Category Archives: Los Angeles Screenings / Film Events
Federico Fellini’s 8½ Screening
In conjunction with its exhibition “Fellini’s Book of Dreams” — which is definitely worth a visit — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a special screening of Federico Fellini’s Academy Award-winning 1963 extravaganza 8½ on Friday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will be hosted by Robert Rosen, dean of the UCLA [...]
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation V: RUTHLESS, Vitaphone Varieties
Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film & Television Archives press release. Saturday, April 18 7:30 p.m. Preservation funded by The Film Foundation RUTHLESS (top photo) (1948, Edgar G. Ulmer) Director Edward G. Ulmer’s complex psycho-melodrama Ruthless (1948) is undoubtedly worthy of rediscovery. A flashback-structured tale of a sociopath’s remorseless drive for station and wealth, Ruthless (often referred to as Ulmer’s Citizen Kane) employs a [...]
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation I: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film & Television Archives press release: Photos: Courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archives Click on the photos to enlarge them. Friday, March 13 7:30 p.m Preservation funded by The Film Foundation and GUCCI A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974, John Cassavetes) Over 30 years after its self-distributed release, screenwriter-director John Cassavetes’ masterpiece retains the power to shock and [...]
UCLA Festival of Preservation 2009
The UCLA Film & Television Archives‘ 2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation, which kicks off this evening and continues until April 26, leaves me at a loss. The problem is: I don’t know what not to recommend. (See full schedule below.) Now, it’s not that I think every single one of the listed films are waiting-to-be-rediscovered masterpieces — or even that they’re mostly enjoyable fare. What [...]