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...Last year, we allowed filming in Sanders Theatre as part of the ‘Great Debaters?? movie because Sanders makes its theater available for commercial recordings, but filming was not allowed on campus,” Wrinn wrote in an e-mail...
...redux was The Crimson’s top story on Wednesday. Take that, Iowa.If Harvard is the House That Ego Built, then in the last semester faculty and administrators have made some impressive additions. But it’s been tough slogging, and without “The Great Debaters?? to tide us over Harvard would be in real trouble of becoming—forgive me—just another university. ’Round these parts, we’re taught never to settle for being below the fold, and that true greatness requires a well-timed...
...upcoming film, “The Great Debaters,” holds a special place among his immense body of work.As only the second film Washington has directed (the first was the critically praised “Antwone Fisher”), “The Great Debaters?? is already receiving noted Oscar and Golden Globe buzz from both Hollywood insiders and critics across the nation. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Oprah, who Washington describes as “great” and “there when you need her,” helped...
...Great Debaters?? concludes with a debate match between the small all-black Texas Wiley College and Harvard—shot in Sanders Theater. In the sequence, a debater from Wiley calmly but daringly calls on the mostly white audience to do something about racial violence and injustice in the South. Yet the movie itself, which takes place in 1935, is not nearly as courageous as the historical characters whose story it tells.The plot originates in the real-life story of Wiley College, whose debate team rose to top levels under the guidance of the soon...
Because of Harvard’s highly restrictive media access policies, “The Great Debaters?? is one of the few films to have been filmed in the Yard since “Love Story” in the 1970s...