< ?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> After Max’s brief interlude travelling to Italy , the Cinephile’s Dream calendar is back for August, helping you locate the most interesting films playing the greater L.A. area you might not know about yet. Beat the heat in an air-conditioned arthouse theater!
TED has been around for close to thirty years now. Their belief is their creed: “Ideas worth spreading.” I first encountered the web-based TED Talks as an undergraduate. Jill Bolte Taylor was describing what it’s like to have a stroke and I found myself crying, watching this woman open herself up to the world. It
< ?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> Hello everyone! We’ve made it to June! The summer is here!
Check out these images from the Red Carpet before the show, the ceremony, and the afterparty. Lots of steampunk-themed outfits and decorations on stage helped this year’s theme of “Romance: the Imagination of Invention” really come to life!
In anticipation of our student-produced awards Show, the Cecil Awards, our faculty has voted on the list of graduates’ thesis films. Check out the full list of nominations from each program here!
Well now that we’ve all gotten our Avengers fix in, it’s time to take a look at the repertory high points in the second half of May, and boy, are there some fantastic movies. Below are the three screenings I’m most excited about.
Filmmaker-In-Residence JoAnn Sellar will screen There Will Be Blood, PT Anderson’s epic capitalist drama, tonight in the Folino. This stellar film will be screened on a 35mm film print!
The accolades and positive reviews of Women In Focus 2012 just keep rolling in! This morning, Society News LA posted about the conference, highlighting the panelists and VIPs at the event.
Community Voices is a social issue documentary film program which links Chapman University documentary film students with Orange-County based organizations. Each semester, groups of students produce short character-driven portrait films that highlight causes the partner organizations aim to serve. The films are then used in the outreach and fundraising campaigns of these organizations, and are
< ?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> Welcome to the summer movie season! We’ve got The Avengers this week and over the next several months we get films like Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises , films that could potentially become classics. However, we won’t be able to tell if they’re classics for years, so why not go
We are very excited to announce that the Cecil Awards 2012 will be giving away an iPad to one lucky winner at this year’s show! Could the winner be you? Just follow these simple steps to enter: Submit a 60-second video in the comment box below the announcement video on the Cecil Awards 2012 YouTube
The Hollywood Reporter shared the exciting success of last Friday’s Women In Focus panel in their news section today.