Search Results: homes

Film Commentary: Looking Sharp, Leatherface! “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Turns Fifty

July 23, 2024
Posted in , ,

No 4k DVD, Blu-ray, theatrical digital, or streaming version of the movie improves on the visceral electricity of the original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”.

Read More

Film Review: Director Rouben Mamoulian, Reconsidered. Starting with “Applause”

August 10, 2016
Posted in , ,

Mamoulian’s Applause is an opportunity to experience the first leg of the director’s ascent on his Hollywood roller coaster.

Read More

Visual Arts Interview: Robert Motherwell at 100 — A Look Back at the “Despair of the Aesthetic”

July 10, 2015
Posted in , ,

An artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Junk Yard Kids — Consecrating American Anti-Culture

December 12, 2016
Posted in , ,

Could there be a better place to satirize American taste than in the center of Boston’s thriving commercial district?

Read More

Doc Talk: Five New Nonfiction Films Worth a Look

November 4, 2022
Posted in , ,

From Mobile to Mars, from the mind of Robin Williams to the rise and fall of a Pez entrepreneur, and with a side trip to Newton South High.

Read More

Author Interview: Welcome to the “Mad World” of New Wave Music of the 1980s

June 22, 2014
Posted in , ,

“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”

Read More

Theater Review: “The Great Comet” — Immersive Theater, At Its Best

December 21, 2015
Posted in , ,

Who would have guessed that a hunk of War and Peace could be such an enormous amount of fun?

Read More

Visual Arts Commentary: Reordering Design Priorities Through Biometric Research

March 2, 2022
Posted in , ,

The cognitive architecture approach espoused by the Human Architecture and Planning Institute is applying a welcome new paradigm that responds in a fresh way to the built environment.

Read More

Jazz Album Reviews: Three from the Golden Age of Jazz Recording

August 30, 2023
Posted in , , ,

Three re-issued albums reinforce the claim that jazz recordings hit their peak from 1956 to 1964.

Read More

Film Review: “The Witch” — Mother Nature’s a Bitch and So am I

February 20, 2016
Posted in , ,

The Witch‘s brief jolts of violence seem perfectly calibrated to knock us out of our seats..

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives