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...words prove sadly prophetic: during Rampage's filming, a family member was shot dead by a rival street gang. Gittoes films the funeral and the fruitless police search for the culprit, but also turns the camera on himself, suggesting that the attention he's brought to the community is partly to blame for the crime. "This is the problem with documentary filmmaking," he says at one point. "There are lives at stake...
...talent to pull off this type of performance, and it took Black almost two decades to figure out how to harness his talent successfully. "I first met him when he was 12," says Tim Robbins, who, as the co-founder of the Los Angeles theater troupe the Actors' Gang, gave Black a role in the play Inside Eddie Binstock. "After that, he just kept coming back and hanging out." Black's parents, divorced rocket scientists, encouraged their son's artistic hanging out, and as Black matured and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, he landed in Actors' Gang...
...Jackal. He hates confrontation, and he's not arrogant enough to have ever told a director he thought he was being misused, but he did find that movies were a lot less fun than theater or Tenacious D, the Spinal Tap-ish band he created with fellow Actors' Gang alum Kyle Gass. "It wasn't about control," says Black. "It was about the co-lla-bo. There's great directors who treat actors like cattle, but I hated it, and I knew if I ever had a choice, I didn't want to work with those guys. Who said that...
...Whoppers, should have been a documentary; instead, it fruitlessly created fictional characters who never brought themselves - or the story - to life. Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, widely considered the flop of the festival, imagines a U.S. of the near future in which the government snoops on everyone and a gang of unattractive rebels wreak desultory havoc. Those last two words apply to the film as well. But we come not to bury the bad films but to unearth some good ones and sing hallelujah. So all praise to Paolo Sorrentino's The Family Friend, a mordant Italian comedy about...
...Winter, chemist Eric N. Jacobsen, historian of science Sarah Jansen, and scientist Ann Pearson. Menand, the Bass Professor English and American Literature, joins the council after having served on the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. A member of so-called “Gang of Five”—a name bestowed by FAS Dean William C. Kirby—Menand helped to craft the program of general education that may eventually replace the Core. Boardman Professor of Fine Arts Irene J. Winter came to Harvard in 1995 and recently worked with...