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...quite good. A few frames are marred by dust, fiber, and other artifacts, but the grit merely adds to the experience.The DVD re-release also includes the film’s original press kit and an interview with Peter Watkins. Both features provide the film with helpful political context. Watkins identifies the infamous 1968 Democratic Convention demonstrations in Chicago as the direct inspiration for the film—he reveals that several members of the cast were selected for their resemblance to Abbie Hoffman and Bobby Seale, two of the demonstration’s organizers. That largely unprofessional cast performs...
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel explores the actions and misunderstandings that precipitate the original work’s final tragedy—Othello’s murder of his wife Desdemona who he has been misled to believe is philandering—within the context of the emotional and social states of these three women...
...successfully evokes the surroundings that could trap these women and also, at the same time, allows enough space for the actors to be constant in action, breathing life into the play’s dialogue-propelled plot. The direction also stages the action to subtly imply its context of the character’s social conditions; a privileged Desdemona constantly lounges while the household-supporting wife Emilia toils away and Bianca freely enters and exits as a woman of her own will and self-defined pleasure...
...will lead,” mentions UPenn’s Corrigan, an understandable concern given its comparatively short time on campuses. He argues that film “will provide the same intellectual and research skills found in any solid humanities major—and do so in the context of the cultural dominant of our times.”Indeed, Film Studies concentrators learn a lot more than how to rate film, whether to give two thumbs up or assign three and a half gold stars. Through demanding work—and yes, watching movies—they evaluate...
...command directly.”The circuit court panel—on a two-to-one vote—endorsed FAIR’s interpretation of the Boy Scouts ruling.As the Third Circuit ruling demonstrated, the same legal principle that can be used to further gay rights in one context also can be used to defend anti-gay policies in another.For some civil rights activists, that’s a frightening lesson—because it means FAIR could win this battle and lose the wider war.‘DO WE REALLY WANT FAIR...