“Street Fight” Directed by Marshall Curry Marshall Curry Productions LLC The 2002 mayoral election in Newark, N.J. was not a big concern for the average Californian, or even the average American. Read more...
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February 22, 9:00 pm
Screen Scene: "Street Fight"
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February 22, 9:00 pm
Screen Scene: "Unknown White Male"
“Unknown White Male” Directed by Rupert Murray Wellspring Media When it comes to movies, memory loss has been the stuff of fiction ““ think “Mulholland Drive,” “Memento” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” However, Rupert Murray’s documentary “Unknown White Male” ““ and what happened to Murray’s friend, Doug Bruce ““ is 100 percent real. Read more...
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February 22, 9:00 pm
Seeing Sound
Anyone who’s seen a light show or Disney’s “Fantasia” has witnessed the genre of art known as visual music ““ and probably without knowing it. Expanding the reach of visual music is precisely the goal of “Abstraction and Visual Music: Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists,” to be screened by Melnitz Movies on Feb. Read more...
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February 22, 9:00 pm
Italian Games
This quarter, the UCLA Department of Theater decided to try something old and something new. The 16th-century French comedy “The Marriage of Figaro” by Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais opens today and will run in repertory through March 11 along with “Il Gelosi,” written and directed by visiting UCLA Professor David Bridel, in collaboration with graduate acting students. Read more...
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February 15, 9:00 pm
Sound bite: “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
Arctic Monkeys “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” Domino Records The Arctic Monkeys must be doing something right. The pop-rock quartet nearly beat out Oasis as the fastest-selling U.K. Read more...
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February 15, 9:00 pm
Pure genius powers movie publicity stunt
If there’s one thing The Four Hipsters of the Apocalypse ““ the four immaculately dressed editors who run the arts and entertainment section ““ hate, it’s publicists. Read more...
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February 15, 9:00 pm
Screen Scene: "Tale of Cinema"
“Tale of Cinema” Directed by Hong Sang-soo Undistributed Of Korea’s major directors, Hong Sang-soo may be the least marketable. This is a tall order, considering his relatively tame content contains none of the extreme sadomasochism ““ a man mutilating himself by swallowing a line of fishhooks in Kim Ki-duk’s “The Isle,” another pulling teeth as a form of torture in Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” ““ often associated with the recent cinema from the country. Read more...