Thank you to @laist.com's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez for spotlighting an interview with the groundbreaking mariachi musician Rebecca Gonzales (1953 - 2024) from the UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research project “Mariachi Music in Los Angeles and beyond.” Explore the full collection: ucla.in/4qDdp0z

Jan. 16–Mar. 22: “Echoes From Spring Street: The World of Sing Lee and Chinese-Language Cinema in L.A.” This series features films from 1960–1988 Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, and marks the first public presentation of prints rescued from the shuttered Sing Lee Theatre in Chinatown: ucla.in/4ssjWNC

New restorations from the Archive now streaming on the Criterion Channel (criterionchannel.com) 🎬 “The Annihilation of Fish” (dir. Charles Burnett, 1999) 🎬 “Compensation” (dir. Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999) 🎬 “Pink Narcissus” (dir. James Bidgood, 1971) 🎬 “The Sealed Soil” (dir. Marva Nabili, 1977)

Here’s Joan Blondell bringing Hollywood glitz and style to the holiday season ✨ Watch newly digitized home movies from 1936 featuring star couple Joan Blondell and Dick Powell — who made 10 films together at Warner Bros. — now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@UCLAFTVArchive/videos

Thank you to @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy writer Gina Telaroli for selecting “Black Girl” (dir. Ossie Davis, 1972) as one of the best restorations of the year! Restored by the Archive & @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social w/ funding from Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-bes...

Happy first day of winter! Take a winter walk through some Los Angeles parks with these photos from the LA Views Photograph Collection 99, stewarded by UCLA Library Special Collections ❄️ 🏞️ ucla.in/4akT9fs

During International Education Week, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Athena N. Jackson joined UCLA faculty, staff and students to discuss and exchange ideas about shaping the future of international education through global perspectives: ucla.in/4a91CSX

UCLA Library has been awarded a $296,615 Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, enabling the Library to increase access to its significant collection of Middle Eastern and Islamicate manuscript volumes: ucla.in/4qgfZJY

Season's greetings from UCLA Library! Wishing you a season of joyful turns and gliding momentum into a bright New Year 🎁❄️ All UCLA Library locations and services will be closed, December 20 - January 4. Libraries will reopen on January 5.

Friday 12/19, 7:30 p.m. Punishment Park (1971) — 35mm Ice (1970) In Peter Watkins’ mockumentary, dissidents are given a choice: go to prison or try to survive 3 days while being hunted by cops. Next, Robert Kramer depicts a revolutionary network organizing against a fascist takeover ucla.in/4s6bpzG

In honor of #OurLadyofGuadalupe, the David Lopez mural that was originally located in the Maravilla Housing Project (now located here: maps.app.goo.gl/on4BQw5SFwsg...). Photo (1973) from the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center / @uclalibrary.bsky.social: digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:...

Matthew Vest, a music inquiry and research librarian at the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library, has received a UCLA Global Research Award for Resonate 2026, a global open access musical score project. Read more about Resonate 2026 and other winning projects: ucla.in/4p9w9o1

The Contemporary Music Score Collection, published by the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library and Hugo and Christine Davise Fund, has reached 500,000 views on eScholarship! 🎶 🔗 Browse the full collection: ucla.in/47C4OVp

Good luck on finals, Bruins! Whether you’re hitting the books in one of our libraries or studying elsewhere, UCLA Library is here to support you 💙📚 ucla.in/46LsgPZ 📸 University Archives, UCLA Library Special Collections

This winter, the @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social, a unit of UCLA Library, brings a dynamic mix of programming to the Billy Wilder Theater @hammer.ucla.edu. Dozens of screenings of restorations, premieres and film and TV treasures are free to the public, Jan 16-March 22. Full lineup: ucla.in/3YdQLzE

Sun 12/14, 7 p.m. “British Sounds” (1970) “The Third Generation” (1979) A primer in Marx and the deconstruction of capitalist image production, “British Sounds” was Godard’s first completed film with the Dziga Vertov Group. Next, Fassbinder satirizes bourgeois revolutionaries. Free! ucla.in/48ZnqiB

📺 “Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television” Saturday, Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. Join us for a screening of beloved classics and archival gems honoring TV pioneer Desi Arnaz, plus a book signing with biographer Todd S. Purdum before the screening and a Q&A afterwards. Free! ucla.in/48OLS5k

UCLA Library has completed a yearlong preservation project to digitize 173 audiovisual items from the East West Players — the longest-running Asian American theater group in the United States. Materials are now available for access. Read about the preservation process: ucla.in/3XpfhxD

🎬 Reality Frictions (2024) Fri 12/12, 7:30 p.m. Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum L.A. premiere! In his essay film, filmmaker and UCLA Prof. Steve F. Anderson explores the “intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood.” Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker. Free! ucla.in/48oL5sN

UCLA Library bridges collections, scholarship and innovation, helping students, faculty and public scholars generate knowledge at the intersection of teaching, learning and research. Take a look at what the Library has achieved in our full 2024-2025 Impact Report: library.ucla.edu/impact/2025

Sunday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m. 35mm double feature! 🎞 “Putney Swope” (dir. Robert Downey Sr., 1969) “Hi, Mom!” (dir. Brian De Palma, 1970) Free: ucla.in/48sK1CN (Clip from “Putney Swope”)

Family Flicks: “The Wiz” (1978) ✨ Sun 12/7, 11 a.m. Director Sidney Lumet’s dazzling adaptation of the hit Broadway musical transplants L. Frank Baum’s fantastical world from somewhere over the rainbow to somewhere over the Brooklyn Bridge. Co-presented by @hammer.ucla.edu Free! ucla.in/3XvdZRO

Our Father, the Devil (2021) Sat 12/6, 7:30 p.m. Babetida Sadjo is riveting as a Guinean refugee and chef in France whose life is upended by the arrival of a priest tied to a harrowing past. Dir. Ellie Foumbi crafts a taut revenge thriller and a profound meditation on healing. Free ucla.in/3Y1cdYE

This #GivingTuesday, donate to the University Librarian’s Greatest Needs Fund at UCLA Library! Your contribution will support librarians and the Bruin community in driving academic research and expanding student resources. Support UCLA Library today: ucla.in/49EjFA3

Announcing our free events for winter 2026! Screening January through March: Chinese-language films rescued by the Archive from the shuttered Sing Lee Theatre in L.A.’s Chinatown, anti-fascist Hollywood classics preserved by the Archive, Rod Serling and Gene Hackman TV + more: cinema.ucla.edu/events

🇺🇦 “Eyes on Ukraine” (2025) Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. Join us for the official premiere of this powerful doc that explores the intersection of two crises — war and HIV. It looks to the resilience of a new generation, navigating survival and community through art and activism. Free: ucla.in/4hMXfi9

The Villa of the Birds located in Alexandria, Egypt hosts a stunning array of Early Roman mosaics conserved by five transnational agencies between 1998-2000. View more photos documenting the conservation process through the UCLA Library International Digital Ephemera Project: ucla.in/4nNOgOT

Sun 11/23: “Born in Flames” (1983) + “Stranger Inside” (2001) Lizzie Borden’s “Born in Flames” is a radical vision of feminist revolt set in a dystopian NY. Followed by Cheryl Dunye’s “Stranger Inside,” a women’s prison drama centering a young Black lesbian. Borden in person! Free: ucla.in/3LUEYU1

📺 “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles” Sat 11/22, 7:30 p.m. Join us for a specially curated best of “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles” (1964–9) featuring Angels Flight, Clifton’s Cafeteria, Sunset Blvd., the long-lost landmarks Hollywood Ranch Market and Beverly Park, and other iconic places. Free! ucla.in/4921qo0

🔔 Reminder: Monday, November 17 is the preliminary application deadline for 2025-26 UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program Grants. Full application details: ucla.in/4n8aJGS

🎥 I May Destroy You (2020) Sun 11/16, 7 p.m. Michaela Coel’s series is a bold exploration of trauma, consent and survival. UCLA Prof. Kathleen McHugh’s research explores the topic of women and anger through the series; she will give a brief talk followed by a screening of 3 episodes ucla.in/3JLcwU8

🎬 An Evening of Films by Pratibha Parmar Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m. “A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. “My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin. Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC

“The Scent of Green Papaya” (1993)—35mm! Sat 11/15, 7:30 p.m. Trần Anh Hùng’s film is a luminous portrait of the sensuous world as experienced by a servant girl in ’50s Saigon. Preparing and sharing meals becomes central to her attunement with the rhythms of nature and family life: ucla.in/3LCLYVn

You can help us unlock a huge challenge gift for UCLA Library! 🏆 If the Library receives 100 gifts, of any amount, double Bruin Liz Harter ’72, MLS ’79 will make an additional $12,000 donation! 💙 Support us today: crowdfunding.ucla.edu/uclalibrary

Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud 📽 Nov 21–Dec 20 Cartoonist Nathan Gelgud’s book, “Reel Politik,” published by @dandq.bsky.social, is a loving satire of all things arthouse with a Marxist-Leninist twist. Join us for a film series inspired by his work: ucla.in/4nBh50T

Applications for 2026 UCLA Library Special Collections fellowships are open! This program provides financial support for travel and other expenses to facilitate research with unique holdings in Library Special Collections. 🗓️ Apply by Monday, December 1, 2025 🔗Full details: ucla.in/3Js9cgg

Sat 11/8, 7:30 p.m. “The Man Without a World” (1991) L.A. restoration premiere with live music! 🎻 🎹 In this modern silent, dir. Eleanor Antin suffuses Jewish shtetl life in ’20s Poland with mysticism, politics and homespun wisdom swirling in a pot of love, jealousy and murder Free ucla.in/3WWrIRn

Sun 11/9, 7 p.m. “The Juniper Tree” (Iceland, 1990)—35mm! While still a film student at UCLA, writer-director Nietzchka Keene made this stunning folk horror story, featuring Björk as one of a pair of sisters who are cast to the rocky wilds when their mother is accused of witchcraft: ucla.in/43RMepM

Want to be part of something big, bold and Bruin? During UCLA’s Blue and Gold Challenge week, your support can help UCLA Library expand research resources, preserve world-class collections, and keep Library staff ahead of the tech curve. Donate today: crowdfunding.ucla.edu/uclalibrary

🔔 Reminder: Monday, November 17 is the preliminary application deadline for 2025-26 UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program Grants. Full application details: ucla.in/4n8aJGS

💭 UCLA Library presents the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences. From Oct 7- Nov 12, four distinguished speakers explore the diverse connections between mathematics and behavioral sciences. 🔗 RSVP: go.library.ucla.edu/marschak

Santa Monica, 1925. Adelbert Bartlett photo. UCLA library. #history #photography #California

Happy Halloween! 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961” Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl

On October 29, 1969, computer scientists at #UCLA (in 3420 Boelter Hall) sent the first Internet message to a team at Stanford. See a handful of images about that #Internethistory courtesy of @uclasamueli.bsky.social -> samueli.ucla.edu/internet50-p... #histstm #ARPANET

Labor in the archives! Had a blast showing off the Justice for Janitors collection to David Huerta who shared stories of the epic 2000 LA janitors strike. Thanks to our @uclalibrary.bsky.social partners!

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐 Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l... @uclasamueli.bsky.social

Friday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. 📽 “Notfilm” (2015) Filmmaker Ross Lipman’s deep dive into the production of literary giant Samuel Beckett’s only movie, “Film” (1965), explores how the influences of a cavalcade of artists coalesced — or not — into one of the most enigmatic cinematic works: ucla.in/43IAXrQ

A vital part of archiving history is creating descriptive metadata so that it remains discoverable. On our blog, UCLA student Marley Saldivar-Lozano discusses “Reflecciones” (1972–4) and her work with the Archive to create accurate, ethical metadata for the series, which is online 📺 ucla.in/3JuET8G

Sun 11/2: “Wanda” (1970) — 35mm! 🎞 Book signing + Q&A with Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social, author of “BFI Film Classics: Wanda” Made by and starring Barbara Loden, this influential independent film is a portrait of an apathetic woman on a journey through a rural landscape: ucla.in/4gMkkAY

📽 Friday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. “Sudden Fear” (1952) A riveting Joan Crawford anchors this masterful blend of romance, suspense and noir. Crawford transforms from smitten newlywed to cunning survivor when she discovers her husband’s (Jack Palance) devious plot. Free! ucla.in/42YRJmp