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Steve Stern’s novel about the Jewish expressionist painter Chaim Soutine is more informative than it is engaging.
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Playwright Rachel Bonds has written an often-hilarious script which nonetheless deals with such serious and widespread issues as spousal and child abandonment, drug addiction, the right to death with dignity, and same-sex adoption of children.
Read MoreIn “A Touch of Sin,” four depressing stories float into one other, all said to be based on news stories from Chinese papers.
Read MoreBy Bill Marx Earlier this month, Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, stoked up the cultural consternation machine when he implied that American writers are too provincial to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. American literary life is “too isolated, too insular” he opines, its writers don’t translate particularly well and they aren’t…
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Nature has long been a perennial topic for cinema and, given the escalation of the climate crisis, the environmental context of these three fine films feels particularly urgent and poignant.
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“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.
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System 6 is an adventurous contemporary ensemble whose music will appeal to lovers of the free jazz movement of the ’60s.
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The best festivals, like Disc Jam, build and deliver music-fueled experiences.
Read MoreHigh-Rise‘s urban apocalypse is laid on thick. One wishes for a modern existence that is not quite so alienating.
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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