And This Is Yale

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Many Voices, One Song

Terrence Malick on ‘Days of Heaven’ (1979)

“Harvest workers were not people of the soil, but urban dwellers who had abandoned their cities, their factories. Rather than criminals, it would be fairer to say they lived on the margins of crime, fed by elusive hopes. At the … Read More

Film Capsule: All Is Lost

All Is Lost does the same thing for being lost at sea that Gravity does for being lost in space, with one major distinction – Gravity is an overwhelming achievement in directing, while All Is Lost is a overwhelming achievement … Read MoreRead More

Galleria: ‘Ten Years’ by Zoe Strauss @ The International Center of Photography

It’s a funny thing about street portraiture in that the artist’s work almost always represents the way the artist views himself. Brandon Stanton (AKA Humans of New York)? Well, now, right there you’ve got a working Joe with oodles of … Read More

Tina Fey on Gender Bias in The Workplace (2011)

“My unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ … Read More

Happy Columbus Day!

Now get out there and discover something.

Upon the 35th Anniversary of John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’

A full minute before the curtain lifts, John Carpenter’s already got you with that music … that 5/4 building octave wreaking havoc over credits. Halloween‘s opening salvo unfolds exactly like Spielberg’s Jaws – looping music over credits, cut to teenagers, slight … Read MoreRead More

Daniel Kitson on Wide-Screen Metaphors (2006)

“There was this boy. And he was a tiny boy – a very, very little boy. He was so small that his mom had to buy him a wooly hat that he would one day grow into. And it sits … Read More

A Chronological List of 27 Notes I Made During a Recent Screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’

The silence feels so welcoming Brilliant camerawork Early dialogue plays like it was written for a video game First 15 minutes, one continuous take First 15 minutes, all tell Amazing how they accomplish this without inducing motion-sickness Bullock: “Well, you … Read MoreRead More