Playwright Nicholas Kazan loosely bases his new drama, “A Good Soldier,” on both Sophocles’ “Antigone” and on contemporary events in Iraq. But in the program notes, Kazan also warns his audience that “no attempt has been made to be faithful to either.” Kazan accurately assesses his work. Read more...

Every year, industry execs flood the streets of Sundance hoping to find the next great filmmaker, temporarily transforming the snow-covered mountains of Utah into the Hollywood hills. Read more...

“2046” Directed by Wong Kar-Wai Sony Pictures Classics The Wong Kar-Wai DVD box set comes emblazoned with a rather impressive quote from Time on the cover: “The most romantic filmmaker in the world.” No, no, no. Read more...

For the first time in two decades, Outfest is returning to UCLA. The Los Angeles-based showcase for international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film and video has joined with the renowned UCLA Film and Television Archive to create the Outfest Legacy Project, the largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films in the world. Read more...

Night in, night out, the Fox Tower sign lights up the Westwood sky. As the neighborhood’s defining landmark, it’s so ingrained in the collective consciousness of UCLA students that hardly anyone pauses to wonder why exactly the Mann’s Village Theater would have a sign that says “Fox” at all. Read more...

Walking down from the dorms to go to places like Starbucks and Diddy Riese was considered a big Friday night excursion when I first came to UCLA. Read more...

In 1997, a war broke in a rural Chinese province near the Tibetan border. But it wasn’t a war over politics or religion ““ it was a battle between towns over who had the right to declare itself Shangri-La, the place that inspired the fictional town in James Hilton’s 1933 novel “Lost Horizon,” in order to draw more tourists to the area. Read more...