UCLA Festival of Preservation 2016

May 15–June 26, 2016

This traveling showcase is a grab bag of genres spanning six decades of American cinema, from comedy to melodrama to war film to Western.

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  • Her Sister's Secret

  • The Long Voyage Home

  • Bachelor's Affairs

  • Spring Night, Summer Night

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • My Best Girl

    Sam Taylor
    United States, 1927
    Sunday, May 15 5 PM

    Mary Pickford plays a shopgirl in love with a stock clerk who is not what he seems in this charming silent comedy. With Pickford shorts The Son’s Return and A Manly Man.

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  • Bachelor’s Affairs

    Alfred L. Werker
    United States, 1932
    Friday, May 20 7 PM

    Adolphe Menjou is delightfully tongue-in-cheek as an aging playboy looking for a new plaything to distract his overeager young wife. With musical short Me and the Boys.

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  • Men in War

    Anthony Mann
    United States, 1957
    Sunday, May 29 5 PM

    Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray star in Mann’s bleak, gripping take on the Korean conflict. “War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this” (New Yorker).

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  • The First Legion

    Douglas Sirk
    United States, 1951
    Saturday, June 11 6:30 PM

    Charles Boyer plays a priest investigating a purported miracle at a Jesuit seminary in Sirk’s drama of faith and doubt.

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  • The Big Broadcast

    Frank Tuttle
    United States, 1932
    Sunday, June 12 5 PM

    Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Kate Smith, the Mills Brothers, and other recording stars convene for a musical comedy that is “playful, exuberant, and zany to the max” (LA Times). With musical short Me and the Boys.

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  • The Long Voyage Home

    John Ford
    United States, 1940
    Sunday, June 19 5 PM

    Ford’s maritime drama, based on Eugene O’Neill works, follows a freighter whose crew includes John Wayne and Thomas Mitchell. Glorious cinematography by Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane) begs for the big screen.

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  • Her Sister's Secret

    Edgar G. Ulmer
    United States, 1946
    Wednesday, June 22 7 PM

    A New Orleans belle’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy leads to further unintended consequences in this melodrama, an unusually glossy outing from B-movie king Edgar Ulmer.

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  • Spring Night, Summer Night

    Joseph L. Anderson
    United States, 1967
    Saturday, June 25 6:30 PM

    Introduced by Peter Conheim
    Shot on location in rural Ohio, this lost-and-found classic of American independent cinema could be “the missing link between Shadows and The Last Picture Show” (Village Voice).

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  • White Zombie & The Crime of Doctor Crespi

    Double Feature

    BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

    Sunday, June 26 5 PM

    A sensational tale of the living dead featuring Bela Lugosi. Followed by The Crime of Doctor Crespi, starring Erich von Stroheim as a sinister surgeon.

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