Barbara Harris

Karen Black Film Retrospective, Sanctioned By Her

Lovable kook and daring actress Karen Black is ill, which makes Nitehawk Cinema's series homaging her even more eye-crossingly special.

Inside Robert Blake's Dark Mind

I'm reading a book about director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Coming Home), who in 1979 did a movie called The Hamster of Happiness, which came out two years later as Second-Hand Hearts. By any name, it was deemed an atrocity and an insult to hamsters everywhere. Leonard Maltin's review: "Robert B ... More >>

This Year's DocuWeeks Festival Makes a Strong Case for Real Life

The world comes home

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Tangled Tuner Tune-up Try

Harry Connick Jr. gives it his best in a big revamp

On A Clear Day... With Harry Connick, Jr: My Review

Sexual reassignment surgery has gone on at On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Alan Jay Lerner/Burton Lane musical about a gal with ESP whose grief-stricken psychiatrist is obsessed with the gal's past-life persona, Melinda. In this version -- with a rethought book by Peter Parnell and dir ... More >>

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Rip Torn, Stacy Keach, Frank Zappa -- It's Obies 1967!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 25, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 32 21 Win '67 'Obies' The Village Gate was full to bursting at noon on Saturday for the 12th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway Awards. Barbara Harris, star of the Broadway musical "The Apple Tree," made the ... More >>

Daryl Glenn & Jo Lynn Burks

Clip Job: Obies 1962

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 31, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 32Obies 1962By Jerry TallmerJames Earl Jones, 31, born Tate County, Mississippi, raised by his grandparents on a wilderness farm near Jackson, Michigan, the second of his family and first of his high-school graduating ... More >>

Newies but Oldies

Pop music kick-starts an 1890s drama but fails a record-store musical

A Critics' Duet on 'Nashville'

From the 'Voice' archives: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past

Unsuper Freak

Race-Bait and Switch

CRACK Comes to New York

Group Pays Addicts for Sterilization

School Daze

Fast Times at Cyber Senior High