Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
A lot of ideas work better as ideas than as stories. Case in point: The Butterfly Effect, where screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (co-writers of Final Destination 2) have written themselves into a corner.
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
François Truffaut called it "the film of films" and Bertrand Tavernier claimed he'd give the whole of Citizen Kane for one sequence. Such is the praise that has been heaped on Jean Renoir's socially informed tragicomedy The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu).
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
This weekend, Film Forum offers an opportunity to see one of cinema's great attacks on the bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel's controversial masterpiece L'Âge d'or (The Golden Age), which opens today in a brand-new print for a one-week engagement along with his better-known short Un Chien andalou (An And
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
Touching the Void
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
If you are like me--and you probably are--then you have woken up at least once in a strange and unfamiliar corner of Manhattan.
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
The Notwist
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
For many, the idea of going to an opera is nauseating: all they can imagine are Viking women belting out ear-splitting songs. Those unlucky people do not know that they are in fact missing out on one of the most romantic, beautiful, and intense art forms.
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
west permanent addition to Columbia's Core Curriculum. Now, the faculty members who designed the course are trying to make it even better.
Frontiers of Science, which is designed to replace the current stand-alone dents were invited to take the course, and 280 accepted.
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism will begin offering a new two-year master's degree program in 2005 pending approval of the University Trustees and other officials, according to Dean Nicholas Lemann.
Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 12:00am
Mickey Kantor, former secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative in the Clinton administration, gave the inaugural lecture of Barnard's new forum on social science policy yesterday evening.
