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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: Paddington 2

Delightfully charming in all ways imaginable, Paddington 2 sees the plucky bear embark on an epic quest to find a book for his Aunt Lucy.

Sun Jan 28 11:00 AM

Dana Andrews & Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives

Archive Talks: The Best Years of Our Lives

Alison Macor will be on hand to share her insights into the production and reception of their groundbreaking work which garnered eight Academy Award wins including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay.

Sun Jan 28 7:00 PM

Nam June Paik rests between two TV monitors

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV traces the life and work of Nam June Paik, the avant-garde artist best known as the father of video art.

Thu Feb 1 7:30 PM

Ramon Novarro and Lupe Velez in Laughing Boy

Eskimo / Laughing Boy

Screening of two pre-Code Hollywood studio films that openly confronted the contemporary consequences of this nation’s fraught history with Indigenous peoples after they were granted citizenship in 1924.

Fri Feb 2 7:30 PM

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie

Camille / Anna Christie

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a survey of the talent and mystique that made Greta Garbo the supreme icon of Classic Hollywood.

Sat Feb 3 7:30 PM

Still from Massacre

Massacre

This 1934 western is one of a group of pre-Code Hollywood studio films that openly confronted the contemporary consequences of this nation’s fraught history with Indigenous peoples after they were granted citizenship in 1924.

Sun Feb 4 7:00 PM

Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a survey of the talent and mystique that made Greta Garbo the supreme icon of Classic Hollywood.

Sun Feb 11 7:00 PM

A dog looking over its owner's shoulder

Umberto D.

Umberto D. is a simple story of an older gentleman trying to pay his rent, accompanied by his dog, Flike, in postwar Italy.

Fri Feb 16 7:30 PM

A small dog with its paw on a keyboard

Heart of a Dog / Watership Down

Heart of a Dog poetically captures the relationship between living creatures, the grief that comes with great love, and offers a reflective perspective on the transience of life.

Sat Feb 17 7:30 PM

Greta Garbo in The Saga of Gösta Berling

The Saga of Gösta Berling

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a survey of the talent and mystique that made Greta Garbo the supreme icon of Classic Hollywood.

Sun Feb 18 7:00 PM