Spotlight Archive

Smooth Operator: The Opulent Eroticism of Radley Metzger

The Image (1975)

June 2 - June 17, 2011

Closes Friday! Our tribute to the master of art house erotica concludes this week with the newly restored, uncensored Score (1972) and the digitally restored The Image (1975), both of which challenge mainstream norms.

In-person: actress Lynn Lowry on Friday, 6/17.

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The Legacy Project at Outfest

"We Who Are Sexy: The Whirlwind History of Transgender Images in Cinema”

Saturday, July 16 @ 4:30 p.m.

This year's Outfest has included Legacy Project titles, and there's more to come: "We Who Are Sexy: The Whirlwind History of Transgender Images in Cinema" plays on Saturday.

Tickets: www.outfest.org

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UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum present

Family Flicks

The Red Pony (1949)

Sunday, July 10 at 11:00 a.m.

Boasting a screenplay adapted by John Steinbeck from his own novel, the restored The Red Pony (1949) is director Lewis Milestone's Technicolor adaptation of the classic coming-of-age tale.

Free Admission!

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Archive Documentary Spotlight

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

Sunday, July 10 at 7:00 p.m.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of ELF—a group that used economic sabotage to stop the destruction of the environment—by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members. "A wildly successful and engaging documentary." -NY Press

Free Admission!

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UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Los Angeles and the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington, D.C., in association with Helix Films, present

Kazakhstan: Montage of Cinemas

The Gift to Stalin (2008)

June 10 - June 26, 2011

An elderly rail worker saves a Jewish boy en route to a relocation camp in The Gift to Stalin (2008). "An engagingly slow-moving, highly detailed narrative....It's a movie a guy like Terrence Malick would appreciate." —Slant magazine

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UCLA Film & Television Archive and Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present

Looking for Richard Brooks: An Appreciation

The Professionals (1966)

April 1 - May 25, 2011

Wednesday's closing film for this series, The Professionals (1966), is an all-star Western about four soldiers of fortune (played by Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode) enmeshed in the Mexican Revolution.

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"Out of the Archive: Recent Work from MIAS"

"Out of the Archive: Recent Work from MIAS"

Saturday, June 4, 2011

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's "Festival of New Creative Work" will highlight achievements by current students and recent graduates of the Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) program.

Reserve your seats online for this free event at UCLA's James Bridges Theater!

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UCLA Film & Television Archive, New York University and Los Angeles Filmforum present

"Celebrating Orphan Films"

Assorted images from "Celebrating Orphan Films"

May 13-14, 2011

Over 40 films and 25 experts for $10! Purchase your "Celebrating Orphan Films" Pass online before Friday to receive a personalized Pass. Home movies, newsreels, experimental films, vintage broadcasts, other formerly "orphaned works," and much more.

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UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum present

Family Flicks

Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986)

Sunday, June 12 @ 11:00 a.m.

In Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986), extra-terrestrial sisters Robyn and Tavy—accompanied by a super-intelligent fuzzball named Kirbi—jump ship in Wyoming hoping to find evidence that Earthlings aren’t as bad as the rest of the solar system believes.

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UCLA Film & Television Archive and UCLA Center for Argentina, Chile and the Southern Cone present

Traces and Memory of Jorge Prelorán

Traces and Memory of Jorge Prelorán (2010)

April 8, 2011

A tribute to UCLA alumnus Prelorán, whose massive body of work—60 ethno-biographic films over many decades—documented Argentina like no other. Free Admission!

In person: Maria Elena de las Carreras, Howard Suber, Michael Miner and Mabel Prelorán.

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