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...excellent Brad Pitt) provide much of the film’s entertainment value but are not its most interesting feature. The most remarkable strand of the plot follows the unnervingly charming SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) in his quest to hunt down the Jews of France. The opening scene of the movie consists of little more than a 15-minute long conversation between Landa and a French dairy farmer, Perrier LaPadite. Slowly and inevitably, Landa breaks down LaPadite’s resistance, reducing him to a quivering wreck and forcing him to surrender the Jewish family hiding...
...business concentration.” Indeed, many of the musicians have struggled to break into a world where a Harvard diploma is more of a curiosity than anything else. Harvard Rocks NYC offered these aspiring artists, who have mostly found themselves making it alone in the New York music scene, a chance to find support in each other’s experiences, network, and show the audience that Harvard truly rocks.CREATING THE FIRST CRIMSON ROCK EVENTHarvard Rocks NYC was produced in collaboration with Harvardwood, a non-profit organization for Harvard students, alumni, and staff interested in the arts, media...
...graduated last March and I had enough repertory that I’d made while I was here that I could do an evening of work that I had created as an undergrad. I’ve been really lucky that I’ve continued in the dance scene here through teaching so I presented this idea to the Dance Program that if I could find the people to do a concert, would it be possible for the Program to host my dance company. They said yes.Since there’s such competition between the dance companies and groups...
...American badland serving as a surrogate for the frontier, to be conquered by Greyhound.Reading “Fat City” in the summer of 2009, one is reminded of Darren Aronofsky’s film “The Wrestler,” and the enigmatic final scene; a tragic arc either clipped or stretched too thin; a pathetic hero caught suddenly with something left to lose. Ernie Munger, its clear, is a talented fighter. He is blessed preternaturally with qualities that Tully could never measure up to, and his future, it seems at the end of the novel...
...summer filled with justifiable acclaim for “Inglourious Basterds,” another war movie snuck onto the scene and captured audiences with an almost surreal attention to detail rather than with a clever rewrite of history. Written by American journalist Mark Boal, the script for “The Hurt Locker” is based on stories from his time covering a bomb squad in Iraq. Jeremy Renner (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “28 Weeks Later”) leads the film?...