For Christoph Bull, UCLA organ professor and, this weekend, accompanist to the films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, sometimes silent movies are best left silent. Read more...

Destroyer “Destroyer’s Rubies” Merge Records Destroyer’s Dan Bejar has been many things: erstwhile member of The New Pornographers, explosive rock guitarist, folk-pop troubadour and engrossing storyteller capable of sketching worlds of literate references and intricate characterizations. Read more...

“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...

“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...

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...

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...

It’s crazy how much UCLA can change over four years. Whenever I talk with current freshmen about my own first year, I can’t help but sound like I was living in an archaic era. Read more...