A Norma Shearer silent, film noir from Argentina and a classic Richard Pryor comedy TV special are among the rarities at this year's Festival of Preservation.
Hello preservation, my old friend. I’ve come to talk of you again. It’s not just any film conservation project that’s compelled my attention but UCLA’s justly acclaimed Festival of Preservation. Unspooling from Friday through the weekend, it’s one of the great events on the Los Angeles movie calendar and, even in its 21st biennial edition, still as exciting and groundbreaking as ever. The latest iteration of the festival features the qualities that have always made it stand out.
” In disrepair for years and preserved by the efforts of TV writer David Stenn, “Wages” is enjoyably lurid to the max as it tells the sad tale of a good girl gone wrong, headed straight into the “sisterhood of sorrow” from which there is no turning back. As always, the festival does not neglect hidden gems of the silent era, including 1923’s beautifully tinted “Man and Wife,” an early Norma Shearer feature which showcased the New York-based actor before Irving Thalberg and Louis B.
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