UCLA 2010

[bornfromcelluloid]

Well I know the man who wrote the letter was there because they responded back and forth right after it was sent. No matter how it works, I just can't believe it's actually time to possibly hear back. It's been so much dreaming and so little reality.

 

[vivaitalia]

Originally posted by christah:
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?

All amazing movies. Same with your's Oquendo, except I must admit that I haven't seen The Swedish films and the Asian films. I actually haven't even heard of them, so I'll check them out.

My favorites have got to be (also off the top of my head)

The 400 Blows- France
Monsieur Ibrahim- France
Goodbye, Lenin - Germany
Y tu Mama Tambien - Mexico
I'm Not Scared - Italy
My Father's Glory - Italy
8 1/2 - Italy
The Lives of Others- Germany
Au Revoir Les Enfants- France
Les Choristes- France
Life is Beautiful- Italy
Duck Season- Mexico
Nowhere in Africa- Not Sure, I think England
Central Station- Brazil


And in regards to guilty pleasure movies- there's no such thing. Mike Myers has some quote where he says "there should be no difference in high-brow humor and potty-humor. If a fart joke makes you laugh, it should be considered funny". If a movie entertains you...revel in it!

 

[vivaitalia]

Originally posted by Oquendo:

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.

I definitely see your points. At the end of every Coen brothers' film, I ask myself if they make it purely just to screw around with the world. The one thing I have to appreciate though for every one of their films is how unique they are, even if I don't really enjoy them.

I also completely understand the personal movie aspect. It's like hearing a band play a song live, and you can almost immediately tell if the band really puts every ounce of emotion into singing it, or if they just play it for the crowd to hear. There's something so cathartic about seeing someone put everything they got into something!

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Originally posted by vivaitalia:

I also completely understand the personal movie aspect. It's like hearing a band play a song live, and you can almost immediately tell if the band really puts every ounce of emotion into singing it, or if they just play it for the crowd to hear. There's something so cathartic about seeing someone put everything they got into something!

Love this . Greatest thing ever.

And thank you, I won't try to hide my love for Hannah Montana any longer.

 

[icedtea]

i LOVE 'The Brady Bunch' parody movies from way back. hilarious!

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Haha, as vivaitalia said, "revel in it!" 5 minutes until midnighttt. I feel like it's New Years or something.

 

[EricaLauren]

TODAY COULD BE THE DAY!!!!! GOOD LUCK MY FRIENDS! praying for all of us.

 

[Oquendo]

March 26th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time to:

Check and make sure your phone lines are clear...

Check your e-mail every 15 minutes...

Eat.

Go into your room and cry for about 23 minutes...maybe 24?

Then repeat.

Good luck guys and with the "bond" we've made these past weeks, it only seems fair for us to at least get a callback let alone get in!!!

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Lol, that sounds like today. It feels good to know we're all experiencing this . Ahh!! Good Luck!

 

[Oquendo]

Man...I don't know if I am getting paranoid, but my parents leave the answering machine on in case we get telemarketers. I've noticed there have been an innumerate amount of calls today, but no answer, just someone on the other line...I'm sure they'd leave a message, right?

 

[EricaLauren]

omg.. so i checked my application and i had put my house phone number on it and i realized that i don't even have voicemail on my house phone cuz we usually just use our cell phones!! and im at work all day!! what if they call and no one answers and they can't even leave a message?! i am freaking out! and i keep calling ucla admissions and they aren't answering!

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by EricaLauren:
omg.. so i checked my application and i had put my house phone number on it

How were you able to check your application if you sent it in?

Btw, I did that too because sometimes outside lines read as "RESTRICTED/PRIVATE" numbers on my cell. Damn, I should have just put both of them on there...

 

[EricaLauren]

https://www.ucapplication.net/ucap/

through that site i was able to check my personal/background info.

Quendo, at least you have voicemail so if you aren't home they can leave you a message!! What if they try to contact me and just give up because I wasn't available?! hopefully they'll email...

 

[Oquendo]

Quendo, at least you have voicemail so if you aren't home they can leave you a message!! What if they try to contact me and just give up because I wasn't available?! hopefully they'll email...

I was looking through last year's notifications and people "heard" they were notifying by email. Don't worry, though. Worse case scenario, you can always call them.

 

[EricaLauren]

oquendo, where do you think you'd lean towards going if you don't get into UCLA? did you apply to Chapman or USC?

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by EricaLauren:
oquendo, where do you think you'd lean towards going if you don't get into UCLA? did you apply to Chapman or USC?

Man...like I said earlier...I really have no idea, lol...I'll probably just wait until all 9 schools get back to me and go from there.

I would probably lean a decision between UCSB, Northwestern, SDSU or CSULB, maybe Berkeley if I got accepted. But even that seems like a lot of factoring in.

And no. I didn't apply to USC/Chapman because I didn't want to go to a private school and their philosophies on movies were a lot more different than the one I like at UCLA's. Plus for 50-60 grand a year could be put to better use on making a movie nowadays - RED cameras are a fraction of that. At least in UC's I already qualify for a lot of scholarships and awards since it is a state school.

How about you?

 

[EricaLauren]

I felt the same way about both of those schools... why spend that much when I could use that money on an independent film? I haven't applied to Northwestern yet but I was still thinking about it... but their applications are due May 1st which is the day you need to put in your intent to other schools telling them whether or not you plan on going there... so I don't really know what you're supposed to do about that? I have been leaning towards SF state if I don't get in because I have heard very good things about the program and I just love the whole atmosphere.

That's awesome that you qualify for scholarships... no matter what school you go to it is still gonna put us in student loans up to our eyeballs, so good for you!

 

[fakeplastic]

ericalauren i was thinking of SFSU too, especially because i just watched a documentary on netflix called "Starz Inside: Fog City Mavericks". The films about filmmakers in the bay area and how they were some of the pioneers of filmmaking. The movie is kinda slow during some parts but i enjoyed it.

 

[EricaLauren]

fakeplastic-
I'll have to check that out! Many professor's at both my high school and community college have told me that SFSU is the place to go. They said that since it is a smaller market for film up there and not as prestigious as LA, you are much more likely to be able to obtain a job in the field right after school, giving you experience and things to put on your resume when you go down to LA...which you'll need down there.

 

[Oquendo]

That's awesome that you qualify for scholarships... no matter what school you go to it is still gonna put us in student loans up to our eyeballs, so good for you!

Lolz...that's why it pays to be po'!(Well, I'm not really poor, just slightly below statistical middle class since my mom got laid off from the whole recession thingy)

I am also a scholarship wh 0 re these days. I have applied to about 15 scholarships in the past month and my counselor tells me that I have good chance after reading my essay!

Anyways, I thought about going to SFSU since I love San Francisco, so I guess I might have to consider that into the safety pile; technically the school I will not be going to is CSU-LA and possibly UCSD.