Review
For half a century, cinephile, production assistant, filmmaker, press agent, producer, and programmer Pierre Rissient used all his powers to turn critical attention to filmmakers he took under his wing for their unusual personal vision.
This a superb album, smartly programmed and brilliantly played.
Javon Jackson’s homage to Bob Dylan is well thought out and beautifully rendered.
This portrait of modern Pakistan is not only wrenching, but unflinching and true.
The narrative is filled with secrets and mysteries that tease and fade away — and the deepest mysteries lie within that basic social unit, the family.
The world almost makes sense at this year’s Salem Film Fest.
I’m thinking that a one-person performance of “Hamlet” by a Brit transwoman might get under Trump’s necrotic skin.
Book Review: In Search of Clarity and Love — Albert Camus’s Notebooks Chronicle the Making of a Mind
Albert Camus’ notebooks shed light on the painstaking efforts of a major 20th-century writer to archive his thoughts — his struggle to make his vision clear, his prose lucid.
“Jury Duty: Company Retreat” is an amusing lampoon with an economic message: it is is pro-small business and anti-private equity.
Wifredo Lam can now be seen almost in full in New York — except for his many drawings, which might get a showing soon while the public’s interest is piqued. As for the artist’s paintings in Cuba that never reached MoMA, Americans (perhaps in uniform) might have a chance to see them soon enough.

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