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...about film and art and contemporary and classical music.”These documentaries dealt with a range of artistic personalities, including author Charles Bukowski, singer Selena, and performance artist Hermann Nitsch. After probing the artistic legacies of these subjects, Miniucchi applied her knowledge of real life to the script and direction of “Exposed,” shooting with low-budget, Super 35 film and not shying away from the inherent ugliness and imperfections of her characters.Miniucchi envisioned each scene of the film as a continuous take. “That would give the actors more freedom...
...first blush, the same old depressing script. When U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a major speech on the need for NATO members to step up their efforts in Afghanistan at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy last week, a quick scan of the headlines would have made you think we were back where we were five (or, to be honest, 25) years ago. That is to say: an American policymaker comes to Europe and lectures the Allies on the need to recognize that it's a dangerous world out there, that the comfortable folk on the eastern...
...secret society of vampires after becoming president of the Harvard Law Review. The project began last year when a group of friends in Los Angeles decided that one of them, Justin M. Sherman, looked a lot like a young Obama. At his friends’ prompting, Sherman wrote a script called “Mr. Obama Goes to Cambridge” about Obama’s years at the Law School and his time as president of the law review. But according to the film’s director, Mike S. Lawson, the script lacked conflict. The solution was easy...
...sudden midseason move, the combative Hall of Famer resigned on Feb. 4 as head coach at Texas Tech, his home since being fired by Indiana. Knight, who is succeeded by his son Pat, told colleagues he was tired. But he was also following a tradition of writing his own script. Last year, when he broke the record for game wins, the song he chose to play over the loudspeaker was My Way. "When I think back on it," he said then, "I don't think my way was all that...
...Cambridge. Melvoin’s new course, Dramatic Arts 37, “The Craft of Storytelling on Stage, Television, and Screen,” will give students an understanding of the differences and similarities of the three media—stage, television, and film—through script-reading. By close study of a script in each medium, Melvoin hopes to help students explore what is universal to storytelling and what is specific to each creative medium. “This course, by taking a look at these three different uses of scripts, hopefully will get to the underlying...