Wednesday, February 25

Screen Scene

“Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” Directed by Kelly Ashbury, Lorna Cook Featuring Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi There’s nothing more entertaining than watching a movie about a horse named Spirit. Read more...




UCLA alumna screens documentary on black Islamic life, family

Courtesy of Aminah Abdul-Jabbaar Donald Bakeer, Aminah Abdul-Jabbaar’s father, at a Nation of Islam meeting in 1974. By CJ Yu Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] Aminah Abdul-Jabbaar, a recent graduate from the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, returns to the James Bridges Theater tonight to screen her new feature-length documentary, “Bilalian.” A movie that is told from the perspective of the director, Abdul-Jabbaar, and childhood friend and producer Katrina Hamilton, the story covers the history of black Muslims from their beginnings of The Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad to its present day status now referred to as Al-Islam. Read more...


Fragments of a Play

Photos by MARY HOLSCHER/Daily Bruin (Above) "Elektra Fragments," a production put together by theater students, runs now until May 25 at the Freud Playhouse. By Nick Rabinowitsh Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] Togas, bloodshed, soldiers, fire and gigantic penises are coming to UCLA. Read more...


Film class gives students taste of real world

By Mary Dang Daily bruin contributor [email protected] Movies are seen as a wondrous flow of images that enchant audiences with narrative or technical achievements. Behind the scenes however, is the fast-paced world of movie production, which can be experienced at UCLA in “Producing, Directing, and Cinematography on Location.” More simply called “the locations class,” anyone in the School of Theater, Film and Television or who is taking the undergraduate crew course 178 can experience hands-on training at a live production set. Read more...


“˜Menagerie’ gets makeover for contemporary audience

By Siddarth Puri Daily Bruin Reporter [email protected] A tale of trust, deception and memories comes to UCLA’s Macgowan Hall this week. The plight of a family’s disintegration, the fight between reality and illusion and the struggles between confinement and freedom are all played out in Tennessee Williams play, “The Glass Menagerie.” Although the student performers remain faithful to the original plot, UCLA’s rendition uses different lighting and music in hopes of relating it to a more contemporary era. Read more...