TONIGHT- The Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present a free screening of
Passing Through
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive series about filmmaker Larry Clark.
Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.
In-person: Filmmaker Larry Clark.
PASSING THROUGH
U.S., 1977
Frequently hailed as one of the best jazz movies ever made, Passing Through opens with what may be the most exciting seven minutes in American cinema as a jazz ensemble riffing through a series of improvisations fuses into an abstract collage of color, sound and movement. What follows is both an homage—Larry Clark dedicates the film to “Hebert Baker and other Black Musicians known and unknown”—and a setting straight through the story of Womack (Nathaniel Taylor), a saxophonist who returns home from a prison stint to reconnect with his mentor and grandfather, a legendary musician and pick up the pieces of his life. Sent up for defending a fellow Black musician from white gangsters who control the music industry through violence, Womack again finds himself fighting for the right to create on his own terms. With an astonishing score composed by Horace Tapscott and performed by The Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra, Passing Through celebrates—and, indeed, embodies—Black artistry while exposing the racist historical forces aligned to exploit it.
35mm, color, 111 min. Director: Larry Clark. Screenwriter: Larry Clark, Ted Lange. With: Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones.
ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Ticketing: Admission to Archive screenings at the Hammer is free. Registration is required via the Film & Television Archive website, and tickets must be picked up at the box office. Hammer members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before showtime. Please review the Archive’s ticketing policy and COVID-19 admission policy. Questions should be directed to the Archive at programming@cinema.ucla.edu or 310-206-8013.
Parking: Parking is available under the museum. Rates are $7 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $20 daily maximum. There is a $7 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.
The Billy Wilder Theater, home of UCLA Film & Television Archive’s public programs, is among a handful of venues nationwide able to exhibit an entire century’s worth of moving images in their original formats. From the earliest silent films requiring variable speed projection all the way up to cutting-edge digital cinema, the Wilder can accommodate an array of screen technologies.
The theater’s modern design by Michael Maltzan Architecture stylishly interprets cinema’s play of light and movement in real space, and the 285-seat interior features comfortable leather seats with superb sightlines. The theater is made possible by a generous gift from Audrey L. Wilder and named in honor of Mrs. Wilder’s late husband, the legendary screenwriter, director and producer. Born on the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Billy Wilder fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s to become a master of Hollywood film language and a shrewd comic observer of the American scene. Among the many classics Wilder co-wrote and directed were Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Some Like It Hot (1959).
Please note that food is not permitted inside the theater. There are dining options in the surrounding Westwood Village. You may also opt to bring your own food and eat in the courtyard just outside the theater.
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