Listeners:
Top listeners:
play_arrow
Listen to VandyRadio The Soundtrack of Campus Life
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 […]
Last month's Oscar nominations brought a few welcome surprises, with Nickel Boys receiving much-deserved recognition in Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay. However, the Academy frequently garners too many congratulations for nominating great films just to push them aside come awards night. Another surprise was I’m Still Here, which snuck into a nomination for Best Picture on top of its more expected selections in Best Internation Feature and Fernanda Torres in […]
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 […]
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 […]
This past Oscars gave me plenty to be hopeful about while it still creates further detachment from the art of film. Al Pacino stumbled in to quickly deliver Best Picture in a manner so truncated I can only appreciate it, and it wasn’t his fault. It was a fitting anticlimax for a night that left little room for surprise, as Oppenheimer was sure to claim the award because of its […]
It was an amazing year for moviegoing. Repetitive comic book movies are finally lagging, making way for a variety of more exciting films. This year included powerful works that questioned the moral (and occasionally amoral) mainstream of audience interaction and consumption of new media. The Barbenheimer phenomenon was a special experience that will likely never be repeated (even though Oppenheimer will win Best Picture.) With the impossible task of seeing […]
With winter break approaching, there’s never a better time to relax and watch a movie. Temperatures may continue to drop, but the comfort of being indoors provides the perfect anecdote to the cold. Here are a few great winter films when finally free from assignments: Little Women (2019) Greta Gerwig has had an insane year with the success of Barbie. Her take on the classic novel by Louisa May […]
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt A newborn baby is told of her creation from dirt and water. She cannot react to such words just yet. However, she will come to understand that the change within herself and around her is no different than rain’s plummet into the soil. Raven Jackson’s first feature film is a poetic rising of memory bridging together decades of the life of Mack, a woman […]
Early in the pandemic, I watched the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke on the extremely new platform, HBO Max. The story, along with Paul Newman’s performance, captivated me. I recognized a famous line that my father quoted for years but never knew where it was from: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” After that, I watched Phantom Thread and Barry Lyndon, two movies still among my favorites a […]
![Miami 2019 [Soundcloud]](https://vandyradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pr-pod-05.jpg)