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...presents an alternative perspective on D.W. Griffith’s controversial, Ku Klux Klan-praising 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Projecting spliced images of digitally enhanced footage from Griffith’s film with new clips onto three big screens and mixing it live with blues and hip-hop music, Miller remixes, revisits, and condenses the silent three-hour epic into a 75-minute multimedia experience, in a process that subverts traditional musical accompaniment to silent films...
...Cool is the most ironically named movie since What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Crass commercialism rarely exhibits any sign of the finesse, reserve, or hip theatricality inherent to modern definitions of cool. This flop is no exception...
...Gary Grey clearly developed The Rock’s characterization of Be Cool’s only homosexual as so flamboyant, he makes Elton John look like Ronald Reagan. Vince Vaughn outdoes Jamie Kennedy’s Malibu’s Most Wanted caricature as a confused Jewish hip-hopper who thinks he’s black. Thurman is a strong female executive, but still melts immediately into the hands of a strong masculine presence; her characters have had more integrity when overdosing on cocaine. This collective clamoring to be over-the-top suggests that perhaps the performers were somehow...
Corker mentioned that some plans for the future Pub Nights this term could include a Karaoke section, a Veritas record release party, a hip-hop theme with a “rap battle,” trivia games, and a “classy lounge night” with table service and a jazz band...
...hero of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is someone even younger, smarter and less hip than Foer. Oskar Schell is a weird, compulsive, deeply nerdy 9-year-old kid who lost his father in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Oskar's many obsessions include physicist Stephen Hawking, playing the tambourine, looking for mistakes in the New York Times, and inventing things: "There are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?" And so on. When Oskar discovers...