WED 8/5 7:30p - SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEAR (Douglas Burke, 2018) Californian mystic experience, Bible parable, at its heart sort of SURF REFORMED. Waves of destiny grow as surfer images guide our hero to his ultimate challenge. Will teen confront fear? We intuitively know. vimeo.com/1211871472u

SURFER TEENS CONFRONTS FEAR (Douglas Burke, 2018)

SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEAR dir. Douglas Burke, 2018 101 mins. California. In English. A young surfer confronts fear. He should be out on the waves, hanging ten with the spray at his back, getting ta...

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TUE 8/4 better very late than never: 10p - SPLIT (Chris Shaw, 1989) A paranoid foot-chase through the dumpsters of Santa Cruz. Starker, would-be messiah & master of disguise, eternally attempts to evade dystopian fascist forces hellbent on keeping him in a feedback loop of capitalist-driven order.

MON 8/3 7:30p - K2 & THE INVISIBLE FOOTMEN (iara lee, 2015) As brief reprieve from activist documentaries, lee centers on climbers & porters who endure “Savage Mountain”. Excursions rely on indigenous mountaineers who dedicate their lives to mapping out & understanding the volatile nature of K2.

SUN 8/2 3pm - FIST CHURCH 🔥mystery kung fu 🥷🏽

GAME OF PLEASURE (Dale E. Frantz, 1998) Shot on video for the late-90s erotic-thriller market, GAME OF PLEASURE feels like softcore Existenz for dummies. Writer/producer/star/co-editor Kevin Summerfield plays a hacker who stumbles on a dangerous new erotic game. vimeo.com/1214386265

AUGUST MIDNIGHTS

SATAN’S MENAGERIE dir. Gary Griffith, 2001 USA. 101 min. In English with English subtitles. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 – MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 – 10 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 24 – 7:30 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 – ...

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SAT 8/1 New month, new movies! 7:30p - NOSTOS: THE RETURN (NOSTOS: IL RITORNO) Dir. Franco Piavoli, 1989 With a certain other adaptation of The Odyssey doing reasonably well around the world, Spectacle is thrilled to present this offbeat alternative to the blockbuster.

FRI 7/31 5p - WHO IS BOZO TEXINO? (Bill Daniel, 2005) An experimental doc searching for identities & stories behind the ubiquitous yet esoteric art of hobo graffiti. 7:30p - STUNTS (Mark Lester, 1977) The movie that more than delivers on its promise.

new trailer up for August midnights @spectacletheater.com GAME OF PLEASURE - 2 mid hackers cross paths with a 4D sex game & somehow Skinemax sex up every woman in sight SATAN’S MENAGERIE - did you ever wonder if wolfmen, draculas, wizards + seamen were cousins? vimeo.com/1214386265

AUGUST MIDNIGHTS

SATAN’S MENAGERIE dir. Gary Griffith, 2001 USA. 101 min. In English with English subtitles. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 – MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 – 10 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 24 – 7:30 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 – ...

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THU 7/30 Tonight: a double dose of HANDMAID TOKU! 7:30p - CYBER LADY SUZUKA (サイバーレディ スズカ)(Nobuharu Kidokoro, 1998) After witnessing the death of his colleague’s daughter, Dr. Todoroki returns to his lab & revives her into CYBER LADY SUZUKA, a robot maid with a bad habit of falling asleep on the job.

7:30 - COSTES PROGRAM 2: THE MAD MASTER OF SAINT-DENIS w/ taped intro by Costes! DEADLY GAS IN TOKYO A short film about loneliness & lost love I LOVE STUFF A couple kidnaps their impotent neighbor’s wife & mails torture videos to her husband as ransom to get out of their financial hole

TUE 7/28 7:30p - COSTES, THE MAD MASTER OF SAINT-DENIS PROGRAM 1: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE MORPHO: Pulp jungle exploitation THE HEZBOLLAH VIRUS: a critique of desensitization at work in media exposure CRACK KISS: Early-90s New York City sleaze in loose camcorder form

MON 7/27 7:30p - THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW (Dir. Aidan Cronin, 2026) Paul, a widowed painter with dementia crosses paths with Sam, a young woman reconciling the death of her father. They connect over a shared melancholia around the vessel of a birdhouse. vimeo.com/1204913208

THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW (Aiden Cronin, 2026)

THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW Dir. Aiden Cronin, 2026. United States, 123 minutes. In English. As the Summer comes to a close in upstate New York, Paul, a widowed painter with dementia cross...

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SUN 7/26 start your week (or kill your weekend) with a double dose of blooooooood 3p - BLOOD BRUNCH 🩸mystery horror🩸 5p - FOLIES MEURTRIÈRES (Antoine Pellissier, 1984) A masked killer murders women in a French suburb. That’s it —no motive, no dialogue, no relief.

SAT 7/25 5p - JISOE (Eddie Martin, 2005) follows Australian graffiti artist Justin Hughes (aka Jisoe) over a tumultuous year of his life. 7:30 - THE TOWN A Play by Walker Rutter-Bowman Directed by Reñazco.

THU 7/23 7:30p - THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW (Dir. Aidan Cronin, 2026 🪺Q&A!🪺 Paul, a widowed painter with dementia crosses paths with Sam, a young woman reconciling the death of her father. They connect over a shared melancholia around the vessel of a birdhouse. vimeo.com/1204913208

THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW (Aiden Cronin, 2026)

THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW Dir. Aiden Cronin, 2026. United States, 123 minutes. In English. As the Summer comes to a close in upstate New York, Paul, a widowed painter with dementia cross...

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WED 7/22 7:30p - THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW (Dir. Aidan Cronin, 2026) Paul, a widowed painter with dementia crosses paths with Sam, a young woman reconciling the death of her father. They connect over a shared melancholia around the vessel of a birdhouse. vimeo.com/1204913208

THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW (Aiden Cronin, 2026)

THE BIRDS TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW Dir. Aiden Cronin, 2026. United States, 123 minutes. In English. As the Summer comes to a close in upstate New York, Paul, a widowed painter with dementia cross...

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TUE 7/21 7:30 - COSTES PROGRAM 2: THE MAD MASTER OF SAINT-DENIS w/ taped intro by Costes! DEADLY GAS IN TOKYO A short film about loneliness & lost love I LOVE STUFF A couple kidnaps their impotent neighbor’s wife & mails torture videos to her husband as ransom to get out of their financial hole

MON 7/20 7:30p - COSTES, THE MAD MASTER OF SAINT-DENIS PROGRAM 1: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE MORPHO: Pulp jungle exploitation THE HEZBOLLAH VIRUS: a critique of desensitization at work in media exposure CRACK KISS: Early-90s New York City sleaze in loose camcorder form

SUN 7/19 3p - FIST CHURCH who needs fun in the sun when you can have mystery fist trysts

10p - STUNTS (Mark Lester, 1977) The movie that more than delivers on its promise. MIDNIGHT - LOST PROPHET (Michael De Avila, 1992) Part experimental horror, part fever dream journal, all a singularly strange artifact of the early 90s DIY horror boom.

PAINTING SHADOW CALLIGRAPHY: THE SHORT FILMS OF BRUCE WOOD Cinematic work suggesting an alternative route for monochromatic abstraction closer to Franz Kline paintings. Both programs preceded with a Bruce Wood intro 5p - PROGRAM 1: EMERGING FROM THE SHADOWS 7:30p - PROGRAM 2: BRIDGES AND PASSAGES

SAT 7/18 3p - ANIME NO GOGO mystery anime to start your weekend

FRI 7/17 5p - THE GOLD OF LOVE (DAS GOLD DER LIEBE) (Eckhart Schmidt, 1983) In DER FAN’s follow-up, R’s replaced by rock band D.A.F. as the film chronicles obsessed teen Alexandra Curtis’ attempts to see the group at any cost, in a zonked-out, eternally nocturnal Vienna.

THU 7/16 It’s a double dose of COSTES, THE MAD MASTER OF SAINT-DENIS, with a special pre-recorded intro for each program by Costes himself. 7:30p - PROGRAM 1: Welcome To The Jungle 10p - PROGRAM 2: The Mad Master of Saint Denis

WED 7/15 7:30p - JISOE (Eddie Martin, 2005) follows Australian graffiti artist Justin Hughes (aka Jisoe) over a tumultuous year of his life. 10p - IMPERIAL GREEN (Zach Lacosse n’dizh-nikaaz, 2025) Auto-fiction about car trouble, metropolitanism, and Joseph: an emotionally reserved HVAC apprentice.

TUE 7/14 7:30 - SUROH: ALIEN HITCHHIKER (Patrick McGuinn, 1996) Paul rescues a wounded alien & is initiated into a psychosexual metamorphosis. 10p- FRATERNITY MASSACRE AT HELL ISLAND (Mark Jones, 2007) Pledges are locked on a cursed island overnight; can they survive homophobia & a deranged killer?

MON 7/13 7:30p - FOLIES MEURTRIÈRES (Antoine Pellissier, 1984) A masked killer murders women in a French suburb. That’s it —no motive, no dialogue, no relief. 10p - HELLBENT (Paul Etheredge, 2004) Hot friends plan a big Halloween out, but a leather-clad maniac stalks Santa Monica Blvd’s gay bars.

A great example of Sam Neill’s humor is the short he directed long before becoming an actor, for New Zealand’s Post Office, on telephone etiquette It’s very silly and very 70s, and I’m glad New Zealand’s made it available as part of their public archives www.nzonscreen.com/videos/phone...

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SUN 7/12 3p - BLOOD BRUNCH cool down with a stone cold mystery chiller