Tag: film
Filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi kicks off this year’s Cinematheque series
For the first event of this year’s Cinematheque series, the Media Arts & Culture (MAC) department hosted artist and filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, a filmmaker...
Recent alum’s film, Shithouse, wins top SXSW award
In March 2018, as Occidental students were relaxing on campus, embarking on road trips or taking flights home, Cooper Raiff ‘19 had different plans...
Opinion: I’d like to thank the Academy for the new Best...
The Oscars are finally requiring nominees for the Best Picture award to have inclusive and diverse casts and crew, but these standards don't go...
“The Traitor” is a different kind of Mafia movie
In Martin Scorsese’s gangster film “Goodfellas,” Robert De Niro famously delivers the line “You learned the two greatest things in life: never rat on...
“Parasite” is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s newest film “Parasite” became the first movie since 2013 to win this year’s Cannes Film Festival top prize May 21 with a unanimous vote....
Paradox of the nihilistic pop singer
When 17-year-old Violet Valenski looks straight into the camera and says, “I don’t believe in love, love’s not real,” I sink into my seat....
“Art and Activism” hosts local artists panel and social justice organizations
Four artists of different disciplines, Deidra "Krucial" Cooper, Lynnée Denise, Kohshin Finley and Keith Wallace, spoke during Oxy's "Art and Activism" event in Bird Studio April 4. The...
“Annie Hall” successfully depicts the complex nature of NYC Jews
This past February, Netflix added “Annie Hall” to its extensive movie catalog. A couple of weeks ago, during my hectic midterms season, I unexpectedly saw it...
Student filmmakers share their work in 16th annual Oxy Film Festival
The 16th annual Oxy Film Festival took place Tuesday, Feb. 26 and showcased a variety of films, spanning from a digital film that sampled clips...
Hollywood needs to stop making reboots and focus on telling diverse...
Hollywood has been continuously churning out an obscene amount of sequels and remakes. So far this year, there have been 46 remakes, reboots and sequels,...