Once, at a party, UCLA professor and former dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television Robert Rosen turned to someone and said that if he were sitting in a studio and had a million dollars to give to someone, anyone, to do something creative, he would give it to Alex Cox. Read more...

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Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb star as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in the film directed by Alex Cox, a UCLA alumnus.

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In 2007, Alex Gibney and Eliot Spitzer were at the top of their respective worlds.Gibney's latest documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," about the use of torture by American interrogators, would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Read more...

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UCLA alumnus Alex Gibney is the director of “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” a documentary about the downfall of the former New York governor.

Director Matt Porterfield filmed his first feature, "Hamilton," in the same neighborhood, on the same block and in the same house in Baltimore where he grew up. Read more...

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“Putty Hill” and “Hamilton” will be shown at Melnitz Hall on Tuesday. The director of both films, Matt Porterfield, will participate in a Q&A session in between films.

Credits: THE HAMILTON FILM GROUP

Where do aliens, dinosaurs, apes, U.S. soldiers and Roman senators rub shoulders outside of a Westwood Halloween party? Read more...

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This scene from “MASH” was filmed on a movie lot in Malibu Creek State Park and will be featured in the California State Parks film festival.

COURTESY of Zan Dubin Scott