Butera Kayleigh

Kayleigh Butera

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BSR Contributor Since July 24, 2013

Kayleigh Butera is a writer from Gladwyne, PA. She is a recent graduate of Brown University currently living in New York.

Kayleigh Butera is a writer from Gladwyne, PA. She is a recent graduate of Brown University, where she studied American Studies and French language. She worked as the programming coordinator of Brown's Ivy Film Festival, the world's largest student-run film fest.

Kayleigh is currently living in New York. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Memories with a golden glow.

Ned Benson's ‘Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’

A film in three parts

The experience of seeing The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is more rewarding than the content itself.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 4 minute read
Moran Atias and Adrien Brody in "Third Person." (Photo by Maria Marin - © 2014 - Sony Pictures Classics)

Paul Haggis's 'Third Person'

Third person, removed

Third Person underwhelms in its attempt to tie together three separate threads. Its downfall is the very detachment implied by its title.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read
The blue-gray palette of "Llewyn Davis"

'Inside Llewyn Davis' and 'Her'

The production value of nostalgia

As period films, Inside Llewyn Davis and Her create new worlds for the camera. Through intricate production design, they evoke a particular kind of nostalgia, making viewers miss something they have never known.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read
Agata Trzebuchowska stars in Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida.'

Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida' at Sundance

Stumbling upon Ida at Sundance felt like participating in the celebration of independent film that you may not see anywhere else.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read
McAdams, Gleeson: An unfair male advantage.

Richard Curtis’s 'About Time'

Four weddings and a waste of time

For a refreshing change, the recently concluded New York Film Festival offered more lighthearted cinema this year. But Richard Curtis’s About Time is downright scatterbrained.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read
Vincent Price would feeel right at home here.

Laurel Hill's "Cinema in the Cemetery'

This cemetery really comes to life

Give Laurel Hill Cemetery credit for an astute marketing perception: Cemeteries, like horror films, offer a safe, contained and even exciting way to tap into our deepest fears and anxieties.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read