Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Around five years ago, David—a pseudonym—realized that he was fighting with his girlfriend all the time. On their first date, he had told her that he hoped to have sex with…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If I were making my usual yearly list of memorable live performances, I would include Michael Tilson Thomas’s buoyant concerts at the L.A. Philharmonic, in January; the première of Salvatore Sciarrino’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If we had our druthers, celebrities would kindly cast themselves in amber. Stray too far, too fast from the looks that made them famous and they’re likely to be slapped with…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In November, Ross McDonnell, the Irish filmmaker and photographer, died while swimming in the ocean at Fort Tilden beach, in Queens, New York. Ross was forty-four, a giant as a filmmaker…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first time I became aware of the actress Talia Ryder was while watching the 2020 independent film “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” In the movie, directed by Eliza Hittman, Ryder plays…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with her wife…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The theatre season of 2023 is, in some ways, a season of the past. Some of this year’s Broadway productions actually premièred downtown last year, like the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham,”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sean Durkin’s first two features, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “The Nest,” have a manner that I’d describe as apologetic realism: there’s something he’s bursting to say, but he forces it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a prevailing idea that it’s lonely at the top, but it seems even lonelier to have once been on top and to end up working to convince yourself (and others)…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Making things up is part of the process of making a bio-pic. The question is whether abbreviations and approximations serve as springboards for a director’s imagination or whether they’re just shortcuts—and…
