The American Cinematheque is thrilled to present its third annual ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,’ a weeklong festival that spotlights some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity, as well as some of the bleakest points in human history. Now for the first time, the festival will take place at three venues: Aero Theatre, Egyptian Theatre and Los Feliz 3. A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Schedule:

Saturday, June 1, 2024

1:00 PM: THE MIDDLEMAN

In Bengali with English subtitles.

A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.

Format: 35mm

Country: India

Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project in 1996 through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, The Merchant-Ivory Foundation and The Film Foundation.

Print courtesy of The Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

2:00 PM: MERRILY WE GO TO HELL

A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Universal

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

4:00 PM: DESTROYER

As a young cop, Erin Bell went under cover to infiltrate a gang in the California desert — with tragic results. Bell continues to work as a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, but feelings of anger and remorse leave her worn-down and consumed by guilt. When the leader of that gang suddenly re-emerges, Erin embarks on an obsessive quest to find his former associates, bring him to justice and make peace with her tortured past.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Annapurna Pictures

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

5:00 PM: THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK

In 1970s New York, Bobby (Al Pacino in his first major film role) and Helen (Kitty Winn) are young and in love and addicted to heroin. Shot in a loose documentary style, and acted with improvisational rawness, the film shows the young couple’s increasingly desperate habit go from bad to worse. Directed by Jerry Schatzberg and written by Joan Didion, the film portrays characters trapped in a bleak urban lifestyle as they strive to maintain their love for each other.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Disney

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

5:00 PM: ROME, OPEN CITY

In Italian, German, Latin with English subtitles.

In Rome during World War II, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Italy

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)

7:00 PM: TESTAMENT

TESTAMENT is the dramatic story of the aftermath of a nuclear attack. A nuclear strike has occurred. No one knows who did it. No one knows why. But the unthinkable has happened and nothing can ever be the same again. Jane Alexander stars as Carol Wetherly, a wife and a mother of three children. William Devane portrays her husband, away on a San Francisco trip during the devastating blast. Alone, Carol must hold her family together and, helplessly, she must watch her loved ones become victims of the deadly invisible radiation. A powerfully written and sensitive script, you will feel deeply for each character as they struggle to face and survive the future.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Paramount

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: PAISAN / GERMANY, YEAR ZERO

PAISAN, 1946, Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 125 Min, Janus Films, Italy

Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan (Paisà), which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the Country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. With its documentary-like visuals and its intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality.

Format: 35mm

GERMANY, YEAR ZERO, 1948, Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 72 Min, Janus Films, Italy

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.

Format: 35mm

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)

9:00 PM: SE7EN

Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. Director David Fincher guides the action — physical, mental and spiritual — with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.

Format: DCP

Distributor: WARNER BROS.

Country: USA

SE7EN (1995) was filmed in 35mm and released in 2.39 aspect ratio. Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original camera negative in 8k with all restoration work completed by David Fincher’s post production team in 8k. Color by Eric Weidt. The original 5.1 sound elements were restored by Ren Klyce creating a new 5.1 mix.

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $12.00 (member); $17.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: KILLED THE FAMILY AND WENT TO THE MOVIES

In Portuguese with English subtitles.

There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other violent events happen when two girls realize they are in love with each other.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Afinal Filmes

Country: Brazil

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

Sunday, June 2, 2024

1:00 PM: COME AND SEE

In Belarusian, Russian and German with English subtitles.

This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Soviet Union

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)

1:00 PM: LADIES IN RETIREMENT

Based on the play by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy, this drama focuses on Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino), a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English Countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters (Edith Barrett, Elsa Lanchester) visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon lead to murder. Though the death is carefully covered up, will the murderess get away with her crime, or will she be brought to justice?

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Sony

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

3:00 PM: HARD TO BE A GOD

In Russian with English subtitles.

In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Country: Russia

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

4:00 PM: UNFORGIVEN

Widower and retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man. Eastwood’s seminal Autumnal revenge Western is evergreen.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Park Circus

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)

4:00 PM: "ME" / WORLD OF TOMORROW

“Me,” 2024, Dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 22 Min, USA

A musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.

Format: DCP

WORLD OF TOMORROW, 2015, Dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 73 Min, Bitter Films, USA

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

Format: DCP

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

7:00 PM: MARGARET: EXTENDED CUT

Though the film was shot in 2005, it didn’t reach theatrical release until 2011 with a 150-minute version after a years-long legal battle between the studio and filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan, a staunch defender of his artistic vision. Lonergan’s preferred cut, close to three hours long, was released on DVD the following year, and now, nearly two decades after production, the American Cinematheque is proud to present the extended cut in all of its glory and gore on the big screen, where it always belonged. The film follows a young woman who witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people’s lives. MARGARET features performances from an all-star cast including Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, J. Smith Cameron, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Broderick, and Lonergan himself, with Anna Paquin as the lead, holding the audience steady through ripples of emotional turbulence.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Disney

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

7:00 PM: NATURAL ENEMIES

Successful New York magazine publisher Paul Steward (Hal Holbrook, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN) has reached his breaking point and today is the day he has decided to kill himself, his wife and their children. His marriage to Miriam (Louise Fletcher, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST) has grown cold and distant, and on this final day he seeks the answers that might relieve him of his despair. Based on the controversial novel by Julius Horwitz and out of circulation for nearly four decades, NATURAL ENEMIES is a blistering and devastating work that recalls Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER and which shocked audiences and critics when it was first released in 1979.

Format: DCP

Distributor: AGFA

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: SCARECROW

Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he’s never seen.

Format: DCP

Distributor: WARNER BROS.

Country: USA

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

10:00 PM: THE DEVIL

In Polish with English subtitles.

Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the Country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.

Format: DCP

Country: Poland

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Monday, June 3, 2024

7:00 PM: A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES

In Kurdish and Persian with English subtitles.

The youngest of a destitute Kurdish family has a terminal illness, and his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. In desperation, the eldest sister agrees to marry an Iraqi willing to care for the boy. At the border exchange, however, the family of the man rejects the sick boy, putting the siblings in a harrowing race against time.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Iran/France

Rare 35mm print courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

Henry (Michael Rooker) is a psychopathic drifter who has coldly murdered a number of people for no particular reason and without any remorse. Leaving scores of bodies in his wake, Henry makes his way to Chicago, where his murderous streak continues and he settles into the rundown apartment of his drug-dealing former prison friend Otis (Tom Towles). Also moving into the space is Otis’s younger sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), who is fleeing from her abusive husband. Henry soon reveals his troubled childhood background to Becky, which resulted in Henry’s murder of his mother, the crime that landed him in prison. Unbeknownst to Becky, Henry continues to commit a series of random killings along with Otis, who has quickly developed a taste for murder…

Format: 35mm

Distributor: MPI

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

The life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA is a deeply poignant, unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Roadside Attractions

Country: USA

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: DODES'KA-DEN

In Japanese with English subtitles.

By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them-the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor-finds reasons to carry on.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Japan

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

7:30 PM: MENACE II SOCIETY

Caine is a high school aged gangbanger who wants out of L.A.’s violence, drugs, guns, and death. As a child, Caine witnesses his father kill a man for no good reason and sees his mother die from a drug overdose. Growing up, he takes an older man from the neighborhood on as a mentor only to see him arrested and sent to jail. By high school age, Caine is dealing drugs, and his intimidation skills and nihilistic indifference to the social detriment of his lifestyle have earned him some street cred. MENACE II SOCIETY’S central dilemma: Caine wants out, but is he too far in, too caught up to see the alternatives?

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Park Circus

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN / YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, 2011, Dir. Lynne Ramsay, 110 Min, Oscilloscope, UK/USA

A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay’s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva’s own culpability is measured against Kevin’s innate evilness. Ramsay’s masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax.

Format: 35mm

35mm print courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, 2017, Dir. Lynne Ramsay, 89 Min, Amazon, UK/France

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

Format: DCP

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

10:00 PM: CINEMATIC VOID PRESENTS RUN AND KILL

In Cantonese with English subtitles.

The world of happy-go-lucky family man Cheung ‘Fatty’ Kau Ng (Kent Cheng) comes crashing down when he drunkenly orders a hit on his cheating wife. Suddenly propelled into the depths of a Hong Kong criminal underworld, he finds himself in the middle of a war between bloodthirsty Vietnamese gangsters and an ex-military Mainland Chinese gang led by the unstable Ching Fung, played with depraved glee by the legendary Simon Yam (FATAL TERMINATION). From the demented mind of the late, great Billy Tang comes RUN AND KILL, an unhinged cat-and-mouse thriller that takes nothing but nasty turns until the bitter end.

Format: DCP

Distributor: AGFA

Country: Hong Kong

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

7:00 PM: IVANSXTC

Directed by Bernard Rose (CANDYMAN) and loosely based on Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, IVANSXTC is in fine company amongst THE PLAYER and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST as a powerful meditation on life, death and opening-weekend grosses. Danny Huston gives the searing lead performance of a lifetime as hotshot Tinseltown agent Ivan Beckman, locked into a fateful spiral of drink and drug-fueled excess after a shock cancer diagnosis. Co-starring Peter Weller (ROBOCOP, BUCKAROO BANZAI) as Ivan’s most successful, least-empathetic client!

Format: DCP

Distributor: AGFA

Country: USA/UK

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: RATCATCHER

Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: UK

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS / ANOMALISA

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, 2020, Dir. Charlie Kaufman, 134 Min, Netflix, USA

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

Format: DCP

ANOMALISA, 2015, Dir. Charlie Kaufman, 90 Min, Paramount, USA

Michael Stone – husband, father and noted author – travels to Cincinnati to speak at a customer service conference. But once he’s separated from the routine of his daily life, a chance encounter helps him to realize just what, and whom, he’s been missing.

Format: DCP

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

10:00 PM: TWENTYNINE PALMS

In English and French with English subtitles.

He is a photographer, scouting for a magazine. She accompanies him, because they are in love. Together, they will travel the desert on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms, lose themselves in its magnificent nature, make love, and hate each other, unaware that danger comes not only from within.

Format: DCP

Distributor: MK2

Country: France/Germany/USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Thursday, June 6, 2024

7:00 PM: IN VANDA’S ROOM

In Portuguese with English subtitles.

For the extraordinarily beautiful second film in his Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa jettisoned his earlier films’ larger crews to burrow even deeper into the Lisbon ghetto and the lives of its desperate inhabitants. With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, IN VANDA’S ROOM takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. Costa presents the daily routines of Vanda and her neighbors with disarming matter-of-factness, and through his camera, individuals whom many would deem disposable become vivid and vital.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Portugal

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden’s own deteriorating reality.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

7:30 PM: MORVERN CALLAR

After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman becomes unglued and decides to sell his manuscript under her name.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Swank Motion Pictures

Country: UK/Canada

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

10:30 PM: HAPPY TOGETHER

In Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish with English subtitles.

A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Hong Kong/South Korea/Japan

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Friday, June, 7, 2024

4:00 PM: JU DOU

In Chinese with English subtitles.

In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband’s nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.

Format: DCP

Country: China

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:00 PM: MIRACLE MILE

Musician Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) sits down at a Los Angeles diner, where he instantly takes an interest in waitress Julie Peters (Mare Winningham). The feeling is mutual so the pair arranges a date for later that day. Things go awry when Harry picks up a random pay phone call from a frantic soldier who warns of a nuclear attack that will hit L.A. within the hour. Scrambling, Harry finds Julie and the two do everything they can to escape to safety.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Park Circus

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: THE TOUCH

In Swedish with English subtitles.

With his underappreciated first English-language film, a relationship drama shot near his island retreat of Fa?ro?, Bergman delivered a compelling portrait of conflicting desires. A chance encounter between seemingly contented housewife Karin (Bibi Andersson) and intense American archaeologist David (Elliott Gould) leads to the initiation of a torrid and tempestuous affair, one that eventually threatens the stability of her life with a respected local surgeon (Max von Sydow). Upon its release, Bergman declared this emotionally complex and sensitively performed film to be his first real love story.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Sweden, USA

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME

In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: LILYA 4-EVER

In Russian, Swedish, Polish with English subtitles.

Lilya (Oksana Akinshina) lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt (Liliya Shinkaryova), who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha (Elina Benenson) and Volodya (Artiom Bogucharski), who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working as a prostitute, and later meets Andrei (Pavel Ponomaryov). He offers her a good job in Sweden, but when Lilya arrives her life quickly enters a downward spiral.

Format: DCP

Distributor: AGFA

Country: Sweden/Denmark

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Date:
June 1-7, 2024

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