Liberal Arts

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Reviews from this past showing at the Dallas film festival

Quote:What is most appealing about Liberal Arts is its softly nostalgic longing for the sweet simplicity and intellectual leisureliness of collegiate life. We are most affected not through the babbling about books and poets, but in quirky ways Radner works their influence into mood and feel of the film, overlaying the classical tracks and personifying the unchecked cerbreality in the diametrically opposed personae of two of the movie’s most enjoyable characters, Nat (Zac Efron) and Prof. Judith Fairfield (Allison Janney). Nat is a stoner-ham, animated and spirited, speaking always in jarbled hippie-esse. Judith is a romantics professor whose been worn down by academia, becoming cold, cynical, and detached. We need both these characters in Liberal Arts to prevent Radner from losing himself in what drowned his first movie, all the bromidic soap-boxing, in which all motivations, self-understandings, aspirations, and philosophies are hemmed-and-hawed, mumbled and jawed, with the same vainly self-conscious satisfaction of sporting a tweed jacket on a gear-less bicycle.

http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2012/04/op...-festival/

One twitter imparticular that mentioned Zac

Quote:Fantastic night at the #DIFF!! #LiberalArts was SO quirky & wonderful. @ZacEfron s character is so funny, well done you! Thx J & J!

https://twitter.com/#!/lionlox/status/19...6282165248