Leave it to the Grown Ups
"Pathetic" - the thoughts of one student on Thurday's anti-fees protests in the Union. A group of five men, including the less glamourous of our two cover stars, Sacha Ismail, thought that the best way to protest about fees was to remove their clothing during a debate. They were painted gold. Bundled away by bouncers, this was nothing more than a short lived publicity stunt. Similarly, their ill thought through banners (who or what is the "bank of debt?") were removed so quickly that Margaret Hodge "hadn't had time to see what they'd written". The storming of St John's earlier on in the week was equally reduced to a farce....
Editorial: Mind Your Mind
The Oxford Student went slightly mad this week, as the front page shows. Don't worry - we're not going back to the style of last year, however much fun we had with the front page; it just seemed that Oxford was a little unstable this week. It's only January, but nakedness is the subject on everyone's minds.
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Editorial: Editorial
When the Tsarist filmmakers fled south to Odessa after the revolution, the Soviet studios that replaced them, after a decade or so of experimentation and innovation, looked to Hollywood for guidance in producing popular mass film. Now that the Soviet systems have disappeared, some directors are turning that way again. Just take Nikita Mikhalkov's last film Barber of Siberia, it apes Hollywood from start to (almost) finish. The ending: a bearded Russian peasant face staring silently into the distance, seems peculiarly Russian, but even that cannot counter the U.S feel of the film as a whole. No coincidence, then, that last year's Moscow Film Festival, organised by Mr Mikhalkov, included no Russian-made films. But he is not the only director out there, and The Barber... bombed in the box office. Not only did it fail to make a profit - it made quite a substantial loss. Funny then, that the loudest voice in Russian Film today calling for a commercial film industry has proved so completely inept. ...