This post was updated March 27 at 10:00 p.m. Please hold – the future will be here shortly. Set in a sci-fi reality of the near future, the short film “Please Hold” is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Read more...
Photo: Erick Lopez plays Mateo in “Please Hold.” Co-produced by alumnus Diego Nájera, the film is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. (Courtesy of Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi/Scavenger Entertainment)
This post was updated March 27 at 9:20 p.m. Colombian representation in film blooms boldly in “Encanto.” Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Animated Feature Film, the Disney film follows the magical Madrigal family as they navigate their gifts and enchanted home – their “encanto” – set in the protected, forested landscape of Colombia. Read more...
Photo: Assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Felipe Zapata collaborated with Disney as a Colombian botanist in the Oscar-nominated film “Encanto,” where he worked with animators for accurate plant representation in the movie. (Megan Cai/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated March 8 at 12:33 p.m. James Benning is celebrating half a century of landscape film mastery. From Friday to Sunday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum will be presenting a three-night program designed by filmmaker Benning and curator Steve Anker. Read more...
Photo: A still from filmmaker James Benning’s “Stemple Pass.” The film will be screened along with two of Benning’s other films in a three-day program hosted by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Hammer Museum. (Courtesy of James Benning)
The hero of the shadows is coming back into the spotlight. Releasing in theaters on Friday, “The Batman” reintroduces Gotham City’s favorite billionaire, Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson), during his early vigilante years as the Batman. Read more...
Photo: Zoë Kravitz (left) and Robert Pattinson (right) play Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne in “The Batman.”(Courtesy of Jonathan Olley/DC Comics)
“Bedtime” is tucking in the elephant in the room. The short film is fourth-year sociology student and director Bri Lageyre’s depiction of the female college student experience, shown through the lens of two roommates, Kenna and Carla, getting ready for bed. Read more...
Photo: (From left to right) Emily Gibson, Alexandra Sophia Ruiz and Bri Lageyre’s short film “Bedtime” follows two best friends getting ready for bed as they discuss their experiences as female college students. (Kyle Kotanchek/Daily Bruin)
Queer Cinema lives on through an on-the-road, gritty romance. On Saturday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will be screening short films “Oblivion” and “If Every Girl Had a Diary“ along with feature film “The Living End” at the Billy Wilder Theater as part of their “Pioneers of Queer Cinema” series. Read more...
Photo: Mike Dytri (left) and Craig Gilmore (right) play Luke and Jon in “The Living End.” (Courtesy of Academy Entertainment)
"Stormy Weather” has hit the Billy Wilder Theater. On Saturday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive presented an Archive Talk, which consisted of a presentation given by special guest Miriam J. Petty, followed by a screening of the 1943 film “Stormy Weather” and an onstage conversation between Petty and Philana Payton. Read more...
Photo: On Saturday, Miriam J. Petty, an associate professor at Northwestern University, gave a guest presentation on her research at an Archive Talk organized by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)
