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The tap challenge, sometimes good natured, sometimes prickly, is at the heart of both of these remarkable documentaries.
Read More“The pain depicted on stage must cut to the bone, inspire a seemingly impossible empathy within me, within the audience.”
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Émile Bernard, to his credit, spends much of his life redeeming rather than demeaning his friend.
Read MoreIn an age where technology has made the improbable perfectly plausible, squeezed out spontaneity, and raised skepticism about the nature of reality, how can we still believe in miracles? This is the crux of the novel, made delightfully vivid and comic by César Aira’s prose.
Read MoreTo the end of his life, David Bowie was excited about creating innovative sounds and collaborating with new musicians.
Read MoreAce film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
Read MoreBloggers are concerned about the fate of book reviews, so raising questions about the quality of book commentary online, especially asking how it can become better, is worth the effort. But any discussion about the future of reviews must be based in reality rather in wishful thinking or defensive delusion. By Bill Marx In an…
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A lot of history is jammed into this book, but the author manages to ruminate in an informative and engrossing way on 50-plus years of pop music.
Read MoreOnly months ago, developments in the Pollock Matter controversies made news around the world (See past Fuse Flash and Anonymous Sources). But the Nov. 28 International Foundation for Art Research [IFAR] symposium, “Are They Pollocks? What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings,” drew relatively scant media notice, even though it had been billed by…
Read MoreWhat drives serious writing about film? “When Movies Mattered” suggests an answer: it helps for a critic to take a side, not as consumer advocate, hipster crank, or box office predictor, but as a passionate advocate for standards, often taking on the role of separating overpraised films from the unfairly neglected.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger