Currents ArticlesQ&A: Getting to know The Blanks, one question at a time'Ted's Band' to perform at State Theatre Friday nightByA colorful interview with two members of "Ted's Band" featured on the TV series, Scrubs. The a capella group, AKA "The Blanks" will perform Friday at the State Theatre. Two-day video project features martial arts themeFilmmaking opportunity stifles creativity with advertising, hopes for more interpretation in the futureByThe concept behind the 48 Hour Video Project is simple. Give aspiring filmmakers a theme, a prop and 48 hours, and see what they can come up with. Unfortunately, the required presence of the sponsors in each film often seemed to stunt creativity rather than promote it. Obsessed with horrorAmateur film production company to premier thriller 'Rapt' tonightByThis, Seventh Level Productions, a student-run amateur film production company, latest project, "Rapt," will premier tonight as a double feature with this week's campus film, "Plan 9 from Outer Space." In review: The Land of Green PlumsNobel winner's fiction a thought-provoking masterpiece exploring the horrors of life under Romanian dictatorshipByAlthough not likely to reach the New York Times Best Seller list for popular fiction, The Land of Green Plums, with its hauntingly complex delineation of fear and its resulting psychological effects on the human mind, serves as a rewarding cultural experience for any lover of fiction. In review: Plan 9 from Outer SpaceTerrible production values make sci-fi film possible front-runner for "best worst film ever made" titleByMade in 1959, director Ed Wood's film does everything a bad movie needs to do in order to be entertaining. The continuity is atrocious, the acting horrendous and the dialogue incredibly laughable. |