Spring Review Sessions

Do your review! This year's thickly lush crop (see the greenery! TOUCH IT!) of art-brand-name directors (Scorsese, Allen, et al) promises to distract you with sometimes sub-par, sometimes legit current works. But what of their pasts? Forthwith some recs, gentle bleeder, color-coded for your convenience:

Pedro Almodo'var (Live Flesh) The Flower of My Secret, for the red.

Robert Altman (The Gingerbread Man) Nashville, for the blues.

James Cameron (Titanic) Terminator 2 , for the blue.

Joel & Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski) Fargo, for the white.

Martin Scorsese (Kundun) Taxi Driver, for the red and checkered.

Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) Good Morning, Vietnam, for the greens

Robert Benton(Twilight) Kramer vs. Kramer, for the gold.

Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry) Sleeper, for banana-colored things.

James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets) Terms of Endearment, for the color of tears.

And for diehards...

Tom DiCillo (The Real Blonde Living in Oblivion. for technicolor.

Marshall Herskovitz (Dongerous Beauty) thirtysomething, for...everything.

South by Southwest: Next year's Music picks

While the Nation's youth head to the beach for Spring Break, representatives from record companies across the country convene to determine what they will be listening to next year. Held in Austin, Texas, The South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) Began this Wednesday and runs through this Sunday. Less messy than Sundance, but not without similar intentions, cell phones and diner dates descend on a small unassuming college town. So relax this spring, because the future of pop is in good hands...

Oscar! Oscar! Oscar!

You've seen the movies, read the reviews, basked in the hype. Now don't miss the Academy Award presentation (or all of those starts in those oh-so-beautiful dresses!). The show airs on Monday, April 23 at 9 p.m. EST on ABC.

Kiddie Step

CityStep's latest adventure in toddler micro-managing promises to be particularly ticklesome and, yes, endearingly delightful, delightfully endearing: Check out the lovely and talented CityStep's Excellent Adventure show on your return from break. Along with the perennial pleasure of seeing the token wheezing kid flailing about, the whole thing's always an underrated spectacle. Who can turn down a bunch of kids enjoying themselves while a show is going on in their midst? The feat of training and rehearsals is truly stupendous and deserves some attention. Good, clean fun without a trace of smut.

Flick Soc

Popping up all about are mentions of the southeast Europe Film Festival, which, if true to its name, promises an instructive, highly entertaining, highly disturbing collection of alienation flics. Bully, too, for the ArtsFirst Film festivals-- look for an Asian Film grouping and the usual crowd-pleasing student films (who can forget the trip though Widener, or the reminiscences about Star Wars). Of course, film societies would give rise to more of these lovely, day-long, celluloid organisms, but Harvard hasn't seen a healthy film soc community since the days of helping out a friend's rough first time with PCP or protesting for more extensive breakfast meal plans ( read: the '70s). something more to spend those new UC funds on...