Month: January 2015
At every turn I sense potential in The Americans, always untapped, for a smart sitcom.
Read MoreIsraeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Read MoreTsvetanka Elenkova is one of the key figures in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.
Read MoreWhy is The Water-Babies a classic fairy tale? It doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it doesn’t ignore important issues.
Read MoreXavier Dolan’s up-close look at a mother-son relationship has the intensity of a John Cassavetes film — it can be gut-wrenching to watch.
Read MoreWhy did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..
Read MoreOtto Piene’s art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.
Read MoreTristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.
Read MoreAmerican Sniper is classic Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry vs the bad guys, and the bad guys all look like ‘them.’
Read MoreVery little happens in Dominique Fabre’s books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.
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Jazz Perspective: Zev Feldman – A Sherlock of a Producer with an Impressive Portfolio