@uclaftvarchive.bsky.social
A unit of UCLA Library. Dedicated to preserving moving image history. The second-largest archive of original film and television materials in the U.S. FREE screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum 📽 cinema.ucla.edu
Sat 3/7: Restoration premiere of “The Burning Cross” (1947) + “Open Secret” (1948)
The independently made “The Burning Cross” was one of the boldest US films of its era to tackle homegrown fascism. Followed by a noir that takes a grittier approach to antisemitism than its precedents ucla.in/4bg0uNj
Tribute to Gene Hackman: “CBS Playhouse: My Father and My Mother” (1968) 📺 Sun. Mar. 8, 7 p.m.
Between his star-making turns in “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The French Connection,” Hackman landed a lead role on the prestigious TV anthology “CBS Playhouse.” Join us for a free screening: ucla.in/46wkSak
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer leaning against a lamppost.
Friedrich Torberg as a melancholy looking man playing piano.
📽 Friday, Mar. 6, 7:30 p.m.
“Arch of Triumph” (dir. Lewis Milestone, 1948) — 35mm
“Voice in the Wind” (dir. Arthur Ripley, 1944)
UCLA restorations!
Both films powerfully express the disorientation and despair of European refugees in the wake of fascism.
Free admission: ucla.in/401a14x
Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper standing together outside.
Katharine Hepburn sitting on a horse next to Spencer Tracy.
📽 Sunday, Mar. 1, 7 p.m.
“Cloak and Dagger” (dir. Fritz Lang, 1946) — 35mm!
“Keeper of the Flame” (dir. George Cukor, 1942) — 35mm!
Join us for a WWII espionage thriller starring Gary Cooper + a mystery melodrama starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Free! ucla.in/3MstDeP
Save the date for our 2026 UCLA Festival of Preservation! May 29–31 (more details to be announced)
cinema.ucla.edu/ucla-festiva...
Announcing our free spring lineup! 🌼 Starting in late March:
Tribute to Swedish/S.F. Bay Area experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson
The Black Pack: When Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Paul Mooney, Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans Rewrote American Comedy
+ much more: cinema.ucla.edu/events
📽️ “Giannis in the Cities” (Greece, 2024)
Sunday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.
Writer-director Eleni Alexandrakis tells the story of Giannis Atzakas, who grew up in government-run “Childcare Cities” during the Greek Civil War, unable to forget his rebel father. Filmmaker in person! Free: ucla.in/3On4zGv
Tonight is the world premiere of Charles Burnett's restored MY BROTHER'S WEDDING! Thank you to Berlinale Forum, @kinolorber.com, @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social, @bampfa.bsky.social, Prasad, Deluxe, and to @mayascade.bsky.social Charles, and Jill Borders, who oversaw the restoration!
16.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Book cover for "Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema"
Above: A woman holding money next a mirror. Below: A woman signing into a motel next to a motel worker.
Feb. 15: Archive Talks: Hitchcock and Herrmann
Film historian Steven C. Smith will join us for a book signing and give an illustrated talk about the collaboration between director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann. Followed by screening of “Psycho” (1960) and Q&A. Free! ucla.in/4awGDbe
A camera person on a crane in front of UCLA Powell Library.
On our blog, UCLA M.L.I.S. graduate Jackie Forsyte delves into the rich history of UCLA student filmmaking from the beginning, 1947–1965. After WWII, “students and faculty forged ahead with building a film education rooted in technical proficiency and creative experimentation.” ucla.in/3M0OKEQ
10.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Two women lying on the floor.
Two women sitting and talking in a living room.
A man walking behind a woman.
A man and woman relaxing in a car.
Saturday 2/14: “Echoes From Spring Street: The World of Sing Lee and Chinese-Language Cinema in L.A.” continues Valentine’s Day with a pair of Hong Kong films about love and friendship, directed by Sylvia Chang and Ann Hui 💕 35mm! 🎞
“Passion” (1986)
“Starry Is the Night” (1988)
ucla.in/4ralGd2
Above: A bulldozer tearing down a building. Below: Children playing in an incomplete house.
Friday 2/3: “(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home” continues with films by acclaimed Chilean documentarian Ignacio Agüero & Malaysian-Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang:
“Under Construction (or the place where I was born no longer exists)” (Chile, 2000)
“Give Me a Home” (Taiwan, 1991)
ucla.in/4r2af7j
Above: young boys in a classroom. Below: three elderly women sitting on the floor.
Grace Lee Boggs
Feb 8: Homes Apart: Korea (1991) + American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013)
Filmed in North and South Korea, “Homes Apart” follows a man’s journey to reunite with his sister long after the Korean War. Next, a spotlight on philosopher & activist Grace Lee Boggs ucla.in/4qTpAqB
Friday Feb. 6: Food and Film: Two by Les Blank
“Always for Pleasure” (1978)—16mm!
“Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana” (1990)
In the streets, living rooms and kitchens of New Orleans, documentarian Les Blank observes an American city like no other: ucla.in/3NQO2ug
View of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles in Safety Last! (1923)
The Exiles (1961). Group of people walking down an alley.
Scene from Smog (1962). Man walking near wall at LAX
The Los Angeles Times asked film writers to rank their top movies set in L.A. Seven titles on the list have been preserved and restored by the @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social, a unit of UCLA Library: cinema.ucla.edu/blog/la-time...
30.01.2026 23:47 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
404 by L.A. Times interviewed our Motion Picture Curator Todd Wiener and former Collections Intern / Harvard Ph.D. candidate @janetlouie.bsky.social about Chinatown’s Sing Lee Theatre and the Chinese-language films saved by the Archive 🎞️ www.latimes.com/0000019c-0ff...
30.01.2026 21:23 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Two people looking at each other.
A fictionalized skyline of buildings, power lines and tower-like syringes.
Two people standing outside a garage.
A person placing a hand on a person's shoulder.
Feb. 7: “Numbskull Revolution” (2026) premiere!
A pair of rival conceptual artists (Amy Davis, James Duval) battle for fame and funding. As one ascends the heights of capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in a new cyber drug. Filmmaker Jon Moritsugu in person! ucla.in/45YVz0r
35mm Li Han-hsiang coming to LA
28.01.2026 00:17 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A young girl holding a cat outside.
Sunday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m.
🎞 “Rear Entrance” (Hong Kong, 1960) — 35mm!
Directed by the legendary Li Han-hsiang of Shaw Brothers fame, “Rear Entrance” tells the moving story of a woman (silent-to-sound era actor Butterfly Woo) who adopts a young girl.
Free! ucla.in/3LY5oVt
A woman throwing torn up paper in the air, in front of a building.
1/29 🎥 “Aquarius” (2016)
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (of the Oscar-nominated “The Secret Agent”), “Aquarius” depicts a woman’s fight to protect her home. Clara (Sônia Braga) enjoys an idyllic life in Recife, Brazil, until she is pressured to leave by real estate developers: ucla.in/4baFY14
today!!!!!
23.01.2026 16:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Above: Cameramen in a Vietnam War scene. Below: A person examining newspaper articles and books.
1/31: “The Stringer” (2025)
One of the most recognizable photos from the Vietnam War, “The Terror of War” moved the hearts and minds of the world. Bao Nguyen’s gripping film documents a possible revelation of the photograph’s long-held secret. Filmmakers & special guests in person! ucla.in/4qqgdhS
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer leaning against a lamp post at night.
Margaret Sullavan speaking to Robert Young, who is portraying a Nazi official.
Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper standing together outside.
Jan. 25–Mar. 20: “From John Doe to Lonesome Rhodes: Anti-fascism From the Archive”
This series presents 11 American films restored by the Archive or held in its collection that were produced in response to the cataclysmic clash of ideologies that marked the mid-20th century.
Free! ucla.in/49KZy1n
Two men in an old Western town. On-screen credit that reads "Created by Rod Serling."
Sat 1/24: “Rod Serling’s Existential TV Western: The Loner”
After “Twilight Zone,” six-time Emmy winner Rod Serling returned to primetime with “The Loner” (CBS, 1965–66). Join us for three Serling-penned episodes starring Lloyd Bridges, Tony Bill, Brock Peters and Dan Duryea. Free! ucla.in/3NqEoyj
Above: A woman winding a reel of film. Below: women doing a modern abstract dance and creating shadows.
Above: People standing around a phonograph in the 1910s. Below: Two young women laughing.
1/23: Films by Karen Pearlman + early silent shorts
Pearlman has built a feminist film practice that puts cinema’s past & present in dialogue in brilliantly constructed short film essays. Join us for a screening of her work along with the slapstick female performers that inspired it ucla.in/4pHqE09
Can’t wait to share the experience of seeing this films with all in attendance 🥰💕
15.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1960s facade of the Sing Lee Theatre.
Piles of film reels and film cans.
On our blog, Harvard scholar Janet Louie delves into the history of the Sing Lee Theatre, which opened in 1962 in L.A.’s Chinatown and became a hub for Chinese-language cinema and opera. A significant collection of films was rescued from the shuttered theater by the Archive in 2016: ucla.in/4qmQZB9
14.01.2026 23:08 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Above: A family sleeping on a floor mat. Below: A family folding pizza boxes.
Above: A partially demolished building with a large sign for The Exorcist. Below: A woman looking up in front of a building.
“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home, Part II”
Jan 17–Feb 20
This series continues our summer 2025 exploration of what it means to be housed, and to truly feel at home, amid ongoing displacement. These international and independent films trace the fragile architecture of belonging: ucla.in/45RfNc6
One of Iranian cinema’s most influential and important filmmakers, Bahram Beyzaie (1938–2025) passed away on Dec. 26. His works are “seamless blends of myth, symbolism, folklore, and classical Persian literature” (The Guardian: bit.ly/3YrT969).
Our 2018 Q&A with Beyzaie: youtu.be/Wf9BPzaA6PA
Jan. 16–Mar. 22: “Echoes From Spring Street: The World of Sing Lee and Chinese-Language Cinema in L.A.”
This series features films from 1960–1988 Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, and marks the first public presentation of prints rescued from the shuttered Sing Lee Theatre in Chinatown: ucla.in/4ssjWNC
