VOICE CHOICES ARCHIVES

Night of the Hunter

by J. Hoberman

February 18, 2009

(Charles Laughton, 1956).
Laughton’s lone directorial effort is a unique synthesis of German Expressionism and D.W. Griffith, pitting a saintly Lillian Gish against Robert Mitchum’s murderous preacher—one of the great psychopaths in American cinema.

Sun., March 1, 5 p.m.; Mon., March 2, 6:30 p.m., 2009

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Highlights

ART

Art at the Borders of East and West – and War

The art was hot and the rhetoric hotter at the viennacontemporary art fair.

by R.C. Baker

September 16, 2023
FILM

Patricio Guzmán’s guerrilla epic ‘The Battle of Chile’ charts the violent ascendance of middle-class fascism.

A newly restored version of the 1975–79 documentary classic puts the resolute filmmaker’s decades of activist films in focus.

by Michael Atkinson

September 5, 2023
NEW YORK

From Ashes to Hard Courts: Can Willets Point Be Saved?

Small businesses, carnivals, and hardscrabble optimism live in the shadow of failed history.

by Ruthie Kornblatt-Stier

September 3, 2023
CULTURE

Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers

They “don’t mean to brag, don’t mean to boast” — but 50 years later, pretenders to the hip-hop throne are, in a roundabout way, taking the rap for perpetuating one of the longest feuds in Black cultural history.

by Peter Noel

August 11, 2023
Environment

Can NYC’s New Climate Agenda Keep Our Heads Above Water?

Green buildings and plans for carbon-zero living vs. global collapse.

by Andrew Scott

June 28, 2023
News

Reverend William Barber Gives the Poor People’s Campaign a Second Wind

A gathering in Washington sought to inform, train, and energize a new generation of advocates dedicated to improving the lives of those among us who are poor and ignored.

by Robert Hennelly

June 26, 2023