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Badlands (1973). Terence Malick's teenagers-in-love-turn-killers-on-the-road movie, which inspired a thousand imitators. The unheralded gem of American cinema. Raging Bull (1980). The finest sports movie ever made, with grit courtesy of Marty. Citizen Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of...
Today I Love Lucy, with its farcical plots, broad physical humor and unliberated picture of marriage, is sometimes dismissed as a relic. Yet the show has the timeless perfection of a crystal goblet. For all its comic hyperbole, Lucy explored universal themes: the tensions of married life, the clash between...
In his new movie, Bulworth, Warren Beatty implies that the obsession with presidential sex is just a diversion from the much more significant issues of money, race and class. Most people seem to agree. Beatty once admitted, sure, he'd have liked to have been President, but then he would...
First, I am realizing there is real community at Harvard. It may sound strange, but I am learning that when people ask about your paper or your summer plans, they mean it. My friends stop me in libraries and in dining halls and ask hopefully about my plans, even when...
I am stunned that experts continue to blame television and the media for playground massacres that involve youths and guns. Is the National Rifle Association so powerful in the U.S. that people are scared to admit that archaic gun laws are causing young children to be killed? Or is the...