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It was 1 minute and 22 seconds of pure terror, and for a 12-year-old kid from Waukegan, it was a watershed moment. No other cinematic memory burned in his brain quite like the trailer for The Shining. Now Dan Asma creates that excitement for others as one of the founding partners of Buddha Jones Trailers...
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Help Choose the Manifest 2010 Student Designer
[November 10, 2009] Whose destiny is it to be the 2010 Manifest student designer? Sixty-one Columbia students submitted proposals to compete for the honor of being chosen. Five have been chosen to have their proposals submitted to a public vote.... more...
Columbia Projects Receive $90,000 from Chicago Community Trust to Support Emerging News Sources
[November 6, 2009] Columbia College Chicago is among a dozen recipients to share $500,000 that the Chicago Community Trust has pledged to support the development of emerging local news sources. Columbia will receive $45,000 for a project in collaboration with... more...
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History, Printing, and People: The Derge Parkhang and Tibetan Cultural Revival
21 November, 2009 - With panelists Patrick Dowdey, Wesleyan University; Clifton Meador, Columbia College; Yudru Tsomo, Lawrence University; James Canary, Indiana University. Panelist James Canary will make a presentation on Tibetan book arts as practiced today, after which panelists will present slide lectures on the more...
Cinema Slapdown, Round 20: I'm Not There
19 November, 2009 - The Radio and Film & Video Departments present ROCK 'N ROLL! (a semester of SEX * DRUGS * ROCK 'N ROLL) WXRT personality Terri Hemmert vs. WGN Radio's Garry Meier. Is Todd Haynes' I’m Not There the vision of a star's life as interpreted by an auteur or just six characters in search of an autho more...
He Who Gets Slapped
18 November, 2009 - Like many of us wish we could do when life gets tough, Paul Beaumont responds to betrayal and despair by slamming the door on a life of culture and science and running away . . . to join the circus! In a provincial French town in the early’th century Beaumont is re-incarnated as HE WHO GETS SL more...