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, […]
Author Archives: Amy Crocker
Oh, the places you’ll go!
In addition to dressing fox in socks and cats in hats, Dr. Seuss’ list of achievements includes writing for an Academy Award-winning film. “Design for Death,” which won Best Documentary in 1947, will be screened along with Kamei Fumio’s “Fighting Soldiers” at the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Propaganda Film Night on Thursday. The screenings are presented […]
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 […]
Young wizard enchants an older crowd
Second-year neuroscience student Stacy Chang was on a Greek island when “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,” the sixth book in the series, was released over the summer. She went to six different bookstores on the island but could not find a store that sold English books. When she finally made it to Athens, […]
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 […]
Unmasking a time-honored tradition
Only at Carnival can you pick up an anthill out of the dirt, fling it onto a stranger, and not get beaten up, or wear a bright, beaded hat bigger than a small child. Schools and businesses even close down so that everyone can go out and party at this Pre-Lenten festival, originating from the […]