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Serena Zacharias | Friday, January 24, 2020
After years of trying to remain behind the camera, senior Gretchen Hopkirk forced herself into the spotlight quite literally in front of the University, setting up a tripod in front of the Golden Dome. Looking inward for her subject matter, Hopkirk decided to produce a film discussing her relationship with her friends, the University and
Aidan O'Malley | Monday, November 4, 2019
Nestled in the AMC River East just a stone’s throw away from its eponymous waterway, the Chicago International Film Festival (Oct. 16-27) quietly came to life. In its 55th year of competition, CIFF is the longest-running film festival in the country, but you wouldn’t know it just from going. Despite its buzzworthy lineup and a
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, October 15, 2019
For all its technical wizardry and for every commercial that claims “you’ve never seen anything like it” — “Gemini Man” is a movie you have certainly seen before. Quite an obvious reason for that has to do with the film’s script, which sat rotting in development hell for 20 years — literally. First conceived by
Caroline Lezny | Thursday, October 10, 2019
New Zealand film director and producer Peter Jackson is best known for his work on the fantastical “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and its three prequel films concerning “The Hobbit,” but his most recent project is anything but otherworldly. It has been theorized by literary scholars that the fantasy of Middle-earth present in Jackson’s early
Jake Winningham | Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Brian Raftery’s 2019 book “Best.Movie.Year.Ever: How 1999 Blew Up The Big Screen” adopts an increasingly popular opinion among cinephiles: the last year of the 20th century witnessed more great films than any before it. 1999 was a watershed year for films of all stripes — from foreign-language pictures to special-effects blockbusters and everything in between.
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
Charlie Kenney | Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Choosing to film his most recent picture around 1969 Los Angeles, Quentin Tarantino gave himself a canvas to work with that begged for brilliance. Over the past 20 years, Tarantino has set his nine feature films in the Wild West, the antebellum South and Nazi-occupied 1940s Europe. And, for the most part, has done so
Colleen Fischer | Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Many film critics like to tie movies into little bows near the beginning of their articles, summarizing them with their own premise of the message. Doing this for “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is not only difficult, but it does the film a great disservice. I read a few reviews to ensure what
Mike Donovan | Friday, May 17, 2019
After a few good weeks cruising along the “Old Town Road,” it’s time to take a turn down memory lane. Return to late summer 2015, when the class of 2019 first arrived on campus. Some of these newcomers found themselves tangled in a sprawling web of uncertainties, living out Courtney Barnett’s anxious anthem: “Nobody really
Thomas Murphy | Monday, April 29, 2019
Presidents, popes, protests and probity fill many scenes depicted in the recent documentary film examining the life and work of former University President Fr. Theodore Hesburgh. Directed by Notre Dame alumnus Patrick Creadon ’89 and entitled “Hesburgh,” the movie debuted in South Bend and Chicago this past weekend and is set for its nationwide release