Notfilm
This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Ross Lipman and The Archival Impermanence Project. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
10th anniversary screening
Writer-director Ross Lipman’s deep dive into the production of literary giant, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett’s only movie, Film (co-directed with Alan Schneider, 1965), was hailed as one of the 10 best films of the year when it was released in 2015 and stands a decade later as a master class in historical, aesthetic and thematic exposition. Weaving together primary documents, first-person interviews, archival materials and more, Lipman explores how the influences and concerns of a cavalcade of artists, both the celebrated and the obscure (including Beckett, star Buster Keaton, cinematographer Boris Kaufman and publisher Barney Rosset) coalesced — or not — into one of the most enigmatic and evocative cinematic works of the 20th century.
DCP, color, 130 min. Director/Screenwriter: Ross Lipman. With: Kevin Brownlow, Leonard Maltin, Judith Douw.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a division of UCLA Library, and presents its public programs in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, among other venues. For more information about the Archive, visit cinema.ucla.edu.
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