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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Still from "The Longest Day" (1962) Dir. Andrew Martin, Ken Annakin, Bernard Wicki, Ger Oswald
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The Longest Day

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The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents classic film and contemporary cinema in the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater. Archive tickets are $9 general admission and free for UCLA students.

Part of the series Runaway Hollywood: Global Production in the Postwar World.

By the early 1960s, Hollywood produced some of its most ambitious international productions. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck aimed to set the bar high for World War II epics with this account of the Allied forces’ D-Day invasion of German-occupied France. To handle the film’s multiple perspectives and massive cast, Zanuck recruited several directors, multiple filming units, and a dizzying cast of teen idols and tough-guy stars—including John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and Henry Fonda. Shot in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the film treats war as a procedural, dissecting the gradual advances the Allies needed to take to win the war. (1962, dir. Andrew Martin, Ken Annakin, Bernard Wicki, Ger Oswald, DCP, black and white, 180 min.)

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