The Egyptian Theatre continues its monthly screening series with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 2026.

LAFCA, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, presents a series of screenings that showcase the unique choices made by the organization at its annual vote.  LAFCA has often chosen to highlight excellent titles that stand apart from the preordained front-runners of awards season.

On Tuesday, October 20, the Egyptian Theatre and LAFCA will welcome Academy Award®-nominated director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) for a special 35mm presentation of his debut 1986 feature Mala Noche. Van Sant’s visionary film, an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the 90s, was awarded LAFCA’s Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award. Van Sant will participate in a Q&A moderated by LAFCA member and author of Hollywood Pride, Alonso Duralde.

Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, Mala Noche evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant.