The line between Broadway and Hollywood is thinner than ever, with three movie adaptations of the musicals “Jersey Boys,” “Annie” and “Into the Woods” released just this past year and a number four times that since 2000. Indeed, the American public seems more receptive of filmmakers’ mainstream takes on popular musicals, showing that theater-lovers and […]
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Movie Review: ‘Into the Woods’
In contrast to previous movie adaptations of musicals that favored big names over actual singing ability – see Russell Crowe’s performance as Javert in 2012’s “Les Misérables” – Disney’s “Into the Woods” provides a worthy adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical and a strong ensemble cast that can carry the weight of Sondheim’s […]
UCLA students react to controversy surrounding film ‘The Interview’
This post was updated at 12:10 a.m. on Dec. 22. UCLA students are some of the only people in the world that have ever seen the controversial film “The Interview” on the big screen. A comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen, “The Interview” revolves around two creators of a celebrity gossip television show, Dave […]
Movie Review: ‘Inherent Vice’
Thomas Pynchon, the notoriously reclusive writer of such postmodern classics as “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” has built a career off novels deemed too dense, idiosyncratic and cerebral to ever be translated to the screen effectively. Yet, finally, famed American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has done the unthinkable with his adaption of […]
Second Take: Amazon breathes new life into ‘The Man in the High Castle’
After a long delay, one of Philip K. Dick’s unreal worlds just became slightly realer. Amazon has finished filming a pilot for an online ongoing series based off of Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” after years of languishing in pre-production, including a canceled Syfy miniseries. It’s being produced by Ridley Scott, of “Blade […]
Dance, TFT students collaborate on performance ‘Hidden Choreographies’
World arts and cultures/dance Regents’ ProfessorLea Anderson sees the movements of our daily lives as a type of choreography, including simply getting dressed in the morning.
Q&A: Alum, screenwriting professor talks U.S. debut of ‘100 Days’
Splitting his time between teaching in Boston and Los Angeles throughout the year, UCLA alumnus and screenwriting professor Weiko Lin still finds the time to serve a plethora of filmmaking aspirations. Chief among them is supporting his successful Taiwanese film “100 Days,” an adaptation of Lin’s theatrical play of the same name. “100 Days” follows […]