From Brazil comes the most stunning cinematic experience in recent history. A bold exaggeration?
The University may not have a cutting-edge, nationally renowned film program like some other schools (suggestion: start one), but that doesn't mean it has no cutting-edge, soon-to-be-renowned filmmakers.
A close-up of a beautiful young Vietnamese woman opens "The Quiet American" as a voiceover narrates above swelling music.
It's true, her music has evolved, furthering itself, keeping its shape but shedding old skin, snake-like.
An experiment in entertainment, according to founding father Casey Spooner. An audiovisual extravaganza.
Anyone who claims the Grammy's are meaningless need look only at Norah Jones' post-nomination album sales or, along with her sales, India.Arie's public presence last year despite winning nothing.
Take Idlewild's previous release, "100 Broken Windows," add one part water, mix, let it go stagnant for a few hours and the result is "The Remote Part," a more mature but slightly diluted version of the band. The Scottish quartet used to pack a punch and leave pretty bruises.
Eleven bands in eleven hours. The scene shifted each set, as the cooler-than-thous showed up to bob heads during Q and Not U, the punks to throw themselves around during Avail and the Birkenstock-wearing types to sort of sway during Jump, Little Children.
University CIO OFFScreen presents a three-part film series in biographical documentary starting Sunday with "The Trials of Henry Kissinger." Wait, come back!
Two unanticipated interruptions put major dents in the shape of Wladyslaw Szpilman's life. In Warsaw, 1939, the internationally renowned pianist's performance of Chopin's "Nocturne in D Minor" on Polish state radio was interrupted by a bomb dumped by a Nazi plane.
