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(04/20/06 4:00am)
I commenced my senior year at Penn in a fit of political rage. After having spent the summer and fall of 2004 canvassing for the John Kerry campaign, and the following spring abroad in Paris ignoring the results of the election, I returned to the States in June of 2005 only to be bombarded by torrents of Bush-friendly media images. Over the course of the summer, Bush appointed John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., cut military funding significantly while continuing to propagandize his hopeless, imperialist Iraq War, protected Rove while evidence of the Plame leak surfaced, ignored global warming and Sudanese genocide and topped off his efforts by failing to respond in any remotely adequate way to Hurricane Katrina.
(04/13/06 4:00am)
The Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival "is going to be amazing," asserts Brian Walsh, a Cinema Studies Major and festival co-organizer with Sara Axelrod. However, three months ago, their idea was but a pipe dream. Brian and Sara started chatting about organizing a student festival at a UME (Undergraduate Media and Entertainment) Club event at the beginning of the semester. Brian describes their ensuing experience as a snowball effect: "Once it got started, everyone wanted to join."
(04/13/06 4:00am)
Due to an overwhelming level of recent interest in Penn's squirrel community, this week, Street has decided to feature an exclusive interview with a campus squirrel.
(04/06/06 4:00am)
Lucky Number Slevin is a veritable melting pot of film styles, buzz-inducing high concepts and A-list actors. Unfortunately, director Paul McGuigan's artistic hand tired mid-stir, allowing his film's gumbo-worthy dynamic potential to congeal into a mess of reheated Campbell's pottage. A neo-noir aestheticized crime film, Slevin depicts its title character's plight of mistaken identity, which pits him between two dueling city crime chiefs: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman).
(03/30/06 5:00am)
There is absolutely no room in 2006 for Sharon Stone's 48-year-old breasts.
(03/30/06 5:00am)
Street: How did you get into the record store industry?
(03/23/06 5:00am)
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! pioneers the documentary "concert film" as a democratic and participatory medium. 50 fortuitous concert spectators, given cameras at random before a 2004 Beastie Boys concert at Madison Square Garden, have been birthed as industry cinematographers with the release of this film. Yes, their images lack formal polish, their pans and tilts bump and jerk awkwardly and their use of zooms is about as excessive as Bjork's 2004 Oscar dress. Yet, their aesthetics brim with a forceful sense of amateurish vitality.
(03/16/06 5:00am)
Jason Reitman's Thank You for Smoking depicts the plight of Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a propaganda-spouting cigarette industry mogul whose dubious business ethics haunt his tender relationship with his 12-year-old son. Thus, the film parades its pseudo-controversial tobacco industry politics.
(03/16/06 5:00am)
Street: How long have you been working here?
(02/23/06 5:00am)
Earlier this semester, my friend Thessaly La Force and I made a nine-minute documentary about student activism in New York City. We began by hitting the pavement of Times Square and handing out flyers, warning consumers -- probably none of whom were native New Yorkers -- against buying CDs that we felt abused the status of copyright.
(02/16/06 5:00am)
Street: How would you describe your bookstore's role in the community? You're kind of sandwiched between a variety of large corporate industries.
(02/02/06 5:00am)
Street: How long have you been working at the deli counter?
(01/26/06 5:00am)
Director John Whitesell literalizes tropes of gender and racial identity confusion in his Big Momma's House 2, which meditates upon the nuanced difficulties of existing in society as an obese African-American woman, while in reality being a skinny black man. Martin Lawrence plays Malcolm "Big Momma" Turner, a humble FBI agent whose passion for national security motivates his subtextual fascination with cross-dressing as a 250+ pound, festively patterned muumuu-sporting woman.
(01/19/06 5:00am)
This week's campus profile was supposed to feature an exclusive interview with Career Service's one and only Peggy Curchack. However, due to mitigating circumstances -- i.e. an overload of resume workshop commitments -- the omnipresent, yet elusive Curchack has declined all press contact for the remainder of the week.
(12/08/05 5:00am)
Last week I attended my first communist youth rally as a token gesture toward the burgeoning popularity of Penn's Soviet youth culture. Admittedly, I had my hesitations. Although I enjoy jamming to musical artists like Hammer and Sickle: The Next Generation, Jessica Stalin, and The Backstreet Kibbutz, I was sincerely afraid that my peers would find me lame and unequal. Ever since last year at a screening of Sergei Eisenstein Jr.'s Battleship Huntsman when a trendy Soviet-ster called my beat-up Converse sneakers pseudo-bourgeois, I have been haunted by insecurities regarding my personal inferiority to communist politics. The youth rally allayed even my deepest fears.
(09/15/05 4:00am)
This summer I did a great deal of self-evaluation. I thought about the upcoming experience of being a senior and the culmination of a very pleasant little educational track that benevolent forces had seemed to guide me along. But what comes next? A gaping empty future? A frightening prospect indeed.
(10/14/04 4:00am)
Matt Stone and Trey Parker have been beacons of comedic success ever since South Park hit the screens in 1997. The public celebrated the releases of Matt and Trey's films from Orgazmo to BASEketball to South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut. Their latest film, Team America: World Police, featuring an all-star cast of marionettes, is indeed anticipated by many a die-hard Matt and Trey fan. Surprisingly,Trey Parker describes the Team America filmmaking process as anything but enjoyable:
(10/07/04 4:00am)
When one hears the name Joan Crawford, an image of a frenzied Faye Dunaway sporting a green sleeping mask with larger-than-life eyebrows might come to mind, accompanied by the phrase, "no more wire hangers!" How could an actress whose celebrity outlasted the average movie star's by at least four decades suffer such a rapid and humiliating post-mortem decline of reputation?
(09/23/04 4:00am)
Tim Corrigan, chair of Penn's brand new Cinema Studies major, gives the program two thumbs up.
(04/22/04 4:00am)
The special effects are outstanding. After viewing the trailer, I thought they would be all I had to look forward to. I expected Man on Fire to be a formulaic Hollywood Blockbuster Action-Adventure, in which people constantly speak when they have nothing to say. Luckily, this film is nothing of the sort.