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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

Cosmopolis (2012)
One Day Only Jul 19
A 28-year-old billionaire (Robert Pattinson) senses his empire collapsing around him as he takes a limo ride across Manhattan to get a haircut from his fatherapos;s old barber.

This July, we`re celebrating the master of horror’s prolific career with the retrospective film series CAREER OF BODIES: SIX DECADES WITH DAVID CRONENBERG.

Saturday, Jul 19
10:00 PM
Taxi Driver (1976)
Ends Jul 20
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. In July, we`re celebrating PALME D`OR ICONS with a wide-spanning retrospective screening series featuring stunning 4K restorations of these classic culture-changing films.

Saturday, Jul 19
4:25 PM 7:15 PM
Sunday, Jul 20
4:25 PM 7:15 PM
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) 4K Restoration
Ends Jul 20
The angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy.

She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo.

When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly.

Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through lilting songs by the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is ...

Saturday, Jul 19
2:00 PM
Sunday, Jul 20
2:00 PM
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
Opens Jul 21
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan) back together.

Monday, Jul 21
1:30 PM 4:15 PM 7:00 PM
Tuesday, Jul 22
1:30 PM 4:15 PM
Wednesday, Jul 23
1:30 PM 4:15 PM ...
Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill: Live From Prague - The Movie (2025)
Opens Jul 23
Roger Waters, founding member and creative force behind the legendary Pink Floyd, brings to the screen his live show, Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill: Live From Prague - The Movie.

Directed by Sean Evans and Roger Waters, the film combines iconic songs from his Pink Floyd days with those from his solo career, encompassing a timespan of sixty years.

The show is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to ...

Wednesday, Jul 23
7:00 PM
Sunday, Jul 27
7:00 PM
Paris, Texas (1984) 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration
Opens Jul 24
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family. In July, we`re celebrating PALME D`OR ICONS with a wide-spanning retrospective screening series featuring stunning 4K restorations of these classic culture-changing films.

Thursday, Jul 24
7:00 PM
Friday, Jul 25
3:00 PM 6:30 PM
Saturday, Jul 26
1:20 PM 4:40 PM 8:00 PM
The Shrouds (2025)
Opens Jul 25
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth.

While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put ...

Friday, Jul 25
10:00 PM
Art11: We Were Dangerous (2025)
Opens Jul 26
Free admission to Art Theatre Gold, Silver & Platinum Members. Set in 1954 New Zealand, We Were Dangerous follows Nellie and Daisy, two delinquent girls attempting to escape their institution.

After being caught, they are transferred to a remote island facility.

There, they form a trio with Lou, a well-to-do newcomer, and together they challenge the authority of the strict Matron.

As they rebel against a system, they find strength in their friendship, questioning faith and authority in a ...

Saturday, Jul 26
11:00 AM
Sunday, Jul 27
11:00 AM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), 50th Anniversary with Bit of Mustard!
Opens Jul 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 Oapos;Brien).

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

Saturday, Jul 26
11:45 PM
Unspoken (2025) + QnA with director Jeremy Borison
Opens Jul 28
Noam, a closeted teenager in an Orthodox community, finds a love letter written to his recently deceased grandfather by another man before the Holocaust.

With a classmate, he sets out to find this mysterious person and uncover his grandfather’s identity as well as his own.

Along the way, Noam learns about the history of persecuted Jewish and LGBTQ+ people during the Holocaust and learns more about himself and the identity he has been keeping hidden for so ...

Monday, Jul 28
7:00 PM
The Wedding Banquet (2025)
Opens Jul 28
A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her.

Plans evolve as Min`s grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.

Monday, Jul 28
1:30 PM 4:15 PM
Tuesday, Jul 29
1:30 PM 4:15 PM
Wednesday, Jul 30
1:30 PM 4:15 PM ...
He Never Dies: The Films of Kalil Haddad + QnA with filmmaker Kalil Haddad
Opens Jul 29
He Never Dies: The Films of Kalil Haddad explores the raw, radical exploration of queer life—distorted, reassembled, and reimagined through lo-fi aesthetics and experimental form.

These shorts blend archival fragments with pornography, personal footage, and narrative invention, Kalil Haddad`s films rework the visual language of gay desire to uncover deep material truths about sex, labor, exploitation, and class.

Tuesday, Jul 29
7:00 PM
Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) + Movies `n Books Club!
Opens Jul 30
A U.S.

Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

In July, we`re celebrating PALME D`OR ICONS with a wide-spanning retrospective screening series featuring stunning 4K restorations of these classic culture-changing films.

Join us following the film for a discussion of Heart of Darkness, the novel the film was based upon, lead by Movies `n Books Club host Stefania Priestley!

Wednesday, Jul 30
7:00 PM
Movie Trivia Night!
Opens Jul 31
Join us each month at the historic Art Theatre of Long Beach for an exciting evening of film trivia hosted by our very own film programmer, Kennedy Ghaill! Test your movie knowledge with five rounds of ten challenging questions, with surprise opportunities for bonus points along the way.

Gather a team of up to ten or play solo, it’s all about fun and competition! No phones are allowed during the game, so brush up on your ...

Thursday, Jul 31
7:30 PM
Thursday, Aug 21
7:30 PM
To a Land Unknown (2025)
Opens Aug 4
Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens.

But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late.

Monday, Aug 4
2:00 PM 4:45 PM 7:30 PM
Tuesday, Aug 5
2:00 PM
Wednesday, Aug 6
2:00 PM 4:45 PM 7:30 PM ...
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex (2025)
Opens Aug 10
Celebrates the life and work of glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan, combined with a behind-the-scenes look at the tribute album of the same name.

Sunday, Aug 10
6:00 PM
Commune (2005) 20th Anniversary Restoration
Opens Aug 11
In 1968, two hippies hiking near Mt.

Shasta in Northern California stumbled across an unlikely property for sale: an abandoned goldmine and surrounding land, 300 acres for $22,000.

Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought the property and named it Black Bear Ranch.

It quickly became the prototypical 1960s commune, with the motto “Free Land for Free People.” Utopian communities have always been a part of the United States, but in ...

Monday, Aug 11
2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Aug 12
2:00 PM 4:15 PM
Wednesday, Aug 13
2:00 PM 4:15 PM ...
To Kill a Wolf (2025) + QnA with director Kelsey Taylor
Opens Aug 13
In a modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway in the Oregon Wilderness and does his best to help her find a way home.

Wednesday, Aug 13
7:00 PM
The Grateful Dead Movie (1977), 2025 Meet-up!
Opens Aug 15
Grateful Dead celebrate their 60th Anniversary with a highly anticipated return to big screens for the annual theatrical event “Meet-Up At The Movies” in select territories worldwide starting August 14. For a limited time only, this special cinematic event allows fans to come together and celebrate the enduring legacy of the Grateful Dead.

This year, Rhino Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing present the Dead’s eponymous film THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE.

This fan-favorite cult classic follows the legendary band on ...

Friday, Aug 15
7:00 PM
Sunday, Aug 17
4:20 PM 7:30 PM
Art11: A Photographic Memory (2025)
Opens Aug 16
A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind.

Saturday, Aug 16
11:00 AM
Sunday, Aug 17
11:00 AM
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)
Opens Aug 22
Presented in a stunning new 4K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome and Cinematographe.

Harry Griswald is a NYPD cop who is possessed with the spirit of a great Kabuki master.

This has made him ‘the chosen one’ to do battle with ‘the evil one’.

He is also out to do good deeds and fight crime in the name of the law.

The only problem is that a number of corrupt people in the community and their henchmen want him dead ...

Friday, Aug 22
10:00 PM
Art11: The Last Twins (2025)
Opens Aug 23
Free admission to Art Theatre Gold, Silver & Platinum Members.

Erno Spiegel protected twin children from Mengele`s experiments at Auschwitz.

Put in charge of young boys, he risked his life to shield them from brutal medical tests and death, saving dozens through courage and compassion.

Supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture as well as the Arts council of Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and ...

Saturday, Aug 23
11:00 AM
Sunday, Aug 24
11:00 AM
Saving Face (2005) 20th Anniversary 4K Restoration
Opens Aug 25
For 28-year old New Yorker Wilhelmina quot;Wilquot; Pang (Michelle Krusiec), life is a juggling act between a promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter.

Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds.

The expectations of the Flushing, Queens society she is from and the desires that alienate her from it have made Wil content to live ...

Monday, Aug 25
2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM
Tuesday, Aug 26
2:00 PM 4:30 PM
Wednesday, Aug 27
2:00 PM 4:30 PM ...
Mixed Blood (1984)
Opens Aug 29
Presented in a stunning new restoration by Vinegar Syndrome and Cinematographe! On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens.

In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra), along with her delinquent son, Thiago (Richard Ulacia), and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine.

When Rita and her young gang members get involved ...

Friday, Aug 29
10:00 PM
Other Side (2025)
Opens Aug 30
A terminally ill womanapos;s groundbreaking legal battle opens doors for out-of-state residents seeking Vermontapos;s medical aid in dying, as she navigates her own end-of-life journey.

Saturday, Aug 30
1:00 PM 3:30 PM
Sunday, Aug 31
1:00 PM 3:30 PM
25 Nosferatu (1922) with LIVE SCORE by the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
Opens Oct 31
About Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble JCDE sparks new life with original scores to classic silent films including Nosferatu, The Golem, The Phantom Carriage, Sunrise, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Mark of Zorro, for which they released a soundtrack album ZORRO in 2017.

A team of top players led by composer and conductor Jack Curtis Dubowsky, JCDE combines intricately composed material and structured improvisation. Jack Curtis Dubowsky – Conductor, composer R.

Scott Dibble – Keyboards Laurel Diskin – Violin Gabriel “SLAM” ...

Friday, Oct 31
10:00 PM
Felix: Dare to Dream Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Felix: Dare to Dream Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
(105 Minutes)
Felix: Dare to Dream U.S. debut at the Art Theatre Long Beach on July 27, 2025. Special Documentary Screening with Panel Discussion!
Sunday, July 27 · 3 - 6pm PDT ~ External Ticket link ~
Felix, dare to dream is the amazing story of an
existential journey. Felix Leu, has been a pioneer of
modern tattooing and lead member of one of the most
eccentric and respected families on the international
tattoo scene: the Leu Family, a bohemian clan that has
made freedom and creativity its art of living. This is
not just a film about tattooing, Felix and Loretta's
story is about staying true to your dreams while sailing
the ocean of life.

Enjoy having your name, brand, company or any person you wish to celebrate, laser engraved on a plaque on your very own Art Theatre seat. When you sponsor a seat, we can also acknowledge your gift to a recipient of your choice.

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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.