Month: February 2019
A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.
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1917 was an important year, but perhaps not important enough to justify the sweeping title of the book.
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What’s a band of re-orphaned misfits to do? Dance away the pain, obviously.
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Francois-Adrien
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I fell for the Harry Dodge exhibition, but I confess to not entirely ‘getting the picture.’
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Michael Gordon’s score for The Unchanging Sea works better as soundtrack than a concert work; Harmonia mundi releases a DVD of William Kentridge’s powerful staging of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.
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On an elemental level, Stanley Donen’s films epitomize what we think of when we think of the best of Hollywood cinema.
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This Sunday’s BPYO concert tied together a number of highly personal strands, presenting music connected to two of conductor Benjamin Zander’s mentors — Benjamin Britten and Gustav Holst.
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The script offers an indispensable vision of American history from the point of view of African women.
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Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance
Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
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