The lights dim, the audience quiets down and the brilliant stage at Royce Hall is lit up with giant, golden Oscar statuettes at each corner. In walks the Academy Symphony Orchestra, and the audience roars with excitement. Read more...
Photo: The Academy Symphony Orchestra takes its place on the stage of Royce Hall before the Oscar Concert commences. (Samantha Mannis/Daily Bruin)
Hosted in 1980, the first Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the “Razzie Awards,” was a humble gathering of people crowded into the small apartment of UCLA alumnus John Wilson for a potluck. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Golden Raspberry Award Foundation)
During his brief cameo in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 ultra-cool masterpiece “Pierrot le Fou,” Hollywood renegade Samuel Fuller famously said, “Film is like a battleground. Love. Hate. Read more...
Photo: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou” is a pop-art film from the 1960s. A crime story of double-crossing and romance, the French classic will be playing at the Aero Theatre on Thursday. (Courtesy of Rialto Pictures)
Disney’s iconic Goofy giggle has resonated throughout the world since its creation in 1932 and will soon resonate through the hills of the UCLA campus when Bill Farmer, the official voice of Goofy, makes his appearance. Read more...
Photo: Bill Farmer has been the official voice of Disney character Goofy for 27 years, in addition to holding other voice acting roles in television and games. Courtesy of Bill Farmer
“The Wind Rises” Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Walt Disney Pictures 3.5 / 5.0 paws When Hayao Miyazaki, possibly the world’s most beloved animation director, announced retirement while premiering his latest film, “The Wind Rises,” his hopeful fans noted that this is not the first time he’s expressed such a sentiment. Read more...
Photo: (Walt Disney Pictures)
In the new season of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning series “House of Cards,” the delicate house that Congressman Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) worked tirelessly to build threatens to collapse. Read more...
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix
Sex, lies and obsession play out in the somber streets of a rainy Vienna in director Nicolas Roeg’s 1980 baroque masterpiece “Bad Timing.” From its opening scene, in which paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt appear alongside the jazz-tinged music of singer Tom Waits, “Bad Timing” comes on like a fever dream of Freudian psychoanalysis and a popular detective novel. Read more...
Photo: Art Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel and Theresa Russell star in Nicolas Roeg’s “Bad Timing,” a thrilling love story between a young psychology professor and his pill-addicted love interest. The film will be screened at The Cinefamily on Friday night. (Courtesy of The Criterion Collection)
