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FROM CASABLANCA TO SAHARA: HOLLYWOOD'S NORTH AFRICA
During the classical studio era, North Africa was a familiar locale for Hollywood's Orientalist fantasies. In addition to clichéd images of camels, vast deserts (both real and imagined) and ubiquitous Fez hats, Hollywood films often featured Westerners seeking escape, adventure and fortune amid the local "wanton" women and "barbaric" men. The North African or Maghreb region--from Libya to Western Sahara--was perceived in American popular culture in terms of what Edward Said described as an "imaginative geography…a place of romance, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences."
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FOLK TALES AND FILM NOIR: ROBERTO GAVALDÓN'S CENTENNIAL
Director Roberto Gavaldón has been called "one of the most important directors in Mexican cinema" and "the undisputed master of melodrama." And yet, of all the major directors who worked during Mexican cinema's Golden Age (1936-1956), including Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernandez, Luis Buñuel, Sergei Eisentstein and Gabriel Figueroa, Gavaldón remains the least well-known and the most deserving of rediscovery.
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THE WITCHING HOUR: THREE SCREENINGS CO-CURATED BY FRANCESCA GABBIANI
For the next Houseguest exhibition, a new series of artist-curated shows at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani has selected an eclectic range of works on paper, many from UCLA's own collections, that explore the subjects of witchcraft and sorcery--themes that are often subtly evoked in her own work. The works selected include drawings, prints and illustrated books ranging in date from the Renaissance to the present.
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RESTORING THE LOS ANGELES AVANT-GARDE
Since its formal inception in 1992, the Academy Film Archive has been working diligently to preserve and restore independent and experimental films. However, over the last five years, the Academy Archive has trained an additional focus on the work of Los Angeles-based artists.
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THE LEGACY PROJECT SCREENING SERIES
The Outfest Legacy Project is a collaborative effort bringing together the Archive and Outfest to collect and preserve queer film and video.
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FAMILY FLICKS
The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly films from around the world. Free Admission!
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ARCHIVE PREVIEWS
"Archive Previews" presents advance screenings of new releases.
Cineclub members get in free!
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ARCHIVE TREASURES
"Archive Treasures" showcases works from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's extensive collection, one of the largest moving image collections in the world. Included in the series will be deserving and rarely screened gems presented in original and restored prints.
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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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