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Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum

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10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

May 2017

UCLA CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA

May 19, 2017 • 8:00 am PDT
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States
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$8 – $100

The power of the moving image to connect people otherwise distanced by cultural, political and national divides has been embodied nowhere more profoundly over the last several decades than in the humanism, artistry and courage of Iranian filmmakers. UCLA Film & Television Archive has been presenting the best of their work in this annual survey for almost thirty years and it does so again this year with a renewed sense of purpose. Our current series includes films from new voices, current…

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November 2019

American Factory

November 1, 2019 • 7:30 pm PDT
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

The 2019 IDA Documentary Screening Series brings this year’s most acclaimed documentaries to industry insiders and film lovers as a series of curated film screenings through the fall season! Join us for a free screening of ‘American Factory’ on Friday Nov. 1 at the Landmark Theater at 7:30PM.   ‘American Factory’ takes a dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar…

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February 2022

Pioneers of Queer Cinema

February 18, 2022 • 7:30 pm - March 28, 2022 PST
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

Historically, queer cinema and related moving images documenting the LGBTQ+ community have been tragically underseen and woefully under-cared for by mainstream society at large. In an effort to confront this existential threat head-on, the UCLA Film & Television Archive partnered with Outfest in 2005 to create the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation. Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2020, the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project has made a priority of documenting, preserving and exhibiting LGBTQ+ moving images from…

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May 2022

2022 UCLA Festival of Preservation

May 20, 2022 - May 22, 2022
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

Newly restored Hollywood classics and forgotten gems from the Archive, including golden age comedies, film noir, animation, documentaries centering social justice, rare TV programs featuring Betty White, Rod Serling and more.

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June 2022

Summer Night Cinema: ‘Official Competition’

June 14, 2022 • 7:30 pm PDT
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

KCRW, the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive invite you to a Summer Night Cinema, a fun filled evening including after hours access to the Hammer Museum galleries and an advance screening.  Come out for a special advance screening of "Official Competition" from IFC Films. The Hammer Museum galleries will be open until 7:30 P.M. Lulu, the Hammer Museum's courtyard restaurant, will also be open for pre-screening drinks and bar bites. Ticketing: Admission is free. Seats will be assigned at the…

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Summer Night Cinema: ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’

June 21, 2022 • 7:30 pm PDT
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

KCRW, the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive invite you to a Summer Night Cinema, a fun filled evening including after hours access to the Hammer Museum galleries and an advance screening. Come out for a special advance screening of  "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song" from Sony Pictures Classics. This event also includes a post-film Q&A with KCRW's Chris Douridas and Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine. The Hammer Museum galleries will be open until 7:30 P.M. Lulu, the Hammer…

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July 2022

Summer Night Cinema: ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’

July 26, 2022 • 7:30 pm PDT
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

KCRW, the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive invite you to a Summer Night Cinema, a fun filled evening including after hours access to the Hammer Museum galleries and an advance screening. Come out for a special advance screening of  "Bodies Bodies Bodies" from A24. This event also includes a post-film Q&A with KCRW's Tyler Boudreaux and the director and cast of the film. Galleries will be open until 7:30 P.M. Lulu, the Hammer's courtyard restaurant, will be open for pre-screening drinks…

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August 2022

Summer Night Cinema: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’

August 23, 2022 • 7:30 pm PDT
Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States

KCRW, the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive invite you to a Summer Night Cinema, a fun filled evening including after hours access to the Hammer Museum galleries and an advance screening. Come out for a special advance screening of "Three Thousand Years of Longing" from MGM. Galleries open until 7:30 P.M. Lulu, Hammer's courtyard restaurant, open for pre-screening drinks and bar bites. Ticketing: Admission is free. Seats will be assigned at the box office on a first…

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