UCLA Film & Television Archive

10/16/2026

Our film series “Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Early Works” kicks off this Saturday and Sunday! Co-presented by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities.
https://cinema.ucla.edu/series/ryusuke-hamaguchi-early-works-2026

10/15/2026

“The Battle of Algiers” (Italy/Algeria, 1966) — 60th Anniversary
📽 Saturday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Free admission

Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. Starring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot on location in a quasi-documentary style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs pivotal conflicts during the Algerian War of Independence.

In person: Q&A with UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

🔗 Link in the comments for more details!

10/12/2026

“The Depths” (South Korea/Japan, 2010)
“Touching the Skin of Eeriness” (Japan, 2013)

📽 Sunday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m.
Free admission

The most unexpected work in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s early oeuvre, “The Depths” is a q***r thriller that circles around a fashion photographer (Kim Min-jun), his college friend (Soji Arai) and a cocky es**rt (Hoshi Ishida). Followed by an unnerving study of adolescent estrangement, about a teenager (S***a Sometani) who moves in with his brother after the death of their parents and loses himself in a modern dance class.

🔗 Link in the comments!

Part of “Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Early Works,” co-presented by Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities

Special thanks to our community partner: WLA Sawtelle Neighborhood Council

10/12/2026

Join us this Wednesday 7:30 p.m. for new UCLA 35mm restorations of “Man Trouble” (1930) and “The Man Who Came Back” (1924)!

10/09/2026

📽 Saturday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
“Like Nothing Happened” (Japan, 2003)
“Passion” (Japan, 2008)

In one of director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s earliest works, four college students spend an afternoon at a racetrack and then go their separate ways. Loose and grainy, and structured around the kind of conversational set pieces that would become hallmarks of Hamaguchi’s later films, “Like Nothing Happened” feels very much like where it all began.

Next, in “Passion,” a group of friends and lovers falls apart as they navigate the transition to the next phases of their lives. The carefully class-coded characters are just entering careers, marriage and parenthood — or grasping for ways to put them off. The capriciousness of desire emerges as a force and an excuse in a series of high-wire dialogue scenes as Hamaguchi explores the ethics of coupling and camerawork alike.

🔗 Link in the comments!

Part of “Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Early Works,” co-presented by Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities.

Special thanks to our community partner: WLA Sawtelle Neighborhood Council

10/07/2026

10/06/2026

Eva Marie Saint, a graceful actor best known for her Oscar-winning film debut in “On the Waterfront” and for her turn as a sultry spy in another 1950s film classic “North by Northwest,” died Tuesday. She was 102.

Saint died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles.

Plucked from the Broadway stage by director Elia Kazan to portray Marlon Brando’s love interest in 1954’s “On the Waterfront,” Saint emerged a star.

Read more about Saint at the link in the comments.

10/05/2026

Presented live from New York, “U.S. Steel Hour” (1953–1963) was one of the most prestigious and longest-running anthology series of television’s “golden age.” Five episodes have been newly added to our online collection of “U.S. Steel Hour” episodes, digitized from 16mm kinescopes and 2 inch videotapes.

The episodes feature the talents of actors Gene Hackman, Jane Wyatt, Jeanne Crain, Teresa Wright, Hans Conried and Darren McGavin:

“Little Tin God” (1959)
“Little Lost Sheep” (1961)
“The Big Laugh” (1962)
“The Other Woman” (1962)
“Marriage Marks the Spot” (1962)

Watch online:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/u-s-steel-hour/

Learn more about the TV series:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blog/live-from-new-york-u-s-steel-hour/

10/05/2026

Join us this Wednesday for our first screening of the season with “Cagney & Lacey” co-star Sharon Gless and executive producer Barney Rosen in person!

Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and first come, first served.

10/02/2026

“Her Wedding Night” (1930) — 35mm! 🎞
Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Free admission

“I’ve had enough trouble with men without marrying any!” declares Clara Bow (whose own hectic love life was this film’s inspiration) as she flees wannabe Paris grooms for the French Riviera, where comic mayhem ensues amidst Art Deco sets. Unseen for decades due to rights issues and still unavailable on any platform, this rare pre-Code romp is “a rush of great fun, high spirits, and good humor from a bright ensemble cast, and particularly vivacious Bow” (Derek Winnert).

In person: Introduction by David Stenn, author of “Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild.” Stenn will sign copies of the book beginning at 6:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase thanks to Larry Edmunds Bookshop.

Copresented by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles

Details: ucla.in/3VO9zYp