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April 5, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Whiplash is a film from 2014 both written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It follows the life of Andrew (played by Miles Teller), a young, brilliant and ambitious drummer, through the trials and errors of college life. Fletcher (played by J.K. Simmons) is …
November 9, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Manifesto, directed by Julian Rosefeldt, disorients the viewer. Locations change without warning, as do characters. The speaker is a sometimes character and sometimes narrator. So many things happen simultaneously that it would be difficult to express them all. I will wander through a …
September 7, 2018 Thanks to Ben Peterson, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Once upon two years ago, I met a gentleman who was raised selling illegal whiskey in the dry counties of Arkansas. I asked this man umpteen thousand questions, and he seemed genuinely pleased to answer them for …
