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Pete’s Film Journal: My Favorite Films by Peter Sarsfield

Cinema is a significant part and representation of our culture, relaying our times as both timeless and constantly active. For this reason, every film—whether “good” or “bad”—is an active engagement with the viewer. Whether a movie is expanding or conforming to our notions of the world, we the viewer also have the ability to act on the movie; a film is only immersive if we choose to immerse ourselves in […]

todayApril 14, 2025 6

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Pete’s Film Journal: Wicked is Great Fun by Peter Sarsfield

Wicked In Wicked, animal discrimination is running rampant. We intimately experience this disaster with the case of Dr. Dillamond, a professor at Shiz University. The professor, who is a talking goat, flips a chalkboard while teaching which reveals an act of hate has taken place. Dr. Dillamond the talking goat professor is flustered and cancels the rest of class. Later he is arrested by human authorities and taken away, and […]

todayDecember 3, 2024 11

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Pete’s Film Journal: Is A24 Different from Marvel? by Peter Sarsfield

Your most annoying friend wants to go to the movies again and you already know what they want to see: an A24 Film. They’re seen as the independent film company, making less generic films with pretty images. A24 hasn’t been around for that long, founded only in 2012, but maybe they’ve earned this special reputation with 2017’s Best Picture success of Moonlight, and their reputation was further cemented with the […]

todayOctober 29, 2024 20

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Pete’s Film Journal: Did Megalopolis Fall out of a Coconut Tree? by Peter Sarsfield

What Coppola is most known for, The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now, are all from over forty years ago. What has he been up to since, other than the occasional film and becoming more alienated from Hollywood’s system? He has a vineyard and likes to re-edit his past films, with there always being another version of Apocalypse Now (1979, 2001, 2019) to be made. He is dissatisfied with the […]

todayOctober 14, 2024 21

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My Top Five Favorite Class Indicators at Vanderbilt University by Sam Boison

If you identify yourself with the following…there’s no shame in it. The point of this post is to write down the lifestyle I'm trying to manifest for myself.    New York Times Game Subscription Guys. This is frankly the cheapest item you can possibly claim from this list. $1.25/ week isn’t crazy at all. Now framing it as ~$65/year…there’s a difference. I could never be a hater though because I […]

todayFebruary 21, 2023 1

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Fusion Black: Let’s Break It Down by Priya Bhatt

Picture this… you’ve just stuffed yourself full of delicious rice, naan, and paneer and are finally settling into your seat in Langford Auditorium. You and your friends are buzzing with excitement- your suitemate decided out of the blue to join a dance in The Dances of South Asia (TDS), aka SACE’s annual showcase, and you have come out to support them. The lights dim, the dancers populate the stage, and […]

todayOctober 18, 2022 8

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Soundtrack to “Walking through Commons”

Admit it – we’ve all walked through Vandy’s campus, particularly Commons, with some coming-of-age music blasting in our ears. Sometimes a little playlist-induced nostalgia is necessary to mourn the start or end of freshman year. But don’t worry, because I have just the playlist you need in order to fully enact those feels.   This playlist is perfectly curated to make sure that you feel both nostalgic and inspired. Growth […]

todaySeptember 11, 2022

Blogs

“Just a Beautiful Liar”: Not Your ‘Modern Harem’

In a recent InsideVandy op-ed, Danny Lee outlined the problems that the recently uploaded music video of Shakira and Rhianna ("Can't Remember to Forget You" pose-- that their portrayal of causal lesbian action because they'd "do anything for the boy" plays into a certain type of male-dominated-lesbian-homoeroticism. I'd like to draw attention to another Shakira collaboration: "Beautiful Liar" with Beyonce from 2009. Once again, we have two beautiful dancer-songstresses singing […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014

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