With television and film images so inculcated into our society, it is hard for most to remember the first film or TV show we ever saw, and nearly impossible to imagine a world without television.

It’s a wonderful Parisian life. Or is it?

On Soundstage 3, seated on a couch as if in his own living room (that is, if his living room had galleys and elevated passageways where a ceiling should be), is the award-winning cinematographer Stephen Burum.

The Good German
Director Steven Soderbergh
Warner Brothers Pictures
It only gets worse in Berlin.
Or so say the characters in Steven Soderbergh’s latest
film, “The Good German,” an attempt at film noir about
post-World War II Berlin.

“Fast Food Nation”
Director Richard Linklater
Fox Searchlight Pictures
It may be hard to adapt a novel to film, but what about a book
of non-fiction?

Considering the suffering that was endured during the Spanish
Civil War and the ensuing Franco era, it is not surprising that the
witnesses from that time have long remained silent.

The normalcy that Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris exude is
strikingly atypical of successful movie directors.
Dayton and Faris, happily married UCLA alumni (Class of 1980)
with children, have every reason to be frazzled or erratic or, at
least, tired.

If you enter the Fowler Museum over the next month and a half,
you will be blessed by the Dalai Lama.
Starting July 5, the UCLA museum will be home to a pair of
events focused on the principles of the Buddhist religious leader.

It is hard to define what sex addiction is, especially since
many people think it’s just a joke, a euphemism for a big sex
drive. But for people actually suffering from sex addiction, it is
an obsessive compulsion, something powerful and destructive that
can necessitate the frequenting of prostitutes and ruin marriages.

While residing in Los Angeles, actor and filmmaker Scott Coffey
was bothered by the way entertainment industry hopefuls wander from
audition to audition looking for a break.