On Sunday, we present Nadav Lapid’s YES, one of the year’s most incendiary films, as the closing night selection of Directors’ Fortnight Extended 2025 at the DGA! The festivities begin tonight and continue throughout the weekend! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68eaea...

Winner of the SACD Prize for best French film and Europa Cinemas Label for best European Film at the 2025 Directors’ Fortnight, Valéry Carnoy’s teen boxing drama WILD FOXES comes to the DGA this Sunday as part of Fortnight Extended! 🥊 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...

Kicking off a full day of Sunday screenings at Directors’ Fortnight Extended 2025: Prïncia Car‘s Marseille teen coming-of-age drama THE GIRLS WE WANT, which announces the arrival of a fresh voice in French cinema—Nov 9 at the DGA! 👩‍❤️‍👨 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...

Join us Saturday as we welcome Japanese director Yuiga Danzuka for the Los Angeles premiere of his quietly moving debut BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE, one of two Japanese films screening at Directors’ Fortnight Extended—Nov 7-9 at the DGA! 🇯🇵 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...

A striking tale of a young woman haunted by the memory of her dead mother, Julia Kowalski’s transfixing second feature HER WILL BE DONE comes to Directors’ Fortnight Extended on Nov 8 at the DGA! Tickets and passes on sale now! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...

Join us one week from today, Nov 10 @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome director Marta Mateus for a special screening of her Pedro Costa-produced first feature FIRE OF WIND, preceded by a newly restored short by Portuguese master João César Monteiro. 🎟️: dice.fm/event/q28b7o...

Marta Mateus (BARBS, WASTELAND; FIRE OF WIND) is presenting and discussing her work and influences @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, the Siskel + Doc Films, @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, and @bampfa.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our second screening for Directors' Fortnight Extended 2025 is Japan’s official submission for Best International Feature at the 98th Academy Awards, Sang-il Lee’s KOKUHO—Nov 8 at the DGA! See you then ~ 🪭🪭🪭 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/schedule/68e...

Thrilled to welcome Lloyd Lee Choi for opening night of Directors’ Fortnight Extended—Nov 7 at the DGA! One of the year’s most exciting debuts, LUCKY LU stars Chang Chen as a NYC delivery driver trying to make a new life for his family. directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97a...

The second edition of Directors’ Fortnight Extended is on this week and next at the Roxy Cinema and L’Alliance in New York and @acropoliscinema.bsky.social in Los Angeles — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Announcing! 📣 Fire of Wind directed by Marta Mateus Portugal, France, Switzerland, 2024, 74 min Join us Nov 10 @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome Marta Mateus for a double bill of her debut feature and the 4K restoration of a rare short by João César Monteiro! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5

Tonight! 🌘 Kevin Jerome Everson: Eclipse Films + exclusive vinyl pre-release of David Dominique’s score to WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN 8pm @2220arts.bsky.social In person: Kevin Jerome Everson and David Dominique 🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/b0faa048f2d0

Join us Monday @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome the great Kevin Jerome Everson for a special double bill of eclipse films and an exclusive vinyl pre-release of composer David Dominique’s score for the centerpiece of the program, WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN)! 🌘😎 link.dice.fm/b0faa048f2d0

L.A.! Monday October 20 @8P @acropoliscinema.bsky.social presenting @2220arts.bsky.social 2 eclipse films by Kevin Jerome Everson spotlighting composer David Dominique’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️score for the 2025 work “When The Sun is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin)” + exclusive vinyl pre-release - celluloid + wax!

Announcing! 📣 Directors’ Fortnight Extended 2025 November 7-9 Marking an exciting new partnership w/ the DGA—the French counterpart to the SRF, founder of @Quinzaine—the second Fortnight Extended will feature 7 films straight from Cannes! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films

Next up at Acropolis! 🌗🎶 On 10/20 @2220arts.bsky.social we welcome Kevin Jerome Everson for a special double bill of the artist-filmmaker’s eclipse films, plus a vinyl pre-release of composer David Dominique’s mesmerizing WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN score! One night only! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/b0faa048f2d0

Join us tonight @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome Ben Rivers for the LA premiere of BOGANCLOCH, a sequel to the landmark TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011), featuring filmmaker’s friend Jake Williams as a hermit in the Scottish wilderness. Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/q1c820beef1c

Today! ✨ Urthworks: 3 Film by Ben Rivers 12:30pm: Doors/book launch 📕 1:00pm: Screening 🎥 In person: Ben Rivers Tickets still available online or at the door @2220arts.bsky.social! 🔗: link.dice.fm/c3a9fd0d0ce0

Join us this Sunday @2220arts.bsky.social for the first of two screenings w/ British filmmaker Ben Rivers presented in collaboration with Los Angeles Filmforum! First up, a trilogy of eye-popping speculative sci-fi films Rivers made w/ the author Mark von Schlegell. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/c3a9fd0d0ce0

Tonight!⚡️ Everything Is Now: A Night of 1960s NY Avant-Garde with J. Hoberman 7pm: Book signing 📕🖊️ 8pm: 16mm shorts program 🎥 🎞️ @2220arts.bsky.social Featuring rarely screened films by Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, Michael Snow, and Jud Yalkut! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/ca3f6ea4c66f

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Thursday! 🎥 🎞️ The LA launch of legendary critic J. Hoberman’s new book on the 1960s New York avant-garde with a book signing and 16mm shorts program featuring rarely screen films by Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, Michael Snow, and Jud Yalkut at @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/ca3f6ea4c66f

One week from today! 🎥 🎞️ Join us Sept 25 @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome J. Hoberman for the LA launch of his new book on the 1960s avant-garde, Everything Is Now, featuring a book signing at 7pm, followed by a program of 16mm shorts and a Q&A w/ Hoberman! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/ca3f6ea4c66f

Announcing! 📣 Kevin Jerome Everson: Eclipse Films On October 20 @2220arts.bsky.social we welcome Kevin Jerome Everson for a double bill of the artist’s eclipse films, including the Los Angeles premiere of his latest, WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN)! 🌗 🎟️: link.dice.fm/b0faa048f2d0

Today! 🎥🌱 🌺🚶🏻‍♂️ Two by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré 1:00pm: 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN 2:45pm: VA, TOTO! Tickets still available online or at the door @2220arts.bsky.social! link.dice.fm/b9eeccd2a0b5

Announcing! 📣 Urthworks: 3 Films by Ben Rivers UK, 2010-2019, 82min + Bogancloch dir. Ben Rivers UK, Germany, Iceland, 2024, 85 min Excited to partner w/ Los Angeles Filmforum for two screenings with British artist Ben Rivers—Sept 28 and 30 @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: acropoliscinema.com

Tonight! 🚨 THE FRIENDS directed by Shinji Sômai Japan, 1994, 113 min New 4K restoration—one night only, 8pm @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/lbaeb1b84748?d…

Announcing! 📣 Everything Is Now: A Night of 1960s NY Avant-Garde with J. Hoberman On 9/25 @2220arts.bsky.social we celebrate J. Hoberman’s Everything Is Now w/ a book signing, Q&A, and 16mm shorts program featuring films by Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, & Michael Snow! acropoliscinema.com/films/everyt...

"Maybe the last great master of Japanese film history." —Kiyoshi Kurosawa THE FRIENDS directed by Shinji Sômai Japan, 1994, 113 min LA premiere of new 4K restoration—Tuesday @2220arts.bsky.social! 📷: link.dice.fm/lbaeb1b84748...

Announcing! 📣 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN + VA, TOTO! On 9/13 we present a double bill by Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré—partners in art and life who apply their backgrounds in farming and sculpture to films that take a tactile approach to the natural world. link.dice.fm/b9eeccd2a0b5

Announcing! 📣 On August 26 @2220arts.bsky.social we present the LA premiere of the new 4K restoration of Japanese director Shinji Sômai’s late-period masterpiece THE FRIENDS, a comic coming-of-age chronicle about the emotional complexities of adolescence. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/lbaeb1b84748...

This is a gorgeous film. variety.com/2024/film/re...

Tonight! 🚨 THE BALLED OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich United States, 2024, 75 min Doors: 7:30pm Screening: 8:00pm One night only @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

Wednesday! ✨ Join us @2220arts.bsky.social for a special one-night-only presentation of artist-filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich‘s acclaimed debut THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE, about a film crew coming to grips with the legacy of the surrealist French writer. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

Next up at Acropolis! ✨ Join us on July 23 @2220arts.bsky.social for a special one night only screening of visual artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's debut THE BALLED OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE, a highlight of last year's Rotterdam, New York, and Toronto film festivals! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

Tonight! 🚨 COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE directed by Jessica Sarah Rinland Argentina, UK, 2024, 104 min Join us as we welcome director Jessica Sarah Rinland for her first in-person appearance in LA—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social, co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/xbe4b2e28fae

Tuesday! 🦥 On July 8, in collaboration w/ Los Angeles Filmforum, we present the LA premiere of COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE, a transfixing portrait of zoo workers and animals in Argentina, with director Jessica Sarah Rinland in person! One night only @2220arts.bsky.social! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/xbe4b2e28fae

Announcing! 📣 On July 23 @2220arts.bsky.social we present Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE, in which a film crew grapples with the legacy of writer Suzanne Césaire, whose achievements have been overshadowed by the work of her poet husband. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W97e5f34d1e9

Today! 🎻✨ Director Sofia Bohdanowicz joins us @2220arts.bsky.social for the LA premiere of her latest autobiographical fiction, MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL, starring Deragh Campbell as a woman who seeks to restage a composition by violinist Kathleen Parlow. link.dice.fm/nabec52b6fe8

"Both a grand culmination of Bohdanowicz’s past decade of filmmaking and a bold leap forward." — Desistfilm MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz Canada, 2024, 142 min Los Angeles premiere: this Sunday @2220arts.bsky.social. Director in person! 🎻 link.dice.fm/nabec52b6fe8

Tonight! 🔥 WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? directed by Roberto Minervini Italy, France, US, 2018, 123 min Closing night of A More Perfect Union: The Films of Roberto Minervini—7:30pm at Brain Dead Studios, co-presented by MUBI. 🎟️🔗: studios.wearebraindead.com/movies/what-...

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Today! 🚨 1pm @2220arts.bsky.social. In person: Jon Jost and James Benning. Tickets still available online or at the door. 👉 link.dice.fm/Wdecdb053948

"Teems w/ beauty... shows what Black people have always done when the world is on fire: live, organize, protect one another, and keep our history at the forefront." — Film Comment WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE?: Monday at Brain Dead. 🎟️: studios.wearebraindead.com/movies/what-...

Today! ⚡️ Our Roberto Minervini retrospective rolls on with LOW TIDE (2012) + STOP THE POUNDING HEART (2013). Double feature: 3pm at Brain Dead Studios. 🎟️: studios.wearebraindead.com/movies/low-t...

On 6/29 @2220arts.bsky.social, director Sofia Bohdanowicz joins us for the LA premiere of MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL, starring Deragh Campbell as an academic who restages a composition by violinist Kathleen Parlow, who was Bohdanowicz’s grandfather’s violin teacher. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/nabec52b6fe8

Just announced! 📣 On July 8 @2220arts.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ Los Angeles Film Forum, we welcome Jessica Sarah Rinland for the LA premiere of COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE, her latest immersive exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/xbe4b2e28fae

“STOP THE POUNDING HEART transcends both the red state-blue state split and limited, didactic ideas of cinematic realism.” —New York Times Roberto Minervini’s STOP THE POUNDING HEART (2013): Saturday at Brain Dead Studios, preceded by LOW TIDE (2011). 🎟️: studios.wearebraindead.com/movies/low-t...

For more information on the retrospective and other upcoming @acropoliscinema.bsky.social screenings, check the Acropolis website. www.acropoliscinema.com

With the Roberto Minervini retrospective currently underway in LA via @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, Aret covers the 2nd & 3rd films of Minervini’s Texas trilogy: LOW TIDE and STOP THE POUNDING HEART. These films screen at Brain Dead Studios on June 21. inplainsightcinema.substack.com/p/weekly-rev...