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UCLA Film & Television Archive: "The Long Goodbye"

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Times: Fri Nov 13 at 7:30 PM

Saluting Robert Altman:

"THE LONG GOODBYE"

Transposing Raymond Chandler's rain-soaked detective fiction to a sun-drenched Southern California of the 1970s, Robert Altman crafts a fascinating genre hybrid. The femme fatale; the mob kingthey're all here, along with the hippies, the haze and Elliott Gould's scruffy Philip Marlowe; a walking pastiche of then and now in his omnipresent suit and tie. An affirmed cult classic, the film's traces may be seen in neo-noir works by Michael Mann, William Friedkin, Quentin Tarantino and others. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is proud and grateful to celebrate a bequest from the Altman estate in the form of hundreds of original film elements, including the director's personal prints of many of his most cherished films.

IN PERSON: Elliott Gould, Kathryn Altman and Mitchell Zuckoff, author of "Robert Altman: The Oral Biography."

"The Long Goodbye" (1973)
United Artists.
PROD: Elliot Kastner, Jerry Bick.
DIR: Robert Altman.
SCR: Leigh Brackett, based upon the novel by Raymond Chandler.
CINE: Vilmos Zsigmond.
EDIT: Lou Lombardo.
CAST: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson.

Advance tickets available for $10.00 from the UCLA Archive.

Tickets are also available at the Billy Wilder Theater box office starting one hour before showtime: $9, general admission; $8, Cineclub members, students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID; $7, Cineclub members who are students or seniors.

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Melnitz Movies: "Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!"

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Times: ~~Tue Nov 3 at 7:30 PM~~

Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!

"This independent film, a slice-of-barrio-life that was shot and exhibited in South Texas, outperformed [All the President's Men] in some small towns, while it singlehandedly broke Mexico's monopoly over the four-hundred Spanish-language theaters in the United States. The film inspired an independent film movement in Mexico, where the state controlled the industry, and among Chicano filmmakers in the United States, who further refined Gutiérrez's successful grassroots marketing strategy. The film is important as an instance of regional filmmaking, as a bicultural and bilingual narrative, and as a precedent that expanded the way that films got made in two nations." -Chon Noriega, Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

The first feature-length Chicano film ever made!

Screened in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

Director: Efrain Gutierrez
Writer: Sabino Garza
Cast: Efrain Gutierrez, Josefina Paz, David Moss, Abel Franco, Oscar Escamilla, Jose and Margarita Armando de Hoyos.

Originally released in 1976
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
81 min

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BMB Finishes presents: "The Hero of Time"

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Times: Sat Nov 14 at 7:00 PM
Sat Nov 14 at 9:30 PM

BMB Finishes presents: "The Hero of Time"

"The Hero of Time" is a feature-length, independent fan-film produced by "BMB Finishes" in Atlanta, Georgia. It was directed and produced by Joel Musch. David Blane was also a producer of the film and starred as Link.

The film was shot mainly on weekends over the span of about two years from August '04 through January '06. Post production started immediately and a rough edit void of any special fx was contrived early in '07.

The film is set in Hyrule where a young boy from the forest (Link) is beckoned by his dreams and the sage of the forest (Deku Tree) to venture to the city of Hyrule and seek princess Zelda's council. The evil Lord Ganondorf has plotted to overthrow the kingdom which propels Princess Zelda into hiding. Link endeavors to save them by pulling of the Master Sword in the Temple of Time. Consequently sending him 5 years into the future where Ganon now rules and threatens the future of the kingdom. Link must find a way to not only save his princess but the land he's fervent for.

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UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies presents: "Burma VJ"

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Times: Fri Nov 20 at 7:00 PM

UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies presents: "Burma VJ"

Armed with video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling theircountry.

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, acclaimed filmmaker Anders Østergaard brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage.

Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free usage for international media.

The whole world has witnessed single event clips made by the VJs, but for the very first time, their individual images have been carefully put together and at once, they tell a much bigger story. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.

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UCLA Latin American Institute presents: "Los que se quedan" ("Those Who Remain")

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Times: Wed Nov 18 at 7:30 PM

UCLA Latin American Institute presents: "Los que se quedan" ("Those Who Remain")

"Those Who Remain" shines a light on the families left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work, while also illuminating the rich glow of the Mexican spirit.

With great balance and sensitivity, this intimate documentary follows a number of families who each share their stories, ranging from the American Dream to heartbreakingly tragedy. Examining the emotional cost of long-term estrangement, directors Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman find rich cinematic metaphors in the deserted, newly constructed homes on the highway, their empty rooms a powerful reminder of the absence of loved ones at otherwise joyous occasions like communions and graduations. Despite this void in their communities, many of those profiled emerge as colorful characters with boundless vitality and wonderful senses of humor.

By deliberately eschewing politics in order to focus on "the other side" of the immigrant story, Those Who Remain speaks to the generations of families divided by the U.S.-Mexico border. Beautifully crafted and featuring a soundtrack by Cafe Tacuba, this vibrantly shot film speaks volumes about Mexican culture and identity.

"Those Who Remain" (Mexico, 2008, 96 mins)
In Spanish with English subtitles
Directed By: Carlos Hagerman,
Juan Carlos Rulfo
Producers: Juan Carlos Rulfo, Carlos Hagerman, Martha Sosa Elizondo, Nicolas Vale
Cinematographer: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Editor: Valentina Leduc Navarro
Music: Ruy Garcia

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Melnitz Movies: "No Impact Man"

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: Tue Nov 17 at 7:30 PM

Join Director Laura Gabbert for an exciting, environmentally conscious screening of "No Impact Man," a co-presentation of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and the Documentary Salon. Author Colin Beavan and his family are pictures of liberal complacency--sophisticated, takeout-addicted New Yorkers who refuse to let moral qualms interfere with good old-fashioned American consumerism. Then Colin turns things upside down. For his next book, he announces he's becoming No Impact Man, testing whether making zero environmental impact adversely affects happiness. The hitch is he needs his wife, Michelle--an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping Business Week writer--and their toddler to join the experiment.A year without electricity, cars, toilet paper, and nonlocal food isn't going to be a walk in the park. Or is it?

DIRECTORS: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
CAST: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin

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Melnitz Movies: "Red Cliff"

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: Thu Nov 12 at 7:30 PM

Red Cliff is a Chinese epic film based on the Battle of Red Cliffs and events during the end of the Han Dynasty. In 208 A.D., the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minister Cao Cao convinces the fickle Emperor Han that the only way to unite all of China is to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus begins a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu form and unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensue, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff, the battle that changed the course of Chinese history forever.

DIRECTOR: John Woo
WRITERS: John Woo, Khan Chan
CAST: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chen Chang

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Save the Date!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: Mon Jan 25 at 4:00 PM

Join us at an informal gathering in Park City to celebrate the work of your colleagues and classmates at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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Melnitz Movies: "RiP: A Remix Manifesto"

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: ~~Thu Oct 22 at 7:30 PM~~

Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with "RiP: A remix Manifesto." Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age. Presented in celebration of Open Access Week.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

"A dazzling frontal assault on how corporate culture is using copyright law to muzzle freedom of expression." -Brian D. Johnson, MACLEANS

"An entertaining, thoughtful, and politically committed articulation of what the filmmaker dubs the 'copyLEFT'" -POPMATTERS

"When it comes to remix culture, copyfight and crowd-sourcing, Brett Gaylor walks the walk." -Scott Thill, WIRED

DIRECTOR: Brett Gaylor
WRITER: Brett Gaylor
CAST: Greg Gillis, Lawrence Lessig, Gilberto Gil
Released under a Creative Commons license
86 min.

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Melnitz Movies: "The House of the Devil"

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: ~~Tue Oct 27 at 7:30 PM~~

Sam is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloodyfight for her life....

Official Selection, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

"Artfully evokes 'Rosemary's Baby,' early Brian De Palma, and the Euro-sleaze of yore" -Aaron Hillis, VILLAGE VOICE

"The best '80s babysitter-in-peril movie never made." -Peter DeBruge, VARIETY

DIRECTOR: Ti West
WRITER: Ti West
CAST: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, AJ Bowen
A Magnet Releasing film
95 min

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Our Town

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: ~~Fri Nov 6 at 8:00 PM~~
Nov 7 at 8:00 PM
Thu Nov 12 at 8:00 PM
Fri Nov 13 at 8:00 PM
Tue Nov 17 at 8:00 PM
Wed Nov 18 at 8:00 PM
Sat Nov 21 at 2:00 PM
Sat Nov 21 at 8:00 PM

UCLA Department of Theater presents Our Town.

TFT theater professor Michael McLain directs Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning multi-character story about small-town America, set in the fictional community of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater. He uses the actions of the Stage Manager to create the town of Grover's Corners for the audience. Scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play out. Central characters include George Gibbs, a doctor's son, and Emily Webb, the daughter of the town's newspaper editor.

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Il Sogno D'Arlecchino ("Harlequin's Dream")

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: Tue Nov 10 at 8:00 PM
Wed Nov 11 at 8:00 PM
Sat Nov 14 at 2:00 PM
Sat Nov 14 at 8:00 PM
Thu Nov 19 at 8:00 PM
Fri Nov 20 at 8:00 PM

UCLA Department of Theater presents Il Sogno D/Arlecchino.

A tale of love and madness told in the tradition of the Commedia dell 'Arte, devised by visiting professor David Bridel, in collaboration with a company of MFA actors. Featuring masks, music- and mayhem.

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The Crank: Clouzot's "Manon"

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: ~~Thu Oct 1 at 5:00 PM~~

This week The Crank, in co-sponsorship with the French department, proudly presents Manon (1949), an adaptation of Abbe Prevost's classic French novel "Manon Lescaut," updated to post-World War II France.

In this version, a former French Resistance activist (Michel Auclair) rescues Manon (Cecile Aubrey) from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution, and murder.

We will be screening The UCLA Film and Television Archive's rare 35mm print of the neglected masterpiece from Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of "Les Diaboliques" and "Le Corbeau."

ALL CRANK SCREENINGS ARE FREE!

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"Calypso Dreams" FREE screening, talk on Caribbean Cinema

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: ~~Wed Sep 30 at 5:00 PM~~

You are invited to a talk on Caribbean cinema by Luis Notario from the Cuban Film Institute, with a special screening of the music and culture documentary "Calypso Dreams."

"Calypso Dreams" chronicles the rich and complex cultural roots of calypso music in Trinidad and Tobago. Directed by Geoffrey Dunn and Michael Horne, it was the winner of the "Best Caribbean Documentary" prize at the Jamerican Film Festival, was named "Audience Favorite" at the Washington, DC, Film fest and was a featured selection at the Pan- African Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. It was embraced by an entire nation in Trinidad.

Luis Notario serves as the Senior advisor to the president of El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industría Cinematográficos (ICAIC), the Cuban film institute and production entity. He joined the ICAIC leadership team in March 2000 and has worked for two years as the coordinator of the First Caribbean Traveling Film Showcase. He is a member of the International Board of this regional event.

Hosted by the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media

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Recycling Aristotle -- Perspectives for Screenwriting Research

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Times: ~~Mon Oct 19 at 5:00 PM~~

Presentations by screenwriters, researchers and television professionals from the: University of Art and Design, Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

Panalists include:Professor Eija Timonen
Researcher Marja-Riitta Koivumäki
Screenwriter and lecturer Mr. Tomi Leino
Researcher and screenwriter and novelist Riikka Pelo
Rsearch co-ordinator Kirsi Rinne
Researcher, screenwriter and playwright Raija Talvio
Filmmaker Teijo Pellinen

All of these professionals write for television in Finland and the panel will address the nature of the research they deploy to develop scripts for specific series and programming needs.

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