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...obit headlines have it right. For all of Robert Mulligan's impressive credentials in his 40-year career as a director of television and movie dramas, his signature achievement was the 1962 film version of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The picture - which won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck, and earned Mulligan his only Oscar nomination - had an immediate and lasting impact. Back then it provided a Hollywood echo of the civil rights agitation that had roiled the South and seized the nation. But Peck's role as Atticus Finch...
...things about this austere and masterly movie - which may remind cinephiles of the calm clarity and seeming simplicity of the French master, Robert Bresson - is that Bégaudeau is playing a version of himself, in a screenplay of his own devising that is in turn based on a novel that he also wrote. It is hard to think of another film more tightly autobiographical than this one. It's even harder to think of other films that build so gripping a narrative out of a string of comparatively minor and disparate incidents. For its first few minutes The Class...
...found the t-shirt while rummaging through your parents’ old stuff. Seeming authentic is key. 2. Drink copious amounts of coffee A coffee cup in hand will signal to the world that you’ve been up all night pouring over the new [insert favorite author] novel. Coffee should be obtained from a small café. Starbucks drinkers are to be scorned. 1. Moleskine (or other pocket) notebook Employed by Van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway, the strategic use of this item will situate you within the great Western Tradition. Notebook is especially effective in displaying your creativity...
...experiment entailed a novel labeling procedure that allows researchers to examine the rate of stem cell division...
...enough to fill the Salient’s pages—and maybe even earn him an op-ed column in The Crimson. Character: Roger Mexico—“Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon Caricature: Public Piss Guy Roger Mexico begins the novel romantic (“They are in love. Fuck the war.”) and intellectually sophisticated (the Rockets fall according to a Poisson distribution, people! A Poisson distribution!), but he ends it broken-hearted, broken down, and maniacally pissing on a boardroom table. So next time you see Public...