James Sweeney ’12, who wrote, directed and starred in the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning film “Twinless,” brought his film back to his alma mater on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Along with cinematographer Greg Cotten ’12, Sweeney sat down with Professor Travis Knox for a freewheeling conversation in the Folino following the film’s screening.
Happy accidents. This is something Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang are all too familiar with. (If you haven’t seen Moonlight or The Farewell yet, what are you doing? If you are ok with a few spoilers, keep on reading!) If you are a film fact nerd, you may already know about this scene in Moonlight.
From blood sweat and tears to the theme of struggling artists trying to make their dreams come true, Damien Chazelle’s directorial signature on his films is hard to miss. The anxiety, intensity, and chaos of perfectionism when creating art keep us coming back to his films time and time again. Dodge College hosted a lovely
Dodge College had the immense honor of hosting back-to-back Master Classes with none other than this year’s Hollywood superstars and Oscar-nominated actors Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser. If you saw Everything Everywhere All at Once and Waymond’s face looked familiar, you may remember actor Ke Huy Quan from Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom or
Dodge College had the honor of hosting a Q&A with director Todd Field followed by a screening of his most recent and Oscar-nominated film Tár on Feb. 15. The Dodge College Career Center’s very own Joe Rosenberg moderated the Q&A. For months, since Joe saw Tár in September at Telluride, he has been non-stop talking
Dodge College was able to host an intimate Q&A with renowned director – and half of one of the best filmmaking duos in Hollywood – Joel Coen including a screening of Fargo on February 8. When I hear the last name Coen, I immediately think of brothers. While we only had half of the duo,
It is a confusing and painful experience being human. It is in our nature to take care of others, but we also have a duty to take care of ourselves however we see fit. We fight these little wars with the people we love every day of our lives while also being surrounded by wars
Damien Chazelle is one of the most skilled and illustrious directors working in the industry today. You may know him and his composer Justin Hurwitz from their previous films together – La La Land, Whiplash, First Man – but you have yet to see their most ambitious, boisterous, and cacophonous film yet: Babylon. It was
Every passionate filmmaker of the world can likely scrub through the old film rolls of their life and pinpoint the exact chain of events in their childhood that led them to realize how magical, magnificent, and miraculous the world of cinema is. Few of those filmmakers have the repertoire and mastery to make an entire
If you were born in the early 2000s, you grew up on movies like Madagascar, The Lion King, Chicken Run, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. You may even have had a Little Mermaid-themed birthday party. Meme culture nowadays is heavily influenced by films like Bee Movie, Flushed Away,
On October 1st – the start of spooky season – the Duffer Brothers, creators of Stranger Things on Netflix, joined Dodge for a screening of Season 4 Episode 1 and a Q&A. The line outside of Marion Knott Studios was down the block and around the corner two hours before the event. Every student outside
If you were on Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter this past weekend, you might have seen some peculiar patrons attending a few Major League Baseball games across the country. People in neon-colored shirts were strategically placed behind home plate, smiling menacingly at the camera every single time a batter was up. Their mouths were pulled into