• Movie Review:  What We Do in the Shadows

    Movie Review: What We Do in the Shadows

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com In honor of Taika Waititi’s latest Oscar win, this week’s review will be a throwback review of his and co-writer/director Jemaine Clement’s 2014 horror mockumentary “What We Do in the Shadows.” Both Clement and Waititi have always had a somewhat unconventional sense of humor, if the latest Waititi film “Jojo Rabbit”

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  • Pre-Ware Lecture film displays connections between music, culture

    Pre-Ware Lecture film displays connections between music, culture

    The night of Feb. 19, Elizabethtown College students gathered in Gibble Auditorium to watch and discuss the documentary “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.” The Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP), as well as Elizabethtown’s Fine and Performing Arts Department, sponsored the event. Professor of history and Director of

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  • College hosts film festival, explores other cultures through music

    The Global Film Festival is an annual event at Elizabethtown College sponsored by the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS), the High Library and Modern Languages department. Each year the festival has a different theme, and this year, the included films are inspired by music.

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  • Movie Review: Hugo: A golden film that deserves to become classic

    Movie Review: Hugo: A golden film that deserves to become classic

    IT’S BEEN A WHILE!” Those are the only words of that song that I know. Thankfully that song exists on another plane where it’s normal not to know all the words and weird if you do. If you do know all words, I don’t think you’re weird. I consider you positively unique. In my opinion,

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  • Film produced by Demi Lovato increases mental health awareness

    Film produced by Demi Lovato increases mental health awareness

    Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, Student Wellness screened a film at 7 p.m. in Hoover 212, the Case Study Room, on the subject of self-harm. The film, entitled “Beyond Silence,” was directed by Shaul Schwarz and produced by Demi Lovato as a part of the campaign Lovato launched in 2015 to increase mental health awareness. The

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  • ‘The Children’s Hour’ provokes critical thought

    ‘The Children’s Hour’ provokes critical thought

    How would you feel if you were exiled from your community and shunned by almost everyone you know? On March 26 at 7 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium, there will be a showing of “The Children’s Hour,” a diversity film centered around lies, revenge, homosexuality and false accusations. When a female student, who attends a school

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  • Diversity Classic Film Festival promotes awareness

    Diversity Classic Film Festival promotes awareness

    Often, the greatest lessons in life are learned outside of the classroom, through mediums other than lectures and assigned readings. While books present a more conventional approach to finding out more about major issues in history, movies can also provide a different outlet for students to turn to for information. That’s why, beginning this year,

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