When: January 10, 4 pm Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314 Professor Salamishah Tillet Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times: "'Rather Than Her Biography': Listening to Nina Simone's Diary" "If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist's art, rather than her biographies" critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. "Then we gather […]
Where: James Bridges Theater When: December 7, 7 pm Register here. Attend a film screening, Food and Country. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Laura Gabbert, and Chef Minh Phan. About the film: Documentarian Laura Gabbert (City of Gold) and chef/writer/editor Ruth Reichl chronicle the plight of the American food industry […]
When: Thursday, December 7, 2023 Where: TBD Researching the life and career of Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) for a larger project, filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin discovered a brief interview the actress gave in 1983 for the French TV show Cinéma Cinéma. It’s a conversation alternately defiant and mournful, with Schneider reflecting with […]
