Josef von Sternberg's debut feature The Salvation Hunters (1925) already demonstrates the meticulous composition, gestural rhymes, graphic tension, and plastic force that would soon make him one of cinema's preeminent stylists. Made independently for $5,000 and shot on location

BLACK GIRL ('72) marked the third film directed by actor, activist, and filmmaker Ossie Davis. See the TCM Premiere of its restoration by the @UCLAFTVArchive as part of our special 24-hour marathon celebrating their 60th anniversary, starting tonight at 8pm ET.

Director of the @UCLAFTVArchive, May Hong HaDuong shares how the archive approaches restoring and distributing their work with TCM host @EddieMuller – as she kicks off our 24-hour marathon celebrating their 60th anniversary. It all starts tonight at 8pm ET.

Tomorrow night we kick off our 24-hour marathon to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the @UCLAFTVArchiv with a special lineup – with restorations introduced by archive director, May Hong HaDuong and Eddie Muller! It all starts at 8pm ET. Learn more here: https://t.co/W9hMeY8C8b

“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: https://t.co/Ll1QA5QGC7 Presented in partnership with @YanaiInitiative.

This week: Directors' Fortnight comes to L.A. for the first time GuadaLAjara Film Festival 30 years of Giant Robot BLONDE VENUS in 35mm nitrate Plus new releases A REAL PAIN, LA COCINA, EMILIA PEREZ, DAHOMEY, BLITZ and JUROR #2 https://t.co/TPhBH3kN48

💀🕸🕷 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: https://t.co/uJvAyNl9p1

New series coming soon! ‘Three Homelands: A Sergei Parajanov Retrospective’ 11/23 - 12/18 at the AC, in partnership w/ @UCLAFTVArchive 📽️✨ SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES, THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS, ASHIK KERIB + short films https://t.co/txel0PkwjB

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: https://t.co/cxLtLsbANt

A @UCLAFTVArchive film series and a new book from @DandQ celebrate @giant_robot’s 30th anniversary ! https://t.co/tpIz770TTu

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

This week in L.A.: Lisa Cholodenko on the world premiere restoration of HIGH ART Alonso Ruizpalacios retro, with the new LA COCINA HEAVEN'S GATE director's cut Ken Russell's THE BOY FRIEND in 35mm Plus, more from AFI FEST https://t.co/4dnOdzZ0FV

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: https://t.co/mizrz91ifr https://t.co/JPlS2xvtT0

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: https://t.co/v7l3AVMUJL

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: https://t.co/53uRYkm1V1 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! https://t.co/mizrz90KpT

Save the Green Planet!🌏 @UCLAFTVArchive 🗓️Date: 11/15 at 7:30 pm 📍Location: At the Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Blvd.) 🎟️Free event For more information: https://t.co/ZwkZzPQXCg #kccla #ucla #uclalibrary #uclacinema #savethegreenplanet🌎 #koreacinema #shortfilms

Sat night I’ll be making my public debut as a film programmer at UCLA moderating a post screening q&a of the daring indie Neptune Frost. Please join us at the Hammer!