The curtains are once again set to open on the annual Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon at UCLA. Named after UCLA alum and world-renowned film director Francis Ford Coppola, the pioneering program, now in its sixth successful year, is unique in that it seeks to pair UCLA graduate film directors with their playwriting counterparts from the theater department. Read more...

It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that Francis Ford Coppola is arguably the most famous, if not the most successful alumnus ever to have walked through the hallowed halls of UCLA’s prestigious School of Theater, Film and Television. Read more...

“Girl With a Pearl Earring” Directed by Peter Webber Lions Gate Films Based on Tracy Chevalier’s bestselling novel, “Girl With a Pearl Earring” is a stunning, seductive film adaptation of the imagined story behind Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting. Read more...

Anytime anyone invites me over to a new apartment for a little housewarming soiree, I pray to the ancient Chinese door gods to spare me of the following exchange: Guest: Hey, did you get that at IKEA? Read more...

“21 Grams” Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu Focus Features Following his critically acclaimed 2000 release “Amores Perros,” Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu has seamlessly translated his unique, multilinear narrative technique into an astonishing English-language film starring Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts. Read more...

In “N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk,” the rapid-fire, genre-defying tour de force that played in front of a fully-packed Freud Playhouse this past weekend, UCLA theater, the homegrown variety that is, might have finally found a voice truly to call its own. Read more...

“Shyness is Nice” Alliance Theatre Now through Dec. 21 Playwright Marc Spitz tells the story of two shy 30-year-old virgins on a mission to get laid. Read more...