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14th FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION—North American Tour

HEROIC GRACE: THE CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS FILM, PART II

DIRECTED BY DOROTHY ARZNER FILM TOUR (2003-2004)

HEROIC GRACE: THE CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS FILM TOUR (2003-2004)

14th FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION—North American Tour

"The city's most surprising, most stimulating, most invigorating film event is not the Oscars, …but the UCLA Film & Television Archive's irreplaceable Festival of Preservation." —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

The Archive's renowned "Festival of Preservation" spotlights recently completed UCLA Film & Television Archive preservation projects. The Festival spans an entire century of moving image media, showcasing classic Hollywood feature films, television programs, newsreels, silent comedies, documentaries and contemporary independents.

For the first time ever, highlights from the month-long Festival will screen for audiences outside of Los Angeles in select North American venues.

The following films create the eclectic repertoire for this inaugural tour:

- John Cassavetes' masterpiece, A Woman Under the Influence (1974), starring Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk

- Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door (1948), beautifully photographed by Stanley Cortez

- The Prowler (1951, by Joseph Losey), starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes

- Josef von Sternberg's first film, The Salvation Hunters (1925), shot on location in the mud flats of the San Pedro harbor district

- two films from director Frank Borzage: Young America (1932) and Song O' My Heart (1930)

- "Vitaphone Varieties (1927-31)," early examples of sound cinema that preserve rare performances from the height of the Jazz Age

- Edward S. Curtis' In The Land of the Head Hunters (1914), a fictional documentary shot on location with indigenous North Americans

- Point of Order! (1963), Emile de Antonio's powerful indictment of McCarthyism

- Gamperaliya (1964), the first independent film from Sri Lanka

- Ruthless (1948), Edgar G. Ulmer's dark tale of a sociopath's quest for power

- a double-feature of indie icon John Sayles' early work, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) and The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

- the landmark LGBT film, Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977, Mariposa Film Group)

- two short features, the lyrical Oil: A Symphony in Motion (1933, Artkino) and Sunday (1961, Dan Drasin), which documents a police crackdown on NYC folk singers.

The current "Festival of Preservation" tour line-up is:

Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
August 7 – 30, 2009
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/ucla_preservation

Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL
September 4 – 28, 2009
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
October 1 – 28, 2009
http://www.wexarts.org/fv/index.php?seriesid=227

Northwest Film Center
Portland, OR
November 20 – December 2, 2009
http://www.nwfilm.org/nowshowing/

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
December 5 – 27, 2009
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/recoveredtreasure.shtm

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
February 2010
http://www.mfah.org/home.asp

Pacific Cinémathèque
Vancouver, BC
March 2010
http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/

Cornell Cinema
Ithaca, NY
Summer 2010
http://cinema.cornell.edu/

HEROIC GRACE II FILM TOUR (Film Notes)

Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film, Part II touring program has been curated and organized by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

The Heroic Grace II tour will run throughout 2006 at venues in the United States and Canada, and will continue at select venues in Europe during the first six months of 2007.

The program consists of the following 10 classic Shaw Brothers titles:

THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Xin Dubi Daowang)
d. Zhang Che / 1971 / 35mm / 94 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles

THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG (Ma Yongzhen)
d. Zhang Che and Bao Xueli / 1972 / 35mm / 126 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles / Newly restored by Celestial Pictures

KING BOXER (Tianxia Diyi Quan)
d. Chung Chang-wha / 1972 / 35mm / 97 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles / Newly restored by Celestial Pictures

THE MAGIC BLADE (Tianya Mingyue Dao)
d. Chu Yuan / 1976 / 35mm / 101 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles

THE JADE TIGER (Bai Yu Laohu)
d. Chu Yuan / 1977 / 35mm / 101 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles

CLANS OF INTRIGUE (Chu Liuxiang)
d. Chu Yuan / 1977 / 35mm / 99 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles

THE FIVE VENOMS (Wu Du)
d. Zhang Che / 1978 / 35mm / 97 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles / Newly restored by Celestial Pictures

DIRTY HO (Lan Tou Hou)
d. Lau Kar-leung / 1979 / 35mm / 100 min. / Cantonese with English subtitles

MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Zhangbei)
d. Lau Kar-leung / 1980 / 35mm / 114 min. / Mandarin with English subtitles/ Newly restored by Celestial Pictures

LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF CHINA (Shiba Ban Wuyi)
d. Lau Kar-leung / 1982 / 35mm / 101 min. / Cantonese with English subtitles

For further information please email Jesse Zigelstein at jzigel@ucla.edu

Tour Venues

Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL
February 4-March 1

Vancouver International Film Centre
Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 17-27

Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
March 24-25

Northwest Film Center
Portland, OR
March 31-April 23

Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu, HI
April 6-16

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Austin, TX
April 6-May 11

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
May 6-18

Seattle Interntional Film Festival
Seattle, WA
June 3

Cinematheque Ontario
Toronto, Canada
June 1-13

Fantasia Film Festival
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 6-24

American Film Institute
Silver Spring, MD
July 7-August 21

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
July 12-20

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
July 22-August 12

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
August 3-24

Moving Image Arts
Santa Fe, NM
September 14-November 16

Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Pittsburgh, PA
September 21-October 12

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
September 22-October 19

Brattle Theatre
Boston, MA
October 24

BAMcinematek
Brooklyn, NY
November 6-December 6

Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland, OH
November 5-19

University of Wisconsin Cinematheque
Madison, WI
November 4-December 16

Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Turin, Italy
March 19-23, 2007

Cineteca del Comune di Bologna
Bologna, Italy
March 24-30, 2007

National Film Theatre
London, United Kingdom
April 5-28, 2007

Swedish Film Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
April 16-May 13, 2007

Danish Film Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark
May 5-31, 2007

DIRECTED BY DOROTHY ARZNER FILM TOUR

The Directed by Dorothy Arzner touring program has been selected and organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. With the cooperation of Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios, the Archive has preserved the six extant features that Arzner originally made at Paramount from nitrate projection prints or acetate positives. None of the original negatives has survived. Preservation of the films was made possible with generous support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Myra Reinhard Family Foundation, and Jodie Foster.

The Dorothy Arzner tour runs from May 2003 to the end of January 2004 at more than 10 venues across the US and in England. The program consists of the following 6 titles directed by Dorothy Arzner:

The Wild Party (1929)
Sarah and Son (1930)
Anybody's Woman (1930)
Honor Among Lovers (1931)
Working Girls (1931)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Tour Venues

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
May 31-June 14, 2003
Houston, Texas
www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=films&par1=1

National Gallery of Art
June 15-29, 2003
Washington, DC
www.nga.gov/programs/flmarzner.htm

The Museum of Modern Art
August 1-17, 2003
New York, New York
http://moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/arzner_2003.html

Cornell Cinema
August 29-September 29
Ithaca, New York
www-cinema.slife.cornell.edu/series/dorothyarzner.html

University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque
September 12-October 4
Madison, Wisconsin
http://cinema.wisc.edu

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
October 3-11, 2003
Boston, Massachusetts
www.mfa.org/film

Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
October 21, 2003
Seattle, Washington
www.seattlequeerfilm.com

Wexner Center for the Arts
December 4-18, 2003
Columbus, Ohio
www.wexarts.org/fv/index.php?area=fv

National Film Theatre
January 14-27, 2004
London, England
www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/index.html

Gene Siskel Film Center - The Art Institute of Chicago
February 7-March 3, 2004
Chicago, Illinois
www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/index.html

HEROIC GRACE: THE CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS FILM TOUR (Film Notes)

Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film touring program has been selected and organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and has been made possible with Presenting Sponsorship from:

Additional sponsorship has been provided by Cathay Pacific Airways.

The Heroic Grace tour runs from April 2003 to the end of February 2004 at more than 20 venues throughout the US and Canada. The program consists of the following 8 classic Shaw Brothers titles:

Come Drink with Me (1966; directed by King Hu)
One-Armed Swordsman (1967; directed by Zhang Che)
Golden Swallow (1968; directed by Zhang Che)
Vengeance! (1970; directed by Zhang Che)
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972; directed by Chu Yuan)
Blood Brothers (1973; directed by Zhang Che)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978; directed by Lau Kar-leung)
Return to the 36th Chamber (1980; directed by Lau Kar-leung)

Tour Venues

Following are confirmed venues for the Heroic Grace tour. Please check this page for periodic updates as new tour venues are added.

Santa Fe Moving Image Arts
March 22-April 16, 2003
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.thescreen.csf.edu/heroicgrace.html

Philadelphia Film Festival
April 8-14, 2003
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
www.phillyfests.com/pff/templates/program_details.cfm?c=77

Asian Media Access
April 16-25, 2003
Minneapolis, Minnesota
www.amamedia.org/movies/showcase/03showcase/

Washington, DC International Film Festival
April 26, 2003
www.filmfestdc.org/series/filmsummary.asp?docID=1468

Pacific Film Archive
May 2-17, 2003
Berkeley, California
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/

Seattle International Film Festival
May 22-June 15, 2003
Seattle, Washington
www.seattlefilm.com/siff/

Cinematheque Ontario
June 6-18, 2003
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/home.asp

The Film Society of Lincoln Center
June 27-July 9, 2003
New York, New York
www.filmlinc.com/wrt/wrt.htm

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
July 11-August 9, 2003
Houston, Texas
www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=films&par1=1

Northwest Film Center
July 18-August 9, 2003
Portland, Oregon
www.nwfilm.org

FanTasia
July 18-August 3, 2003
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
www.fantasiafest.com/2003/en/index.php?lang=en

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
August 8-30, 2003
Boston, Massachusetts
www.mfa.org/film

Austin Film Society
September 2-October 21, 2003
Austin, Texas
www.austinfilm.org

University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque
September 6-27, 2003
Madison, Wisconsin
http://cinema.wisc.edu

Gene Siskel Film Center - The Art Institute of Chicago
October 3-30, 2003
Chicago, Illinois
www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/index.html

Cleveland Cinematheque
October 4-26, 2003
Cleveland, Ohio
www.cia.edu/campuslife/cinematheque/default.asp

Hawaii International Film Festival
November 1-8, 2003
Honolulu, Hawaii
www.hiff.org

Wexner Center for the Arts
November 7-21, 2003
Columbus, Ohio
www.wexarts.org/fv/index.php?area=fv

George Eastman House
January 2-27, 2004
Rochester, New York
www.eastman.org/calendar/calendar.htm

Cornell Cinema
January 28-February 13, 2004
Ithaca, New York
www-cinema.slife.cornell.edu/series/heroicgrace.html

High Museum of Art
February 7, 2004
Atlanta, Georgia
www.high.org/whats_happening/films/now_playing/current_films.html

National Film Theatre
February 16-29, 2004
London, England
www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/martialarts/

Click here to view the Heroic Grace program catalogue in PDF format.