In “John Wick,” Keanu Reeves is the action hero for everybody. He has the overwhelming bloodlust of Mel Gibson in “Mad Max,” the surprising vengefulness of Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill” and the brooding professionalism of Liam Neeson in “Taken.” Like the protagonists in all of the aforementioned films, Reeves’ title character goes on an unbridled campaign to get what he wants. Read more...
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At the height of Andy Warhol’s fame in the late 1960s, artists, poets and musicians crowded his New York City studio space, called “The Factory.” In a haze of smoke, rock groups like the Velvet Underground played as 16 mm films made by Warhol and his peers were projected onto screens. Read more...
Photo: Co-comissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, “Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films” will feature 15 publicly unseen Andy Warhol films, including the 1966 “Color Film of Antoine and Nico.” (The Andy Warhol Museum)
The Daily Bruin’s very own Arts & Entertainment podcast Paws, Play, Rewind! returns with the latest and greatest in pop culture and campus happenings. This week, radio director Stephen Phan is joined by A&E senior staffer Sebastian Torrelio to discuss the latest happenings in pop culture from League of Legends to the Avengers. Read more...
Photo: Madeleine Isaacs
In the late 1970s, Jesus Velo and Willie Herrón of punk rock band, Los Illegals, aimed to provide a space for Chicano culture in East L.A. Read more...
Photo: Under the name “Spine of Califas,” punk rock band Los Illegals partner and tour with the writers of Taco Shop Poets. At Friday night’s performance at the Powell Library rotunda, Taco Shop Poets will have members read poetry while Los Illegals performs in the background. (Courtesy of Reyes Rodriguez)
Alex O’Flinn has seen “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” over 50 times since he started editing it, yet he was never the same person for each viewing. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Alex O’Flinn received the 2014 Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship for his editing work for the film “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.” To win the fellowship, O’Flinn said he scoured hours of footage. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Huddled in a corner of Schoenberg Hall’s main lobby, UCLA professor Peter Yates and student Alexandra Grabarchuk sit together, discussing a piece of music in low tones. Read more...
Photo: Peter Yates and Alexandra Grabarchuck will perform as GuitAria for the Fowler Museum’s Fowler Out Loud concert series Thursday. Yates, an adjunct assistant professor of guitar, and Grabarchuk, a graduate student in musicology, will perform their guitar and vocal duet, titled “Aspects of Love.” (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Professor Rebecca Allen remembers wondering if the computer was a tool artists could take advantage of. Joining the Design | Media Arts field before its title was established, Allen said this was still a time when computers were giant boxes in research labs. Read more...
Photo: In 1996, professor Rebecca Allen became the first department chair of the Design | Media Arts department. Now, after professor Willem Henri Lucas steps down from the role, Allen has returned as the department chair. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
