The Gervitz School’s Professor Jane Close Conoley examines how children’s interaction with toys can affect their outlook on life. Parents buying their children presents too often, Close Conoley argues, could also be endorsing a “gimme gimme” mentality that eventually yields materialistic adults.
Hannah Tennant-Moore serves up two delicious reviews of the delightful French film Avenue Montaigne and the English Scenes of a Sexual Nature. In so doing, she shows how easy and cheap it is to travel the world in the form of SBIFF.
This inspiring entry in the 2007 SBIFF details three men who overcame adverse circumstances to create art.
Charles Donelan relates the results of the Q&A with Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen. This online special features a full-length version of the talk. Donelan’s article ran in the Feb. 1, 2007 issue of The Independent.
When Will Smith strolled across the stage to take his seat for the Film Festival’s Day Three Event — the Modern Master Award Tribute — he was bubbling with energy, and quickly got the crowd on board, earning laughs as he pointed down to the piece of paper stuck to his shoe, which read, “Reserved for Friends of Will Smith.”
For once, the traffic in Montecito wasn’t during the afternoon rush or comprised of Venturenos and Angelenos trying to make it home after a Santa Barbara workday or vacation. Nope, last night, the cars lining up onto 101 were jammed because the Olive Mill off-ramp served as the pearly gates to the film fest’s post-Will Smith-as-Modern Master-event bash at the Biltmore. See J’Amy Brown’s photos from the night inside.
This documentary and entry in the 2007 SBIFF follows a man’s obsession with such pop culture aspects as Disneyland can turn into something larger – including a closer bond with his son.
Martha Sadler reviews this documentary that tries to get to the bottom of mountain biking history, while sidestepping many of the controversies inherent to the sport.
Our top fest watcher Josef Woodard provides the inside take on the Borat event, and reviews three foreign films that you should all go see.
Shannon Kelley Gould delivers the scoop on last night’s events, and J’Amy Brown provides a slideshow well worth your while.
