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...this, Whitaker left an unsatisfying freshman rowing experience to pursue her love of movies. Whitaker, who is also and inactive Arts editor, has followed a passion for film studies from her kitchen table to the classroom and beyond at Harvard. The silver screen was an integral part of Whitaker??s childhood. The New York City native fondly recounts memories of her high school days, when going to the movies every weekend—and analytically “dissecting” each one over the dinner table the next day—was a family tradition.When Whitaker arrived...
...only film this year to fully realize the aesthetic potential of violence is “The Last King of Scotland,” a movie in which the depicted killings serve as a metaphor for the Ugandan genocide and thus magnify the atrociousness of Forest Whitaker??s magnetic and terrifying Idi Amin. But even when you forget that the film is about a historical tragedy, you still anxiously feel that everyone in the film is a piece of meat waiting to be hacked to pieces; when the butcher comes, it feels disturbingly right...
...When Garrigan meets Amin, Amin is the glowing leader of the latest coup and the new hope for Uganda’s masses. Whitaker delivers a stunning performance as Amin, winning Garrigan over with his charm and luxurious taste. Only a hint of capriciousness foreshadows his insane dictatorship. Whitaker??s charistmatic portrayal never wavers, but his character fades from charming to terrifying. McAvoy holds his own against Whitaker, solidly portraying an inherently weak character. Garrigan is an unheroic protagonist, who struggles as much to accept Amin’s evil as he does to act on his moral...
...call from a graduate student named Chris Foreman who had seen Whitaker??s pieces in The Crimson and told him the he had “a good shot” at landing an internship at Newsweek...
...Whitaker??s wife Gelber remembers hearing about Alter when he was working at Washington Monthly...