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The Art Theatre originally opened in 1924 as a single screen silent movie house. At that time, there were over 50 independent theatres in Long Beach, today only the Art remains.

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Film Lineup

Hayao Miyazaki`s Princess Mononoke (1997) Remastered in 4K
Opens Apr 6
From the Academy Award-winning director of SPIRITED AWAY and THE BOY AND THE HERON, Hayao Miyazaki`s epic anime adventure returns to the big screen with an all-new 4K restoration.

In the 14th century, the harmony that humans, animals and gods have enjoyed begins to crumble.

The protagonist, young Ashitaka - infected by an animal attack, seeks a cure from the deer-like god Shishigami.

In his travels, he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf ...

Sunday, Apr 6
5:30 PM 8:30 PM
FREE EVENT: Dog Man (2025) w/ director Peter Hastings in-person!
Opens Apr 6
Please join us following the film for an in-person Q and A with director Peter Hastings (Dog Man, The Country Bears).

Synopsis: When a police officer and his faithful police dog get injured in the line of duty, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together -- and Dog Man is born.

As Dog Man learns to embrace his new identity, he must stop feline supervillain Petey the Cat from cloning himself and going ...

Sunday, Apr 6
2:00 PM
I`m Still Here (2024)
Opens Apr 7
WINNER of the 2025 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

As Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva (Academy Award nominee Fernanda Torres), a mother of five, must reinvent herself and her family when authorities abduct her husband.

Monday, Apr 7
12:00 PM 3:15 PM
Tuesday, Apr 8
1:00 PM 4:15 PM
Wednesday, Apr 9
1:00 PM 4:15 PM ...
See It on 16mm: The Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter (1970)
Opens Apr 9
Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S.

tour.

When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment.

Shot on 16mm in 1969, these screenings are a rare opportunity ...

Wednesday, Apr 9
7:30 PM
Thursday, Apr 10
7:30 PM
David Lynch`s Dune (1984)
Opens Apr 11
In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis.

A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens.

However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul (Kyle MacLachlan), Leto's son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle for control of the planet and ...

Friday, Apr 11
11:00 PM
Good Luck Vinyl Club presents The Virgin Suicides (2000), 25th Anniversary!
Opens Apr 12
With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women.

An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s highly acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were ...

Saturday, Apr 12
10:00 PM
Art11: Werner Herzog`s Theater of Thought (2022)
Opens Apr 12
Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether we truly have autonomy over our thoughts, or if our brains will inevitably become infused with mind-controlling technology in the not so distant future.

Gathering insight and predictions from some of the world’s most influential scientists and innovators, Theater of Thought is an exploration of the ...

Saturday, Apr 12
11:00 AM
Sunday, Apr 13
11:00 AM
David Lynch`s Blue Velvet (1986) 4K Restoration
Opens Apr 12
Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field.

In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life.

Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank ...

Saturday, Apr 12
7:30 PM
Sunday, Apr 13
8:20 PM
Nickel Boys (2024)
Opens Apr 14
Nominated at the 2025 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Elwood Curtis's college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway.

Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he's sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South.

He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner.

The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview.

Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil ...

Monday, Apr 14
1:30 PM 4:45 PM 8:00 PM
Tuesday, Apr 15
12:30 PM 3:45 PM
Wednesday, Apr 16
12:30 PM 3:45 PM ...
Memoria (2021)
Opens Apr 16
Ever since being startled by a loud 'bang' at daybreak, Jessica (Tilda Swinton) is unable to sleep.

In Bogotá to visit her sister, she befriends Agnes (Jeanne Balibar), an archaeologist studying human remains discovered within a tunnel under construction.

Jessica travels to see Agnes at the excavation site.

In a small town nearby, she encounters a fish scaler, Hernan (Elkin Diaz).

They share memories by the river.

As the day comes to a close, Jessica is awakened to a sense ...

Wednesday, Apr 16
7:00 PM
Neil Young: Coastal (2025)
Opens Apr 17
Take a journey with maverick musician Neil Young in this personal, behind-the-scenes doc as he cruises the coast on his recent solo tour.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker and Young’s wife, Daryl Hannah, Coastal offers a glimpse behind the curtain of this unguarded iconoclast, as he navigates a return to the stage post-Covid – from his everyday observations on the bus to his candid, wry banter with his audience.

The illuminating film also features songs rarely, if ever ...

Thursday, Apr 17
7:00 PM
Friday, Apr 18
7:00 PM
Saturday, Apr 19
11:00 AM ...
David Lynch`s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Opens Apr 18
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer.

In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder.

Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper ...

Friday, Apr 18
10:00 PM
David Lynch`s Wild at Heart (1990)
Opens Apr 19
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune (Laura Dern).

Lula's mother, Marietta (Diane Ladd), desperate to keep them apart, hires a hit man to kill Sailor.

But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store.

When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further ...

Saturday, Apr 19
1:45 PM
Sunday, Apr 20
1:45 PM
See It on 16mm: 4/20 Double Feature! Reefer Madness + Assassin of Youth
Opens Apr 20
Reefer Madness (1936, 1h 8m): High-school principal Dr.

Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens.

In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary (Dorothy Short) and Jimmy Lane (Warren McCollum) and Mary's boyfriend, Bill (Kenneth Craig), into frequenting a reefer house.

Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible ...

Sunday, Apr 20
4:20 PM
Wicked (2024)
Opens Apr 21
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway's The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart.

The two meet as ...

Monday, Apr 21
12:00 PM 3:30 PM 7:15 PM
Tuesday, Apr 22
12:00 PM 3:30 PM
Wednesday, Apr 23
12:00 PM 3:30 PM ...
David Lynch`s The Elephant Man (1980) [w/ Movies `n Books Club]
Opens Apr 23
With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England.

When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt), who has severe skeletal and soft-tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well.

As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that ...

Wednesday, Apr 23
7:00 PM
Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII (Remastered in 4K)
Opens Apr 24
Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, the groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben, returns to theaters, now digitally re-mastered in 4K from the original 35mm footage with enhanced audio. Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheater in Pompeii, Italy, the film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert without an audience.

Filmed in October 1971, the performance features unforgettable tracks such as “Echoes,” “A Saucerful of Secrets,” and “One of These Days.” ...

Thursday, Apr 24
7:00 PM 9:30 PM
Sunday, Apr 27
5:05 PM 7:30 PM
David Lynch`s Lost Highway (1997) 4K Restoration
Opens Apr 25
“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes.

Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable.

As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.

Friday, Apr 25
10:00 PM
Art11: Killer of Sheep (1978) New 4K Restoration
Opens Apr 26
Burnett’s films focus on everyday life in black communities in a manner rarely in American cinema — combining lyrical elements with a starkly neorealist, documentary-style approach that chronicles the unfolding story with depth and riveting simplicity.

In Killer of Sheep, Stan, employed at a slaughterhouse, is suffering from the emotional side effects of his bloody occupation to such a degree that his entire life unhinges.

Burnett once said of the film, “[Stan’s] real problems lie within ...

Saturday, Apr 26
11:00 AM
Sunday, Apr 27
11:00 AM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), 50th Anniversary with Bit of Mustard!
Opens Apr 26
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr.

Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist.

As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien).

Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky." Audience participaton isn`t encouraged...it`s ...

Saturday, Apr 26
11:45 PM

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Voted THE NUMBER ONE INDEPENDENT THEATRE in Los Angeles, the Art opened as a silent movie theatre and included a pipe organ and orchestra pit. It is the oldest operating single screen house in Long Beach. Our art deco, streamline moderne-style historical landmark is famous for its screening of the most imaginative and stimulating independent, documentary, animated, alternative lifestyle, and foreign language films. After one million dollars of loving restoration, the addition of a wine bar and coffee bar, The Art Theatre is the perfect destination for memorable evening.