### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Utopia

COUNTRY: USA/UK/Italy/Mexico

Q&A with filmmaker Olmo Schnabel Limited Engagement

PET SHOP DAYS

Los Feliz Theatre

Olmo Schnabel

Los Angeles

Blue Collar / American Gigolo

New Beverly Cinema

Paul Schrader

Blue Collar

American Gigolo

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

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

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

Mickey 17

Vidiots

Bong Joon-ho

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Russian with English subtitles.*

A group of seminary students from the city go on summer break, drunkenly wandering the countryside. They end up lost, and spend a night in the company of a haggard witch. A scuffle breaks out, and one of the students, Khoma (Leonid Kuravlyov), murders the witch. It turns out he really killed a beautiful landowner’s daughter (Natalya Varley), and now he must sit with her body in a church for three days, protecting it from evil spirits. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Mosfilm Cinema Concern

COUNTRY: Soviet Union

Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov

Happy Birthday To Me

Vista Theatre

For this one-night-only event, experience some of the band’s most iconic videos on a massive cinema screen—including the world premiere of their most mind-boggling music video yet, LOVE, from their forthcoming album And the Adjacent Possible—screened before its public release.

Since their inception, OK Go has been something more than a band—and something different from an art project. They built their mission and following through pioneering work that could only exist in the digital era, using elaborate, dazzling videos and performances to guide pop culture from the days of MTV into the world of YouTube.

Their work is not only part of MoMA’s permanent collection, but has also been featured at the Guggenheim, MoCA, LACMA, the Hirshhorn, and the Hammer Museum.

The band and the video’s directors will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A.

OK Go: From Treadmills to Industrial Robots — A Retrospective + Premiere

Experience bold innovations in moving image & sound as artists explore new tech.

Flux

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

Fine Arts Theatre

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Ever since childhood, best friends Jason (Donald Glover), Duncan (DC Pierson) and Charlie (Dominic Dierkes) have been solving neighborhood crimes. The three young men get the chance of a lifetime when a local woman hires them to find her father’s killer. All eyes are watching as the guys use every item in their inept bag of tricks to crack the case.

DISTRIBUTOR: Roadside Attractions

COUNTRY: USA

Q&A with filmmaker Dan Eckman, producer Meggie McFadden and screenwriters/actors Dominic Dierkes and DC Pierson. Moderated by Andy Young.

MYSTERY TEAM

Dan Eckman

Amores Perros in 35mm

Academy Museum

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

WEEKEND

Jean-Luc Godard

Grindhouse

Ghost in the Shell

Oshii Mamoru

The Terminator

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

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

6pm

$10

Tickets available  here

The History of Labor in the Animation Industry

Scribble

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Buffalo 8

COUNTRY: USA

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

DISFLUENCY

Anna Baumgarten

**Los Angeles Festival of Movies Opening Night**


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

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

**Screenwriter**: Amalia Ulman

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

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

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

West Coast Premiere with director Amalia Ulman in person


The Los Angeles Festival of Movies presented by MUBI and Mezzanine is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, presenting new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience. 

Now in its second year, the festival, an event put on by the film non-profit Mezzanine, redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night at three exciting new east side LA venues. 

The festival is the new nexus for the city’s burgeoning indie film community to gather, discuss and celebrate independent cinema.

The Los Angeles Festival of Movies 2025

Los Angeles Festival of Movies Opening Night – Magic Farm

Founded in 2022, Mezzanine is a non-profit organization building an audience for contemporary art cinema in Los Angeles, and providing a dynamic and inclusive space for great cinema to thrive. Ranging from revival screenings to new film premieres, Mezzanine’s programs are frequently done in collaboration with local artists, writers, curators and other luminaries from specific disciplines. Building on Los Angeles’ history of alternative cinema spaces, we seek to make hidden gems accessible and legible; provide a platform for vital emerging film artists; and develop a younger and more diverse audience for art cinema in the city.

Independent cinema in Los Angeles is currently experiencing a crisis of distribution and exhibition. Many independent movie theaters and film festivals have shuttered. When new films and restorations are lucky to secure a theatrical release, they open at independent theater chains or commercial cinemas with little press or fanfare; or are placed on streaming platforms, eclipsed by studio content with multi million dollar marketing campaigns. With no alternative press covering local cinematic events, and limited social media campaigns, it can be difficult for audiences to discover these films; as such, contemporary art films have an increasingly limited shelf life.

Inspired by the ciné-club model native to France and building on Los Angeles’s history of alternative film spaces, Mezzanine is answering a need for creative marketing and renewed audience engagement around independent and art cinema. Since 2022, we have designed and implemented carefully curated events that seek to build bridges between the world of independent film with contemporary art and literature, inviting guest curators and speakers across the spectrum of artistic achievement. By emphasizing the nature of cinema as a hybrid of different art forms, we have cultivated a young and diverse audience hungry for cinematic discovery. 

We commission original essays by emerging and established writers that provide context for specific films, published in risograph zines and ephemera, so as to make our programming legible and tactile. We activate spaces across the city including 2220 Arts + Archives, Brain Dead Studios and elsewhere, attracting audiences with dedicated poster graphics and campaigns.

Above all, Mezzanine aims to sustain the art of curated theatrical film programming in a landscape of algorithmic monocultures, and provide resources for vital independent film art to be seen.

Mezzanine

Amalia Ulman

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

Magic Farm

Bulldog Drummond Escapes/Bulldog Drummond's Peril

The Host (괴물) in 35mm

Bong Joon Ho

The Host

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

Derek Jarman's WITTGENSTEIN (1993)

Philosophical Research Society

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: 35mm

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

THE FRIEND / THE DEEP END

Aero Theatre

David Siegel and Scott McGehee

THE FRIEND,

THE DEEP END,

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

**Screenwriter**: Colin Higgins

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

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

Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby

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

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

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

Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Invention

2220 Arts + Archives

Courtney Stephens

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

Invention

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

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

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

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

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

Heavy Manners Library

**Screenwriters**:  Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

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

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

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

The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

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

FORMAT: DCP

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

THE BLACK STALLION

Egyptian Theatre

Carroll Ballard

“Rodeo,”

THE BLACK STALLION,

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Gravitas Ventures

COUNTRY: USA

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

GRASSLAND

Sam Friedman and Will Bermudez

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

A Serious Man

Brain Dead Studios

Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

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

~

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

French with English subtitles.

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

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

Virgil Vernier

The story unfolds in Monaco, which is paradise on earth for a post-reality-TV generation who have grown up fantasising over a privileged lifestyle, with its promises of infinite pleasures. But what hides within these lofty towers, and behind the tinted saloon car windows and villa gates?

Cent Mille Milliards (100,000,000,000,000)

### **ABOUT THE EVENT:**

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

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

*A multimedia creation by Jean-François Alcoléa. *

### **THE FILMS:**

“Introduction” (documentary based on archival material)

“Le cauchemar” (“A Nightmare”)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Georges Méliès Live Movie-Concert - Right in the Eye

Donnie Darko

Richard Kelly

David Lynch Tribute: On the Air Marathon

Hammer Museum

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

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

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

Gardena Cinema

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

Kanchenjungha in 35mm

Satyajit Ray

Kanchenjungha

**Producer**: Jeremy Workman

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

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

Secret Mall Apartment

Jeremy Workman

Bad Day at Black Rock

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

~

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

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

LA Festival of Movies - Dead Lover

Grace Glowicki

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

Dead Lover

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

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

Nashville

Robert Altman

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

**Producer**: Lawrence Gordon

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

The Warriors

Walter Hill

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Italian with English subtitles.*

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

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Italy/France

‘Michelangelo Antonioni: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN

Michelangelo Antonioni

Purple Rain

Kill Bill: Volume 2

Quentin Tarantino

1941

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

STATE LEGISLATURE shows the day-to-day activities of the Idaho Legislature during an entire session. Lobbyists, lawmakers and their constituents are seen debating and discussing the concerns of the electorate, on issues that range from violence in schools, mad cow disease and video voyeurism to illegal immigration, secondhand smoke and the deregulation of telephone rates. The film is an example of the achievements, values, constraints and limitations of the democratic process.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Zipporah Films

COUNTRY: USA

L.A. Premiere of New Restoration! Co-presented by ‘This is Not a Fiction’ ‘Frederick Wiseman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

STATE LEGISLATURE

Frederick Wiseman

**Screenwriters**: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses, Frank Oz

**Producers**: David Lazer

The gang is headed to Broadway in this toe-tapping installment of everyone&#8217;s favorite bunch of puppets. After they graduate college Kermie, Fozzie, Piggie and the rest of the gang want to take their musical review all the way to the Great White Way. Kermit heads out to find a producer and ends up slinging hash in a diner before a head injury and amnesia that lead him to big frog business. Will Kermit remember his friends in time for the show or end up a Wall Street Big Wig? Jam-packed with humor, thrills, puppets, toe-tapping tunes, and a slew of celebrity cameos from Gregory Hines to Joan Rivers, Elliot Gould, Brook Shields, and Liza Minelli, this is one Muppet adventure with Big Apple appeal!

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

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Frank Oz

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

**Screenwriters**: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie

**Producers**: Yona Strauss, Ben Petrie, Grace Glowicki


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

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

Los Angeles Festival of Movies – Dead Lover

Over the course of one night, a desk clerk (played by U.K. punk icon Jordan) works a shift at the West London Hotel, performing her mundane tasks and watching the eccentric guests float in and out of the lobby. As the night goes on, the time and space inside the hotel dissolve into a beautiful and surreal fantasy. With hypnotic 16mm cinematography by Jon Jost and whimsical score by Simon Jeffes, the film explores the labor and purgatory of the night shift, blurring the line between the everyday and the ethereal.

Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Nightshift

Robina Rose

It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask. Like the camera, she gazes steadily, both silent spectator and vicarious participant in the fantasies played out by the hotel's transient guests. As the night progresses, she answers a phone, hands over a key; guests pass back and forth gradually taking on a dream-like presence. She continues to work and, when morning comes, she leaves, her nightshift over. 'NIGHTSHIFT shows what film can do if the conventional pace of narrative is slowed down and montage diminished. It is not a new idea, of course, but the way it is done here is both absorbing to look at and satisfying from the moral point of view.' (Jill Forbes, Monthly Film Bulletin)

Nightshift

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Steven Spielberg

Rebecca

Old Town Music Hall

Alfred Hitchcock

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

**Writers/Producers**: Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens

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

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

Los Angeles Festival of Movies – Invention

A survey of the very best in international, independent animation. Featuring some of the most exceptional directors working today, these films represent distinct, daring artistic visions that both embody and transcend the animation medium. Some are narrative, some are experimental, some are sad, some are funny - after all, animation is not a genre. —Sean Buckelew, guest curator

Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Animation Today

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In French with English subtitles.*

Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with LA HAINE, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, LA HAINE is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: France

LA HAINE

Mathieu Kassovitz

Drifting through an ethereal Monaco during the eerie, emptied-out limbo of the Christmas holidays, a diffident young sex worker named Afine goes about his rounds with seeming indifference, while gradually forming a strange, tentative bond with preadolescent Julia, whose parents, Chinese real estate developers, have left her in the charge of her Serbian babysitter Vesna.
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Paris-based independent filmmaker Virgil Vernier’s new film is a mesmerizing, sharply observed portrait of sex work in a hyper-commodified world. It’s Christmas in glittering Monaco, and a sex worker (Zakaria Bouti) typically spends his holidays alone amid servicing the ultra-wealthy clients; but this year, he decides to stay in town to spend his off-hours with a Serbian babysitter (Mina Gajovic) and her young charge (Victoire Song). With exemplary work from non-professional actors, Vernier depicts the purgatory of the gig economy with an uncanny, relaxed style and an infectious warmth and sweetness.
French with English subtitles.

Now Instant Image Hall

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**NEVER CRY WOLF, 1983, Dir. Carroll Ballard, 105 Mins, Disney, USA**

A government researcher, sent to research the “menace” of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

FORMAT: DCP

**DUMA, 2005, Dir. Carroll Ballard, 100 Mins, Park Circus, South Africa/USA**

An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

FORMAT: 35mm

Q&A with filmmaker Carroll Ballard ‘Carroll Ballard: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

NEVER CRY WOLF / DUMA

NEVER CRY WOLF,

DUMA,

The first feature-length film by Julian Castronovo follows a young filmmaker named Julian Castronovo who discovers a trail of clues related to the disappearance of a skilled art forger known as Fawn Ma.

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L.A.-based filmmaker Julian Castronovo’s relentlessly inventive first feature resembles a micro-budget *F For Fake* by way of Theo Anthony—a sly, self-reflexive study of art forgery and an internet-age gumshoe investigation into the slippery nature of authorship, taking place entirely on a laptop computer. Castronovo himself plays a filmmaker who becomes obsessed with a Chinese art forger (Song Hui) who has disappeared, while he himself is the object of a missing-persons investigation. In an age of essay-film abundance, Castronovo’s film is endlessly layered with intrigue, and gestures toward new possibilities of ultra-lo-fi independent cinema.

West Coast Premiere with director Julian Castronovo in person.

Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued

Julian Castronovo

The first feature-length film by Julian Castronovo follows a young filmmaker named Julian Castronovo who discovers a trail of clues related to the disappearance of a skilled art forger known as Fawn Ma.

Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

Way ahead of the curve in its dissection of celebrity culture, this unsettling film reteams director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro to profile a New York outsider less violent but no less deranged than TAXI DRIVER’s Travis Bickle. Wannabe comedian Rupert Pupkin is so desperate for a chance to perform on a late-night TV show that he kidnaps its host (Jerry Lewis, a revelation here) with the help of a stalker (Sandra Bernhard).

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Disney

COUNTRY: USA

‘New York City, Curated by Martin Scorsese’

THE KING OF COMEDY

Martin Scorsese

Los Angeles Festival of Movies – Nightshift

*Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor, but Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.*

Evoking darkly funny bromances like *The Cable Guy* and the absurdist, anything-goes 2000s comedies of David Wain, Andrew DeYoung’s feature debut is a gut-bustingly funny, absurdist portrait of male bonding, starring the gifted comedians Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd at their very best. Suburban dad Craig (Robinson) is bumbling through his corporate marketing job and domestic bliss with his wife (Kate Mara) until he meets his neighbor Austin (Rudd), a local TV weatherman whose all-around ease through life is everything he wants. But when a faux pas ruptures their budding friendship, Craig will do anything it takes to win him back. With a refreshingly anarchic, increasingly discomfiting spin on man-child hijinks, *Friendship* is among the funniest American comedies in recent years.

**Screenwriter**:  Andrew DeYoung

**Producers**: Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Nick Weidenfeld, Johnny Holland

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

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

West Coast Premiere with director Andrew DeYoung in person


Los Angeles Festival of Movies – Friendship

Andrew DeYoung

A suburban dad falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor.

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

In one of his most legendary films, director David Lynch chronicles the intense emotional journey of a complex, lonely man and the dedicated surgeon who changed his life. John Merrick (John Hurt) was born with a horribly disfiguring congenital disease, and suffered the humiliation of being a sideshow freak. Only when London doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) rescues him does Merrick begin to regain the life of dignity and respect that everyone deserves. Based on a true story, the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film has earned its place in cinematic history. Visually fascinating and historically relevant, Lynch has created a haunting masterpiece of compassion, beauty and ultimately, humanity.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

4K restoration of the original camera negative, overseen by filmmaker David Lynch ‘Directed by David Lynch’

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