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"More than ever, [the Festival] offers a wide range of genres, periods and interests...but also, perhaps more shockingly, films we thought had never left us." —LA Weekly
"What could be better than to sample the eclectic collection of rarities, oddities and one-offs that the Festival manages to rescue from the far corners of the Archive's staggering holdings?"
—Los Angeles Times
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From the Director
As director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, it is my great pleasure to introduce the 14th iteration of the UCLA Festival of Preservation, when the Archive presents films preserved by its world-renowned preservation department. The Festival again offers a veritable mixture of the ancient and the modern, silent masterpieces and sound diversions, fictional shorts and full-length documentaries.
We open this year's Festival with John Cassavetes' masterpiece, A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and close with a very special presentation of Edward S. Curtis' In The Land of the Head Hunters (1914), a fictional documentary shot on location with indigenous North Americans.
Between these poles of American independent cinema, viewers will have plenty of opportunity to see premieres of restored classic Hollywood films by many of the industry's greatest auteurs, including Josef von Sternberg, Fritz Lang, Joseph Losey, Frank Borzage, Cecil B. DeMille and Edgar G. Ulmer. We are particularly proud of our sole foreign film, Gamperaliya (1964), the first independent film from Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon).
We also pay homage to the UCLA Film & Television Archive's vast collection of American television with a special evening of programs, featuring the Everly Brothers in "Johnny Cash Presents The Everly Brothers Show."
It must be said that without crucial, ongoing financial support, our preservation and programming activities would, quite simply, come to a halt. All of our preservation work and public programs—including this Festival—are funded by donations from government agencies, foundations, corporations and individuals. We are proud to acknowledge those organizations and individuals who have given generously.
Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak
Director
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Films from this year's UCLA Festival of Preservation will tour North America after the Los Angeles event. Some of the cities scheduled for the tour are: New York; Washington, DC; Chicago; Columbus, OH; Houston; and Vancouver, BC.
