After getting up from behind his desk, Christopher Nolan sat in a chair next to a small coffee table and a couch. An enormous “Memento” poster hung over the desk, a smaller “Following” poster over the chair in which he sat. Read more...

Classic films often get dated from their conservative definitions of morality and prejudices. But this doesn’t necessarily apply to all things old. “We’re talking about 1933, and there’s a nymphomaniac from Brentwood who’s also a kleptomaniac and a sexual deviant,” said UCLA Film and Television Archive programmer Mimi Brody regarding the film “Bloody Money.” That film will screen as part of the UCLA Archive’s retrospective of early 1930s films that contrast the conservatism that came later. Read more...

Katie Cole loved the “virtualistic combat with tight 3-D effects” in the original. Nate Plumley called the final trailer for the sequel “orgasmic.” And Marco Martinez, who has already seen it, said “The Matrix Reloaded” is better than “The Matrix.” Martinez, a second-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, saw the film at an MTV Movie House preview screening on the Warner Bros. Read more...

Jocks want to rock, and rock stars want to be sports heroes. This pop culture rule-of-thumb might explain why 105-pound pianist Anne-Marie McDermott envisions herself as an athlete. Read more...

Mix together a communication studies student and a physics student, add in a sketch comedy show about sex and a dash of some orange blossom and chocolate cake. Read more...

This June, Los Angeles’ second incarnation of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival opens at Royce Hall. Despite not taking place exclusively ““ or even primarily ““ on campus, this year’s festival is shaping up to be at least nearly on par with the past year’s, easily UCLA’s best arts event of 2002. Read more...

Jocks want to rock, and rock stars want to be sports heroes. This pop culture rule-of-thumb might explain why 105-pound pianist Anne-Marie McDermott envisions herself as an athlete. Read more...