Undergraduate Film Council

02/22/2015

Let's make a movie!

04/15/2014

The Rochester/Finger Lakes Film & Video Office is a great resource to find out about film related events that take place in Rochester! http://www.filmrochester.org

Rochester Film and Video Office offers complete location scouting assistance, information and extensive film production resources and services.

03/21/2014

It's Film Recommendation Friday, and this week we give you a colorful musical tarring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, 'Funny Face.' Here is a clip of a famous, and quirky, dance number by Hepburn.

Very Cute Audrey Hepburn Dance from movie "Funny Face". Choreography by Eugene Loring.

03/20/2014

Many people know George Lucas, obviously, for 'Star Wars.' Yet, his second feature film, 'American Graffiti,' may arguably be his best because it's not only very personal to him but it captures a moment in time that would never exist again. Great essay here. http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/468-keynote-american-graffiti-and-george-lucas-nostalg/

With this long-unseen 1991 film, Errol Morris attempted to make connections between science and the lives of those who explore it.

03/18/2014

Fans of Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick need to see these two wonderful videos on how each director adheres to very strict geometrical guidelines!

If you've ever seen a Wes Anderson film, you'll be familiar with the director's unique visual style, gentle pacing, and quirky dialogue, which prevail throughout his back catalog. One of the...

03/08/2014

Due to a certain someone trapped in a room grading exams all Friday, UFC will happily give our Friday Film Recommendation today! This one takes us to Italy, where one lost soul seeks true love in a place where it doesn't exist: 'Nights of Cabiria'

Fellini trailer Nights of Cabiria 1957

03/06/2014

Is Leonardo to cool for school? He'll win one day...

Leonardo DiCaprio was not going to win this year, or possibly any time soon, unless he becomes a different kind of actor, a much less cool one. Cool guys don’t win Oscars.

03/05/2014

Well, this is a great opportunity!

Cuomo: "Hollywood comes to Onondaga."

02/28/2014

In preparation for Sunday's Oscars, Film Recommendation Friday brings you the first Best Picture Winner (well, kinda...it's complicated), 'Sunrise: A Story of Two Humans,' a silent film of profound imagination. Won the award in 1927.

Sunrise F.W. Murnau - Trailer

02/26/2014

There's an opportunity to see one of the greatest Italian films! There will be a screening of Luchino Visconti's 'Senso' this Friday, 2pm, in Dewey 2-110D.

Out on Blu-ray and DVD on February 22, 2011! Learn more: http://www.criterion.com/films/27543-senso This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Viscon...

02/25/2014

Here's a startling essay by filmmaker Errol Morris on one of this year's Oscar-nominees in the documentary feature category, 'The Act of Killing.' Could we, as a nation, erase the killings of many people from our collective memory?

The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King. — Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2 1. Foul Deeds Will Rise Is it possible to kill 1 million people and then forget about it? Or if it has been erased from consciousness, is there an unconscious residue, a...

02/25/2014

RIP Harold.

Don't cross the streams