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Fun fact: there are approx. 600 million feet of film conserved in our archive, enough to wrap around the Earth 4.5 times! 🎞️🌎🎞 Find out more by asking us your questions this Wednesday, #AskAnArchivist Day, here and on Instagram! Our staff will be on hand between 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

And we are live! Our staff from the Collections, Digital Lab, Motion Picture, Preservation and Television departments are on standby to answer your questions between 11 a.m.–2 p.m. (Pacific Time)! 🎞️ 📼 📺 #AskAnArchivist

Sat Oct 19, 7:30 p.m. “Neptune Frost” (2021) and Q&A with dir. Anisia Uzeyman & Saul Williams! The sci-fi musical follows a group of exiled coltan miners and outcast hackers in the hills of Burundi. Short films “A.I. Mama” (2020) & “Core Dump—Dakar” (2018) ucla.in/3YeiVu2

New restoration! In “The Sticky Fingers of Time” (dir. Hilary Brougher, 1997), a 1950s hard-boiled fiction author is mysteriously transported to the ’90s and meets a struggling writer, setting off a time-travel storyline. Filmmakers in person! Fri Oct. 18 ucla.in/3BKF3Vr

Sat night I’ll be making my public debut as a film programmer at UCLA moderating a post screening q&a of the daring indie Neptune Frost. Please join us at the Hammer!

Save the Green Planet!🌏 UCLA Film & Television Archive 🗓️Date: 11/15 at 7:30 pm 📍Location: At the Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Blvd.) 🎟️Free event For more information: cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/11… #kccla #ucla #uclalibrary #uclacinema #savethegreenplanet🌎 #koreacinema #shortfilms

Restoration premiere! “High Art” (1998) Lisa Cholodenko’s skillful debut feature captures the intoxicating haze of limerence, addiction and power struggles through the evolving dynamics between two women in the world of photography. Fri Oct 25 7:30. Free! ucla.in/4fbXaCa

Sat Oct 26, 7:30 pm “Border Wars: The Radical Ethnography of John T. Caldwell” UCLA Prof. Caldwell’s films document the exploitation and resistance of migrant farmworkers and rural labor communities in California. Free: ucla.in/40g9tJq Co-presented by @UCLA_CSRC TFT at UCLA

Historically, TV has framed the aspirations of America’s space program as a largely patriotic, mostly homogeneous frontier. The counter-narratives presented in this screening center African Americans in humankind’s endeavors to explore strange new worlds: ucla.in/3YzZT2z

This week in L.A.: Lisa Cholodenko on the world premiere restoration of HIGH ART Alonso Ruizpalacios retro, with the new LA COCINA HEAVEN'S GATE director's cut Ken Russell's THE BOY FRIEND in 35mm Plus, more from AFI FEST latimes.com/entertainment-…

Thank you to Los Angeles Times writer Mark Olsen Mark Olsen for highlighting tonight’s restoration premiere of “High Art” (1998) and Q&A with the filmmakers! 7:30 p.m., free admission: ucla.in/4fbXaCa x.com/IndieFocus/sta…

🧢 Let’s go, Dodgers, let’s go 👏👏 John Ford sporting a Dodgers cap in “Directed by John Ford” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971).

A UCLA Film & Television Archive film series and a new book from Drawn & Quarterly celebrate Giant Robot’s 30th anniversary ! criterion.com/current/posts/…

Available now on Blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber, just in time for spooky season! 🕯 All five feature-length episodes of the late-night gothic thriller “The Classic Ghosts” (ABC, 1973), restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive: bit.ly/TheClassicGhos…

New series coming soon! ‘Three Homelands: A Sergei Parajanov Retrospective’ 11/23 - 12/18 at the AC, in partnership w/ UCLA Film & Television Archive 📽️✨ SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES, THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS, ASHIK KERIB + short films americancinematheque.com/series/three-h…

From our Hearst Metrotone News Collection: “Dodgers Sit Atop Baseball World” (released 10/8/1963) captures their World Series win against the Yankees, featuring MVP Sandy Koufax. Explore more newsreels courtesy of UCLA & The Packard Humanities Institute: newsreels.net

💀🕸🕷 Happy Halloween from Maila Nurmi a.k.a. Vampira, the glamorous ghoul of late-night ’50s television and “Plan 9 From Outer Space” (1959) — with a reminder for everyone to cast their ballots!

This week: Directors' Fortnight comes to L.A. for the first time GuadaLAjara Film Festival 30 years of Giant Robot BLONDE VENUS in 35mm nitrate Plus new releases A REAL PAIN, LA COCINA, EMILIA PEREZ, DAHOMEY, BLITZ and JUROR #2 latimes.com/entertainment-…

“A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary” continues through 11/17! Don’t miss films by Gregg Araki and Jon Moritsugu, flying robots, giant lizards, anime, Hong Kong cinema & more: ucla.in/3XGF2sI Presented in partnership with Yanai Initiative.