Camera obscura

Missing a film screened by UCLA’s film club The Crank could mean missing your only chance to ever see it. The Crank, which refers to both old hand-cranked cameras and cranky film connoisseurs, is made up of 10 graduate students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s critical studies program. Since fall quarter, […]

Cupid's New Classic

The love between a suicidal 20-year-old man and a septuagenarian woman doesn’t seem like it would make for one of L.A.’s most popular Valentine’s Day movies. But the darkly comic, unorthodox romance at the heart of the 1971 cult classic “Harold and Maude” has led to its selection this year as a Valentine’s Day feature […]

Opening up the field

Many students are heading north for the winter quarter. The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is offering new courses that have been designed for, and are available to, non-film students. This winter expansion of courses will hopefully result in a film minor that would be available to the general student body, explained Tom […]

Speaker aims to toss piracy overboard

Dan Glickman, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, will be listening to student concerns about movie piracy at 7 tonight in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. The question-and-answer session will take place before the screening of “March of the Penguins,” put on by the Campus Events Commission. Glickman’s stop at UCLA is part of […]