JULY 30 – SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 FILMCALENDAR EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over John and the Hole Ema STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 30 STARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 STARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 ONE WEEK ONE WEEK ONE WEEK Lydia Lunch In Person Friday, July 30 for a Q&A After the 7:30pm Show! Critic’s Pick! “Vigorous... Shows her mastery of live performance “Pascual Sisto’s directorial debut is disturbing, darkly comic and, in its Critic’s Pick! “One of the year’s most dynamic and electrifying films.” and also highlights her very urban sense of sarcasm; sometimes she own strange way, rather heartening.”—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY —David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE suggests no-wave’s answer to Fran Lebowitz.” “The kind of troubling psychological thriller which proliferated 1970s “With a pulsing, angular reggaeton soundtrack from Chilean- —Glenn Kenny, THE NEW YORK TIMES cinema… There’s no arguing the discomforting vibe.” American composer Nicolas Jaar, the film throbs and leaps rather —Nicholas Bell, ION CINEMA than walks.”—Paul Byrnes, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Filmmaker Beth B (Two Small Bodies, Salvation!, Vortex) delivers the first career- spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and In this enigmatic and unsettling meditation on adolescent angst, 13-year-old Adoptive parents Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) always electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No Wave icon from the late John (Charlie Shotwell) discovers an unfinished bunker while exploring the are artistic free spirits in an experimental dance troupe whose lives are thrown ‘70s, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performance devoted neighboring woods—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, into chaos when their son Polo is involved in a shockingly violent incident. As her to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to raise voice in a rage he drugs his affluent parents Michael( C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister marriage crumbles in the wake of their decision to abandon the child, Ema embarks as loud as any man. Lydia Lunch is the psycho-sexual transgressive who revoked (Taissa Farmiga), holding them captive within the bunker. As they anxiously wait on an odyssey of liberation and self-discovery as she dances and seduces her patriarchal expectations of what a female performer might mean, while forging a for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally way into a daring new life. Centering on the sinuous, electrifying art of reggaeton vocabulary of rare emotional honesty, philosophy and humor. Includes interviews enjoy and explore a newfound independence. Exploring the difficult passage from dance, Ema is an incendiary portrait of a lady on fire, the story of an artistic with Lunch and longtime collaborators and colleagues including: Thurston Moore childhood freedom to adult responsibility, John and the Hole is both a slow-burn temperament forced to contend with societal pressure and the urge to conform. of Sonic Youth; performance artist Kembra Pfahler; Teenage Jesus and the Jerks psychological thriller and meditative coming-of-age fable, anchored by a chilling From world-class director Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Neruda, The Club, No) comes bass player Jim Sclavunos; Donita Sparks from L7; famed DJ and musician Nicolas lead performance from Charlie Shotwell. The debut feature from director Pascual another psychologically acute exhumation of Latin American life under restriction Jaar; art critic Carlo McCormick; filmmaker Richard Kern and a long list of other Sisto, John and the Hole was an official selection of Cannes Film Festival 2020, featuring an unforgettable heroine who is determined to move freely through the groundbreaking artists connected to Lunch’s past and present. (USA, 2021) and had its World Premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (USA, 2021) world, as she electrifies everyone and everything around her. (Chile, 2019) kinolorber.com/film/lydia-lunch-the-war-is-never-over ifcfilms.com/films/john-and-the-hole musicboxfilms.com/film/ema Cryptozoo 8 1/2 Mogul Mowgli STARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 20 STARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 STARTS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 ONE WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEKS NEW 4K DIGITAL RESTORATION! “A nonstop fusillade of imagination at work.” “No director has been as personal or vulnerable as Fellini is here—he “Fierce, unrelenting film-making.”—Wendy Ide, THE GUARDIAN —David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER taps into his past, his dreams, his quirks, faults and failures, to find the “Compelling...Blistering...Powerful.”—Stephen A. Russell, TIME OUT meaning in the madness of life.”—Asher Luberto, L.A. WEEKLY “Dazzling. Visionary. A daring, original adventure from another “Riz Ahmed electrifies [and] affirms his standing as one of Britain’s most world.”—Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE vital, risky actors.”—Guy Lodge, VARIETY Presented in a new 4K Digital Restoration, Federico Fellini’s masterpiece stars “One of the most exciting new creators of cinematic animation.” Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a film director whose new project is —Randy Myers, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS collapsing around him, along with his life. Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa, he encounters journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most Mogul Mowgli is an acclaimed drama following the story of a British-Pakistani Visionary comic book writer/artist/filmmaker Dash Shaw’s vibrant, fantastical inconvenient of all, his aloof wife (Anouk Aimée, La Dolce Vita). Flashing among rapper named Zed (Riz Ahmed, The Sound Of Metal) who, on the cusp of his first animated feature follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory past, present, future and fantasy, Guido longs to make a pure and honest film world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, world as they struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid while his producer goads him into a big budget science fiction spectacle. One of and the uncertainty of his legacy. The exuberance of youth and the excitement creature) and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the the greatest films about film ever made, 8 1/2 turns one man’s artistic crisis into of performing has Zed believing that he is on the right path even when those confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for the film was The Beautiful closest to him question his decisions. The debut narrative feature from award- unknown. Featuring the voice talents of Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Michael Cera, Confusion, and Fellini’s classic is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and winning documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq (“Ghosts of Sugar Land,” These Louisa Krause, Peter Stormare, Thomas Jay Ryan, Grace Zabriskie and a magic act. Outrageous and unforgettable, 8 1/2 won Academy Awards for Best Birds Walk), Mogul Mowgli is winner of 6 international film awards, including the Angeliki Papoulia, Cryptozoo is written and directed by Shaw, who reunites Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design (Black & White). Also starring FIPRESCI Prize at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival and Best Debut Screenwriter with animation director Jane Samborski for another stunning achievement after Claudia Cardinale ( The Pink Panther), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday) and Rossella (co-writer Riz Ahmed) at the 2021 British Independent Film Awards. In English their collaboration on My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea. (USA, 2021) Falk (Modesty Blaise). (Italy, 1963) with English subtitles. (UK/USA, 2020) cryptozoofilm.com janusfilms.com strandreleasing.com NUART THEATRE 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard (at the 405 Freeway) /NuartTheatreLA West Los Angeles • (310) 473-8530 Matinees Daily! @NuartTheatre Email sign up: filmclub.landmarktheatres.com @NuartTheatre VISIT OUR OTHER L.A. VENUES! 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