Imagine being able to determine the outcome of a film after simply viewing the trailer. Would Ferris Bueller have gotten a day off? Would Leonardo DiCaprio have survived “Titanic?” It’s audience input such as this that the UCLA Movie Research Experience is exploring in order to improve filmmaking. Read more...
Film & TV
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July 19, 3:33 pm
The Movie Research Experience gets audiences involved in filmmaking
Music
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July 18, 10:25 pm
Machine Project sounds out the boundaries of the museum experience at the Hammer with bells, guitars and houseplants
In the upstairs gallery of the Hammer Museum’s current “Outside the Box” exhibit, a line from composer and performer Meredith Monk’s lithograph collection reads, “I have always thought that sound and space were inseparable.” Yet despite this connection, museums have a long history of being stiflingly silent spaces. Read more...
Music
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July 18, 10:23 pm
Audiotistic Music Festival features an unusual roster of performers
Promise of pulsating beats and undeniably danceable tracks will reach this year’s “New Sound Festival,” the Audiotistic Music Festival, on Saturday at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. Read more...
Film & TV
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July 18, 10:21 pm
Modern Family’ series strikes a chord with students by having something to offer everyone
This evening at the Paley Center, Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, cocreators and executive producers of “Modern Family,” will give a talk about their hit TV show. The event, to be held at the Writers Guild Theater at 7 p.m., is the second of three parts of a series the Paley Center is putting on this July called “Inside the Writers Room.” Read more...
Arts
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July 18, 10:19 pm
Theater Review
Methinks the writer of “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” must have watched “The Boondocks Saints” once too often. Both, for example, focus on Irish characters encircled by violence, both fixate upon death as a comeuppance and (most importantly) both prominently feature a dead cat. Read more...
Arts
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July 11, 9:33 pm
UCLA alum, former gymnasts put skills to use by working as stunt doubles
Walk around the set of the latest stunt-filled, action-packed television show and you may be surprised to see a few signature blue UCLA athletic backpacks lying around. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Natalie Padilla does a split handstand on the beam. UCLA gymnasts have stunt-doubled in shows, including “Greek” and “10 Things I Hate About You,” as well as “Make It Or Break It,” an ABC Family gymnastics drama.
Arts
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July 11, 9:30 pm
“Getty Engaged” exhibit features photographic documentaries of socially relevant events
Cars on fire, young girls obsessively weighing themselves and homeless children trying to survive on the streets of Seattle are difficult images to ignore. Read more...
Photo: Greenfield’s photo project “Girl Culture” documents female self-image in America and is featured in the Getty Center’s current exhibition, “Engaged Observers.”