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Review | ‘Saturday Night’ overwhelms and excites

By Wendy Moore, Staff Writer November 1, 2024

A stage light soars to the ground and bursts into flames. Two comedians flay insults at one another before lunging into a brawl. Illicit drugs are passed from person to person. To make matters worse, the...

Attendees watch Rocky Horror Picture Show with newspapers on their heads in Nordy’s Place on Friday, Oct. 25.

‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ closes out LGBTQIA+ history month

By Sage Rosenfeld, Staff Writer October 28, 2024

Pitt’s Department of Inclusion and Belonging hosted a showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on Oct. 25. This event was one of the last for the department’s LGBTQIA+ History Month celebration....

Review | ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is a movie made for nobody

Review | ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is a movie made for nobody

By Ore Fawole, Staff Writer October 11, 2024

Despite the first film finding a core audience in incels, “Joker: Folie à Deux” refuses to commit to its status as a musical, comedy or cult film for misogynists — alienating every possible audience.  It...

Review | ‘Megalopolis’ is Coppola at his most egotistical, narratively repugnant, creatively stimulating

Review | ‘Megalopolis’ is Coppola at his most egotistical, narratively repugnant, creatively stimulating

By Ore Fawole, Staff Writer October 3, 2024

“Megalopolis” is surely bold and daring — adjectives often used to describe director Francis Ford Coppola’s films. His attempts to revolutionize filmmaking are often critically schismatic. While...

Pitt Center for Latin American Studies hosts Brazilian rapper Emicida

Pitt Center for Latin American Studies hosts Brazilian rapper Emicida

By Sage Rosenfeld, Staff Writer September 30, 2024

The Center for Latin American Studies, a part of the University Center for International Studies, hosted Brazilian rapper and activist Emicida on Friday evening for a screening of his 2020 film, “AmarElo...

Blake Lively poses for photographers upon arrival at the UK Gala screening for the film “It Ends With Us” on Thursday, Aug, 8, 2024, in London.

Review | ‘It Ends with Us’ is bad on paper, nothing on screen

By Ore Fawole, Staff Writer September 10, 2024

It is unsurprising that the behind-the-scenes drama and marketing blunders have dominated discussions of Justin Baldoni’s new film “It Ends with Us” — the lackluster direction, cinematography and...

Review | The Brat Pack: A Retrospective Documentary of Young Adults in Hollywood

Review | The Brat Pack: A Retrospective Documentary of Young Adults in Hollywood

By Quinn Cilea, Culture Editor June 25, 2024

“St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” are industry-defining films of the ‘80s, marking a shift to films for young people and about young people. But they also have...

Alejandro Loayza Grisi answers questions at the film screening of “Utama” in the Cathedral of Learning on Tuesday evening.

Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi attends Pitt screening of his film ‘Utama’

By Quinn Cilea, Staff Writer April 2, 2024

The Pitt Spanish and film and media studies departments came together on Tuesday, March 26 to host a screening of the 2022 drama “Utama,” along with the writer and director, Alejandro Loayza Grisi....

Oscar statuettes appear backstage at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2016.

Staff Picks | Who will take home an Oscar?

By The Pitt News Staff March 8, 2024

Who will win an Academy Award on March 10? 2023 was a stellar year for cinema as box office hits like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” drew audiences back into theaters. The splendid squad at The Pitt...

Dr. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah speaks during the panel at the “In Good Hands” premiere in The Understory on Thursday evening.

Pitt alum’s short film ‘In Good Hands’ celebrates Black doctors in Pittsburgh

By Quinn Cilea, Staff Writer February 4, 2024

Pittsburgh is a medical city. UPMC buildings are scattered across its neighborhoods, employing nearly 5,000 physicians. The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is one of the largest hospitals in the city....

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