UCLA Festival of Preservation on Tour
THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN
One of the world’s leaders in the efforts to preserve our motion picture heritage, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has arranged a tour of 35mm prints (and one DCP) of the best titles from the most recent edition of their annual Festival of Preservation. The selection includes eleven features and five shorts including silent-era rediscoveries, American and Argentine film noir, landmark American Independent movies, poverty row gems, and remarkable documentaries.
- Fri., Mar. 2 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
One of the most beautifully photographed films in film history, Los Tallos Amargos cuts between dreams and a noirish reality to plumb the dark psyche of a journalist tortured by his conscience after he commits murder. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Film Noir Foundation.
- Sat., Mar. 3 | 2:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
In what is generally regarded as Laurel & Hardy’s best feature, Stan & Ollie sneak off from their wives to attend a fraternal convention. One of the funniest films ever made, this laugh-a-second classic is the perfect introduction to the great comic duo’s work. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Film Foundation. Preceded by L&H in the short Berth Marks (1929, 19 min.). Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the Packard Humanities Institute.
- Sat., Mar. 3 | 4:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
Talmadge, one of the silent era’s most popular comedic stars, plays a down-on-her-luck working girl who impersonates a friend to take a job as secretary to an elderly socialite. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Packard Humanities Institute, Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin M. Cooper. Preceded by Alice Guy’s Tramp Strategy (1911, 12 min.). Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by New York Women in Film & Television's Women's Film Preservation Trust and The Film Foundation. Live piano by David Drazin.
- Sat., Mar. 3 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
A playboy/thief (Marshall) and a pickpocket (Hopkins) meet, fall in love and team up for the ultimate con in Lubitsch’s delightfully ironic, pre-Code romantic comedy set on the Riviera. Print restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and The Film Foundation. Preceded by the Fleischer Studio’s treat Dinah (1932, 7 min.). Print restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The International Animated Film Society (ASIFA-Hollywood).
- Sat., Mar. 10 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
Independent writer-director Compton also stars in her radically progressive debut feature as a young woman traveling through Greece partaking in affairs and rejecting marriage offers for no other reason than because she wants to. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Century Arts Foundation.
- Sat., Mar. 10 | 8:45 PM4070 Vilas Hall
Compton’s second independent outing defies easy description as the story of a clairvoyant teenage girl exploited by a Beatles-esque boy band as part of a hoax revival. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Century Arts Foundation.
- Sat., Mar. 17 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
In 1959, straight-laced professor Vivian (Shaver) flies to Reno for a quickie divorce and finds herself falling for a younger woman (Charbonneau). Deitch’s landmark love story features beautiful cinematography by future P.T. Anderson cinematographer Robert Elswit. Digitally restored by The Criterion Collection/Janus Films and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and Sundance Institute.
- Sat., Mar. 24 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
Unscrupulous publisher Cummings pursues the love letters of a Romantic poet guarded by a zealous centenarian (Moorehead) in her crumbling Venetian palazzo. Adapted from Henry James, The Lost Moment is Hollywood gothic at its finest. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the Packard Humanities Institute. Preceded by Slavko Vorkapich and John Hoffman’s lyrical documentary Moods of the Sea (1941, 10 min.) Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the Packard Humanities Institute and the National Film Preservation Foundation. Moods of the Sea permission courtesy David Shepard and Blackhawk Film Collection.
- Fri., Mar. 30 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
This galvanizing documentary started out as a portrait of Fred Hampton, the influential 20-year-old leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers. The film became a shocking expose of a government conspiracy to eliminate radical activists when Hampton and Mark Clark were killed by police under the orders of State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Packard Humanities Institute. Courtesy of Carol Gray, William Cottle and The Chicago Film Archives. Preceded by The Jungle (1967, 22 min.), a dramatized documentary created by Philadelphia inner-city high school students. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
- Sat., Mar. 31 | 7:00 PM4070 Vilas Hall
This recently re-discovered gem confronts post-war anti-Semitism, couched in the language of film noir, when a newly married couple stumbles upon a secretive hate group in Norman Rockwell’s America. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and The Film Foundation.
- Sat., Mar. 31 | 8:15 PM4070 Vilas Hall
This superbly crafted documentary-style noir thriller shot by John Alton and co-directed by an uncredited Anthony Mann tells the converging narratives of a psychotically-cunning cop killer and the methodical detectives hunting him through—and under—the streets of Los Angeles. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and The Film Foundation.