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...movie is opening today in two formats: 3-D in 650 IMAX theaters, 2-D on another 2,500 screens. IMAX is the way the movie was conceived, and the way to see it. Not only because stuff is hurled out at you, but because being surrounded by the huge screen focuses your attention on the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beowulf and Grendel — and Grendma | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...Arriving at Beowulf is still like visiting the optometrist: the movie screen is an eye chart, with pictures instead of letters. But the glasses are kinda cool, like wrap-around Ray-Bans - larger, because the IMAX screen fills most of your field of vision, and less distracting than the old kind. Just don't tilt your head; suddenly everything gets blurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beowulf and Grendel — and Grendma | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...They say, he opens nothing, he has nothing to open, it’s in his head.” The third play, “...but the clouds...,” was recorded by a video camera, and the recording was displayed on a large projection screen. A character spoke hauntingly about his lost beloved: “When I thought of her, it was always night.” On the screen, black-and-white images of the lost beloved and a figure walking in various long costumes were displayed. After the show, audience members praised the performance...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Little-Known Beckett Works Exhibited | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...South Africa, as only a tiny percentage of Africans own television sets, millions gather in clubs and restaurants across the continent to watch the real-life daily soap opera unfold. Television has succeeded where politics failed in creating a new Pan-Africanism, bringing together Africans not only on the screen, but also in the local dive. Proponents praise the program for bridging cultural gaps and eroding misconceptions that Africans of different nationalities hold of one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Guilty TV Pleasure | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

Representatives from UBS arrived to mingle with students on campus yesterday in an elegant, chandelier-lit room in the lower level of the Faculty Club. The two groups talked about career prospects at the prominent Swiss bank over refreshments. A screen at the front of the room read, “Global success begins with individual contribution. It starts with you.” Outside the building, Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) members handed out small yellow flyers posing the question: “Do YOU want to work for a company that underwrites GENOCIDE?” The group?...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest UBS Event | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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