Profoundly disturbing yet compelling, “Disgrace” unabashedly confronts a vast array of controversies and taboos. Its intensity derives from the film’s desire to be deeply affecting. The film is successful in evoking a myriad of emotions; however, the intensity and its lack of a concentrated focus may prevent it from getting the viewership it deserves.
Category Archives: Film & TV
Screen Scene: Coco Before Chanel
Dark, depressing, yet magnetic, “Coco avant Chanel,” as it is known in its original French language, delivered a deeper glance of Coco Chanel as a person rather than her fashion empire.
Movie Theater Roundup
A&E Fall Preview
It’s a jam-packed season this quarter for the worlds of film, music, theater and art. In between midterms and essays, make some time to catch one or two or all of these upcoming events.
Q&A with Jeanine Mason
There is no dancing around the demands of Fox’s hit reality dance show, “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Out of Egypt and onto the screen
One might expect the host of an archeological show about ancient Egypt to be a monotone and graying old man, perhaps a professor who appears as ancient as the civilizations he explores.
Screen Scene: “Paris”
In one of the final scenes of the movie, “Paris,” the character Pierre (Romain Duris), says something to the effect of “Parisians are never happy.”