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Not to put too morbid a spin on things, but the more I think about it, the more I get the feeling that come the fifteenth, I’m going to be losing a treasured friend, someone who has stood beside me through thick and thin. His name is College Jon.
Mechina, a documentary by senior Maital Guttman, will premiere tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Griffith Film Theater. Her powerful film, a culmination of nearly a year of production, explores the issues Israeli teens face as they prepare to begin their required army service.
As their enemy's helicopter crashes to the ground and the advancing army of rebels surrenders its weapons, Sahara’s irrepressible hero Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) and his trusty sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) look at one another and utter in disbelief, “There’s no way that should have worked.” As I walked out of the surprisingly satisfying feature, I found myself thinking exactly the same thing. With its over-the-top doomsday scenarios and improbable plot twists, there’s no way this film should have worked but it does.
Just because you don’t have a date for Valentine’s Day, that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Whether alone or with a group of friends, the single Duke student has many options for a memorable Valentine’s Day. Food Any of the restaurants listed on Page Five can serve as the venue for dinner with a group of your closest friends. Pick your favorite restaurant and recognize that you can still have fun without that special someone. In addition to its prix fixe menu for two, the Washington Duke Inn is offering a special menu that will be just as delicious shared with seven other people than with just one person. Some restaurants also work better with a group than a date. Cookout and Bakus—both mentioned on Page Five—are particularly appealing contendors. A Japanese restaurant like Kurama Japanese Seafood and Steak House Sushi Bar in Durham also offers a fun alternative to traditional cuisine. If you’re spending the evening in, you can still have a good meal. Consider cooking dinner either for yourself or for you and a group of friends. Use Valentine’s Day to try out that recipe you haven’t had time to explore and discover that you’re a whiz in the kitchen. If you’d rather not cook, or have already discovered that you can’t, call up your favorite local eatery and have Valentine’s dinner delivered. Event For girls, Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to rent or go see the sort of sappy romantic comedy you’d have a hard time dragging a guy to see. We recommend classics like Sixteen Candles, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, Bridget Jones Diary and Serendipity. If you’d prefer something more current, check out Hitch at your local theater. And for those who want to get their quirky Valentine’s fix the weekend before, Freewater Films is showing The Crying Game, Chasing Amy, High Fidelity and Fatal Attraction as part of its Valentine’s Weekend Festival. The festival runs from Thursday through Sunday and a pass for all four films only costs $1. You can also get out and get active this Valentine’s Day. Triangle Sportsplex, located just down I-85, offers ice skating, a perfect activity for groups, or even by yourself, if you’re looking to work on your triple axle. Closer to home, you can work on your bowling at AMF Durham Lanes. Afterwards Continue to use Valentine’s Day as a chance to catch up with your friends by retreating to someone’s room or a coffee shop to reconnect over good conversation. And if you’re tired from your long night out on the town, turn in early and kick it solo. Spend a little quality time with the only person that matters: you. — Hilary Lewis
Dating on college campuses is dead.
Recently, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turned his incisive gaze upon Duke's beloved Mike Krzyzewski for a new American Express TV commercial to debut during March Madness. After several hours of grilling Coach K during a two-day shoot, Morris was successfully converted from Coach K skeptic to true-blue believer.
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The Aviator
The chattering of sports announcers rattles around the empty, cement space of the Triangle Sportsplex. A large screen television glows in the dim light as the New York Jets take the field against the Miami Dolphins on ABC’s Monday Night Football. Across the room a tall, bony janitor begins to clean the counter of the snack bar. Dave Frankel, the rink’s grizzled zamboni driver, sits idly waiting to erase the marks that a dozen pairs of ice skates have carved into the frozen oasis in the middle of the southern piedmont.
Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 takes the extreme sports gaming genre to new heights while destroying it at the same time.
Fluorescent bulbs cast an ethereal glow on a sterile West Campus commons room. It’s Friday night, and the books and graphing calculators have been stowed away in exchange for cans of Natural Light and a pack of Parliaments. Eleven guys all crowd around a single, circular table.
The last time Lewis Black strolled down the uneven stone walkways of Duke, he did so as a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduate. When he returns on Sept. 9, it will be as one of the most popular and respected stand-up comics of our day.
I came to Duke three years ago, a naïve, skinny freshman. Now, a little less of each, I prepare to take the helm of the monkey circus that is the Chronicle's arts and entertainment magazine: RECESS. I came to be involved at the Chronicle my first year because it combined three of my most dominant traits: movie superfreak, obnoxious know-it-all and hopeless egotist. It seems like things have worked out well.
Anyone who has stood behind a camera understands the difficulty of making a movie. Managing every aspect of a film--including actors' performances, costume design and locations--makes even the most basic production very straining, and young directors have to learn about these essential ingredients on the fly. Students shoot on minuscule budgets (or no budget at all) and with only the most meager of crews. All of this can make for great anecdotes (cramming eight actors into your mom's minivan to sneak into your high school gymnasium at three in the morning, for example), but sadly it's not the best way to make a film. NexGen Entertainment, started by Fuqua School of Business alum Terry Tucker, is, however, changing the way aspiring filmmakers learn their craft.
Nearly five years ago, American Pie set a new standard of quality in teen sex comedies. With pastry exploits and inadvertent semen consumption, this new classic film served as a marker for our generation. On March 12 the bar will be set again with The Girl Next Door.
One of my first memories surrounding video games comes from my kindergarten class. A kid named Patrick, now almost a myth, left my school after that year, but not without leaving his mark on my impressionable psyche. I remember quite vividly standing around during snack time and discussing strategies for The Legend of Zelda for the NES. My one buddy was talking about finding the deceptive entrance to the eighth dungeon, when Patrick moseyed up to give us his two cents. In his smart-alecky six-year-old voice he said, "You guys are out of the loop. I took my game to this company that you pay to complete the games for you."
This Valentine's Day we salute film, love and unbridled nudity with a look at Oscar winning director Bernardo Bertolucci's (The Last Emperor) homage to sex and cinema, The Dreamers. Set amidst the student riots of the late '60s in Paris, The Dreamers tells the story of an American college student, Matthew, and his relationship with French twins Theo and Isabelle. Slapped with an NC-17 rating for excessive nudity and extreme sexual situations, The Dreamers is the first such feature to achieve theatrical release since Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Orgazmo over five years ago.
On the open seas, the wind can be your best friend or your worst enemy. A steady gale can carry a ship hundreds of miles, but a stagnant wind can leave crews treading water.
Living a dream for some means hitting the game-winning homerun or taking the stage on Broadway. This weekend, I lived my dream when I visited the home of two of my idols, two of my mentors, two of my friends: Mario and Luigi. That's right, last Friday I went to the headquarters of Nintendo of America in Seattle with 20 other college journalists as part of Nintendo's first College Media Day. And it was sweeter than I could have ever imagined.
