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...Gogol, who Penn had never read before the movie, nor is it the the 2003 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri that served as inspiration for the film.Rather, it’s the sophomoric type of work that many think Penn eschewed with “The Namesake??: 2004’s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” where Penn plays a prospective medical student on an epic quest for fast food after smoking too much pot and getting the munchies.According to Penn at an interview with college journalists...
Ultimately, “Knock’s” treatment of these questions is discouraging. The show expresses a deep discomfort with its namesake??s “medicine,” suggesting that what may seem like a great “experiment” to better mankind through modernization is actually just the experiment of one power-hungry man. It leaves you questioning whether the “triumph” of medicine is really a victory for mankind, or something that will destroy mankind—maybe something for all those pre-meds...
Assisted by a bevy of soloists and readings of the wunderkind’s letters, the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO) put on a clumsy, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable concert celebrating their namesake??s 250th birthday on Saturday Feb. 24 in Lowell Lecture Hall. Under the creative guidance of Music Director Akiko Fujimoto, the orchestra lacks technical polish across all sections, and has trouble achieving the mountain air clarity that Mozart demands. As the program was stuffed with familiar classics, the technical limitations of the orchestra were on full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony...
...black tank tops tumbling over each other in the passion of their basketball game. Takehasi Hamma’s “Louis Vitton, Ginza, Tokyo,” is eye-popping in a much different way. It causes the viewer to focus on the hypnotic architecture of the namesake??s department store while almost burying the elegantly dressed model in the lower right corner. Intensely fun to look at, the shot also succeeds in its basic purpose: It makes us want to buy the featured clothes...