Film
'Playbook' editor Jay Cassidy opens up about film's behind-the-scenes process
- Weinstein
BY CARLY KEYES
On April 5, Jay Cassidy, two-time Academy Award nominee for film editing and University alum, sat down for an interview in Studio A of North Quad followed by a student question and answer session.
Academy Award winner Jon Cohen dishes on visual effects craft
- 20th Century Fox
BY CARLY KEYES
The Daily caught up with the Ann Arbor resident afterward and gained an insider’s perspective on the movie business — everything from “Avatar” to Jessica Alba.
Self-indulgent 'On the Road' over-stuffed with sex, symbolism
- IFC
BY NATALIE GADBOIS
“On the Road” deftly encapsulates the anarchy and crippling freedom that defined the Beat generation, but falters as it becomes tangled in its own mystique.
Jon Chu talks stepping away from 'Step Up'
- Paramount
BY ADITI MISHRA
Whether or not one knows who Jon Chu, director of “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” is, they’ve likely heard of or seen the second and third installments of the “Step Up” series — both works of Chu’s creation.
Brianne Johnson: Finding the nostalgia in film
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
I thought film was nothing special, and certainly nothing to document and collect in my drawers. But after some digging through my DVD collection and my memory, my socks and the lacy like, I realized that — oh, how the words pain me — I was wrong.
Korine, Benson discuss controversy surrounding edgy 'Spring Breakers'
- A24
BY CONRAD FOREMAN
If you’re at all aware of the film “Spring Breakers,” written and directed by Harmony Korine (“Trash Humpers”), then you’ve probably heard those words at least a dozen times in its trailers and promotional videos.
Melodrama spoils sympathy for Tyler Perry's latest 'Temptation'
- Lionsgate
BY CARLY KEYES
Writer/director Tyler Perry proves in his latest release, “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor,” that he has a flare for the dramatics, but is this creative combination a genre “marriage” meant to be, or might divorce be the result?
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