Sometimes brevity is impossible. Anyone seeking to summarize Noah Baumbach’s new film, “The Squid and the Whale,” quickly becomes acquainted with this fact. Above all, complexity prevails. Read more...

For documentary filmmaker Marc Levin, ignorance isn’t quite bliss. It’s inspiration. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Levin stepped into a cab in New York City where, to his surprise, the driver revealed his steadfast belief that the Jews were in part, or even entirely, responsible for the attacks that September. Read more...

Marlon Brando was perhaps best known for his legendary acting career and his notoriously reclusive nature. But few may know he also moonlighted as an author. Read more...

Franz Ferdinand “You Could Have It So Much Better” Domino Records Until a month ago, Franz Ferdinand’s sophomore album, “You Could Have It So Much Better,” was going to be self-titled like the band’s debut, with the exact same cover art and a different color scheme. Read more...

When his class on queer cinema was listed under three different course names, film Professor Chon Noriega expected confusion and a high drop rate. As it turned out, only the first turned out to be true. Read more...

A lot has been written about celebrity gossip in these pages, and for good reason. It provides harmless, easy-to-analyze topics of conversation ““ why discuss the ominous situation in North Korea when there are tensions on the set of “The O.C.”? Read more...

Every year, a mere 30 students write their way into one of the world’s most renowned and success-bearing film programs ““ UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Read more...