The Kon-tiki story has had many iterations. The first instance is the actual journey: Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. Then the documentary of the […]
I never watched the Fox series Arrested Development when it aired from 2003-2006. When I heard that there was a Kickstarter campaign to bring the series back, I was curious why it had such a following. There was much fanfare this past spring when the new season debuted as a “semi-original” series on Netflix. Sister
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Imagine Ira Glass, This American Life‘s host, dancing on stage. Surreal. Yet this was the show brought to us by UCSB’s Arts and Lecture series. One Radio Host, Two Dancers sums up what the format was, kind of a live This American Life with dancers illustrating parts of the story. The performance was divided into
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UCSB Arts and Lectures brought director Michael Apted to screen and discuss his movie 56 Up. A diverse group of British 7-year-olds were interviewed about their lives and dreams for a TV documentary in 1964.Since then, renowned director Michael Apted has been back to talk with them every seven years. I first learned of this
Don Jon, written and directed by J Gordon-Levitt is the cautionary tale of how porn skews the idea of what sex is supposed to be like. Gordon-Levitt plays Jon, the guy who prefers porn to real sex comparing each sex act from real to porn with the real sex coming up short on its fabulousness.
