Special Guests in Attendance
Can’t Hardly Wait
- Sun, Aug 9
Director: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont Run Time: 100 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1998
Starring: Charlie Korsmo, Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli
Vidiots can't wait to party with Writer/Directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont at a special screening of their quintessential 90s teen classic Can't Hardly Wait!
Twilight
- Tue, Aug 11
Director: Catherine Hardwicke Run Time: 122 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2008
Starring: Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Kristen Stewart, Peter Facinelli, Robert Pattinson
Vidiots is dying to welcome back director Catherine Hardwicke for the emo screening of your teen dreams - Twilight - followed by a conversation with Hardwicke on her undead phenomenon!
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
- Wed, Aug 12
Director: Sasha Waters Run Time: 91 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, John Waters, Lucy Dacus, Mary Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Steve Buscemi
Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world.
Featuring a conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters after the August 12th screening!
Commando
- Fri, Aug 14
Director: Mark L. Lester Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1985
Starring: Alyssa Milano, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dan Hedaya, James Olson, Rae Dawn Chong, Vernon Wells
One of the best popcorn blockbusters of the 1980s, Rae Dawn Chong and the Governator team up for action, for fun, and for revenge in this bad-ass specatacular.
With a special introduction from the big baddie himself Vernon Wells!
Lockjaw
- Fri, Aug 14
- Sat, Aug 15
Director: Sabrina Greco Run Time: 77 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026
Starring: Ally Davis, Blu Hunt, Colin Burgess, Kevin Grossman, Nick Corirossi
Join us in the microcinema for the cringiest party this summer with Sabrina Greco's absurd indie comedy Lockjaw!
With writer/director Sabrina Greco in person at both screenings!
An Evening with Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Sat, Aug 15
Director: Edgar Wright Run Time: 113 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2010
Starring: Alison Pill, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera
Vidiots is ecstatic to welcome director Edgar Wright for an evening of epic epicness starting with a screening of his beloved cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. the World followed by a Q+A!
An Evening with Edgar Wright: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
- Sat, Aug 15
Director: Russ Meyer Run Time: 109 min. Format: Digital Rating: X Release Year: 1970
Starring: Cynthia Myers, Dolly Read, John Lazar, Marcia McBroom, Michael Blodgett
Our evening of epic epicness continues with a special screening of Russ Meyer's sexy psychedelic cinematic freakout "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" introduced by Edgar Wright!
The Off Hours
- Sun, Aug 16
Director: Megan Griffiths Run Time: 93 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2011
Starring: Amy Seimetz, Lynn Shelton, Ross Partridge, Scoot McNairy, Tony Doupe
Vidiots is excited to welcome writer/director Megan Griffiths for a special 15th Anniversary screening of her engaging character study The Off Hours followed by a conversation with Griffiths and cast members Amy Seimetz, Scoot McNairy, and Ross Partridge, moderated by Vidiots Founding Member Mark Duplass!
Be Kind Rewind
- Mon, Aug 17
Director: Michel Gondry Run Time: 102 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2008
Starring: Danny Glover, Jack Black, Melonie Díaz, Mia Farrow, Yasiin Bey
Vidiots and Partizan are thrilled to welcome legendary filmmaker Michel Gondry and more special guests for a special screening of this imagination-heavy video store fantasy!
A joyous and soul-stirring tribute to community, imagination, and ingenuity and a love story to video stores and cinema, there's no better place to watch this charmer than on the big screen at one of the country's last remaining video stores!
Programme 4
- Wed, Aug 19
Director: Rachel Lichtman Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital
Starring: Aimee Mann, Bill Janovitz, Chris Murphy, Dag Juhlin, Dana Gould, Dave Gruber Allen, Eugene Mirman, Frank Conniff, Jay Gonzalez, Joe Pernice, Joel Murray, Jon Langford, Jon Wurster, Josh Kantor, Juliana Hatfield, Kelley Stoltz, Michael McKean, Michael Penn, Michael Spicer, Mikael Jorgensen, Mitch Easter, Pat Sansone, Patton Oswalt, Rich Koz, Sean Wolcott, Tammy Faye Starlite, Ted Leo, The Sklar Brothers, Trace Beaulieu
Hosted by Masters of Ceremonies the Sklar Brothers, with pre and post-show cocktail lounge entertainment featuring the soft sounds of Jon Spurney on the Rhodes piano. Plus Programme 4 creator Rachel Lichtman, special guest stars, complimentary matchbooks, and more!
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Mon, Aug 24
Director: Paul Mazursky Run Time: 105 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1969
Starring: Dyan Cannon, Elliott Gould, Horst Ebersberg, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome screen icons Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon for a special screening of Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice!