UCLA 2010

[Asmerza]

lol I know so simple, lol oh by the way i gave them oquendo's name. lol jk jk

 

[icedtea]

aghh i just want to know already! haha

 

[EricaLauren]

ahhh 2 more days until they start notifications! do you guys know whether it's sent by regular mail, email or phone??

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

It should be by phone or email. Last year it was phone. I'm so scared/excited for Fridayyyy

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by Asmerza:
lol I know so simple, lol oh by the way i gave them oquendo's name.

Hey that's cool. Maybe they would take that gesture as a person who is proactive about getting into their program and consider my application even more so, lol...

Man...Friday is gonna be either nirvana for me or my personal vengeful wrath - lol...

To be honest, if I don't get into UCLA, I have absolutely no clue where I will be going FALL 2010...I'd have to start reevaluating my safety schools, which will be a huge pain...

Anyways, let's all reconvene Thursday night for good luck!

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Good plan!

 

[vivaitalia]

Hey everyone,

I am in complete awe of the large following this forum has. I just discovered you guys a couple days ago because I was starting to get nervous that I never got called in for an interview and thought I'd check google for something like this.
I never expected to find so many others. It really shows you how connected our world is now.
Anyway...just thought I would give a shout out to those intense movie critiques you guys were doing earlier. Its cool to find people that are even more passionate and knowledgeable about film as me. Thought I would shoot out a question on foreign films (my current film obsession) and see what everyone's favorites are.

Good luck everyone...I know I've been biting my nails anxiously.

 

[Oquendo]

Welcome aboard! Wow, I can't believe you read all our rants, lol...I have to say that's one of the great things of movies is that it speaks such a potent and universal language for everyone to listen to...

As for foreign, it's kinda hard to classify into one category(I have "favorites lists" for french movies, italian movies, english movies, etc.)

But if I were to spew a compiled list at the top of my head(these movies meaning I could probably watch them again right now), it would be:

Belle de Jour - France
The Third Man - England
A Matter of Life and Death - England
The Red Shoes - England
Smultronstället - Sweden
The Silence - Sweden
Three Times - Taiwan
Cure - Korea
Le Doulos - France
The 400 Blows - France
81/2 - Italy
La Sconosciuta - Italy
Mon Oncle - France
Cache - France
La Pianiste - France
Los Olvidados - Mexico

I know there's more that I feel bad to leave out, but again, at the top of my head, lol...

 

[Oquendo]

Man! I just realized I am working FRIDAY night!!! I hope (if I do get an interview) they send me an email because I won't be home to answer...

Anyways, I never asked this but what were your guys's top movies of 2009?

So far I got:

AntiChrist
The White Ribbon
Shutter Island(technically 2009)
The Hurt Locker
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up
Broken Embraces
Up in the Air
Adventureland
Inglourious Basterds
A Single Man

And Christah highly recommends Thirst...which I need to see still...

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Hey vivaitalia I'm glad you're here to join us before the anticipated potential events of tomorrow. My favorite foreign films include M by Fritz Lang, and as Oquendo mentioned, Thirst. I also really enjoy The Five Obstructions and the short it's based off The Perfect Human. Amelie is also incredible... the colors, the story, the music... love. What are your favorites?

Oquendo, as for movies of 2009... as long as they ALL don't have to be intellectually stimulating I'd say I've thoroughly enjoyed Avatar, Star Trek, Shutter Island (if you're counting it as 2009), and District 9... but my guiltiest pleasure is Hannah Montana: The Movie. Haha, we can always love movies purely for their entertainment purposes, right? Despite the fact that it only gets 3.5 stars out of 10 on IMDb...

Tomorrow... where's the good luck partay on here? What is everyone's guilty pleasure movies?

 

[vivaitalia]

I am wondering what you saw in Up in the Air. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but I really hated that movie.

Obviously a lot of people liked it and George Clooney even got nominated for best actor. I thought it paled in comparison to the storyline and acting job he did in Michael Clayton. But could you explain what made that movie special, at least to you? I feel like I might just be missing out on something.

Otherwise, I like the list, except I would've replaced "A Single Man" with "A Serious Man" and I haven't seen AntiChrist yet.

 

[Oquendo]

Oquendo, as for movies of 2009... as long as they ALL don't have to be intellectually stimulating I'd say I've thoroughly enjoyed Avatar, Star Trek, Shutter Island (if you're counting it as 2009), and District 9... but my guiltiest pleasure is Hannah Montana: The Movie. Haha, we can always love movies purely for their entertainment purposes, right? Despite the fact that it only gets 3.5 stars out of 10 on IMDb...

Lolz, I with you there on guilty pleasures...but that's why I got Adventureland, Up, and Fantastic Mr. Fox on there...in fact, I really really, like really, liked Adventureland, even though there are cliche moments, the movie emits a sense of nostalgia(even though I wasn't even born in the 1980s) that is hard to come by in films w/o going over-the-top, plus it's a sweet and fun movie that made me happy last Spring

 

[Oquendo]

I am wondering what you saw in Up in the Air. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but I really hated that movie.

Hmm...it's weird because I can definitely understand how people CAN dislike it. I have to say I simply just surrendered to the story, the characters, and especially the writing. Very good dialogue.

I think another reason I enjoyed it was probably the main reason why many "average" movie-goers enjoy movies - empathy.

I felt a sense of familiarity with Ryan Bingham's character - I don't like being crowded with too many people; I am a bit of a loner(in fact, sometimes I prefer to be alone), although I can make friends easily; I like to travel places(oddly enough, I am really scared of planes though, lol).

I also related a lot to his existential philosophy; Ryan's life is defined by all the choices and decisions that he's made up to that point - he has total control over his life, which I hope I can say I do, too.

My only problem with it was the fact that I feel with time, the movie will become severely topical and dated.

So to be honest, I think this movie just resonated with me on a individual preferential scale. And I related.

However, I do go through mood swings - I gave a different list to my friend last January:

I had Bronson, Tetro, The Road, Moon, 500 Days of Summer, and The Informant! on my previous lists, which are probably honorable mentions for me as of right now.

Otherwise, I like the list, except I would've replaced "A Single Man" with "A Serious Man" and I haven't seen AntiChrist yet.

A Serious Man is a very well-made, funny and entertaining retelling of Job, but when directors of the caliber like the Coens make these kinds of movies, I feel they are just exercising their artistic muscles compared to their other work(No Country, Blood Simple, Fargo, etc). To compare it's like Scorsese making The Aviator or Cape Fear, which are good movies in their own right, but from someone like Scorsese, one expects more.

I put 'A Single Man' on there because I thought it was extremely personal(however flawed at parts), and personal movies to me, always seem to display a filmmaker's labor of love and acute care that is very hard not to appreciate as well as even SEE today as majority of movies today are IMPERSONAL. Same feeling with Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro.

 

[Oquendo]

Tomorrow... where's the good luck partay on here? What is everyone's guilty pleasure movies?

Hopefully we will all be on here soon

I like Adventureland, The Mask, Back to the Future I and the first 30 minutes of Part II, Scarface, Live and Let Die, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Catch Me if You Can, The Color of Money, Iron Man, Bourne Supremacy, Quantum of Solace, Gladiator, True Romance, etc.

 

[EricaLauren]

do you think that anyone will really even get notified tomorrow? didn't they say they'll START giving notifications after that date???

 

[ok2play]

Originally posted by EricaLauren:
do you think that anyone will really even get notified tomorrow? didn't they say they'll START giving notifications after that date???

it's possible that we can get a notification at midnight tonight

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Would they really have someone working at midnight to send out notifications? That seems crazy...

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by christah:
Would they really have someone working at midnight to send out notifications? That seems crazy...

Guys, if they are going to notify us by phone, it will most likely be between their office hours: 9-5pm.

And they might possibly call us afterwards up until 9 or 10, but I have a feeling it will be either mid-afternoon or around 6-8pm.

However, if they are going to notify us by email, they could be sending notifications automatically; therefore it could be at any time since a machine will be running it.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

That seems rather impersonal. I guess I'm not going to sleep for another hour. When the grad student I know of got notified by email it wasn't until about 2:30pm and it was written by an actual person... thus creating my confusion

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by christah:
That seems rather impersonal. I guess I'm not going to sleep for another hour. When the grad student I know of got notified by email it wasn't until about 2:30pm and it was written by an actual person... thus creating my confusion

It could be written by a person, but the committee could just insert the letters and all the addresses into a program and it will automatically send it at a specified time. One of my classes has this tool where we upload all of our essays and come deadline, it is sent directly to our professor. I agree, though. It must be written by a faculty member.