This was one of the films that was at the very bottom of my to-watch list. I’m serious, the last thing I wanted to see was a film about a 12 year-old girl who has been possessed by the devil; talk about nightmares! But when it’s assigned for class, you’re obligated to watch it. Plus, I mean, isn’t college partly about experiencing things a bit out of comfort zone? (And no, I’m not talking about…

Knife in the Water (1962)

My second Polanski film, and it wasn’t my choice. But I’m glad it was my second one. A few years ago I watched my first Polanski film, Chinatown (1974), opting for some quality Jack Nicholson time instead of studying for the next day’s Algebra 2 & Trig test. (Surprisingly I got an A on that test; what does that say?)  Ohio State’s Film Studies major requirements include a Senior Seminar. After…

There are quite a few films on my to-watch list this summer, most of them being films from the 1970s in order to better situate myself in the period of Altman’s golden period of filmmaking. The goal in watching these films is to view and analyze women’s roles in the films and how they are portrayed. This, in effect, will either help support or disapprove my stance that Altman’s portrayal is much…

My Date with Nitrate at The George Eastman House’s first ever “The Nitrate Picture Show”

Upon reading everyone’s (fabulously written) posts about their experience at The Nitrate Picture Show, I became fearful of even writing a post about my own experience with nitrate. Not because of the wonderfully detailed and precise words that evoked how they felt as the colors washed over them and bathed them in complete awe and almost ecstasy, but because what drew my breath away was something…

One of the three sections I wrote for my paper on the similarity of “The Apartment” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” in their critiques of excess among the elite.

Power is central to both The Wolf of Wall Street and The Apartment; Scorsese continues this critique from The Apartment to The Wolf of Wall Streetby paralleling the mise-en-scène of their workspaces. Both Consolidated Life Insurance…

“when i said to write in your dream, i meant that it must be something realistic. take a look at Miranda’s: world peace. this is simply unrealistic. we will never achieve world peace because we are humans, and as humans we sin.” she put my paper down and said “change this.”

i remember being on the verge of tears and so embarrassed that i wanted to just go in a hole and be left there for five days. i don’t even know what i ended up putting down in the end, but as i look back on it now, I think, why the hell can i not dream that? dreams do not always mean they will happen, sometimes they’re not even real; that’s why they are dreams!! and while now we look back at MLK Jr’s speech, we see what he dreamed for in his speech was possible, but what about then? surely they didn’t know for sure. 

dreaming helps us strive to fix what is currently broken and if we, especially this generation now, can do something to fix or improve the homophobia, the still present racism, and women’s equality in the work place in our society, that is one step closer to that dream. not it will never be a utopia of happiness and sunshine and unicorns, but it might just make the world a lot happier place to live in.