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...Martin Scorsese has made a habit of crafting films that employ genre tropes to illuminate the human condition. From “Raging Bull,” the sports movie that focused on the violent imperfections of human nature, to “The Departed,” a police procedural/gangland thriller that studied loyalty, betrayal, and identity in a disconcertingly harsh light, he has always found a way to push past the cliché, the obvious, and the mundane. With “Shutter Island,” Scorsese turns his attention to a new genre: the psychological thriller...
...Staff writer Martin Kessler can be reached at martin.kessler@college.harvard.edu...
...students, Veronica E. Manzo ’13 and Daniel R. Martin ’13, filmed a 16-minute movie involving a runaway princess set in the “Hardy-Weinberg Kingdom,” inspired by the Hardy-Weinberg principle which explains what causes allele and genotype frequencies to change over time in a population...
Expensive movies from notable directors usually open toward the end of the year, for timely attention in the Oscar season. Martin Scorsese's last three features - Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed, all starring Leonardo DiCaprio - all followed that rule. The latest Scorsese-DiCaprio pairing, Shutter Island, was originally to come out last October, in plenty of time to beat the Academy drum. When the film's distributor, Paramount, abruptly switched the release date to February 2010, the move was taken as an admission that the movie lacked either Oscar gravitas or box-office clout. In vain...
...about exercising their new powers. Dutch lawmaker Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, who led the Parliament's attack on the deal, said if the Obama Administration had proposed such a data-sharing arrangement in the U.S., "we all know what the U.S. Congress would say, don't we?" German lawmaker Martin Schulz was even more vocal, saying the U.S. "wrongly thought it could deal with the European Parliament like Gulliver with the Lilliputians...