Michelle Williams

Film Review: “After the Wedding” — An American Telenovela

After the Wedding never finds its emotional rhythm; melodramatic confrontations about betrayals and past choices lurch clunkily along.

Kelly Reichardt’s cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life’s daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.

Bill Marx April 1, 2020 at 11:11 pm on Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”Damn, I missed the production of R.U.R. -- I assume it was a student production? Yes, The White Plague is...
Harvey Blume April 1, 2020 at 10:10 pm on Visual Arts Review: The Art of Kara Walker — A Mix of Cozy Charm and Historic HorrorSuperb review, well written and illuminating.
Gerald Peary April 1, 2020 at 8:59 pm on Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”I recently read Capek's War With the Newts, certainly a peculiar book but as klunky as what you describe above....
Marion Freedman-gurspan April 1, 2020 at 5:49 pm on Arts Commentary: Big Art — Big GreedThe daily free programming is not to be sneezed at. It sometimes has well-known performers and sometimes offers a chance...
Thomas Clifton March 29, 2020 at 11:54 am on Book Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages?I was generally confused, to this day, why people are raving about this book. It was literary trash.