When a film made for around $50,000 about a male-prostitute-turned-political-radical earned almost $20 million dollars and became required viewing for the Black Panthers, Hollywood noticed. Read more...

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A still from “Cooley High,” a 1975 film that will be included in the UCLA Film and Television Archive series “Paint it Black: Revisiting Blaxploitation and African American Cinema of the 1970s.” The series begins tonight with a screening of “Super Fly.”

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September apparently brings 113-degree temperatures this year, but also the usual bounty of new TV shows. Read more...

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Within the world of cinema, only movies with the biggest names, biggest budgets and biggest studios behind them seem to be shown by our local theaters. Films coming from independent, foreign or experimental directors with just as much to offer oftentimes find no venue to share their artistic value. This is where second-year cinema and media studies graduate student Phil Coldiron comes in. Read more...

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Phil Coldiron, a second-year cinema and media studies graduate student, is the new director of Melnitz Movies, a series that screens films twice a week in the James Bridges Theater. He plans to combine popular films with more obscure choices.

There may be no better way to prepare for the month of October than with a dark theater and a scary movie. Read more...

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The UCLA Film and Television Archive will be showing “Bride of Frankenstein,” the 1935 sequel to “Frankenstein,” as part of their “Out of the Past” series, which showcases remastered classic films. (Photo: The Movie DB)