Purgatory, desolation and loneliness aren't the first words that come to mind when the carjacking video game "Grand Theft Auto" is mentioned. Read more...
Photo: Peggy Ahwesh’s 2001 15-minute film “She Puppet” was inspired by Lara Croft, the main character in the “Tomb Raider” video game franchise. The film is one of several that will be screened tonight at the Avant-game festival at James Bridges Theater.
Students fill the spaces between stage walls, dated sofas and a fake fireplace of the set built on Sound Stage 3 of Melnitz Hall. Read more...
Photo: The 2010 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence John Bailey is the 11th cinematographer selected for the yearly position of leading lectures for UCLA film students. Bailey worked on films “The Big Chill” and “Groundhog Day.”
Inside a tie-dyed drawstring bag hangs a 12-inch version of one of literature's most complex characters, Don Quixote. Read more...
Photo: UCLA animation instructor Steven Ritz-Barr will perform his puppet show, “Quixote,” Friday at 4 p.m. at the James Bridges Theater.
The members of McKinley High School glee club, the fictional subjects of the hit FOX television show, "Glee" wanted to make artistic expression socially acceptable at their school. Read more...
Photo: Fans of the FOX show “Glee” stand in line at the Grove to wait for a special screening of an upcoming episode on Saturday, April 10. The show returns from hiatus tonight at 9:28 p.m.
The war in Iraq has inspired a number of movies and documentaries, covering everything from the search for weapons of mass destruction to the role of oil, varying in their degrees of political commentary and sensationalism. Read more...
Photo: A still from the documentary, “Fighting for Life,” which profiles the Uniformed Services University and military medics working in the war in Iraq. The documentary will be screened tonight at the James Bridges Theater on campus.
In the middle of August, Italy just stops. Read more...
The iconic scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" that has made generations scared of shower curtains ever since "“ the beauty of Janet Leigh, a bathtub, a knife "“ owes much of its spine-tingling terror to the accompanying music of intensely screeching violins. Read more...
Photo: Photo Illustration by MAX CHANG/daily bruin senior staff
