Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The day after John Waters’s mother attended the opening of his 1969 film, “Mondo Trasho,” she called him in hysterics, saying, “You are going to end up in a mental institution,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1967, during the summer of “Sgt. Pepper,” I spent a month at a camp near Florissant, Colorado. When I arrived, from Kansas City, I sent my parents a brief postcard,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Modern-day Westerns—that is, films that use the genre’s tropes and traditions but are set in the present—have a noble history. Classics include Edgar G. Ulmer’s “The Naked Dawn,” Allan Dwan’s “The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Renegades,” a new collection by the photographer Chloe Sherman, even a largely unpopulated image evokes a rich social atmosphere. The book, published by Hatje Cantz, draws from Sherman’s archive of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Theatre kids are a strange breed. I know, because I was one. For a good chunk of my teen-age years, I spent Saturday nights listening to a radio program called “A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story During the Maidan uprising, which began in 2013, when Ukrainian protests led to the overthrow of the Kremlin-backed President, Viktor Yanukovych, many of the country’s filmmakers banded together to form a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Complex abstractions are hard to convey in movies, but “Dumb Money,” Craig Gillespie’s new drama based on the true story of the buying frenzy for GameStop stock and the havoc it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last month, Billboard published a gloomy survey of record-label executive sentiment about the state of the music industry. Many of those interviewed lamented one unsettling shift in particular—a shift that the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What does it mean—what would it mean—to “decolonize the city”? As that phrase has become common among architects, artists, and activists in recent years, it has operated more like a slogan,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Gets pretty exhausting after a while,” Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) tells his lover Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng) in the latest season of “Warrior,” on Max. “Surviving?” she asks. “Being hated,” he…
