9.11.09 - 10.31.09
UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum present
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!

 

Sunday September 20 2009, 11:00AM* ( Free Admission )

THE WIZ
(1978) Directed by Sidney Lumet

Director Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz transplants L. Frank Baum’s fantastical world from somewhere over the rainbow to somewhere over the Brooklyn Bridge in this dazzlingly inventive, toe-tapping adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Diana Ross heads up an all African-American cast as Dorothy, who’s whisked from Harlem to a wildly re-imagined New York City where she and Toto are befriended by the Scarecrow (Michael Jackson), Tin Man (Nipsey Russell) and Lion (Ted Ross) as they "ease on down the road" to see The Wiz (Richard Pryor).

Note: appropriate for ages 7+.

Producer: Rob Cohen. Screenplay: Joel Schumacher. Cinematographer: Oswald Morris. Editor: Dede Allen. Cast: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King. 35mm, 134 min.

* Please note the early start time.

 

Sunday October 18 2009, 11:00AM* ( Free Admission )

BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
(1971) Directed by Robert Stevenson

Before there was Harry Potter there was Eglantine Price, the unlikely heroine of Walt Disney’s war time musical tale of witchcraft and wizardry, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. As the London Blitz wears on, a determined Eglantine busies herself in her country home studying to become an apprentice witch in order to help the war effort. Her studies are interrupted, however, when she is compelled to take in three mischievous orphans. Together they end up on wild adventure buoyed by the top notch effects artistry and animation of same team behind Mary Poppins. The show features the restored version of Bedknobs and Broomsticks with two musical numbers cut from the original release and an extended take of the "Portobello Road" sequence.

Note: appropriate for ages 6+.

Based on the book by Mary Norton. Producer: Bill Walsh. Cinematographer: Frank Phillips. Editor: Cotton Warburton. Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe. 35mm, 139 min.

* Please note the early start time.