Macpherson received warmly at Sundance Supermodel cast as director’s co-star in film ‘If Lucy Fell’ dream love interest By Michael Horowitz Daily Bruin Senior Staff PARK CITY, UTAH — The Sundance Film Festival is all about independent cinema, but sometimes nothing celebrates independent cinema better than a celeb-packed, studio-funded, top-notch screening and after-party. "If Lucy […]
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Viewing censorship as an irrational ritual
Viewing censorship as an irrational ritual It isn’t what you say, but how you say it that gets by sanctions My column for this week was originally supposed to be this really wonderful how-to guide to bizarre sexual practices and subversive anti-government warfare. But since, for some petty reason, the Daily Bruin refused to print […]
Sounds of Debussy travel through college campuses
Sounds of Debussy travel through college campuses Musical trio uses talent to capture student audience By Judy Hu "Three’s a Crowd" is a common phrase often carrying negative connotations. But for the Debussy Trio, performing as a threesome couldn’t be more positive. Each concert is a marriage of the chamber group’s instruments: the harp, flute […]
Intertwining modern style with ancient tradition, LACMA’s ‘New Prints in Modern Japan’ presents an a
Intertwining modern style with ancient tradition, LACMA’s ‘New Prints in Modern Japan’ presents an art form of pure and unique beauty By Rodney Tanaka Daily Bruin Staff A block of wood: unyielding, solid. Yet early 20th-century artists in Japan were able to evoke works of art from this medium using a technique called shin-hanga. The […]
Sundance film enthusiasts see everything but sun
Sundance film enthusiasts see everything but sun Brannagh’s ‘Midwinter’s Tale’ fitting for opening of blizzard-impeded festival By Michael Horowitz Daily Bruin Senior Staff PARK CITY, UTAH — The Sundance Film Festival in Utah receives yearly criticism for growing too big and growing too fast. So this year, nature helped keep the early crowds at bay […]
‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ should not see the light of day
‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ should not see the light of day New Tarantino, Rodriguez flick fails to capture success of previous works in exploitation cinema works By Brandon Wilson At an on-campus confab last year with Bruin film students at Melnitz Hall, filmmaker Paul Schrader (writer of "Taxi Driver," director of "American Gigolo" and UCLA […]
L.A. Opera meets eager ciao
L.A. Opera meets eager ciao Poor music, acting sabotage production of Rossini’s ‘Italian Girl in Algiers’ By John Mangum Daily Bruin Senior Staff Pasta everywhere. These are two words to live by if you’re ever trapped in North Africa and held prisoner by a loopy Ottoman emissary. At least, that’s what L.A. Opera’s disorienting new […]