Spotlight Archive

UCLA Film & Television Archive, REDCAT, Los Angeles Filmforum, Echo Park Film Center, Pomona College Museum of Art and Museum of the Moving Image (NY) present

Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema

Sunday, April 17 and Friday, April 22

Jalainur (2008), our second program in this citywide series, explores a friendship on the last steam engines in remote inner Mongolia.

UCLA Film & Television Archive, UCLA Latin American Institute and UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese present

Patricio Guzmán: The Watchful Eye

April 15 - May 11, 2011

The multifaceted filmmaker shows us his less political side with two whimsical and exploratory works: Madrid (2002) is a loving portrait of one of the world's truly great cities; Robinson Crusoe Island (1999) is a meditation on the legend of Crusoe against the actual island off the coast of Chile.

UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest present

The Legacy Project Screening Series

Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8

Love Liberace? Love your mom? Then come to our unique double-feature: The Liberace Show: “Tribute to Mothers” (Syndicated, 1955)—devoted to Liberace's “favorite person,” Mom—paired with The Case of Mr. Lin (1955).

Pioneering efforts to rescue and preserve

Dedicated to ensuring that film history is explored and enjoyed

All of the preservation and restoration work done at UCLA is the result of hours of painstaking hard work in collaboration with commercial film laboratories specializing in preservation. Computers and digital means are increasingly used to improve image and sound quality in the preservation process.

Documenting the 20th Century and beyond

One of the world's largest moving image repositories

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is, after the Library of Congress, the largest collection of media materials in the United States, with more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage.

UCLA Festival of Preservation

March 3-27, 2011

The 2011 Festival is as eclectic as ever, including Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden), westerns, a Bette Davis double-feature, the noir Cry Danger (1951, Robert Parrish), television, silents, Baby Peggy, Vitaphone shorts, Laurel and Hardy rarities and more. Tickets and a limited number of Festival Passes are now on sale!