The first months of the year are generally a cold, desolate time at the theaters, a period of audience fodder several steps below the Oscar-campaigning pieces of November and December. That isn’t the case in Los Angeles, a town notorious for being neither cold nor desolate, as last year’s festival hopefuls and foreign hits steadily […]
Author Archives: Sebastian Torrelio
Q&A: Alum, screenwriting professor talks U.S. debut of ‘100 Days’
Splitting his time between teaching in Boston and Los Angeles throughout the year, UCLA alumnus and screenwriting professor Weiko Lin still finds the time to serve a plethora of filmmaking aspirations. Chief among them is supporting his successful Taiwanese film “100 Days,” an adaptation of Lin’s theatrical play of the same name. “100 Days” follows […]
Movie Review: ‘The Imitation Game’
Somewhere in the world there is a list of misunderstood historical figures that Benedict Cumberbatch should portray, and someone is slowly but surely crossing off each name. Some of these men are household names, like Stephen Hawking and Vincent Van Gogh. Now Cumberbatch takes on Alan Turing, a master cryptanalyst for the British government during […]
AFI Fest 2014: Day seven
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, took off at Hollywood Boulevard once more. Over the past week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, made appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting fans […]
AFI Fest 2014: Day six
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, took off at Hollywood Boulevard. Over the past week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, made appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting fans in tow. […]
AFI Fest 2014: Day five
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, took off at Hollywood Boulevard. Over the past week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, made appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting fans in tow. […]
AFI Fest 2014: Day four
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, has taken off at Hollywood Boulevard. Over the next week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, will be making appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting […]