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Exclusive Review of “Liberal Arts”

January 30, 2012 By in Culture, Features Tags: , , , 7 Comments

Steve and Melody Philpot outside of the Egyptian Theater in Ogden, Utah for a showing of Josh Radnor's film Liberal Arts.

Who is this lovely couple, you ask?  They are none other than Melody and Steve Philpot, parents of Cris Philpot ’12.  Wouldn’t ya know it, they live in Ogden, Utah, which happens to be one of the homes of the famous Sundance Film Festival.  Even better, they were kind enough to write us a review of Kenyon alum Josh Radnor’s new film Liberal Arts. Read their take on the film after the jump.

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Liberal Arts to be Released in Theaters Later This Year

January 26, 2012 By in Culture, News Tags: , , 4 Comments

After receiving a standing ovation and relatively high praise at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the rights to Josh Radnor’s film Liberal Arts have been acquired by film distribution company IFC, which is planning a theatrical release later this year, according to a press release published on indiewire.com. I don’t know much about the film distribution industry, but IFC is a division of AMC Networks, and they’re the company that released My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Fahrenheit 9/11 and I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (starring Ricky Gervais), so this could be very good news.

Additionally, Variety has published this article on their website.

Full press release after the jump.

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