Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Why has Disney’s new live-action remake of “Snow White” flopped at the box office? Is it because the dull trailer looked A.I.-generated, or because the film’s stars, Rachel Zegler and Gal…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Every good film is, to some degree, a transporting experience—a dissolution of boundaries between here and there, then and now. See enough of them, from all over the world, and they…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My in-laws own a little two-bedroom beach bungalow. It’s part of a condo development that hasn’t changed much in fifty years. The units are connected by brick paths that wind through…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Saturday, as Elon Musk was making headlines for his continued efforts at DOGE and dodging a lawsuit for offering money to Wisconsin voters ahead of the state’s Supreme Court race,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The photographer Andrew Friendly grew up on the west side of Los Angeles. From the relative safety of his studio apartment in Silver Lake, twenty miles to the east, he watched…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The last time Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy “Titus Andronicus” was staged at the Globe Theatre, in London, in 2014, members of the audience regularly fainted. Each performance, the crew kept a running…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. From the start, Dance Theatre of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Many filmmakers display undue faith in their ability to depict ways of life far outside their own experience. This blithe self-confidence is particularly egregious in depictions of distant history, where imagination…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died in 2015, at the age of a hundred and six, is the Benjamin Button of filmmaking, precocious in reverse. He made only two…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during the early days of pandemic lockdown, may recall the video montage…
