“A Film Series for You: Celebrating @giant_robot’s 30th Anniversary” continues through 11/17! Don’t miss films by Gregg Araki and Jon Moritsugu, flying robots, giant lizards, anime, Hong Kong cinema & more: Presented in partnership with @YanaiInitiative.

RT @IndieFocus: This week:.Directors' Fortnight comes to L.A. for the first time.GuadaLAjara Film Festival.30 years of Giant Robot.BLONDE V….

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💀🕸🕷 Happy Halloween from Maila Nurmi a.k.a. Vampira, the glamorous ghoul of late-night ’50s television and “Plan 9 From Outer Space” (1959) — with a reminder for everyone to cast their ballots!

From our Hearst Metrotone News Collection: “Dodgers Sit Atop Baseball World” (released 10/8/1963) captures their World Series win against the Yankees, featuring MVP Sandy Koufax. Explore more newsreels courtesy of UCLA & The Packard Humanities Institute:

RT @am_cinematheque: New series coming soon! ‘Three Homelands: A Sergei Parajanov Retrospective’ 11/23 - 12/18 at the AC, in partnership w/….

Available now on Blu-ray thanks to @KinoLorber, just in time for spooky season! 🕯 All five feature-length episodes of the late-night gothic thriller “The Classic Ghosts” (ABC, 1973), restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive:

RT @CriterionDaily: A @UCLAFTVArchive film series and a new book from @DandQ celebrate @giant_robot’s 30th anniversary ! .

🧢 Let’s go, Dodgers, let’s go 👏👏. John Ford sporting a Dodgers cap in “Directed by John Ford” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971).

RT @IndieFocus: This week in L.A.:.Lisa Cholodenko on the world premiere restoration of HIGH ART.Alonso Ruizpalacios retro, with the new LA….

Thank you to @latimes writer Mark Olsen @IndieFocus for highlighting tonight’s restoration premiere of “High Art” (1998) and Q&A with the filmmakers! 7:30 p.m., free admission:

Historically, TV has framed the aspirations of America’s space program as a largely patriotic, mostly homogeneous frontier. The counter-narratives presented in this screening center African Americans in humankind’s endeavors to explore strange new worlds:

Sat Oct 26, 7:30 pm.“Border Wars: The Radical Ethnography of John T. Caldwell”.UCLA Prof. Caldwell’s films document the exploitation and resistance of migrant farmworkers and rural labor communities in California. Free: Co-presented by @UCLA_CSRC @UCLA_TFT

Restoration premiere!.“High Art” (1998).Lisa Cholodenko’s skillful debut feature captures the intoxicating haze of limerence, addiction and power struggles through the evolving dynamics between two women in the world of photography. Fri Oct 25 7:30. Free!

RT @KCC_LA: Save the Green Planet!🌏 @UCLAFTVArchive . 🗓️Date: 11/15 at 7:30 pm.📍Location: At the Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Blvd.….

RT @beandreadotcom: Sat night I’ll be making my public debut as a film programmer at UCLA moderating a post screening q&a of the daring ind….

New restoration! In “The Sticky Fingers of Time” (dir. Hilary Brougher, 1997), a 1950s hard-boiled fiction author is mysteriously transported to the ’90s and meets a struggling writer, setting off a time-travel storyline. Filmmakers in person! Fri Oct. 18

Sat Oct 19, 7:30 p.m. “Neptune Frost” (2021) and Q&A with dir. Anisia Uzeyman & @SaulWilliams! The sci-fi musical follows a group of exiled coltan miners and outcast hackers in the hills of Burundi. Short films “A.I. Mama” (2020) & “Core Dump—Dakar” (2018)

And we are live! Our staff from the Collections, Digital Lab, Motion Picture, Preservation and Television departments are on standby to answer your questions between 11 a.m.–2 p.m. (Pacific Time)! 🎞️ 📼 📺. #AskAnArchivist

Fun fact: there are approx. 600 million feet of film conserved in our archive, enough to wrap around the Earth 4.5 times! 🎞️🌎🎞. Find out more by asking us your questions this Wednesday, #AskAnArchivist Day, here and on Instagram! Our staff will be on hand between 11 a.m.–2 p.m.