Cornell Sun Documentary: Great Movie, or Greatest Movie?

by Jim Newell | September 6, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Cornell Sun Documentary: Great Movie, or Greatest Movie?Similarly, are you bored right now, or the most bored you’ve ever been? If the latter, we’ve got some primo cinema for you. Cornell student Oliver Bundy made a quick documentary–nay, a requiem in four parts–last year about the Cornell Daily Sun. Considering his atrocious subject matter, Bundy’s assembled a rather watchable piece. One of the subjects getting a lot of face time is Michael Morisy of IvyGate guest-editing fame. Luckily Morisy doesn’t say anything stupid, so we’re not obligated to make fun of him.

Our favorite segment is the second, where arts editor Alex Linhardt (maybe the same who writes for Pitchfork?) talks about six-year-old girls getting upset by the Sun’s depiction of “fellatio,” and when the production manager (Cornell ‘74) says “The writing has definitely declined… over the past 30 years. … Ask professors they’ll tell you the same thing.” Hey old man, just whose side are you on?

Four segments of life at a college newspaper after the jump (about 15 minutes total).

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

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6 Responses to “Cornell Sun Documentary: Great Movie, or Greatest Movie?”

  1. Comments rmbjspd Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    this movie is probably the worst thing ever. it definitely gives apartheid a run for its money.

  2. Comments Cayuga Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Linhardt was maybe the only staffer at the Sun who could write when I was there.

  3. Comments Sun Hun Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 9:22 am

    I never realized all the little troubles Sun staffers had to deal with. But some of the egomaniac columnists are shite — as everywhere.

  4. Comments APAS Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    Not too shabby. Not terribly groundbreaking, but at least mildly entertaining.

  5. Comments dopeyman Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    this is actually the second documentary on the sun produced in that film class. this is the better one.

  6. Comments Cornell Undergrad Says:
    September 8th, 2007 at 11:10 am

    I knew Oliver Bundy back in the day…he’s awesome.

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