The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents
Free Screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater:
Cinema's First Nasty Women, August 12 -21!
Free Screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater:
Cinema's First Nasty Women, August 12 -21!
Retroformat is proud to be a co-sponsor of the new UCLA Film & Television Archive series, Cinema’s First Nasty Women! In 27 rarely-screened European and American silent films from an array of genres, you’ll meet a host of overlooked performers as anarchic and rule-bending women. This groundbreaking series includes slapstick, trick films, adventures and dramas going back to the earliest years of the medium, drawn from over a dozen international archives. Tickets are free, but reservations are a must. First come, first served!
This electrifying parade of actors and comedians challenges social mores and gender identities from the bedroom to the barroom, from city streets to the wild frontier. Every film is restored and accompanied by newly commissioned scores across a range of styles. The Archive is thrilled to present this program curated by archivists and scholars Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi for Kino Lorber, in advance of the release of Kino Lorber’s four-disc DVD/Blu-ray collection. Series curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi.
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Chaos reigns in this program of delirious slapstick!
Total runtime: 85 min.
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Comic mayhem comes with an extra twist of trickery, deceit and disguise!
Total runtime: 97 min.
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August 19, 2022 - 7:30 pm
Gender Adventurers
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From the Old West to the (now not so) distant future, women take center stage and drive the action in this program of adventures.
Total runtime: 92 min.
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August 21, 2022 - 7:00 pm
Phil for Short
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Monsieur Dranem cooks, cleans, and sews “like an elephant threading a needle”, as per Ciné-Journal, while his militant wife gambols in pantaloons, smokes pipes, drinks pints, plays cards (with “Léontine”), and assaults her cowed spouse.
The daughter of an eccentric professor of Greek antiquity, Damophilia (Evelyn Greeley) has never been one for convention. Shortening her name to Phil, she manages the family farm in overalls and short bobbed hair much to the horror of the local busy bodies. When her father dies and the busy bodies come to rein her in, Phil hits the road disguised as boy and meets another professor of ancient Greece (Charles Walcott), an avowed women-hater who takes a shine to Phil’s well-versed “twin.” Misperceptions and misunderstandings—orchestrated and otherwise—abound from there until love wins out—on Phil’s terms—in this charmingly subversive romantic comedy. Director: Oscar Apfel. Screenwriters: Clara Beranger, Forrest Halsey. With: Evelyn Greeley, Charles Walcott, James A. Furey. |
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September 18 at the Hollywood Legion Theater
Buster Keaton in The General (1926) October 28 at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California
The 100th Anniversary of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)! |
Details coming soon! Details coming soon!
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