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-11 posts tagged "Moonlight"
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Last Sunday, I live tweeted the Oscars. I’m not entirely sure what compelled me to do this. Perhaps it was my duty as an entertainment journalist to provide the public with some extra-colorful color commentary. Maybe it was my main character complex — bass-boosted by the vanity of social media — convincing me that the
Jake Winningham | Friday, February 26, 2021
Yesterday, I ran through spots 20-11 on my countdown of this century’s Best Picture winners; today, I finish my ranking with a tight battle for the number one spot. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003) “Return of the King” occupies a strange spot in contemporary Oscar memory: one of
Ryan Israel and Mike Donovan | Friday, May 15, 2020
It’s time to turn the clock back to what, in retrospect, seems like a simpler time: late summer 2016. The class of 2020 first arrived on campus via an “Ultralight Beam,” looking forward to four years of academic and faith “Formation” and dreaming of staying up “All Night” with friends. Not yet “Destroyed by Hippie Powers,”
Jake Winningham | Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Steven Soderbergh’s most successful movies find a way to balance their potentially heady themes with his gift for visually engaging, engrossing storytelling. Take, for example, his two best films. “Ocean’s Eleven” is a look at our nation’s celebrity obsession wrapped up in Rat Pack glitz, while the beefcake fantasia of “Magic Mike” belies a meticulous
Jake Winningham | Friday, February 1, 2019
“Beale Street is a street in New Orleans, where my father, where Louis Armstrong and the jazz were born,” James Baldwin wrote in his 1974 novel “If Beale Street Could Talk.” “Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street, whether in Jackson, Mississippi or in Harlem, New York. Beale Street is our
Nicholas Ottone | Friday, September 7, 2018
When I first read about a new Oscar category for “best popular film,” I was indignant. Creating a whole new category for “popular films” seemed ahistorical and cynical at best. Popular films, like “Titanic” and “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,” have swept the Oscars in years past. Films like “Avatar”, “Mad Max:
R.J. Stempak | Friday, September 22, 2017
I got around to watching “Moonlight” at the end of the summer, just before returning to school. The 2016 Best Picture perfectly executed what I hope to find in every film I watch: specificity. If you haven’t seen it, “Moonlight” is a fascinating look into the coming of age of a gay black man named
Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, February 28, 2017
We can all identify at least one thing that surprised us about the 89th Academy Awards. It’s hard to be alive in the United States with functional Internet access and not possess at least an inkling of Sunday night’s dramatics: mayhem, Steve Harvey memes, justified anger, public statements of apology, awkward celebrity interviews and the New
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
Katie Lee Madonna | Friday, January 20, 2017
A year ago, an accomplished filmmaker and Facebook friend of mine posted a trailer to a film called “Moonlight.” The trailer’s cinematography evoked Hiro Murai’s intuitive videos for Flying Lotus’ “Never Going To Catch Me” or Kimberly Piece’s iconic and game changing “Boys Don’t Cry.” In my gut, I felt something stir. This is the film that homeless