Towton Film Readiness at Barnard Theatre Club
Linda Yellen of Barnard College Theatre Company revived Kenneth Jones's Towton, a one act set during the War of the Roses. The student cast handled costuming and staging while aiming to rewrite for camera use.
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Barnard College Theatre Company
Linda Yellen
Byenneth Jones
Manos Latham Playhouse
Bils Yellen
Towton
Ellen ‘Erry
Playhouse
Jones
England
Yellen
Margaret of Anjou
Alice
Duchess of Suffolk
Professor Jones
Latham
How I Won The War film review cuts through nostalgia
A critical look at Richard Lester's How I Won The War argues the film dismantles war movie sentiment through slapstick and brutal detachment. Lt Goodbody and his varied platoon parody soldiery while scenes mix comedy with stark war imagery, provoking discomfort and critical distance.
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Richard Lester
Lester
Goodbody
North Africa
John Lennon
Chappaqua film explored as drug addiction nightmare
A critical review of Conrad Rooks Chappaqua traces his eight year addiction and withdrawal through a montage driven, stream of consciousness narrative. The film juxtaposes dreams and reality across India, Mexico, and the United States with Indian peyote imagery, Ravi Shankar soundtrack, and bold visual sequences. It notes experimental cinema value and audience immersion, while acknowledging dreamlike, challenging meaning.
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Chappaqua
Conrad Books
Russel Hardwick
France
Hardwick Rooks
Rook
Conrad Rooks
Rooks
Jean Louis Harrault
New York State
Paula Pritchett
Ravi Shankar
India
Ceylon
Thailand
Mexico
Jamaica
United States
The Witnesses film review of the Warsaw Ghetto documentary
A review of The Witnesses calls it a stark documentary of the Warsaw Ghetto's destruction. It profiles survivors with still photographs and motion pictures, showing wealth and squalor, hunger and death, while urging viewers to confront humanity's capacity for atrocity.
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Warsaw Ghetto
Federic Roasif
Madrid
Hell
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