Mon, Nov 11, 2002, 12:00am
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile is not the "rags to riches" story of Eminem's rise to stardom that you might expect. Instead, 8 Mile is an enjoyable "slice of life" tale of a white rapper struggling to find his confidence and to gain acceptance in inner-city Detroit in 1995.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
Hilary Birmingham's rural drama Tully seems to mosey on into the theater dead-on-arrival; it looks as though this story of family secrets and male angst will unfold according to plan, more or less devoid of novelty or inventiveness.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
Brian De Palma is Columbia University's greatest filmmaker. While an argument can be made for Jim Jarmusch, the sheer size of De Palma's forty year oeuvre next to Jarmusch's handful of masterpieces and near-misses tilts the balance in the former's favor.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
Shot in the style of the 1950s Universal Technicolor weepies of Douglas Sirk, Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven seamlessly reinvents the "women's picture" and then uses the form to make a modern social statement.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
Yale and Stanford universities will abandon their early decision admissions policies in favor of non-binding early action programs starting next year, officials at both schools announced Wednesday.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
When members of Community Board 7 met Wednesday evening to elect this year's officers, they didn't have much choice.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
President Lee Bollinger issued a statement yesterday criticizing the recent petition calling for divestment from firms dealing with the Israeli military.
Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 12:00am
As October came to a close, a group of about 500 students and faculty signed a petition for the University to divest from its holdings in the State of Israel. This past week, a counter-petition garnered over 10,000 names of students, faculty, parents, and others against that divestment.
