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2023 was an influential year for film when it came to blockbuster filmmaking and art cinema. At the Oscars, we saw the best lineup of nominations in years. Although the selected cultural canon of great cinematic work from the past year is diverse in terms of social inclusivity as well as cinematic mode, there are always films that don’t quite break through to the zeitgeist.
January and February, August and September. These pairs of months might not seem to be related even slightly, but they share a crucial similarity: they are continuously referred to as “dump months” for the movie theater marketplace.
For many filmmakers, their twilight years are a period of slowdown and downsizing with smaller, less ambitious works replacing the grand epics and massive swings that defined their careers. That makes Martin Scorsese’s recent film run (starting with “The Wolf of Wall Street” in 2013 and continuing with “Silence” in 2016 and “The Irishman” in 2019) all the more remarkable. As he approaches his eighth decade, his films have only grown in ambition, subverting the genre convention he had helped popularize with his most famous works to tell a grand, interwoven tale about the history of America and how it is entrenched with exploitation and violence.
For over a century, horror films have lured audiences to cinemas all around the world. Their purpose is not only to terrify or disturb but also to engage with dark, challenging and taboo themes that you usually would not see in any other genre of films.
Live-action adaptations have been Disney’s new secret formula for making a profit at the box office. Recent successes such as “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” were not only brought to life, but they also generated a sense of nostalgia through their basic storyline, characters and music.
The sixth annual Interdisciplinary Student Film Competition took place on Wednesday, April 3, at the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Theater. The Hofstra School of Health Professions and Human Services, in conjunction with the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, hosted the event.
