UCLA’s Festival of Preservation: Fredric March, Edgar G. Ulmer
Next at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood:
On Wed., April 15, at 7:30 pm: Efraín Gutiérrez’s Run, Tecato, Run (1979), described as a real-life inspired tale that "depicts a junkie’s efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter." Actor-director Gutiérrez is expected to attend the screening.
On Fri., April 17, at 7:30 pm: Lester James Peries‘ Gamperaliya (1964), a "seminal" work in Sri Lankan cinema that has been compared to Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. Gamperaliya tells the story of "a teacher and member of the new rising middle class, who falls in love with the daughter of his village’s leading aristocratic clan. Defensive positions are assumed and the girl’s parents [...]
by Andre Soares | April 14, 2009
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Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Cecil B. DeMille, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Diana Lynn, Edgar G. Ulmer, Efrain Gutierrez, Festival of Preservation, Festival of Preservation 2009, Film Preservation, Fredric March, Gamperaliya, Gay Interest, Lester James Peries, Los Angeles Screenings, Louis Hayward, ONE Archives, Run Tecato Run, Ruthless, The Buccaneer, UCLA, Zachary Scott
Cheryl Dunye’s THE WATERMELON WOMAN at the REDCAT
Actress-filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of Dunye’s 1996 feature The Watermelon Woman on Monday, May 11, at 8:30 pm. The film will be screened in Beta SP. A fundraiser for the restoration of The Watermelon Woman will be held earlier that day (6:00-7:30 pm) at the Phyllis Stein Art, also in downtown LA. (More information below.)
Called both a “saucy, daring, insidiously smart debut” (The Boston Phoenix) and "flotsam floating down a sewer" (Christian right-winger Jesse Helms) The Watermelon Woman is, according to the REDCAT press release, "the first-ever theatrical feature directed by an African American [actually born in Liberia] lesbian." The film [...]
by Andre Soares | April 13, 2009
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Tags: Cheryl Dunye, Dorothy Arzner, Film Preservation, Gay Interest, Guinevere Turner, Lesbian Interest, Los Angeles Screenings, Outfest, Outfest Legacy Project, REDCAT, The Watermelon Woman
Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor
Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang’s unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money).
Unlike Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor’s similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret Beyond the Door boasts a highly stylized Gothic feel that makes the viewer feel just as off-kilter as both the heroine and the hero. Stanley Cortez, who also shot Orson Welles‘ The Magnificent Ambersons, was the cinematographer.
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 5, at 7pm, the Festival of Preservation will feature two rarities from the 1910s: Lena Rivers, a [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Tags: Amos 'n Andy, Bigamy, Check and Double Check, Classic Movies, Fay Wray, Festival of Preservation, Film Festivals, Film Noir, Film Preservation, Fritz Lang, He Fell in Love with His Wife, Helen Kane, Irene Rich, Joan Bennett, Lena Rivers, Los Angeles Screenings, Michael Redgrave, Musicals, Phillips Holmes, Pointed Heels, Production Code, Secret Beyond the Door, Silent Films, Stanley Cortez, William Desmond Taylor, William Powell
National Film Registry 2008
This year, the Library of Congress has selected another 25 American films to be included in their National Film Registry, which under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act is supposed to preserve "for all time" short and feature films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant. (See full list.)
Among the selected films are Howard Hawks‘ flag-waving 1941 war drama Sergeant York (right), which earned Gary Cooper his first best actor Oscar; John Boorman’s Oscar-nominated 1972 drama Deliverance; John Huston’s 1950 film noir The Asphalt Jungle, starring Sterling Hayden and featuring a pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe; and Nicholas Ray’s campy 1954 Western Johnny Guitar, which stars Hayden in the title role, plus Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge as a [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2008
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Tags: Classic Movies, Film Preservation, Flower Drum Song, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks, Library of Congress, National Film Registry, Sergeant York, Sessue Hayakawa
