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Physics professor Andy Cohen gives you a tour of his latest Boston University undergraduate course, Cinema Physica. In the class, Professor Cohen uses Hollywood movies to introduce and illustrate physical laws and concepts. Cohen uses The Abyss to [...]discuss fluids and pressure, for instance, and X-Men to talk about electricity and magnetism. In this clip, Cohen suggests that Speed 2, while highly entertaining, might not have gotten all its physics right.
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With Oscar fever in the air, BU Today wants to know what you think of last year’s films. So this week’s “YouSpeak†asks: “What is your favorite movie of 2012?â€
View the full article on BU Today: [...]http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/youspeak-your-favorite-movie-of-2012/
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See a trove of correspondence, photographs, scripts, and film and stage memorabilia on display in a special exhibition at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center in honor of screen legend Ginger Roger’s 100th birthday.
The exhibition, [...]Ginger Rogers’ Century, opens October 24 at Mugar Memorial Library’s Richards-Frost Room.
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Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian (CGS’71, CAS’73) has represented more than 1,000 survivors of clergy sexual abuse. He was able to get into the public record explosive church documents that had been sealed by a judge; those documents [...]led to the Boston Globe’s first Spotlight story on the scandal. The Globe would win a Pulitzer and actor Stanley Tucci would portray the crusading lawyer in the 2015 Academy Award–winning film Spotlight.
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Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian (CGS’71, CAS’73) has represented more than 1,000 survivors of clergy sexual abuse. He was able to get into the public record explosive church documents that had been sealed by a judge; those documents [...]led to the Boston Globe’s first Spotlight story on the scandal. The Globe would win a Pulitzer and actor Stanley Tucci would portray the crusading lawyer in the 2015 Academy Award–winning film Spotlight.
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Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian (CGS’71, CAS’73) has represented more than 1,000 survivors of clergy sexual abuse. He was able to get into the public record explosive church documents that had been sealed by a judge; those documents [...]led to the Boston Globe’s first Spotlight story on the scandal. The Globe would win a Pulitzer and actor Stanley Tucci would portray the crusading lawyer in the 2015 Academy Award–winning film Spotlight.
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Film trailers for the six finalist films featured at the Boston University Redstone Film Festival, March 31st, 2017: "Borderline" by Emily Sheehan, "Instincts" by Derin Kiyak, "Lipstick Stains" by Josh Jason, "Over His Dead Body" by Ramon Torres, [...]"Overdue" by Eric Moots, and "Pick Your Own" by Wes Palmer.
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