### THE BERLIN SERIES on 16mm by Julie O.

A collection of four short films by Julie O., all shot in Berlin in 2018: *DAS IST KUNST* (2 min), *Trauer Natur* (3 min), *Pustra* (2 min), and *my masterpiece* (4 min).

**Total Runtime: 11 mins**

### THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)

A hypnotist, a somnambulist, and a string of mysterious murders collide in Robert Wiene’s landmark of German Expressionism. With its wildly distorted sets, painted shadows, and warped sense of space, *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* helped establish a visual language that would influence horror and cinema for decades to come.

**Presented with a live score.**

### MUSICIANS

#### SEAN CIMINO

Sean Cimino is a Los Angeles–based artist, composer, songwriter, and producer working with guitar, granular processing, and modular synthesis. His work explores repetition, texture, and atmosphere, treating sound as both a physical and spatial medium. For 14 years, he performed and recorded with Grammy-nominated Foster the People, contributing guitar, synthesizer, and programming across the band’s records from *Torches* through *Paradise State of Mind*, with credits in songwriting and additional production. He is also a co-founder of the post-punk project Peel, whose music has appeared in Céline campaigns, HBO’s *I Love LA*, and EA Sports FIFA.

#### ADAM TAYLOR

Adam Taylor is the twice Emmy-nominated composer of *The Handmaid’s Tale* (Hulu), *The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (Netflix), *Black Cake* (Hulu), *The Right Stuff* (Disney+ produced by Leonardo DiCaprio), and critically acclaimed films including *Before I Fall*, *Riff Raff* starring Bill Murray, and *August Osage County*. He is currently scoring *The Testaments* for Hulu, and will start the upcoming season, and is currently completing the second season of *Presumed Innocent* (Apple).

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Brain Dead Studios

Four strangers' paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.

Possible Love

Two down on their luck jazz musicians find themselves out of a job and on the run after the police raid the speakeasy they perform in and they inadvertently stumble upon a gang war. With no money and nowhere to hide, a gig with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators at a Florida beach resort seems like the perfect getaway. There’s just one problem: the Syncopators are an all-female band, and Joe and Jerry aren’t women - yet.

Armed with some dodgy wigs and wobbly falsettos, Joe and Jerry manage to join the Syncopators, where they meet Sugar Kane: a hooch-swilling, ukulele-playing knockout with a soft spot for badboy saxophone players. Barely able to believe their good fortune, things start to go off the rails for the pair when they begin to attract unwanted attention from lecherous millionaires and some familiar faces show up at their hotel for a gathering of the country’s most dangerous criminals.

Some Like It Hot

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

Join the American Cinematheque and WIF for a specially curated night of spooky short films from women directors, as well as a Q&A with the filmmakers.

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Fry Day,” Dir. Lee Moss, 15 min**

**“Kindred Spirit,” Dir. Caroline Lindy, 18 min**

**“Go to Bed, Raymond,” Dir. Nikki Taylor Roberts, 7 min**

**“Following,” Dir. Briana Pozner, 13 min**

**“Whatever You Desire,” Dir. Eon Song, 13 min**

**“Nightmare of La Lechuza,” Dir. Lainnie Contreras Felán, 6 min**

Q&A with filmmakers Co-Presented by Women in Film

WIF x AC Spooky Shorts Night

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Shocking, outrageous and poetic, JIGOKU (HELL, a.k.a. THE SINNERS OF HELL) is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, JIGOKU, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

JIGOKU

Los Feliz Theatre

The Others / The Orphanage

New Beverly Cinema

One of the most singular horror films of the ’70s—a hypnotic, haunting descent into unstable reality, creeping dread, and the supernatural.

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) — A Classic of Supernatural Madness!

Philosophical Research Society

**Screenwriters**: Dario Argento, Bernardino Zapponi

**Producer**: Salvatore Argento

Get on your boogie shoes and join us for a night of sick tunes and even sicker horror when we crank up the Italo-Disco and slaughter the big screen with Dario Argento&#8217;s gore-giously demented masterpiece *Deep Red*. With **DJ Sindri** bumpin&#8217; Italo-Disco tunes before and after the screening/screaming!

Anticipating the eerie magic of *Suspiria, Deep Red* finds Dario Argento and creative partner Daria Nicolodi presenting a simple, Christmas-set slasher. At least, that’s what it appears to be. But within two minutes, it’s obvious that there’s nothing “simple” about* Deep Red* at all. With this movie, Argento perfected the classy, ultra-violent sub-genre that would come to be known as giallo—and also perfected playing audiences like a fiddle. This includes Goblin’s soundtrack, which is a spook-a-delic prog-rock masterpiece that beautifully complements the movie’s dreamy mood.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Make it an Italo-Horror Halloween with these killer flicks!

*The Church, Bay of Blood, Phenomena*

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

Italo-Disco Horror Night – Argento’s Deep Red

Vidiots

Castle of The Living Dead

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

Vista Theatre

Road to Perdition in 35mm

Academy Museum

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

Possession

Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity - from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho’s oppressive struggles, mirror South Korea’s traumatic political history during the late 20th century.

An official selection of the Directors' Fortnight selection in Cannes and winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, PEPPERMINT CANDY is a powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema that elegizes a generation of marginalized people with “quiet, heartbreaking power” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Peppermint Candy

When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae relocates down south to her late husband’s hometown of Miryang. Despite her efforts to settle down, in this unfamiliar and much too normal place, she finds that she can’t quite fit in. Helping her out is Kim Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome bachelor, who owns a car repair shop. Life plods on. However, fate takes a vicious turn when Shin-ae loses her son in the most horrific way a mother could imagine. She turns to Christianity to relieve the pain in her heart, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Secret Sunshine

Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Mija begins to study poetry writing at the local cultural center. At first she finds inspiration in the beauty of the natural world, but then, when Jong-wook is mired in a shocking scandal, Mija taps into newfound depths of disappointment and pain.

Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Lee Chang-dong's POETRY is a “tour de force” that presents an “extraordinary vision of human empathy” (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Poetry

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

A group of scientists on the hunt for fossilized evidence of aquatic creatures in the Amazon get more than they bargained for when a mysterious “Gill-man” starts terrorizing the expedition. While the men chase after this strange new discovery, the beautiful Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams) in thrown into grave peril.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by author Alan Rode and editor Mitch Danton, son of actor Julie Adams In celebration of Julie Adams’ 100th birthday

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 3D

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

You’re in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches—Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy—return from 17th-century Salem after they’re accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters. It’s a night full of zany fun and comic chaos once the tricky 300-year-old trio set out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth…but first they must get their act together and outwit three kids and a talking cat. 

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘The Fun-Sized, Family-Friendly, Faintly Frightening Films’

HOCUS POCUS

Author Gary D. Rhodes in-person, exploring his compendium of 70s/80s fact-or-fiction docs + a rare screening of EXP TV's epic film collage!

WEIRDUMENTARY Celebration + EXP TV's BIZARRE ENCOUNTERS... Screening!

Vidiots invites you back for more celluloid strangeness with *Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts*, a ghostly night of obscure, rare, goofy, and haunting short films and cartoons all on 16mm celluloid. From the 1930s through the 1980s, this beyond-rare collection of esoteric spookiness features devilish cartoons, obscure and demonic literary adaptations, antique movie monsters, horrifying vintage trailers, and our annual reprise of the infamous educational short *Halloween Safety* &#8211; it&#8217;s sure to be a one-of-a-kind night of witches, demons, ghosts, razorblades in apples, and creeps galore! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts

**Screenwriters**: John Fawcett,  Karen Walton

**Producers**: Karen Lee Hall,  Steven Hoban

A teen horror for the true weirdos &#8211; *Ginger Snap*s is not only one of the best werewolf films of the new millennium, it&#8217;s also one of its best Coming-of-Age classics as well!  Ginger and Brigitte have always been outcasts, and proud of it. After an attack by a vicious lycanthropic animal, Ginger&#8217;s really starting to change &#8211; for the weirder. Now, she&#8217;s more confident than ever; owning her sexuality even while hiding her newly acquired fur and claws. As Ginger&#8217;s transformation gets more alarming &#8211; and deadly &#8211; Brigitte has to find a way to save her sister and herself. Smart, funny, cool, and gross, don&#8217;t miss this toothy terror with a crowd on our big screen!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Love a coming-of-age Teen Terror? Try out these killer deep cuts!

*Teeth, Raw, Der Fan*

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

Ginger Snaps

Invasion of the Body Snatchers/Monolith Monsters

Bus Stop

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From world leaders to pop culture icons, and international supermodels, Richard Avedon’s influence helped create the blueprint for our image-driven world. His photographs didn’t just reflect culture, they shaped it.

AVEDON traces the life and legacy of an artist who used photography to reinvent the world around him. Drawing on unprecedented access to his personal archives—never-before-seen stills, intimate behind-the-lens footage and new interviews with his closest collaborators—the film explores how his singular eye both reflected and reshaped the visual language of the 20th century, and why even the most iconic image is only half the story.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Netflix

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Ron Howard and actor and model Lauren Hutton

AVEDON

Aero Theatre

In the movie *Big*, Tom Hanks made a wish and became a man-child. In *Obsession*, Bear makes a wish and gets a psychotic girlfriend. The ultimate cautionary tale about seeing the world with rose-colored glasses, *Obsession *marks yet another blockbuster in the Blumhouse canon. Written, directed, and edited by the perversely clever Curry Barker, and apparently inspired by an episode of *The Simpsons*, *Obsession *is not only genuinely shocking and funny and best served in a cinema packed with horror fans, it’s also a trenchantly observant look at romance, sex, and basic human interaction—or lack thereof—among Gen Zers.

2026. USA. Written and directed by Curry Barker. With Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston, Megan Lawless, Cooper Tomlinson. DCP courtesy Focus Features. 109 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Obsession

Hammer Museum

These Long Shadows + Natchez

Now Instant Image Hall

Trash-Mex co-presents the LA premiere of the new restoration of a long completely lost Mexican animated space opera!

Roy del Espacio (1983) — LA Premiere! co-presented by Trash-Mex!

## This screening has SOLD OUT via pre-sale.

In the film, a pizza delivery person (Greg Diaz) dies while on the job, leaving three orders unfulfilled. Mourning him, a young woman (Rosie Wilt) spends a lost weekend donning and doffing multiple sullen personas—a pierrot, an ill-fated grunge star, a Chanel-suited First Lady. As she explores grief through cosplay, the spectre of the driver returns to finish his work. Those awaiting their orders—a handful of loners spangled across California’s San Gabriel Valley—receive their pizzas, and perhaps, an encounter with the beyond.

MORBID WEEKEND weds contemplative duration and passages of experimental abstraction with ghost story spookiness and sly humor. The film explores the roles we play at work, in our creative practices, and when we think no one else is around. It features music by one of LA’s best bands, 2070, and a driving minimalist score by Brian Sullivan (Mouthus, United Waters). Luca Cioci’s stunning photography captures the soft blue evenings of LA’s other valley—a mountain-hugged expanse east of Hollywood and inland from the coast. The film’s cast boasts a mix of LA-based filmmakers, musicians, writers, designers, and craftspeople, as well as canine and feline celebrities.

**dir. Chris Shields, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
68 min

**FRIDAY, 11/6 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING · Cast & crew in attendance! Q&A led by filmmaker Devon Green.**

## $12 general admission.

***Basic*** *&* ***Microcinephile*** members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply*.* Don't have a membership? Get one *[here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership)*.

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

*sold out* MORBID WEEKEND (2026) West Coast Premiere!

WHAMMY!

The Haunted Mansion

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (Rossellini visto da Rossellini)

Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta) in 35mm

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham&#8217;s criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

It’s a love story *“about a guy with seven sisters; with four blonde crazy brothers coming after him; about getting in tune and finding your music.” (Paul Thomas Anderson)* Intended as a small movie between epics MAGNOLIA and THERE WILL BE BLOOD, the big feelings contained in this little picture belie its original intent. Turning in the first “best performance of his career,” Adam Sandler is a maladapted man who copes with his loneliness by calling phone sex lines, ultimately leading to extortion, before meeting and falling in love with Lena (Emily Watson) and embarking on a wild plot to amass a million frequent-flyer miles by exploiting a pudding promo loophole. An absurdist romance, a dizzying, manic blur, deliberately disjointed… something a lot, like, love. Co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, and featuring a fittingly batty score by Jon Brion.  

**Screening in 35mm! **

Punch-Drunk Love

Two out-of-work actors &#8212; the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail &#8212; spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday &#8220;by mistake&#8221; at the country house of Withnail&#8217;s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Withnail & I

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Hardcore

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum*

Just as every memorable dinner harmonizes textures and flavors to create something more than the sum of its parts — of the type that feels like “a kind of love affair” — so too does Danish director Gabriel Axel’s *Babette’s Feast*. A dash of piety, a splash of romance, a hint of heartache, a touch of splendor, and generous portions of human frailty and desire all come together in Axel’s framing, Henning Kristiansen’s cinematography and the delicate performances of its outstanding cast to make you fall in love with the movies and dining, all over again. We’re pleased to present this Academy Award-winning classic of the culinary screen to mark the fifth anniversary of Lulu at the Hammer Museum.

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

Director: Gabriel Axel. Screenwriter: Gabriel Axel, Annemarie Aaes. With: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel.

Babette’s Feast

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“A Private Collection,” 1973, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 14 Mins, Tamasa Distribution, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk’s own collection of vintage erotica. “A Private Collection” marks the turning-point between Borowczyk’s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

FORMAT: DCP

**IMMORAL TALES, 1974, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 126 Mins, AGFA, France**

*In French with English subtitles.*

The first explicitly erotic feature from the notorious director of THE BEAST, IMMORAL TALES presents a veritable calvacade of depravity in four stories. Structured in reverse chronological order as if to suggest the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilization, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzsébet Báthory, or present-day teenagers, IMMORAL TALES would transform Walerian Borowczyk’s image from brilliant but obscure avant-garde artist to one of Europe’s most confrontational filmmakers when it came to trampling on sexual taboos.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"A Private Collection" / IMMORAL TALES

1989 • This is the film that helped kick off Disney’s modern animation run, and you can feel the confidence in the music and the storytelling. It won two Oscars, one for the score and one for “Under the Sea,” and the songs still play like hits because they were built like Broadway numbers. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

The Little Mermaid

1941 • Introduction by Author Harlan Lebo • Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner for its screenplay, this is one film that’s worth seeing on a big screen.   • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Citizen Kane

Old Town Music Hall

Commemorating 10 years since Cohen's passing w/ the U.S. theatrical premiere of long lost 1972 concert footage & rare childhood home movies

LEONARD COHEN: THE 'BIRD ON A WIRE' CONCERTS + Home Movies — U.S. Premiere!

**Screenwriter**: Hayao Miyazaki

**Producers**: Yoshio Sasaki, Toshio Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Matsuo Toshimitsu

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of *Spirited Away*, and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above the scenic port towns of the Mediterranean. *Porco Rosso* follows the titular former fighter pilot turned bounty hunter as he pursues bands of sky pirates across the Adriatic Sea. After a mysterious curse leaves him with the face of a pig, Rosso embraces a life of relative obscurity. When an American hotshot pilot named Curtis threatens to take him down, Rosso is forced to join forces with his former flame, the sultry lounge singer Gina, and an aspiring aerospace engineer, Fio, for one final battle. Miyazaki&#8217;s mid-career tour de force retains Studio Ghibli’s signature whimsy while simultaneously offering a sobering meditation on anti-fascism and the traumas of war.

Porco Rosso (English Dubbed)

**Screenwriter**: Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck

**Producer**: Darryl F Zanuck

**Vidiots** and the **Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society** are celebrating **100 Years of Route 66** with a special screening of John Ford&#8217;s classic Steinbeck adaptation *The Grapes of Wrath*.

We follow the Joad family, led by eldest son, Tom Joad (played by Henry Fonda) and matriarch, Ma Joad (played by Jane Darwell, who won an Academy Award for her performance) as they make the arduous journey from Oklahoma to California, seeking greater opportunities during the Great Depression. Along the way, they face discrimination, police brutality, and the trickle-down effects of corporate greed, ultimately leading Ma and Tom towards a new understanding of the American dream and workers&#8217; rights. This anticapitalist masterpiece is one of the most celebrated literary adaptations of the 20th century &#8211; don’t miss it!

The [**Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society**](http://www.eaglerockhistory.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing the history of the Eagle Rock Valley and its local landmarks. Established in 1961, the society protects a rich archive of historical images, regional stories, and old local newspapers to ensure the area&#8217;s heritage remains accessible to researchers, students, and residents.

**Historic Route 66** is more than just a paved highway—it represents a vital part of the American experience through its association with migration, commerce, and recreation. As one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System, it was officially established on November 11, 1926. The highway, which became one of the most iconic roadways in the country, stretches from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.

Route 66 served as a critical path for many migrating West, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the local economies of the communities it passed through, and in the 1950s, became a popular route for vacationers heading to the West Coast. It was also a major artery for transcontinental commerce. As businesses along the route flourished, communities rallied to preserve its legacy when it began to be bypassed by the growing Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eagle Rock’s celebration of Route 66 begins on October 19, 2026, with on Presentation by the Historical Society on Route 66 in Eagle Rock.  The celebration continues on  the second weekend of November 2026, with a community festival  hosted by the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce featuring  live music, food, a vintage car show, and a film festival presented by Vidiots Foundation.

The Grapes of Wrath

**Screenwriter**: Ajon Singh

**Producers**: Robert Pattinson,  Brighton McCloskey,  Lars Knudsen,  Ari Aster, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones,  Fred Berger,  William Iannaccone

In 2006, *To Catch a Predator* host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Primetime

**Screenwriters**: Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol

**Producers**: Richard Abramson, Robert Shapiro, Paul Reubens

**Vidiots** and the **Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society** are celebrating **100 Years of Route 66** with a special screening of ***Pee-Wee&#8217;s Big Adventure***!

Hop on your bike and get ready for the most joyously wacky road trip of all time! For forty years, we&#8217;ve joined Pee-wee on his cross-country quest for his stolen bike. We&#8217;ve danced to &#8220;Tequila,&#8221; hitched a ride with Large Marge, and discovered that — **gasp* — *the Alamo has no basement. It&#8217;s a trip that some of us have taken countless times, but it never fails to delight with its perfect mix of imagination and glee, tempered with just the right amount of off-kilter, alt-comedy edge.

The [**Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society**](http://www.eaglerockhistory.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing the history of the Eagle Rock Valley and its local landmarks. Established in 1961, the society protects a rich archive of historical images, regional stories, and old local newspapers to ensure the area&#8217;s heritage remains accessible to researchers, students, and residents.

**Historic Route 66** is more than just a paved highway—it represents a vital part of the American experience through its association with migration, commerce, and recreation. As one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System, it was officially established on November 11, 1926. The highway, which became one of the most iconic roadways in the country, stretches from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.

Route 66 served as a critical path for many migrating West, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the local economies of the communities it passed through, and in the 1950s, became a popular route for vacationers heading to the West Coast. It was also a major artery for transcontinental commerce. As businesses along the route flourished, communities rallied to preserve its legacy when it began to be bypassed by the growing Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eagle Rock’s celebration of Route 66 begins on October 19, 2026, with on Presentation by the Historical Society on Route 66 in Eagle Rock.  The celebration continues on  the second weekend of November 2026, with a community festival  hosted by the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce featuring  live music, food, a vintage car show, and a film festival presented by Vidiots Foundation.

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

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

**Screenwriter**: J. Davis

**Producers**: John Hermann, Bert Kern, Douglas Matejka, Mark Myers, Leonora Pitts, Rick Rosenthal, Samuel Henry Miller

With cast and/or crew at every screening!

Join us in the microcinema for a refreshing dark comedy that will give you life &#8211; J. Davis&#8217; acerbically hilarious *I Hate Myself and Want to Die*. Jacob is an unrealized artist, freshly dumped, who’s come home to the desert to quietly end his life. The problem is, nothing goes according to plan. His mom needs a ride to the drugstore, his cousin needs a shoulder to cry on, and his best friend just wants to get high. Over a crazy night of parties, fistfights and car chases, Jacob rethinks his life and— maybe—his death.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

**Screenwriter**: Alex Cox

**Producers**: Peter McCarthy, Jonathan Wacks

A down-and-out young punk (Emilio Estevez) gets a job working with a seasoned repo man (Harry Dean Stanton), but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted &#8217;64 Chevy. Musically adorned with a killer punk soundtrack, this offbeat and absurd slice of 80s East LA is one ride you won&#8217;t forget.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Celebrate 100 Years of Harry Dean Stanton with some of these gems from his section:

*Two Lane Blacktop, Straight Time, Red Dawn*

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

Repo Man

Chicago in 35mm

Waikiki Brothers (와이키키 브라더스)

All time noir hits hard on the Los Angeles streets with incredible sunglasses. Murder is a tough business, and guess what! nothing goes well. A milestone film, get into it.

Double Indemnity

For those who prefer their “dark” and “broody” with a side of milk and cookies, BRICK is the first  neo-noir whodunit from writer-director and KNIVES OUT mastermind, Rian Johnson. Joseph Gordon Levitt is Brendan Frye, a loner and high-school Sam Spade, who knows all the angles but can’t make sense of the picture when his ex-girlfriend is found dead. In his search for the truth, he’ll wind his way through cliques he previously avoided to trade barbs with cheerleaders who give a “D” for danger on the way to uncover the mysterious “Pin.” Featuring a veritable who’s who of ‘00s Hollywood, including Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Emilie de Ravin and Megan Goode, BRICK is as much a hard-boiled pulp homage as it is a BUGSY MALONE for the “Forever 21&#8221;-set.

Brick

Bill Pullman can hardly believe when creepo Robert Blake prank calls him at home&#8230; and  then he turns into some other guy while sitting in a jail cell&#8230; What? Marilyn Manson is here too. Amazing late &#8217;90s Lynch weirdness at his sleaziest.

Lost Highway

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

An astronaut stranded on Mars must rely upon his ingenuity to survive and arrange a potential rescue. Celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day!

THE MARTIAN (2015)(PG-13) Sun 11/8: 5:00 pm Presented by Science on Screen

Gardena Cinema

*Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative*

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s first bona fide masterpiece and one of the best films of the 21st century, *Happy Hour* emerged from a workshop in 2013 with non-professional actors — some of whom ended up in the final film. Proof positive of the effectiveness of Hamaguchi’s improvisational, communal working method to this point in his career, there’s never a slack moment in its runtime of just over five hours as the group of women friends at its center navigate middle-age. Indeed, as Hamaguchi elevates his recurring themes of transition and change to sociological levels he seems to sharpen the drama’s intimacy and intensity.—*Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm* 

DCP. Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Screenwriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara, Tomoyuki Takahashi. With: Sachie Tanaka, Maiko Mihara, Hazuki Kikuchi.

Happy Hour

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Rigby Reardon is the private eyes of private eyes. He’s tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker, has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead him to the “Carlotta Lists.”

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by musician and record producer Simon Raymonde Co-presented by KCRW ‘Sunday Print Edition’

Simon Raymonde Presents DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn’t know.

4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm Nitrate Original Negative provided by the Library of Congress. Restoration services conducted by StudioPost, A NBCUniversal Company.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by NBCUniversal Restoration & Preservation Manager Jen Hashida World Premiere of New 4K Restoration ‘Sunday “Rest”orations’ ‘The Original It Girl: Four Starring Clara Bow’

HER WEDDING NIGHT

LA Loft Movie Club returns to PRS for their final 2026 screening— a festival of imaginative, rapidly produced one minute films!

LA LOFT MOVIE CLUB presents "FORAGISMS"  — A One Minute Movie Festival!

**Screenwriter**: Daniel Mainwaring

**Producer**: Warren Duff

Get ready for some Noir in November with Jacques Tourneur&#8217;s double crossing classic! The quiet life of small-town gas station owner Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is interrupted when a figure from his shady past, small-time crook Joe Stephanos (Paul Valentine), recognizes him. Stephanos&#8217; boss, crooked gambler Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas), had hired Jeff to track down Kathie Moffat (Jane Greer), a girlfriend who shot Whit and made off with $40,000 of his. Jeff and Kathie fell in love, but she left him to go back to Sterling, who now wants Jeff to settle a few old scores.

**Picks from the Video Store**

We&#8217;ve got hundreds of noir classics on Blu-ray and DVD including these gems:

*Gilda, Leave her to Heaven, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers*

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

Out of the Past

In the film, a pizza delivery person (Greg Diaz) dies while on the job, leaving three orders unfulfilled. Mourning him, a young woman (Rosie Wilt) spends a lost weekend donning and doffing multiple sullen personas—a pierrot, an ill-fated grunge star, a Chanel-suited First Lady. As she explores grief through cosplay, the spectre of the driver returns to finish his work. Those awaiting their orders—a handful of loners spangled across California’s San Gabriel Valley—receive their pizzas, and perhaps, an encounter with the beyond.

MORBID WEEKEND weds contemplative duration and passages of experimental abstraction with ghost story spookiness and sly humor. The film explores the roles we play at work, in our creative practices, and when we think no one else is around. It features music by one of LA’s best bands, 2070, and a driving minimalist score by Brian Sullivan (Mouthus, United Waters). Luca Cioci’s stunning photography captures the soft blue evenings of LA’s other valley—a mountain-hugged expanse east of Hollywood and inland from the coast. The film’s cast boasts a mix of LA-based filmmakers, musicians, writers, designers, and craftspeople, as well as canine and feline celebrities.

**dir. Chris Shields, 2026**
*United States, digital projection*
68 min

**SUNDAY, 11/8 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING · Cast & crew in attendance with Q&A**

## $12 general admission.

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MORBID WEEKEND (2026) West Coast Premiere, Night 2!

Some Like It Hot in 4K

Moss (이끼)

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ecological suspense tale about a strange biological imbalance creating super intelligent ants which attack a scientific installation in the Arizona desert.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: UK/USA

New 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive of the original theatrical release and DCP of the alternate ending created for the Archive’s collection, with thanks to Paramount Pictures and Jennifer Bass ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents PHASE IV

An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.

CYBERCON: Robot Carnival

Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Gong-ju is kept cloistered in a cheap apartment by her brother, whose only concern is the government assistance she receives. Over a series of clandestine meetings, the two begin an improbable relationship that defies the judgment and cruelty of the world around them.

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director and Best Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's OASIS is a “brave film” that “shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.

Oasis

BURNING is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people in his orbit: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers the romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun), a wealthy and sophisticated young man she returns from a trip with. However, when Jongsu learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Haemi suddenly disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount, culminating in a stunning finale.

Burning

**Screenwriter**: Pedro Almodóvar

**Producers**: Augustín Almodóvar, Michel Rubin

From maestro Pedro Almodóvar come this surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of two couples. Two men (Benigno and Marco) almost meet while watching a dance performance (of German icon Pina Bausch no less), but their lives are irrevocably entwined by fate. They meet later at a private clinic where Benigno is the caregiver for Alicia, a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma. Marco is there to visit his girlfriend, Lydia, a famous matador, also rendered motionless. As the men wage vigil over the women they love, the story unfolds in flashback and flash-forward as the lives of the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward a surprising conclusion.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Bring home more masterpieces from the always fabulous Pedro Almodóvar tonight!

*Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In*

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

Talk to Her on 35mm

War for the Planet of the Apes

**Screenwriter**: Allison Anders

**Producers**: Daniel Hassid,  Ruth Charny

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome cinema legends **Alison Anders** and **Illeana Douglas** for a special 30th Anniversary Screening of ***Grace of my Heart***!

A marvelously meandering musical excursion through the hitmakers of the New York City music scene of the 1950s and 1960s, Alison Anders&#8217; *Grace of my Heart* hits all the right notes, with a vibrant beat all its own. Illeana Douglas shines as Denise Waverly, a Philadelphia teen with stars in her eyes set to make it big in the Big Apple. While her own stardom withers early on, a slick producer recognizes her talent in songwriting and sets her off on a different path, crafting the hits behind the biggest stars of the day. After decades in the shadows &#8211; from the Doo Wop era to Rock n&#8217; Roll and into the swingin&#8217; 60s &#8211; she finally finds her time to shine. A fun and frenetic view of the male-dominated music scene and the tenacity of one woman to make her own way, this charmer is as fresh as it was 30 years ago.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Check out our Allison Anders director&#8217;s section and take home more treasures on physical media!

*Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, Border Radio*

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

Grace of My Heart

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 1985 animated classic *Angel’s Egg*, featuring a live score performed on stage by Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulwax, Cavalera).

CYBERCON: Iggor Cavalera Live Score to Angels Egg (1985)

Followed by a conversation with directors **Phil Lord** & **Christopher Miller**

Going above and beyond for humanity is not what Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) signed up for. More content to hide in a classroom teaching high school science, Grace is thrust quite unwilling into space as Earth’s last hope for survival. Guided by a no-nonsense terrestrial leader in the form of Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller in a show-stopping performance) and an exuberant extra-terrestrial partner in the form of Rocky (brilliantly performed and voiced by James Ortiz), our hero will discover if he has what it takes to save himself–and the rest of us in the process. Directed with wit and wonder by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on the bestseller by Andy Weir.

2026. USA. Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. Screenplay by Drew Goddard, Andy Weird. With Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz. DCP courtesy Amazon MGM Studios. 156 min. 

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Project Hail Mary

JOAN is a nonprofit art space for exhibitions, performances, screenings, and discursive events in Downtown Los Angeles.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Tonalli, 2021. Image courtesy of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

Chapter Three

Now Instant Image Hall

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Thursday, November 12, 2026

7pm | 55-minute screening

JOAN presents a selection of experimental films by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, an anonymous film collective founded in Tehuacán, Mexico, in 2012. Emerging amid widespread protests against the Mexican government during the later years of the “War on Drugs,” the collective developed a radical audiovisual language in response to a period of political upheaval that marked a turning point for many in Mexico. Through psychedelic colors, layered analog film, and rhythmic soundscapes, their films preserve the memory of those affected by mass violence, from protesters and the disappeared to the dead.

For Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, anonymity is a political strategy that challenges the artist-centered logic of neoliberalism, which privileges individual authorship and intention in the production and interpretation of art. By working collectively, the group resists the notion of the singular artist as the primary source of meaning and value. Their commitment to collective authorship carries particular weight in Mexico, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, where reporting on organized crime and political corruption is often met with state retaliation.

The selected films draw on key moments in Mexican history, from Aztec mythology to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and the 2014 forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa student teachers. These historical references intersect with contemporary protests that bring enduring histories of violence into public consciousness. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos describes its aesthetic approach as “shamanic materialism,” combining expired film stock, found footage, color inversion, and organic materials that alter the surface of celluloid. The resulting images create a disorienting, trance-like experience that jolts the senses. Through these layered compositions, the collective exhumes fragments of collective memory that remain largely absent from mainstream television and commercial cinema.

This program is curated by JOAN Associate Curator Nahui Garcia.

El Nido del Sol2021, 5m

Drawing on ancient Aztec mythology, El Nido del Sol references Xólotl, the canine deity; Huitzilin, the hummingbird; and Xóchitl, the flower. Vivid, saturated images of flowers blend into one another, accompanied by rhythmic drumming. Translating to The Nest of the Sun, the title evokes the spiritual interconnectedness of celestial beings and the natural world in Indigenous Mexican cosmologies.

Batalla2017, 4m

A tribute to Aldo Gutiérrez Solano, a student at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College who was among those attacked by police on September 26, 2014. That night, students traveling in buses in Iguala, Guerrero, were attacked while preparing to travel to Mexico City for the annual commemoration of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre. Forty-three students were forcibly disappeared, while Gutiérrez Solano survived a gunshot wound to the head that left him in a persistent vegetative state. Investigations have implicated local police, organized crime, and members of the Mexican military in the events surrounding the attacks and disappearances.

Altazor2019, 3m

An audiovisual tribute to Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s 1931 avant-garde poem Altazor. The poem follows a cosmic aviator in free fall through time, space, and infinity, exploring the limits of language and the nature of human existence.

Tonalli2021, 16m

Drawing on the ancient Nahuatl concept of tonalli, understood as the vital energy that animates living beings, the film alludes to the Day of the Dead and its roots to Indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations. Two heads, one a skull and the other a clay figure, fade in and out of view, each surrounded by flowers.

Aria 682023, 4m

Aria 68 revisits the historical trauma and recurring cyclices of violence surrounding the Tlatelolco student massacre, which took place in Mexico City on October 2, 1968. A recurring subject in the collective’s filmography, the massacre forms the basis for this “shamanic composition,” an intense audiovisual reflection on the enduring legacies of state violence in contemporary Mexico.

Notes for a Deja Vu2020, 22m

Scenes of contemporary protests unfold through freeway tunnels and the streets of downtown Mexico City, where demonstrators carry banners and images, including depictions of the Virgin Mary, flyers of missing women, and slogans commemorating the Tlatelolco Massacre. The footage is accompanied by the voice of poet, filmmaker, and artist Jonas Mekas, who reflects on the fragmented nature of memory.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

JOAN

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**“Gavotte,” 1967, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 12 Mins, Friends of Walerian Borowczyk, France**

Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion.

FORMAT: DCP

**LULU, 1980, Dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 95 Mis, Studio TF1, France**

*In French with English Subtitles.*

The story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack “the Ripper.”

FORMAT: DCP

World Premiere of New 4K Restoration of LULU Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York ‘The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk’

"Gavotte" / LULU

****DEATH WISH CLUB (1984) is a film that was repackaged many times for the home video market, desperately trying and failing to find an audience (also known as *Gretta*, also known as *Carnival of Fools*, also known as *Erskine Caldwell's Gretta, a*lso known as *The Dark Side to Love)*. However it's mostly known in a heavily edited down short form as *The Case of Gretta Connors*, a part of the NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR horror anthology, which is unfortunate as its full 90 minute version must be seen to be believed!

Directed by John Carr, written by controversial Oscar-winning screenwriter Philip Yordan (!), and based very loosely on the 1955 Erskine Caldwell novel *Gretta,* the full cut of DEATH WISH CLUB unfolds a story that at no point will you know what comes next.

Rich misanthrope George Youngmeyer (J. Martin Sellers) meets the eccentric Gretta (the incredible Meridith Haze in her only known role) working at the carnival, stuffs a few hundred dollar bills down her shirt and takes her home. Gretta wants to be "a star" so Youngmeyer introduces her to the world of pornography. After seeing one of her films in his dorm, college student Glenn Marshall (Rick Barnes) becomes infatuated with the actress, and follows the clues from the adult store where the film was rented, to the production company that produced the picture, eventually finding himself face to face with Gretta, who is playing the piano pantsless at the shady "Club Manhattan". Glenn is sucked into a dangerous triad, and what follows becomes more incredulous from one moment to the next, including getting caught up in the titular "Death Wish Club".

Gender swapping, seances, giant bug POV shots, demolition balls, electric chairs, karate, and so much more await you in DEATH WISH CLUB.

**dir. John Carr, 1984**
*United States, digital projection*
90 min

**THURSDAY, 11/12 · 7:30 DOORS · 8:00 SCREENING**

## $10 general admission.

***Basic*** *&* ***Microcinephile*** members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply*.* Don't have a membership? Get one *[here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership)*.

*****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***

DEATH WISH CLUB (1984)

Black Fire with Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth&#8217;s cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

CYBERCON: Peow Studio Book Launch & Exhibition W/ Zimmerit Panel + Godzilla: Final Wars

Followed by a conversation with writer-director **Ryûsuke Hamaguchi**

Based on an exchange of letters between philosopher Makiko Miyano and medical anthropologist Maho Isono, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi beautifully depicts the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of Marie-Lou, a French nursing home director and caregiver, and Mari, a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer. As they spend time together after a performance of one of Mari’s plays and at the nursing home where Marie-Lou implements a new program of radical empathy for the patients' bodies and souls against skeptical colleagues, both connect over longing, sentimental aspirations, and the sociopolitical strains that have driven their life choices and shaped their communities. *All of a Sudden* isn’t just a fascinating look into our era’s anxieties and injustices but a moving testimony to the power of human empathy in an era that may make you think there is none.

2026. France/Japan/Germany/Belgium. Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Screenplay by Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; based on the book by Maho Isono, Makiko Miyano. With Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyôzô Nagatsuka. DCP courtesy NEON. In French, Japanese; English subtitles. 196 min.

**$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission **
Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu).

**Enhance your movie experience as a member!** Hammer Members receive priority seating and half-off Contenders tickets—plus discounts at the museum store and Lulu restaurant. [Become a member today.](/support/membership)

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*MoMA Contenders 2026* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

All of a Sudden

Join us for the world premiere of a new documentary on Stephan Hoeller followed by Q&A with special guest Gary Lachman

THE BISHOP OF HOLLYWOOD, the life and legacy of Dr. Stephan Hoeller

Porco Rosso (Japanese with English Subtitles)

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

Sexy, smart, and smoldering, this shocking neo-noir shot the Coen brothers into the upper echelons of filmmakers right off the bat. Far beyond your average freshman fare, the Coen Brothers debut film *Blood Simple* is stylish, brutal, and tinged with that signature Coen wit. The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more menace from the best brothers in the biz!

*Miller&#8217;s Crossing, Barton Fink, No Country for Old Men*

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

Blood Simple

**Screenwriter**: Dan O&#8217;Bannon

**Producer**: Tom Fox

The most fun you&#8217;ll ever have with the undead! A gang of Punks and New Wave ne&#8217;er-do-wells get trapped in a cemetery as the dead begin to rise and start to crash their party. And these aren&#8217;t your average zombies. They can talk, reason, and even make jokes, but make no mistake — they are still out for your brains. A total blast from start to finish, this monster bash features killer special effects, a rockin&#8217; soundtrack, and one of scream queen Linnea Quigley&#8217;s most iconic moments. You&#8217;d be a ghoul to miss it!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more 80s classics with the Queen Linnea Quigley!

*Night of the Demons, Silent Night Deadly Night, Savage Streets*

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

The Return of the Living Dead

Frankenweenie in 35mm

Jealousy Is My Middle Name (질투는 나의 힘)  in 35mm

Join us at Brain Dead Studios for an intimate screening of the 2003 animated classic Interstella 5555, featuring a live DJ score performed by SOSUPERSAM and Kyle Ng.

Feel free to get out of your seat and dance with us!

CYBERCON: SOSUPERSAM & Kyle Ng Live Score to Interstella 5555 (2003)

A clandestine group of scientists are conducting brutal experiments on human test subjects in an attempt to unlock psychic powers. An assault of industrial noise, sensory deprivation, and grotesque body horror, *Rubber&#8217;s Lover (1996)* is often considered an unofficial prequel to Fukui’s *964 PINOCCHIO (1991)*, expanding on its obsessions with technology, bodily transformation, and the limits of human consciousness.

CYBERCON: Rubber’s Lover

Every space hosts the accumulation of time and is thus a repository of memory, one that is active and dynamic.

Jean Khalil Chamoun’s *Women Beyond Borders* (2004) and Theo Panagopoulos’ *The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessin*g (2024) were made two decades apart, but together they foster an ongoing conversation at the intersection of identity, memory and place across Lebanon and Palestine.

Though distinct in form, the films consider the relationship between people’s lived environments and their individual and collective identities. The films navigate through spaces both historically and presently marked by displacement, violence and resilience. Both offer meditations and testimonies on how these spaces can inhabit a people’s memories, linger into their present realities and influence their futures.

Rather than attempting to unearth a singular tradition, this program amplifies an ongoing cinematic conversation across Lebanon and Palestine that is rooted in intertwined histories of occupation and resistance. This conversation is an urgent one to hold today in light of the ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon and historic Palestine that continues to target complete ecosystems. This systematic surge of destruction and harm affects far beyond the physical; it seeks to fracture memory, sever a people’s sense of being and belonging, and jeopardize social relations that places sustain. The moving image as a tool presents an opportunity to forge an alternative place of memory work, one capable of preserving spatial memory, making visible the forms of erasure, and imagining continuities that exceed the violence of occupation and its imposed restriction on bodies and space.

*Programmed by UCLA Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Aciah Abdulsater and Archive Research and Public Access Coordinator Nicole Ucedo. Notes and concept by Aciah Abdulsater.*

Filmmaker and researcher Theo Panagopoulos’ essay-style documentary assembles recently rediscovered archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, filmed in the 1930s and ’40s by a Scottish missionary during the British Mandate. Panagopoulos decides to reclaim the footage. In reframing the images with new sound and captions he questions the role of image-making as both a tool of witnessing and a perpetrator of violence, when covering the relationships between people and land. 

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Theo Panagopoulos.

In a feature-length documentary, filmmaker Jean Khalil Chamoun follows the story of Kifah Afifi, a Palestinian refugee, Sabra and Shatila massacre survivor, and ex-abductee at the infamous Khiam detention center in then-occupied southern Lebanon. The film explores questions of womanhood and women’s relationship to community and space. By following Kifah’s recollection of her time in detainment, her struggles and what anchored her hope, the film sheds light onto women who defied societal, historical and political boundaries.

Digital media. Director/Screenwriter: Jean Khalil Chamoun.

Borders That Flower: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / Women Beyond Borders

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on two mangas by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Benzo.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Several Futures

COUNTRY: Japan

Q&A with filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past? Hold on to your seat for an explosive and intriguing thrill ride you’ll want to experience again and again.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

Introduction by filmmaker Shō Miyake Co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles 20th Anniversary ‘Unspoken Gestures: A Shō Miyake Retrospective’

DÉJÀ VU

In Session invites visitors to engage with readings, film/video and writing activities that relate to current exhibitions and are meant to generate self-reflection and group discussion.

This In Session will focus on Larry Johnson, who currently has work on view in In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA. Capacity is limited to 15 people. In Session is organized by MOCA Education.

A contemporary innovator of Pop, LA-based artist Larry Johnson makes photographs that look nothing like photographs. In his witty, incisive, cartoon-like proto-photos, Johnson appropriates the images and aesthetics of TV and movie animation, graphic design, commercial illustration, and advertising to deconstruct the terms of American culture’s self-presentation.

In Session: Larry Johnson

MOCA Grand Avenue

For more than a decade, University of Virginia colleagues Kevin Jerome Everson, Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts, and Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Edward Stettinius Professor of History, have collaborated on *Black Fire*, an ongoing body of work devoted to the history and experience of Black life at UVA in Charlottesville. The project grew out of Harold’s research into the political and cultural history of African American students and faculty at the university and her discovery of a fragmentary archive. Together, Harold and Everson began using this archival material as a point of departure, making images where images were absent and bringing Harold’s research into conversation with Everson’s approach to performance, duration, and gesture.

The selection presented here moves between histories of student organizing and institutional change, athletics, gospel, recreation, and the forms of social and cultural exchange that took place within and around the university.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A and conversation with Everson and Harold.

Special thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, K.J. Relth-Miller, and the Academy Museum.

Films appear courtesy of the filmmakers and Picture Palace Pictures. All films directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold.

Black Fire

1948  • A hurricane, a hotel full of uneasy people, Humphrey Bogart facing off with Edward G. Robinson — Key Largo hardly needs more to get your attention. Directed by John Huston, it was the fourth and final screen pairing of Bogart and Bacall.  • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Key Largo

1971 • Introduction by Screenwriter Larry Karazewski • Screenwriter Larry Karazewski (Ed Wood, Big Eyes) joins us to introduce this wonderfully quirky film. The film was directed by Hal Ashby, who had a gift for making odd, deeply human films. Over time, it has become a beloved cult favorite. • Show begins with music on the Mighty Wurlitzer and an old fashioned sing-along.

Harold and Maude

The LA premiere of the new kaleidoscopic retelling of the Orpheus myth, blending 16mm photography, stop-motion, and handmade illusions!

Virgilio Villoresi’s ORFEO (2025) — Los Angeles Premiere!

**Screenwriters**: Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson

**Producer**: Roy Conli

Disney meets Marvel in this thrilling and charming tale of robotic friendship and fighting for what&#8217;s right. A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. So join us in San Fransokyo with your family and inflatable friends.

Big Hero 6

**Screenwriter**: Budd Schulberg

**Producer**: Sam Spiegel

Vidiots remembers the iconic screen goddess **Eva Marie Saint!**

*I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let&#8217;s face it.* You might know that iconic quote, and you might be aware that Marlon Brando’s performance in this movie was a game-changer in film history, helping to popularize the more naturalistic style known as Method acting. But don’t let that overshadow the film itself, a masterpiece that earned eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and remains just as powerful 70 years later. Brando plays Terry Malloy, a longshoreman and former boxer who grows to resent the mobsters who control his local union. And in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint is luminous as Terry’s love interest, who acts as his conscience and inspires him to take a stand and fight back &#8211; no matter what the cost.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more treasures from Eva Marie Saint&#8217;s iconic career!

*Grand Prix, The Sandpiper, Vertigo*

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

On the Waterfront

**Writer:** John Hughes

**Producers:** John Hughes, Lauren Shuler Donner

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for this all-time teen classic of high school romance, jealousy, resourcefulness, and classism. Molly Ringwald plays Andie, a creative outcast from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a rich kid (80&#8217;s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy) and ends up causing rifts in both their worlds. This sweet and stylish romance features incredible performances from the entire cast including Annie Potts as the fashionista record store owner, Jon Cryer as the Otis Redding lip-syncing obsessed best friend, James Spader as the vilest of the upper crust, and of course Vidiots favorite Harry Dean Stanton as her single father.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Celebrate 100 Years of Harry Dean Stanton with some of these gems from his section:

*Two Lane Blacktop, Straight Time, Red Dawn*

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

Pretty in Pink

**Producer**: Gary Goetzman

We&#8217;re bringing the party back to the big screen to kick off our birthday weekend like rock stars! Join us for one of our favorite cinematic/musical experiences with a reprise of legendary Director Jonathan Demme’s ecstatic musical masterpiece Stop Making Sense. Filmed at the Hollywood Pantages Theater in December 1983, this fascinating piece of musical memorabilia showcases the Talking Heads boundless creativity and showmanship on stage and off. A one-of-a-kind experience, join Vidiots as we revel in 41 years of Vidiots and the 42nd anniversary of this groundbreaking film, newly remastered in a stunning 4K presentation.

**Picks from the Video Store:**

Jonesing for more Demme? We&#8217;ve got a killer section for Jonathan Demme on our directors racks that includes these rarities!

*Crazy Mama, Who Am I This Time?, Swimming to Cambodia*, and make sure to check out his tasty episode of *Columbo &#8211; Murder Under Glass!*

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

Stop Making Sense

3-D SPACE and Hollywood Entertainment invite you to a very special rare 3D screening of *Charlie Victor Romeo*, a uniquely disquieting performance film created entirely from the "black box" transcripts of real-life airline emergencies.

These short and poignant vignettes of real-life peril are by turns distressing and quotidian- an anthology of last words and deeds whose specificity and urgency are made extraordinarily vivid by the stereoscopic intimacy.

"When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong? Derived entirely from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts of six major airline incidents and accidents, Charlie Victor Romeo puts the audience inside the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, offering a fascinating portrait of the psychology of crisis and a person’s will to live to the last second." - Dekanalog

“[This] chilling and groundbreaking production stretches the boundaries of film, theatre, and the traditional documentary with this stereoscopic 3-D film of a stage play that recreates transcripts word for word. CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO transports film audiences into the best seats of the theatre and delivers the intensity and gut-wrenching emotion of these emergencies via the unique approach of live performance.” - Shari Frilot, senior programmer Sundance Film Festival & New Frontier

"The scariest airplane movie ever!" - John Waters

"A radical film." - Agnes Varda

"One of the most terrifying films I have ever seen." - A.O. Scott, *New York Times*

"The experience is, to put it mildly, a nail-biter" - John Defore, *The Hollywood Reporter*

**dirs. Karlyn Michelson, Patrick Daniels & Robert Berger, 2013**
*United States, digital projection*
80 min
[https://charlievictorromeo.com/](https://charlievictorromeo.com/)

**SATURDAY, 11/14 · 7:30P DOORS · 8:00P SCREENING**

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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Possible Love

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Some Like It Hot

7:00 PM

WIF x AC Spooky Shorts Night

7:00 PM

JIGOKU

10:00 PM

The Others

The Orphanage

7:30 PM

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) — A Classic of Supernatural Madness!

7:30 PM

Italo-Disco Horror Night – Argento’s Deep Red

7:30 PM

Castle of The Living Dead

2:00 PM

Ken Russell's The Devils 35mm

3:00 PM

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (70mm)

7:00 PM