Vidiots
Vidiots Foundation. Taking the video store & arthouse theatre experience into the 21st Century.
Vidiots Foundation is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization and one-of-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema. Vidiots is dedicated to inspiring human interaction around film through preserving, growing, and providing access to its diverse DVD, BluRay, and rare VHS collection, showcasing the work of emerging, master, and underrepresented artists, and producing unique a
A commanding voice and legendary talent, James Earl Jones’ powerful legacy will continue to resonate through the ages. We’ve been renting his films out all day in the video store and are overwhelmed by the joy he brought so many, and we can’t wait to showcase James Earl Jones’ extraordinary work on the big screen ✨
Are you ready to laugh and cry and question your own dysfunctional family? Vidiots welcomes Writer, Director, Actor, and Vidiots Founding Member to introduce one of her favorite films – Ron Howard’s beloved family dramedy Parenthood. Join us for PARENTHOOD on Saturday, September 21 @ 3:45pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
This banger’s got action, science fiction, revolution, and Egyptologists are wrapped in one blockbuster package! Come watch STARGATE big and loud with a crowd on Saturday, September 21 @ 9:45pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
The legendary Gena Rowlands commands this criminally captivating entry into the great John Cassavetes canon. Join us for GLORIA on Friday, September 20 @ 9:45pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Our Annual Members got an invite to a special advance screening of Speak No Evil! We can't wait to watch with all of you.
Nominated for multiple Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes (and taking home her share of wins), Gena Rowlands is a legend forever. Charting Rowlands’ transformation as “Mabel” from endearingly kooky to bleakly incoherent and back again, A Woman Under the Influence is perhaps the most important examination of mental health ever captured onscreen. Join us for A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE on Sunday, September 15 @ 3:45pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Our Annual Members just received an invite to a special advance screening of Rez Ball followed by a conversation with the director and co-writer, Sydney Freeland, and stars, Kauchani Bratt and Jessica Matten!
Red scrunchies, Corn Nuts, and the Heathers screening of our dreams?? This weekend was everything with Heather’s director Michael Lehmann, screenwriter Daniel Waters, and Heather M herself, actress Lisanne Falk in the house! Missed out on the fun? We’ll be screening this cult classic one more time big and loud on Saturday, September 7 @ 9:45pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Before The Departed, there was this OG banger. So which one’s better? We’ll just say that one of these movies has Tony Leung’s haunted, sadboi eyes and one doesn’t, and let you be the judge. Come watch this with us and our besties ! INFERNAL AFFAIRS plays Tuesday, September 10 @ 7:30pm! Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Talent incoming!! Cowabunga, dude, is going to be in the house for TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE tomorrow Sunday, September 1 @ 12:30pm! Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Sing along with Cher and Xtina and get more than your fill of music, love, and high camp! BURLESQUE plays on Friday, September 6 @ 9:50pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut. JANET PLANET opens in the microcinema on Friday, August 30. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
With an incredible jazz soundtrack from the Branford Marsalis quartet and a dramatic blend of love, friendship, loyalty, s*x, music, and Lee’s eternal wit and style, Mo’ Better Blues still sings. Come watch MO’ BETTER BLUES on Tuesday, September 3 @ 7:30pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
A rare Hitchcockian foray into comedy, The Trouble with Harry combines small-town romance and mystery and features the legendary Shirley MacLaine in her big-screen debut. Come watch THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY big and loud with a crowd on Monday, September 2 @ 3pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
“I’ve got an all-girl army that knows what to do! They’re foxy as hell and practice kung fu!” A lasting testament to both rap pioneer / nightclub comic par excellence Rudy Ray Moore and the sun-bleached, smog-covered vistas of ‘70s L.A., DOLEMITE remains one of blaxploitation’s greatest achievements. Come watch this LA banger with us on Thursday, August 29 @ 7pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
An audacious and gleeful shock to the system, Věra Chytilová’s Czech New Wave masterpiece is punk as f*&k, but also as sweet, goofy, and girly as the name would imply. Come watch DAISIES with us on Wednesday, September 11 @ 7:30pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Warren Beatty – as star, director, and producer – brings the classic comic to life on the big screen with a cavalcade of cameos and co-stars including Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Dick Van D**e – many of which with impressive prosthetics. DICK TRACY plays on Saturday, September 21 @ 7pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Video store will close early @ 5pm for a private event tomorrow, Thursday, 8/22 📀
One of the most wildly surreal and inventive science fiction films ever, Terry Gilliam’s mind-blowing Brazil paints a bleak dystopian portrait of bureaucracy, police overreach, and terrorism suffused with astonishing visuals and absurd humor. Join us for BRAZIL on 35mm on Sunday, September 1 @ 3:15pm + Friday, September 6 @ 3:30pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Vidiots is f***ing pumped to welcome filmmaker Gregg Araki and actors James Duval and Nathan Bexton for a screening of three of the most transgressive films to come out of the 1990s – The Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, continuing with a double feature of Nowhere and Totally F***ed Up. Join us for NOWHERE + TOTALLY F***ED UP on Wednesday, September 25 @ 7pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Gather your besties and join us for this loveable classic of the indelible bond of female friendship featuring plenty of laughs, tears. Come watch NOW AND THEN with us on Saturday, September 7 @ 4pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome director Michael Lehman, screenwriter Daniel Waters, and “Heather MacNamara” Lisanne Falk for a very special 35th Anniversary screening of the twisted cult classic Heathers on Sunday, September 1 @ 7pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
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Our Story
Founded in 1985 by L.A. natives Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber, Vidiots is dedicated to cinema through preserving, growing, and providing access to its diverse, 50,000+ title library, showcasing the work of emerging and master artists, and producing impactful education programs and unique film events. An inclusive, one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and anyone curious about cinema, Vidiots is bringing video store culture into the 21st Century!
Vidiots closed its iconic Santa Monica location in 2017, and is planning an ambitious re-launch as an expanded film space in Los Angeles. Stay tuned for excited details and news!
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