Black Lives Matter: What Would It Cost Us to Weep with Those Who Weep?

Ricky Staub & Aaron St. Jean

What would it cost us to weep with those who weep? Amidst a pandemic sweeping the world we are being flooded by images of fellow human beings crying out in the streets. Pleading. Breaking. Screaming. And I’m watching my personal…

The First Assistant Director: Communicator-in-Chief on a Movie Set

Hristo Dimitrov

RAMBO LAST BLOOD, director Adrian Grunberg PAUL APOSTLE OF CHRIST, director Andrew Hyatt PAUL APOSTLE OF CHRIST, director Andrew Hyatt PAUL APOSTLE OF CHRIST, director Andrew Hyatt MAXIMUM IMPACT, director Andrzej Bartkowiak MECHANIC RESURRECTION, director Dennis Gansel BULLET HEAD, director…

A New Lens on Old Film: A Twenty-Something’s Angle on Art House Cinema

Isabella Komodromos

Dead Ringers Drugstore Cowboy The Great Beauty Inferno La Chinoise Mulholland Drive Natural Born Killers Persona Red Desert We “Create art out of a great compassion and need to help” [Ingmar Bergman, Persona]. A film has the opportunity to…

GUADAGNINO – CINÉASTE DE AUTRE TEMPS, or the death of the auteur and rebirth of the artisan

Sean Brennan

Though Luca Guadagnino has of late become one of the cinema’s premier aesthetes, his demeanor when speaking about his work resembles a producer rather than a director of his renown. In interviews, he is just as inclined to spend ample…

Contemporary Television Series and Literature: An Intense, Transformative Embrace

Anna De Biasio

The “third golden age,” the “high art era” of TV, or, simply, the age of “art television.” These are some of the definitions that recur in the debate about the boom in quality of US television dramas, which, since the…

Henry Tate Said

An Animation by Lori Landay, Music Suzanne Dean

What Big Teeth You Have

Raven Baksh

Inside a maximum-security prison, DR. CRISTOFF LAKE walks down a cream-colored corridor. In his right hand, he carries his coffee thermos, and in his left hand he holds a few thin manila folders. He is very well put together; his …

Stuck Between Stations: Reflections on The Eclipse & In Bruges

Sean Brennan

In Jean Cocteau’s 1950 masterpiece, Orpheé, Heurtebise (François Périer) leads Orpheus (Jean Marais) into the Underworld to save Eurydice (Marie Déa), Orpheus’ wife. To do so, Heurtebise instructs Orpheus to put on a pair of gloves so that he…

“You’ll Return”

Dr. Andrea Pejrolo

Video of a song Dr. Andrea Pejrolo produced for a recent graduate. It was completely recorded, mixed and mastered on an iPad

Triloka—Three Realms

Composed by Bruno Råberg

Bruno Råberg recorded his original "Triloka - Three Realms" in Shames Family Scoring Stage at Berklee College of Music with students and faculty.