In recent years, it seems as if movies are getting longer and longer, making some difficult to sit through. The Shorttakes Film Festival has just the solution – a selection of short films that are light on length and heavy on content. Read more...
In recent years, it seems as if movies are getting longer and longer, making some difficult to sit through. The Shorttakes Film Festival has just the solution – a selection of short films that are light on length and heavy on content. Read more...
Someone tell Edward Cullen horror wants its vampires back. Read more...
Director Shane Black is already one of high expectations, the UCLA alumnus also having written the first “Lethal Weapon” film. Read more...
As UCLA professor A.P. Gonzales asked his students to write down their earliest memories, Olivia Silver took paper to pen and relived the moment of shock she felt upon arriving at her new home in the San Gabriel Valley after driving cross-country from Connecticut. For Silver, this would be the first step in creating her first feature film, “Arcadia.” Read more...
France, around 1971: bohemian kickback, heroin flowing, bonfires blazing; nude or half-nude, the Marxists-maybe-Maoists dance, music booming, politics looming. Embers flicker in the air, romance, youth and ennui and smoke, tasseled together inseparable, floating ethereal into nevermore. Read more...
Selling the film rights for $1, Salman Rushdie entrusted his magical realism epic novel “Midnight’s Children” to his friend and director Deepa Mehta, believing she could surmount such a troublesome adaptation. Read more...
Sweat hang in the air. Everything is glistening, waiting for the plot, the explosion. Cue dynamite. Violence. Men with excess testosterone; vixens in silhouette. And a Michael Bay production comes screaming across the sky, and, this summer, nothing will ever be the same again. Read more...