Alfred Hitchcock’s spirit visited UCLA’s James
Bridges Theater last Sunday night.
At least it felt that way with legendary art director Henry
Bumstead in attendance to speak about his work on
“Vertigo,” one of four films in which he collaborated
with the so-called Master of Suspense.

There’s a lot more to Chinese cinema than kung fu and
crouching tigers.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents a two-week series,
beginning Saturday at 7:30 p.m., of “New Chinese
Cinema,” offering a selection of films from mainland
China’s so-called Sixth Generation of filmmakers at the James
Bridge Theater.

Films are usually seen in dark theaters, but new artists want to
take that experience into the museum.
“Can you make the museum into a comfortable viewing
space?” said Santa Monica Museum of Art curator Elsa
Longhauser.

For anyone who’s ever wondered about a film’s art
director’s job, “The Art of Hollywood” film
series at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater pays tribute to one of
the most underrated professions of cinema.