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The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

Can we separate the art from artist?

Can we separate the art from artist?

Una Cleary, Focus Editor November 6, 2022

Kanye West, Travis Scott, John Lennon and R. Kelly are all considered to be some of the most famous musical artists of all time, constantly topping the charts for decades at a time.  Yet with their...

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star in Martin McDonagh new drama The Banshees of Inisherin.

The windswept purgatory of Martin McDonagh

Ethan Mattheus November 6, 2022

There is no tomorrow in Inisherin. The inhabitants of this bucolic yet barren rock know only wind, rain and cold. Each day is spent tending to whatever menial farmwork is required after which all feelings...

An interview being conducted at the Music Box theater to kickoff the festivels 58th year.

CIFF: Programmers, Critics, and Volunteers talk films, navigating the fest and more

Lauren Coates October 24, 2022

When it comes to recognizable film festivals, Chicago isn’t always the first city that comes to mind. Though it may be (foolishly) passed over in favor of bigger names like TIFF, Cannes or Sundance,...

Review: Halloween Ends is a failed finale to a once supreme film series

Review: Halloween Ends is a failed finale to a once supreme film series

Yazen Barakat, Contributing Writer October 23, 2022

In 1978, John Carpenter released into the world one of the most petrifying fictional horror film characters to ever surface. Since then, Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise have come to see 13 films...

What to watch: Horror Edition

What to watch: Horror Edition

Jacob Costello, Chief Film and TV Critic October 23, 2022

My favorite way to make my skin crawl is with a good horror movie. With so many horror movies out there, it can be hard to pick which one to watch during this festive season. To help you out, I’ve compiled...

The Music Box Theater lit up for its 58th anniversary.

“The Whale” headlines week at CIFF

Jacob Costello, Chief Film and TV Critic October 23, 2022

The 58th Chicago International Film Festival is in full swing. The festival showed a variety of movies in the past week, some of which were the American theatrical premier screenings. While this is far...

Tom Hulce stars as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra puts film and music in perfect harmony with Amadeus: Live

Lauren Coates October 19, 2022

When Miloš Forman’s “Amadeus” first hit theaters in 1984, audiences were treated to a lavish, sprawling spectacle of a film that used an unlikely framing device as a way to explore the inner life...

The sisterhood of the traveling emotionally unstable icon

The sisterhood of the traveling emotionally unstable icon

Amber Stoutenborough, Managing Multimedia Editor October 16, 2022

I wasn’t going to write anything about the new film “Blonde,” a historical fiction projecting only the romanticization of Marilyn Monroe’s abuse. There are an abundance of writers who focus on...

The 2022 film Amsterdam tells the story of three friends who work to solve a murder.

Amsterdam look through rose tinted glasses

Ethan Mattheus, Contributing Writer October 16, 2022

In 1934, Ezra Pound wrote “Make it New.” These three simple words would become the declaration for the entire modernist art movement and all the issues it sought to tackle in a newly industrializing...

The 58th annual Chicago International Film Festival kicked off on Oct. 12 in Lakeview.

Chicago International Film Fest celebrates 58th year

Jacob Costello, Chief Film and TV Critic October 16, 2022

The 58th Chicago International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday night with a red carpet and two screenings at Music Box Theatre. An entire block on Southport Avenue was blocked off for the opening night...

Jeff Daniel Phillips stars as Herman in The Munsters, directed by Rob Zombie.

Rob Zombie’s Plastic Dreams

Ethan Mattheus, Contributing Writer October 9, 2022

These days, naturalism in film is treated as the default. Even in science fiction or fantasy films, where the principles he genres operate under are plainly ludicrous, realism in acting, dialogue and aesthetics...

Evan Peters in Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)

Dahmer: An Unsettling but Worthwhile Watch for True-Crimers

Erin Henze, Assistant Photo Editor October 9, 2022

The name Jeffrey Dahmer likely rings a sinister bell for most of those who hear it. “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” a limited Netflix series directed by Ryan Murphy, details the life and crimes...

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