Articles for tag: Ian Curtis, Jonathan Demme, New Order

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Album Review: New Order’s Low-life

New Order’s third album Low-life is their most evenly brilliant effort to date. While Power, Corruption and Lies featured extraordinary highlights such as “Age of Consent”, “586”, “The Village” and “Your Silent Face” it also suffers from containing New Order’s only virtually unlistenable song “We All Stand”. Low-life, by contrast, features solid techno-rock from beginning ...

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My Time as a ‘Philadelphia’ Movie Extra

In the 1993 drama “Philadelphia”, director Jonathan Demme enlightened mainstream audiences to the stigma of people with AIDS and also the gay community. As a local film student I had the chance of being an extra in the exterior courtroom crowd scene. Although being an extra did not afford me screen credit, I was witness ...

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An Analysis of Ethical Issues in the Film “Philadelphia”

The central ethical dilemma of the 1993 Jonathan Demme film Philadelphia is whether or not a man who is fully competent at performing his job can be fired simply because he possesses a disorder or exhibits a lifestyle against which the company’s owner possesses a prejudice. According to statutes like the Americans with Disabilities Act, ...

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Jodie Foster Wins Cecil B. DeMille Award at Golden Globes

The Hollywood Foreign Press awarded Jodie Foster with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 70th Annual Golden Globes Awards on Jan. 13. The actress, who has been involved in show business for almost 50 years now, delivered an amazing speech while accepting the award and talked about how hard it is ...