Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When “Star Trek: The Next Generation” premièred, in 1987, a newspaper referred to its leading man as an “unknown British Shakespearean actor.” Patrick Stewart was already forty-seven and had spent fourteen…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. It wasn’t distractingly big—not Cyrano-big, not Mr. Burns-big, not an Alpine astonishment like Mount Durante. It was, rather, a fine, substantial nose, the kind that confers dignity, especially…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When a filmmaker is as prolific as Hong Sangsoo, paying his work the attention it deserves can seem almost unfair to everyone else. Not for the first time, the New York…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In Oslo, in September, I attended the preview of Jon Fosse’s play, “I Svarte Skogen Inne” (“Inside the Black Forest”). The theatre was small and dark, without a stage, and the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Without fanfare, parades, or glory, the bookkeeping for America’s wars takes place in Indianapolis. The military’s bean counters are housed in the Bean Federal Center, which is named for Major General…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The 1995 film “Catwalk” is a vérité-style documentary about the fashion world during its carefree, hedonistic glory days of the nineties. It explores this world primarily by following Christy Turlington, one…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Between Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptations on Netflix and the French New Wave shorts on DVD and on OVID.tv, I’ve had short films on the brain lately. But there’s one I’ve…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When it first opened in theatres, in the fall of 1984, “Stop Making Sense,” directed by Jonathan Demme and starring the rock group Talking Heads, was quickly recognized as one of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For forty years, Tim Goldrainer has been the front man and lead singer of the Menus, a popular rock-and-roll cover band based in Cincinnati, Ohio, taking the stage dressed in unorthodox…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel” is not the book we’ve been waiting for, but it will have to do for now. A hefty compilation from Phaidon of the work Meisel…