. Combining personal testimony with geopolitical insight, the film reveals the deep longing, shared culture and unresolved tensions that continue to define the Korean peninsula today.

DCP. Directors: Christine Choy, J.T. Takagi. Screenwriter: David Henry Hwang.

From the intimacy of her kitchen table to walks through Detroit’s post-industrial urban gardens, Grace Lee’s documentary portrait of her mentor offers a compelling look at the extraordinary life of philosopher, activist and Chinese American immigrant Grace Lee Boggs. A radical thinker and cornerstone of Black liberation movements, Boggs — who died in 2015 at age 100 — transformed abstract philosophy into community action. At once personal and profound, *American Revolutionary* captures Boggs at 98, still questioning, teaching and evolving her vision of what it means to change the world.

DCP. Director: Grace Lee. With: Grace Lee Boggs, Bill Moyers, Angela Davis.

*—Public Programmer Beandrea July*

Homes Apart: Korea / American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

A traumatized young woman (Kiyomi Itô) grows into a cynical and vengeful adult who unleashes her carnal—and often bloodthirsty—rage on the random men who court her. Meanwhile, a professional cameraman (Kôichi Imaizumi) working for an unknown shadowy outfit is tasked with shooting covert footage of sexual acts around the city.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTION: Muscle Distribution

COUNTRY: Japan

West Coast Premiere of New Restoration No one under 18 admitted. ‘Pinku Nightmares: Four by Hisayasu Satō’ and ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’

TURTLE VISION

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producer**: Toshio Suzuki

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

**Picks from the Video Store**:

Can&#8217;t get enough Studio Ghibli? We&#8217;ve got you and your little ones covered with these gems and more!

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

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

Howl’s Moving Castle (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriters**: Elaine May and Warren Beatty from the stage play by Harry Segall

**Producer**: Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty is the afterlife of the party in his delightful screwball comedy that he co-wrote, co-directed, starred in, and produced. The second of three adaptations of Harry Segall&#8217;s beloved stage play, this comedy classic is a touchdown. Joe Pendleton (Beatty) is a superstar quarterback on his way to the Super Bowl when a chance of fate leaves him dead after an accident. After a rookie angel realizes a mistake has been made, he pops him into the body of a murdered millionaire &#8211; much to the dismay of his wife and murderess. Now he&#8217;s got enough money to buy his former team &#8211; the LA Rams no less &#8211; and fall for the magnificent Julie Christie. Charming, effervescent, and poignant, this 197030s throwback was nominated for 9 Academy Awards.

**Picks from the Video Store**

In love with 70s Beatty? Swoon over these classics!

*McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, The Parallax View*

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

Heaven Can Wait

**Screenwriter**: Shonda Rhimes

**Producer**: Ann Carli

Forget the halftime show &#8211; we&#8217;ve got pop princess Britney Spears in her feature debut &#8211; Tamra Davis&#8217; heartfelt coming of age cult classic *Crossroads*! Britney is joined by Taryn Manning and Zoe Saldaña as three childhood friends &#8211; Lucy, Kit, and Mimi &#8211; who rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip after an eight-year absence. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with Mimi&#8217;s handsome friend Ben in his convertible. Along the way they not only gather experiences that will change their lives, but they also discover how important it is to hold onto their hearts&#8217; desires. Hop in friends &#8211; we&#8217;re heading out to discover our dreams!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more Britney? We&#8217;ve got you covered!

*Britney Spears: Live in Las Vegas, Mickey Mouse Club: The Best of Britney, Justin & Christina, Britney Spears: Greatest Hits &#8211; My Prerogative*

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

Crossroads

The Wizard of Oz in 4K

Deep Blue Sea with The Shallows

### **ABOUT THE FILM: **

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

Kidnappers have snatched the wife of Milan’s top prison warden (Oliver Reed) and demand the release of an inmate (Fabio Testi) as ransom. But when the warden allows his prisoner to escape, the two become trapped in a deadly conspiracy that reaches from the halls of government to the bullet-riddled city streets. Can an obsessed lawman and an escaped convict survive the forces of corruption as well as each other, or does the ultimate law of society belong to the revolver?

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Compass Films

COUNTRY: Italy/West Germany/France

Cinematic Void Presents REVOLVER

Lost Highway in 4K

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

SEND HELP is a survival horror thriller about two colleagues who become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Studios

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Sam Raimi Advance Screening Popcorn and soda courtesy of 20th Century Studios Co-presented by Beyond Fest ‘Crash Landings: Three From Sam Raimi’

Mezzanine: Bill Forsyth’s Comfort and Joy

8:00 PM

Stormy Weather in 4K

2:30 PM

Deliverance

7:30 PM

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

7:30 PM

The Red Spectacles

8:00 PM

Shadow Kitchen #55: The State Of The Festival

7:00 PM

Train Dreams

12:00 PM

Frankenstein

3:00 PM

Left-Handed Girl

7:00 PM

Jay Kelly

9:45 PM

The Greg Proops Film Club Presents THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

7:00 PM

CARRIE

10:00 PM

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Fugitive Kind

7:30 PM

Resurrection

7:00 PM

Putney Swope

7:30 PM

M*A*S*H

2:00 PM

No Other Choice

STUCK ON VHS: Image of the Beast (1981)

8:00 PM

MAS*H