Thursday, February 26


Nicholson's Payne-ful journey

Alexander Payne is the writer-director who turned Ferris Bueller into a pathetic, adultering, bumbling high school professor, and abortion into the subject for a screwball comedy. Read more...


Briefs

Art “¢bull; Part of the UCLA Department of Art lecture series, there will be a lecture by artist Sam Durant, an L.A.-based artist of drawings, models, installations, sculpture and photography. Read more...


Screenscenes

“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” Starring Daniel Radcliffe Directed by Chris Columbus 2.5 Paws As a phoenix is crying on his lacerated arm, Harry Potter tells us, “Of course, phoenix tears have healing powers.” This is one of the many lazy coincidences that the new Harry Potter film uses to save our hero just in time. Read more...


Briefs

Film “Lilo and Stitch” screens at the Ackerman Grand Ballroom for $2 through Campus Events tonight at 7 and 9:30 p.m. This Saturday at the James Bridges Theater you can expect a little slice from above with screenings of “All That Heaven Allows” directed by Douglas Sirk and “Leave Her to Heaven” by John Stahl beginning at 7:30 p.m. Read more...


Bruins join improv lineup, team scores big

What happens when you take improv experts from UCLA and elsewhere, put them in baseball jerseys, separate them into teams, and warn them that if they curse or use obscenities they will have a paper bag put over their heads? Read more...


Panel discusses portrayal

UCLA students got a peek inside Hollywood Wednesday evening. They weren’t watching a film screening or premiere ““ they were in Melnitz Hall getting behind-the-scenes insight into how movies and television shows are made from seven women who are involved with making them. Read more...