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
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
Curious about user experience design in libraries?
Check out this library tech job interview with Axa Liauw, interim head of Library Access & Discovery Interfaces and lead user experience designer at UCLA Library, recently published by @choicereviews.bsky.social: www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...
This black and white photo shows a big group of people dancing in front of the Olvera Street cross. Most folks are dressed in costumes, and one adult is dressed as a clown wearing all white as a toddler (dressed as a mariachi) holds his hand.
Happy Fat Tuesday! The Mardi Gras festivities at Olvera Street (1955) courtesy of @uclalibrary.bsky.social: digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:... #MardiaGras #FatTuesday #OlveraStreet
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📽️ “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
Eugene Chan and Barbara Jean Wong during Chinese New Year celebration in Los Angeles.
Group of Chinese-American percussionists play during the Chinese New Year celebration while surrounded by a crowd, Los Angeles.
Chinese lion being readied for the New Year celebration in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Happy Lunar New Year — today marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse! 🐴🎊 Wishing you good luck and prosperity this year 🧧🥠
📸 Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections
Picture of the Capitol Building "The Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences" “Measuring and Promoting Effective Lawmaking in Congress and the States.
Picture of the White House. “Measuring and Promoting Effective Lawmaking in Congress and the States.” on Tuesday, March 3rd at 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Charles E. Young Research Library and Zoom. Presenter is Craig Volden, Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the University of Virginia.
🏛️ What makes lawmakers effective? Join Craig Volden, UVA Center for Effective Lawmaking, on tackling policy challenges.
📅 Tuesday, March 3, 1 - 2:30pm
📍 Charles E. Young Research Library + Zoom
RSVP at go.library.ucla.edu/marschak
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
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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
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Wed @ 4pm: @uclalibrary.bsky.social's Special Collections is hosting a Curatorial Open House. Themes on display will include 1️⃣ Multiracial civil rights coalitions and 2️⃣ Black LGBT community organizations. More info -> www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events... #Archives #Archivists
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Open Position. Assistant Director, Library Special Collections. Salary range: $75,958 - $147,852. The UCLA Library seeks a highly collaborative, inclusive and knowledgeable leader to serve as Assistant Director of Library Special Collections (LSC). The Assistant Director reports to and serves as a key thought partner to the Director of Library Special Collections/AUL for Distinctive Collections. They work with the Library’s senior management team to implement Library-wide goals and priorities; cultivate leadership and management skills in support of organizational advancement; and contribute to the development of a Library culture that embraces responsible and ethical stewardship and centers equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of their work, ensuring a holistic approach to sustainable collection stewardship and access. Applications due February 25.
UCLA Library seeks a highly collaborative, inclusive and knowledgeable leader to serve as Assistant Director of Library Special Collections (LSC).
Apply by February 26: ucla.in/3ZK8fV2
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
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...
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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...
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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 b/w photo of Al Malaikah Temple (1930), now known as the Shrine Auditorium, courtesy of the California State Library. https://csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990013856530205115&context=L&vid=01CSL_INST:CSL
This b/w photo the Shrine Auditorium’s opening night on January 23, 1926 shows a crowd of people lined up outside the new theatre, courtesy of UCLA Library’s Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection. https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz002cmm92
A screen capture of a page from the Los Angeles Times devoted to the opening of the Shrine Auditorium on January 23, 1926. Headlines include "Al Malaikah Temple Architectural Triumph," "Shrine Temple Ready for Inspection by Thousands,” “Auditorium to Fill City Need,” and "Hundred Miles of Wire Used."
Jan 23, 1926: The Shrine Auditorium was dedicated 100 years ago.
“The public dedication…will be one of the most colorful spectacles in the city’s history,” Los Angeles Times (Jan 20, 1926). Photos via @uclalibrary.bsky.social and @castatelibrary.bsky.social:
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
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
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
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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
Thank you to @laist.com's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez for spotlighting an interview with the groundbreaking mariachi musician Rebecca Gonzales (1953 - 2024) from the UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research project “Mariachi Music in Los Angeles and beyond.” Explore the full collection: ucla.in/4qDdp0z
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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
New restorations from the Archive now streaming on the Criterion Channel (criterionchannel.com)
🎬 “The Annihilation of Fish” (dir. Charles Burnett, 1999)
🎬 “Compensation” (dir. Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999)
🎬 “Pink Narcissus” (dir. James Bidgood, 1971)
🎬 “The Sealed Soil” (dir. Marva Nabili, 1977)
Here’s Joan Blondell bringing Hollywood glitz and style to the holiday season ✨
Watch newly digitized home movies from 1936 featuring star couple Joan Blondell and Dick Powell — who made 10 films together at Warner Bros. — now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@UCLAFTVArchive/videos
