The process of Jonathan Coria’s filmmaking began with online YouTube tutorials and an assembly of gadgets from the local hardware store. He needed camera equipment for his new film but didn’t have the hundreds or thousands of dollars needed to buy one. So, Coria decided to make one himself.
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Movie Review: ‘The East’
It’s a simple concept, really: The punishment should fit the crime. “Spy on us, we’ll spy on you; poison us, we’ll poison you.”
Love or Hate: Watch a summer flick or stay home?
Welcome to the summer movie season! Today, we’re showing the usual: an action film based on your favorite franchise, a comedy film starring your favorite actors, a horror film for the adults, an animated film for the kids and a Tyler Perry movie. Here at Daily Bruin theaters, we bring you the best summer blockbusters […]
UCLA student adds voice to “Young” pilot
Dressed in jeans and a white polo and sporting a pair of aviators, Tamlin Hall looks like he’s been in Los Angeles his whole life. It’s not until he starts to talk that his Southern drawl reveals his Georgia roots. Hall, a second-year screenwriting graduate student in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, […]
Grad student’s film gives unconventional view into father-son relationship
Before working with his father on a film set, Mark Columbus did not realize that what started as a normal documentary would evoke difficult memories of their relationship, transforming it into an unconventional representation of their conflict-filled past.
Dual careers in film drive professor
As a kid, Nancy Richardson would use a bag of ice to cool off her television before her strict, anti-TV mother could check and feel the warm screen. Only once, when Richardson was home sick, the pair watched “Citizen Kane,” and Richardson knew she wanted to work in film.
B-Sides: Filmmakers and composers work in harmony to create legacies
In recent movie history, fans of both music and film have seen the rise of some truly great filmmaker-composer partnerships. The most obvious, of course, is composer John Williams and filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who worked together on movies such as “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jurassic Park” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”