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-6 posts tagged "Lady Bird"
Isa Sheikh | Friday, September 30, 2022
“Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind, there would have been no reason to write,” the writer Joan Didion said in a speech discussing the reasons and methods behind her writing. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, April 5, 2022
I’m not very good at settling on a favorite anything, but when people ask me what my favorite movie is, I usually tell them 2017’s “Lady Bird.” It’s a pretty basic answer for a twentysomething white woman, but I tell anyone who will listen that my favorite artist is Taylor Swift, so it’s not like
Colleen Fischer | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Bechdel test? Who is she? “Unpregnant” is a film in which two female friends talk about everything other than boys. This film handles the most contentious issue facing the tri-campus community with realistic comedy and grace, humanizing women who get abortions in the process. “Unpregnant” features a 17-year-old protagonist, Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson), who has, thus
Adam Ramos, Charlie Kenney, Nora McGreevy, Matthew Munhall and Owen Lane | Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Best Acceptance Speech — Frances McDormand (Best Actress) By Adam Ramos, Scene Editor In an award show focused on brevity (the shortest acceptance speech earned a new jet ski), Frances McDormand still managed to deliver an electric moment upon accepting her award for Best Actress. McDormand, accepting the award for the second time after winning
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 | Friday, December 1, 2017
The diversity of human experience is vast, yet there is a fundamental commonality that binds us all. “Lady Bird” taps into this notion, and is able to perform the impressive act of crafting a universally appealing story by focusing on specific people, in a specific place, at a specific point in time. I am not