Happy Intersession, and happy Monday!!! Today’s movie at random is The Snake Pit (HU DVD 8513), a true classic from 1948 starring Olivia de Havilland. Here’s our summary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, […]
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Movies At Random: Nanking
Today’s movie at random is the documentary Nanking (HU DVD 4367), which won a 2008 Peabody award. This well-regarded anti-war film is one of many crucial documentaries in our collection. The use of film storytelling to document, witness, and communicate plays such an important role in our history. It’s definitely worth checking out. Here’s our […]
Continue readingGoodbye!
There are a lot of sad goodbyes in the history of cinema. From Toy Story 3 (HU DVD 7770) to Casablanca (HU DVD 150), a good goodbye on screen can absolute destroy you. Through the magic of scheduling, you’ll see a few more random movie posts under my name, but I’m sad to say: this […]
Continue readingThank You For Playing
One of the new DVDs we’ve gotten in Media Services looks just heartbreaking: Thank You For Playing (HU DVD 15330 and streaming) is a story about using an unusual medium to document a human experience. From our summary: When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and […]
Continue readingRotoshopping Is Creepy And Cool
There’s a really specific look to rotoshopped movies that sits right in that uncanny valley for animation. They’re just slightly too real, and so they look really creepy. The two films best known for this, A Scanner Darkly (HU DVD 2416) and Waking Life (HU DVD 364), are just unbearably creepy. So what is rotoshopping? […]
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