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HIGH NOON FILM SERIES AT THE FOWLER MUSEUM
Splash into summer with a film series celebrating creatures--real and imagined--from the sea. Come for the movies and stay to visit the Fowler's exhibition, Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.
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THE ARCHIVE AT OUTFEST
The Archive is proud to be a part of Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival through its partnership in The Outfest Legacy Project, a collaborative effort to collect and preserve queer film and video. Several films screening during this year's Festival have been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive or are part of The Legacy Project collection.
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PRESERVATIONIST'S CHOICE: SELECTED HITS FROM THE ARCHIVE'S FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION
For this special summer series, the Archive asked its crack team of preservationists to reprise or update a presentation from one of our past Festivals of Preservation. They came back with an eclectic program of surefire crowd-pleasers--and a few new surprises!
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THE NEXT WAVE: BRITISH FILMS OF THE 1970S AND '80S
Dynamic, innovative, and often extremely personal, the films that emerged from Britain in the 1970s and '80s reflected the changing face of a nation during a pivotal period in its history.
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SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL: THE ESCAPADES OF BUSBY BERKELEY
After directing parades as a lieutenant during WWI, Busby Berkeley returned stateside to work with Florenz Ziegfeld on Broadway. The stage led to films when Eddie Cantor (another Ziegfeld protégé) suggested that Berkeley choreograph the dance routines for Samuel Goldwyn's saucy Whoopee (1930).
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THE EXILES
A landmark of American independent cinema, Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961) has been rarely seen, even in its native Los Angeles, for over 40 years. Unlike its better known counterparts—Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977) and John Cassavetes' Shadows (1959)—this improvisational day-in-the-life chronicle of Bunker Hill's Native American community quickly fell into obscurity—save for ultra-rare screenings at venues such as the UCLA Film & Television Archive—after it failed to find theatrical distribution. Featured in Thom Andersen's documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), The Exiles has been newly restored by the Archive and is ready to be re-discovered
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Exhibition & Public Programs have
a new home in the state-of-the-art Billy Wilder
Theater. Made possible
by a generous gift from Audrey L. Wilder, the theater is named in honor
of Mrs. Wilder's late husband, the legendary screenwriter and director
of such classics of the American cinema as Double
Indemnity (1944), The
Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace
in the Hole (1951),
Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Some
Like It Hot (1959) and
The Apartment (1960).
The Billy Wilder Theater joins an exclusive group of theaters in the
U.S. capable of screening all major film and video formats-from variable
speed silent films and nitrate prints to the latest digital cinema. The
theater is located on the courtyard level of the Hammer Museum in the
Westwood area of Los Angeles.
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