Julie Taymor’s recent foray into tempestuous territory aired at the Staller Center on campus on Friday, March 25th. Taymor, whose films include other imaginative, highly cinematic works such as...

Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is a film that doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. It pitches itself as a “family comedy” about a long-term lesbian couple whose two children have...

"Nine" retells the story of Federico Fellini’s 1963 film 8 ½. It is also the film version of the Broadway musical of the same name. Although these two facts alone might make a movie-goer skeptical,...

Charlie Kaufman strikes again. Kaufman's most recent film, Synecdoche, NY, which aired at the Staller Center this past Friday, is a masterpiece of absurdism that still manages to capture the imagination and stir the heart. Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a man with his life in ruins: his marriage is failing, his body is riddled with a mysterious yet non-life-threatening disease, and his career seems to be in a slump.

Stony Brook just got sexier. On Thursday, April 30, in Humanities 1006, former sex worker/gay activist/performance artist and the first porn star to get a PhD, Annie Sprinkle gave a talk as part of the Second Annual Queer Symposium. Dr. Sprinkle talked about her life, growing up as a young hippie, moving to New York, becoming a sex worker, and then her transition into performance art and sex awareness.