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
Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film at UCLA
"What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories." That’s filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, referring to Persepolis, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
(Top photo: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron. Right photo: Of Love and Eggs by Garin Nugroho.)
Whether or not following on Satrapi’s lead, this weekend the UCLA Film & Television Archive is launching the film series "Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film," which runs Friday, May 9 — Monday, June 9. "Visualizing the Sacred" will show a side of Islam and Muslims apart from terrorist attacks, Mohammed cartoons, or hysterical short films created by far-right Dutch politicians.
"The films in this [...]
by Andre Soares | May 7, 2008
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Tags: Fatih Akin, Film Festivals, Islam, Los Angeles Screenings, Reha Erdem, Religion, The Edge of Heaven, UCLA
