With a giant meteorite on a collision course with Earth, the inhabitants of the village of Laguna, including the ne'er-do-well Ale, face up to a series of increasingly desperate decisions in this expert, harrowing mash-up of sci-fi, American Western and Andalusian thriller.
Monday, November 3rd 12:15pm
ArcLight Hollywood 10
$7.00
A horror film with more than a few surprises, this buzzed-about sensation follows the story of two boys who find a gorgeous naked girl—Dead? Undead?—chained to a table in a basement. Should they go to the police? Or experiment with her a bit? A chilling, twisted tale of teen fantasy gone very, very wrong.
Igarashi loses his short-term memory after a car accident—a disaster for his aspirations of becoming a lawyer but great for his dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. This mesh of ROCKY and MEMENTO is a funny, fast-paced and unexpectedly poignant calling card by a 27-year-old director to watch.
Saturday, November 8th 4:30pm
ArcLight Hollywood 9
$11.00
A hybrid of Confucian ideas and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism, the Juche philosophy has guided North Korean culture and policy for 40 years. Underground legend Finn twists the philosophy into a playful, kitschy yet sharp-edged tale of a video artist whose works are fully informed by Juche.
Thursday, November 6th 3:45pm
ArcLight Hollywood 9
$7.00
The latest from the acclaimed director of NADJA and HAMLET was distilled from a video diary kept over many years, spanning over two dozen cities around the world. Unsupervised children make frequent appearances, as do their excitable adult counterparts. The resulting chronicle is a celebration of everyday reality.
Tuesday, November 4th 12:30pm
ArcLight Hollywood 9
$7.00
Following an array of people around on the hottest day of the year, this award-winning debut shows both remarkable virtuosity—the entire film is shot in one take—and a gift for storytelling. Part Altman, part SLACKER, part RUSSIAN ARK, this is an off-the-wall funny new-form urban symphony.
In this mind-bending sci-fi thriller, a man accidentally travels back to the past and meets himself there, along with a naked girl and a stranger wearing a pink bandage. Can he piece together this jigsaw of time and space to figure out what's happened? And what will happen next?