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Secrets Beyond the Door: Treasures from the UCLA Festival of Preservation
MARCH 11-29
NEW 35mm RESTORATIONS! ► Films by Fritz Lang, John Cassavetes, Joseph Losey, John Sayles, Edgar G. Ulmer, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg, Edward S. Curtis, Emile de Antonio, Lester James Peries and others!
As part of the ongoing program of public film screenings we present as a cinematheque, Pacific Cinémathèque takes pleasure in showcasing the important preservation and restoration work being done by other cinema archives, film studios and speciality distribution companies around the globe — providing our audience not only with rare big-screen access to cinema’s greatest classics and treasures, but also the even rarer opportunity to see them projected from beautiful, pristine celluloid prints (the way they were meant to be seen). The UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Festival of Preservation, currently on North American tour and making its first-ever
/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js">Vancouver (and only scheduled Canadian) stop, offers a true embarrassment of such riches. The festival features, in sparkling 35mm prints, 14 wide-ranging programs of major classics and undiscovered gems spanning a wide spectrum of film history, from the silent era to the new American independent cinema of the 1980s. Among the stellar offerings are one of the most historically and culturally significant films ever shot in British Columbia; an important landmark of Sri Lanka’s national cinema; a breakthrough work of gay cinema; and feature films from a cinephile’s-dream list of directors, including Fritz Lang, John Cassavetes, Joseph Losey, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg, Edgar G. Ulmer, and others.
Acknowledgments: All prints are courtesy the UCLA Film and Television Archive. We are grateful to Shannon Kelley, Mimi Brody, Todd Wiener, and Steven Hill at UCLA for their kind assistance in making this Vancouver presentation possible.
Program notes credited to Mimi Brody, David Chute, Andres Garza, Charles Hopkins, Jan-Christopher Horak, Cara King, Ross Lipman, Paul Malcolm, and Mark Quigley are adapted from the 14th UCLA Film & Television Festival of Preservation catalogue.
