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“Night OUT” spotlights inequality

Bridget Cooke, Staff Writer
September 19, 2012

Complimentary concessions are a large incentive to get college students out to see a movie — especially when they aren’t charged for admission either. The Women’s and LGBTQ Resource Center is hosting a free event titled “Night OUT: Film Series” at Woodland Theater in Davies Center, showing... Read more »

UAC Film: “The Artist”

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Emily Gresbrink, Freelancer
September 13, 2012

Out of the audible cacophony, special effect storm and marketing chaos of modern cinema, one film has risen and prove true a time-old phrase: “silence is golden.” The 2011 Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning film, “The Artist” is a black-and-white, silent feature from France that takes viewers... Read more »

Reader discretion advised

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Emily Gresbrink
May 3, 2012

Half the time I watch R-rated movies or higher, I asked myself, “What made that rating happen?” I heard a couple f-bombs and perhaps saw some private parts. More or less, nothing in those two hours that turned me into a psychotic serial killer or drug enthusiast. Lurking in the shadows of the Motion... Read more »

Me and Orson Welles

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Emily Gresbrink
May 3, 2012

The UAC Campus Film Series is drawing to a close for the 2011-2012 school year. The series offered a wide variety of films throughout the past year. This upcoming weekend, something unique will capture the minds of theatre enthusiasts and period drama fans alike. “Me and Orson Welles,” based on the... Read more »

Lost in Translation

Taylor Kuether
March 1, 2012

“Lost in Translation” is, unsurprisingly, best suited for fans of Wes Anderson films (notoriously minimal, poignant movies about quirky characters in relatively-realistic situations). At times quiet, always gorgeously shot, the movie is a surreal step inside the introspective nature of the two main... Read more »

Playing the Part

Breann Schossow
September 8, 2011

Senior Cassia Harder had invited her manager to the viewing of the film. Afterwards, she made it very clear that who she was, and who her character was, were two different people. “This was not an extension of my personality,” she said. “I was telling a story.” Meanwhile, senior Katie Gerarden... Read more »

The Great Debate: British film directors

Emily Gresbrink
January 27, 2011

Danny Boyle By Emily Gresbrink The British are known for playing host to a slew of different things, be it those awesome accents, or fish and chips or the infamous tower on Parliament housing Big Ben. But England is also home to two fantastic directors, Guy Ritchie and Danny Boyle. Sure, they both have... Read more »