From its beginning to its end, "Soul Kitchen" is filled with a passionate energy. Read more...

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Los Angeles has long been home to films, and it's long been home to skateboarding, but only recently has it been home to films about skateboarding. Read more...

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Caroline Graeff and Fabrice Le Mao, founders of the Los Angeles Skate Film Festival, pose in a skate park. The first annual festival received more than 100 film submissions. (Photo courtesy of Vanessa Andrieux)

Colors, light, sound, motion, film and artistic vision "“ these are the basic elements of the experimental films found in "The Cross Revolves at Sunset." The UCLA Film & Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum offer a program of nine experimental short films that have been recently restored by the Academy Film Archive. Read more...

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Gary Beydler’s 1975 film “Hand Held Day” is one of nine experimental works that will be screened during “The Cross Revolves at Sunset,” a presentation of recently restored films from the Academy Film Archive.

Credits: UCLA Film & Television Archive

It began with three UCLA graduates, $20,000 and a 600-square-foot office in Irvine. Three young entrepreneurs started working on video games just months after receiving their undergraduate degrees from UCLA using computers brought from home, and even some borrowed equipment. Silicon & Synapse, the small company Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce started nearly 20 years ago, is now Blizzard Entertainment. Read more...

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Initially developed in 1996, Battle.net is an online game service that allows users to connect via Blizzard games. Users can purchase and download games and access their respective accounts from different computers without losing progress. (Photo courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment)