Arts & Review Articles

Celebrating achievements in student film

By Zak Jason
Of all the on-campus events students neglect, the Baldwin Awards screening may be the most unfortunate case. Nowhere else on campus can you get three free hours of on-screen sex, drugs, and collegiate melancholy. You could flick on your cheap dorm television and watch Good Luck Chuck again on the Boston College movie channel. But in the future, you could enjoy the free popcorn and watch the work of your fellow students on the mammoth screen of Devlin 008. On Thursday night, the film studies program and Boston College Magazine presented the 26 films of the fourth annual Baldwin Awards, a refreshing array of documentaries, comedies, experimental shorts, musicals, and dramas. A few dragged to redundancy and a few milked college humor cliches dry, but the vast majority of the submissions entertained, and a few even inspired.

Spring into 'Wintertime'

By Christina Lepri / Online Editor
With spring just around the corner, the Boston College theatre department presented its fifth full-length performance of the season, Wintertime. Written by Obie Award-winning playwright Charles Mee, Wintertime was a workshop production directed by Amanda Engborg, A&S '08, that stunned and amused audiences this St.

BC bands battle for Modstock set

By JaNee Allen
Friday night the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) sponsored a Battle of the Bands competition in The Rat. The featured bands were Kiss The Chef, The Project, Whitesweater, and Seemingfun. The concert was a competition to determine which bands would perform at ArtsFest this year.

Sean Faris fights through teen-movie cliches

By Stuart Pike / Heights Senior Staff
At first, I found it difficult to think of Never Back Down in any terms other than ones set in all-caps and ending with exclamation marks. "AWESOME!" and "HELL YEAH!" made up the bulk of the audience's commentary during the screening, perhaps owing to the fact that the bulk of them were - like my friend and myself- young and male.

Stripping away the American dream (literally)

By Joseph Neese / Arts & Review Editor
David Hernandez and Diablo Cody: What do they have in common? They are both former strippers, yes. But they have also have had very public battles with the American dream. For Hernandez, it was a setback - being voted off American Idol for his past - and for Cody it was one larger than she ever wanted - Oscar gold.

Just what Dr. Seuss ordered

By Marc Cubelli
Through the world of computer animation, Hollywood has finally done justice to the fantastical world of Dr. Seuss. If many filmgoers were more than just a little perturbed by the sight of Jim Carrey and Mike Myers parading around in furry costumes, then in this latest trip into the crazy mind of America's foremost children's writer, animation enables the good doctor's wildest characters to run joyfully rampant.

Roving Reader - Sex and alcohol: Max lives out every frat boy's dream

By Tula Batanchiev / Features Editor
If you don't know who Tucker Max is by now, you must have been living under a rock. When The New York Times said that Max's memoir - I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - was "highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible," it was right on the money. The title really does say it all.

iProf: Tina Klein

By Bill Falor
Now playing on Tina Klein's iPod Aati Kya Khandala - Aamir Khan Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni's Opera New York, New York - Frank Sinatra Chaiyya Chaiyya - Sukhwinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi Un Bel Di - Puccini's Madama Butterfly Swingin' Doors - Merle Haggard Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa (Today My Heart Desires) - Sukhwinder Singh and Mychael Danna Mustt Mustt - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Yumeji's Theme - Michael Galasso Witchcraft - Johnny "Guitar" Watson The Woman Behind the Music English professor Tina Klein admits that music is not as much of a passion for her as novels or films; she tends to enjoy songs that she can relate to "something else - a story or an image or a strong feeling.