Kenji Mizoguchi reflects the personal experiences of his sister’s life as a geisha and his father’s business and financial failure onto the big screen. The UCLA Film and Television Archive is showing nine of Mizoguchi’s films from Jan. 16 to Feb. 15 at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum. The series opened Friday […]
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Harry Potter Week brings magic to Hill
Although UCLA is supposedly a Muggle-filled school, a Harry Potter look-alike was seen strolling in front of Café 1919 and taking selfies with students on Thursday. The Office of Residential Life presented the third annual Harry Potter Week from Monday to Saturday. Fourth-year anthropology student and head programmer of Harry Potter Week Zoe Robbins gathered […]
UCLA New Play Festival features coming-of-age story ‘The Other Town’
With a little more than 100 pages, playwright Nick Johnson, a graduate student in the School of Theater, Film and Television, sheds light on the adversities of growing up. Johnson’s play, “The Other Town,” will be featured in the New Play Festival at UCLA, which showcases full-length productions of students’ thesis plays, written for their […]
Fall World Music and Movement Festival to take Bruin Plaza stage
With a portable wooden-paneled dance floor and vibrant stage decorations, the World Music and Movement Festival Organization will bring together performances from jazz, hip-hop, pop and folk groups. The organization will hold its second annual fall World Music and Movement Festival on Sunday in Bruin Plaza and will showcase 13 student, alumni and staff performances. […]