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'Howl' keeps it real
James Franco may have been a large part of the draw for students attending a special screening of “Howl,” directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s take on beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s revolutionary poem. But the Whitney Humanities Center screening Wednesday evening left the audience with much more.
Scott Pilgrim vs. Who-The-Hell-Cares?
There aren’t many reasons to love Scott Pilgrim. The 22-year-old guitarist (played by Michael Cera) dates a high schooler, Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), mooches off of his gay roommate (Kieran Culkin) and is Canadian. And on top of it, his band’s called “Sex Bomb-Omb.” But maybe what’s redeemable about Scott — and this movie — is the music and the bold visuals, inspired by Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels.
‘Joneses’ can’t keep up
First-time director Derrick Borte’s “The Joneses” is a not-so-typical film about a not-so-typical family. The movie’s biggest flaw may be its thinly concealed plotline that leaves you little time to wonder what’s going on.
Alexis ‘Lexi’ Zhangi
26, full-time barista full-time employee at The Owl Shop, runs “The Dirty Pond” and “Elm City List” Been in New Haven for: Seven years Where she’s at when not at The Owl Shop: 116 Crown — Firehouse 12 — Artspace — Anyplace where there’s something engaging going on. Her spring drink: Prosecco
Featuring foreign film
Yale is bringing an increasing number of rare and expensive international films to campus, with film screenings, course offerings, conferences and festivals looking beyond the Western hemisphere.
Indian cinema scholars convene
The annual conference of the Yale Film Studies Program brought Indian cinema to campus this past weekend. Six 35 mm films by Indian directors were screened at the Whitney Humanities Center as part of “The Avant-Garde in the Indian New Wave.”
CHEESE
There is cheese everywhere. In the little refrigerator to the right, sprawling within the counter refrigerator, all over the counter to the right: everywhere. Where to begin?
WHC, blowing Blockbuster out of the water
When I visited the Film Study Center in the basement of Whitney Humanities Center on 53 Wall St. — better known as the stomping grounds of Directed Studies kids — Undergraduates this term no longer have to pay the $20 per semester fee to check out two movies at a time. The pros: This rocks. Now I can watch all the movies I’ve missed while studying at Yale: So next time you’re in the 'hood (I live in TD, so I’m always in the 'hood), check out the Film Study Center at WHC. What did I check out today? "Dark Knight." You gotta love it.
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Generation X at Yale may have been the luckiest yet. We’ve grown up riding bikes, playing board games, frolicking outside, reading a few books here and there, maybe some N64—but without the limitless access to the Web or computers that kids have today, which can reduce time spent with people live.
Lessons, and hope, from 1916
It’s November, and with only one win against Harvard in the last eight years, Yale football fans are apprehensive before The Game. A new coach has been brought in to turn the team around, but with a young team and the lingering memory of a tough loss at last year’s Game, Yalies have few reasons to lift their hopes this time around.
