Thursday, June 4

Documentary short film screening highlights Native American stories

Most of the time of the time that Sky Hopinka is on a road trip, he says he has a camera with him. He used his latest footage of beautiful landscapes to help him create his most recent documentary short, “Jáaji Approx.” The UCLA American Indian Studies Center, in collaboration with the Sundance Institute, is presenting “Native Documentary Short Films,” at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park on Saturday, where Hopinka, along with other Native American filmmakers, will screen their works. Read more...

Photo: Shannon Speed, UCLA American Indian Studies Center director, helped organize “Native Documentary Short Films,” which features documentaries showcasing native narratives.(Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin staff)


Movie review: Arrival

Amy Adams’ performance in “Arrival” is out of this world, but the film’s antiquated gender ideals are less than alien. In the new military space thriller “Arrival,” Adams delivers a stunning portrayal of Louise Banks, a linguist employed by the military to translate alien language. Read more...


Second Take: Recent space films shouldn’t lose sight of human emotion

Cinema recently revived its search for success across the final frontier. In the next two months, an influx of movies either in or about outer space will be released, including the military-thriller “Arrival,” the Christmas-slated melodrama “Passengers” and the teen romance “The Space Between Us,” in which a boy from Mars falls in love with his Earth-bound pen-pal. Read more...

Photo: (April Ding/Daily Bruin)



Bruins for Israel and Hillel partner with Jerusalem U for Israeli event

The Hebrew word Aliyah means “ascent,” but it can also refer to immigrating to Israel. Filmmaker Rebecca Shore directed the short documentary “Mekonen: The Journey of an African Jew” about African-Israeli man Mekonen Abebe to highlight Israel’s diversity. Read more...

Photo: Café Shahor Hazak’s song “Ihiye Beseder” is featured in filmmaker Rebecca Shore’s short documentary “Mekonen: The Journey of an African Jew.” (JerusalemU)


UCLA students create database for African-American silent films

Seven digital humanities students found 759 entertainment industry professionals involved in early silent race films and compiled them into a centralized database for the first time. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Marika Cifor helped found a database website for African American silent race films from 1909 to 1930. The database includes relational data and is accessible to the public. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)


Second Take: ‘SNL’ portrayal of Hillary Clinton opens candidate up to millennials

The events of the 2016 election were so outlandish that they hardly needed satire. However, “Saturday Night Live” still delivered some incisively hilarious election coverage. Larry David frequently appeared on “SNL” as Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Read more...

Photo: Kate McKinnon performed as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on “SNL” during the 2016 election cycle, including the “Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump Cold Open” sketch. (Courtesy of Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)



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