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A unit of UCLA Library. Dedicated to preserving moving image history. The second-largest archive of original film and television materials in the U.S. FREE screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum 📽 cinema.ucla.edu
🎬 Reality Frictions (2024)
Fri 12/12, 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum

L.A. premiere! In his essay film, filmmaker and UCLA Prof. Steve F. Anderson explores the “intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood.” Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker.

Free! ucla.in/48oL5sN
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sunday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m.
35mm double feature! 🎞

“Putney Swope” (dir. Robert Downey Sr., 1969)
“Hi, Mom!” (dir. Brian De Palma, 1970)

Free: ucla.in/48sK1CN
(Clip from “Putney Swope”)
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Family Flicks: “The Wiz” (1978) ✨
Sun 12/7, 11 a.m.

Director Sidney Lumet’s dazzling adaptation of the hit Broadway musical transplants L. Frank Baum’s fantastical world from somewhere over the rainbow to somewhere over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Co-presented by @hammer.ucla.edu
Free! ucla.in/3XvdZRO
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Our Father, the Devil (2021)
Sat 12/6, 7:30 p.m.

Babetida Sadjo is riveting as a Guinean refugee and chef in France whose life is upended by the arrival of a priest tied to a harrowing past. Dir. Ellie Foumbi crafts a taut revenge thriller and a profound meditation on healing.

Free ucla.in/3Y1cdYE
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Announcing our free events for winter 2026! Screening January through March: Chinese-language films rescued by the Archive from the shuttered Sing Lee Theatre in L.A.’s Chinatown, anti-fascist Hollywood classics preserved by the Archive, Rod Serling and Gene Hackman TV + more: cinema.ucla.edu/events
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🇺🇦 “Eyes on Ukraine” (2025)
Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for the official premiere of this powerful doc that explores the intersection of two crises — war and HIV. It looks to the resilience of a new generation, navigating survival and community through art and activism.

Free: ucla.in/4hMXfi9
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The cat is out of the bag! Cinema's First Nasty Women will return to @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social in Jan 2026, where we first launched this whole shebang!! BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY will screen with 3 short films by @karenpearlman.bsky.social! 🎊

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November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Thank you to @latimes.com Staff Writer Mark Olsen for highlighting our film series “Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud,” opening tonight with “La Chinoise” (1967) and a book signing with cartoonist Gelgud!
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Revolutionary cinema comes to UCLA, plus the best movies to see this week
Also this week: Director Michael Schultz with 'Krush Groove' and 'The Last Dragon,' Gia Coppola with 'Hearts of Darkness' and the Thanksgiving comedy 'Home for the Holidays.'
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sun 11/23: “Born in Flames” (1983) + “Stranger Inside” (2001)

Lizzie Borden’s “Born in Flames” is a radical vision of feminist revolt set in a dystopian NY. Followed by Cheryl Dunye’s “Stranger Inside,” a women’s prison drama centering a young Black lesbian.

Borden in person!
Free: ucla.in/3LUEYU1
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
📺 “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles”
Sat 11/22, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for a specially curated best of “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles” (1964–9) featuring Angels Flight, Clifton’s Cafeteria, Sunset Blvd., the long-lost landmarks Hollywood Ranch Market and Beverly Park, and other iconic places. Free! ucla.in/4921qo0
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
🎥 I May Destroy You (2020)
Sun 11/16, 7 p.m.

Michaela Coel’s series is a bold exploration of trauma, consent and survival. UCLA Prof. Kathleen McHugh’s research explores the topic of women and anger through the series; she will give a brief talk followed by a screening of 3 episodes ucla.in/3JLcwU8
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🎬 An Evening of Films by Pratibha Parmar
Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m.

“A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.

“My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.

Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“The Scent of Green Papaya” (1993)—35mm!
Sat 11/15, 7:30 p.m.

Trần Anh Hùng’s film is a luminous portrait of the sensuous world as experienced by a servant girl in ’50s Saigon. Preparing and sharing meals becomes central to her attunement with the rhythms of nature and family life: ucla.in/3LCLYVn
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud 📽 Nov 21–Dec 20

Cartoonist Nathan Gelgud’s book, “Reel Politik,” published by @dandq.bsky.social, is a loving satire of all things arthouse with a Marxist-Leninist twist. Join us for a film series inspired by his work: ucla.in/4nBh50T
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Sun 11/9, 7 p.m.
“The Juniper Tree” (Iceland, 1990)—35mm!

While still a film student at UCLA, writer-director Nietzchka Keene made this stunning folk horror story, featuring Björk as one of a pair of sisters who are cast to the rocky wilds when their mother is accused of witchcraft: ucla.in/43RMepM
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sat 11/8, 7:30 p.m.
“The Man Without a World” (1991)
L.A. restoration premiere with live music! 🎻 🎹

In this modern silent, dir. Eleanor Antin suffuses Jewish shtetl life in ’20s Poland with mysticism, politics and homespun wisdom swirling in a pot of love, jealousy and murder

Free ucla.in/3WWrIRn
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Happy Halloween! 🐈‍⬛ 🎃

📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961”

Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Friday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.
📽 “Notfilm” (2015)

Filmmaker Ross Lipman’s deep dive into the production of literary giant Samuel Beckett’s only movie, “Film” (1965), explores how the influences of a cavalcade of artists coalesced — or not — into one of the most enigmatic cinematic works: ucla.in/43IAXrQ
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
A vital part of archiving history is creating descriptive metadata so that it remains discoverable. On our blog, UCLA student Marley Saldivar-Lozano discusses “Reflecciones” (1972–4) and her work with the Archive to create accurate, ethical metadata for the series, which is online 📺 ucla.in/3JuET8G
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“Ross Lipman and The Archival Impermanence Project”
Nov. 7–9

Preservationist, filmmaker and author Ross Lipman has worked to expand the film canon while ensuring independent masterworks remain available for future generations. He joins us for book signings, free screenings and Q&As: ucla.in/47sU0Yg
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📽 Friday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.
“Sudden Fear” (1952)

A riveting Joan Crawford anchors this masterful blend of romance, suspense and noir. Crawford transforms from smitten newlywed to cunning survivor when she discovers her husband’s (Jack Palance) devious plot.

Free! ucla.in/42YRJmp
October 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sun 11/2: “Wanda” (1970) — 35mm! 🎞

Book signing + Q&A with Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social, author of “BFI Film Classics: Wanda”

Made by and starring Barbara Loden, this influential independent film is a portrait of an apathetic woman on a journey through a rural landscape: ucla.in/4gMkkAY
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sat. Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.
“Brother to Brother” (2004) — 35mm! 🎞️

Writer-director Rodney Evans’ film is an unflinching portrayal of Black queer characters. Anthony Mackie plays an art student whose friendship with a Harlem Renaissance artist and poet inspires confidence and pride.

Free: ucla.in/42W7n1L
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Looking forward to this special screening of Barbara Loden’s WANDA on the 55th anniversary of the films release, and discussing the film with the incredible Maya Montanez Smukler Sunday November 2nd @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social
Book signing at 6pm!
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October 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A Place of Rage: Women and Anger on Screen
10/26–12/6

Inspired by the work of Prof. Kathleen McHugh, the series examines anger as a site of clarity, resistance & transformation and considers how genres once hostile to female subjectivity have become platforms for feminist disruption ucla.in/4pJB9k8
October 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM