Author: Ellen Gillespie
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Remembering Tom Petty
On October 2nd, 2017, the world lost one of the coolest rock and rollers to ever grace this mortal plane. Tom Petty passed away at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California last Monday night at the age of sixty-six. He was born Thomas Earl Petty on October 20th, 1950 in Gainesville, Florida to Earl…
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Cat People: Dated, yet Ahead of It’s Time
SCAD Radio’s In-House Classic Movie Aficionado, Ellen Gillespie, is back at it again with a review of Val Lewton’s 1940 Cat People. Imagine being approached to make a film, and only having the title as your jumping off point. Sound a bit crazy? Well back in the 1940’s, Val Lewton was approached by RKO Motion Pictures to produce…
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May the Fourth Be With You: Star Wars, the Despecialized Edition
In honor of May 4th, SCAD Radio’s resident classic movie aficionado, Ellen Gillespie, takes a look at one of her favorite movies of all time… In 1989, The National Film Registry started a project with the Library of Congress to ensure the preservation of films for future generations. Every year, twenty-five films are added to…
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A Classic, Revisited: Phantom of the Paradise
My three favorite directors are Michael Mann, Wes Anderson, and Brian De Palma. Of course, there are other directors whose work I constantly go back to: David Lean, Edgar White, and Alfred Hitchcock, just to name a few. But it is the work of the former three that has always caught my eye — and…
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A Classic, Revisited: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
As a cinephile, it can be easy to idolize the filmmakers and actors of our favorite films. The dazzling shots, the funny one liners, and stunning styles make us fall in love and want to get to know the auteurs of our time. Yet, we must remind ourselves that what we see on the screen,…
