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Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies

Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new…

Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening

Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” A song cycle told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning…

How the Meanest Genre Got Nice

How the Meanest Genre Got Nice

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Two months ago, the world lost a gruff and burly guitar player named Al Barile. He was sixty-three when he died, after a battle with cancer, and those who mourned him…