Programs & Events

This extraordinary 3D documentary tells the story of artist, marine, and acrobat H. C. (Cliff) Westermann. Screening followed by Q&A with director Leslie Buchbinder, Frank Gehry, and Ed Ruscha.

We’re transforming the Billy Wilder Theater into a big-screen Panoram to showcase Kino Classics’ toe-tapping, eye-opening collection of newly restored Soundies

This program will feature an introduction by Steven K. Hill, Associate Motion Picture Curator at the Archive and co-founder of Silent Movie Day.

This rarely shown pre-Code film is chock full of transgressions that would have made Will Hays swoon!

Screening of three films by partners in life and work Camille Billops and James Hatch: Older Women and Love, Take Your Bags, and The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks

Watch episodes of innovative police drama Naked City, which boasted gritty location photography and a host of New York actors in thoughtful, original teleplays that emphasized character over action.

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a series of films that play with the representation of real time and elevate its passage to their explicit subject. High Noon follows a sheriff who has 85 minutes, the exact runtime of the film, to confront a vengeful killer arriving by train.

Curator of Becoming Van Leo Negar Azimi presents a lecture on the mysterious artist’s life, work, and legacy followed by a screening of the experimental documentary film Her + Him VAN LEO.

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a series of films that play with the representation of real time and elevate its passage to their explicit subject. Cléo from 5 to 7 follows a famous singer as she wanders through her life and the streets of Paris awaiting the results of a medical test.