Every year, industry execs flood the streets of Sundance hoping
to find the next great filmmaker, temporarily transforming the
snow-covered mountains of Utah into the Hollywood hills.

While UCLA’s film school remains highly selective, film
students are not the only ones learning about film at UCLA.
Various undergraduate departments have decided to offer
film-related courses in order to satiate the desire for such
knowledge among UCLA undergraduate students.

Before Jayson Blair plagiarized quotes and fabricated material
in his articles for The New York Times, there was Stephen
Glass.
Glass was an ambitious journalist who fabricated events in his
articles to achieve success at various publications, earning large
sums of money and a reputation for always writing the perfect
story.

One of the great things about Clint Eastwood is his uncanny
ability to infuse stoicism and apathy into the protagonists of his
films, whether he’s in front of the camera or behind it.

While many film school students hope to have their films
screened in theaters, KCET is trying to expand its aspirations,
although to a smaller screen.
Throughout the month of August, KCET has been showcasing the
work of perhaps the next Lucas or Zemeckis as well as other student
filmmakers in the series “Fine Cut: A Festival of Student
Film.”
Hosted by Academy and Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein
and Jeffrey Friedman, “Fine Cut” exhibits an array of
live-action and animated short films from students who have
attended various California universities, including UCLA.

In the past year, numerous films based on comic books including
“Hulk” and “The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen” have been produced in hopes of achieving the box
office success of other comic book-based films “Batman”
and “Spider-Man.”Â As movie studios vie for the
opportunity to adapt another comic book for the big screen, along
comes “American Splendor.”
But “American Splendor” is the antithesis to the
big-budgeted, effects-driven comic book films of the past.

Although “Seabiscuit” induces the sort of emotions
that Oprah Winfrey or even her protégé Dr. Phil incite
these days, the film is a welcome change amid the thunderous racket
of this year’s sequel-filled summer.

Before he donned the infamous Spider-Man costume, Tobey Maguire
earned a reputation throughout Hollywood as a young actor who could
effortlessly portray society’s outcasts. Maguire undertook a
multitude of such roles, ranging from the teenage boy nostalgic for
a time that never was in “Pleasantville” to the
estranged but promising novelist in “Wonder Boys.”
Unlike many of his fellow young actors, Maguire was reluctant to
take on roles that would guarantee him Hollywood success and the
adoration of millions of teenage girls.

The destruction of the Death Star, the rise and fall of Michael
Corleone and the constant bewilderment of Forrest Gump ““
memorable moments in film deeply embedded in the minds of
moviegoers around the world.