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...executed; its acting and imagery are exaggerated, but work to the film’s benefit. Helmer offers us a total production, a full fairy tale where every last detail is carefully thought out—from the evocative music to the otherworldly set. The actors took years to cast and come from all around the world—an advantage to creating a film with close to no dialogue. The dynamic between Aya and Temelko is genuine and convincing. Their sincerity and playfulness carry the movie.The interweaving of the two storylines—that of the pipeline and that...
Invariably vibrant and irresistibly energetic, Harvard South Asian Association’s annual performance, Ghungroo, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. With a new program comprised of traditional dances, musical pieces, and comedic skits, this immense effort features a cast of over a hundred students. SAA co-president Ria S. Tobaccowala ’10, who shares her position with Joseph G. Thumpasery ’10, is one of the members producing Ghungroo this year. The Harvard Crimson: What are the SAA’s objectives this year for its anniversary performance? Ria S. Tobaccowala: Our main objective this...
...book is always better. Seeing a movie made from a favorite novel, or even an ordinary one, the reader-viewer invariably finds something missing, lacking, overstressed or just plain wrong, because it was changed. When we read the book, we make the movie: we cast it, visualize it, control its pacing. We own it. Any other version of the book - say, Hollywood's - competes with our original experience and simply can't measure up. And this applies no matter how good the film, how bad the book. If there'd been a cheapo novel called Citizen Kane that preceded...
...weekend of anxiety over AIG, the black hole of an insurance company that is swallowing another $30 billion of government assistance with no assurance that it won't need more. Monday morning, AIG reported a colossal loss of $61.66 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008. Citigroup also cast its own dark shadow with news last week that the government will convert preferred shares it owns for up to a 36% stake in the troubled financial services firm...
...also roasted by the cast of On Harvard Time, who joked about Aykroyd’s interest in UFOs and alien abduction as well as his recent motion picture with Hilary Duff...