The documentary “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” is full of attempts.

From its beginning to its end, “Soul Kitchen” is filled with a passionate energy.

Though graduation is oncoming, three fourth-year students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Katrina Frederick, Ian Arthur and Lauren Slusser, are hard at work on a last student film.

Directors have a very complex and intriguing relationship with the films they create.