On Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5, Whitman Dance Theater will present “Mysterium,” its final show of the school year, which integrates elements of music, poetry, film and art.
Early next month, Whitman alumni Chris Kitchen '02 and Sam Pope '01 will visit campus and screen their skiing and snowboarding documentary, “Wyoming Triumph."
The film "City Island" is a humorous and serious account of a dysfunctional family. With a great cast, intelligent script and talented director, this film is a recommended watch.
Canadian documentary filmmaker Magnus Isacsson has been at Whitman College for the past two weeks putting on film screenings, visiting classrooms, answering questions and teaching an evening course.
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It is fairly easy to gage the ebb and flow of cinematic expression in the popular arena and the last 12 months haven't dared challenge many cornerstones of Hollywood's status quo. The daring 3D effects of James Cameron's “Avatar" predictably revolutionized the technology that goes into making films, offered a visual experience unlike anything we've seen since the days of the early “Star Wars" films in the '70s and became the highest grossing film of all time, earning $2.7 billion so far, ousting the 12-year title holder “Titanic" (Cameron's previous feature).
Miley Cyrus's first venture into cinema actually took place several years ago when she played Ruthie in Tim Burton's “Big Fish," but “The Last Song" constitutes her first—and certainly not her last—major acting performance. Unfortunately, this umpteenth adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel looks much more like a moping, pouting, let's-find-Miley-a-boyfriend spectacle than a film.
