Howard Suber leans on a desk, the last scenes of “Apocalypse Now” flickering in his oval glasses. The film professor has seen the movie countless times over the years, and while the crashing symbols and dual slaughter scenes overwhelm most viewers, Suber’s eye is fixed as ever on a minute detail: the hero relinquishing his status by dropping his machete. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Professor Emeritus Howard Suber has been teaching film and television at UCLA for 50 years. He helped establish and chair the Critical Studies Program and the Film & Television Archive. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)

UCLA alumni Ben Arfmann, JP Castel and Justin Perkinson spent two weeks in Sitka, Alaska filming through the cold, rain and snow in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness for their survival series pilot. Read more...

Photo: Actor and cinematographer Justin Perkinson (left), writer and director Ben Arfmann (center) and producer JP Castel (right) – all UCLA alumni – spent two weeks in the Alaskan wilderness filiming their TV show “Dead or Alive – Stranded in the Alaskan Wilderness,” which premiered on the History Channel (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)