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(05/01/10 11:55pm)
The ADAM Awards were handed out on April 27th, 2010 at the Nasher Museum of Art. The big winners of the night were former Recess contributer Jenni Wei for her horror film I Know What You Filmed Last Week, which won for Writing, Editing, Director and Picture, as well as Senior Katie Banks for both Best and Best Supporting Actress and basketball star Nolan Smith for Best Supporting Actor. Watch the red carpet pre-show here and read the list of nominees and winners (underlined) below:
(04/27/10 10:17pm)
The first annual ADAM Awards, Duke's own version of the Oscars, will be presented tonight at the Nasher Museum of Art. The films competing for the prizes, which are identical to the main categories of the Academy Awards, come from the members of the undergraduate course "America Dreams, American Movies" taught by Theater studies professor Michael Malone and English professor Marianna Torgovnick. Live presenters include Dean Sue Wasiolek and visiting Arts of the Moving Image professor Ted Bogosian. Video presenters include Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Provost Peter Lange, Coach Mike Krzyzewski and President Richard Brodhead. Recess film editor Charlie McSpadden will be manning the red carpet and Recess columnist Jack Wilkinson will be hosting the show. The black-tie gala will end with a live performance by the cast of Rent.
(04/10/10 3:20am)
Digital publishing company Open Road Media spent the last two days on campus filming parts of a new mini-documentary on author and Duke alum William Styron. The crew shot around the university grounds, especially focusing on Styron's dormitory and Perkins library, in the hopes of capturing his full Duke experience. The mini-documentary will be released over the course of the upcoming year. Stay tuned for updates.
(04/12/10 7:07am)
Clearing Waters, the student-made film from senior Michael Burakow and junior Nick Hawthorne, premiered Sunday night in Griffith Film Theater. A mini red carpet was set up in the Bryan Center outside the entrance to Griffith, where the directors, producers, actors and audience members posed for photographs, many of them dressed in awards-esque attire.
(03/25/10 10:15pm)
The yearly production of monologues written by Duke women about the female undergraduate experience will begin its four day run tonight in East Duke 209. Now in its seventh year, "All of the Above" features 10 performed monologues and is directed by seniors Julia Franklin and Charmaine Webster. The Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances start at 8 p.m. and there will be a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.
(03/08/10 1:56am)
From Duke's biggest night (that hurt, Carolina) to Hollywood's biggest night, it's quite a weekend to kick off spring break this year. But whether you're about to embark on a week of partying in Mexico, wandering around the LES, or lying prostrate in the Caribbean (guilty), Hollywood could really care less: the Oscars are on.
(03/08/10 6:11am)
FINAL THOUGHTS: Women with the most gracious speeches, especially Bigelow & Bullock. Ben Stiller the funniest. Jeff Bridges still the man. Just a great night for being with the letter "B" in their names.
(02/28/10 10:30pm)
The new White Stripes tour documentary Under the Great White Northern Lights will be given a special advanced screening tonight at the Duke Coffeehouse. The documentary will have its American debut at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX and wide release on March 16th. Check out a preview here and get to the Coffeehouse by 7 p.m.
(02/18/10 11:48pm)
"The Crimson Hotel", the new play from Tony-winner Michael Frayn, will begin its three day run tonight on Duke's East Campus. The critically-acclaimed farcical comedy, that chronicles the affair between a French playwright and his lead actress, has yet to make its professional US premiere. Directed by theater studies veteran, senior Kana Hatakeyama, and starring fellow seniors Julia Franklin and Michael Bergen, the play will begin at 8PM in East Duke 209. The show's runtime is under one hour.
(02/15/10 6:00pm)
Arts of the Moving Image Associate Director Josh Gibson and wife, adjunct instructor Shambhavi Kaul, will be holding an information session today for a summer film program in Arezzo, Italy. The month-long course at Accademia dell'Arte, in which Gibson, Kaul and Duke students have been participating since 2008, involves making multiple short films, including one final, group effort which premiers at the annual Arezzo Festival. The course will count towards credit. Alongside theater and dance students, the participants live, eat and take class in a 16th-century villa in the hills overlooking the Tuscan city.
(02/09/10 6:00pm)
A small, independent film often has to choose what bait is best to dangle in front of Academy voters. Time and resources are slim and must be employed as efficiently as possible. Oscar campaigning is a reality—a reprehensible one sometimes, yes—but, as my preferred Oscar blogger Sasha Stone points out fairly often, winning an Oscar is "all about the story". And there is no story without a campaign.
(01/28/10 6:00pm)
recess' film editor Charlie McSpadden is attending the two-day press junket for Martin Scorcese's new thriller Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film will screen in New York City tonight at 6:30PM and the press conference will take place tomorrow at 1PM in Le Parker Meridian hotel. Participating talent will include Scorcese and DiCaprio as well as Sir Ben Kingsley, author Dennis Lehane, screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis and producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fisher.
(01/22/10 5:00pm)
The 2010 Strange Beauty Film Festival will kick off tonight at 8:15 PM at Manbites Dog Theater in downtown Durham. The festival features 50 short films that span almost every possible genre including documentary, animation, experimental and musical. Scene 32, a film by production teaching fellow Shambhavi Kaul of the Arts of the Moving Image department, will screen in the first block of films tonight. Kaul's film was previously shown at the New York Film Festival this past fall. Additionally, at 9:30PM, a compilation of newsreels, famous film clips and home videos put together by Durham filmmaker Tom Whiteside will be in display. The festival continues tomorrow, with screening block #2 at 2PM and block #3 at 8:15 PM.
(01/21/10 5:00pm)
recess' Emily Ackerman recently spoke with The Lovely Bones star Saoirse Ronan on a college conference call. Ronan sounded off on the dark roles in which she's often cast, what is was like to be nominated for an Oscar at such a young age and her thoughts of Hannah Montana and The Hobbit.
(01/19/10 7:00pm)
Screen/Society's Spring 2010 program will officially begin tonight at 7PM in Griffith Theater with the screening of Tongzhi in Love. The film, the first installment of the Kenan Ethics series, follows the dilemmas of being gay in modern China. There will be a post-screening discussion led by Professor of Philosophy David Wong, Assitant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture Guo-Juin Hong (also affiliated with Arts of the Moving Image and Women's Studies) and Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology Ara Wilson. Director Ruby Yang won an Academy Award in 2006 for her previous documentary short The Blood of Yingzhou District.
(01/18/10 6:00pm)
As DukeHealth recently reported and Roger Ebert tweeted last night, Duke alumnus Y.T. Chen, MD, PhD, is the inspiration for the upcoming film Extrordinary Measures. The movie, which opens this Friday, stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Robert Stonehill who tries to find the cure for the rare metabolic disorder Pompe disease. Brendan Fraser plays John Crowly. a father willing to do anything in order to save his inflicted children's lives. The world's leading expert on the disease, Priya Kishanni, MD, is the current Division Chief of Medical Genetics at Duke Hospital, and was quoted as saying: "I never would have expected that a major Hollywood movie with stars like Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford would focus on a topic so near and dear to my heart."
(01/14/10 3:17am)
Though the Full Frame Festival is months away, some of last year's best documentaries are returning to Durham for a second lap.
(12/07/09 6:00pm)
10. Chiddy Bang. "Kids"
(11/29/09 6:19am)
recess film editor Charlie McSpadden recently spoke with Jason Reitman, the director of what many are calling the Oscar frontrunner Up in the Air, on a college conference call. Topics ranged from humanizing unlikeable white protagonists (a clergyman could be next!), J.K. Simmons being a muse and the strange truth that Reitman's characters never seem to have sex in beds.
(11/23/09 7:00pm)
Way back in late September, Duke students Stephanie Korszen '10 and Nick Wiesner '11 participated in Attack of the 50 ft. Reels, a film competition hosted by Flickr of Chapel Hill. On that rainy Saturday, the duo, along with the other event participants, was given a Super 8 camera and the goal of making an original film by 7PM that night. The budding filmmakers were given no guidelines, only that the theme of their film was "excess".
