Marlon Brando and Al Pacino were major influences on the 1965 Indonesian mass killings of communists.
At least that’s what Anwar Congo would have you believe.
Author Archives: Asher Landau
Alumnus Owen Clapp adapts to eclectic genres
Owen Clapp did not think he was good enough.
A musician since the third grade, Clapp still said he worried during his second year of college that he was not cut out for the rigors of the music world.
Student filmmaker gears up with handmade equipment
The process of Jonathan Coria’s filmmaking began with online YouTube tutorials and an assembly of gadgets from the local hardware store. He needed camera equipment for his new film but didn’t have the hundreds or thousands of dollars needed to buy one. So, Coria decided to make one himself.
UCLA play “Desire Under the Elms” combines humor and tragedy
Greed, lust and unfulfilled desires are themes that are prevalent within works of tragic theater.
Grad student’s film gives unconventional view into father-son relationship
Before working with his father on a film set, Mark Columbus did not realize that what started as a normal documentary would evoke difficult memories of their relationship, transforming it into an unconventional representation of their conflict-filled past.
Movie Review: ‘Midnight’s Children’
Selling the film rights for $1, Salman Rushdie entrusted his magical realism epic novel “Midnight’s Children” to his friend and director Deepa Mehta, believing she could surmount such a troublesome adaptation. Perhaps Rushdie should have left his masterwork alone. The movie attempts to cram the huge scope of the novel, with its multitude of themes […]
Bruin wins $30,000 award for dystopian screenplay
While sitting in the UCLA library working on his screenplay, “Waking Hours,” Barnett Brettler began to cry. He had reached a solemn moment in the story when a character had to leave and, although people in the library stared, he could not help himself. “Writing is such a lonely pursuit that you begin to fall […]