Arts & Living

There are a couple other gems-a poignant lament on our mortality evokes a scornful “everyone dies, so what?” and a passage replete with descriptive phrases yields the incredibly helpful note: “lots of adjectives.” Of course my favorite has to be the note on page 207, when, following around 206 pages

Schnabel’s film tackles one of the most difficult genres in filmmaking-biography-and succeeds not only in telling the life story of gay dissident and writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) in alternately beautiful and grotesque episodes, but ultimately transforms the story of the writer’s struggle into a cutting statement on

In 1991’s “Silence,” film audiences met the sociopathic, yet oddly sympathetic, genius Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a character who first appeared in a series of novels by Thomas Harris. After snapping up the rights to Harris’ latest book, MGM convinced Anthony Hopkins to reprise the title role (and who wouldn’

This time, however, I found myself in a slightly different situation than that of the normal talk-show viewer. This time, I was in the Frontroom of our very own Keefe Campus Center. There was no Leno to be found here; instead, I was about to witness the first ever taping

“Specks,” an hour-long one-act written by Robert Shimko and directed by Hampshire junior Anna Frazier, played at Hampshire College’s Emily Dickinson Hall Feb. 1 through Feb. 4. A second round of shows begins this Thursday and runs through Feb. 10. “Specks” shares a double billing with “Shifts of Focus,

Here’s the plot: Rannulph Junuh (Damon) is the golden boy of pre-World War I Savannah, Ga. He is the best golfer in the South and earns the admiration of all and the love of Adele Invergordon (Theron), the most desired belle in town. Everything is hunky-dory until war comes,