New on our YouTube channel! “Milton Berle Starring in The Kraft Music Hall” (NBC, 1958) is the oldest entertainment program known to survive on color videotape. Thanks to Lorna Berle, the rare 2 in. tape was deposited at the Archive and recently preserved. youtu.be/nk8jIPbEBwk?fe…

“Throughout her canon… is Rozema’s singular poetic film language that includes queer identity, interior monologues & a duality in her characters” Tracy E. Gilchrist The Advocate. The director joins us Tue 4/30 for her screen adaptation of Samuel Beckett
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“This extraordinary 1952 Argentinian noir… is probably the most bedarkened, beshadowed film I’ve seen.”—Paul Schrader. Thanks to Flicker Alley, Never Open That Door is coming to Blu-ray/DVD! bit.ly/3WgIrzn

UCLA restoration funded by Golden Globe Foundation and Film Noir Foundation.

Great interview with Patricia Rozema by Mark Olsen of Los Angeles Times in advance of this weekend's retrospective of her work at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, UCLA Film & Television Archive & Hammer Museum... and check out this photo of Rozema and Paul Schrader as students!

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In this week's newsletter:
Barbra Streisand's FUNNY GIRL in 4K and female Jewish comedies
Four films by Patricia Rozema + interview
An interview with Dave Markey on DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS
A tribute to Lee Chang-dong
And CHALLENGERS
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“‘White Room’ is a suburban gothic fairy tale, a work of dark, conflicted magic that might have been cut from ‘Blue Velvet’ by Edward Scissorhands.”—Washington Post. Patricia Rozema’s restored film screens Sun 4/28, 7 p.m. w/ the director in person. Free! ucla.in/4bcBvYw

#Locarno77

In August, Locarno Film Festival will present its Pardo d’onore Manor award for lifetime achievement to Jane Campion Variety — variety.com/2024/film/glob…

“Jane Campion’s first theatrical feature has just about everything a great film should have. Above all it boasts the creation of a world peculiarly its own.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Campion’s “Sweetie” (1989) on 35mm, this Saturday 4/27. Free! ucla.in/49VU2Ho

Since her breakout success, “I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing” (1987), Patricia Rozema has maintained a lighthearted irreverence and stylistic bravado throughout her career. Join us and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Apr. 26–30 for a weekend with the filmmaker: academymuseum.org/en/programs/se…

'The benshi originally came to L.A. in the early 1900s, as immigrant communities grew, and more cinema from Japan came to the U.S. ... in the 1920s, benshi were sometimes bigger stars than the actors in the films themselves.' LAist laist.com/news/how-to-la…

So much to see this week in LA:
The TCM Classic Film Festival
Sergei Parajanov's centennial
Milestone Movies of 1984
Screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides
Japanese silent film narration with The Art of the Benshi
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It’s The Art of the Benshi time at the United!

100 YEARS OF MGM HISTORY: CELEBRATING THE UCLA HEARST NEWSREEL COLLECTION hosted by Todd Wiener – Motion Picture Curator, UCLA FTVA #TCMFF

This NYC Symposium Gives a Rare Spotlight to Lost Films, from Jim Henson Obscurities to Bizarre Medical Shorts trib.al/VjKYGe6

The earliest known Asian American film production, “The Oath of the Sword” (1914) was rediscovered in 2016 and restored by JANM & EastmanMuseum. This tale of ambition, love and betrayal screens Sun 4/21, 3 p.m., part of “The Art of the Benshi.” Free: ucla.in/3Jb4ShD

The elements of director Kenji Mizoguchi’s mature style are evident in “The Water Magician” (1933), which screens for free this Saturday as part of “The Art of the Benshi.” All films presented with live Japanese benshi narration & music, this weekend only! ucla.in/3Jb4ShD

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane is partnering, through his Seth MacFarlane Foundation, with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation to fund the first-ever, curated restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1920s to 1940s deadline.com/2024/04/seth-m…

Thanks to support from the Seth MacFarlane Foundation, 12 vintage animated shorts — including the 9 screening at #TCMFF — were restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Paramount Pictures Archives twitter.com/DEADLINE/statu…

Before OPPENHEIMER there was TIME OF THE HEATHEN. Peter Kass' lost 60s Atomic bomb drama has been rediscovered and beautifully restored in 4K. Opens May 10th Film at Lincoln Center with more cities to follow!

Tues, April 23 at 1 p.m. | Join an online discussion with political cartoonist and activist Lalo Alcaraz, author of the nationally syndicated daily comic strip #LaCucaracha .
More details: ucla.in/446ZyG2