Author Archives: Nick Rudman

“One Bright Shining Moment” is the kind of movie title that might bring to mind uplifting Hollywood fare about victorious underdog sports teams or landmark court cases. However, the said moment occurs not within victory, but within defeat, raising the question of whether or not there can be a bright, shining moment for the loser. […]

The death toll of the war in Iraq is high ““ and getting higher. Over 2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the conflict began in March 2003, and this pales next to the number of dead Iraqis, which has been estimated by some to be in the tens of thousands. But try […]

At first glance, a flock of Canadian geese, Lord Byron’s daughter and a terrorist attack on a train carrying nuclear waste don’t appear to have much in common. However, these seemingly disparate things are all subjects of screenplays written by UCLA graduate students. More specifically, screenplays that have all been nominated for a major award. […]

When Professor Denise Mann was a film student, an arts education was a bit narrower than it is today. “I understood a great deal about how movies were made in a hands-on way, but I had no sense of how those experiences related to the complexity of the Hollywood industry,” Mann said. “I learned how […]

INDIO “”mdash; The only thing better than cleaning up at Casino Morongo is blowing your winnings on junk food like a 5-year-old who just found a $20 bill. Subsequently, the only thing better than that is waking up the following morning, having cookies for breakfast and heading over to the Empire Polo Field for two […]

“Family Guy” made television history on Sunday by being the first show to be cancelled and picked up years later by the same network (in this case, Fox). To say this was unexpected would be somewhat of an understatement. “I was told that there was no way in hell the show would be back,” said […]

Ten years ago, anyone who wanted to learn how to archive film had to work in a vault, among canisters and reels instead of human beings. This was the case because no program awarding a master’s degree in archive studies existed ““ until 2002, when UCLA started the moving image archive studies program, partly due […]