Los Angeles Upcoming Events
FILM | Battleship Potemkin + George Sarah
Next Up: Friday, August 14 | 8:00pm | Sierra Madre Playhouse
Join us for a powerful screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s groundbreaking silent film Battleship Potemkin, now re-imagined through a live score composed by George Sarah. Known for bridging electronic, classical and chamber music traditions, Sarah brings his unique sonic voice to…
Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: International Animation
Next Up: Saturday, August 15 | 3:00pm | South Park Center
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosts its August Monthly festival, which includes its annual InFocus: International Animation program and featuring a special block of our InFocus: US Animation. This festival also includes the Los Angeles Premiere of The Only Way Out…
Scarlet Street
Next Up: Saturday, August 15 | 3:15pm | Vidiots
Watch out for the double cross in Fritz Lang’s film noir classic Scarlet Street starring crime cinema’s crown prince Edward G. Robinson and the infectiously alluring Joan Bennett as the feisty femme fatale. Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross…
Dangerous Liaisons
Next Up: Friday, August 21 | 7:00pm | Vidiots
Get ready for all the opulence, the intrigue, the seduction, and the betrayal of Stephen Frears’ lush and salacious period piece. In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of…
A Hard Day’s Night
Next Up: Saturday, August 22 | 1:00pm | Vidiots
Co-presented by the Eagle Rock School of Rock!John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Paul’s grandfather bring Beatlemania to the big screen in Richard Lester’s 1964 pop fantasia A Hard Day’s Night. More than a concert film or jukebox musical, Lester’s revolutionary, freewheeling…
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Next Up: Saturday, August 22 | 4:00pm | Vidiots
Vidiots remembers the life and legacy of the incredible Sam Neill with an especially heartwarming screening of Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople.Nature just got gangster! Young actor Julian Dennison gives a masterful Oscar-worthy performance in Taika Waititi’s hilarious and…
Mystic Pizza
Next Up: Saturday, August 22 | 7:00pm | Vidiots
We’ve got your Saturday night cooking in the oven with this tasty and endearing coming-of-age classic from the late 80s starring Julia Roberts in her breakout role! For Daisy Araujo, her sensible sister Kat and their wisecracking friend Jojo, the…
The Great Muppet Caper
Next Up: Sunday, August 23 | 12:00pm | Vidiots
Jewel heists, intrigue, an all-star cast, and the eternal love story of a frog and a pig – this Muppetty installment has got it all! This time around, Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady…
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Next Up: Sunday, August 23 | 3:00pm | Vidiots
Co-presented by community partners Pacific Opera Project.The circus is in town, and with the legendary Federico Fellini helming the big top with the extraordinary Giulietta Masina at center stage, you know you’re in for a magnificent show! Maestro Federico Fellini’s…
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Next Up: Tuesday, August 25 | 7:30pm | Vidiots
Join Vidiots and Jazz is Dead for the perfect summer concert film. Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up…
Stop Motion Explosion! on 16mm
Next Up: Saturday, August 29 | 1:00pm | Vidiots
Animation heads of all ages rejoice! We’ve got a supersized helping of adorable animated celluloid with Stop-Motion Explosion!, a program of delightful, mesmerizing, and mind-blowing stop-motion animation from the 1940s to the 1980s screening entirely on 16mm film on our big…
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Next Up: Sunday, August 30 | 12:30pm | Vidiots
Discover friendship and freedom with this wild adventure on horseback! On a quiet starry night, the young and curious stallion, Spirit, is taken away from his herd of wild horses and embarks on an epic adventure across the frontiers of…
FILM | Hola Frida!
Next Up: Saturday, September 12 | 4:00pm | Sierra Madre Playhouse
An animated biographical film inspired by the childhood of Frida Kahlo, Hola Frida follows a vibrant young girl in Coyoacán, Mexico, whose world is suddenly challenged by illness and physical limitation. This tender yet bold narrative traces how she uses…
Partir Un Jour
Next Up: Thursday, September 17 | 8:00pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 Cécile (Juliette Armanet) is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when her father suffers a heart attack. She is called back to her small hometown, far from the bustling life of Paris…
Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: Latinx & Hispanic Cinema
Next Up: Saturday, September 19 | 2:00pm | South Park Center
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosts its September Monthly festival, which includes its annual InFocus: Latin & Hispanic Cinema program, spotlighting independent works from across the Latin & Hispanic diaspora. More programming information to come soon.NFMLA showcases films by filmmakers of all backgrounds…
FILM | Faust
Next Up: Friday, November 13 | 8:00pm | Sierra Madre Playhouse
One of the towering achievements of silent cinema, Faust (1926) is director F.W. Murnau’s visionary adaptation of Goethe’s classic tale of ambition, temptation, and redemption. Combining the grandeur of German Expressionism with a deeply human story, the film follows the…
French Animation Fest
Next Up: Thursday, November 19 | 8:00pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 With Animation Fest, TRK showcases French animation’s unlimited expressive potential that not even the magic of special effects can provide, as audiences are taken on a journey into real and imagined worlds far from the here and now.Animation Fest…
Dance Camera West
Next Up: Friday, January 22 | 8:00pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 Dance Camera West is dedicated to exploring the intersection of dance and cinema through innovative film programming, artist collaborations, and public events celebrating movement on screen. Showcasing works from around the world, the festival highlights the creativity of filmmakers…
A Night of Short French Films
Next Up: Thursday, February 11 | 8:00pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 Now in its eighteenth year straight, A Night of Short French Films honors French cinema and the innovative traditions in filmmaking being developed there since the very first motion picture was screened in Paris in 1895.In this new collection…
A Week of French Language Cinema
Next Up: Wednesday, March 17 | 8:00pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 A Week of French Language Cinema exemplifies the range and vibrancy of contemporary French language filmmakers, taking place March 17-21.Now in its eighteen year, and in collaboration with the Consulates General of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the…