Exploring Haneke’s Hidden themes
Earlier this week I was talking to a non-cinephile friend of mine who expressed an interest in delving into the beautiful and emotionally charged world of French film. A chance to share some of the best, under-appreciated cinema with someone excited me. I recommended a few directors she should check out if she had a [...]
Read the rest of this article »Examining the life and works of editor Sally Menke
From Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds, editor Sally Menke was the metaphorical neck to Quentin Tarantino’s head, one of his best friends and closest collaborators.
Read the rest of this article »Suspense makes for better Halloween film
Halloween is right around the corner — the corner in this case being Sunday — and if you are anything like me, the holiday is a great excuse to combine two of my favorite things in the world: hanging out with good friends and watching horror movies. We’ve all seen the old horror classics: The [...]
Read the rest of this article »Baseball documentary lacks revelations and a pulse
Ken Burns’ The Tenth Inning, the latest in his baseball documentary series, is a crashing bore, and the most that can be said on its behalf is that Stockholm syndrome sets in roughly halfway through. For four hours, The Tenth Inning unfolds like a seemingly endless high school history lesson, covering the most scant basics [...]
Read the rest of this article »Rum is the right ingredient for film
It’s not even the end of October, but I feel as if it’s time to start closing the book on 2010 and looking ahead to 2011. Yes, we’ve yet to see Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan or the Coen brothers’ True Grit, but still, it’s never too early to look ahead. In that vein, one of [...]
Read the rest of this article »Bad films offer fun, guilty-pleasure viewing experiences
For every film of transcendent profundity, there are 10 that are transcendent only in their stunning awfulness.
Read the rest of this article »A golden year for cinematic excellence
You might not be aware, dear reader, but we are in the midst of a good ol’ knock out of a movie year. Not since 2007 — the year of There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men and Juno — has the silver screen shone so bright. Yes, there was something magical in [...]
Read the rest of this article »Sicilian Girl explores the fall of the Mafia
Is the film worthy of the story? That is the question that must be asked, and answered, about The Sicilian Girl — and every other film based on a true story. After all, fiction isn’t fiction when the characters are real. But let’s save the answer until I’m done rambling. The Sicilian Girl is based [...]
Read the rest of this article »Draped in sequin-coated suits of armor and exploding with provocative, rollicking humor, three drag queens ...
Glitter. Glamor. Grunge. L.A.-based musician Alexandra Starlight brings a new kind of sparkle to the ...
Though film genres are in a constantly shifting state, perhaps none has declined so pervasively ...
“Yeezy season approaching / F-ck whatever y’all been hearing.” So begins Kanye West on “On ...
This past spring, USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative celebrated the graduation of 57 students — its ...
USC’s newest supercomputer has ranked as the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the U.S., reaching ...
Former USC professor Walter Lee Williams was named the 500th person on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted List on Monday. [caption id="attachment_67373" align="alignright" width="225"] ...
The following incidents were reported in the USC Dept. of Public Safety Daily Incident Log between Monday, June 10, and Tuesday, June 11. Crimes against a ...
John Mork’s long relationship with USC came to a peak last Monday when USC announced that the B.S. ’70 and M.S. ’12 alumnus would become ...
As people spend more time with computers, their reliance on websites and Internet service providers grow. And yet, the government’s ability to monitor these technologies ...
A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan ruled last Tuesday that Fox Searchlight Pictures had violated federal law by not paying production interns on the ...
Many members of the USC community voiced their concern following the May 4 incident in which the Los Angeles Police Department shut down a party ...
Last week, the NCAA announced the Academic Progress Rate multi year scores that cover the four-year period between the 2008-09 and 2011-12 academic years, and ...
For 15 years, Caryl Smith Gilbert has been molding champion track and field athletes and leaders east of the Mississippi. Beginning next season, however, she ...
USC senior Bryshon Nellum, who closed out his USC career with an NCAA championship in the 400 meter last week in Oregon, was named the ...
With the official start of summer just around the corner and a glimpse of those long, hot L.A. days bound to overwhelm us, it’s the ...
Chinatown Summer Nights has mastered the blend of L.A.’s trendiest music and marketplaces with the historic cultural neighborhood in the program’s fourth season. Alight with ...
Hopping onto the tech bandwagon is no easy feat these days. The competition that goes on in Silicon Valley for bright engineers and marketing superstars ...
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The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...
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