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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in costume as Lord and Lady MacBeth
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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in Joel Coen’s 2021 film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

Translating a Shakespeare masterpiece into a mesmerizing movie

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Media Inside Out conference honors pioneers and provocations in film and media studies 
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UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows
photographer of the five film students who made the 841 documentary
The "841" film crew (from left): director of photography Logan Asperian, sound mixer Lauren Barley, producer Macielle Villaseñor, director Rachel Burnett and editor Vincent Cuenco off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in 2023.

Coastal Media Project student documentaries to screen at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Napa Ever After publicity photo of a Black woman and man embracing

Hallmark uplifts Black love with historic Mahogany movie premier — lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson wrote the screenplay 
A woman singing in a production still from 'Nashville'
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Revisiting ‘Nashville,’ Robert Altman’s poetic — and still relevant — masterpiece
Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana and Tess McCormick
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Student filmmakers Alessandra Puig-Santana (left) and Tess McCormick on Santa Cruz Island

Adventuresome filmmaking meets theory, technique and environmental education
Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings
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“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.
Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way
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Documentary screening features Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa
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A 35-millimeter landscaped portrait from the "Get Shorty" press kit, as seen in "Still Film"

Experimental ‘Still Film’ interrogates cinematic memory

Visionary Exhibitions
indian man and woman on a dinner date

A Ray of Light
Graphic treatment of Hollywood's Embassies book cover and Ross Melnick's headshot

How Hollywood Cinemas Conquered the World
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