Author Archives: Devon Dickau

For documentary filmmaker Marc Levin, ignorance isn’t quite bliss. It’s inspiration. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Levin stepped into a cab in New York City where, to his surprise, the driver revealed his steadfast belief that the Jews were in part, or even entirely, responsible for the attacks that September. According to the […]

Every year, a mere 30 students write their way into one of the world’s most renowned and success-bearing film programs ““ UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. However, outside of the accepted applicants consisting of 15 transfers and 15 current UCLA undergraduates, there are more potential starving filmmakers than there are empty street corners […]

For the first time in two decades, Outfest is returning to UCLA. The Los Angeles-based showcase for international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film and video has joined with the renowned UCLA Film and Television Archive to create the Outfest Legacy Project, the largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films in the world. The project, […]

Pow. Smash. Kablooey. Written on the page, drawn into half-colored word bubbles, these exclamations of superhero splendor are nothing more than inked-in words accompanying an occasional clenched fist or two cars about to collide. Besides a series of carefully crafted still frames and a few scattered words, comic books and graphic novels still leave most […]

To be continued. Once the dreaded endline of TV shows like “Saved by the Bell.” Now the unwritten decree for Hollywood films. These days, it seems that every movie is made to have a sequel. Whether it’s the latest action flick or horror film or the year’s top drama, there is an incessant open-endedness to […]

Hannibal Lecter will be staring him down. The squirrels might get a little antsy. And approximately 250 students donning the cap and gown will watch in admiration as he walks across the stage to receive an award he never thought he’d get. “I was somewhat floored when I was told that they selected me,” said […]

Second-year student Robbie Jones is an avid collector. A connoisseur, even. But one won’t find postage stamps, foreign coins or vintage baseball cards in his high-rise dorm room. Instead, movie fanatic Jones collects the media of the new age: fully furnished DVDs. Jones’ personally catalogued collection, which includes films and television boxed sets, exceeds 170 […]