A&E
Heavy Issues, Weightless Execution
When the manager of the eyeglass store where Weichung (Richie Ren) works informs him that he’s retiring and promoting Weichung to manager, the old man departs for his retirement in the most stylish way possible: he opens his umbrella and floats Mary Poppins-style into the cloudless sky above. This moment is the first of many [...]
Dark Touch
Horror movies always walk a fine line. Because the genre functions by playing on our innate fears and desires, the risk of devolving into pure exploitation looms heavy over filmmakers’ heads. I can always appreciate a horror movie that tries to transcend the genre’s fleshy premises and make beautiful and profound statements, which is what [...]
A Story about Fathers, Sons, and Corn: Nothing More
It couldn’t possibly be a whole film about corn, right? And if you’re being generous, you could say that it isn’t: it’s also a film about the understanding between fathers and sons and the responsibilities that the two [...]
“Mr. Jones”
Every filmmaker is looking for his or her next big break, but at what cost are they willing to do it? In “Mr. Jones,” directed by newcomer and horror aficionado Karl Mueller, the line between the filmmaker and his audience is blurred in a psychologically disturbing yet thrilling way as a filmmaker and his girlfriend [...]
Looking Forward
Friday, May 10, 2013 Movie release “The Great Gatsby” Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher Genre: Drama, romance Saturday, May 11, 2013 Museum exhibition “Face to Face” Children’s Museum of the Arts 103 Charlton St Available through June 9, 2013 “Face to Face” explores the self-identity [...]
Six Acts–
As a senior in high school, this film was difficult to watch. It’s easy to impose its characters onto people we may know—for some, the phrase “hits too close to home” may be appropriate. The film’s protagonist is an Israeli girl named Gili (Sivan Levy) in her senior year of high school. She has [...]
Lily
Not much happens in “Lily,” the cinematic debut of New York artist Matt Creed. A young artist who has just finished treatment for her breast cancer is trying to get back on her feet by looking for a job. She makes collages, cooks for her stepchildren, spends time with her husband, talks with friends, and [...]
Confessing Is…
If the person you like is crushing on someone else, how would you deal with the inevitable jealousy? HoneyWorks provides the answers as it realistically portrays the complex struggle of emotions when faced with such a situation in its newest illustrated music video “Yakimochi no Kotae,” or “A Solution for Jealousy.” HoneyWorks, a Japanese trio [...]
Looking Forward
If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” then it’s no wonder why so many Stuyvesant students have hidden artistic talents—they let the pictures speak for themselves. We all have friends who are more right-brained than others, but they make up a community that is faceless, with some of them unaware of others that share [...]
Not a Very Potter Success
Although the final “Harry Potter” film was released in 2011, a student-founded company called Starkid had just gotten started making musicals parodying the “Harry Potter” books. Starkid, founded at the University of Michigan in 2009, became an internet sensation after their release of “A Very Potter Musical,” the first of three parodies to come, on [...]
