Friday June 6/20
The Witness
Fri 6/20 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons...
Saturday June 6/21
The Old Bachelor
Sat 6/21 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons...
Sunday June 6/22
Jason Moran
Sun 6/22 • 3PM PDT
hammer museum
Jason Moran, jazz pianist, composer, educator, and artist featured in Performance on Paper, discusses his creative practice that explores the intersection of the visual and performing arts.
Celluloid Underground
Sun 6/22 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons...
Tuesday June 6/24
Heightened Scrutiny
Tue 6/24 • 7:30PM PDT
hammer museum
West Coast Premiere! Co-presented by TransUP (Transgender UCLA Pride) and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Democracy, truth, and justice hang in the balance in this riveting documentary that follows the battle against anti-trans legislation to...
Friday June 6/27
The Siren
Fri 6/27 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons...
Saturday June 6/28
Exhibition Tour: Noah Davis
Sat 6/28 • 1PM PDT
hammer museum
Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Noah Davis. Capacity is limited. Visitors will be admitted on a first come, first served...
Tribute to Dariush Mehrjui: Leila
Sat 6/28 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Q&A with Maryam Mehrjui and Safa Mehrjui, daughter and son of Dariush Mehrjui. Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if...
Sunday June 6/29
826LA@Hammer: On The Spot Poetic Thoughts
Sun 6/29 • 11AM PDT
hammer museum
Free collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, combine writing with creative activities for groups of up to 20 students. Recommended for ages 8–14. Reservations encouraged. Visit 826la.org or call 310-915-0200. Bringing together high-energy...
Lawrence Lek
Sun 6/29 • 2PM PDT
hammer museum
Artist Lawrence Lek will screen films from his “Smart City” series, which laid the conceptual groundwork for NOX High-Rise, his exhibition at the Hammer. The screening will be followed by an audio-visual performance by Lek, and a discussion of the...
Tribute to Dariush Mehrjui: Hamoon / The Pear Tree
Sun 6/29 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Introduction by Maryam Mehrjui and Safa Mehrjui, daughter and son of Dariush Mehrjui. Please note: registration does not guarantee...
Tuesday July 7/8
After-Hours Tour: Naoko Takahatake on Performance on Paper
Tue 7/8 • 6PM PDT
hammer museum
Join Naoko Takahatake, Director and Chief Curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, for an exhibition tour of Performance on Paper. Capacity is limited. Visitors will be admitted on a first come, first served...
Friday July 7/11
Summer 1993 / System Crasher
Fri 7/11 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Beyond Barbie Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Prerecorded video introduction and Q&A with "System Crasher" director Nora Fingscheidt. Summer 1993 Spain, 2017 Carla Simón’s tender coming-of-age film follows...
Saturday July 7/12
Pather Panchali
Sat 7/12 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Food and Film Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum In-person: chef and restaurateur Alice Waters. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at...
Sunday July 7/13
Fluctuations of Home: Short Films from L.A. to D.C.
Sun 7/13 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: filmmaker Lupita Limon Corrales. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket...
Friday July 7/18
Razing Liberty Square / Moonlight
Fri 7/18 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Q&A in-between films with “Moonlight” co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney and “Razing Liberty Square” director Katja Esson. Admission is free. No...
Saturday July 7/19
POSTPONED: Archive Talks: I May Destroy You: On Women and Anger
Sat 7/19 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Updated June 6: Please note that this screening will no longer take place on July 19 and will be rescheduled. To receive updates, please sign up for our email newsletter at https://cinema.ucla.edu/signup. ---------- Part of: Archive Talks ...
RESCHEDULED: Bye Bye Tiberias
Sat 7/19 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Updated June 6: Please note that this screening will no longer take place on July 20 and has been rescheduled to July 19. ---------- Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free....
Sunday July 7/20
Family Flicks: Flow
Sun 7/20 • 11AM PDT
hammer museum
Recommended for ages 6+ The Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature, Flow follows a solitary cat in the aftermath of a devastating flood. Finding shelter on a boat among a capybara, a lemur, and others, the cat bands together with the...
Flow
Sun 7/20 • 11AM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Family Flicks Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks...
Friday July 7/25
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Fri 7/25 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of "The Devil Finds Work." Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will...
Saturday July 7/26
Space Age TV Rarity: William Shatner Starring In "The Night of the Auk"
Sat 7/26 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Archive Television Treasures Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you...
Sunday July 7/27
826LA@Hammer: Bridges to Our Lives: Writing the Epistolary Poem
Sun 7/27 • 11AM PDT
hammer museum
Free collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, combine writing with creative activities for groups of up to 20 students. Recommended for ages 8–14. Reservations encouraged. Visit 826la.org or call 310-915-0200. What if a poem could be more...
A Tale of Two Cities
Sun 7/27 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of "The Devil Finds Work." Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will...
Tuesday July 7/29
Webern Quartet, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Tue 7/29 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Lani Hall, 445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1988 to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. The first concert in this...
Wednesday July 7/30
After-Hours Tour: Ariel Osterweis on Performance on Paper
Wed 7/30 • 6PM PDT
hammer museum
Join Ariel Osterweis, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Dance Studies and Performance Studies at CalArts, for an exhibition tour of Performance on Paper. Capacity is limited. Visitors will be admitted on a first-come, first-served...
Thursday July 7/31
Strings and Keys, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Thu 7/31 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Lani Hall, 445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1988 to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. The second concert in...
Friday August 8/1
Nashville
Fri 8/1 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Robert Altman’s America: A Centennial Review Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned...
Saturday August 8/2
Archive Talks: Love, Queenie: Revisiting Merle Oberon
Sat 8/2 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Archive Talks Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Q&A with Mayukh Sen, author of "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star," moderated by film programmer Miriam Bale. Admission is free. No...
Sunday August 8/3
In This Our Life
Sun 8/3 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of "The Devil Finds Work." Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will...
Tuesday August 8/5
Southern Notes: From Provence to Florence, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Tue 8/5 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Lani Hall, 445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1988 to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. The penultimate in this...
Thursday August 8/7
Mozart and Faure Piano Quartets, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival
Thu 8/7 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Lani Hall, 445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1988 to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. The final concert in this...
Nicole McCabe Quartet
Thu 8/7 • 8PM PDT
hammer museum
Nicole McCabe, alto saxophone Karl McComas-Reichl, bass Joshua White, piano Mark Ferber, drums In her growing body of work, rising star Los Angeles alto saxophonist Nicole McCabe infuses her hard-bop roots with influences ranging from electronic...
Friday August 8/8
Tales of Manhattan
Fri 8/8 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of "The Devil Finds Work." Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat...
Saturday August 8/9
Psychedelic Noir: Dragnet 1967-68
Sat 8/9 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Archive Television Treasures Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you...
Sunday August 8/10
The Wild Robot
Sun 8/10 • 11AM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Family Flicks Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks...
The Exorcist
Sun 8/10 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of "The Devil Finds Work." Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will...
Wednesday August 8/13
Lunchtime Art Talk on Christian Marclay
Wed 8/13 • 12:30PM PDT
hammer museum
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. This talk on Christian Marclay is led by Curatorial Assistant Nyah...
Thursday August 8/14
Bobby Bradfords Stealin Home: a tribute to Jackie Robinson
Thu 8/14 • 8PM PDT
hammer museum
Bobby Bradford, cornet, lyrics Vinny Golia, alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet Chuck Manning, tenor saxophone William Roper, tuba, euphonium, spoken word, vocals Don Preston, piano, gong Henry Franklin, bass Tina Raymond, drums West Coast...
Friday August 8/15
In the Heat of the Night
Fri 8/15 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Live dramatic reading of an excerpt of "The Devil Finds Work." Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will...
Saturday August 8/16
3 Women / Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Sat 8/16 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Robert Altman’s America: A Centennial Review Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned...
Sunday August 8/17
The Inheritance
Sun 8/17 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: director Ephraim Asili. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box...
Wednesday August 8/20
Lunchtime Art Talk on Hanna Hur
Wed 8/20 • 12:30PM PDT
hammer museum
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. This talk on Hanna Hur is led by Curator Erin...
Thursday August 8/21
Naomi Moon Siegel Quartet
Thu 8/21 • 8PM PDT
hammer museum
Naomi Moon Siegel, trombone Marina Albero, piano Kelsey Mines, bass Christopher Icasiano, drums Trombonist, composer, and bandleader Naomi Moon Siegel weaves together a myriad of musical influences in her dynamic and thoughtful music. Based in...
Sunday August 8/24
M*A*S*H / Brewster McCloud
Sun 8/24 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Robert Altman’s America: A Centennial Review Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned...
Saturday September 9/13
The Long Goodbye / California Split
Sat 9/13 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Robert Altman’s America: A Centennial Review Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned...
Sunday September 9/14
Thieves Like Us / Kansas City
Sun 9/14 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Robert Altman’s America: A Centennial Review Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned...