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Lucy Collins | Thursday, October 25, 2018
Ah, October. The month when the leaves start to change and the sun starts to set a lot earlier. With these shorter days comes more opportunity to reflect on the fears within our hearts — looming midterms, jobless futures and the prospect of losing a football game. What better time of year for Halloween, the
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, May 16, 2018
If the class of 2018 can get Kanye’s “woopty scoop poops” out of their heads long enough, they might be able to recall the late summer day in 2014 when they arrived at Our Lady’s University — some humming along to Pharrell’s infectious earworm “Happy” and others still raving about Mac Demarco’s bid to become
Owen Lane | Monday, April 23, 2018
Wes Anderson’s films are unmistakable. If you see a movie with highly symmetrical framing, bright primary color schemes and Bill Murray, your natural assumption would either be that you are watching a Wes Anderson movie or some sort of blatant Anderson knock-off. His films are easy to appreciate, but not necessarily easy to love. Particularly,
Charlie Kenney | Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was not a particularly endearing man. He oversaw mass genocides of minorities within the Soviet Union, engineered artificial famine against groups that opposed his rule, introduced a widely-contested program of forced collectivization and essentially brought the Cold War into being through his aggressive interactions with the capitalist West. His legacy is
Charlie Kenney | Friday, February 23, 2018
DeKalb Elementary The live-action short revolves around an armed man who enters an Atlanta elementary school, the receptionist at the entrance of the school who convinces him to give himself up and the 9-1-1 operator who acts as an intermediary between them and the police. It’s a poignant, touching story that seems larger than life
Charlie Kenney | Tuesday, January 30, 2018
In my previous reviews of historical, non-fiction films, I have discussed the difficulty of adapting these works for the screen. Historical, non-fiction films, if the viewer is knowledgeable, do not have surprises, do not have particularly exciting character development and have a pressing obligation to be historically accurate — especially if they retell well-known historical
Morgan Johnson | Monday, January 29, 2018
Notre Dame student filmmakers were in the spotlight this weekend with the Film, Television and Theater (FTT) department’s 29th annual showcase of the Student Film Festival. The showings took place Friday and Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC). The festival was a
Claire Rafford | Thursday, January 25, 2018
Notre Dame shares a connection with the five-time Oscar nominated film “Lady Bird,” as it features a song by the Notre Dame Folk Choir at the end of the movie. “Lady Bird” — which depicts the coming-of-age story of a girl as she attends a Catholic high school, fills out college applications, experiences her first love
Brian Boylen, Adam Ramos, Charlie Kenney, Owen Lane and Mike Donovan | Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The year 2017 has been simultaneously a death and a resurrection for the film industry. Its death has come in the myriad of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape allegations that have come out against actors, directors and producers of Hollywood. The resurrection has come from the proliferation and success of independent production studios, from
Lucy Lynch | Friday, November 17, 2017
The Gender Relations Center presented a panel discussion about “Violence in Media” in LaFortune Student Center on Thursday night. The panel explored the portrayal of violence in scenes from both television and film, and included Mary Kearney, an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, as well as director of the gender studies