The Giscard movie, “A Day in the Country” (“1974, une partie de campagne,” a pun: also “A Day in the Campaign”), set a definitive tone for Depardon’s career, as the first of many films in which he gets...
“Wuthering Heights” extrapolates, too, of course. The many truncations and excisions have been detailed copiously, including by my colleague Justin Chang. What Fennell chiefly adds is something that could hardly have been in a novel published in 1847:...
His work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the medical staff (“Near Death”); he filmed in administrative offices (“At Berkeley,” “Ex Libris”), in businesses (“The...
Some deserving names, though, are still obscure, and that is why an exhibition at Poster House, on West Twenty-third Street, running until April 12th, is to be welcomed with gusto. Here, in the first American museum that is...
A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha’s Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened Ha’s Snack Bar, an itsy-bitsy restaurant on the Lower East Side. The Snack...
Schlossberg was not by any means alone in shading the Murphy show while it was in production. C.B.K., as she is called, is the love object of a posthumous legion of admirers. They are more than admirers, though....
Those qualities bind him, in a spiritual sense, to Lou, who can’t suppress a quiet admiration for the criminal he’s pursuing, and also to Sharon, the insurance broker, who is unwittingly drawn into both men’s orbits. She’s investigating...
Burch tracks these cases, and has conducted her own research on plaintiffs’ experiences. Her findings are sobering: plaintiffs almost never feel that justice has been served, even when they get a financial settlement, since the cases take forever...
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that many were what might be termed anti-Westerns. “Most Westerns are great adventures about risk and endeavor and glory,”...
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park....
