Huddled in a corner of Schoenberg Hall’s main lobby, UCLA professor Peter Yates and student Alexandra Grabarchuk sit together, discussing a piece of music in low tones. With a fluid movement, Yates lifts a guitar to his knee and plucks a few strings, sending a vibrant chord through the hall. Yates then begins to play […]
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Q&A: Alum, former UCLA baseball player talks directorial debut
After spending four years pitching on the mound for UCLA baseball, alumnus Bobby Roe finally completed a pitch of a different kind – one that landed him his directorial debut for the movie “The Houses October Built.” Roe’s film blurs the line between what’s real and fiction by splicing real footage of the actors’ visiting […]
Theater & More: “Swan Lake”
A thick layer of white mist coats the stage floor. A ballerina emerges, head high, gliding swiftly as if floating across a lake, for now she is not just a dancer – she is a swan. Friday and Saturday at Royce Hall, the Los Angeles Ballet performed its first segment in this season’s Tchaikovsky Trilogy: […]
Q&A: UCLA Film and Television Archive explores voices of Chinese cinema
Running from Oct. 17 to Nov. 3 at the Billy Wilder Theater, the second “China Onscreen Biennial” presents a collection of Chinese films, complemented with visual art slideshows and panels featuring directors and other special guests. The series introduces a plethora of voices representative of Chinese cinema. Inaugurated in 2012, the “China Onscreen Biennial” returns […]
Movie Review: ‘St. Vincent’
Actor Bill Murray is the jackalope of the motion picture industry – elusive and difficult to find or predict, but oh so wonderful when he appears. He appears cute and huggable on the outside, but can instantly fall into a menacing haze, taking an acting role to its darkest extremities. There are only a handful […]
Alum’s book details history of iconic political satire magazine
During Michael Kahn’s quarter in Washington, D.C., as a UCLA undergraduate during the 1960s, he stumbled upon a framed cartoon of a tattooed man in the home of one of his professors. Kahn inquired about what it meant, and his professor told him that the cartoon had elected the 22nd president of the United States. […]
LACMA director to speak at Design | Media Arts lecture series
If you’re an artist, you need a day job. That’s what Michael Govan attributed as his entrance into the museum world. The current director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was trained to be an artist and worked in graphic design and architecture for his college museum, the Williams College Museum of Art. […]