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-9 posts tagged "Cinema"
Justin George | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
A brief primer on region coding before we begin: DVD and Blu-ray discs are coded by manufacturers to only work on players from certain regions, allowing for healthy competition amongst disc manufacturers around the world. However, this acts as a barrier to what film consumers and collectors can obtain. Region coding is the bane of
Aidan O'Malley | Monday, August 17, 2020
I was in a movie theater when Notre Dame first went online. It was the Wednesday of spring break. I was back home with no plans and no friends. Painfully aware of the homework I would return to, I dedicated my week to something I struggled to find time for on campus, going to the
Willoughby Thom, Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan, Charlie Kenney, Dessi Gomez and Gina Twardosz | Monday, December 9, 2019
Scene on the Screen: looking into the best, the worst and the weirdest filmmaking, on both the big and small screens, from 2019. Cinema? Who is she? By Mike Donovan, Scene Editor Robert Downey Jr.’s “Avengers: Endgame” martyrdom tried quite diligently to signal “‘the end of an era,’ punctuating a sprawling filmic enterprise” with the
From the Archives | Monday, September 9, 2019
When the first issue of The Observer was released in 1966, the Scene department didn’t exist. It’s not that our journalistic predecessors hated art — quite the opposite, actually. Early editions of The Observer included detailed analyses of literature, theatre and art exhibitions. These articles just lacked a formal category. However, The Observer’s earliest scribes
Natalie Weber | Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Jonathan Wolff, who has composed music for “Seinfeld,” “Will and Grace” and several other prime time network TV shows, spoke on his experiences within the industry and gave advice to students interested in working as attorneys who represent artists Tuesday. “I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17 and started working,” Wolff said. “I
Erin McAuliffe, Kelly McGarry, Charlie Kenney, Jack Riedy and Elizabeth Hynes | Friday, February 24, 2017
Best Picture: “Moonlight” By Jack Riedy Like all great movies, “Moonlight” is both a small story and an impossibly large one. The coming-of-age film follows a black boy, Chiron, as he grows up in Miami poverty. We see him as a meek, nearly mute child, as a scrawny harassed teen and as an impossibly built ex-convict in
Jordan Cockrum | Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Cinema from all over the world came to Saint Mary’s on Monday at its annual World Cinema Festival. The Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) puts on the festival, which screens an international film each night of the festival’s run. The World Cinema continues through Thursday. “It’s just another one of our initiatives for internationalization on campus,
Brian Boylen | Thursday, September 29, 2016
If you could be any animal, which one would you choose? This question, a staple of playground chats, seems relatively innocuous in nature. This is not the case in the world of “The Lobster,” where the transformation from man to animal is a harsh reality. In the dystopian society presented by the film, adults must
Nick Laureano | Thursday, October 29, 2015
Editor’s Note: This article is a continuation of Nick Laureano’s The Imitation Game: ‘Bridge of Spies’ and the Oscar problem, which ran in yesterday’s edition. Set the time circuits to February 2010 and hit 88 mph. “The King’s Speech” — a film that is decent in every possible sense of the word — beat “The Social Network” for