Experience Kinugasa’s lost 1926 silent horror masterpiece A Page of Madness like never before, reimagined with a blistering live metal and electronic score by The Silent Light. This cinematic ritual of chaos and sound will be performed one night only live at Gardena Cinema on Sunday, October 18th, 2026 at 7:30 pm. About The Silent Light: Founded in 2015 by Michael Formanski, The Silent Light is a musical endeavor that breathes new life into classic silent films through the power of heavy metal. Formanski, composer and film director, crafts each score drawing from the dark and intense realms of black metal, doom metal, and original fantasy soundtracks with influences such as The Body, Sunn O))), Emperor, Summoning, and Nobuo Uematsu. Accompanying Formanski is Matt Hardy, the steadfast drummer who has been a key member for the past several years, along with a rotating ensemble of skilled musicians who contribute to the project's ever-evolving sound. The Silent Light’s performances transform silent films like Metropolis, Faust, and Nosferatu into contemporary masterpieces with their haunting and powerful metal scores. They continue to push the boundaries of what silent film scoring can be, inviting audiences to experience the classics in a way they never have before. About the film: A Page of Madness was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, and originally premiered in 1926. The film centers on a janitor working at an asylum, his wife, who is a patient there, and their daughter, who visits regularly. For the janitor, taking the job at the asylum was the only way he could stay close to his wife, who no longer remembers who he is. Within just a few years of its release, every known print of the film had disappeared. For nearly 50 years the film was believed to be lost, until Kinugasa rediscovered a copy that had been stored in a rice barrel in his cabin in 1971. The version that survives is incomplete, missing roughly a third of the original material, and contains no dialogue or inter-titles. What remains is a feverish, expressionist journey into the mind.

After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose "help" quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.

Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade – half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler, his mentor, guardian and fellow hunter of the night. When the bloodthirsty Immortals' lord, Deacon Frost, declares way on the human arce, Blade is humanity's last hope for survival.

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as "Motherface." Please join us for a post-screening filmmaker panel Q&A with director Michael Rousselet and several cast and crew members.

The Firework Film Festival is a short film festival featuring short movies made by local filmmakers and featuring a filmmaker panel about the motivation behind making the movie and the process that was done to make it. Stay after the filmmaker panel concludes and join us in the lobby for a social and networking mixer.

Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge - but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him. Shocked by what he sees and at the unforeseen circumstances of his absence, George reconsiders and begs Clarence to return him to the problems of the present and the loving community he has fostered throughout his life.

Presented with the Support of the Goethe-Institut: 1922 Silent film NOSFERATU directed by F.W. Murnau with LIVE SCORE by Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble. Vampire Count Orlak expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

A retired Honolulu man, a WWII veteran and member of the famed 442nd RCT, has visions of a young German soldier which recalls an incident from the war that haunts him still. It is 1999. Tatsuo “Tats” Kaneshiro, a veteran of the famed 442 RCT, is in his 70s and retired in Honolulu, Hawaii. He spends his days doing yard work, entertaining another 442 buddy, and coping with his divorced daughter and his grandson who live with him. But this seemingly routine life masks a secret. Tats suffers from a condition that wasn’t recognized back then, PTSD. Beset by nightmares and visions of a young German soldier, Tats struggles to cope with life while refusing to tell anyone what happened over 50 years ago in a forest in France. Following Tats until the source of his past deed is revealed, "Shikata Ga Nai" is a story of what affected many Nisei veterans - a reluctance to talk about their time in the war. Writer and Director Eric Nemoto is the owner of Yellow Brick Studio, which represents seven creative ventures, one of which, LegacyVision Films, has produced 19 feature length movies (including Shikata Ga Nai) since 2014, and represents 32 movies overall. As a writer, he has written or co-written 153 feature length screenplays (20 produced), and 18 produced stage plays (including Merry Christmas, Roberta, voted best play in Hawaii for the 2007-2008 season). As an actor he has played the lead (or appeared in a supporting role) in seven movies, had featured roles in the TV series Lost and Hawaii Five-O (recurring role of prosecutor James Chen), and has received two Po’okela Awards (Hawaii’s Tonys) for excellence in stage acting. As a director he has directed 16 movies and 11 stage plays. He is the founder and president of TAG – The Actors’ Group, one of Honolulu’s finest community theatres established in 1993, is the developer of All Hawaii TV, a public Roku streaming television channel dedicated to everything that is Hawaii, and has taught acting for over 30 years. Please stay after the screening for a filmmaker panel Q&A with writer and director Eric Nemoto with film cast and crew.

A sleeper hit at the time of its release, Jeong Jae-eun’s perceptive debut Take Care of My Cat chronicles the lives of five graduating friends whose bonds begin to fracture as they contend with their share of squashed dreams and unequal opportunities. Director Jeong sets the lives of her protagonists (among them Bae Doona and Lee Yo-won in breakout roles) against the industrial backdrop of Incheon, a port city adjacent to Seoul and bearing the brunt of South Korea’s ruthless globalization efforts. In the doing, her film expands to accommodate notions of class, solidarity and privilege – in what is now a timeless snapshot of a rapidly evolving society. Alternately bleak and sunny, realistic and effortlessly cool, suffused with the joys of girlhood yet clear-eyed about the uneasy transition into adulthood, Take Care of My Cat offers a tender and a multi-faceted portrait of young women at the turn of the new millennium.

After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

The Movie Screeners Club is an ongoing monthly short film festival featuring short movies made by local filmmakers every third Thursday of each month. After the last short film is shown, we have a filmmaker panel about the motivation behind making the movie and the process that was done to make it. Audience members will vote for their top 3 favorite short movies and each month we will announce the winner of the Audience Award. At the end of the year, we will feature each monthly Audience Award winner to vote for the Champion of the Year in December! Stay after the filmmaker panel concludes, join us in the lobby for a social and networking mixer.

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

From New Line Cinema and Zach Cregger, the wholly original mind behind Barbarian, comes a new horror/thriller: Weapons. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. The film stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Cregger directs from his own screenplay, and also produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing. The filmmaker’s creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock, editor Joe Murphy and costume designer Trish Summerville. The music is by Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger. New Line Cinema Presents A Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/BoulderLight Pictures Production, A Zach Cregger Film, Weapons. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, and internationally beginning 6 August 2025.