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If the history of contemporary art up to the millennium were a lecture in five slides, the first picture would be of a (male) painter inside his studio. After the...
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The Naughty Aughties are over, and I'm LMFAO. It will be remembered, if at all, as the decade of the TMI generation. The 15-second fame gang. The micromanaging maniacs. The...
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The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what used to be called "the German problem" while dodging...
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Imagine for a moment a trio of silky lamb chops just yanked smoking-hot from the tandoori oven, deeply brown on the outside, but still a faint juicy pink in the middle. Now...
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The last ballot has been cut-and-pasted, and I couldn't be happier with the results of the fourth annual Village Voice Jazz Critics' Poll. Oh, sure I could—but with a...
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The decades before World War I, when the Industrial Revolution was just rolling into the century of unremitting technological change that followed, mark a kind of summit, a...
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Not since Cleopatra has there been a femme fatale so complex and compelling as Carmen, the promiscuous gypsy with an unconquerable will. Bizet's masterpiece pits his muse...
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He's a way strong drummer, and every time I catch him, I jot a note to self: "Find out more about Cruz." One thing's for sure, crisp polyrhythms and an urge to mess with the...
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Sandy Stewart and Bill Charlap are the best mother-son team in show business. Possibly the only one, too, but that matters little—they'd probably come out tops, were...
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Each of the trumpeter's keening solos is a declaration, and though the ghost of Miles still haunts him to a degree, the depth of his chops and the forthright execution of same...
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This is likely the second cheapest concert that classical violinist Joshua Bell has played in the last five years (the absolute cheapest being the time Bell posed as a street...
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With its rotating tableau of lo-fi bands, dumpster-dive politics, and crammed-in crust-core living conditions, the freegan collective at 13 Thames in Bushwick is, by itself, a...
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Dir. Robert Florey (1932).
Made by a talented French director in Hollywood, but full of striking Germanic expressionist flourishes, this perverse horror flick starring Bela...
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Dir. Mitchell Leisen (1937).
This irresistibly madcap Depression-era Cinderella story, based on a marvellous Preston Sturges script, is one of the great screwballs of the...
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Dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1954).
This pungent bittersweet musical involves the reunion of three ex-G.I. buddies who find they no longer have much in common. Kelly, Dan...
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Dir. Billy Wilder (1955).
The Production Code didn't accept adultery as a subject for comedy, so Wilder's labored screen version of the Broadway hit play is a film about...
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Dir. Blake Edwards (1951).
Romantically awash in New York atmosphere, Edwards's celebrated film is heavily dependent on the charm of Audrey Hepburn who lays on the winsomeness...
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These celebrated Catskills boys make a ragged folk-rock racket with all the energy and humor that 99 percent of ragged folk-rockers leave out; that they evidently come by...
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Los Lobos recorded Ritchie Valens's music for the 1987 movie La Bamba, performed at the White House for Obama at a "Fiesta Latina" earlier this year, and tonight they ring in...
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Dir. Edward D. Wood (1958).
I'm sure your heart can stand this screening of Ed Wood's alleged chef 'oeuvre, although if you're expecting Tim Burton's Ed Wood, screening the...
