On the third floor of Kerckhoff Hall, a room is open to all who wish to breathe in its explosion of posters, flyers, boxes, computers and tickets. It’s the Campus Events office, and Ryan Seng inhales regularly. Seng is the director of films at Campus Events, responsible for booking the $2 movies at Ackerman Union, […]
Author Archives: Howard Ho
Festival recognizes films that rate high on Puke-o-meter
Films are usually rated by the Motion Pictures Association of America with notations like “R,” “PG-13,” and the dreaded “NC-17.” The ratings system at Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation goes a bit further; it has the Puke-o-meter. The question becomes which films at the festival, which opened last Friday at the […]
Eager pianists need a place to vent, express themselves
During the Cultural Revolution in China, Liu Shi Kun was placed in prison for playing piano (a Western instrument). After seven years without touching a piano, Liu Shi Kun still played like a master, because he practiced in his head if not with his fingers. While UCLA is not so much a prison, the availability […]
Quartet to feature Messaien at Schoenberg
What do you do when you’re a prisoner of war? Well, if you were French composer Olivier Messaien in a concentration camp during World War II, you’d write “Quartet for the End of Time,” a piece for piano, clarinet, violin and cello that sounds as important and ethereal as its title suggests. “It’s a very […]
Films present mix of Ukrainian heritage, soviet nationalism
Russian cinema has had its share of luminaries, from Andrei Tarkovsky (“Solaris”) and Sergei Eisenstein (“Battleship Potemkin”). Less known but just as important is Alexander Dovzhenko, whose films are being screened at the James Bridges Theater tonight. Sponsored by the Hollywood Trident Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the screenings are a part […]
Soundbites
Eve “Eve-Olution” Ruff Ryder Records The daunting task of giving Eve’s album paws is not as difficult as it might seem. She already has two paws tattooed on herself (one for each breast). I’d like to add two more to her collection. After venturing into movies (“Barbershop,” “XXX”), Eve holds down her rapping end with […]
Charity comedy event provided middle-aged laughs
UCLA jokes are most often told by USC folk, but last Friday they abounded at our very own Royce Hall. Host Tom Kenny began the night with accolades of Royce, saying, “This place is fancy schmancy. I don’t know who this Royce guy is, but I’m pretty sure his first name is Rolls.” Wendy Liebman, […]