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Born in 1944 in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, video artist Harun Farocki has a European's appreciation for the conundrums of history. On the left side of his two-channel video...
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For the past ten years, a former volunteer firefighter named Vincent Forras has turned 9/11 into a high profile career that has taken him on overseas trips, gotten him...
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The difference between being famous and not being famous is as enormous as the chasm between Staten Island and Hollywood, and I should know because I've had a teensy taste of...
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Sometimes it's easier for life to imitate art than vice versa—witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar's first feature, an ambitious attempt to cage the career of legendary...
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Eating outside in New York City can be a challenge. Diners must inhale bus exhaust while squeezing into tiny tables on crowded, noisy street corners. Or worse, dodge...
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A hobo stands at the door, palm extended for a handout. Well, not a real hobo, but a life-size fiberglass one, and he slouches between you and the front door of Cupola...
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You don't know the meaning of "poignant" until Glen Campbell, sitting two feet from you, starts to sing "Ghost on the Canvas," the title track of his new—and...
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"Living in a city where you're face-to-face with the best and worst aspects of humanity, I think that's inspired me to reach new lows with music," says Kevin Barry,...
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Captain Ferguson's School for Balloon Warfare at 59E59 Theaters is full of hot air. Deliberately. Playwright Isaac Rathbone has chanced upon a historical curiosity—one...
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Heavy and charmingly heady even in the midst of their rap-rock rise to fame, Incubus inspired a legion of insipid followers (see: Hoobastank). Only now, after five years off,...
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Dir. Roman Polanski (2002).
Polanski’s world is predicated on violent absurdity and, closely adapted from Wladyslaw Szpilman’s Holocaust memoirs, his Cannes...
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Please don't try and deny the fact that you secretly watch American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, or one of the other talent-spotting reality shows...
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Last time we saw TV on the Radio, they were playing from a billboard stage that popped up three or four stories above the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones streets. Tonight,...
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If you're not into shopping, clothes, celebs, and free goodies, you might want to clear the streets and hide to avoid the annual stiletto-wearing stampede known as Fashion's...
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Dir. Roman Polanski (1962).
Polanski went straight to the head of his class with his first (and until The Pianist, his only) Polish feature. This cold-eyed account of...
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One of the most appealing things about the Queens rapper Action Bronson is that when he raps about cracked pepper--as he does on his terrific debut album, Dr. Lecter--he's not...
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Dir. Robert Siodmak (1944).
This landmark exercise in nocturnal noir stylistics perfected the studio New York of the 1940s. Robert Siodmak directed, from a Cornell...
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Dir. Andrei Ujica (2010).
A three-hour, unexplicated assemblage of official newsreels and occasional home movies, this autobiography earns its title by presenting Ceausescu's...
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True or false: There's nothing sexier than curling up with a good book and a tumbler of whisky on a Saturday night. Did you say true? Then, dear bibliophile, allow us to...
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New York's love affair with swimming goes back a long way. In 1882, one-armed swimmer Edward Cone easily took the New York Athletic Club's championship one-half mile down the...
