VOICE CHOICES ARCHIVES

There Was a Father

by Jim Hoberman

February 2, 2011

Dir. Yasujiro Ozu (1942).
Yasujiro Ozu extols and subverts the wartime self-sacrifice ethos in this stoical weepie-set on the home front and focused on the nobility of a flawed patriarch.

Fri., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., 2011

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VOICE CHOICE

Tod Browning: Auteur of the Shadowlands

Lincoln Center delves into tales of the wicked, the outcast, the unholy, the misunderstood, and the freakish in a survey of the audacious director’s genre-busting — and defining — films.

by Michael Atkinson

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VOICE LORE

The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice

From our ‘Voice Lore’ print section: Though outnumbered five to one, women staffers stood tall at the Voice

by R.C. Baker

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War In Ukraine

One Year of War: In Conversation with Ukrainians Standing Fast

With death always just a Russian missile away, Ukrainians strive to be their true selves.

by Anna Conkling

February 23, 2023
ART

Waiting for the Nighthawks – Edward Hopper and the Denizens of New York

The Whitney’s exhibition gathers iconic work from near and far to remind us how much the painter loved Gotham.

by R.C. Baker

February 11, 2023
NEW YORK

The Life of Sonja

What can you do when time’s running out on your “office wife”? Just tell it like it was.

by Robert Rosen

February 7, 2023
Letter From Iran

A Freedom of Choice Revolution Is Roiling Iran

The new generation of Iranians is seeking democracy and separation of religion and state.

by Roshanak Darabi

November 15, 2022