National Film Center (NFC) has got independent from the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and has become National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ) since April 1, 2018. This is an archive page of former NFC.
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Past Screening

  • October 25 - November 6, 2016

Film Treasures from UCLA Film & Television Archive

Co-organizers: National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
                               Tokyo International Film Festival
                               Motion Picture Association (MPA)
                               Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association, Inc.

Special co-operation: UCLA Film & Television Archive

Grant: U.S. Embassy, Tokyo

NO ENTRY AFTER SCREENING STARTS

Fee per film: Single Ticket 1,300yen / University, College & High School Students, Seniors (age 65 and over) 1,100yen /
Elementary & Junior High School Pupils and Disabled People (with one companion) 520yen /  “Campus Members” 900yen (Students), 1,000yen (Faculty Members)
*Student U30: Students age 30 or younger, with student ID will be admission free [Only for the first 20 persons per each screening]

・Tickets are only available from the ticket desk 30 minutes before screening starts.
・To obtain concessionary tickets, visitors must show a valid piece of ID.
・Visitors must arrive at the announced time (Latecomers will not be admitted) .
・Only one ticket per person per show can be issued.

Capacity: 310 seats

No screening on Mondays and November 1st.

program note

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), located right next to Hollywood and known for its many world-renowned film alumni, has the world’s largest university-based media archive. This archive has been restoring more than 400 films, and has organized UCLA Festival of Preservation since 1988.

This program brings to Tokyo the collection of restored films of American classics dating from the silent era up to the 1980s, including restored special version of My Darling Clementine (1946) by John Ford. Please enjoy the restored 35mm films from UCLA Film & Television Archive on our big screen!

film details

1The Toll of the Sea(54min, 19fps, 35mm, silent, color, English intertitles)

  • October 27, 201619:00@Cinema 1
  • November 5, 201611:30@Cinema 1

1922 (Director)Chester Franklin (Screenplay)Frances Marion (Cinematography) J. A. Ball (Cast)Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Baby Moran, Etta Lee, Ming Young
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Chinese girl Lotus Flower (May Wong) finds Allen (Harlan), an American, washed ashore and looks after him. They fall in love and marry, but Allen returns home, leaving Lotus behind. Lotus gives birth to a child and names him after his father. Years later Allen returns but with an American wife.



2Becky Sharp(85min, 35mm, color, English)

  • October 25, 201615:00@Cinema 1
  • November 5, 201613:30@Cinema 1

1935 (Director)Rouben Mamoulian (Producer)Kenneth Macgowan (Original Novel )William Makepeace Thackeray (Original Play)Langdon Mitchell (Screenplay)Francis Edward Faragoh (Cinematographer)Ray Rennahan (Production Designer)Robert Edmond Jones (Music)Roy Webb (Technicolor Color Director)Natalie Kalmus (Cast)Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray, Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwick, Alison Skipworth
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation.

Early 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars, Becky (Hopkins) and Amelia (Dee) finish school together. Socially ambitious Becky tries to link up with gentlemen and manages to marry Captain Rawdon (Mowbray). But her naked ambition results in repeated successes and failures.



3My Darling Clementine[Preview Version](102min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • October 25, 201619:00@Cinema 1
  • November 3, 201613:00@Cinema 1

1946 (Director)John Ford (Producer/Screenplay)Samuel G. Engel (Original Novel)Stuart N. Lake (Screenplay)Winston Miller (Art Direction )James Besevi, Lyle R. Wheeler (Music)Cyril Mockridge (Cast)Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Ireland
35mm restored “special version” print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and American Movie Classics.

In 1882 the Earp brothers are driving cattle they bought in Mexico to California. While the eldest brother Wyatt (Fonda) stops in Tombstone, the youngest brother James is murdered and the cattle rustled by the Clantons. Wyatt becomes the town marshal and seeks revenge with Doc (Mature) and others.



4Force of Evil(78min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • October 30, 201612:30@Cinema 1
  • November 4, 201619:00@Cinema 1

1948 (Director )Abraham Polonsky (Producer)Bob Roberts (Screenplay)Abraham Polonsky (Original Novel/Screenplay)Ira Wolfert (Cinematographer )George Barnes (Art Direction)Richard Day (Music)David Raksin (Cast)John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Roy Roberts, Howland Chamberlain, Marie Windsor
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Archive Council.

Lawyer Joe (Garfield) works for Tucker (Roberts) who wants to control the numbers racket in New York. Joe tries to help his brother Leo (Gomez) who runs a small illegal bank, but old grudges get in their way. Joe and Tucker’s heavy-handed approach gives rise to betrayal which brings them to ruin.



5Caught(88min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • October 30, 201616:00@Cinema 1
  • November 2, 201615:00@Cinema 1

1949 (Director)Max Ophüls (Producer)Wolfgang Reinhardt (Original Story)Libbie Block (Screenplay)Arthur Laurents (Cinematographer)Lee Garmes (Production Designer)Frank Paul Sylos (Editor)Robert Parrish (Costume)Orry-Kelly (Music )Friedrich Hollander (Cast)James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Frank Fergusson, Curt Bois, Ruth Brady
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by The Film Foundation and the AFI/NEA Film Preservation Grants Program.

Leonora marries millionaire Ohlrig, but he doesn’t love her and tries to control her. Leonora leaves and starts working at a clinic in a poor neighborhood. She falls in love with Dr. Quinada but is already pregnant with Ohlrig’s child. Leonora returns to Ohlrig, which sends her over the edge.



6Too Late for Tears(99min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • October 26, 201619:00@Cinema 1
  • October 29, 201612:30@Cinema 1

1949 (Director)Byron Haskin (Producer)Hunt Stromberg (Screenplay)Roy Huggins (Cinematographer)William C. Mellor (Art Direction)James Sullivan (Music)R. Dale Butts (Cast)Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation.

Someone in an oncoming car throws a bag of cash in Alan (Kennedy) and Jane’s (Scott) car at night. Jane persuades Alan to keep the money but Danny (Duryea) comes to demand its return. Alan’s sister Kathy (Miller) is concerned about her brother, and Alan’s friend Don (Defore) also comes to see him.



7Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury)(92min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • October 27, 201615:00@Cinema 1
  • October 29, 201616:30@Cinema 1

1950 (Director)Cy Endfield (Producer)Robert Stillman (Novel and Screenplay)Jo Pagano (Cinematography )Guy Roe (Production Design)Perry Furguson (Music)Hugo Friedhofer (Cast)Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Carlson, Renzo Cesana, Cliff Clark, Donald Smelick
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation.

Howard (Lovejoy) lives in California with his family. Out of desperation for a job, he joins Jerry (Bridges) in a crime which escalates to kidnap and murder. They are arrested, and the mobs, instigated by sensational journalism, swarm the prison for a lynching.



8Seven Men from Now(78min, 35mm, color, English)

  • October 26, 201615:00@Cinema 1
  • November 3, 201616:00@Cinema 1

1956 (Director )Budd Boetticher (Producer) Andrew V. McLaglen (Original Story/Screenplay )Burt Kennedy (Cinematographer)William H. Clothier (Art Direction)A. Leslie Thomas (Music)Henry Vars (Cast)Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, Don Barry, John Larch
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Stride (Scott) is tracking seven men who killed his wife during a robbery, and helps a couple on the way. He meets his nemesis Masters (Marvin) at a station but parts company on a stormy night. Stride realizes the couple is in fact carrying the stolen money and tries to draw the bandits out of town.



9The Connection(103min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • November 4, 201615:00@Cinema 1
  • November 6, 201616:30@Cinema 1

1961 (Director)Shirley Clarke (Original Play)Jack Gelber (Producer )Shirley Clarke, Lewis Allen (Cinematographer )Arthur J. Ornitz (Production Designer )Richard Sylbert (Music)Freddie Redd (Cast)Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee, William Redfield, Roscoe Browne, Barbara Winchester, Henry Proach, Musicians: Freddie Redd(Piano), Jackie McLean(Saxophone), Larry Ritchie(Drums), Michael Mattos(Bass)
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation.

Leach, a drug addict, and jazz musicians are waiting for a dealer to arrive at his apartment in New York. They have been assembled by Dunn, a budding film director, to make a documentary but shooting doesn’t go well. Dunn ends up trying heroin to better understand the theme.



10Mickey One(93min, 35mm, b&w, English)

  • November 2, 201619:00@Cinema 1
  • November 6, 201614:00@Cinema 1

1965 (Director)Arthur Penn (Producer)Arthur Penn (Screenplay)Alan Surgal (Cinematographer)Ghislain Cloquet (Production Designer)George Jenkins (Music)Eddie Sauter (Cast)Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Kamatari Fujiwara, Franchot Tone, Teddy Hart, Jeff Corey
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Popular stand-up comic (Beatty) flees Detroit after incurring the wrath of his boss and the audience. He starts over in Chicago as Mickey One and falls in love with Jenny (Stewart). As he tentatively returns to the stage, he bumps into Ed (Hatfield) and encounters danger.



11Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean(109min., 35mm, color, English)

  • October 28, 201619:00@Cinema 1
  • November 6, 201611:00@Cinema 1

1982 (Director)Robert Altman (Producer)Scott Bushnell (Original Play/Screenplay)Ed Graczyk (Cinematographer)Pierre Mignot (Production Designer)David Gropman (Cast)Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudei Bond, Kathy Bates, Marta Heflin
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Members of the James Dean fan club meet at Juanita (Bond) ’s general store in Texas after 20 years. In addition to the members of the club, Mona (Dennis), Stella (Bates), Sissy (Cher) and Edna (Heflin), a mysterious woman (Black) arrives, and secrets of their lives over the past 20 years are slowly revealed.



12Matewan(132min, 35mm, color, English and Italian)

  • October 28, 201615:00@Cinema 1
  • November 5, 201616:00@Cinema 1

1987 (Director)John Sayles (Producer)Peggy Rajski, Maggie Renzi (Screenplay)John Sayles (Cinematographer )Haskell Wexler (Production Designer )Nora Chavooshian (Music)Mason Darling (Cast)Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Jace Alexander, Bob Gunton
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Matewan coal miners in West Virginia go on strike in protest at a wage cut. Joined by union organizer Joe (Cooper) they win over black and Italian miners, who have been brought in as scabs, without force. But when a young miner is killed by detectives hired by the company, a bloody struggle begins.



October 25, 2016

October 25, 201615:00@Cinema 1

October 26, 2016

October 26, 201615:00@Cinema 1
October 26, 201619:00@Cinema 1

October 27, 2016

October 27, 201615:00@Cinema 1
October 27, 201619:00@Cinema 1

October 28, 2016

October 28, 201615:00@Cinema 1

October 29, 2016

October 29, 201612:30@Cinema 1
October 29, 201614:30@Cinema 1
October 29, 201616:30@Cinema 1

October 30, 2016

October 30, 201612:30@Cinema 1
October 30, 201614:00@Cinema 1
October 30, 201616:00@Cinema 1

November 2, 2016

November 2, 201615:00@Cinema 1
November 2, 201619:00@Cinema 1

November 3, 2016

November 3, 201616:00@Cinema 1

November 4, 2016

November 4, 201615:00@Cinema 1
November 4, 201619:00@Cinema 1

November 5, 2016

November 5, 201611:30@Cinema 1
November 5, 201613:30@Cinema 1
November 5, 201616:00@Cinema 1

November 6, 2016

November 6, 201614:00@Cinema 1
November 6, 201616:30@Cinema 1

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