Film & TV
Move Over, Eve Ensler...
Street: Can you tell us a little about vagina dentata and how it originated? Persephone Braham: The vagina dentata has many manifestations, from the classical Greek figure Scylla (a beautiful woman from the waist up, with the slavering jaws of three dogs for genitals) to Eve and Mother Nature --- with her grottoes, caves, quicksand bogs and amphibious serpents.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT.
How many movies do you know that open with a title warning that none of the footage you are about to see is actual documentary footage?
The Sundance Rundown
This Sunday marked the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival, the biggest event of the year for American independent film.
Teeth Interview
Recently, Street had the pleasure to interview the writer/director of Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and producer, Joyce Pierpoline, who graduated from Penn.
Biting Where Few Have Bitten Before
I'm all about vagina empowerment. In my vocabulary, the word "feminist" is neither dirty nor derogatory.
Five Movies to Overturn Your Carefully Cultivated Sense of Reality
5. Fight Club Tyler Durden: "Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just.
Web Video of the Week
Dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is acceptable only twice during the average person's lifetime: for the duration of 1983 and at your brother's bar mitzvah.
Best and Worst Movies of 2007
The best La Vie en Rose Persepolis 4 Months, 3 weeks, 2 Days Lars and the Real Girl Once No Country for Old Men The Diving Bell and the Butterfly There Will Be Blood I'm Not There Juno Control Charlie Wilson's War Lust, Caution the worst Norbit Hostel II Who's Your Caddy The Simpsons Movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Mr. Woodcock I Know Who Killed Me Good Luck Chuck Revolver Wild Hogs The Number 23
THE LINEUP: 2008
So the Oscar nominations are out and Atonement didn't score as many nods as we would have liked. Nonetheless, we're optimistic about the upcoming year's crop of flicks.
One-Liners
Charlie Wilson's War: ? If only politics were still this entertaining. Sweeney Todd:? For anyone who hated Borat, you can watch Johnny Depp slit Sacha Baron Cohen's throat. There Will Be Blood: ? A movie about big oil screwing over the common man; in other words, every Whartonite's dream. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A blinking, quadrapalegic writer exhibits better tear-duct control than every audience member.
Of Profits and Prophets
We all get competitive. Whether it's GPAs, sports or the Academy Awards, there's always a fight to be won.
Web Video of the Week
In a world of metavisual consumption, it's fitting that one of the strongest television advertising campaigns is for... televisions.
Profile: Every Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis is so selective about the films he appears in, he's only starred in four in the past 10 years.
animation abomination
The world of animation has certainly taken a hit following the release of Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie.
Lindsay Lohan Interview
lil' lindsay 'Street' sits down with the precocious Lindsay Lohan Street: So Lindsay, do you have fun being a movie star?
Blackballed
My good friend Joseph McCarthy was the greatest American ever to live. He fought to rid America of the godless Communists committed to the destruction of our way of life.
Hollywood's up-and-comers
Freddy Prinze, Jr.: He first struck the Hollywood scene in an episode of Family Matters in 1995, then he lit up the silver screen in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Shelter from the Norm
With I'm Not There, Todd Haynes has made a truly innovative movie. Though it tells the story of Bob Dylan's life, it is in no way a typical biopic.
Home For the Holidays
The true power of film resides in its ability to draw the audience in, to fully immerse the viewer, so that for two blissful hours, the line between what is real and what is fiction disappears.
