Film
Do you believe your eyes? Should you?
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Director Frank Borzage’s wonderful 1937 History Is Made at Night, newly restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection, defies pigeonholing.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Undine is a film best savored (and best absorbed) with a second viewing. Viewers must be open to its charms, perhaps allowing memories of the primal to seep into their consciousness.
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This fine documentary of a highly respected elder bassist presents a clear, focused picture of a man who is also a jazz musician.
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More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm.
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Survival is the primary motivation, and the film’s unrelenting series of unexpected attacks generate considerable tension.
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Cruella is by far the best of the Disney reboots.
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Plan B, Hulu’s latest raunchy teen romp, proves why we need diverse voices in Hollywood.
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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50
The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.
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