Every year, the works chosen for the three Academy Award categories for short films are among the most overlooked of the year’s Oscar selections. Aside from those usually coupled with Pixar films and the rare popular YouTube short, the majorityof pieces go on unseen and unheard of by the general public. Read more...
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January 29, 12:00 am
Movie Review: ‘Tim’s Vermeer’
Renowned 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, famous in the art world for creating photograph-like interior spaces, may have traced his work. At least that’s what is purported by the film “Tim’s Vermeer,” a documentary narrated by Penn Jillette and directed by Teller, both of famed comedy-magic duo Penn and Teller. Read more...
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January 28, 12:34 am
Out of Focus: The films of Anthony Mann come to Westwood
Modern cinema is indebted to Anthony Mann, even if few are aware of it. Working under strict production codes and B-picture budgets, Mann crafted a string of brilliant movies in the 1940s and 1950s that chronicled outsiders and anti-heroes long before they became popular. Read more...
Photo: “The Furies,” a Western starring Walter Huston and Barbara Stanwyck, is one of a selection of films by director Anthony Mann screening at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater from Jan. 31 to March 30. The series is titled “Dark City, Open Country: The Films of Anthony Mann.”
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January 24, 12:30 am
Movie Review: ‘Like Father, Like Son’
Riddled with the complexities of father-son relationships, the occasional laugh and a rather unfortunate revelation, “Like Father, Like Son” delicately depicts the story of two families that find themselves struggling with the notion of nature versus nurture. Read more...
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January 24, 12:00 am
Movie Review: ‘Stranger by the Lake’
“Stranger by the Lake” can be placed comfortably in opposition to last year’s Palme d’Or winner “Blue Is the Warmest Color.” While the latter found success in fitting lesbian lovers into a conventional romance, the former delights in the transgressive surrealism of its premise, taking cues from Hitchcock in its intertwining of love and death. Read more...
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January 22, 12:00 am
TFT student’s ‘Of Love, My Siren’ inspired by Chinatown
Chinese dragons, fortune cookies, flashing pagodas. Classic icons of San Francisco’s Chinatown illuminate the screen as a sultry nightclub singer takes the stage in a crowded speakeasy. Read more...
Photo: “Of Love, My Siren” is the thesis film of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television student Chelsey Dubiel. The story centers on the romantic relationship of lovers Leu and Tony, set in the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
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January 21, 12:54 am
Out of Focus: Classic noir film “Laura” returns to big screen
Film noir, a genre characterized by dark lighting, seedy characters and raging sexuality, became an American movie mainstay in the early 1940s. Influenced by the stylized cinema of the German Expressionists and the white-hot violence of 1930s pulp magazines like “Black Mask,” film noir would leave an indelible mark on film. Read more...
Photo: One of the definitive mystery and noir films of the 1940s, Otto Preminger’s “Laura” stars Dana Andrews as Mark McPherson, a detective who falls in love with Laura (Gene Tierney), a woman who’s murder he is investigating.