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Melnitz Movies

  • Movies are screened at the James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409 on the UCLA campus.
  • All screenings and appearances are subject to change on short notice, so please check our listings before showtime.
  • All movies are FREE to UCLA students, staff, faculty and members of the general public, unless otherwise noted.
  • Melnitz Movies is funded through the UCLA Graduate Students Association and the ASUCLA Student Interaction Fund.
  • Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis (one ticket per person) at the Melnitz box office one hour before showtime.

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    Upcoming Screenings

SPECIAL EVENT: An Evening with Rick Prelinger
May 31, 2013 - 7:30pm
Reserve your tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6083414657/eorg Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation. Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive to make over 3,800 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including Ephemeral Films, the Our Secret Century series and Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling). Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectures widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sat (2001–2004) on the National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, was Board President of the San Francisco...
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The James Bridges Theater is housed in Melnitz Hall, located in the northeast section of the UCLA campus.

Parking

Parking costs $10 in Lot 3, located just north of the James Bridges Theater. Purchase a daily permit at the parking booth located at Wyton Drive and Hilgard Avenue before 7:30 p.m., or from parking attendants at Lot 3 entrances, one hour before showtime. There is also a self-service pay station in Lot 3's northern extension.

Free parking is available on Loring Avenue (south of Sunset Blvd, east of Hilgard Avenue at Charing Cross Road) after 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and all day on weekends.

Public Transportation

Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus lines 1, 2, 3, 8 and 12 operate to and from the Hilgard bus terminal on week days until about 10:15 p.m., and then to and from the Ackerman bus terminal after about 10:15 p.m.. For schedules please visit www.bigbluebus.com.

Metro Bus lines 2, 305 and 761 will take you to Hilgard Ave. and Wyton Dr., a short walking distance from the James Bridges Theater. For schedules please visit www.metro.net.