On the first day of “The Reel Thing XXVII” in August at the Academy Film Library, participants were treated to a sneak preview of a “work-in-progress,” a 2K digital restoration of The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao, 1921).
Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History
September 16, 2011 - 8:50 am
September 2, 2011 - 11:17 am
I intuitively knew as soon as I saw this still from Haile Gerima’s Ashes & Embers (1982) that it had to be our signature image for the Archive’s fall program at the Billy Wilder Theater, “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema.” It wasn’t that we didn’t have countless other beautiful still images, gathered from the work of the more than 50 L.A.
August 18, 2011 - 9:51 am
Since its founding in 1994, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has become the most important event of its kind in the United States. This was my first time, and I was certainly impressed with the incredibly enthusiastic audiences, audiences we can only dream of in Los Angeles.
August 5, 2011 - 11:04 am
Screen is one of the most venerated journals of Anglo-American film studies. Founded in 1959 as Screen Education by the British Film Institute, it was renamed Screen in January 1969. With the name change came a theoretical turn away from adult education to film theory.
July 22, 2011 - 3:00 pm
As I mentioned in a previous blog, UCLA Film & Television Archive has over the past two years been collecting, archiving, and preserving the work of the L.A. Rebellion. That group of African American film students at UCLA in the 1970s and early 1980s is the subject and object of our exhibition: “L.A.
