With more than 400,000 holdings in its collection, the UCLA Film and Television Archive stands as the second-largest motion picture archive in the country, behind only the Library of Congress. Coinciding with its 50th anniversary this year, the archive will celebrate its biennial Festival of Preservation, a monthlong series showcasing over 25 feature films, newsreels, […]
Author Archives: Ian Colvin
Movie Review: ‘Inherent Vice’
Thomas Pynchon, the notoriously reclusive writer of such postmodern classics as “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” has built a career off novels deemed too dense, idiosyncratic and cerebral to ever be translated to the screen effectively. Yet, finally, famed American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has done the unthinkable with his adaption of […]
Q&A: Composer Patrick Gleeson talks film-scoring, ‘Crossroads’ legacy
Bohemian artists and beatniks flocked to San Francisco in droves during the 1950s and 1960s. At the height of this wave of migration, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner made the city his home and began creating filmic assemblages that juxtaposed snippets of archived footage set to music.
UCLA CAP to celebrate Andy Warhol with film, live music
At the height of Andy Warhol’s fame in the late 1960s, artists, poets and musicians crowded his New York City studio space, called “The Factory.” In a haze of smoke, rock groups like the Velvet Underground played as 16 mm films made by Warhol and his peers were projected onto screens. It was a dizzying […]
‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ still a classic, innovative film
Figures covered in dust and ash, writhing: arms, legs, backs, torsos exposed, transfixed and transposed in time and space. A back-and-forth banter between a man and a woman begins on the audio track as brief newsreel footage of Hiroshima’s wreckage flashes across the screen. “You saw nothing at Hiroshima – nothing,” the man says. This […]
Multimedia exhibition shows history of cinema, ‘Hollywood Costume’
This post was updated on Oct. 2 at 3:25 p.m. In a darkened gallery, beads of light fall on various pieces of clothing, both old and new. A music score swelters up in its intensity and the faces of legendary Hollywood stars are everywhere. This daze of sight and sound is “Hollywood Costume,” a new exhibit […]
Tribute to Lauren Bacall recalls the star’s shining moments
Sultry, sexy, her voice famously husky and effortlessly cool, Lauren Bacall epitomized the very definition of “movie starlet” for more than half a century. With her passing on Tuesday at the age of 89, Hollywood has lost one of its greatest actresses. Bacall’s meteoric rise to fame began in the early 1940s. As early as […]