“Film can have the lifespan of paper as an archival medium, lasting hundreds of years ... the long-term preservation benefit of film is still unmatched.” Our Director, May Hong HaDuong, and our friends in the field talk to IndieWire Jim Hemphill:
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No secret that we love UCLA FTVA and perfect presenter Todd W. #orphans2024

Senior Motion Picture Curator Todd presented at Orphan Film Symposium about John Canaly (1956–92), an independent maker of LGBTQ films and a leader in queer film & TV programming. His work is in the One Institute Collection at UCLA, available for research ucla.in/3QPUiRH

TIME OF THE HEATHEN (1961) encore this Friday! Peter Kass’ lost 60’s Atomic bomb drama has been rediscovered + beautifully restored in 4K by UCLA Film & Television Archive & Lightbox Film Center 📽️✨

See it back at LF3 on May 17th at 10 pm. Final showing!
americancinematheque.com/now-showing/ti… Arbelos

“Double Indemnity” (1944) on 35mm, book signing & talk! Authors Alain Silver and James Ursini dive into the intersecting histories — criminal, literary, cinematic — behind director Billy Wilder’s influential film noir. Sun 5/19, 7 p.m. Free: ucla.in/3wDdNG5

Small Screen/Big Screen at UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, Saturday 5/18 : GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. and SEE IT NOW cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/05…

This Sat 5/18 we present “Small Screen/Big Screen,” pairing George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” (2005) on 35mm 🎞️ + “See It Now” (CBS, 1954), reporter Edward R. Murrow’s historic televised takedown of Senator McCarthy. Free! ucla.in/4bykIiE

Happy Mother’s Day! 🌷

“Sophia Loren with her mother Romilda Villani at her home in Rome, Italy, after the news of her Academy Award Best Actress win for her role in the film ‘La Ciociara’ (‘Two Women’).” April 12, 1962. Source: bit.ly/3UUa0xy

Roger Corman, who for decades dominated the world of B movies as the producer or director of countless proudly low-budget horror, science fiction and crime films, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 98. nyti.ms/4dz8IiP

Goodnight to the legendary and beloved producer, director, distributor, mentor, and independent-film trailblazer Roger Corman. A passionate and indefatigable lover of cinema for more than half a century, Corman's influence and support of artists changed the course film history,

Sat & Sun: “African Futurism: The World of Jean-Pierre Bekolo.” An intoxicating swirl of magic and technology, folklore and genre, sensuality and politics energizes the work of the Cameroonian filmmaker. Q&As w/ Jean-Pierre Bekolo & TFT at UCLA’s Shelleen Greene: ucla.in/3wsFh13

EN CALIFORNIE !
Pour les présentations de ce ce weekend 11 et 12 mai au Billy Wilder Theater de l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles - UCLA. cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/af…

The Archive and Hammer Museum present a free, family-friendly, 35mm matinee of Howard Hawks’ “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) 🐆🐾 Sunday 5/12, 11 a.m. ucla.in/44ElFE3

In 1977, UCLA student Lilian Wu made “In Transit: The Chinese in California,” an animated & live-action film narrated by founding members of the East West Players. Digitally restored by Archive intern & UCLA Ed & IS graduate Lily Lubin, the film is now online ucla.in/4adconx

This year’s UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema (June 14–30) highlights new films + the restoration premiere of Marva Nabili’s “The Sealed Soil” (1977), the first feature directed by an Iranian woman. Series funded by Farhang Foundation. RSVPs are going fast! ucla.in/4akhzlK

Newly restored by UCLA and Lightbox Film Center from the original 35mm negatives, and playing in theaters thanks to Arbelos! x.com/nytimesarts/st…

Barbara O. Jones, an actress whose captivating work in films such as “Bush Mama” and “Daughters of the Dust” helped define the cerebral, experimental and highly influential Black cinema movement of the 1970s, has died at 82. nyti.ms/4a8PLAx

This year’s Last Remaining Seats lineup includes a 35mm print of “Mi Vida Loca” (1994) from the Allison Anders Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive 🎞️ x.com/laconservancy/…

Announcing the 2024 UCLA CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA by UCLA Film & Television Archive, exclusively supported by Farhang Foundation. Read our full press release & the listing of this year's selected films now at bit.ly/44xWxi4 Free ticket registration open via Farhang.org/ucla24