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  Film Festival | Interviews

  Off-Courts Trouville: Celebrating Short Films and Emerging Filmmakers

  By Dana Knight

  Just two hours by train from Paris, the twin seaside towns of Deauville and Trouville come alive every early September…

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  Artist Feature | Events

  Making the image: A lesbian photographer’s journey with time

  By Hannah Brueske

  Joan “JEB” E. Biren’s identity as a photographer was not born from passion, but out of deep necessity to see…

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  Reviews

  The Crucible of Girlhood: Recontextualizing Teen Girls on Broadway

  By Brooke Lelia

  Teenage girls and the Broadway stage rarely walk hand-in-hand. Even in instances where teen girls are written into stories, they’re…

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  Opinion

  Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” and Hollywood’s lack of Mediterranean representation 

  By Andriani Lamprinou

  Greek culture, especially its mythology, is undoubtedly one of the most famously adapted traditions in narrative storytelling and popular media. From film and television to modern literature, Greek mythology has garnered colossal amounts of recognition and cultural resonance  amongst various audiences. But are these adaptations correct and truthful to the original myth? And, more importantly, how much does Hollywood, as a powerful cultural institution in its own right, influence these Greek cultural elements? 

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  Features | Film Festival | Review

  ‘Die My Love’: The Domestic Politics of Sex, Gestural Cinema and Rock & Roll, Baby! 

  By Ashley Davis

  CANNES — If you, like me, have a soft spot for “character acting,” John Prine and a general partiality for films that make you itch just looking at them, Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” might just emerge from Cannes as your perfect darling. Granted, in the world I live in, you can get away with anything if you make enough Nick Lowe references. God help the beast in me…

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  Artist Feature | Features | Music

  Emma Elliott: The connection between her music, her audience, and her roots

  By Irie Quitugua

  Emma Elliott is a second-year business of creative enterprises major at Emerson College — but also so much more. Elliott is a singer and songwriter who began her music journey doing musical theatre. Three years ago, she started writing music.