Word: allen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Learn about the arduous struggle of independent filmmaking as the Harvard Film Archive hosts the Mass Ave. Film Festival. Sit in on Allen Piper's (Harvard Alum) feature film, Starving Artists, Rob Fizt's Molt and Lost Face and Gary Cohen's Dizzy Horse. Stick around for the question and answer sessions with producers and directors to find out how unglamorous independent filmmaking can be. Harvard Film Archive, 11 a.m., to 5 p.m., 24 Quincy Street. 924-9701. $10 all day pass...
...Ramos-Horta, who was awarded Harvard's Gleitsman International Activist Award in 1995, was introduced by Dr. S. Allen Counter, chair of the Harvard Foundation, as the "most prominent East Timorese in exile" and someone who has "had a central role in advancing East Timor's freedom struggle...
There's a wonderful scene in "Annie Hall" when Woody Allen's character, Alvy, is standing in line with Annie (played by Diane Keaton) to see a film. Behind the couple is an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual (who we later find out is a professor at Columbia) mindlessly nattering on and on about every topic imaginable. The professor's knowledge knows no bounds: we are subjected first to criticism of Federico Fellini's oeuvre, then to a savage diatribe against Samuel Beckett. Names are dropped with impunity, including that of media theorist Marshall McLuhan...
...movie buff friends tell me that the above scene is the first instance in which Woody Allen presents Annie Hall's main theme: the idea that only in art can one reshape reality and have complete control over one's life. As Alvy says into the camera after the scene, "Boy, if life were only like this...
...find the "any interpretation is valid" argument convincing. There are instances when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...