Film in Los Angeles

Star Wars: The Force Awakenssci-fi

Visionary director J.J. Abrams brings to life the motion picture event of a generation. As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most.

The Big Lebowskicomedy

The Dude abides in the Coen Brothers’ quintessential Los Angeles stoner noir. Mistaken identity and a urine-covered rug drags aging hippie slacker The Dude (Jeff Bridges) into a surreal and menacing world.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Screening of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Batman Beginsaction

A young Bruce Wayne travels to the Far East, where he's trained in the martial arts by Henri Ducard, a member of the mysterious League of Shadows. When Ducard reveals the League's true purpose -- the complete destruction of Gotham City -- Wayne returns to Gotham intent on cleaning up the city without resorting to murder.

Starship Trooperssci-fi

A screening of the science fiction film Starship Troopers.

Titans of the Ice Age 3Ddocumentary

Journey to a world lost in time, buried in ice, and ruled by giants in this exciting 3D adventure narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Alphabody-horror

Julia Ducournau’s unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma, following a troubled 13-year-old as she navigates nightmares amidst a mysterious virus and family ghosts.

Lady Snowbloodaction

Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood.

The Night Sky Showastronomy

Using SMC’s 4K Digistar projection system, Planetarium Lecturer Sarah Vincent will talk about the latest news in astronomy and space exploration, and present a virtual tour of constellations and other night-sky celebrities making their appearance in the evenings ahead. Show is updated weekly. A brief audience Q&A follows the show.

International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles 2026poetry film

The International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, kicks off with an opening night event celebrating past festival contributors from the Los Angeles area, featuring a moderated conversation and an exclusive selection of short poetry films.

Power Station (2025) + The Art of Protest (2020)documentary

Two artist activists install solar panels on every house in their street. This film is part of the DESIGNING RESISTANCE film week and will be followed by a panel discussion.

Free Screening of TCBdocumentary

Join us for a free community screening of Louis Massiah’s powerful film TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, a tribute to the legacy and impact of Toni Cade Bambara.

Deep Sky Deep Dive: “Galaxies”astronomy

This show explores different types of galaxies and how astronomers study such distant objects, including the Milky Way, Andromeda, dwarf galaxies, and quasars. A brief audience Q&A follows the show.

Dive-In Moviesclassic

Catch a classic flick by the pool. Movie starts at sunset!

Hoppers

Screening of the movie Hoppers.

Wastemanthriller

The directorial debut of Cal McMau, WASTEMAN tells the incredible story of how a convict’s chances for early prison release come under threat from his ruthlessly violent new cellmate in this uncompromisingly brutal British thriller.

Shaolin Soccercomedy

Stephen Chow's martial arts comedy where a former Shaolin monk reunites his brothers to form a soccer team.

Paris Is Burning (1990)documentary

A chronicle of New York`s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality. This film will be introduced by the Art Theatre`s film programmer, Kenna Wong Ghaill, and followed by an after party at Executive Suite.

Project Hail Mary

Screening of the movie Project Hail Mary.

Directed by William Beaudine

A wide-ranging retrospective dedicated to director William Beaudine, featuring silent film masterpieces with live musical accompaniment, sparkling pre-code gems, and rediscovered & rarely-seen treasures.

I Sweardrama

A biopic about John Davidson, diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, navigating his troubled teenage years and adulthood to find his purpose.

Phase IVsci-fi

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Numbskull Revolutionpunk-rock-cinema

Lose your mind over the newest film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema – Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis. Satire and deconstruction collide in the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos.

Architecton (2025)

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. A part of our DESIGNING RESISTANCE film week in collaboration with City Fabrick. This collection of films focus on the man ways art, design and creation can be used to fight systems of oppression.

Double Feature Torchy Gets Her Man/Torchy Blane in Chinatowndouble feature

Double Feature screening of Torchy Gets Her Man and Torchy Blane in Chinatown.

Raiders of the Lost Arkadventure

Archeology professor Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) faces evil Nazis, booby-trapped temples, and ex-flame Marion Ravenwood in a pulse-pounding race to uncover the lost Ark of the Covenant.

Batman Beginsaction

A young Bruce Wayne travels to the Far East, where he's trained in the martial arts by Henri Ducard, a member of the mysterious League of Shadows. When Ducard reveals the League's true purpose -- the complete destruction of Gotham City -- Wayne returns to Gotham intent on cleaning up the city without resorting to murder.

Lilo & Stitchanimated

Bring your little loved ones, and your fluffy adopted alien experiment to this tropical charmer. When Lilo adopts what she thinks is a puppy, she comes to discover she’s really welcomed a chaotic experiment from another planet.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Windanime

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Bonnie and Clydecrime

Arthur Penn’s iconic crime classic was an incendiary piece of cinema in the late 1960s and remains one of the defining films of the genre. In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Titans of the Ice Age 3Ddocumentary

Journey to a world lost in time, buried in ice, and ruled by giants in this exciting 3D adventure narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Libeled Ladycomedy

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), must find a way to turn the tables on her.

International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles 2026poetry film

The full lineup of films in the Official Selection of the International Poetry Film Festival will be presented, showcasing experimental, narrative, documentary, and animated poem-based films.

Alphabody horror

Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau's brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director's most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)sci-fi

The pod people are coming! The pod people are coming! Watch out for the alien invasion of this science fiction classic!

The Height of the Coconut Trees

A haunting tale of youthful love and loss set along the dramatic Japan seaside, a mysterious ring found inside a fish connects two couples across time, place and the lines between the living and the dead. With a special introduction from Carson Lund (writer/director of Eephus)!

Desolation Center (2018) + QnA with Filmmaker and Special Guests!documentary

The story of a group of 1980s punk artists who started organizing and playing desert shows that later inspired Burning Man, Coachella, and Lollapalooza. A part of our DESIGNING RESISTANCE film week in collaboration with City Fabrick.

Breakin’musical

Dust off your 80s fits for this quintessential 80s cult classic about breakdancing. Kelly teams up with two street dancers to take the dance-off by storm.

Directed by William Beaudine

A wide-ranging retrospective dedicated to director William Beaudine, featuring silent film masterpieces with live musical accompaniment, sparkling pre-code gems, and rediscovered & rarely-seen treasures.

Shadow of the Vampirehorror

During the filming of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, the strange actor playing the vampiric lead seems particularly convincing. Starring Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck and John Malkovich as Murnau.

Architecton (2025)

Animationanimation

A screening of animated poetry films including 'I Never Thought of Phoenixes', 'Limbed', 'Naked in the Desert with a Gun', 'Breath', '09.01.berkovich', 'Saddleback Street', '1837: Cold Magic', 'The Haunted Saxophone', 'Time', and 'Arose'.

Documentarydocumentary

A screening of documentary poetry films including 'Holding Court: Sapphic Voices', 'The Climate Change Volumes: Fall', '"Teslam Idek" - Bless Your Hand', 'Welcome to Tenderloin', and 'Elise Paschen: In Her Own Words [Short]'.

Experimental Pt. Iexperimental

A screening of experimental poem-based films as part of the International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles 2026.

Protest/Architecture (2023)documentary

When protests move into public spaces and take root there, blockading, defending, or seizing these spaces, they produce protest architecture. The film “Protest/Architecture”, which consists entirely of archive material, captures the essence of twelve powerful protest movements between 1968 and 2023 in five condensed chapters.

Experimental Pt. IIexperimental

A second screening of experimental poem-based films as part of the International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles 2026.

Narrativenarrative

A screening of narrative poetry films including 'All that She', 'Cynical Trains', 'my father's breath (I see you)', 'Long Line', 'I Met a Stoic', 'We Send Our Signal', 'Late on the Planet', 'Letter', 'Comma of Didymus', 'Walking The Dog', 'Arise', 'From Saffron Moors', 'The Burnout', 'Fags', 'Hair Trails', and 'Reach'.

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Screening of the film Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk.

Mermaidfantasy

Doug, an awkward Florida drug addict, discovers an injured Mermaid creature and brings her home, nursing her back to health. As their rapport blossoms, word of his secret gets out and he is forced to protect his new friend by any means necessary. Stick around after for a Q&A with director Tyler Cornack!

Numbskull Revolutioncomedy

Are you ready to get skullf*$#ed Vidiots?!? Lose your mind over the hilarious new film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema - Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis.

Lumiere, Le Cinemadocumentary

Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses LUMIERE, LE CINEMA! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière and company.

Flight of the Navigatorsci-fi

A super fun intergalactic adventure for kiddos of all ages, this 1980s Disney live action fantasy classic will bring your imagination to the stars.

Metropolis (1927) + Live Score by Cliff Retallicksilent film

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city`s mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. This screening is presented with a live score performance by Cliff Retallick, featuring piano, organ and theramin.

The Silence of the Lambs (35th Anniversary)

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims.

Titans of the Ice Age 3Ddocumentary

Journey to a world lost in time, buried in ice, and ruled by giants in this exciting 3D adventure, narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Libeled Ladycomedy

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy), must find a way to turn the tables on her.

Jeff Parker – ETA IVtet – Happy Todayconcert-film

This homegrown concert film directed by Charlie Weinmann documents the August 20, 2025 performance by guitarist/bandleader Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtet (with drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson) at Highland Park, Los Angeles venue Lodge Room. Jeff Parker and band members in person!

The Night Sky Showastronomy

Using SMC’s 4K Digistar projection system, Planetarium Lecturer Sarah Vincent will talk about the latest news in astronomy and space exploration, and present a virtual tour of constellations and other night-sky celebrities making their appearance in the evenings ahead. Show is updated weekly. A brief audience Q&A follows the show.

Deep Sky Deep Dive: “Galaxies”astronomy

This show explores different types of galaxies and how astronomers study such distant objects, including the Milky Way, Andromeda, dwarf galaxies, and quasars. A brief audience Q&A follows the show.

Cairo Stationdrama

A phenomenal melodrama, Hitchcockian thriller, and biting commentary on Egypt's path to progress, Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station remains one of the greatest films in Egyptian history.