Last week, the master French filmmaker Agnès Varda died at the age of 90 from cancer. Creatively prolific, her career spanned more than 50 years and included everything from feature-length fiction films...
At Wellesley, Nicole Drespel ’06 double majored in English literature and medieval history. Originally she planned to major in Political Science but then fell in love with her English classes....
On Sunday, Feb. 24, the 91st Academy Awards played out like a roller coaster in slow motion, oscillating between wonderful highs and terrible lows before ending in a nosedive, with “Green Book” taking...
Last Friday, Feb. 15, artist Anna Hepler visited campus as part of the semesterly Frank Williams Visiting Artist lecture series, now in its third year. Prior artists who have visited as part of the series...
What does Wellesley College think about Christmas movies? We asked and 183 students answered. While 91.3 percent of respondents said they watch Christmas movies and 91.8 percent said they celebrate Christmas,...
Space is terrifying. Just about every movie set in space acknowledges this simple truth. In space, as the iconic tagline of Ridley Scott’s “Alien” helpfully reminds, no one can hear you scream, and...
If you look at the numbers, the video game industry is flourishing, with players worldwide projected to spend nearly $138 billion on video games by the end of 2018 according to the Global Games Market...
“It was a combination of factors, to be honest, but if I had to pick the thing that pushed me over the edge, it would have to be the email chains,” admitted X, a former FBI agent whose name has been...
What do Wellesley students do in the summer without midterms, readings or unpredictable buses to fill our days? Well, the 130 respondents to a poll sent out last week by The Wellesley News managed to make...
How can you tell an uncomfortable, painful and more or less joyless story and still make people want to watch it? The art of making unpleasant yet engrossing content is perhaps one of the trickiest arts...
“This is an impossible choice. AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE,” wrote one anonymous voter in response to our survey asking Wellesley students to pick the best Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film out of the...
In 2020, the world goes to hell. Or at least, it does in “A Quiet Place,” thanks to the sudden arrival of super-predators that are practically indestructible and blind, hunting through sound alone....
Have you ever had the experience of going back to watch a favorite childhood movie several years later, only to realize that it’s not actually very good?n a decade or so there will be a generation of...
Since its release last November, the film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” has never strayed far from the headlines. Between the awards and nominations it has racked up and the backlash...
The first season of “Stranger Things” was hands-down the breakout pop-culture phenomenon of 2016 and perhaps the most successful appeal to the ’80s nostalgia bug that seems to have bitten viewers...
Ever since HBO’s acclaimed “The Wire,” the show many point to as the bellwether of our current era of ‘Peak TV,’ it seems that there has been a never- ending stream of incredibly polished...
Did you know that, as a Wellesley student, you have free access to a streaming service with a library of around 30,000 titles that includes everything from recent independent films and documentaries to...
Though both now make their living by writing creatively, Erin Judge ’02 and Lynn Sternberger ’07 took very different paths, going all the way back to their time at Wellesley. While Sternberger majored...
Some critics are calling “mother!” one of the worst movies ever made. Others are calling it genius. Regardless, critics and other inhabitants of film Twitter are just about the only people seeing it,...
Last Friday in Collins Cinema, Wellesley senior Jalena Keane- Lee premiered her documentary “The Construct,” about female construction workers in Myanmar. Keane-Lee served as both the director and...
Last week, Wellesley in Entertainment (WIE), a subgroup of the alumni organization Wellesley Club of Los Angeles (WCLA), announced Camille Bond ’17 as the first winner of their annual Screenwriting Competition....
Comedian Sasheer Zamata visited campus last Thursday to perform a stand-up routine. Best known for her involvement with “Saturday Night Live,” Zamata first appeared on the show in 2014 and became a...
Though both Michelle Lirtzman ’09 and Haley Harris ’12 started at Wellesley and ended up in screenwriting—Lirtzman is a story editor on “Scandal” and has a feature film in development; Harris...
Last Thursday, producer Christine Vachon of Killer Films visited campus to introduce a screening of the 2015 film “Carol” and answer audience questions afterwards.
During the screening, Vachon sat...
Telluride Film Festival might not have the recognition of Cannes or Sundance, but walking around the remote, picturesque Colorado town, transformed into a cinephile’s paradise every year over Labor...
A film is rarely just a film any more. It spawns more films, novels and television shows. What I’m talking about here is transmedia storytelling, not adaptation—though there is still plenty of that...
I have come to understand certain “rules” of the concert experience. A concert never starts on time. The break between the opening act and the headliner is always a good 20 minutes longer than makes...
When Rachna Fruchbom ’99 graduated from Wellesley with a degree in International Relations, her career goals were, in her own words, “I know I don’t want to be a doctor.”
Fast forward 17 years,...
When Alloy Orchestra first agreed to compose and perform a score to accompany the 1926 silent film “Metropolis” for a series of showings over a long weekend in 1991, they had no idea where it would...
“Hail, Caesar!,” the latest from filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen, is a screwy, bitterly comedic collage of a film — at least, when looked at on its own. However, its highly referential nature,...
One hundred and one years ago this week, a film premiered whose many claims to fame include partial responsibility for the 20th century resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK).
Last week, another film broke...
What will Wellesley students do for a free t-shirt? Exercise, apparently. Obtaining a free t-shirt is one of the many benefits of completing Wellesley’s mandatory physical education credit during one’s...
There are stories told in every family.
In Alexandra Anthony’s family, one such tale was that of her cousin Lucas, the boy who was kidnapped at age five from his home by his mother and shuffled...
Before the screening of “Lost in the Bewilderness” at Collins Cinema last Thursday, I had the opportunity to talk to filmmaker Alexandra Anthony ‘75. As the writer, director, producer, videographer,...
Keeping with the Cuban theme of this semester’s Cinephile Sunday series, Collins Cinema hosted a screening of “The Last Match” (“La Partida”, 2013), followed by a lecture on Cuban LGBTQ cinema...
The curtains open to show a stage - empty except for a row of chairs. We see five actors, nondescript costuming and a handful of props.
In a show as aesthetically minimalistic as the Actors from...
Why go to the cinema? It’s a question more people are asking, and Hollywood isn’t deaf. In this age of Netflix and Hulu, justifying the expense of a trip to the movie theater is hard—and that’s before...
With awards season just around the corner, we have gotten to that time of year when movie-going options go from nearly nothing to more than any individual with some semblance of a budget or a life could...
“It’s become clear to me that I’ve won television,” was the reason Stephen Colbert gave in an interview with Jon Stewart ending his beloved late night news satire show “The Colbert Report”...
