The Cannes Film Festival may be wrapping up its 11-day run in France this week, but at the Shorttakes Festival in Ackerman Grand Ballroom tonight, they’ll only need three hours.
Author Archives: Karen Leano
Learn by watching as visual media enter the classroom
Walking into an introduction to theory course ““ always a dreaded requisite of any major for its monotonous material ““ students would hardly expect to watch a film about hip-hop music narrated by one Snoop Dogg.
“˜Journey’ to Los Angeles
You haven’t seen it yet, but this little indie hit has grossed over $300,000 after playing in only 10 locations and was the No. 1 movie in North America for two weeks running based on a profits-per-screen average. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumnus Ham Tran’s “Journey from the Fall” has garnered accolades, […]
Transforming students into avatars
While film allows a viewer to peek into an imagined world, gaming immerses a player in that world, allowing him or her to experience it firsthand. And the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is in on the action. “Games and interactive media promise to be a popular art form for the 21st century, […]
Screen Scene “Zodiac”
“Zodiac” Director David Fincher Paramount Pictures 3 Paws Out Of 5 When a notorious killer announces his strangers-for-slaughter agenda, the least appropriate reaction is a giggle. But with Robert Downey Jr. (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”) playing a smart-mouthed drunkard to Jake Gyllenhaal (“Brokeback Mountain”), a naively ambitious nobody, laughing only comes naturally. Director David Fincher […]
Screen Scene: “Black Snake Moan”
“Black Snake Moan” Director Craig Brewer Paramount Vantage 3 1/2 Paws A black man chains a white woman to his radiator in Memphis. But this is not a tale of racial tension in the South. The only real tension between Christina Ricci and Samuel L. Jackson in director Craig Brewer’s latest film, “Black Snake Moan,” […]
The academy behind the awards
The hottest Hollywood club this week is invite only. It’s exclusive. It’s decadent. And it will undoubtedly be all over the news after the weekend. This Sunday’s Academy Awards show is arguably the most anticipated night in film for good reason: The winners and nominees are chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and […]