Photos from our sold out 20th anniversary screening of JACKASS NUMBER TWO (2006) in 35mm + Q&A with filmmakers Jeff Tremaine & Johnny Knoxville 🫣🧨💥🤕🩼
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Added guest! 💀🎶☮️ Producer Lizzie Nastro joins EP Emily Mortimer for the WC Premiere of SUMMER TOUR, a poetic doc following a magnetic young couple devoted to the music/community of Dead & Company as they journey across America for the band’s final tour:
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We had so much fun at Friday’s sold out 10th anniversary screening of POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (2016) + Q&A with co-filmmaker Akiva Schaffer, moderated by Daniel Scheinert 🎤🎉
Thank you to all the Style Boyz fans who packed the Egyptian!
Tickets are on sale now for our July slate at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social
7/3 FROGS in 35mm - semi-annual screening!
7/6 DESPERATE LIVING in 35mm
7/13 WILD THINGS in 35mm
7/20 PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK in 35mm
7/27 DO THE RIGHT THING in 35mm
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Catch the L.A. Premiere of THE TRAVEL COMPANION (2025) this Saturday at LF3! ✈️ Filmmakers Travis Wood & Alex Mallis + actors Tristan Turner & Anthony Oberbeck will be joining us in-person for a Q&A following the film.
April 25th at 7 pm.
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Don’t miss the final event in our TINAF Gianfranco Rosi retrospective! NOTTURNO (2020) Q&A TONIGHT at 7pm at LF3.
A mosaic of intimate moments & luminous images, NOTTURNO is a profound & urgent cinematic achievement from a master of the documentary form.
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We kicked off ‘This Is Not A Fiction 2026’ with our ‘Barbara Kopple Restorations’ series 🎥
Thank you to filmmaker Barbara Kopple for joining us in-person for the 4K restoration premieres of HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976) at the Aero + AMERICAN DREAM (1990) at LF3.
'TINAF 2026' Day 5:
NOTTURNO (2020) + Q&A with filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi 7pm LF3
THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW (2015-) Season 3 + Q&A with filmmaker Caveh Zahedi 7pm Aero
Advance screening! ROMERÍA (2025) 10pm LF3
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Had a great time at this screening. So excited to be involved with this new film. I can't wait for you all to see what we are up to with this one.
'TINAF' Day 4:
TITICUT FOLLIES 35mm 1pm LF3
🚨 OCEAN... 3pm Aero
FIRE AT SEA 4pm LF3
¡Sergei Eisenstein México! 4pm Egyptian
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET 7pm LF3
BATHTUB OF THE WORLD 7pm Egyptian
🚨 JOHN CANDY 7:30pm Aero
ROBERT WILSON...CIVIL WARS 10pm LF3
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During the Q&A for #JackassNumberTwo, Jeff Tremaine & Johnny Knoxville briefly told a story that Knoxville lit Brad Pitt’s foot on fire at the Polo Lounge. Tremaine said Knoxville might still be banned there.
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Tonight’s screening is gonna be phenomenal: #Jackass2 on 35mm at the Egyptian put on by @amcinematheque.bsky.social. Plus, a Q&A with Jeff Tremaine & Johnny Knoxville.
Wishing a Happy Birthday today to filmmaker Edgar Wright! ♈️🎉 Have you seen Wright’s AC Podcast episode yet?!
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That’s a wrap on ‘Noir City: HOLLYWOOD 2026’ 🎼🖤📽️
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Egyptian last weekend for the final events!
💥🚨35 TICKETS LEFT🚨💥 for our 5/25 screening of THE KILLER in 35mm at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social. Curated by Steph Lopez. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/ynrj93ac
'TINAF 2026' Day 3:
Miryam Charles Short Films + Q&A 1pm LF3
LILITH FAIR + Q&A 2pm Aero
TINAF Shorts Program + Q&A 4pm LF3
PUNISHMENT PARK 4pm Egyptian
BOATMAN / BELOW SEA LEVEL 7pm LF3
🚨 JACKASS NUMBER TWO + Q&A 7pm Egyptian
🚨 BEST IN SHOW 7:30pm Aero
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I’m back baby… but don’t call me babe. 💣 @cinematicvoid.bsky.social
Watching a guaranteed exceptional comedy tonight at the Egyptian Theater thanks to @amcinematheque.bsky.social: #PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping with a Q&A after with Akiva Schaffer.
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO) (2025) is coming to LF3 next month! Don’t miss the L.A. Premiere + Q&A with filmmaker Joel Alfonso Vargas on Sat. 5/2 at 4 pm with an encore screening/Q&A Sun. 5/3 at 7 pm.
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Has a movie ever affected you so much you felt like you were hit by a car? MOTHER MARY filmmaker David Lowery literally had this happen 😅
Lost in thought over Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise? We get it.
Check out MOTHER MARY in theaters now + watch Lowery on The AC Podcast 4/23!
35th Anniversary! THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) + book signing with / intro by “Hannibal Lecter: A Life” author Brian Raftery.
Coming to the Egyptian on Sat. 5/16. Presented in partnership with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop.
Book signing 12pm | film 1pm
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LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY is out in theaters now! 😱⚱️ Stay tuned later this month for filmmaker Lee Cronin on The AC Podcast as he talks about THE SHINING-induced insomnia, the power of sound in cinema, his dad’s Jack Torrance parallels + more! 🪓
#leecroninsthemummy #leecronin
Part 1 of our Summer at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social
6/15 BARB WIRE w/ Salem Horror Fest founder Kay Lynch @kaywithfire.bsky.social
6/22 DEF BY TEMPTATION w/ strategist & cultural commentar Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh @wynter.bsky.social
6/29 ROLLERCOASTER
🎟️: tinyurl.com/cinematicvoid
'TINAF 2026' Day 2:
AANIKOOBIJIGAN 2pm LF3
MY NDA + Q&A 5pm LF3
🚨 POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING + Q&A 7pm Egyptian
AMERICAN DREAM + Q&A 7:30pm LF3
POMPEI / IN VIAGGIO + Q&A 7:30pm Aero
VINYL 10pm LF3
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This Sunday at 1pm, as part of @amcinematheque.bsky.social's "This Is Not a Fiction" festival, TITICUT FOLLIES will be screening at the Los Feliz Theatre. I'm happy to say an interview I conducted with the late, great Frederick Wiseman about the film will show afterward.
4/16/66: Mikio Naruse's Penultimate film, Moment of Terror (Hit and Run)
Saw this hard to find obscurity via bootleg . . . Of interest - MN made some fascinating late career choices
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@amcinematheque.bsky.social: rafu.com/2026/02/amer...
Japan on Film: japanonfilm.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/h...
What’s an infamous Hollywood flop you think deserves more love? ❤️🩹 FACES OF DEATH filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber talks about his favorites (“That screening of SHOWGIRLS totally changed me.”) on today’s episode of The American Cinematheque Podcast!
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Thank you to everyone who sold out Tuesday’s advance screening of ERUPCJA (2025) co-presented by the Eastside Rag 🧡
A great Q&A with filmmaker Pete Ohs + actors Jeremy O. Harris & Will Madden!
‘This Is Not A Fiction Shorts Program’ Sat. 4/18 4pm LF3 🎥
L.A. Premiere! “Mukuña Aprendiz de Pajé”
“Now That We Are Sending You to the End”
WC Premiere! “Noon in the Cemetery”
“Repertoire of Death”
L.A. Premiere! “Notes On the Death of a Cinema”
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