Schedule:

7:00 PM: IVANSXTC

Directed by Bernard Rose (CANDYMAN) and loosely based on Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, IVANSXTC is in fine company amongst THE PLAYER and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST as a powerful meditation on life, death and opening-weekend grosses. Danny Huston gives the searing lead performance of a lifetime as hotshot Tinseltown agent Ivan Beckman, locked into a fateful spiral of drink and drug-fueled excess after a shock cancer diagnosis. Co-starring Peter Weller (ROBOCOP, BUCKAROO BANZAI) as Ivan’s most successful, least-empathetic client!

Format: DCP

Distributor: AGFA

Country: USA/UK

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: RATCATCHER

Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: UK

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: TWENTYNINE PALMS

In English and French with English subtitles.

He is a photographer, scouting for a magazine. She accompanies him, because they are in love. Together, they will travel the desert on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms, lose themselves in its magnificent nature, make love, and hate each other, unaware that danger comes not only from within.

Format: DCP

Distributor: MK2

Country: France/Germany/USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)