Tag: Films

Making Magic Through Film

Seemingly small moments, unexpected and beautiful, make this world interesting. Noticing the beauty all around is a pastime that comes with many benefits, especially in the field of…

One Movie Changed My Life!

The first time I saw Children of a Lesser God was in a large theater. I expected it to be just another blockbuster and as it started my…

The Farewell: Teaching and Talking about Ethnocentrism as an Asian-American

The guiding question for my Humanities Moment pertains to the most recent film that I cannot stop talking about with my peers, friends, family and strangers. As a…

Unexpected Lessons in Empowerment

My Humanities Moment involves a connection between two individuals that might not initially seem to have anything in common: Jane Austen and Quentin Tarantino. One of the first…

The Fault in Our Stars and my Dad Living through Leukemia in my Dad’s Shoes

Between the years of 2012-2014, the book The Fault in Our Stars written by John Green was one of the most popular books and films for teenagers. The…

Spellbound by a Sleeper

Musician Dave Wilson describes being struck by the legacy of The Night of the Hunter, a film essentially ignored directly after its release in 1955 but celebrated by…

Don’t Close Your Eyes

When I saw Beautiful Boy, I found myself closing my eyes every time a lighter and spoon appeared. I would sneak one eye open and look through blurred…

Chronicling a Summer in Cinéma Vérité

For Peter Galison, an influential moment was seeing a film made in 1961 by an anthropologist and a sociologist, featuring a series of estival interviews with people on…

Seeing Fellini’s “Amarcord” Was the Greatest Cultural Moment of My Life

In this video, author Roddy Doyle describes the experience of seeing Fellini’s Amarcord for the first time as a boy in Dublin. Growing up in Ireland, at that…