In the early 1900s, men often attended stag parties at clubs or fraternities where they paid to watch stag films – a subgenre of pornography – in a group setting. Read more...
Photo: Maya Rose Dittloff, a fourth-year film and television student, Carla Emilian Olivas and Cheree Fraser are part of “STAG PARTIES,” a series written, directed and produced by Dittloff. Olivas and Fraser both act in the series, which will begin filming Thursday. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin)
Hopefully, you’re not afraid of your shadow. But if you are, Jordan Peele’s latest venture might not be for you; “Us” highlights the separation of body and soul, good and evil, human and shadow. Read more...
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According to Gaspar Noé, death is sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person. The Argentine-French filmmaker’s latest film, “Climax,” first premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on March 1. Read more...
Photo: Director Gaspar Noé’s film “Climax” was released in the United States on March 1, after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. The film follows a dance troupe’s harrowing night after drinking sangria laced with LSD. (Creative Commons photo by Olivier Strecker)
A critic in the ’80s told L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin that her short film was terrible. Years later, the same critic watched the short at a screening of the L.A. Read more...
Photo: The 1979 L.A. Rebellion film “Your Children Come Back to You” is part of The Broad and Art + Practice’s “Time is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today.” It was directed by alumna Alile Sharon Larkin, who is part of the wave of L.A. Rebellion films. (Courtesy of Joshua White)
On March 4, 2018, Jordan Peele accepted the Oscar for best original screenplay. Soon after, Shudder, a streaming service dedicated to horror films, gave its own production team the green light to create “Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror.” The documentary is based on the book “Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present” by Robin R. Read more...
Social justice entertainment may carry a lesson, but it’s far from homework. The creation, reception and impact of social change films formed the focus of one panel discussion at the second annual Spark Change Summit, which took place in UCLA’s James Bridges Theater on Friday. Read more...
Photo: Panelists at the second annual Spark Change Summit at the James Bridges Theater on Friday discussed how to make an impact in mainstream entertainment and how social justice entertainment is gaining more popularity. (Courtesy of Devon Danksy)
After 11 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has its first leading woman – and she doesn’t disappoint. Marvel Studios has released 20 films since the 2008 debut of “Iron Man.” In that time, the series has expanded to include spy thrillers, heist movies and cosmic comedies all sprawling over the most expansive cinematic universe ever created. Read more...
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