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(01/29/04 5:00am)
In Something's Gotta Give, Jack Nicholson plays a sixty-two year old hot-shot playboy Harry Langer, with his own production company and a wide array of twenty-year-old girlfriends. While spending a weekend in the Hamptons with his current fling Marin (Amanda Peet), he stumbles into the arms of her playwright mother Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), and is forced to decide between his run-around lifestyle and a woman his own age who he might actually be capable of loving.
(12/04/03 5:00am)
Stephen Glass is the original Jayson Blair. He became a writer for The New Republic at the tender age of twenty-four and while employed there he partially or fully fabricated twenty-seven out of forty-one stories until he was caught in 1998. Shattered Glass tells the story of his downfall in thorough detail, tracking Glass, his editors, fellow writers and a reporter at Forbes Digital who eventually broke the story about Glass' transgressions and made them national news.
(09/11/03 5:00am)
Some movies make you sad. Others make you melancholy, wistful, or despondent. These movies make you feel utterly hopeless. Enjoy.
(09/04/03 5:00am)
It's happened more than once -- a dreary eyed, exhausted freshman flops down on his dorm room bed and has the horrifying revelation that he hasn't left Charles Village in over a month. Trust me, it's a dirty, dirty feeling, but it's one that's easily alleviated. What better way than to connect with the outside world than seeing a movie? After all, the movies are of the few shared cultural experiences left in America.
(05/02/03 5:00am)
Compiling lists is a time-honored tradition in the world of arts and entertainment, with every filmmaker, author, actor and musician striving to be the best while pursuing artistic expression. Everyone wants to be recognized for his or her achievements. Hell, we are a nation of individuals competing for that coveted spot of adoration. The past school year has witnessed the arrival of a flurry of films, television programs and album releases. Furthermore, the theatrical performances on campus must not be overlooked, with nearly a production every week. Wading through the murky river is a daunting task, but we are brave.
(05/02/03 5:00am)
Benedict A. Dorsey has been directing the Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theater Company (DBH) since its on-campus inception 10 years ago. Founder of Benedictions Productions, Inc., a Baltimore inner-city educational theater company, Dorsey's life revolves around theater, and he's happy to be a part of the Hopkins dramatic community.
(04/17/03 5:00am)
From the London theatrical institution, Mousetrap, to countless film and television adaptations of And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie's ingenious, oft-imitated whodunit novels rarely fail to translate into satisfying drama. Her characters -- Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and the Beresfords -- have each found their way to the screen or stage, with Christie, more often than not, penning the scripts. Her stories, and subsequent success, are marked by two key essentials of drama: the set-up and the pay-off. While Christie's work strips down these tools to their basest forms, she does them brilliantly nonetheless, and nearly every great plot, no matter how abstracted or unintended, follows her example.
(04/17/03 5:00am)
The Man Without a Past opens on its protagonist, named only M (Markku Petola), as he's savagely beaten in downtown Helsinki. From there it's to the hospital, where he flat-lines and then miraculously rises from the dead.
(11/14/02 5:00am)
International sensation David Broza came to Shriver Hall on Nov. 13 to play his beloved folk rock music. Effortlessly blending Hebrew, English and Spanish lyrics and musical styles into his work, Broza's appeal is far-reaching indeed. With 23 albums under his belt, Broza, a megastar in Israel, is slowly but surely gathering a mainstream following in America. Recently, the News-Letter had the opportunity to discuss his career and influences with the singer/songwriter himself.
(11/07/02 5:00am)
Since the release of Sydney in 1996, P. T. Anderson has emerged as one of the premier American auteurs. Along with a small crop of wunderkind, including Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze, Anderson employs techniques that make his films distinctly his own -- a remarkable quality altogether lacking in the majority of commercial cinema. While his Boogie Nights and Magnolia lacked control, Anderson's sincere, pleading and often beguiling style more than compensated. His films can be emotionally exhausting, but are never without their rewards.
(09/12/02 5:00am)
The Kid Stays in the Picture is a new documentary from directors Nanette Burstein and Adam Morgan. Based on his autobiography of the same title, it tells the mythic story of Hollywood producer Robert Evans, a once young businessman who, during a short sojourn in Beverly Hills, jumped into a swimming pool and came out a Hollywood legend. Recognized that fateful day, he was cast in Daryl Zancuk's The Sun Also Rises and almost lost the role, until Zanuck uttered those now famous titular words. Evans would go on to rebuild Paramount studios, marry and divorce Ali McGraw and produce some of the greatest films of the O70s.
(09/12/02 5:00am)
Like the long winters and afternoon rainfalls that it prominently features, Road to Perdition is permeated by a wistful sense of regret. Sam Mendes allows his scenes to linger artfully; Conrad Hall's cinematography makes us glad he does. But the pure power of photography becomes the film's main weakness. The camera boasts so loudly that the drama it depicts, albeit rather noisy itself, is muted. What we're left with is simultaneously a sumptuous feast and a taste of what might have been.