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Academy Award-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker ’61 was nominated for an Oscar this year for her work on the film “The Irishman,” her latest of eight nominations in her over 50 year career.
A little bit of nuance would go a long way.
Comedian and director Omi Vaidya, famous for his role in India’s 10th-highest-grossing film 3 Idiots, will come to Cornell on Nov. 9 for Society for India’s 57th Diwali Show, “Diya Jale” — making it “the oldest running Diwali Show in the entire world.”
Friday’s engaging conversation with the Academy-Award winning director took place in a sold-out Bailey Hall and featured Prof. Samantha Sheppard, performing and media arts. It was co-hosted by the Cornell University Program Board and the Multicultural Concert Funding Advisory Board.
Lee, an often provocative director who has risen to prominence for his unique portraits of race, “revolutionized the role of black talent in cinema,” according to James Buzaid ’22, promotions chair of CUPB.
You see, I’ve been called a “film snob” several times, and I can’t say it is pleasant.
Marvel fans may have noticed a brief scene in the recent hit film Captain Marvel featuring an alien language. The language, called Torfan, was created by two Cornell Ph.D candidates in the linguistics program, Ryan Hearn grad and Joseph Rhyne grad.
Much of Varda’s work does come across as joyful — the kind of joy known by someone who lived life fully and unabashedly, finding poetry in the small things.
I anxiously await the day productions welcome everyone into the amazing world of theatre without burdening them with the price tag.
The 97-minute, 2016 film Free of Thought ends with John hunched over a sink in a dimly-lit kitchen. Through a doorframe, we see our protagonist doing the dishes and hear him whistling to himself: a quiet, unassuming moment almost all can relate to. What makes this particular, ostensibly-mundane scene so striking are the circumstances that led up to it. The film starts in Melbourne, Australia, where John is in a relationship with Mel. But by the film’s closing moments, John has become a habitual stoner, messily broke up with Mel and migrated to Montreal, Canada.