Latest GSA News Items
February 4, 2012 - 2:22pm
Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 7, Melnitz Movies is proud to announce a new, sustainable ticketing system that reduces wait time in line! The new numbered, laminated, and reusable tickets replace the...
February 2, 2012 - 9:40pm
GSA is launching a new communications initiative for the winter quarter. Rather than being distributed to SAOs, weekly emails will be sent to the GSA email list, gsa-l@lists.ucla.edu (sign up at http...
January 30, 2012 - 10:41am
The Graduate Students Association is seeking to appoint a new Director of Communications. This is a stipended position.
All interested graduate and professional students are encouraged to apply. The...
January 30, 2012 - 10:37am
The Graduate Students Association is seeking to fill vacancies in three Academic Senate committees: 1) the Committee on Planning and Budget (CPB), 2) the Committee on Continuing and Community...
January 26, 2012 - 11:37am
The Italian Graduate Student Association is hosting a conference, with the theme of "(Dis)Unity in Italy", this weekend, Jan. 27-28. It will be held in Royce Hall room 314.
The keynote speaker is...
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Upcoming GSA Events
February 14, 2012 - 1:00pm
138 Kerckhoff, GSA Media Studio
Angela Riggio, Head of Digital Collections Services, Marty Brennan, CCLE Copyright and Licensing Librarian, and Diane Gurman, Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian, will be holding their...
March 1, 2012 - 7:30pm
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The music hall a costly bow, The music all is lost for now, To a muted trumpeter swan. Not so when you join GSA to the Opera to see Placido Domingo in Simon Boccanegra.
More info and how to sign up...
March 13, 2012 - 7:00pm
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Learn the intricacies of tasting wine and wine and food pairings with GSA and your fellow Graduate Students in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon.
More info to come later (Tickets to go on sale ~March 1st)
Upcoming Melnitz Movies Screenings
February 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Residing quietly beneath the floorboards are little people who live undetected in a secret world to be discovered, where the smallest may stand tallest of all....
February 21, 2012 - 7:30pm
Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children’s home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn’t recognize the love...
February 23, 2012 - 7:30pm
A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER, from British director Alex Cox (REPO MAN, SID & NANCY), tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers...
February 24, 2012 - 6:30pm
Melnitz Movies is proud to present a double feature of classic films programmed from the UCLA Film & Television Archive by our Alumni Guest Programmer, filmmaker Alex Cox (SID & NANCY, REPO MAN).
Filmmaker and UCLA alumnus Alex Cox will be...
February 28, 2012 - 7:30pm
GENERATION P, adapted from the iconic bestseller by Victor Pelevin, is a rude and funny dispatch about Moscow in the '90s, ground zero to the money, terror, and image-driven logic which replaced the Cold War.
The story details the parallel rise of...
February 29, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-Curated by Marina Goldovskaya and Samuel B. Prime
A Melnitz Movies and Documentary Salon Co-Presentation
In his latest documentary film, Ross McElwee (SHERMAN’S MARCH, BRIGHT LEAVES) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, who is no...
March 6, 2012 - 7:30pm
WHORES' GLORY is a cinematic triptych on prostitution: three countries, three languages, three religions. In Thailand, women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves. In Bangladesh, men go to a ghetto of love to...
March 8, 2012 - 7:30pm
An ordinary bank teller turned financial analyst is forced to sell high risk securities to her customers in order to meet her sales target. A small-time thug delves into the futures index hoping to earn easy money to post bail for a buddy in...
March 22, 2012 - 7:30pm
Before 2009, few martial arts film fans had ever heard of the traditional Indonesian combat style of silat, let alone seen a film from that part of the world. That all changed when writer/director Gareth Huw Evans made fan favorite MERANTAU, which...
April 3, 2012 - 7:30pm
No starched lace, no panoramic views, no sweeping score — Andrea Arnold takes Emily Brontë’s classic novel and strips it to the root of youthful passion, restoring its stark power for a contemporary audience. Following her bracing portraits of...