Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935), one of the feature films made in two-color Technicolor, was an orphan. The archive’s preservationists rescue classics as well as little-known films that might otherwise succumb to the ravages of time.
SCREEN GEMS ARCHIVE
Long before Hollywood took notice, the archive screened works of Jane Campion, Pedro Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai.
The archive exposes public audiences to a stunningly rich array of work in venues like the James Bridges Theater on campus and elsewhere: naughty pre-Code films inventive work from Iranian filmmakers and obscure gems from Belgium to Bangladesh. Working with a modest budget, less than half of which comes from the state, “we do a lot with very little,” notes Timothy Kittleson, the archive director. This quasi-obscurity is undeserved and not for lack of effort, enthusiasm or accomplishment on the part of the archive’s staff of 63. Confidential) finds it remarkable and very frustrating that even alums who’ve lived within walking distance of the campus for 20 years “didn’t know that movies were shown there that were open to the public.” Thanks to the miraculous work of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.Ī treasure trove to many, under-the-radar to mostĬurtis Hanson, the archive’s honorary chairman and Oscar-winning screenwriter (1997’s L.A. No popcorn, no sodas, but nobody’s complaining.
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