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April 1, 2013 | Film,

“You’ve Made A Cuckold Out Of Me” – On Wes Anderson’s Tendency to Write Characters for Bill Murray in Which His Wife Is Cheating On Him

  Any profile of Murray written after 2005 is likely to open with a paragraph about Murray’s peculiar antics as of late: firing his agent, surprising strangers on the street,...

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March 28, 2013 | Film,

Due South: South America’s newest films

  Seeing is believing. In this generation of cross-cultural entertainment, we have the opportunity to capture a culture through film in incomparable ways. When I watch a film, I let it take...

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March 12, 2013 | Film,

In The Realms Of The Unreal

  What would it feel like to spend 43 years inside a single room creating a 15,145 page book rich with illustrations, adventure and gruesome war scenes? How would it...

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February 6, 2013 | Film,

Spalding Gray, Sit Down Comedian

  “Sitting squared behind that table gives me a center, makes the story the important thing and to some extent the table is a new image that can’t be pinned...

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January 30, 2013 | Film,

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and the Birth of the Term Lynchian

It begins with a severed ear in a grassy field.  It’s out of place, it’s a metaphor, it’s a plot point, it’s simultaneously creepy, funny and intriguing.  In a word,...

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January 15, 2013 | Film,

The Many Stories of the Boston Busing/Desegregation Crisis

In 2009, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie spoke at a TED Talks conference on The Danger of a Single Story. I was blown away by her idea. It was a simple...

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November 28, 2012 | Film,

The Beautifully Grotesque: Pan’s Labyrinth and LA BELLE ET LA Bête

When I first encountered Pan’s Labyrinth in 2007, my initial reaction was disgust. All I could remember after watching the film was a scene in which a frog essentially turns...

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September 24, 2012 | Film, Notes From Leadership,

On “Stage Beauty”, or How I Know I Made The Right Career Choice

by David Dower Very late in the film Stage Beauty, which you have one more chance to see as part of our Shakespeare on Film series, there’s a scene where Claire Danes’...

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