Enter the Dragon
Why Bruce Lee is better than Chuck Norris. Join YFS for our Martial Arts Month. Enter the Dragon focuses on a martial artist who agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Click for More Info!Natural Born Killers
The classic Hollywood plotline of lovers turning violent. Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Click for More Info!Ran
YFS and Shakespeare at Yale combine to present Ran, Akira Kurosawa's beautiful version of King Lear. An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.
Click for More Info!The Oscar Watch
Our Predictions
Best Picture: The Artist
Bringing back the silent film, The Artist is as daring as it is beautiful.
Best Actor: Brad Pitt
Who doesn't love Brad Pitt? Well, besides Jen!
Best Actress: Meryl Streep
Mediocre movie, wonderful performance.
A Dangerous Prediction
Posted on: January 31, 2012 Posted by: Becca
On December 31st, 2011, the New York Times published its three top film critics' picks for the 2012 Oscar nominations. After a month of seeing every film in theaters, I excitedly awaited a lovely sense of accomplishment at having seen most of the movies on the list. Oh, how wrong I was. To my shock (and disappointment), added to my obvious predictions (Tree of Life, The Descendents, Hugo, etc.), were many films that I had missed. And some that I hadn't even heard of. Even more shocking than the movie list, however, was the complete lack of agreement between the three critics. The only film that A.O. Scott, Manohla Dargis, and Stephen Holden could agree on was David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. I had to see that movie.
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