“The Break-Up” Directed by Peyton ReedUniversal pictures*** Like people do after a real breakup, “The Break-Up” focuses on all the bad times. The film explores what happens after most romantic movies end with a kiss. Read more...
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June 1, 9:00 pm
Screen Scene: “The Break-Up”
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May 31, 9:00 pm
UCLA has a secret
In November of 2004, Frank Warren, a small business owner in Germantown, Md., printed up 3,000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to strangers. These, he told them, were to share a secret, which had to be something true and something they had never shared with anybody else before. Read more...
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May 31, 9:00 pm
Living among stars, the big screen loses appeal
Without question or debate, Los Angeles has the best movie theaters of any city in the world. I’m not even considering the countless home theaters of incredibly rich people in the entertainment industry, which typically combine the quality of theatrical image and sound with the luxury of getting to watch the product while sprawled out on your couch. Read more...
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May 31, 9:00 pm
A lot to learn
It’s a hot day in what looks like downtown New York, except big cameras line the streets instead of cars, people are talking into headsets and walkie-talkies instead of cell phones, and instead of flying across the country, UCLA students only had to drive down Melrose Avenue to the Paramount lot. Read more...
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May 30, 9:00 pm
Students heed UCLA’s “˜Godfather’ of film
The School of Theater, Film and Television will satiate the appetites of theatergoers with its upcoming surfeit of three performances, onstage in June. Starting with the Coppola One-Act Marathon, film and theater graduate students serve up a palatable course of four original works, presented as staged readings in two double-bills. Read more...
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May 30, 9:00 pm
It’s not even June, but there’s still time for a top-10 list
It’s almost June, and you know what that means: time for a mid-year top-10 albums list. Last year started off with a bang, with most of my favorite albums of the year (Andrew Bird, Okkervil River, The National) coming out early. Read more...
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May 30, 9:00 pm
Getting Goopy
Nine-year-old Will Magid had a trumpet and dream: to play like his idol Louis Armstrong. About 10 years later, with his friends Dan Marschak on keyboards and Aaron Leibowitz on saxophone, Magid would form The Goop with one mission in mind ““ to make instrumental jazz music understandable and enjoyable for the masses. Read more...