Events
February 14, 2012 - 1:00pm
138 Kerckhoff, GSA Media Studio
Angela Riggio, Head of Digital Collections Services, Marty Brennan, CCLE Copyright and Licensing Librarian, and Diane Gurman, Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian, will be holding their twice-monthly office hour for consultation with...
February 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Residing quietly beneath the floorboards are little people who live undetected in a secret world to be discovered, where the smallest may stand tallest of all....
February 21, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children’s home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn’t recognize the love...
February 23, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER, from British director Alex Cox (REPO MAN, SID & NANCY), tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers...
February 24, 2012 - 6:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Melnitz Movies is proud to present a double feature of classic films programmed from the UCLA Film & Television Archive by our Alumni Guest Programmer, filmmaker Alex Cox (SID & NANCY, REPO MAN).
Filmmaker and UCLA alumnus Alex Cox will be...
February 28, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
GENERATION P, adapted from the iconic bestseller by Victor Pelevin, is a rude and funny dispatch about Moscow in the '90s, ground zero to the money, terror, and image-driven logic which replaced the Cold War.
The story details the parallel rise of...
February 29, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Co-Curated by Marina Goldovskaya and Samuel B. Prime
A Melnitz Movies and Documentary Salon Co-Presentation
In his latest documentary film, Ross McElwee (SHERMAN’S MARCH, BRIGHT LEAVES) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, who is no...
March 1, 2012 - 7:30pm
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The music hall a costly bow, The music all is lost for now, To a muted trumpeter swan. Not so when you join GSA to the Opera to see Placido Domingo in Simon Boccanegra.
More info and how to sign up at: http://tinyurl.com/GSALAOpera
March 6, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
WHORES' GLORY is a cinematic triptych on prostitution: three countries, three languages, three religions. In Thailand, women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves. In Bangladesh, men go to a ghetto of love to...
March 8, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
An ordinary bank teller turned financial analyst is forced to sell high risk securities to her customers in order to meet her sales target. A small-time thug delves into the futures index hoping to earn easy money to post bail for a buddy in...
March 13, 2012 - 7:00pm
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Learn the intricacies of tasting wine and wine and food pairings with GSA and your fellow Graduate Students in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon.
More info to come later (Tickets to go on sale ~March 1st)
March 22, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Before 2009, few martial arts film fans had ever heard of the traditional Indonesian combat style of silat, let alone seen a film from that part of the world. That all changed when writer/director Gareth Huw Evans made fan favorite MERANTAU, which...
April 3, 2012 - 7:30pm
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
No starched lace, no panoramic views, no sweeping score — Andrea Arnold takes Emily Brontë’s classic novel and strips it to the root of youthful passion, restoring its stark power for a contemporary audience. Following her bracing portraits of...