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Film
A Guide To Recognizing Your Cinema Courses
Registration is no doubt competitive for students trying to snag the best courses, but did you know that it’s competitive for professors as well?
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Film
Review: Tamara Drewe
Director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, High Fidelity) may very well be the most interesting and prolific British filmmaker of the past half century.
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Film
Review: Four Lions
A comedy about jihad is certain to cause a stir, and indeed Four Lions made headlines at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.
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Arts
This Week in... 11.04.008
MUSIC
Friday, Nov. 12: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Os Mutantes with Old King Cole the Younger, the Trocadero, $17–19
Ariel Pink has been making music for years, recording over 500 lo–fi tracks in his bedroom by using his mouth and even his armpits as percussive instruments.
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Arts
Posto/Contrapposto
The art collection of the Barnes Foundation (over 2500 works by artistic luminaries like Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir) is slated to move from the ‘burbs to Philadelphia in about a year.
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Arts
Artspiration
Sculptor Robert Engman is perhaps best known for “Triune,” a trifold Moebius strip that stands majestically outside City Hall, but his sculpture “Quadrature #1” is one of the most inspiring works I have ever encountered in this city.
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Arts
Street DYI Wall Decals
Materials:
1 very sharp and sturdy X–Acto knife
1 pair of scissors
1 straight edge
1 high contrast image
Tape
Contact paper in any color or texture
Directions:
1.
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Film
For Mature Eyes Only
Last week we profiled two films featured at the Philadelphia Film Festival that have struggled with NC–17 ratings, known to be box office poison.
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Film
Deja Vu: Charlie's Hangover
Withhold thine judgment, middle America! Let he who has never gotten coked up and naked with a pornstar and trashed his Plaza hotel room while on a family vacation cast the first stone.
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Film
Review: For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry’s latest film, based on Ntozake Shange's award–winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, follows the trials and tribulations of several black women, played by big names like Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah!
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Film
Review: Due Date
It takes a lot to make a movie starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. anything less than extraordinary, but somehow Due Date manages to do this with surprising ease.
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Music
Review: "The Fool," Warpaint
With haunting melodies and hypnotic guitar riffs the women of Warpaint bring a sexy spookiness to their particular brand of art rock.
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Music
One Track Mind: "Get Some", Lykke Li
Given that her last single was a moody contribution to the Twilight soundtrack, Lykke Li’s latest — the aptly titled “Get Some” — is nothing if not a breath of fresh air.
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One Track Mind: "Crime Pays", Bear Hands
If you’re at all nostalgic for Oracular Spectacular, MGMT’s crazy electro–funk debut album, then you’ve received an awesome, neon–wrapped gift in the form of Bear Hands.
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Music
REVIEW: Avey Tare, Down There
On the cover of Avey Tare’s first solo effort is a crocodile skull, rippling with sharp green details that vaguely resemble a sort of digital swamp grass.
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Music
His Twisted, Awful Fantasy
Here at Street, we rejoice in reaping the rewards of artistic ambition. Sometimes those rewards are a bit, well, hard to figure out.
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Film
Recap Of The Philly Film Fest
Instead of doing schoolwork, Street Film spent much of last week obsessively attending Philadelphia Film Festival screenings.
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Film
Deja Vu: The Rules Of Drug Labs
This past Saturday saw the discovery of a drug lab in a freshman dorm at Georgetown. The whole story had “perfect scandal” written all over it: college kids at an elite school, making their own drugs from the comfort of their Twin XL–equipped room!
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Music
Puntal / Contrapuntal: Whippin' It With Willow
Willow Smith, progeny of Will and Jada Pinkett, has arrived on the music scene faster than we can say “heart–shaped weave.” The neon–hued video for her single “Whip My Hair” has been making the requisite rounds on the blogosphere, dividing music fans along the way.
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Defibrillator: Ice Cube, "Down For Whatever," (1993)
To a 16–year–old, a pair of car keys is probably the most profound symbol of autonomy and freedom in the known world.
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