The Nightmare Before Christmas, Joan Didion and the Counterculture, documentarian Robert Carl Cohen + more

Fri Dec 2, 7:30 p.m.

The Broadcast (1968)

Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983)

Reconstruction (1970)

In this short by Theo Angelopoulos, the producers of a pop music show hit the streets to ask women what makes the ideal man. Followed by a television work that takes viewers on a personal journey through the city where he was born and raised. Then, Reconstruction, his first feature, uses a crime story to explore the impact of economic deprivation and emigration on a rural Greek village.

In person: Q&A with Phoebe Economopoulou Angelopoulou, widow of Theo Angelopoulos and executive producer.

Landscapes of Time: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos is co-presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, with the collaboration of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.

Family Flicks: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

An enthralling vision from Tim Burton, brought to life by director Henry Selick and set to the joyfully macabre melodies of Danny Elfman, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a perennial holiday classic for any occasion.

No registration needed; first come, first served. Co-presented by the Hammer Museum.

Didion and the Counterculture

Inspired by Joan Didion’s writings on the counterculture and political militancy of the 1960s, this program brings together four works: Agnès Varda’s dispatch on the Black Panthers in Oakland, Kenneth Anger’s avant-garde short starring Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil, Ralph Arlyck’s portrait of a four-year-old hippie in the Haight, and a documentary about one woman’s path to feminist self-understanding.

No registration needed; first come, first served. Co-presented by the Hammer Museum.

Radical Films: A Weekend with Robert Carl Cohen

Best known for Mondo Hollywood (1967), a documentary time capsule of the Los Angeles counterculture, Robert Carl Cohen forged a pioneering career as a filmmaker, foreign correspondent, photographer, public lecturer and author focused on politics and social justice issues. The Archive will screen a selection of works representing his lasting contribution to the documentary field.

Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Wister, the Time Twister (1956), Mondo Hollywood (1967)

Dec. 11, 7 p.m. Inside Red China (1957), Committee on Un-American Activities (1962)

In person: filmmaker Robert Carl Cohen.